Chapter 1099: Chapter 267: Master, Something Terrible Has Happened! [10,000 Words!]

Fang Qianyi smiled and said:

"So after I came back, I never mentioned your father’s name. Because your father never came back, your situation was already... if someone mocked you using your father’s name, I’m afraid you wouldn’t be able to bear it."

Fang Che couldn’t help but smile too.

"Then... in the end? Did my father... pass away? Or did he leave?"

Fang Che asked.

"I don’t know either."

Fang Qianyi frowned and said reminiscing, "On the last day, your father told me many things. He told me that he was an incredible hero and not to feel inferior because of him in the future."

"He also said that his current state was beyond his control. But one day he would recover, and would surely return to the battlefield, slaying demons and destroying devils."

"He told me that if one day he was not by my side, I should wait for him, and as long as I hadn’t seen his body, I shouldn’t believe he was dead. I had to wait for him to come back."

"He also said that when he returned, we would live a good life together, making up to me for my lifetime..."

Fang Qianyi looked dazed as she recalled the day of parting.

"He also said a lot of inexplicable things, and later, he said he wanted to eat fruit. He said that when he came here, he saw some fruit trees on the other side of the mountain and that the fruits should be ripe now, and he wanted to eat a couple."

"So I went to pick fruit for him. When I reached the other side, I didn’t find any fruit trees. I scoured two hills and only picked a few peaches, but when I came back, your father had already disappeared."

"There were no traces of him departing around. He just disappeared. As if he... had melted into the air."

"I searched desperately, looked in all directions, but I couldn’t find him. That valley, suddenly became as silent as a grave."

"I was unwilling to give up and just waited there... But after waiting for half a month, I realized I was already pregnant. With no choice, I had to go home."

"I fantasized, I told your father more than once that I was the daughter of the Fang Family of Bibo City, always thinking that when he got better, he would come to the Fang Family to pick me up..."

Fang Qianyi smiled lightly and said, "But until today, he never came."

"I didn’t dare to leave, I didn’t dare to die... just kept waiting. And as I kept waiting, you grew up."

Fang Qianyi smiled, but two streams of tears fell down.

Fang Che and Ye Meng were speechless.

The process of their parents meeting and getting to know each other was completely skipped by Fang Qianyi.

There must have been more than just these few events between them.

It can be imagined from Fang Qianyi’s narration.

But those... are no longer important. Or maybe they have become memories that belong only to Fang Qianyi.

If Fang Che’s father ultimately never returns, Fang Qianyi might savor those past events alone until she takes them with her to the grave.

Fang Che listened dumbfounded, with wide eyes said, "So, you mean my father never knew he had a son?"

"He didn’t know. He didn’t know a damn thing! He’s just a fool!" Fang Qianyi pouted.

Fang Che was speechless.

After figuring that out, my father didn’t even know about me, and I’m already nineteen, almost twenty!

This is really... tsk tsk tsk... damn, it’s frustrating.

"What did he look like?"

Fang Che asked.

"Your father was very handsome."

Fang Qianyi smiled and said, "Basically much like you, just with thicker and bushier eyebrows, a more defined face shape, a slightly larger Adam’s apple, that would be how your father looked."

"In terms of height and body, he was similar to you, at most a bit thinner."

Fang Qianyi looked her son over and said, "But you are the best looking, better looking than your father, because your mother is good looking."

Ye Meng burst out laughing.

Fang Che was also amused yet helpless, and said, "Of course, I inherited my mother’s extraordinary beauty."

"That’s right!"

Fang Qianyi raised her chin and said, "Honestly, your mother was the number one beauty in Bibo City when she was young. If it wasn’t for being plotted against, a sickly person like your father wouldn’t have had a chance... hmph!"

Fang Che said, "Mom, you’re still the number one beauty in Bibo City now."

Fang Qianyi beamed with smiles, "You just have a glib tongue, your father was much more honest than you, and mute as a fish. Sometimes you couldn’t get a word out of him no matter how hard you tried..."

"Really? Not good with words?"

"Most of the time, he’d be so serious. With furrowed brows and sharp eyes, like a formidable swordsman, or an old pedant about to start scolding."

"Uh..."

Fang Che touched his nose, quickly forming an image in his mind.

Based on Fang Qianyi’s description, a basic image of his father can be imagined.

Whether he could be found was still uncertain.

But there’s one thing Fang Che is very sure of: he shouldn’t be dead!

The mysterious disappearance at the end is a major clue. Moreover, before disappearing, he spoke to his mother as if he had a premonition, saying so much.

That was completely making arrangements for a departure, not explaining a demise.

That proves, he was fully aware.

"Didn’t my father ever say where he was from?"

"Uh, no."

Fang Che asked, "Mom, you were with him for so long, and you didn’t know where your man came from, and you just carelessly married him?"

Fang Qianyi scratched her head and said, "I asked several times, he said very far. Asked again, and he said he was afraid it would bring me trouble, too many enemies. He said when his health got better, he would take me home and show me around. I didn’t ask again afterwards."

Fang Che inhaled sharply and said, "Could this old fellow have hidden wives and concubines at home?"

Thud!

Fang Qianyi furiously knocked on her son’s head, scolding, "What nonsense are you talking about, is that how you talk about your father? Besides, with his sickly look, who would fancy him?"