"Weizhe and I never had such arguments…" her tone was a little downcast.

"Aish. I thought Dad would definitely want a daughter just like how Wei wants one haha," Lihua smiled.

"He didn't," she whispered inaudibly.

"Ah? I didn't hear you."

She quickly shook her head. "Nothing…"

Lihua was puzzled.

"No problem! Hehe, I will visit you with Wei tomorrow. Then we will have even more things to talk about. Oh and please take my side in front of Wei about the son," she shamelessly asked.

She faintly smiled.

"Wei won't be able to come."

Lihua blinked her eyes. "Why not?"

She was a bit awkward. "He isn't allowed here."

"Aish, Mom. If you mean that Old Madam would forbid him from coming here, then don't worry. I will work it out somehow haha. Wei is your son. Of course, he will come to meet you."

There was a pause of silence.

She lowered her head and clasped her hands together. "I don't mean Old Madam...I mean that Weizhe has forbidden him from coming here."

Lihua blinked her eyes once. Then she rapidly blinked them again. "Dad? Why would he forbid Wei from coming here?"

Jiang Yubi pursed her lips. "Weizhe doesn't...like Wei ever since he was born."

She widened her eyes. "Ah? How is this possible? It doesn't seem like Dad hates Wei. They are so amicable."

Jiang Yubi shook her head. "They are not. You must have never seen them talk to each other."

Lihua tilted her head. "No, they have. They-"

Lihua remembered and remembered and then suddenly realized that Wei and Jiang Weizhe…

Wait a minute. When did I last see them talking together?

She pressed her brows together and used her brain to the maximum level it had to recall any such event.

Her mouth twitched.

"I never really saw them talking to each other."

Jiang Yubi nodded.

"But-but that doesn't mean that Dad hates Wei. They are naturally quiet type of people and maybe they just don't like to talk much. I mean Wei himself talks really rarely to FaiFai, Jiang Ruiling or Jiang Li or even Aunt Ninghong, Aunt Xiurang and Uncle Weiyuan for that matter."

"No. It's different between them. Weizhe…" she hesitated. "didn't even want Wei to be born."

Her lips parted in shock and she looked at her, stunned. Her heart skipped a beat as she heard this shocking news.

Didn't want Wei to be born?

"Why not? Dad loves you so much. It is impossible that he won't love your child."

She shook her head. "It's true. When Weizhe learned about my pregnancy, he wasn't happy about it. He had even begged me to abort Wei."

Her eyes widened in horror. She didn't know why but tears automatically rimmed in the corner of her eyes.

The thought of Wei's existence not in this world anymore made her heart clench in pain. She couldn't imagine what her life would have been if Wei wasn't there in this world.

"But it doesn't match Dad's personality...I mean Dad is so doting towards you. How can he hate Wei so much?" She sniffled.

"There were two reasons for this."

She wiped her eyes. "Two reasons?"

Jiang Yubi slowly nodded with a grim expression. "Firstly, when I was pregnant, I had almost gone through a miscarriage."

She froze.

"It was a close call, but thankfully Wei was safe. But it deteriorated my condition. The doctors said that giving birth to Wei when the accident had taken a toll on my body wasn't a good idea. So, they recommended for an abortion. But truthfully, Weizhe didn't want me to abort because he knew that an abortion affected a woman's body. But seeing the threat to my life, he had to take a step back and even though he didn't want for an abortion, he asked me to do it."

Lihua felt extremely sad upon hearing this. "I see…"

I didn't know that Mom had faced such things too…

Jiang Yubi smiled. "But I really wanted to keep the child. There were possibilities of a safe delivery so I didn't wish to give up on Wei. Weizhe reluctantly agreed, but for the whole nine months, Weizhe was extremely stressed out because of my health. He couldn't be happy about our child at all. Then when Wei was born, I did become a little weak and had to stay hospitalized for a month for my body to recover. Seeing my condition like that, Weizhe was really disappointed and somewhere blamed Wei for putting me into that state."

Tears trickled down Lihua's cheeks.

"I remember that Weizhe had never once held Wei in his arms."

She looked at her in disbelief.

As a father, he never held his son? Not even once?

She bit her lip. "I understand that you have suffered and I feel horrible and also extremely grateful to you that you didn't give up on Wei."

She smiled.

"But still, it isn't Wei's fault. Dad shouldn't blame him."

Jiang Yubi said, "I tried my best to make him understand that but...he panicked seeing me so weak. He thought that I would die and in front of that imagination, he couldn't forgive Wei."

Her shoulders drooped in sadness. "What is the other reason?"

Jiang Yubi paused. "...I don't know how to explain this. It's a little difficult to put it into words. Even if I hadn't gone through the accident, Weizhe still never wished to have a child."

"Why not?"

"Because he thought that he would lose his place in my heart if a child came between us."

Lihua rapidly blinked her eyes. Somehow, she felt as if she understood what she said but at the same time, she didn't.

"Sounds a little silly, right? But if you think from his point of view, it's really not. This concerns more regarding his relationship with Weiyuan."

Uncle?

"At first, the brothers had pretty much a normal relationship just like any other siblings. But then one day it changed when Weiyuan started to act a little differently."