The reason?

An Liyang silently repeated these two words in his heart.

What else could the reason be! Isn’t it just that he can’t let go? He can’t let go of him and his mom.

More than that, there is regret, regret for what he did back then, regret for why he left him and his mom.

Without needing to investigate, he could imagine how hard it must have been for a young girl, carrying a child, to drift through life in various countries.

Thinking about this, on countless nights, he would uncontrollably raise his hand and slap himself hard.

But what good would it do to keep hitting himself?

There’s no way to reverse past events, the harm is already done, and that is lifelong, maybe no matter what you do to compensate, there’s no way to erase that already existing past.

An Liyang was still immersed in his thoughts of regret when I noticed the boy in front of me moving past, ready to leave.

He suddenly became panicked and reached out to grab the other’s arm: "Jiayou, don’t rush to leave, can we talk?"

The hesitant request, however, succeeded in making the other’s pace falter.

Afterwards, An Jiayou didn’t even know what he was thinking and actually went with the other person. He told himself in his heart, just listen to what he has to say! See what reason he has for abandoning him and An Nan back then.

In your meticulously renovated coffee shop, neither of them was in the mood to look around, An Liyang cautiously looked at the boy opposite: "Jiayou, what would you like to drink?"

The other party shook his head to refuse directly.

"No need, just say what you have to say, I have to go back home soon to run with An Nan."

Hearing the other’s words, An Liyang’s eyes showed a trace of envy.

Then he tentatively asked, "Have you and your mom been doing well all these years?"

And then his words instantly touched the other’s bottom line, An Jiayou raised his sharp eyes to glare at him, with a mocking coldness at the corner of his mouth: "Do you think it’s too late to ask me this now?"

The words left the other speechless: "I..."

An Jiayou continued to speak, cutting off the last hope in the other’s heart: "We don’t have any blood relations, that’s a fact, so you don’t need to act overly affectionate like a father and son, there’s no need for it at all. If you truly want my well-being, you might as well convey this fact to your mother. Her persistent interruption of our peaceful life is really annoying, and as for you, my attitude is the same. An Nan and my life are very good and peaceful now, An Nan is about to have a baby, her emotions can’t fluctuate too much. If you truly care for her, please try to appear less in front of her, I beg you."

Faced with this series of questioning, An Liyang realized he could only describe himself as pale and weak, he couldn’t find a word to refute because everything the other said was true. All these years they have indeed lived peacefully and happily, and it was his sudden appearance that disrupted all this normalcy.

But he also has his own difficulties! It’s just that reality seems to have destined that there’s no way to speak of his difficulties.