"Nineteen years, a whole nineteen years!"
For all these years, he had been searching for the whereabouts of Lan Yunxiao and the others, but all the information he received turned out to be empty.
He never thought that just when he was about to lose hope, he would actually be able to see Lan Yixuan!
She was not dead, on the contrary, she had grown up so beautifully, achieving accomplishments that were not inferior to her parents!
This was something he had never dared to imagine, and now that he truly knew all of this, he couldn't help but feel grateful to the heavens. Fate had been kind to him!
At least, Lan Yunxiao and Mu Lingbing's only daughter was still alive!
She possessed formidable strength and a noble identity. Even without the help of the Lan family all these years, her remarkable growth was truly astonishing!
Baili Hongzhuang noticed the uncontrollable emotions on Lan Hongtai's face. Obviously, Lan Hongtai had already understood everything.
She didn't mind letting Lan Hongtai know in advance because in two days, everyone in Lan Yang City would know.
After a moment of silence, Lan Hongtai took a sip of tea, finally managing to suppress the excitement and various emotions in his heart.
"Are they... still alive?"
When he asked this question, Lan Hongtai's voice weakened a lot, and even his gaze seemed evasive, unable to meet Baili Hongzhuang's eyes directly.
Clearly, he was afraid of hearing the answer he didn't want to hear.
Not receiving any news all these years was not the worst news for him because it allowed him to hold onto a glimmer of hope.
Perhaps, they were still alive.
Perhaps, they were just resentful of their own inaction back then, so they had refused to come back and see him all these years.
Baili Hongzhuang looked at the aged old man before her, her emotions also mixed.
Was Lan Hongtai wrong?
The events of the past were not what he had wanted to see.
But just as she couldn't forgive Lan Hongtai, she couldn't expect herself to forgive him either.
Others might not have the ability, but as the head of the Lan family, if he insisted, even if the family encountered some resistance, he would have been able to do it. But he didn't.
Baili Hongzhuang knew that she wasn't a magnanimous person. She didn't need to pretend to forgive someone who had once hurt her family.
Harm was harm, no matter how noble the reasons might seem, it was still harm.
From the moment Lan Hongtai chose to let the Lan family prosper, their family had already been abandoned by him.
So, in Baili Hongzhuang's eyes, these things now had no meaning.
"What do you think?" Baili Hongzhuang asked in return.
She didn't want to say much. How to treat Lan Hongtai was also dependent on Lan Yunxiao and Mu Lingbing's thoughts.
To her, this grandfather, whom she had no impression of, didn't evoke any feelings.
Hearing Baili Hongzhuang's question, Lan Hongtai was initially stunned, but then his body couldn't help but tremble.
His hands beneath his sleeves gradually clenched, and his emotions became uncontrollable.
"If they are still alive, they will definitely come back to see me."
Lan Hongtai's voice was low and hoarse, as if he had aged ten years in that instant, losing his greatest pillar of support.
He knew his son better than anyone.
If Lan Yunxiao was still alive, he would definitely come back to find him.
Moreover, considering the extreme things Lan Jing did back then, as long as he was still alive, he would undoubtedly seek revenge.
But so many years had passed, and he had never seen a trace of him. Just this fact alone was enough to reveal the outcome.
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