Ch. 2161..2170

Chapter 2161 After a long time, it was inevitable that Sean would pay more attention to this secretary. Only then did he realize that the secretary's appearance was quite lovable. She was not the beautiful kind. She was even a little thin and weak. However, her elongated eyes, small face, and her shyness, which made her never dare to look up at others, unexpectedly attracted Sean in an instant.

Sean was still able to remember that the first time he had his way with her was right there in his huge office. It was without any warning, and the secretary did not even seduce him. He, however, hugged her from behind, she was so frightened that she cried on the spot. He covered her mouth and whispered in her ear with a deep and husky voice, "Don't cry. Don't cry. I will love you.

Tell me, do you like me?"

His voice was so gentle. The secretary was in tears, but she did not make a sound. Also, she blushed. Sean, who was very experienced in the matters between a man and a woman, instantly understood that he, who was in his thirties and full of vigor, was truly charming. No woman could ever resist him. The secretary was no exception. It was just that the secretary was too shy and she did not know how to flirt. Also, she did not know how to take the initiative as she was too well-behaved. Therefore, she had buried her fondness for him deep inside her heart. 1 Seeing that the secretary had blushed, Sean immediately turned her around to let her face him. He deliberately used his black stubbles to rub on her cheeks over and over again, she dodge to the left and right, but she also could not dodge him. She pushed him away with all her might and main, but she failed to push him away. When she could not dodge him in time, he caught her lips. Just like that, he kissed her without any warning. The secretary almost suffocated. Her mind went completely blank and she got dizzy, she even lost her senses. 1 When she regained her senses again, she was already his. Every single inch of her, from inside to outside, had been conquered by him. He hugged her in his arms. "You have to work even harder in the future, understand?"

The secretary blushed. "I have always been working very hard in the past."

"It's different in the past. In the past, this was just a job for you. However, things are different now. You're now working for your man. I am your man, your husband. In the future, you're not allowed to slack off, be unfaithful, and you're not allowed to take another look at another man. Do you understand?" He looked down on the trembling little woman in his arms from above like a king.

The woman nodded her head with all her might. In fact, he was just saying that as sweet nothings at the spur of the moment.

However, the woman took it seriously. From then on, she really worked harder and harder. Not only was she busy with her own work, but she even personally ordered his meals for him and made coffee for him every day. She would even give him a massage in her spare time.

Both of them had never met in private elsewhere outside of the office. Every single time they had done the deed was in the office.

Sean truly quite enjoyed himself during that period. Because his wife would not find out, and there was also a kind of indescribable excitement about doing it in the office. However, even so, it was inevitable for Sean to get tired of it after a long time. Therefore, he started to distance himself from the secretary after a period of time. Also, the secretary was not a difficult person to get rid of.

When she had noticed that Sean was distancing himself from her, she did not make any fuss and she also had never actively looked for him. She still did her job diligently. However, she kept looking down and had never lifted her head anymore. Also, the secretary, who was never that talkative, to begin with, spoke even less. Not only that, but the secretary's lips were tightly sealed.

There was not the slightest bit of rumor about him and her in the office at all. Sean, who had initially wanted to give her a sum of money and ask her to leave the company, instantly became at ease.

That was until the secretary suddenly barged into his office one day. "I-I am pregnant..."

Chapter 2162 At that time, Sean could not help but sneer in an extremely contemptuous manner. "I had never expected it. You usually seemed so honest, but you unexpectedly also used this trick on me as well. Do you think you can trap me like this?"

The secretary immediately burst into tears on the spot. "I-1 had never thought of trapping you!"

"Then what are you doing here?"

"I...I truly am pregnant," said the secretary in tears.

"Are you a child? You're a grown-up! If you're pregnant, you can get rid of it yourself! Instead, you came to me crying and whining. Do you think I've not seen my share of women, so I would be frightened by you at once, or what?" The man calmly sat in his executive chair. He took out a cigar from the cigar box and started smoking it calmly.

The secretary was speechless.

It was after he had taken a puff of his cigar that he said with utter disgust, "Go, get out of here. Go wherever you should go!"

The secretary turned around and ran off. 1 Sean instantly sneered. It was not that he was unwilling to take the secretary to terminate her pregnancy. He simply wanted to put some pressure on her and let her not do anything rashly. That way, it would be much easier for him to handle the matter.

It was just the payment to terminate the pregnancy. It was only a couple of ten thousand dollars, and he was still very willing to pay for it as long as the girl was well-behaved. As long as she did not cause any trouble, everything could be agreeable, what annoyed Sean the most was some extremely idiotic woman threatening him with the child. Was he someone who could be threatened? what a joke!

After that, Sean did not go to the company again for several days in a row. He was truly busy at that time. He even went outstation together with Rose to deal with some matters, when Sean returned to the company half a month later, Sean did not see that secretary anymore. It was after he had asked his group of secretaries and also the human resource department that he learned that the secretary had already resigned for half a month.

Half a month. That meant that she had resigned on the day he drove her out of his office. That was incomparably surprising to Sean. He took out his phone and gave her a call, but her phone was switched off. He then checked the credit card that he had given her. In fact, the money on that card was very little, she was only able to make an overdraft of a few hundred dollars every month. He thought that the secretary certainly would overdraw the account. In the end, he learned that she actually had never used that card before. That made Sean feel even harder to breathe.

Sean then got the address of the house that the secretary had rented through the human resource department. In the end, it was after he had gotten to the place that he realized the secretary had already moved out half a month ago. There was not a single trace of her left behind in the simple house that she had rented.

At that moment, Sean became dejected. Judging by the way the secretary usually handled things, she had always behaved appropriately, had been working diligently, had never caused any trouble, and had always been keeping a low profile. It was unexpected that she was able to do such a thing. She had vanished into thin air. Was she actually pregnant? Was she lying or telling the truth? Sean had no clue at all.

Later on, he exhausted all the ways to find her a few times, including going to her hometown. However, the people from the secretary's hometown told him, "Elsa's parents had passed away a long time ago. she and her grandmother had depended on each other. She had been sending money to her every month, so her grandmother lived quite comfortably. However, Elsa came back a while ago and said that she is going to bring her grandmother to the city. Ever since then, Elsa and her grandmother had left their hometown. Nobody knew where they had gone to now."

The information from her hometown led him to nowhere as well.

Chapter 2163 She was a girl, and she had a grandmother with her. There may also be a possibility that she was pregnant. Where could she go?

In any case, ever since then, no matter how Sean searched for her, he was not able to find her. He also had no idea whether that girl was really pregnant with his child or it was all fake. There was a possibility that it was fake. If she had truly been pregnant with his child and had given birth to the child, how could she give up the opportunity so easily and not come to him? If she had truly been pregnant with his child and had come to him, the least she would get was a house in South city, a lifetime of life support, she and her child could also live very comfortably. There was no reason for her not to come to him.

Unless, she lied, and had never been pregnant. Perhaps it was because she had lied that she resigned as she was too ashamed to stay in the company. It was also because Sean had influence over a huge territory, she simply took her grandmother to a faraway place, so that he could never find her in this life. 1 'Hmph! What a stupid woman!' Other than his wife, there were only a handful of women who were truly smart in this world. Since she was so stupid, then it was better not to think about her. since then, Sean pushed that secretary to the back of his mind and had never thought of her for a few decades. It was only after he had met Vireo and had done the DNA paternity test with that son of his that Sean suddenly thought of that secretary.

After he recalled that memory from that period, he looked at vireo with immense guilt. "Son, I... I also don't know where.Js she now.

I haven't seen her once in over thirty years, she was only twenty years old back then. Now that I think about it, she should only be in her fifties."

"I'm asking you where is she? where is she? Where is she? I didn't ask you about his age. The younger she is, the more it proves that you're a monster! Ford, you're a scumbag! You're a scumbag! I'm asking you where that woman from back then is now?"

Sean was shaken to the point that he wanted to throw up. "My child, Ĩ-Ĩ am already so old. Do I have a need to lie to you? I really don't know where she is. I had searched for her for a very long time back then, but I never found her!"

"Search again! Go and search for her! If you can't find her, I'll skin you alive!" Vireo was so angry that both of his eyes were red. 1 He absolutely did not care about the promise he had made to Sean at the cemetery anymore. He did not even consider the fact that Sean was Sebastian's father and if Sebastian would blame him for threatening Sean like that. At that moment, Vireo did not think about anything at all.

Sebastian really did not blame Vireo at all. He understood Vireo's feelings all too well. Back then, Sebastian also had the impulse to have his father killed. That was simply human nature. Therefore, what more could he say as his elder brother?

Sean looked at Sebastian with a difficult gaze. "Sebastian, this..."

Sebastian held Vireo's shoulders, and then persuaded and comforted him calmly, "vireo, listen to me. The only way we have right now is to make a trip back to the secretary's hometown back then. She had brought her grandmother with her and had left her home back then. More than a few decades have passed now. I think there's a big chance her grandmother is no longer alive. If her grandmother had passed away, then there's a chance she would bring her back to their hometown to bury her. Let's go to her hometown to search and see if we can find her. How about that?" 2 That was the only method that Sebastian could think of, and Vireo knew that Sebastian was very sincere. Vireo wanted to kill this biological father of his, whom he suddenly got out of nowhere, at any given moment, but he still cherished his brother very much.

"Thankyou, Sebastian," said Vireo.

"Let's depart now. We'll take the plane," said Sebastian.

Sebastian was a person who would execute a task at lightning speed, and this matter could not be delayed. Therefore, they arrived at the secretary's hometown back then that same afternoon. After they got to the place, they really managed to get some information out of their inquiry.

"You're talking about Elsa, right? That is a good kid. It was such a pity that this child suffered some huge blow. She never got married in her life, but she went up the mountains and became a nun," said a trembling white-haired old man.

Vireo suddenly felt suffocated. "What-what did you say?"

Chapter 2164 The old man wiped his tears away. "Well, that was a child with a miserable life, she had lost her parents at a very young age and had been living with her grandmother since childhood. It was truly a feat for her grandmother to raise her by herself. During the freezing winters, her grandmother would carry her in a basket and pick up rotten potatoes that were thrown away by a warehouse near the train station. Both of them would then eat the potatoes all winter long. In the spring, when the potatoes were gone, Elsa's grandmother would then bring her to pick up scraps and leftover vegetables at the market. That was how she had raised Elsa.

Elsa was a sensible child, and her grades were good. She even got a scholarship when she was in high school, she had been paid her own way through college by working while studying as well. That child had truly been through a lot of hardships, she would even send money to her grandmother from time to time, she finally managed to get a job in the city with great effort, and she originally thought that her life was going to be better. However, she met a bastard and had caused her a lot of pain. She truly had suffered very miserably. Her whole life was ruined by that man. To put it bluntly, she was simply an honest child from the countryside that was harmed by people from the city..."

The more the old man spoke, the more he cried. Vireo felt bursts of pain when he heard him speak. After the pain, he felt a little touched and also a little bit of hope. He eagerly wanted to see that woman. He wanted to ask that woman if she was his biological mother. He even more so wanted to ask why the hell was she so heartless that sold him to someone else. Would it not be good for them to depend on each other as mother and son if she had not sold him?

Vireo cried. He impatiently held the old man's hand and asked with a catch in his throat, "sir, can you tell me where the mountain that she had gone to become a nun is? Tell me! I'm begging you to tell me, please."

The old man, who had his face covered in tears, shook his head. "It seemed like a mountain far, far away, what mountains are there near the city where she had gone to college and worked? what is the name of that mountain? I can't remember. But, I have heard that she had become a nun in the forest deep in the mountains."

The city where she had gone to college? The city where she worked? South City! She actually had worked in South City! Vireo was stunned. He turned his head around and subconsciously looked at Sebastian. Sebastian was also stunned. South City was surrounded by mountains on three sides and by the sea on one side. The big and small mountains were overlapping each other.

Which mountain would have a convent on top of it? He was usually too busy, so he truly did not know where it would be.

Sebastian then looked back at Kingston, who had followed them there.

"Master Sebastian, І...Г11 go and check now. Give me a few minutes! " Kingston instantly said.

Kingston was very efficient. He had already gotten the answer in less than ten minutes. His tone was very serious. "Master Sebastian, there are truly extremely few convents in the mountains in modern society. On the other hand, there are quite a few monasteries, churches, and also ancient temples throughout all the big and small mountains in the entire South City. However, there was only one extremely small and remote convent that was truly deep in the forest on the mountains. I heard that only three nuns were staying in that convent. Usually, the three nuns would collect fireworks and plant vegetables up in the mountains for a living. They hardly ever come down the mountain."

Without waiting for Sebastian to say anything, Vireo grabbed Kingston's hand. "Hurry and tell me where that mountain is?"

"Master," Kingston respectfully said.

He addressed Vireo the same way he addressed Holden.

Chapter 2165 After all, they were all the sons of the Ford family. Therefore, Kingston just took Vireo as Holden.

"Master, don't be hasty. That mountain is in South City. It's at the southwest corner of South City. It's very remote. However, no matter how remote, we'll be able to find the find. We'll go back to South City now. I guess that we'll be able to find it tomorrow."

"Tomorrow, tomorrow!" Vireo repeated.

The man, who had always been calm and gentle, was anxious at that moment. He desperately wished he could rush to South city in a minute and then rush to that mountain. He desperately wished he could see that woman immediately. He did not know if that woman was his biological mother. However, Vireo had a strong feeling that maybe he was about to meet his biological mother soon. In fact, he no longer dreamed of that anymore. He had long stopped dreaming about meeting his biological parents in this life.

However, when there was real hope in finding her, he still could not remain calm.

He had always wanted to take a glance at that woman, whom he had not met before. He had always wanted to ask her why she had abandoned him back then. Why? That entire night and also that whole morning made vireo feel incomparably tormented.

He got on the plane, and a second seemed like a year to him.

When he got off the plane and returned to South city, it was already past ten at night. He did not rest, and he immediately wanted to go up the mountain to look for that woman. In the end, he was stopped by Sebastian. "Vireo! Calm down! In times like this, you have to be even calmer. Are you willing to listen to me?"

Vireo nodded. There was even a catch in his throat. "Sebastian. I'm willing to. Of course, I'm willing to listen to you. I know it's for my own good, but please understand me, Sebastian! I want to meet her. I must meet her immediately! I am already almost pushing forty. Do you understand, Sebastian?"

Sebastian nodded. "I understand! I understand you more than anybody. However, Holden, it's already ten at night right now. All roads to the mountains are blocked. We can't go up. Besides, if we think about that person’s age, she is already almost sixty years old. If we were to look for her in the middle of the night, the elderly woman wouldn't be able to stand being disturbed. What if she isn't your mother, then wouldn't we be disturbing a random old person? People become nuns to be at peace. We have no reason to disturb them in the middle of the night. Do you understand, vireo?

II He understood! Of course, Vireo understood. "Thank you, Sebastian. You've reminded me just in time. My mind is in a hot mess.

Therefore, I didn't think things through. I'll first go home tonight. We'll go up the mountain early in the morning tomorrow, alright?"

Sebastian nodded. "Alright!"

vireo was accompanied by Isadora in his house that night, but he still did not sleep a wink at all. In the past few nights, vireo had been the one hugging Isadora when they had gone to bed every night. However, that night, Isadora was the one hugging Vireo and comforting him the whole time.

Throughout the whole night, she patted him on his back and gently coaxed, "Go to bed. Have a good night's sleep. Don't be afraid. Everything could be resolved. Don't be afraid."

Vireo leaned even closer to Isadora. There was no doubt that he felt tormented that night, so much so that just as the day dawned, Vireo got out of bed. After he tucked Isadora in carefully, he tip toed out of the house, went downstairs, and drove off.

The day had just dawned, so he drove very quickly as there were very few cars on the road.

A little more than an hour later, his car arrived at the bottom of the mountain that Kingston had mentioned. He stopped the car.

As he looked at that plain and gloomy-looking mountain with weeds all over and trees reaching into the sky, Vireo simply felt miserable. It was after he had asked someone at the bottom of the mountain that he learned that the extremely small convent was at the top of the mountain. Also, the way leading up to the top of the mountain was a narrow and rugged path. However, no matter how rugged the path was, it was also not an obstacle for vireo at that moment. He could not wait to walk along the narrow and rugged path and climb up that mountain one step after another.

After he had climbed for another hour or so, Vireo finally saw that run-down convent, which was just as small as a farmhouse.

Just as he wanted to knock on the door to enter, the door opened. An old woman wearing a faded black religious habit came out from inside.

When that old woman saw vireo, she was suddenly stunned.

Immediately after that, tears unexpectedly streamed down from her calm eyes. Her voice was low and hoarse, and distant.

"Mister, may I ask who you are looking for?"

Vireo was speechless.

Chapter 2166 In that instant, Vireo shed tears for no reason.

It was not too accurate to be calling the woman in front of him an old lady because she did not look that old. It was just that her calm face had a tinge of unconcealable gloomy expression, which gave the old lady in front of her an indescribable sense of beauty, she was wearing a veil. She was also dressed incomparably plainly, and the hems of her habit were even a little torn.

However, that simplicity still was not able to cover up her beauty. Her beauty was pure and untainted. Her beauty had a sense of drastic hardships, and it made people feel endless heartaches. Her face was pale and thin, but pure kindness was showing in her eyes.

Vireo cried for a long time and was not able to speak. The old lady in front of him also had tears streaming down her face, but her face was very calm. "Mister..."

She called him mister as soon as she opened her mouth. Vireo was stunned.

"Mister, seeing that you're already an adult now, my sense of guilt has reduced very much. I think the only purpose for me in the remaining years of my life is to wait to cross over to the other world. No matter what punishment I will be receiving, I will have no complaints. Mister, you no longer need me to worry about anything for you. Therefore, there is no need for you to visit me again.

No matter how strong of a bond there is between you and me, it's all in the past now. It doesn't matter if you hate me or if you hate me even more. That is all earthly matters. I had already been a nun for more than thirty years, I no longer care about earthly matters anymore. I hope you won't come to find me anymore in the future."

What she said was not considered heartless. Her helplessness toward the unpredictable changes in the world, as well as her calmness after she had accepted the reality, was showing in between her words.

vireo stared at the old lady. "This is your responsibility!"

"Yes," The old lady said.

"You're just running away by becoming a nun! You're not willing to take on this responsibility! since you're not willing to do so, why did you give birth to me? why?" At that, Vireo could almost be certain that the old lady in front of him was his biological mother.

His mother was only twenty-two years older than him, so she should only be about fifty-eight years old at that time.

"Why does it still matter?" she asked Vireo incomparably calmly.

"Of course, it matters!" Vireo said agitatedly. "What I wanted to find the most all my life was my biological parents. I wanted to ask them since they are not willing to raise me, then why did they have me? Why did they give birth to me and then sell me away? I was sold! Why? Are you, both of you, even human? You're a woman who sold her own child. You had broken the law! You shouldn't be hiding away here!"

The old lady closed her eyes, and two rows of tears streamed down her cheeks. Her lips moved a few times as if she wanted to say something, but she did not say anything.

"Don't you want to know what I've been through in the past thirty- six years? Or are you afraid to know? Are you afraid that your sins will be even greater?" vireo continued.

Surely enough, those words triggered the old lady. Her eyebrows became even more tightly knitted, and her tears also flowed even faster. Her lips were trembling quickly, and she swallowed a few times. Tears would stream all the way down her neck every few dozen seconds. Vireo was immensely miserable when he saw that situation.

"What have you...what have you been through? Tell me, how many hardships have you been through? In the past thirty years or so, what have you...what have you been through? Tell me?" The old lady could not help but raise her hand, and then she held vireo's face.

Her hand was very pale. However, one could tell that that pair of hands certainly had been very beautiful when she was young.

Nevertheless, that pair of hands were already old. They were so old that her joints were slightly deformed, and her palms were covered in calluses.

Chapter 2167 vireo could clearly feel that his mother had been working all year round. There was actually no need for him to feel it. The convent was deep in the mountain and there were very few people there. If they had not been working, collecting firewood, and so on, how could they be self-sufficient? He subconsciously felt heartbroken. He felt heartbroken for the old lady in front of him.

He felt heartbroken for his biological mother. He did not answer his mother and tell her what he had been through over the years.

However, his mother bent her knees and kneeled. "I'm sorry. I have wronged you. From today on, I will start a hunger strike. I will starve myself to death. From today on, I will curse myself to fall straight into the deepest ends of hell after I die. Let me endure all the sufferings in hell. Let me stay in hell forever."

The old lady was not saying that out of anger. It was more like a kind of guilt and repentance. However, what she said made Vireo feel pain as if his heart had been sliced by a knife.

He bent over and helped his mother, who was kneeling in front of him, up. He then supported her with both his hands and said with difficulty and a catch in his throat. "Mom, you..."

The old lady suddenly raised her head and looked at Vireo with a confused gaze. "You..."

"You are my mom," said vireo. "when I first saw you for the first time just now, I was already sure of it. Just like how you were also sure that I was your son the first time you saw me. You're my mother, and that can't be changed. I wanted to hate you! Before I saw you, I hated you to the bones. I have always been thinking that if I were to meet you one day, I certainly would let you get the most extreme punishment. I certainly won't forgive you. But, I was wrong. I couldn't do it. Mom! You're a mother. I just couldn't hate you! I am not that heartless, Mom."

Vireo kneeled before the old lady and burst into tears. He was unable to hate his mother, especially when he had seen this plain, gloomy, miserable old day in front of him. vireo just could not hate her.

"Son..." The mother raised her thin hands to hold on to Vireo. " Hurry and get up. Hurry up and get up, son... I have wronged you.

I don't deserve to have you call me your mother. I don't deserve to be another. Ever since my grandmother had died, the only purpose for me to stay alive all these years was to wait. I wanted to wait and see if my son could come to me. If I was able to wait until the day my son comes to me, then I'll apologize to him. If that day never comes, then I'll just die here of old age. God is still very kind to me. I am already so old, but He still lets me take a look at my own son. I am satisfied. I am really satisfied. I am a sinner. It was a mistake for me to fall in love with a man that I shouldn't have. It was a mistake for me to get pregnant out of wedlock. IT was also a mistake to have given birth to you. After I have given birth to you... II Before the old lady could finish what she had to say, vireo suddenly heard an incomparably old and excited voice coming from behind him. "Elsa, is that you? Elsa, you... It has been so many years. I had never expected that you're actually...actually still living in the same city as I am. Elsa, do you know I've searched so hard for you back then?"

The old lady and vireo were both stunned. Immediately after that, Vireo turned his head around. The old lady named Elsa also looked behind Vireo. There were more than ten people standing on the steps that were going downward. Some were young, some were old, and there were both men and women. One of the old men, who had tears streaming down his face, was standing in the forefront. He called out again with a catch in his throat, "Elsa, I...I have finally found you."

The old lady named Elsa, however, sneered bleakly. "Sean Ford, the person that I didn't want to see the most in my life is you.

Please leave this place immediately."

Chapter 2168 Sean's face turned red. "Elsa, I truly did look for you." "Mister." Elsa's voice returned to its calm state. "There truly is nothing between you and me anymore. Please don't come and disturb my life again. This is my last place where I can keep my peace. If I were to lose this peaceful place as well, then I no longer have any means to live in this world anymore, of course, I have sinned greatly, so I shouldn't have been alive in the first place. Alright. Mister, suit yourself."

Upon saying that, Elsa smiled and sighed lightly, then she turned around and left, she did not even take another look at her own son. Without saying another word, she was going to enter the convent.

"Mom!" Vireo called out behind her.

Elsa did not lookback. "I am not your mother. I merely gave birth to you. I never raised you after giving birth to you. I am a sinner. As for your mother, she should be your adoptive father and mother who had raised you. I, on the other hand, am not. Mister, please don't call me your mother again."

"No! Mom!" All the questioning words that Vireo had thought of all went up in smoke.

At that moment, he only wanted to know if his mother, his biological mother, had been living well for so many years in the past. Perhaps that was the innate connection between a mother and a son. For more than thirty years, his life had been extremely miserable, so he eagerly wanted to know if his mother has had it even more miserable than him.

"Mom, tell me, how did you get through your days all these years? Was it because you had no choice that you sold me back then? Was it because you felt guilty that you became a nun? Is that right? Mom, as long as you tell me that you had no choice, I won't blame you. In the future, you'll be a person with a son as well. I will provide for you, and you'll never be so miserable and lonely in the remaining years of your life, oh yes, Mom, you have a daughter-in- law now.

You will have grandchildren in the future. Life will become better and better. Follow me home, Mom."

Vireo needed a mother. He needed affection from his family. He did not hate anymore. He did not at all anymore. He simply could not hate when he was facing his biological mother. Elsa had her back facing Vireo, and when she heard Vireo saying that, her shoulders trembled a few times, she did not walk forward briskly anymore. Instead, she raised her hands to cover her face.

"Mom...you had your difficulties, right? when you sold me back then, you had no other choice, right?"

"No!" Elsa suddenly turned around. She looked at Vireo with her face covered in tears. "I didn't sell you for money. How could I bear to do that? You were my only child. I only had two relatives in my life. One of them is my grandmother, and the other is you. I had nothing left. I only had the two of you. How could I sell my biological son, whom I had traded with my life?"

vireo was suddenly shocked. At the same time, he felt very touched. It turned out that his mother had never sold him.

Then, what was the reason? Was he stolen?

After she wiped off the tears all over her face, Elsa continued. "At that time, it had only been a day since I had given birth to you. My grandma, who had been taking care of me, suddenly had a cerebral hemorrhage because of old age and because she was worried about me. At that time, I was outside of the maternity ward and I could not even stand up. I was up a creek without a paddle while holding you, who had just been born a day before. It was the woman in the bed next to mine who told me that she could help and watch the baby for me. I was thinking that since she was also a woman who had just given birth, I gave her the baby to look after him on my behalf. And then, I went to take care of my sick grandmother. A day later, my grandmother died at the hospital, and my baby...When I returned to the maternity ward, the woman was already gone.

There was nobody there and my child was also gone. I searched high and low like I had gone mad. I searched the entire hospital. However, my child could no longer be found. I had asked the people at the hospital, and they said that it was that woman who carried my child away. Later on, I got the woman's house address through the hospital, and I noticed that she was from out of town. There was a detailed address on her identification document, but it was at a remote mountainous area. If I wanted to go to that remote mountainous area, it would take at least two days and two nights by train."

Chapter 2169 Her grandmother had yet to be buried at that time, and her body was in the morgue at the hospital. At that time, Elsa already could not care about her grandmother anymore. After all, the body would not move on its own. she just bought a train ticket and wanted to go to that woman's hometown to look for her child. Tn the end, before she got on the train, she fainted at the train station.

It was because she had been running all over the place after she had just given birth the day before, so her body was bleeding out. If she had not been given emergency treatment in time, she might not even be alive anymore. By the time she was able to get out of bed a little, one week had already passed.

A week later, Elsa, whose body was still weak, traveled two days and two nights by train to that village in the mountains, she then finally found that woman's address with great difficulty. In the end, the information she got from her inquiry came as a bombshell to her.

It turned out that the woman was a typical unreasonable criminal. She had quite a bit of debt because of gambling. She was hiding everywhere from the debt collectors who were after her. Later on, she gradually became a human trafficker. After that, she started to sleep around all over the place with men, and her purpose was just to get pregnant, she would almost think of a way to get pregnant with the next child as soon as she had passed the breastfeeding period for her baby at that time, she had been seeking pleasure like that for almost six years. It was because of her pregnancy and also the breastfeeding period that she managed to evade justice. Not only that, but she would even trade the children that she had given birth for money to spend. She was killing two birds with one stone. All the people in the area resented this woman greatly, and she had never returned to her hometown for almost a decade.

After hearing such information, Elsa came to the conclusion that her child certainly had already been sold a long time ago. That information was such a huge blow to Elsa that she almost died on the spot. However, when she thought of the fact that her grandmother's body was still in the morgue, she had no choice but to return to the hospital in South City with an exhausted body and an utterly hopeless heart. After burying her grandmother, Elsa originally wanted to take her own life by jumping into the river.

However, she was saved by an old nun who was passing by.

The old nun told her that the world was filled with unpredictable things, and there were other people who were more miserable than her in this world. She advised Elsa to be a little more open-minded. If she had given up on worldly desires, then she could follow her and become a nun. That way, she would also have one additional companion at the convent. Elsa, who was like a working corpse, then followed the nun to the convent.

Elsa then stayed at the convent for thirty-six years. There was not a single day in the past that she was not repenting, she was repentant for giving birth to her son. she was even repentant for having known Sean. In the past thirty-six years, she almost never left the covenant and had been sincerely praying every day from her early twenties to almost pushing 60. She originally thought that her life was going to pass by just like that. However, what Elsa had never expected was that she could still see her grown-up son in her old age, as well as that man she had once loved with all her heart and soul, she no longer hated this man at that moment, but she also did not love him. All that she had was repentance, endless repentance.

That particular day, on the other hand, was the day she felt most relieved. Her son had actually found her. It was her son who came looking for her on his own initiative. Could all this be God's will? However, even if it was God's will, she should have been punished instead. After all, she was the one who had fallen in love with a married man back then.

"Son, I'm sorry. I am a sinner. I shouldn't have fallen for that man, which led to me giving birth to you irresponsibly. There's no need for you to call me your mom because I don't deserve it. You don't have to provide for me as well because I don't also deserve it. I should be a person despised by all because I am a shameful homewrecker."

At that moment, Sean suddenly said, "Elsa, don't...don't talk about yourself like that."

Chapter 2170 Elsa suddenly turned to her face, which was initially calm, toward Sean. "Mister Ford! I had already processed the hatred on my own for more than thirty years! Please don't make me hate you again! Because you don't deserve it!"

"I..." Sean said.

"Mom, what the helL.happened back then?" vireo had just met his father, and he had also just met his mother. However, he chose to believe his mother.

Elsa smiled miserably. "I was only twenty years old back then!"

Sean nodded. "Yes, you were like a budding flower back then."

"Did I ever actively seduce you?" Elsa asked rhetorically.

"YOU...I know that you liked me," said Sean embarrassedly.

"I liked you! Is it wrong for me to like you? I was a twenty-year- old girl. You were ten years older than me. In order to obtain me, you sent someone to my hometown and deliberately frightened my grandmother to the point of her getting ill. Originally, my grandmother was able to support herself by farming and picking up scraps in my downtown, she was also able to watch over our small house in my hometown. However, after my mother had gotten ill from being frightened, she was unable to take care of herself anymore, so I could only bring her to South city. Both my grandmother and I were struggling in South City. At that time, I was very grateful to you whenever you showed me a little kindness back then. You went to visit my grandmother at the hospital and you even sent her flowers. You told my grandmother that you were single and unmarried. My grandmother then urged me to marry you every day. I asked you why you said that to my grandmother. What did you say at that time? Sean Ford! It was after a very long time that I understood what a despicable and shameless person you were!"

Sean was speechless.

"At that time, you told me you did that because you didn't want my grandmother to feel burdened and you didn't want the people at the hospital to look at me with prejudice. You also said that it was just a temporary measure that suited the situation, and you only wanted to protect my reputation. Your words were so gentle. Your maturity and thoughtfulness made me gradually fall for you. I can't help but like you."

When Elsa thought of that bitter unrequited love she had back then, tears simply kept streaming down her face. She was a girl who came from a village, she had only fallen in love once in her life, and her whole life was ruined by it. Ruined!

"That's right! I liked you more and more. I liked you, but I had never dared to tell you. I could only make myself numb by working hard. I told myself that I must not disturb you. I certainly can't let you see how head over heels I was for you!" Thinking of that, Elsa smiled miserably. "But, how can I escape the trap that you had devised? Everything that you had done was to make me fall in love with you, wasn't it? You knew it very well since when I had fallen for you and how much I loved you, right? You knew me like the back of your hand. Therefore, when the time is right, you only have to signal to me with a finger a little, and I will no longer have the willpower to refuse you anymore. Isn't that right?"

Speaking of that, Elsa looked at Sean with a disdainful gaze.

Sean's face became completely flushed. After he had gotten older, he felt more and more guilty about the things that he had done when he was young. However, back then, it was during the time when he was full of vigor, young, handsome, powerful, and wealthy. At that time, Sean feared nothing. He feared nothing and no one and was incomparably spirited. Also, as long as she was a woman that he wanted to have, he would always be able to get her. When Sean was young, other than his wife, all the other women might not even be considered as human in Sean's eyes. In his eyes, they could only playthings. The beautiful one, the sultry one, the slutty one, and the lowly one. He had all kinds of women and they were all objects. He had never thought of caring for these women at all.

However, occasionally when there was a refreshing one who was not clinging to him, he would then feel like he had a change of taste. Also, he would have a sense of curiosity about the novelty. He would also occasionally make a bet with a few young masters from wealthy families. They would bet on how long it would take for them to get hold of that woman.