Time was truly a magical thing, capable of bringing strangers closer together and creating distance between blood relatives.
Just like the three of them.
Throughout the meal, it was Ji Qingyan who kept the conversation going, otherwise, there would have been little for Lin Yi and Qin Yingyue to talk about.
After dinner, Ji Qingyan had originally planned to send Qin Yingyue back, but Qin Yingyue had rejected her.
To her, being able to see Lin Yi and hearing him admit that she was his mother in front of Ji Qingyan was a great honor and relief.
After leaving Dooramall, the two of them were not in a hurry to go back.
Instead, they strolled for a while on the road.
“When did you and Auntie meet? Why didn’t you tell me?”
Ji Qingyan grumbled unhappily, “I’ve embarrassed myself today.”
Like mother, like son.
Lin Yi must have inherited his tricks from his mother.
She felt awkward at the thought of this.
She actually shot down her mother-in-law over and over again.
Sigh, this was too embarrassing.
“I met her in Yanjing at the end of last year.”
“But you guys didn’t contact each other before. How did you meet in Yanjing?”
“Um...”
Lin Yi took a deep breath and said slowly,
“Back then, she had no choice but to send me to the orphanage. However, after a few years, she settled down, so she wanted to bring me back. That’s when she came to the orphanage and saw that I was living quite well there since Mother Wang treated me like her own son. She felt guilty, so she gave up on this plan.”
“So all these years, she’s been stifling her emotions and hasn’t come looking for you?”
“It’s not like that.”
The two of them walked slowly. Lin Yi spoke slowly, as if he was talking about an ordinary matter.
“After her situation stabilized, she stayed in Yangcheng for a long time. When she had nothing to do, she would visit me at the orphanage, but she would always stay outside the compound.”
“After I went to Zhonghai University, she followed me to Zhonghai. She has watched some of my life and knows a lot about me, including you. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have recognized you at first glance.”
“She was with you the whole time?”
“Pretty much. She never left.”
Ji Qingyan took a deep breath.
She didn’t know how to describe her feelings.
If it wasn’t for the love that ran deep into her bones, it would be really difficult to do this.
Motherly love was truly purer and greater than any other emotion..