The Story a Stranger Brought

"So is someone like that worth seeing? If I abandoned you and our child, could you forgive me?"

"..."

Cheng Dongxue had no answer. When it happened to someone else, she could understand everything. But when she put herself in his place, she felt lost.

"But is avoiding him going to solve anything?"

Cheng Dongxue only wanted things to work out for Zhang Yang. She didn't want to make this harder for him. But matters had come this far. Though no one had said it outright, both Zhang Yang and Zhang Hong knew the truth.

Running away seemed like the most helpless response of all.

"You're the son. You can't speak for your mother. Talk to her and see what she says."

Cheng Dongxue laid it out for Zhang Yang. He frowned, but she seemed to have a point.

The Kyoto Hotel was one of Kyoto's landmarks, a top-tier five-star hotel. It had once received only state guests, but later opened to the public.

Zhang Daoru and Zhang Hong arrived with a whole entourage. In a smaller place, a sight like that would have terrified the greeters and probably brought security running.

But this was the Kyoto Hotel. Even its waiters and cleaners had seen plenty of grand arrivals. They found nothing unusual or intimidating about it.

"Mr. Zhang, the young master is on the sixth floor. He still doesn't know we found him, much less that you're coming."

The bodyguard waiting at the entrance reported to Zhang Hong.

"Grandpa, my young granduncle must be hurting. I don't think all these people should show up right now. It could cause a confrontation."

Faced with something they couldn't accept, most people would react much like Zhang Yang. But what they did next would be very different. An ordinary person might