Li Tianming's words left Qin Siyang silent.
In the phrase "a ruined home and a dead family," most of the pain lay in the deaths.
Even though Li Pengfei's memories had been rewritten, he had at least returned to Li Tianming's side. Father and son got along fairly well, and they could gradually make up for what they had lost.
But Ye Hongqing's death had become a wound in Li Tianming's heart that he could not get past.
If Ye Hongqing had betrayed Li Tianming of her own accord, only to be killed by Guo Jiuxiao afterward, Li Tianming probably would not have hated Guo Jiuxiao so much. He would simply have accepted that he had misjudged both his wife and his close friend.
He had misjudged two people, and one had ended up dead from their infighting. That outcome was something he could accept, and he might not have insisted on killing Guo Jiuxiao.
But when Guo Jiuxiao had met the two of them at the hospital last time, he had told Li Tianming that Ye Hongqing had acted that way because he had altered her memories too.
In other words, there had only ever been one venomous snake at Li Tianming's side: Guo Jiuxiao!
Chen Fenghe loved him deeply and had stood by him, but Ye Hongqing might well have been a good wife and mother too. And since Guo Jiuxiao had killed her, Li Tianming could hardly turn a blind eye.
If Jiang Hao, Han Huizhi, or someone like them had been in the same situation, they probably would not have fought someone as powerful as Guo Jiuxiao to the death over a dead person.
But Li Tianming had never been a coldhearted "smart man" who put self-interest above all else.
At his core, Li Tianming was