An unspoken emotion filled her heart, a mix of sadness and reluctance.
Ling Ge opened her eyes, her dark pupils darting around, looking at Ye Xinluo, then at Beichen Rui, as she shook her arms and began to babble.
Beichen Rui took her from her hands and soothed her, and only then did the little one quiet down.
Zhang Minyi also squatted, looking at the photo on the tombstone, her eyes turning red, and a tear slid down her cheek as her trembling fingertips touched the photo, feeling incredibly guilty inside.
For so many years, I hadn't come to look even once. If you were aware in the afterlife, you would surely be very sad, wouldn't you?
"I'm sorry..."
There were countless words to say, but ultimately they boiled down to just one: "I'm sorry."
This apology came many years too late.
If I hadn't been so stubbornly narrow-minded back then, many of the subsequent events wouldn't have happened...
