Falling Dreams, Rising Hopes: Saving Mr. Boyfriend

"I… I am sorry. I wanted to experiment and Yu Rong was the most easily available girl around me and so…," Yu Ming swallowed his saliva, his voice getting smaller and his head dropping lower by the moment.

With this monster standing behind him, he could not dare utter a single lie. This guy was the right hand man of his own dad. His dad trusted the man with his life. His dad had picked him up from underworld, he was one of the most powerful people at that time.

Having joined hands with his own dad, the Yu name had flourished significantly after that. This guy could kill very easily, without hesitation. Yu Ming knew, even in seventies, that man's stick was not a normal wooden stick. It must be hiding a weapon or two. Anyway, this guy had enough strength in his prime to crack a skull with just that frail stick.

Yu Ming's dad's heart attack that year was indeed due to him discovering the truth about his own son and Yu Rong. He was not sure who had leaked the information after all those years to his wife a year before and then to his dad.

His secret, that had buried with his dad and wife, eventually came out. He had never to worry about his sister leaking it because she never thought of him as wrong. She worshipped her own brother like a God.

He was the one who gave confidence to that introvert and shy girl. If not for him, she would have just been sitting at home, waiting for someone to feed her. He made her independent. She would never betray him.

"I… Did not assault her. It was all consensual," he spoke up again.

The audience gasped at the revelation. Did this man even understand what he was saying? Calculating their ages, she would have been a minor when they had done the deed. Was this something to say out loud? What would the child understand?

The stick made a contact with the chair again. Yu Ming shrieked in fear. He looked behind and saw the face of the devil. His mental fortitude was already weak because of Jiang Nuo and this man was behind his a.s.s.

���It seems like grandpa must have been a terrifying man in his youth. Even your tyrant father is nothing before him," Mei Qingyang whispered to Yu Tian who was watching the show unfolding with disgust. Now he understood why his mom committed suicide.

He had always been resentful towards his parents for abandoning him. But now he was thankful for his mom's early departure. How could she live after knowing that she had fallen for a pedophile? He did hope there was a better way or place for her. But it did not matter anymore.

"Talk about your wife and dad, and wrap it up. I have already called police, you will be treated in their custody from now on," the grandpa thundered.

"Ye…yes," sweat rolled down Yu Ming's forehead but there was no one to take care of him. He was just making fool out of himself.

"Yu Tian's mom came to know about it somehow. We fought, I tried convincing her that it was a one time thing, but that girl would not believe me. I tried pleading to her but she was intent on leaving me. I loved her too much so I mixed poison in her drink. The maids in the house knew about her mentally unstable condition even if they did not know the reason. So they testified in my favor, not knowing the actual cause. I made the police close the case as suicide," Yu Ming spoke once again, his voice trembling. Next thing he knew, he had flown from his chair onto the ground.

Yu Tian huffed as he shook his aching hand. All this while, he had thought his mother left him behind for no reason. She had not even taken her own life? How could he have cursed her so much in his thoughts? His poor mom, why did she even look at this guy, much less love him?

He looked coldly at the guy lying down on the floor, bleeding from the corner of his mouth. He felt so much rage that he wanted to punch him some more. Qingyang ran to him to stop him. The cameras flashed again and again to capture the whole family drama. This story would be talk of the nation for years to come.

"He has just undergone surgery and he is a weak man. Why waste your breath? He will die otherwise!" Mei Qingyang placated Yu Tian, patting him again and again.

"I am disgusted beyond words to call myself your son. Even if you get out of here alive, you are dead for me," Yu Tian spoke with so much coldness that everyone in the crowd felt chills in their spine. If there was no one to stop him here, Yu Ming might not have made it alive. The son on the stage looked like king of hell. No one dared move even their finger.

"Puhahahah, I knew it, you are my son after all. Patricide is fine too, come to my league. Experience the rage. You can't get rid of your blood my boy. You, the girl over there, you are his girlfriend? See how deceiving I was all this while? Your boyfriend here will be the same, you will never find happiness as long as he has Yu name" Yu Ming laughed and cursed them both at the same time.

The grandpa's stick slowly approached Yu Ming's neck. When he saw he could be killed any moment, he laughed even louder, like a maniac.

"I will give you a befitting ending dear nephew, even before any accusations touch this fine young man. It is a pity that he was born to you. This couple's kindness was wasted on you. Take him away," he ordered the police that was on standby near the stage.

The brought in a stretcher and handcuffed him with it.

"So now you guys know the truth behind Yu family. The Yu patriarch, my best friend, had a heart attack after he got to know the real reason of his daughter in law's death. Yes, he knew the truth, and could not believe that his own son could do that. He took grief over the fact that he failed to teach both his children and passed away," the grandpa addressed the crowd of reporters.

"If you knew the truth, why did you not come out earlier?"

"Why was the reason for Yu Ming's wife death not revealed earlier?"

"What other things are you not telling us?"

"How does this affect young master Yu's inheritance rights?" A rally of questions followed after the story got over. The grandpa was not in the mood to answer anything, this he waved his hands and dismissed everyone. But he did answer the last question.

"Yu Tian's grandfather never handed the inheritance to Yu Ming. After he had become bedridden, he had gotten two wills made. One was given to Yu his own two children and it was take. The lawyers are aware of it. The whole Yu Empire and the Yu assets unless purchased by those two personally, all belong to the grandson since the beginning," he announced and moved slowly towards the couple who were standing there expressionless. No one had any idea how to reach anymore.

"I am sorry it took me so long to come out. Given the old age, I had no idea so much had happened behind my back. When Jiang Nuo contacted me, that was when I realized the water had crossed the limits. I still did not want to reveal it because, you my boy, were not ready. Qing Qing, I am so glad you are with him now," the grandpa softened immediately seeing the two people in front of him.

If everyone had not witnessed him just now, no one could say that the old man a few minutes ago and the old man now were the same people. The crowd was dragged out by the men old man had brought with him. The hall became empty in a few minutes, except their friends and their assistants.

Yu Tian bowed to the grandpa. "I am sorry you had to come out like this. We were incompetent. It must have brought bad memories," he was still in his business mode.

The old man smiled and stepped forward. He patted the guy's head gently, with much love, as if he was his own grandson. "Tian ah! It's not good to bottle up your emotions. Why don't you let it out now?" His words struck somewhere to the kid and a dam broke.

Hot tears started rolling his cheeks but he had no idea what had just happened.

"Tears? I… I am sorry, I didn't mean to…" Yu Tian mumbled, touching his own face unbelievably.

"It's okay. We are here for you," the grandpa pulled him into a hug and let him cry all he wanted.

That day, Yu Tian's sorrow, resentment, sadness melted like thawed ice. He had no use holding onto those emotions.

That day, the auditorium in the hospital witnessed a guy releasing his pain forever and ever. His screams of relief and regret made everyone present shed their own tears, including the grandpa himself.