Chapter 286: I Entrust Shenshen to You

But in those eyes, was no longer the spark of before, as if shrouded by a layer of white gauze, hazy and blurred.

In the few days Mi Shen had stayed at the old house, she had come to understand the old patriarch's physical condition: occasionally confused, appetite growing worse, eating less and less, spending most of his days asleep, and when awake, prone to confusion.

Though she was still young, she understood matters of life and death. Seeing the elderly man in such a state now, a complex mix of emotions surged in her heart—sorrow, reluctance, fear... all swirling together into a chaos of feeling.

"Great-grandfather," Mi Shen called out, sitting by the bedside and taking the old man's withered, skin-and-bones hand in hers, tears falling unguardedly.

"Shenshen..." Li Fengchang's voice was old and worn, every word seeming to sap his energy, strained yet stubborn, "Our Shenshen, don't cry... You won't look pretty if you cry."