Zhang Ni only knew that his father didn't speak, because he also understood what kind of person his father was. In his father's eyes, he was someone who wasn't good at lying and even more disdainful of lying.
He clearly remembered the kind of harm his grandparents had once caused his father, but he never thought that now the relationship between his mom and dad would reach such a point.
He was caught in the middle, at a loss for what to do. On one side was his mother, and he wanted to seek justice for her, but on the other side was his father, who loved him dearly. He couldn't make a decision; he only knew that deep inside, he felt conflicted and in pain. It was a kind of hurt that was indescribable, yet he had no way to deal with it, so he pretended as if it had never happened.
He so wished that all of this was just a dream. He didn't want this to become reality. He wanted his mother to come back to him, but he also knew that it wasn't as simple as he imagined.
