She swallowed her grievances, dealt with her fears, it seemed, she no longer needed him. Even when she was bullied by Lin Qiang at the company, she would solve it in her own way.
"Itās part of it," Eleven answered.
"Thousand, do you remember, brother once said, I will always be your strong support, as long as you need, I will stand by your side."
"Forever..." Eleven repeated these two words and laughed, "Brother, forever is a long time, I just want to focus on the present, I donāt want to think about anything else."
"Thousand, I think weāve been apart for too long, so I wonāt push you. I will let you know that I am still that Shang Jingyang, I havenāt changed."
Eleven smiled.
There was something she didnāt say.
Perhaps he really hasnāt changed, but she had.
...
When she got back to the company, she found many missed calls from Cute. She picked up her phone and left the office.
She saved Cuteās number as "Goddess Baby", strikingly similar to Jiujiuās.
"Hello? Cute? Whatās up?"
"HO...Eleven, letās us say, you did a very wise choice to let Mr. Gu go! You donāt know how bad he is!"
As soon as Eleven heard this, she knew that the father and daughter must have had a fight again, so she patiently asked, "What happened? Tell me."
"He didnāt let me have breakfast, didnāt give me lunch, and said that he wonāt give me dinner either!"
The words of a child canāt be completely believed, especially those of Gu Mengmeng, the little mischievous spirit. Eleven had some doubts about the truthfulness of the incident.
After all, Gu Liancheng loved his daughter so much, how could he possibly abuse her by not feeding her?
"Well, thatās really bad," Eleven played along with the childās thoughts and said, "Itās too much, he didnāt even feed you."
"Hey, Eleven," Gu Mengmeng narrowed her eyes at the other end and said with a laugh, "You donāt have to be so perfunctory if you donāt believe me."
"..." She almost forgot, this girl is as smart as Jiujiu, she canāt be fooled by ordinary deception.
"No way, Iāve known Mr. Gu longer than you, I understand him, he really is a very excessive man. He even once left me alone on a bridge, late at night, cold to death, just because I went out to play with my ex-boyfriend, he got angry."
Although, he drove around and came back to pick her up afterwards.
"Ah, heās so bad! Heās so ungentlemanly! How could he do that?"
The mother and daughter started chatting, saying all kinds of bad things about Gu Liancheng, laughing and giggling.
...
At night, a villa in the Western District.
Gu Lianchengās car stopped, he got out in a weary manner, took off his coat, and went into the house. A servant came up to take his coat.
"Whereās Cute?"
"The young lady is in her room."
"Did she eat anything?"
"Werenāt you instructing not to feed her, sir, so we didnāt dare to do so."
At this moment, Gu Liancheng discovered for the first time that everyone is very obedient, they do whatever he says.
"Didnāt she complain about being hungry?"
"Her door is closed, sir, we are not allowed to disturb."
Gu Liancheng didnāt say a word and went upstairs. He turned the doorknob and the door opened -- it wasnāt locked. The bedding was slightly raised as she hid inside.
"Gu Mengmeng, Iām back."
The little one inside the blanket moved a bit, pulling the blanket tighter. Gu Liancheng walked over and pulled the blanket open. Gu Mengmeng was unable to resist, and the blanket was opened in one go. Then Gu Liancheng picked her up like a piece of paper, effortlessly with one hand, making her face him, "What are you doing, Gu Mengmeng?"