Chapter 890 Dad, I'm back

Gu Wanqiu slowly picked up her cell phone, turned around, and leaned her back lightly against the tombstone.

There are no stars tonight, only a lonely moon hanging in the sky. Gu Wanqiu turned on her cell phone and saw the recording file that Li Jinxing sent to her phone.

She clicked on it and heard intermittent noises. After a while, a familiar yet unfamiliar voice came from inside.

It was familiar because she could immediately tell that it was Gu Chaodong's voice, but it was unfamiliar because it was the first time she heard his voice so weak and hoarse.

In the audio, his heavy breathing was accompanied by the sounds of instruments in the hospital ward.

"Beep-beep--" My heart tightens every time the sound comes.

"Cough cough cough..." Gu Chaodong coughed. Hearing such a sound, Gu Wanqiu's heart seemed to be twisted by something. She forced herself not to turn off the phone and continued listening.

"Haven't you found Qiuqiu yet? So many days have passed, where has she been? She's never been far away from home since she was a child... People out there are so bad, what if she's been cheated?"

Gu Chaodong, who was terminally ill, muttered to himself, perhaps he himself did not even know what he was saying.

"I miss her and want to see her... Can you help me find her? I left her money and a house. When she's tired of playing, she can come back and rest... Does Qiuqiu hate me? Do you think I've ignored her for so many years?"

"I know. She's always blamed me for not spending enough time with her, so she ran away from home out of spite. I finally watched her grow up... Call her and tell her not to be angry with Daddy anymore... Daddy won't look for other women anymore. I will give her a sense of security and give her whatever she wants..."

"She still won't come back after all this... If I'd known I only had such a short life, I should have stayed home with her. I missed out on so much of her growth. The little baby who once sucked on a pacifier in my arms has grown up so quickly. I wasn't even by her side on her eighteenth birthday..."

"I kind of want to drink the glass of milk she brings me every night..."

"If she doesn't want to come back, then don't come back. If she's been wronged outside, tell her that the lights at home are always on for her. Don't be afraid of the dark and refuse to come back. I'm gone, and this is all I leave for her. Make her happy... From now on, Daddy will be gone..."

At this point, Gu Chaodong's voice began to become intermittent and gradually became unclear. In the last few seconds of the recording, Gu Wanqiu heard his last words.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." Who is he saying sorry to?

Gu Wanqiu held the phone tightly and put it to her ear. It was so close that it seemed as if Gu Chaodong was right next to her.

The last five seconds.

"I'm sorry... I couldn't see our daughter get married..."

Gu Wanqiu imagined the last picture of Gu Chaodong in her mind. He was lying on the hospital bed, his face pale and bloodless, with no light in his pupils. He looked at the ceiling blankly, as if he had thought of something, his face full of regret. He said "I'm sorry..." one after another, thinking about everything in his life, the people he loved, the people he let down, the people he ignored, and finally his daughter. Until his death, his face was full of worry.

Finally, he let out a long breath and moved his fingers, as if he wanted to hold on to something. He didn't wait for Gu Wanqiu to come back. The ones guarding his bed were the medical staff and Li Jinxing.

He never knew until his death that Li Jinxing, to whom he entrusted everything, would torture his daughter until she was covered in bruises. He also didn't know that the glass of milk he wanted to drink until his death was the poison that killed him.

He knew nothing and died with regrets and half-closed eyes...

Gu Wanqiu tightly gripped the phone, her breathing trembling, she didn't know when the tears started flowing, she bit her lower lip, her throat was blocked, as if a hemp rope was wrapped around her neck and kept tightening, she felt a little suffocated, and patted her chest with one hand to relieve the pain.

How could this happen...

How could it become like this?

Gu Wanqiu always felt that Gu Chaodong had no fatherly love for her. He didn't care about her at all. He wasn't as good to her as Butler Wang. From childhood to adulthood, when she was sick, how many times did he come back? It was just a phone call to comfort her verbally.

Gu Wanqiu also felt that she did not have much feelings for Gu Chaodong, otherwise she would not have left here and gone to Country M without looking back.

Everything she had always believed in now collapsed. She cried and sobbed uncontrollably. She didn't expect that she would shed tears for Gu Chaodong, and she didn't expect that Gu Chaodong would keep thinking of her when he died, asking her when she would come back.

He was afraid that she would not live well, so he left her an inheritance. He was worried that she would be bullied outside, so he bought properties in various places in her name. He said that she could come home whenever she was tired, and this would always be her safe haven.

Now she is tired, she comes back here, but this is no longer her home.

She put down her phone, looked at the photo on the tombstone, and trembled in her voice: "Dad... I'm back..."