Chapter 1936 Why Lie to Him

The moment he hugged her shoulders, Gu Tianqi felt the girl in his arms tremble and then froze.

The faucet was still open and the water was flowing.

"Why are you distancing yourself from me?" Gu Tianqi asked.

Chi Nian turned off the faucet and the kitchen returned to silence.

"Let me go first."

As she spoke, she tried to struggle, but Gu Tianqi held her tighter and didn't want to let go.

Although he already had a strong feeling that no matter how tightly he hugged her, he could not hold the girl in his arms.

Gu Tianqi lowered his head and rested his chin on her shoulder.

Chi Nian sighed, put the cup aside, and placed his hands on the countertop.

"Well, yes, I am distancing myself from you."

Gu Tianqi felt a pang in his heart, "You hate me so much?"

"Brother, no matter what difficulties you encounter, this is not your safe haven. You can't keep going like this."

"What's wrong with this? I just want to live a normal life now." He paused, turned his head, and looked at her closely: "With you."

"Ordinary people's life," Chi Nian repeated his words and smiled: "Do you really understand? Do you think riding a bicycle to pick up your girlfriend is an ordinary life? Second brother, you think too simply..."

Gu Tianqi's face darkened. "I can adapt slowly."

"Adapting to a crowded subway commute? Or having to look at the price when buying fruit, and not eating anything too expensive? Or having to wait for a sale at the mall to buy a small appliance? Can you really adapt to all this? It might feel new for a day or two, but if it had to be like this for a lifetime, would you really be willing to accept it?"

Gu Tianqi didn't know how to answer for a moment.

He was also wondering if his liking for the lives of ordinary people was also a condescending attitude.

Is it really like Chi Nian said, that this ordinariness is just a temporary novelty for him?

But after a long time, you will feel suffocated and uncomfortable?

These days, he has abandoned his identity as the young master of the Gu family and has felt uncomfortable in all aspects, as if he is living in a fault line and can't find a sense of belonging anywhere.

He really didn't like this situation.

Chi Nian added, "Even if you're willing, I'm not, because I feel sorry for you. You clearly have more abundant resources and know better people. You have ambition and revenge, and you have the ability to reach higher, but you choose to stop."

Chi Nian turned around and looked at him: "If you really like your current life, I won't say anything. The key is that you don't like it. I can feel your reluctance."

Gu Tianqi looked at the little girl in front of him. Her eyes were firm and anxious.

She had seen through him.

Indeed, Gu Tianqi was not reconciled. He liked to sit at the breakfast stall and watch people coming and going, but he also had higher mountains he wanted to climb. He yearned for ordinariness, but at the same time he was unwilling to be mediocre.

When he is tired, he can rest on the side of the road, but he doesn't want to stay on the side of the road forever.

In his heart, he always had an idea that one day, he would rely on his own abilities to win back everything he had lost, and he also hoped to live a better life with this girl.

But he didn't want to leave her.

"I'm not willing to give up, and I haven't stopped moving forward. I haven't been idle these past two days. While you were at work, I was also doing research at home..."

Chi Nian smiled and interrupted him, "Studying stock trading? Second brother, what you need is to do something down to earth, not venture capital."

Gu Tianqi's face was burning and he felt ashamed.

I never thought that one day I would be taught a lesson so thoroughly by a little girl.

He put his hand on Chi Nian's shoulder and asked her seriously: "If I keep my feet on the ground, will you...will you be with me?"

Chi Nian looked at him steadily, biting her lip, seeming to be in a dilemma, and finally lowered her head.

Gu Tianqi understood that he was not good enough yet. He was not qualified to talk about love. He had not even recovered well...

Maybe when he is good enough, Chi Nian will be willing to be with him?

He let go of Chi Nian's shoulders and took a step back.

"I understand. I'll come back to you when I accomplish something."

He turned and walked out of the kitchen. The girl behind him showed no intention of keeping him, and Gu Tianqi felt a pang of pain in his heart.

The luggage was quickly packed, and then the mat was gathered up and folded neatly.

After doing all this, Gu Tianqi picked up the suitcase and walked out the door.

When passing the kitchen, I saw Chi Nian had turned on the faucet again and was washing the pair of milk cups.

By the time he rises to prominence, will she have become Mrs. Fu?

He wasn't even sure if Chi Nian was already with that guy, because she had just stayed in Fu Jianqing's room for a long time...

He stopped outside the kitchen door and asked, "I know I'm not qualified, but I still want to know, you... your relationship with Fu Jianqing, what's the extent of it?"

She paused for a moment and looked at him: "Brother Qing just confessed to me."

"You promised?"

"I'm thinking..."

Although this answer was quite unpleasant, Gu Tianqi felt relieved for the time being.

"Can you think about it for a little longer?"

Chi Nian turned to look at him, confusion showing on his face.

Gu Tianqi stared into her eyes and said seriously: “I have nothing now, can you wait for me, so… promise him later.”

Chi Nian smiled and said, "You should work hard first."

Gu Tianqi clenched his fingers.

Now he can't offer anyone any future, and he doesn't even have the foundation to build a future with them, so it's useless to say anything.

He lowered his eyes silently, pulled his suitcase, and left Chi Nian's house.

The door was closed, and Chi Nian continued to stand in front of the sink, washing the two cups. They were obviously already clean, but she kept scrubbing, as if she wanted to repeat this action for ten thousand years.

Fu Jianqing walked into the kitchen and helped her turn off the faucet.

"Why lie to him?" Fu Jianqing took the clean cup from her hand and placed it on the drain rack. "Just tell him that I confessed to you."

Chi Nian lowered her head, tears falling one after another. She wiped them away with the back of her hand and smiled bleakly: "I wanted to lie to him that we were already together."

Fu Jianqing sighed: "But I'm worried that he'll be too deeply shocked and unable to cheer up?"

Chi Nian nodded. He didn't want to give Tianqi hope, but he wasn't afraid of hitting him too hard and making him devastated.

Because she could feel that Tianqi's recent condition was not very good, she finally couldn't bear to say anything more harsh...

"If you really like him, go after him." Fu Jianqing turned her shoulders and looked at her.

"But his mother said that if he were with me, he would lose everything he has now," Chi Nian lowered his head, "I don't want to delay him."

"He's already..." Fu Jianqing stopped talking halfway.

Chi Nian raised his head and looked at him: "What?"

"Nothing," Fu Jianqing turned and walked out of the kitchen. He paused at the door and tilted his head. "I just want to say that he is just an ordinary person. There is nothing unattainable about him. If you want to be with him, it's not too late to chase him back now."