Chapter 114 Friends

In the suburbs of Changcheng, there is a lake view garden hidden in a quiet forest.

Under the dragon head eaves, a long plank road paves a long road leading to the center of the lake.

Gao Tianjiao sat sideways on a bench in the pavilion in the middle of the lake, watching the fish. She put the bag of fish food on her legs, tightly grasped her cell phone in one hand, and absentmindedly picked up the fish food with the other hand and threw it into the lake to feed the fish.

Gao Tianci, who was fishing nearby, tried to endure it again and again, but finally couldn't bear it anymore and said, "If it really doesn't work, go back. If you stay here, you will only disturb my nest."

Gao Tianjiao hummed, without changing her posture at all, and continued to feed the fish absent-mindedly.

She wasn't listening at all.

If this daughter wasn't really his biological daughter... Gao Tianci sighed deeply, threw away his fishing rod, sat over, poked her shoulder, and asked, "What's wrong? Who offended you?"

Gao Tianjiao said gloomily: "No one messes with me."

But she was fine just now. Gao Tianci was fishing and she was watching from the side. When she saw a fish being hooked, she laughed and took the net bag to scoop it up.

Who knew that when my cell phone rang, I picked it up and took a look, and it immediately became like this.

If Gao Tianci believed her when she said she was fine, he would have no need to live and could have just committed suicide by slitting his throat.

"Oh, you're dating a boyfriend?"

Gao Tianci naturally knew that she was not in a relationship. No one knew what was going on with the young people these days. No matter if they were men or women, they all looked like they had given up on love and were determined to practice the ruthless way. They had a lot of backups, but no one who could really get promoted.

This is just a starting point, the brick that is thrown out.

Gao Tianjiao naturally knew that he was talking nonsense, but she also knew that this meant that her father was determined to know what had happened.

"Friend." She picked up the bag of fish food, emptied the entire bag in one breath, crumpled up the remaining plastic bag and stuffed it into her shirt pocket. Then she sat up straight, turned around and faced Gao Tianci, revealing an expression that was distressed, angry and aggrieved.

This expression is a little too vivid.

Gao Tianci was suddenly shocked and had some vague guesses in his mind.

His girl thinks highly of herself. In fact, she doesn’t have many friends. She is so angry and aggrieved...

The next moment, Gao Tianjiao unlocked her phone and showed him the chat history that had just been released.

"We haven't been in touch for two years, and she came up and asked me for help. Isn't that too much? Why does she think I'm willing to help her after not talking for such a long time? Do I look like a complainer and a bootlicker?"

Before Gao Tianci looked at the chat history carefully, he saw the note at the top of the chat box at a glance.

Qin, 0930

“You…” Gao Tianci’s head was filled with questions: “Didn’t you tell me that you had already broken up with this person?”

This female classmate’s surname is Qin and her birthday is September 30th. Although Gao Tianci has never met her before, he has heard of her name for a long time.

At the end of the first semester of his daughter's college, she called him crying and said she couldn't stand living in the dormitory anymore and wanted to move out.

However, Gao Tianci did not send her abroad, but kept her in the country all the way from high school to university, and also specified the major of architecture in order to specifically cultivate her interpersonal skills.

Living in a dormitory is of course part of it.

So even though she was crying miserably on the phone, Gao Tianci on the other side of the phone even wanted to laugh and just asked her: "What's wrong? Were you bullied?"

Gao Tianjiao hesitated and was unwilling to admit it.

When she just entered high school, Gao Tianci readily gave her two choices.

One is to have fun for three years in high school, and then happily go abroad to study. After graduation, she will cash out the family's business funds, use the cash to find a suitable son of an official, and marry him to become a rich wife.

One of them studied hard in high school and applied to a domestic university on her own. No matter how many points she got, her father could only send her to a second-tier university even if she scored 500 points, as he didn't have the ability to do it. After being admitted to university, she studied civil engineering, and after graduation, she took over her family's business, expanded it, and became the president herself.

Gao Tianci also explained it very clearly to her at that time.

In fact, I still want her to be a rich wife, with an easy and stable life. Although she earns less, as long as she is open-minded, this path is still feasible.

But Gao Tianjiao was also proud and arrogant at the time, so naturally she chose to rely on herself without a doubt.

...She had never thought that this road would be so difficult. The three years of hellish remedial classes and exams in high school were just an appetizer.

Gao Tianci asked her to build good relationships with her classmates and teachers during her college years, which was the difficult part of advancement.

"In short, I offended my roommate." Gao Tianjiao said dejectedly, "Then I realized I couldn't afford to offend her."

Gao Tianci was happy.

"You are roommates, you sleep in the same room for four years, and even if she plays a song, it will keep you awake. Of course you can't offend her."

"But that's not the point. You must know not to offend people you can't afford to offend. I told you this when you were in kindergarten."

Gao Tianjiao went to an aristocratic kindergarten, elementary school, and high school all the way from childhood to adulthood. Most of her classmates were people that her family could not afford to offend, so even though it sounds ridiculous, she had indeed known this truth since she was a child.

Gao Tianjiao said dejectedly: "I misjudged her. I thought she was a good person."

It’s hard to explain in detail, but in short, it is this.

"I thought she was a very easy person to get along with until she started treating me like an enemy."

Gao Tianci was listening on the other end of the phone. More than half an hour passed, and he still didn't hear her explain clearly what happened. He only knew that Gao Tianjiao felt she had messed up.

Finally, when she stopped crying, he said, "You want to move out? That's not difficult. I can buy you a house next to the school for you to live in. But the real problem is your roommate. Your roommate is also your classmate, right?"

Gao Tianjiao was silent for a while, then uttered two words: "Yes."

"Then running away is probably not the right answer to the problem." Gao Tianci said, "You will encounter this situation many times in the future. There are some people blocking your way, and you absolutely cannot avoid them. You must turn enemies into friends. Even if you can't do that, at least you have to make sure they don't get in your way."

As a successful businessman, although he has a fatherly love and concern for the difficulties faced by his daughter, he also has a kind of coldness and indifference from a condescending perspective.

"You can tell me the whole story, and I'll give you some suggestions after reading them. But which suggestions you choose, how to use them, and how to implement them are all your choices. But I hope you can solve this problem smoothly and prove your ability."

Gao Tianjiao was silent for a long time after hearing this, and then said, "Then I'll solve it myself."

She was unwilling to tell him what had happened. Although Gao Tianci was curious, he was helpless. For something like this between two people, without any surveillance cameras, it was impossible for outsiders to know. Even if the parties themselves came forward and said something, even if the two people's statements were the same, it might not be the truth.

Some things are known only to heaven, earth, you and me.

Fortunately, Gao Tianjiao called back not long after to tell him that the matter had been resolved.

"How did you solve it?"

Gao Tianjiao was silent for a while, then said, "I apologize."

Gao Tianci was really surprised this time.

"You apologized? Just apologized? Is that how it was resolved?"

"yes."

Gao Tianci became even more curious now.

"Since she is someone who can just apologize and get away with it, she shouldn't be the type to be easily offended. How did you offend her?"

Gao Tianjiao hung up the phone again.

For a long time afterwards, the discussions between father and daughter about Gao Tianjiao's college life focused on her mysterious female classmate.

What Gao Tianci found out later was that they must have become very good friends. In Gao Tianjiao's words, they were soul mates, spiritual confidants, and Boya and Ziqi.

Then they broke up.

For almost two years, Gao Tianci finally never heard a single word from Gao Tianjiao about his classmate Qin.

Then came today.

Gao Tianci frowned and swiped Gao Tianjiao's phone screen to check the chat conversation between them.

After a long while, he said silently: "More friends mean more paths. There is nothing wrong with you getting back in touch."

Gao Tianjiao said angrily: "Why does she think that if she asks me for help, I will definitely help her?"

Gao Tianci stared at the doctor's contact information she had sent him, and was speechless for a moment.

"Because you will help her?"

Gao Tianjiao was very angry: "Which side are you from?"

Alas, I can’t even tell the truth.

Gao Tianci could only shut his mouth, pick up the fishing rod beside him, and wait for the fish to take the bait.

After a while, Gao Tianjiao was still feeling depressed. Finally, she couldn't hold back her words and said bitterly, "Dad, now that I think about it carefully, I still feel that she didn't consider me a friend at all."

Gao Tianci sighed and said, "But haven't you already broken up?"

In fact, he was not really interested in the love-hate relationship between his daughter and his classmates. He had finally squeezed out this day off and all he wanted to do was go fishing.

But perhaps it was the retribution for him bragging about how outstanding his daughter was when his peers once made them angry by complaining about their own children being disobedient and not studying well.

Now he's going to sit here and listen to this.

Gao Tianjiao was a little at a loss for words.

"Yes, I mean we have broken up, but...she may not know about this. I just made this decision unilaterally."

"She turned against me and used cold violence against me just because I said her parents were not as good as mine, and I had to apologize to her profusely, so I deserved to use cold violence against her."

Gao Tianci: “…”

The world's unsolved mystery has finally been solved.

It turned out that this was the reason why I offended the other party.

But another unsolved mystery has emerged.

Why did this classmate Qin offend his daughter?

"In the end, she ignored me completely. She hasn't apologized to me in two years." Gao Tianjiao said faintly, "I ignored her, so shouldn't she apologize to me?"

Gao Tianci: “…”

Gao Tianci pointed to the vast expanse of lake water in front of him and said softly: "Look, the world is just like this lake. There are fish and dragons in the lake."

"It's like there are all kinds of fish and dragons in this world. I believe there are dragons in the lake, but I can only fish from beginning to end. I can never catch a dragon."

Gao Tianjiao looked at the water and said sadly, "Then she might be the dragon that I can't catch."

Gao Tianci: "...I mean, all you can come into contact with are fish. Forget about it. With our family's social status, you won't be able to meet a dragon."

"There are so many fish, don't worry about this one. If you really need a friend, I'll introduce you to some new ones."

Gao Tianjiao sneered: "It's not that I look down on people, but."

"Well, I do look down on people," she said. "Anyway, don't introduce me to any friends. I don't need friends."

She is a child of destiny.

There is no one in this world who can compare to her.