Gu Boyan pressed his powerful palms against Chen Nian'an's thin shoulders and back, and the coldness that had penetrated into his bones dissipated a lot. Chen Nian calmed down, exhaled, and shook his head after a while, "Nothing's wrong."
His eyes darkened, but Gu Boyan didn't let go of her shoulders. He stared into her eyes and spoke word by word, "Chen Nian'an, are you hiding something from me?"
It was clearly a question, but his tone was flat.
Chen Nian'an suppressed his uneasiness and smiled at him. He touched the arm around his shoulder with a relaxed wrist and blinked. "It's really nothing. I'm just a little bored in the office and want to go out and walk around the company."
She pulled Gu Boyan's arm and shook it, then said with a smile: "You should work. I will disturb you if I am here. Go out and observe casually."
Gu Boyan looked at her quietly for a long time, as if trying to get a glimpse of clues from her eyes that suddenly smiled. Chen Nian'an gently shook his arm again.
Like a silent act of coquettishness and urging, Gu Boyan pursed his lips and made a "hmm" sound in his nose after a while as a sign of agreement.
Chen Nian'an immediately laughed, stood on tiptoe and kissed his tense cheek, then skipped out happily. When she closed the door, she did not forget to wink sweetly at someone in the room who was staring at her silently.
It was as if the panicked shout and Gu Boyan's loss of composure just now had never happened, and all his expressions were so natural and smooth.
But Gu Boyan didn't believe Chen Nian'an's clumsy attempt to change the subject.
He stood there, staring at the closed office door. After a long time, he turned around and sat back in his office chair, staring at the yellow afternoon sunlight outside the floor-to-ceiling window with half-closed eyes, thinking to himself.
What was Chen Nian'an afraid of just now?
He tapped the table thoughtfully, unable to come up with an answer for the time being. He was also worried that Chen Nian'an would run out of the company, so he immediately called A Ming and told them to wait at the company gate and closely protect Chen Nian'an if he went out.
Everyone who goes to work in the company clocks in using facial recognition, even cleaners use their real names, and there are bodyguards on each floor, so he is more worried about the threat to her safety posed by unfamiliar streets.
The moment the door closed, Chen Nian'an's smiling expression changed instantly, and the warmth transmitted by Gu Boyan's palm suddenly disappeared. Even though she had just resisted him from uttering the name that she had been familiar with since childhood, she could not escape the facts.
All the clues point to a man, a man who gently holds her in the cradle and makes her laugh, a man who squats a few meters away with his arms outstretched, coaxing her to take her first steps, a man who has doted on her infinitely since she was born.
His father, Chen Yuanshan.
Chen Nian'an walked into the elevator as if his consciousness was wandering, pressed the button for the second floor, and his eyes were empty and painful.
In fact, there were already clues to everything: his disappearance at the scene of the car accident, his mother's stunned pupils before her death, and his father's sudden phone call from northern Myanmar two years later.
If the direct murderer who caused Chen Nian'an's death in the previous life was Liu Xuanxuan and Zhou Yan who set the fire, then Chen Yuanshan's phone call was the indirect murderer and the reason why Chen Nian'an went to northern Myanmar alone.
But she never dared to think about it carefully. How could her father who loved her harm her and her loving mother?
The elevator number was jumping, and the door opened with a ding-dong sound. Chen Nian'an walked out. In the huge office at the left end of the second floor, everyone was busy working on their duties. No one noticed Chen Nian'an who turned right and went straight into the bathroom.
The person in the mirror had pale skin with a hint of gray, and the contours of her facial features were more clearly highlighted. The drooping long and slender white neck drew a decadent line, and the protruding cervical vertebrae were fragile and beautiful. Chen Nian'an leaned on the marble tiles of the washbasin, and the translucent white washbasin reflected the moisture in the corners of her eyes.
His father, Chen Yuanshan, had no parents at home. He worked hard in an orphanage and was admitted to a top domestic university with great ambition. He had a campus romance with Zhong Yuzhen, the only daughter of the Zhong family who had already established herself at that time.
Like most stories of wealthy families, this love affair between two people from different social classes was destined to be obstructed by the Zhong family. Zhong Yuzhen plunged into it and the passionate affair lasted for several years. In the end, Mr. Zhong, who loved his daughter so much, had to compromise.
His beloved mother died of complications during childbirth when giving birth to their daughter, Zhong Yuzhen. He remained single and never remarried, so he naturally couldn't bear to see his relationship with his only daughter reach such a low point.
The only requirement is that Chen Yuanshan must be a live-in son-in-law, and his granddaughter must be carefully raised and raised in the old house and must not suffer any hardship.
Fortunately, although Chen Yuanshan came from a poor family, he had some abilities. He graduated from a prestigious top university with a top degree in finance and had his own insights into business. After marrying Zhong Yuzhen, he gave birth to Chen Nian'an, and together they ran the Zhong family company and their loving little home in harmony.
This also gradually softened the stubborn attitude of Mr. Zhong, who had always been dissatisfied with him.
Everything is so beautiful. A crystal clear teardrop falls from the corner of the eye, drawing a transparent arc in the air, falls into the washbasin and merges with the water droplets hanging along the wall.
Chen Nian'an blinked his moist eyes and stared at his reflection.
So the father is really the culprit of everything?
Why?
Why?
Chen Nian'an suddenly raised his head. The woman in the mirror had a red nose. She wiped the corners of her eyes and suppressed the bitterness in her nose. Her misty eyes were calm and firm.
She didn't believe it. She wanted to find the answer herself, find her father herself, stand in front of him, and ask him to explain it in person.
Besides, she was unwilling to be so arbitrary as to say that her only relative in this world was the murderer who persecuted her only remaining relative.
Suddenly, there was a sound of messy footsteps outside the corridor, coming from far away. Chen Nian'an lowered his eyes, glanced at his tearful and snotty face, decisively turned into the bathroom, and slipped into the nearest cubicle.
If her employees saw her secretly wiping her nose and crying in the toilet, they would probably exaggerate the matter and report it to Gu Boyan. It was better to keep her out of trouble.
Besides, Gu Boyan is so perceptive that he is not so easy to get away with. He didn't believe the nonsense excuse just now.
Chen Nian'an stood in the cubicle, wanting to wait until the employee who came in to use the restroom left before going out, and find a place to carefully wipe her eyes to hide the traces of crying.
The messy footsteps just now finally came in quickly. The compartment was completely closed, with only a palm-wide gap at the bottom, probably for passing paper to the sister next door when she ran out of paper.
A pair of yellow canvas shoes flashed through the crack of the basement door, and then the toilet door was opened. Chen Nian'an took a deep breath, feeling like a toilet maniac.
I couldn't help but close my eyes and apologize in my heart.
Sister, I really didn't mean to listen to you going to the bathroom.
But after a few seconds, there was no movement next door. Then there was a rustling sound as if something was taken out of a pocket, and the unique sound of fingers rubbing against brand new white paper rang out. She opened something.
A trace of doubt emerged in Chen Nian'an's heart, and suddenly he heard something. His pupils condensed slightly, and his breathing suddenly became imperceptible.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
