Chapter 599 No Ifs

Gu Zhiyu raised his eyebrows and glanced at her sideways: "Oh?"

Annan sighed and said, "Me, I look a lot like my mother."

She sat up straight and pointed at herself: "Don't you think this powerful leader looks at me in a strange way?"

Gu Zhiyu nodded: "Indeed."

Li Mingcheng lost his composure the moment he saw Annan.

But Gu Zhiyu knew that the other party was not a lecher. Anyone who knew him a little bit knew that this leader was a loner and was notorious for not being interested in women.

Annan curled his lips and said, "He said he was an old classmate of my parents, but who would look so complicated when talking about old classmates?"

When talking about his scumbag father, he even mentioned his full name. When he mentioned the two words "surname An", the disgust on his face was particularly obvious.

When she mentioned her mother, she didn't even call her by her name, but she couldn't hide her sadness.

The likes and dislikes were so obvious—Li Mingcheng obviously missed her mother but hated her scumbag father.

There must be a story between the three of them.

Gu Zhiyu nodded and said, "Then how can you be sure it's a secret crush? It can't be a first love or something?"

An Nan shook his head and said, "My mother once said that An Xingye was her first love. She certainly wouldn't lie to me about this."

She paused and curled her lips in disdain: "Besides, if my mother had been with Li Mingcheng, how could she still be interested in An Xingye?"

Gu Zhiyu couldn't help but laugh: "It's a rough statement, but it makes sense."

Annan leaned back again and sighed:

"I don't know what happened to them back then. If my mother had been married to this powerful uncle instead of An Xingye, she might not have died..."

Gu Zhiyu was silent for a while before he whispered back, "But then you won't be here anymore."

Annan smiled and said, "That may not be the case. I have heard a theory..."

Gu Zhiyu: “What?”

Annan: "It is said that a child comes into the world because he chooses his mother. Even if the mother changes the father, she will still give birth to the same child. It's just that the child's appearance and personality will be slightly different."

She reached out her hand and fed Gu Zhiyu a strawberry as well: "If that's the case, you can still meet me."

Gu Zhiyu swallowed the strawberry she handed over and joked, "How can you be so confident that I would still like you if you had a different look and personality?"

Annan raised his head slightly: "Why should I care whether you like it or not?"

Gu Zhiyu laughed out loud: "Yes, yes, we are very safe and sound."

The two of them exchanged a few jokes, and then Annan sat quietly in the passenger seat without saying a word.

She pulled out the breast milk necklace hanging around her neck and rubbed it a few times.

To her, her mother had actually been dead for seven years.

But she still misses her mother all the time.

Especially the complicated look in Li Mingcheng's eyes just now made her imagine her mother's past when she was young. Then she felt even worse.

She swallowed the box of strawberries in her hand without tasting anything. After a while, she couldn't help but murmur:

"I watched a short play before. It was about a man who traveled back to his parents' youth and successfully prevented their parents' bad fate by arranging a marriage for his mother to marry another man."

"And he himself, at his mother's wedding, looking at her happy smile, disappeared."

An Nan stared at the straight road ahead without blinking: "If Li Mingcheng is really a good match, I hope I can go back in time and bring my mother together with him. An Xingye is not worthy of her at all."

Gu Zhiyu pursed his lips and said the same thing: "But then maybe you won't exist anymore."

Annan's voice was clear and cold: "I don't care whether I am there or not, I just want her to be happy."

My mother was a good woman and it shouldn't have ended like this.

Gu Zhiyu glanced at her sideways, then stretched out an arm and held her hand: "But I care."

After a pause, he added, "Your mother cares too."

He looked at the road ahead, continued driving, and said slowly:

"I've seen a similar movie to the story you told me. But the ending is a little different from the one you told me."

Annan turned his head and looked at him curiously: "What is it?"

Gu Zhiyu's voice was very soft and his tone was very slow:

"The heroine also traveled back in time, preventing her mother and father from meeting each other, and selected a good marriage partner and introduced him to her mother."

"But just when she thought her mission was complete, she discovered that her mother had contacted her father after all."

"No matter how much she tried to dissuade him and told her mother that he was not a good match, her mother was very determined to marry her father."

"Why?" Annan frowned, "Is it fate that determines our fate?"

Gu Zhiyu did not answer directly, but continued:

"At the wedding, the officiant asked, 'Regardless of whether we are rich or poor...are you willing?' Although the vows belonged to the newlyweds, the woman in the wedding dress looked at the girl in the audience and said 'I do.'"

"The girl seemed to understand something and burst into tears."

An Nan felt a little sad: "Her mother also...?"

Gu Zhiyu nodded: "After the wedding, the woman comforted the girl and said, don't cry, mom will see you again soon."

Annan held the breast milk necklace in his hand and said nothing.

Gu Zhiyu slowed down the car, held the steering wheel with one hand, and touched her head with the other hand:

"I'm saying that your mother wouldn't want you to be responsible for the failure of her marriage."

"An Xingye's betrayal and hurt may have been a heavy blow to her life, but it did not affect the beauty and happiness you brought her."

"Everyone has their own problems and difficulties, and even the closest relatives cannot interfere. But one thing is certain..."

Annan's voice was muffled: "What?"

Gu Zhiyu said firmly: "Your mother wants you to live a happy life."

Annan didn't say anything for a long time. After a while, he suddenly squeezed Gu Zhiyu's hand:

"I am very happy now."

Then she cleared her throat a little embarrassedly: "Maybe it's because my period is coming soon, and my mood is unstable, so I feel a little sad."

Gu Zhiyu immediately adjusted her mood and said with a smile on his lips:

"Got it. I'll get some ginger and brown sugar right away when I get home. Be careful and behave yourself these days."

Annan smiled and patted him.

Then I suddenly remembered something:

"By the way, speaking of mother, I haven't asked you in detail yet, what is your mother's situation?"

She remembered that when she was in Maple Grove, Gu Zhiyu had said that his mother had gone missing and his father had died in a car accident. He was only able to leave the orphanage after his grandfather found him and took him back to the Gu family.