79. Late call
Gu Xunfang turned around and said, "You still know you have a mother, but you never tell your family about what happened!"
The girl lowered her head in grievance, but she caught a glimpse of a crack in the door out of the corner of her eye. A glimmer of hope came to her heart, and she slipped in like a loach.
He followed closely behind her and whispered, "Mom, is Dad here... Does he know?"
I didn't get a response, so I walked through the hallway into the living room. I pushed open the door and found a man in white house clothes sitting on the sofa, taking medicine. There were many medicine bottles on the coffee table, and he poured two pills into his hands one by one, a handful.
Swallow it in one gulp while drinking water.
Gu Xunfang paused and said, "Pingyou, Xiaohui is back."
Before she could finish her words, the man's hand holding the glass stopped in the air, and his tough face suddenly became gloomy.
Then the cup fell heavily on the coffee table with a "bang" sound, which scared Chu Yanhui so much that he shivered.
Whispering lips: "Dad."
Chu Pingyou raised his eyes, his gaze suddenly swept over the girl, and pointed at her angrily: "Don't call me dad! Who is your dad?"
"Fu Rongshen and I are of the same generation, and you're involved with him! Chu Yanhui, how did you do that? Isn't it disgusting?!"
She rushed to the sofa and hugged his outstretched arms. Seeing the white hair mixed in with his black hair, tears welled up in her eyes: "I'm sorry, I embarrassed you and mom..."
"Take care of yourself!"
Chu Pingyou pulled his hand away, stood up and was about to go upstairs, leaving her with only his back.
In the past, whenever Dad got angry with me, Mom would always try to mediate, but this time she was disappointed with her and stopped talking.
She fell onto the luxurious, floral carpet, tears streaming down her face, but she was unwilling to give up. She got up and said, "Dad, I know I was wrong, but I have... my reasons..."
"Reason? What reason could keep you silent and not tell your family?"
The man stood at the corner of the stairs, turned around suddenly, and stared at her angrily.
She explained with tears in her eyes, "I didn't tell you because I was afraid you and mom would be angry. At that time, Gu He forced me into a desperate situation, and it was Fu Rongshen who rushed into the club to save me. If it weren't for him, your daughter would have been killed long ago, and she wouldn't be standing here now... He saved my life."
"Chu Yanhui, who taught you to repay a favor this way?"
Chu Pingyou was so angry that he almost had a heart attack. He held the stair railing with one hand, covered his chest and told her to get out.
She stood in the living room and looked at her mother, but found that she had turned her head to help her father go upstairs to rest.
With eyes downcast, he felt extremely lost.
Of course, she knew that this was the wrong way to repay a favor, because this was her excuse in the first place. But could she say that Fu Rongshen forced her to be with him? Could she say that Fu Rongshen, as an uncle, seduced his nephew?
She was certain that her father would be so furious when he knew the truth that he would pick up a knife and attack the other person.
If she takes the blame on herself, her parents will be angry but they cannot really beat her to death, and their anger will not cause a lot of chaos.
After waiting for a while, Gu Xunfang came downstairs and said to her, "You've gone too far this time. It's inevitable that your father will be angry. If you truly repent, stay in Haicheng and accompany him. He still loves you."
She nodded with tears in her eyes.
The woman sat down on the sofa and asked her to sit down too.
"Before you said you wanted to hide from someone, but you weren't hiding from Gu He, you were hiding from Fu Rongshen, right?"
Chu Yanhui didn't hide anything and nodded: "Yeah."
Gu Xunfang was in a daze for a moment, frowning as he recalled the shock and fear he felt when he first saw the interview.
"...If it weren't for what Fu Rongshen said in front of the media, I really can't believe that you two would get involved with each other!"
This was the only time in all these years that she had experienced such a shocking feeling.
I suppressed my emotions and tried not to look angry.
"There are rumors that our two families are planning a marriage. This is ridiculous. Putting aside your age and generation, just considering your family backgrounds - we are now on the same level as the Fu family, so a marriage is completely impossible."
"It's logically supposed to be Master Fu who should deny it, but he hasn't come forward yet... Xiao Hui, what's going on?"
Chu Yanhui listened to her silently and wiped the tears from his face with a tissue.
The answer was: "My uncle meant what he said in front of the media, but I have separated from him."
"It's good that we're separated..." Gu Xunfang breathed a sigh of relief, and her voice became softer. "Because of this public opinion?"
"No, it's because we had a fight yesterday... I believed Gu He's accusations against him and broke up with him."
"Misunderstand?"
Chu Yanhui nodded and told her what happened yesterday.
The woman was silent for a long time before she said:
"...Looking at this incident alone, it's true that you misunderstood him, but choosing to separate is the right thing to do. You can't be together."
She lowered her eyes and asked only, "Mom, do you think I should apologize to him?"
"He was misunderstood and called cruel, yet he was able to break up peacefully. I think he's been very tolerant of you. You should apologize, emotionally and logically. You can explain it over the phone, but don't see him again."
Gu Xunfang said to her after thinking about it.
"knew."
The girl nodded, not knowing what she was thinking.
A few days later.
night.
Chu Yanhui stood in front of the bedroom window, looking at the night outside. It took him a while to make a decision and picked up the mobile phone that seemed to be of great importance.
I found the deleted contact number and called again: "Beep——"
She listened to the ringing sound and her heart was trembling.
In the past, when he answered his phone, it would always ring no more than three times, but today it rang for the fourth time.
I thought, he definitely won’t answer, so there’s no point in calling him any further.
When the fourth ring sounded, she reached out to hang up.
But at this moment, the call was finally connected.
"What's the matter with calling me?"
She felt a pang of bitterness in her nose when she heard his hoarse voice. He no longer called her "Yan Hui" as he used to.
"sorry……"
"You haven't done me any wrong."
"Secretary Cheng told me the truth the morning I boarded the plane. I misunderstood you. I want to apologize to you, but I don't know how to say it... I'm sorry, little uncle, please forgive me."
After a while, he smiled faintly: "I have never been angry with you, how can I forgive you?"
"Yan Hui, I have fulfilled my promise and given you the freedom you wanted. Are you happy?"
The voice was so soft, so soft that no emotion could be heard.
She leaned against the wall and slowly slid down, sitting on the ground, hugging her knees. Holding the phone, her emotions were mixed, and she sobbed uncontrollably, "No... I'm not happy, little uncle, I'm not happy."
"Why are you crying?" He sighed, and pronounced her name as if it were the most gentle poem in the world. "Please don't cry, Yan Hui. Your eyes are swollen from crying and there's no one to apply the medicine for you. You'll feel uncomfortable when you wake up tomorrow."
She put the phone away and tried hard to calm herself down. After the tears stopped flowing, she said, "Uncle, I shouldn't have believed Gu He's slander against you."
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