With a personality like Wang Rong's, asking her to apologize to Gu Shenru, whom she hated so much, was even more painful than asking her to stay here for five days.
He stubbornly refused to apologize.
If she doesn't want to apologize, then don't apologize. Just lock her up for a few days. She is an adult and should be responsible for her words and actions.
After Guan Yan thanked Manager Li again, she and Gu Shenru went straight home.
Manager Li is worrying about how to develop Guan Yan into a long-term customer. After a few visits, they are getting to know each other a little bit. He can just use his familiar face to do a simple favor. This is definitely not a one-time business.
Later at 10:30, when the Hermès store managers' group and the CKY store managers' group reported their performance, Manager Li opened them and looked at the rankings with anticipation.
I checked the Hermès store manager group first. Not bad. Their sales today reached over 23 million, ranking first! They’ve made great progress.
With an excited heart and trembling hands, Manager Li grinned and opened the CKY manager group.
I thought I was also the top seller in another group, but when I clicked on it, I saw I was ranked first.
Gan Tang, 140 million+.
What? Manager Li picked up his phone in disbelief and held it in front of his eyes.
No way, no way, she knew Gan Tang’s restaurant. It was rarely ranked in the top five, so how could it suddenly win the championship today?
So she only sold so much and was only second, 140 million+ is too exaggerated...
The daily sales of the entire CKY in Shanghai is only about 100 million. How can her Gan Tang store do so much?
She was a little disappointed that she didn't come in first, but winning the championship in her own group was already impressive enough, and she wasn't greedy.
Ask the store manager at Gan Tang.
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It only took more than ten minutes to get home from the police station. Gu Shenru said very little on the way and no one knew what he was thinking.
It was almost ten o'clock when Guan Yan got home. He went back to the bedroom and took a shower first. He had been walking around outside for most of the day and still felt dirty.
Until both of them finished washing and went to bed in pajamas, Guan Yan still didn't ask a single question, nor did she expose his nervousness and panic. After saying good night, she nestled in his arms, closed her eyes and went to sleep.
Gu Shenru was originally afraid that she would ask, but if she didn't ask, he would feel trembling in fear.
Why didn't she ask? What would she think of herself? Would she think that she was just like what Wang Rong said? Would she think that he was too cowardly and didn't fight back or call the police when he was bullied?
Just like that, with a conflict between his conscience and his desires, Gu Shenru couldn't fall asleep even after they said good night to each other for a long time.
Guan Yan was also asleep and suddenly said, "Stop staring at me. You're going to stare through my brain."
He held his hands and remained motionless, and his breathing did not become regular even after lying there for such a long time.
And people are really amazing. Even if they close their eyes, they can still feel that someone is staring at them and they are about to be burned through.
Gu Shenru had been lost in thought with her eyes open, and thought she was hallucinating when she heard her speak. It took her a few seconds to react and apologize, "I'm sorry, I won't watch anymore. Sister, go back to sleep."
Instead of continuing to sleep, Guan Yan pushed him away a little, looked him in the face, and slowly asked, "Since you can't sleep, do you want to talk about what happened today?"
She was definitely curious, but thinking that he had been emotionally unstable before and it was getting late, she thought she might as well wait until he wanted to talk about it tomorrow and then ask.
As a result, he has been lying in bed for almost half an hour, but he doesn't want to sleep at all. If he doesn't want to sleep, then we can chat.
Her voice was steady and her tone was soft, without any big emotional ups and downs, as if she was just chatting with him normally.
Gu Shenru breathed a sigh of relief, thought about the wording and opening remarks for a while, and said, "Okay, she is my father's wife in the legal sense."
Having heard Wang Rong mention this during the mediation, Guan Yan nodded and asked, "Yes, I know that. What then?"
Now that the conversation has started, there's actually nothing difficult to say. Gu Shenru hasn't talked about this with anyone else over the years. There's no chance to talk about it, and there's no need to talk about it.
"This story goes back a long time ago. Speaking of it now, the story between my parents is quite dramatic. My mother was trained by my grandparents to be the inheritor of Suzhou Pingtan since she was a child."
I have seen Suzhou Pingtan and Guan Yanzhen. Now that the Internet is well developed, you can experience the culture of various places without having to go to the scene.
The video she saw was of Suzhou Pingtan singing modern songs in the soft Wu dialect. Friends who have heard the live performance at Pipa Teahouse said that the video can only achieve 30% of the live effect.
"My grandparents were very strict. My grandfather was a famous Pingtan performing artist, and my grandmother came from a family of scholars. Besides the required Pingtan, they also forced my mother to learn a lot of things she didn't want to learn. My mother was a good girl since she was young, what others called a lady from a noble family, and she didn't dare to say no."
Okay, this beginning is familiar. Guan Yan, a bookworm with more than ten years of experience, can already vaguely guess the direction of the story.
"It wasn't until my junior year that I met my dad. He and my mom were from completely different worlds. He was a bit of a ruffian, arrogant guy, and he was too attractive to a good girl like my mom who grew up in a restricted environment. My mom never wanted to tell me what happened next. Anyway, after graduation, she had a falling out with my grandparents because of my dad, and ended up moving to City G with my dad to settle down."
Even though Gu Shenru didn't say anything later, Guan Yan knew that this was a story about digging wild vegetables. After all, Wang Rong jumped up and scolded her.
Marrying far away is always a tragedy, not to mention that his mother had no family to support her and had to marry far away alone.
"My mom has many talents, most of which she's proficient in. After coming to City G, she was able to earn quite a bit of money each month just as a pipa music teacher. She was happy, but my dad, as I mentioned before, was arrogant and made so much less than my mom. He couldn't stand the disparity between us, so when I was in kindergarten, he insisted on starting a business. By the time I was in elementary school, he was home less and less, and my mom's insomnia was increasing."
The direction of the story made her sigh. After experiencing tonight, she finally understood that her father would probably never come home again.
"I learned about Wang Rong's existence when I was in primary school. My father married her without my mother's knowledge. He needed her family's support because my mother ran away on her own and couldn't get a household registration. Back then, it wasn't possible to get a marriage certificate with just an ID card like it is now. She was undocumented for many years, so it wasn't considered bigamy.
At that time, my father only came home a few times a year, but the money he sent home was getting more and more. When my mother asked, she said he was busy with business. Wang Rong came to see me and spoke sarcastically to me. She wasn't so crazy at first, but she knew that she was inexplicably being cheated on by a mistress and couldn't stand it, so she came to pick a fight with me a few times.
It wasn't until the policy came out that illegitimate children could also enjoy inheritance rights, and my dad was almost 50 at the time, and she still couldn't give birth to a boy, that she started to panic. The more she panicked, the more crazy she became. She knew that my dad had some old-fashioned ideas that favored boys over girls, so she started to argue with him. When that didn't work, she went to my mom to make trouble.
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