Chapter 382: Clearing the Relationship
Liu Yingying finally found a topic to talk about. She smiled sweetly, "It's not me who's amazing, it's Brother Zhou. I never dared to imagine that one day I could hold an art exhibition in the city exhibition hall. Thank you Brother Zhou for helping me realize my dream."
The smoke blurred Gu Zhou's outline, making it difficult to see his expression clearly.
All I heard was him lazily saying, "It's just a piece of cake."
An Lianhe looked at Liu Yingying's eager gaze at Gu Zhou and smiled with satisfaction. She then made up a story, "Azhou really put a lot of thought into this exhibition. He just wanted to see Yingying happy."
Hearing this.
The elders all smiled with understanding and relief.
Liu Yingying's face flushed, and she shyly glanced at Gu Zhou in the smoke, her heart pounding.
Gu Zhou slowly exhaled a puff of smoke and drawled, "Indeed."
He admitted it!
Liu Yingying's heart beat faster and she couldn't suppress her smile.
However, the next second.
Gu Zhou's casual words were like a bucket of ice water poured over her head, instantly freezing all her joy and shyness.
"After all, my mother loves Yingying so much that she wants to adopt her as her goddaughter," he paused, his tone playfully mimicking An Lianhe's tone, "and I also treat Yingying as my younger sister, so naturally I want her to be happy."
He spoke nonsense, but every word was clear.
“…”
The laughter at the table disappeared in an instant, leaving only a suffocating silence.
Neither set of parents is stupid.
Everyone could hear the naked demarcation in his words - it was not a relationship between a man and a woman, but a relationship between brother and sister.
Gu Zhen's face instantly darkened, his eyes sharp as knives, fiercely glaring at Gu Zhou with a silent warning.
Gu Zhou turned a blind eye and smoked leisurely.
An Lianhe smiled awkwardly, trying to make amends: "Azhou means..."
But Gu Zhou didn't give her a chance at all: "But this is just my mother's personal wish. It doesn't matter if Yingying doesn't want to. If you want to hold an exhibition in the future, you can come to me. No matter what, I will treat Yingying as my own sister and help her if I can."
He pronounced the word "sister" particularly clearly, as if drawing an insurmountable gap between the two of them.
"Gu Zhou!" Gu Zhen finally couldn't hold back anymore and shouted loudly, his voice filled with thunderous rage.
Gu Zhou's cheeks tightened, and he exhaled a puff of cigarette. The swirling smoke blurred the expression between his eyebrows, leaving only an almost indifferent, ingrained indifference.
It seemed as if Gu Zhen’s anger was just a breeze passing by his ears.
The scene became even more awkward and the atmosphere dropped to freezing point.
Liu Yingying was almost crying. The huge embarrassment and loss made her almost breathless.
He immediately looked at his parents for help.
Father Liu's face turned pale, his lips were tightly pursed, and he said nothing.
Liu's mother felt sorry for her daughter, so she shamelessly and with a bit of a risk-taking attitude, directly said, "Azhou, you are a very good child. Your uncle and I have always been very optimistic about you. And you see, our two families are both well-known families in the city, and we know each other very well. You know, for families like us, intermarriage..."
Gu Zhou raised his eyelids, his lazy eyes filled with sarcasm and coldness, interrupting Liu's mother's earnest preparations.
"Marriage?" He sneered, "Aunt, you flatter me too much. My current focus is solely on developing the Gu Group. I can't bear the burden of a 'marriage'."
He flicked the ash from his cigarette, his movements still slow and measured, but his voice was as cold as ice. "Besides, I'm a man so it doesn't matter, but Yingying is a girl and values her reputation. Don't mention things like marriage that will cause rumors anymore."
Just a few simple words.
This completely cut off the two parents' attempts to form an alliance.
Clean and continuous.
No suspense.
Mother Liu's face turned from red to white, her lips trembled, and she could no longer utter a word.
Liu Yingying's eyes turned red.
"Gu Zhou! What are you talking about!" Gu Zhen had never expected that Gu Zhou would suddenly do this, and he was so angry that his face turned green.
A cold smile appeared on the corner of Gu Zhou's lips. His eyes swept across his father's ashen face, then across the extremely embarrassed expressions of the three members of the Liu family, and finally fell on his mother An Lianhe's anxious and helpless face.
His tone was distant: "I'm just worried about my sister's reputation being damaged, so I'm just giving her a friendly reminder."
He downplayed the blame for disrupting the atmosphere of the dinner party.
It makes the other people's reactions seem inappropriate.
"Ding-ling-ling." His cell phone rang at the right time.
He instantly stubbed out his cigarette, held his phone, stood up, and looked down at them: "Take your time eating, I have something else to do, so I'll excuse myself for now."
The words fell.
Regardless of everyone's surprised reaction.
Walk away.
Closing the door, he slid open to answer the call.
[Mr. Gu?] I heard her soft voice.
The uneasiness in my heart suddenly subsided.
More effective than any panacea.
The corners of his lips curled up, and he spoke slowly: [Boss Ling is indeed on time.]
This call came at the perfect time.
Wang Yuanling sat in the car, scratching the steering wheel with her slender fingers, testing the waters: [Is everything going well?]
Gu Zhou quickened his pace, but his tone remained lazy: [Of course, it was all a misunderstanding.]
He emphasized it deliberately.
Finally, he naturally changed the subject: [What would you like to treat me to later?]
He asked, waving at the waiter.
Amid the waiter's puzzled and astonished gaze, he calmly took the plaster and put it back on his left hand.
Her thoughts were distracted by him: [See what Mr. Gu wants to eat.]
He chuckled softly: [Let me think...] He stretched out the tone.
She waited patiently.
Waiting for him to say: [I can’t think of it.]
It was a waste of time waiting.
She was speechless and could only suggest: "On the way here, I saw a grilled fish restaurant nearby. Mr. Gu, do you want to go there?"
Gu Zhou pressed the elevator button with his plastered hand and replied lazily: [It's too dry. I don't want to eat it. Would you like to think about it again?]
She choked slightly, but was actually thinking: "So, hot pot? I'd rather have soup."
The elevator goes down.
He felt himself falling, and the desire to see her grew stronger: [Hotpot is fine, but what kind of hotpot?]
Wang Yuanling: [Hotpot usually comes in three types: beef, chicken, and fish. Which one would you like, Mr. Gu?]
He asked in return: [Which kind does the spirit always want to eat?]
She didn't react for a moment and said, "I prefer beef hotpot."
After answering, he remembered that it was she who treated him to dinner, not him who treated her.
This question should be answered by him.
So I added: [But it depends on what kind of food Gu wants to eat. I can eat whatever.]
The elevator door opened.
Gu Zhou stepped out almost immediately, stretched out his long legs, and walked quickly towards the glass revolving door.
Where can I buy beef?
She was confused: [Where can I buy it? Can't we just go to the store to eat?]
Gu Zhou walked into the revolving door, only to find that it was moving very slowly.
His voice remained casual: [Didn't Mr. Ling say that having hot pot at home creates a good atmosphere?]
She heard the revolving door turn over the receiver.
Lift up your long eyelashes.
His eyes were fixed on the tall figure that was sent out by the revolving glass door.
He maintained the posture of talking on the phone.
Looking from afar.
Even though they were far apart, she could clearly see the smile on the corners of his lips.
"Is that alright, Mr. Ling?" he said. "I'll buy the groceries, cook the pot, and wash the dishes, so could you please invite me to your house for hot pot?"
Does this still count as her treat?
It's purely in name only.
She smiled so much that the corners of her eyes curved slightly: [Okay.]
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