"Um, I...I..." As the culprit, Gu Jingxing didn't dare to answer, stammering for a long time without getting to the point.
"Xiao Lin! Tell me! What exactly happened!" Li Zhanting demanded sternly of the driver who had brought the wine back.
"This..." Xiaolin was at a loss, not knowing how to start the conversation.
If he says it out loud, the young master will probably scold him, but if he doesn't, he won't be able to withstand Master Ting's questioning.
Fortunately, after a short while, Mu Jiujiu had calmed down. With two tears in the corners of her eyes, she pointed her little finger at Gu Jingxing and said in a wronged voice, "It was brother, brother bullied Jiujiu."
Li Zhanting frowned, his expression turning somewhat unpleasant.
Gu Momo walked up to Gu Jingxing and gently pinched his ear. "Gu Jingxing, I told you to take your sister home, and you bullied her on the way! Tell me! What did you do?"
Gu Jingxing explained, feeling wronged: "Mommy, I didn't do anything! We were just having a normal debate. My sister couldn't win against me, so she started crying and throwing a tantrum. What could I do?"
“You’re a boy, boys should give way to girls,” Zhan Ting, the epitome of gentlemanly conduct, suddenly said.
Gu Jingxing gave him a disdainful look. "Daddy, you weren't a gentleman at all to Mommy before!"
"Are you still being stubborn?" Gu Momo pretended to be angry and used a little force.
Gu Jingxing immediately put on a pained mask and begged for forgiveness, "I was wrong, I was wrong, Mommy, I was wrong!"
Gu Momo had only intended to give Jiu Jiu a small punishment to improve his mood. Seeing her son obediently beg for forgiveness, she let him go. "I'll settle the score with you when we get back!"
Gu Jingxing covered his slightly reddened ears, feeling very indignant. He turned his head and saw Mu Jiujiu, who had just been crying with teary eyes, looking at him slyly. He was so angry that he almost jumped up!
Seeing how much his mommy and daddy doted on him, he could only suffer in silence.
Gu Momo and Li Zhanting chased after them because they had left behind a gift, so they brought it over before leaving.
In order to have a happy celebration that night, Gu Jingxing was specially asked to stay at the Li family's house for one night.
After they left, Gu Jingxing decisively went to Mu Jiujiu's bedroom to confront her.
"Jiu Jiu! Did you do that on purpose?!"
Mu Jiujiu was eating the fruit the housekeeper had brought. She shook her head and forked a piece of cantaloupe into her mouth, saying indistinctly, "I didn't! I'm just telling the truth. You were the one who bullied me first."
"You naughty child! You cry when you can't win an argument, and then you tell Daddy and Mommy on me. You're not cute at all!"
In a child's world, the vocabulary for expressing anger is limited. Gu Jingxing struggled for a long time before finally managing to utter a harmless remark, which made Mu Jiujiu burst into laughter.
“Brother Jingxing, I find you quite cute sometimes.”
"What?" Gu Jingxing was stunned for a second.
Mu Jiujiu put down her fruit fork and looked at him with a smile, "When you're angry, you're just like your godfather, so handsome."
"Mu Jiujiu, I'm questioning you now, I'm arguing with you, I'm not joking with you!" Gu Jingxing felt like he had punched a cotton ball, and he was so angry that he gritted his teeth.
"I know, but I don't want to argue with you."
Gu Jingxing: "..."
He had never been so speechless in his life. He seemed to genuinely not know how to face this girl. He had never felt this awkward when flirting with girls before!
Gu Jingxing was humiliated and returned to his room in a huff, where he spent a sleepless night tossing and turning.
The next day, Gu Momo came to pick him up, and he immediately felt liberated and ran downstairs with great enthusiasm.
"Mommy, you're finally here."
"Jingxing, why do you have such dark circles under your eyes? Didn't you get enough rest last night?" Gu Momo asked, looking at his haggard appearance.
He didn't just not sleep well! He didn't sleep at all last night!
He couldn't sleep for the first half of the night because of Mu Jiujiu's anger. Around 4 a.m., he finally felt a little sleepy, but as soon as he closed his eyes, Mu Jiujiu pulled him up and asked him to accompany her to the backyard to take pictures of the sunrise.
On a chilly winter morning, barely a few degrees Celsius, he followed along, still half asleep. He felt as if he were in a dream, light and airy.
He wished he could leave the Li family immediately and never come back!
Gu Jingxing gritted his teeth, but dared not complain to his mother, so he could only say aggrievedly, "I have insomnia, I can't sleep in a new bed."
Hearing this from a distance, Mu Jiujiu couldn't help but chuckle.
Brother Jingxing is really cute.
"I originally wanted you to stay a few more days, but my mother isn't feeling well, so we have to go back and check on her," Mu Tingxue said regretfully.
"It's alright, Tingxue. We'll get together again when you come back," Gu Momo comforted her, telling her not to overthink it. "We'll have plenty of time in the future."
Hearing his mother still chatting with his parents, Gu Jingxing couldn't wait any longer and grabbed her sleeve, urging, "Mommy, can we go home quickly? I'm sleepy."
Gu Momo and Mu Tingxue exchanged a smile and explained, "Jingxing didn't sleep well last night because he's not used to sleeping in a new bed, so I have to take him back first."
Mu Tingxue reached out and ruffled his little head. "Then next time Jingxing comes over, Auntie will prepare a new bed for you, okay?"
Gu Jingxing was eager to leave, so he obediently nodded.
"Haha, I think Jingxing is really sleepy. Momo, you should take him home to rest early. I won't keep you for dinner."
Thanks to Gu Jingxing's efforts, the adults finally finished their small talk.
He led Gu Momo out the door, and just as he breathed a sigh of relief, he heard Mu Jiujiu calling out behind him—
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