The Li family attended all three banquets, but Mu Jiujiu showed no signs of fatigue and remained in a state of excitement, especially after seeing Li Zhanting.
So in just three days, everyone who attended the banquet knew that Li Zhanting had adopted a goddaughter.
When it was time to leave the Li family manor, Mu Jiujiu felt even worse than if she had just broken up with her boyfriend. She rolled down the car window and leaned on the window sill of the back seat, staring longingly at Li Zhanting.
"Godfather, Jiu Jiu is going home. You have to miss Jiu Jiu, okay?" She pouted, looking like she was about to be separated from him forever.
After instructing the servants to put the prepared gifts into the trunk, Li Zhanting walked to the car window and gently comforted them, "Come to your godfather's place again next time."
"Mmm!" Li Jiujiu nodded reluctantly.
"Jingxing, you must take good care of your sister and get her home safely~" Gu Momo stood outside the window and gently instructed.
"Don't worry, Mommy!" Gu Jingxing patted his chest and assured her.
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On the way back, Mu Jiujiu was still extremely reluctant to leave and couldn't wait to take out the gift that Li Zhanting had prepared for her and carefully opened it.
"Waaah, my godfather gave me a camera! It's a camera!" she excitedly boasted to Gu Jingxing.
Gu Jingxing listened to her rambling and felt like his head was about to explode. As a fellow boy, although his father was handsome, he wasn't as outrageously handsome as Jiu Jiu described.
"Jiu Jiu, there are so many people in this world who are more handsome than my daddy, why do you like my daddy so much?"
Mu Jiujiu paused in her fiddling with the new camera, looked up at him in disbelief, and retorted, "Godfather is the most handsome man in the world!"
“That’s just your opinion.” Gu Jingxing raised an eyebrow. “I don’t think so. People like my mom’s company’s star artist, and Aunt Wanrou’s husband Zhan Feng, are both very handsome.”
"No way! Only Godfather is the most handsome! In my heart, only Godfather is the most handsome!" She said with a firm tone, her little hands clenched into fists, puffing out her cheeks.
Gu Jingxing was just expressing his opinion, but he lost face when a girl refuted him like that. He immediately took out his tablet and showed it to Mu Jiujiu the ranking of the world's most handsome man that netizens had started.
Because Li Zhanting had never allowed any media to publish his photos or videos, only a few people had seen the real Li Zhanting when this poll was launched. So even though his name was on the list, his ranking was pushed down to after 100th.
Gu Jingxing raised an eyebrow. "See? My dad isn't even in the top 100. Jiu Jiu, you have to accept this fact. Don't tell everyone you meet that my dad is the most handsome. You'll easily be laughed at."
He thought he had done a good deed, since his mom and dad were usually very low-key.
But to his utter surprise, Mu Jiujiu burst into tears while hugging her tablet after seeing the rankings.
"Brother, you're talking nonsense! These votes must be fake! Godfather's ranking wouldn't be this low! This must be fake! I don't want to believe you!" Mu Jiujiu's tears fell like broken beads, one by one hitting the tablet screen.
Gu Jingxing's smug expression vanished instantly, replaced by utter helplessness. "You...you...you don't cry! We were just debating! Debating! You can't just cry because you can't win!"
What he fears most is girls crying in front of him. Whenever they cry, he feels that the whole world is wrong, including himself.
Gu Jingxing's words did not serve any purpose in explaining things; instead, Mu Jiujiu cried even louder, wiping away her tears and complaining, "Brother is a bad guy! Brother is a bad guy."
Gu Jingxing frowned as he looked at her, apologizing repeatedly, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was just talking nonsense, please don't cry, okay? You're right, my daddy is the most handsome!"
As they were talking, the car had already stopped at the gate of the Li family. Mu Jiujiu ignored his apology and got out of the car.
Helpless, Gu Jingxing could only follow after them.
"Miss Jiu Jiu, what's wrong? Why are you crying so sadly?" The Li family's butler had been waiting at the door since he received news that Jiu Jiu was coming back. When he saw her crying like a little kitten, he quickly came over and took out a handkerchief to wipe her tears.
"Brother, you're so mean! You're such a bad guy!" Mu Jiujiu sniffed and complained.
Butler Li looked up and saw Gu Jingxing chasing after him.
His tense heart finally relaxed; it turned out the young lady and young master were just having a childish tantrum.
"Miss Jiu Jiu, don't cry, don't cry. Young Master Jingxing was just joking with you~"
The butler had just finished speaking comforting words when the sound of a car engine came from not far away. A silver-gray Aston Martin stopped by the roadside, and Gu Momo and Li Zhanting got out of the car one after the other. Upon closer inspection, Li Zhanting was carrying an exquisite gift bag in his hand.
Oh no! Why are Daddy and Mommy here?!
Gu Jingxing had a bad feeling, and Mu Jiujiu, who was still wiping away tears, saw Li Zhanting and Gu Momo suddenly appear and threw herself into Li Zhanting's arms while crying.
"Godfather! Godmother!"
Gu Momo squatted down and tenderly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes: "Jiujiu? What's wrong? Did someone bully you? Come on, tell your godmother."
"Jiu Jiu, tell your godfather what happened?" Li Zhanting asked anxiously.
Seeing Li Zhanting intensified Mu Jiujiu's grievances, and she sobbed uncontrollably, unable to utter a single word.
Gu Momo frowned and looked at her son, Gu Jingxing. "Jingxing, what's wrong with Jiu Jiu? Didn't I tell you to take her home safely? Why is she crying so hard as soon as we got there?"
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