"Let's sit down first."
Bai Qianmo went straight to her seat.
"What would you like to drink? I've never been to this coffee shop before, so I don't know what the food is like." Gu Xinyi picked up the menu next to her and handed it to Bai Qianmo.
Bai Qianmo didn't look at the menu: "Just a latte will do."
Gu Xinyi nodded, found a waiter, and ordered a latte and a mocha.
After the waiter left, her gaze slowly turned to Bai Qianmo.
"I just completed the discharge procedures yesterday."
"Hmm, you're feeling better?"
"I'm mostly fine now, Bai Qianmo. Thank you for saving my life."
Bai Qianmo smiled slightly.
"If you really want to thank someone, you should thank my fifth brother..."
Gu Xinyi frowned: "Who is your fifth brother?"
Bai Qianmo came to her senses: "It's your seventh uncle."
Gu Xinyi stared at her curiously: "Why do you call me Seventh Uncle and Fifth Brother? He is the seventh in my father's generation. Even if you call him brother, you should call him Seventh Brother."
Bai Qianmo didn't want to explain too much about her relationship with Fifth Brother.
In fact, she had no way of explaining it.
From the moment he met Fifth Brother, he made her call him that.
As for where this "five" came from, she still doesn't really know.
Bai Qianmo remained silent, and the atmosphere froze for a moment.
Gu Xinyi nervously clutched her sleeve, as if gathering her courage, and took a deep breath.
"sorry."
"Hmm?" Bai Qianmo was a little curious about why she suddenly asked that question.
Gu Xinyi smiled with a sense of relief.
"I was very rude to you before. I hated you for bothering my seventh uncle in order to help Sister Qian Ning. This time, my parents made such a big mistake. If you had helped me in time, my family would have been completely destroyed. So you gave me a complete family and also made me see that you are not a bad girl who is greedy for fame and fortune. So today I came to see you, firstly to thank you in person for saving me, and secondly to sincerely apologize to you. I hope you can forgive my previous rudeness to you."
For a spoiled and willful young lady like Gu Xinyi, it's difficult to see the world clearly without experiencing a major upheaval.
Now that Gu Tingjun has fallen, those friends who had a good relationship with the second branch of the family and who called Gu Tingjun brothers now see the family of three as if they've seen a plague god.
This was also the first time that Gu Xinyi truly experienced the coldness and warmth of human relationships.
Especially the Ye family, as the mother's maternal family, had previously relied on the mother to establish a marriage alliance with the Gu family. Now that they saw their parents had offended the sixth branch of the family, the Ye family was the first to step forward and clear themselves of any wrongdoing.
Their own uncles and aunts avoided them, and others treated them with the utmost apprehension.
She was a little nervous when she called Bai Qianmo today, thinking that maybe the other party wouldn't want to meet up if she heard it was her.
Unexpectedly, she readily agreed, which gave Gu Xinyi a completely new perspective on Bai Qianmo.
The coffee was delivered.
Bai Qianmo took a slow and deliberate sip.
After a moment of silence, he slowly spoke: "It's not a matter of forgiveness or not. In my eyes, your previous actions were just like the petty tricks of an ignorant child."
Gu Xinyi: ...
This answer really caught her off guard.
Moreover, Bai Qianmo thought that her previous actions, which she herself had considered excessive, were childish tactics.
This is... such an insult!
"I think I'm a few months older than you." She was clearly unconvinced.
Seeing Gu Xinyi's serious expression, Bai Qianmo suddenly found it somewhat amusing.
"So what if they're a few months older? Can a canary the same age be compared to an eagle?"
Gu Xinyi fell silent immediately.
Although Bai Qianmo's words seemed to convey contempt for her, upon closer examination, what she said did make sense.
For the past twenty years, I have been kept in a warm home by my parents, no different from a canary that never had to worry about food or clothing.
Bai Qianmo is different; her experiences and encounters are so profound that I feel I might never experience her life in my entire life.
Therefore, they are destined to be different.
Gu Xinyi sighed.
"It was only after my family collapsed this time that I seemed to truly see the true nature of the people around me, and it also made me realize how foolish and ignorant I had been. You are right, in terms of maturity, you are much more mature than me."
Bai Qianmo slowly turned the teacup in her hand, her young face revealing a maturity beyond her years.
"Life is like a parabola, with peaks and valleys. If you have sweetness in the beginning, you will naturally have to suffer later. Life has many facets, and none of them can be missed. I hope that your life ahead will help you become more mature."
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