Chapter 91 (300 favorites plus bonus)...
When Lin Qingxu returned, Gao Luo was answering the phone.
There is no other way. Although it is Chinese New Year and the employees are on holiday, as the boss, I still have to be busy.
She didn't have time to wash the flour off her hands. She stood by the coffee table, wiping the white spots and dirt bit by bit with the wet wipes on it while answering the phone.
Seeing Lin Qingxu come back so quickly, Gao Luo was a little surprised at first.
But she soon noticed that Lin Qingxu didn't look well, and thought she was sick. She hurriedly said a few words to the person on the other end of the phone and hung up.
"Qingxu?" Gao Luo walked over quickly, reaching out to touch her daughter's forehead with concern. "Are you feeling unwell? You look so pale."
Lin Qingxu shook her head. "I'm just a little tired, Mom. I'll go back to the bedroom first."
She didn't know what was wrong. It felt like a washed sponge was weighing down her heart, weighing heavily. She couldn't pinpoint the source of the pain. She raised her hand and pressed it against her chest, but there was clearly no wound.
Lying on the bed, she buried her head in the pillow, trying to numb herself with sleep, just like before.
But found that it was of no avail.
The image of Kan Zhao and the girl standing together repeatedly appeared in his mind. Whether it was the strands of hair falling in front of Kan Zhao's forehead when he lowered his head slightly to listen to the girl's words, or the hem of the girl's skirt swirling when she stood on tiptoe, they were all vivid in his mind.
The kind of tacit understanding that others cannot interfere with.
At that moment, Lin Qingxu didn't even dare to look at Kan Zhao's eyes, for fear of seeing the warmth that belonged to her disappear.
Obviously before... obviously.
…It was clearly her who pushed him away first.
She should have been happy about this. According to the script she had envisioned, they should have retreated to a safe distance and become ordinary friends, with no ambiguity or entanglement, only a strong and lasting friendship.
But why is she so sad now?
She shouldn't be like this. She can't have it all.
She had clearly drawn a line between them, but she was so unrealistic that she asked Kan Zhao not to contact anyone else except her.
Lin Qingxu closed his eyes and forced himself to sleep, as if the darkness could swallow up all the inappropriate thoughts. At the junction of dreams and reality, those sharp emotions would be temporarily paralyzed.
But it was only a short escape after all.
Every time she struggled between sleep and wakefulness, the dull sadness would return, more vivid than before. She felt like she was trapped in a cycle, suffocating when awake, restless in her dreams, over and over again, but she could not find a way out.
Mother and daughter are connected by heart, so Gao Luo naturally noticed Lin Qingxu's abnormal emotions, even though she didn't show it very obviously.
She came to Lin Qingxu's bedroom, knocked lightly a few times, and then pushed the door open.
"Qingxu?" Gao Yao called softly, sitting down gently beside the bed, and took Lin Qingxu's temperature on his forehead with the back of her hand. "Why are you lying in bed again? Are you feeling unwell?"
Lin Qingxu's voice was muffled in the pillow, with a distinct nasal tone, "I'm fine, just a little tired."
Gao Luo didn't expose this obvious lie. She gently smoothed her daughter's messy hair, just like she did when she was little. "If you're tired, take a good rest."
She said softly, "Mom is always here with you."
This sentence was like opening a floodgate.
Lin Qingxu suddenly turned around and threw herself into her arms, her tears instantly soaking Gao Luo's clothes.
"Mom, am I very bad?" Lin Qingxu's voice choked.
Gao Luo's heart suddenly tightened. She turned her daughter around and found that Lin Qingxu's eyes were red and tears were falling uncontrollably.
She gently wiped away the moisture from the corners of Lin Qingxu's eyes with her thumb, "Qingxu is the kindest and most polite person in the world. She will always be my pride."
"But it hurts here..."
She pressed her hand to her heart and cried dazedly, "I don't know why this is happening, but it just hurts."
"I don't want to. I don't know why I became like this..."
"How could I do this... I'm really too much, so selfish, how could I do this..."
"sorry……"
"sorry……"
Lin Qingxu sobbed in Gao Luo's arms.
Gao Luo didn't ask anything, but just held her firmly, patting her back gently with one hand and stroking her hair with the other.
"It will all pass," Gao Yao whispered, her voice gentle yet firm. "Mom is always here."
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Fang Yun was so obsessed with prawn slides that she bought dozens of packs at one time.
The New Year brings a new beginning, and it’s not a good idea to keep last year’s things. Fang Yun simply used these to make some wontons to clear out the shrimp paste.
I sent some to Gao Luo and found that she was busy in the kitchen. She wasn't cooking anything, but boiling two eggs.
Boiled eggs for dinner didn't seem like a diet meal. Fang Yun casually asked why.
Gao Xiao smiled and said that Lin Qingxu didn't know what had happened to her. She had been crying all afternoon and had just fallen asleep. Her eyes would definitely be swollen when she woke up. Since there were no ice packs at home, she would prepare two eggs to reduce the swelling.
I don't know what to say. Wouldn't Fang Yun be furious after hearing this? Lin Qingxu is such a good-tempered person, who could possibly get angry with her? Add to that Kan Zhao's unusual behavior over the past few days, and the culprit is obvious, right?
When I returned home angrily, I regained some of my sanity.
Not to mention Kan Zhao's behavior over the years, no one could be angry with Lin Qingxu. Moreover, when they were young, Kan Zhao always complained that she and Kan Zhenzhong were partial to Lin Qingxu. If they were wrong, it would not be good. Evidence is required for everything.
And it’s not good for parents to interfere in their children’s affairs.
But even though she thought so, Fang Yun's mentality had completely changed. No matter how she looked at Kan Zhao, she couldn't stand him. He always stepped out with his left foot first. What a disgusting thing.
Out of sight, out of mind. Tell Kan Zhao to go down and throw away the garbage quickly.
By the way, he asked, "Do you know who bullied Qingxu?"
Kan Zhao paused while drinking water and asked, "What happened to her?"
Fang Yun glanced at him and said, "She's crying."
When he heard this, Kan Zhao's grip on the water cup tightened unconsciously.
He suddenly remembered the helpless expression on Lin Qingxu's face when he saw her in the afternoon. At first, he didn't think much of it, just thinking that she didn't want to see him.
"Crying?" Kan Zhao's voice became dry.
In fact, he should have left before hearing Lin Qingxu's name. It would have been in line with her wishes, not to get entangled, and just be an ordinary neighbor. But he still subconsciously couldn't help but care about her.
"Yes. Your Aunt Gao said she cried all afternoon and felt so wronged." Fang Yun asked, "You didn't know? That's really strange."
Kan Zhao repeated in a low voice: "Crying all afternoon?"
Does her eyes hurt?
Her eyes can't bear it if she cries for too long. Is there any medicine at home?
Lin Qingxu's red eyes appeared uncontrollably in his mind. He remembered her pale face in the corridor today.
Why are you sad?
not understand.
Shouldn't she be glad that he retreated, and then be happily together with Qu Wen?
But at this moment, suddenly, a sharp pain gripped his heart.
Kan Zhao thought about how he had pretended to be indifferent these past few days, and how he had deliberately distanced himself. He thought this would preserve his last bit of dignity, but now...
"Mom." His voice was very hoarse.
When Fang Yun saw her son like this, she knew that he was involved in this matter.
He took a deep breath and chopped the ribs on the chopping board with a loud clacking sound.
Forget it, he is my biological child after all.
Out of a little mother-son affection, she advised: "Don't blame me for not warning you, you will end up losing more than you gain. Some people just bring disaster upon themselves..."
"For example, that so-and-so..."
Before he could finish his words, he saw Kan Zhao grabbing his coat and walking outside, "Where are you going?"
No one replied.
Fang Yun thought about what she had originally planned to let Kan Zhao do:
"Hey! At least take the trash down with you!"
Kan Zhao had already left.
Fang Yun: “…”
Kan Zhenzhong's inferior gene happened to be on the Y chromosome.
Useless man.
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