Chapter 118 Illusion
Before the alarm clock on the bedside table went off, Gu Ji was already awake. Outside the window, the misty rain blurred the view as fine rain pattered against the windowpane.
The gloomy weather did not affect Gu Ji's good mood. From the moment she got up to getting ready, her eyes sparkled and her rosy lips curved slightly.
She walked briskly out of the bedroom and met Dan Anwen, who was coming down from the gym upstairs, just as she reached the stairwell. Dan Anwen was also smiling.
"Good morning, little one." Dan Anwen gently ruffled the girl's hair.
Gu Ji's almond-shaped eyes curved into a smile as she replied, "Uncle Dan, why are you up so early too?"
Today, the men started exercising about half an hour earlier than usual.
Dan Anwen smiled, her upturned eyebrows full of tenderness, but she didn't answer. "I'm going to take a shower. You go downstairs to eat first."
Only after Gu Ji disappeared at the top of the stairs did the man walk briskly towards the room.
It wasn't that I got up early; I was so excited that I didn't sleep all night.
Last night, after learning that the child also liked him, he appeared extremely calm on the surface, showing no difference from usual, but inside he was overjoyed.
Thinking of this, the man's smile widened, and it was no exaggeration to say that he was in a wonderful mood.
When Gu Ji got downstairs, he found that Dan Si was already sitting at the dining table eating breakfast.
Is waking up early now a trend?
When Dan Si saw Gu Ji come downstairs, his eyes lit up. He quickly swallowed the egg in his mouth, glanced around, and then asked mysteriously, "Did you have a fight with your uncle yesterday?"
Last night, after he took a taxi back to Jinshan Villa, he felt increasingly uneasy. The atmosphere between the two of them had been so strange just two days ago.
Gu Ji paused in his action of stuffing the eggs in his mouth, blinked his bright eyes, and said, "No, I don't think so."
She thought about her attitude towards the man yesterday, and it seemed like it was just a little tiff, not yet escalating to the level of a conflict.
Dan Si rolled his eyes, his face clearly saying, "Who are you kidding?"
Seeing that Dan Si didn't believe him, Gu Ji had no choice but to say that his uncle and he had confessed their feelings to each other last night.
She and Uncle Dan have tacitly avoided mentioning becoming boyfriend and girlfriend; they'll wait until after her college entrance exams to make a decision.
Dan Si wanted to ask a few more questions when the man came downstairs, looking smug and triumphant, a stark contrast to his gloomy and cold demeanor the night before.
Dan Si swallowed back the question she wanted to ask, and at the same time wondered why her uncle was happy one moment and angry the next.
However, he dared not provoke the tyrant.
Seeing that Dan Si had given up on asking questions, Gu Ji breathed a slight sigh of relief. She could already imagine that Dan Si would ask where Uncle Dan had taken her last night.
As expected, Uncle Dan was her savior.
As soon as Dan Anwen sat down, he saw the girl's eyes sparkling with gratitude and raised an eyebrow in surprise.
He turned his head and focused his gaze on Dan Si, narrowing his eyes slightly.
Dan Si was startled and quickly finished the porridge at the bottom of his bowl. As he got up, he said to his side, "Uncle, I'm finished eating. I'll wait for you in the car."
As he spoke, he hurriedly picked up his schoolbag from the sofa and walked out the door.
Gu Ji stared blankly at Dan Si's hurried departure, wondering if there were any ghosts chasing him from inside the restaurant.
Dan An noticed that the girl was staring in the direction where Dan Si had disappeared. He frowned slightly, reached out and picked up a fried egg and put it on the girl's plate. "Eat a fried egg."
Looking at the broken eggshell beside her, Gu Ji wanted to tell him that she had already eaten an egg.
As soon as he entered the school gate, Dan Si slowed down and leaned closer to the girl, asking, "Have you two made up?"
Just now, he watched the two people in the back seat of the car. There was no trace of the tense atmosphere from yesterday. The two were chatting and laughing harmoniously. He even had a strange feeling that he shouldn't be sitting in the back.
Why do I have this strange feeling that I'm hindering their interaction?
He shook his head casually, banishing the strange thoughts from his mind.
While he was thinking, Gu Ji had already disappeared from his sight.
Gu Ji, who quickly escaped from Dan Si's side, patted her small chest. How come she never noticed that Dan Si was so gossipy before?
Fortunately, once in the classroom, Dan Si became engrossed in studying and didn't ask her anything about what happened last night.
Guan Xiang looked at Gu Ji, who was staring blankly beside her again, and felt a tickle in her heart, wanting to know what had happened to her these past two days.
Yesterday she looked sad and listless, but today the smile on her face is almost reaching the back of her head, and she looks like she's in love.
"Zhao Zhao, have you taken the wrong medicine these past few days?" Guan Xiang waved her hand in front of the girl, looking puzzled.
Gu Ji slightly withdrew her toothy smile, pursed her lips, and said with a hint of shyness, "It's nothing, it's just that last night I found out that Uncle Dan also likes me."
Guan Xiang's eyes widened instantly, and a scream caught in her throat. She remembered that she was in a classroom.
Guan Xiang swallowed nervously, blinked, and said, "You weren't talking nonsense just now?"
Gu Ji pursed her lips and shook her head shyly. She felt like she was dreaming from last night until now, and there was always a sense of unreality to it.
"Did you confess your feelings to Uncle Dan?" Guan Xiang whispered in the girl's ear.
Gu Ji's clear eyes showed a hint of confusion. "I wouldn't say that, it's not very formal anyway."
She thought back to the scene last night when the two of them stood on the mountaintop and poured their hearts out to each other. At the time, she felt it was particularly heartwarming, but now that she thought about it, she felt like she was crying the whole time.
Thinking of this, the girl pursed her lips awkwardly, unsure how to explain the situation between them to Guan Xiang.
Guan Xiang didn't pay much attention to who confessed first, and asked bluntly, "So you're dating Uncle Dan now?"
Gu Ji glanced around and said mysteriously, "Guess."
Guan Xiang instantly reached out and touched the soft flesh of the girl's waist, saying through gritted teeth, "Zhao Zhao, you've gone bad."
Gu Ji's reaction to the ticklish feeling in his waist was so intense that he almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, he braced himself on the table with his hands, which saved him from sitting on his bottom.
With tears welling up in his eyes, Gu Ji clutched the soft flesh around his waist and pleaded, "Please, Xiangxiang, stop pinching me! It really tickles!"
The soft flesh around the girl's waist was extremely sensitive, a fact that Guan Xiang discovered by accident.
"Tell me quickly, are you dating anyone or not?" Guan Xiang crossed her arms.
Gu Ji sat up straight and said seriously, "We didn't talk."
Upon hearing this, Guan Xiang immediately became anxious, her voice trembling with worry, her brows furrowed, "Is it Uncle Dan who doesn't want to?"
She knew that Zhao Zhao really liked Uncle Dan, so it couldn't be that she didn't want to be in a relationship. There was only one possibility.
That means Uncle Dan only wants to enjoy the ambiguous process, but doesn't want to take responsibility.
"No, no." Gu Ji hurriedly waved his hand, afraid that even a second's delay in clarifying would damage Uncle Dan's noble and gentle image as a good man.
"So after you confessed your feelings for each other, there was no follow-up?"
Gu Ji thought for a moment and said, "Uncle Dan and I have tacitly agreed not to mention dating. After all, we should focus on our studies now, as the college entrance examination is in two months."
Guan Xiang nodded in agreement, saying that being in a relationship can more or less affect one's grades and mindset.
Especially when both of them are each other's first love.
Guan Xiang didn't have time to ask any more questions before the bell rang for class.
The two ended their conversation and focused on absorbing knowledge.
On the other side, Dan Anwen arrived at the Dan Group with a beaming smile, exuding a gentle and refined aura, which instantly put his secretary, who had been trembling with fear yesterday, at ease.
Thankfully, he wasn't the man-eating demon he was yesterday, radiating an aura that kept strangers at bay, making them too afraid to even glance at him a second time.
Even when the company's projects lost tens of billions, they had never seen the president's face so gloomy it looked like ink could drip from it.
Seeing Dan Anwen's gentle and aloof demeanor, Liu Lei secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"President, this is the fifth version of the proposal submitted by the creative department. Please take a look." Liu Lei handed the document to the man, silently praying that this version would be approved, otherwise all the hard work of the entire creative department staff last night would have been in vain.
Dan Anwen glanced at the document with his cool eyes, offering no criticism. "The plan is good. Have the creative department discuss it again and revise the details."
"Okay, President." Liu Lei sighed, relieved that the president hadn't nitpicked at all.
When Liu Lei came out of the office, the creative director had been waiting at the door for a long time.
"How is it, Assistant Liu? Is the president satisfied?" The creative director broke out in a cold sweat despite the warm spring day.
Liu Lei smiled and handed him the document, saying, "The president said it's good. You just need to go back and revise the details."
"Thank God." The creative director almost burst into tears.
Last night, the entire creative department staff almost went bald from working so hard to come up with their most satisfactory version of the proposal, and thankfully the president was satisfied.
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