Chapter 13 Sugar Daddy
"Mademoiselle, may I come in, please?"
With Li Wenjing's permission, Gustav pushed the door open and came in, sitting on the chair next to the desk. His gray-brown curly hair shone with a faint light as he walked.
"Wenjing, I'm sorry to see you sick, but you're still so beautiful even when you're sick. I really don't want the illness to ruin your beauty."
Gustav's voice was as mellow as wine, and he spoke Chinese very nicely, which made people unconsciously notice his lips. His lower lip was slightly thick and joined to his upper lip in a graceful curve. Only then did she understand what Fu Yudie meant by "charm" that day.
"People rarely call me pretty. Do you say that to everyone you meet? Why don't you be more direct? What do you want to talk to me about?"
"It's boring to get an injection alone, I'm here to keep you company and talk."
"I have a cell phone, so I'm not bored. You're the one who's bored. You came all the way here, but Dr. Gu ignored you."
"Not on purpose. I went to see the oil fields and came to see you guys."
Gustav's eyes were fixed on the photo frame on the table. He stared at it for a few minutes, then took it and gently stroked the woman in the photo.
"He still loves his mother. He takes her with him when he goes to England and Africa. Unlike me, he just hangs me on the wall."
Then he joked, "It's good that he's so energetic now. The best way to heal a young person is to find a lover and get some sleep, and everything will be solved."
"I'm not his girlfriend, I'm just a patient."
"Who does Charles like? His father can't tell? You're still his first love, right? How's his illness? Is it healed now?"
Li Wenjing's mind stayed on the word "first love" and she didn't say anything for a long time.
He continued, "I'm here to ask you to do me a favor. Do you know why he came to Kenya?"
"He said it once: driving into the grasslands would cost you all the fines..." Li Wenjing laughed as she spoke. "He was just teasing me again."
"He came to Kenya to commit suicide."
Li Wenjing looked at him in surprise, her smile still not showing, her mouth stiffly open.
"Three years ago one morning, I received a scheduled email from him. It was a suicide note. He said he was tired of living in this world and didn't want to live anymore. God! My world is falling!"
"Is it because of her mother?"
"He disowned me. It's complicated. Besides his mother, there's also his illness..."
He observed Li Wenjing's reaction. She was just in a daze, so he sighed, "Wenjing, can you help me persuade him to return to Paris?"
"This is his own business. If he's depressed and wants to commit suicide, I can't persuade him. To be honest, I had a bad time and wanted to commit suicide every day." Li Wenjing said, "You should talk to him. I'm just an outsider."
"Who would like to listen to an old man talk? If he likes you, of course he will listen to what you say."
Li Wenjing also sighed. The medicine from the IV dripped into her body drop by drop, and she felt a little cold. She covered half of her arm and remained silent.
"Please do me a favor. I'll put you in charge of the oil field project. After the project is completed, you can come to Paris to study or work. I can help you. Carl is also in Paris. You can go on dates and have a romantic relationship. Maybe in the future, you should call me daddy."
"Daddy? Sounds so much like sugar daddy."
(Note: Sugar daddy refers to the sponsor)
"Look at you, you even talk a bit like Charles. Don't you like him too?"
Li Wenjing shrugged. "I thought you were coming here to give me a million and ask me to leave your son. It turns out it's a much harder task."
The two of them laughed together.
"Even though it's not a million, please consider this. I'm his father and I don't want anything to happen to him. At least by returning to Paris, he's already half-forgiven me. That's why I can talk to him. We haven't had a proper conversation in over a decade."
To say she wasn't tempted by the money, or that she didn't want to take on the project, would be a lie. Gustav's temptation was too great. Li Wenjing tossed and turned on the bed. The IV drip slipped from her arm, a little blood seeping out, and the remaining liquid medicine leaked out from the needle. She inserted the needle back, and a slight pain pierced the back of her hand, causing her to let out a soft cry of "ouch."
Gu Weiyi came to change the IV drip and couldn't help but say a few words to her. He used cotton dipped in alcohol to wipe the blood off the back of her hand. It was cold, but his hand was hot, with blood flowing up.
"Gustav is here? Why are you unhappy?"
"Nothing, he thought I was your girlfriend..." Li Wenjing forced a smile at him, "He wanted to give me one million to leave his son, and I said five hundred thousand would be enough."
Before he laughed, Li Wenjing leaned against the wall and laughed until two tears came out. She wiped away the tears.
"I think your father loves you very much, why are you ignoring him?"
Gu Weiyi just shook his head. "It's hard to explain."
"You've never met my dad. He's uneducated, a farmer. He used to beat my mom all the time. When she got mad at me, she'd beat me. It became a mixed doubles game." Li Wenjing trembled slightly. "I also want my dad to come and see me, give me lots of money, buy me new clothes, dolls, and delicious food. I really think he treats you well."
Li Wenjing smiled and said, "I wish it was my dad."
"Are you sick and confused? Or have you been deceived by that old pervert? What did he say? He treats his little lover like..."
His hand suddenly touched his forehead, checking its temperature, and two lines of tears suddenly slid down his face from his palm. He suppressed his breath, withdrew his hand, and clenched it into a fist. Li Wenjing silently wiped away the tears.
"I know, who would treat you well for no reason? As a lover or girlfriend, he or she may treat you well at first, but sooner or later he or she will abandon you. Everyone will always walk alone, and no one can stay with you until the end. Even if you get married, even if you love each other madly at the beginning, after a few years or even decades, you will get tired of each other, cheat, get divorced, or if you don't endure it, you will end up with uterine cancer."
Li Wenjing's eyes were lifeless, without tears or light, as if she was looking at somewhere far away.
"We're all ordinary people, and life is boring, so we have children. Once we have blood ties, we'll gradually become inseparable, and we can find something new to do. But they have children, it's just a few minutes of impulse. Have they ever considered the children?"
Gu Weiyi said, "You are already better than half, no, at least 80 percent of the people on earth. There will be people who like you and truly love you. You will also have children. It's not the result of simple sexual impulses. Children are the continuation of their parents' lives. You raise them as well as you do. Because of you, they are all happy children."
"I don't know. I'm not as good as you say. I'm not suitable for having children. Young talents and social elites like you should have more children."
"Me?" He hesitated for a few seconds, "I can't have children."
Li Wenjing suddenly laughed, "Yes! You are a man, so you can't have children."
Gu Weiyi laughed dryly with her. Before leaving, Li Wenjing asked, "Are you free?"
"How long is considered free?"
"In a moment, time for dinner."
"I agree. It's not polite to refuse a girl's invitation."
"It's not a date," Li Wenjing looked into his smiling eyes, "I just wanted to chat with you. It's boring to stay in the room."
"Okay, tomorrow, you can come and meet me for dinner."
Before dinner, a Mercedes-Benz car rolled in like a black cheetah and stopped outside the village. Gustav was there again, taking off his wide fisherman's hat and greeting Li Wenjing face to face. She gently hugged his arm, responding to his warmth. Gu Weiyi saw him from a distance through the window, and her eyes couldn't help but sparkle. With the patient there, he couldn't leave for the time being.
By the time Gu Weiyi received the message from Li Wenjing, the car had already left the village.
"I'm sorry, Gustav and I have some project matters to discuss. He's going back to Mombasa, and he invited me to dinner in the city. I'll talk to you tomorrow."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
