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Zhenzhen forced her eyes open and reminded her with difficulty: "Mom, class starts at 8 o'clock. Will we be late?"
"Huh?" Guan Shanyue looked at her phone in horror. It was already 7:49! Damn it. "Come on, baby, mommy will take you to kindergarten."
Guan Shanyue rushed out of the door with her bag, the sound of her high heels hitting the floor crisply, echoing in the empty corridor in the early morning. She hurried to the elevator and pressed the button.
When I turned around, Zhenzhen was still more than ten meters away. Her short legs were moving so fast that afterimages were almost visible. Her high ponytail was trembling on her head, like an unrestrained pony.
Oh, I forgot, she is only three years old! Guan Shanyue hurried over, pinched Zhenzhen's armpits and picked her up. The excessive weight suddenly pressed on her hands. She gritted her teeth and supported Zhenzhen's back, holding the child steadily in her arms.
Zhenzhen seemed to sense her difficulty and rubbed her shoulder reluctantly: "Mom, put me down, I can walk by myself."
Guan Shanyue carried the person into the elevator, his voice full of energy: "It's okay."
After hearing this, Zhenzhen felt at ease and clung to her mother again. Her mother was soft and fragrant, even better than she had imagined! Hee hee, my mother is here.
Fortunately, her father listened to her and took her to meet her mother, hehe, hehehe.
Zhenzhen leaned on Guan Shanyue happily, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise.
Guan Shanyue had no idea what the little baby in her arms was thinking. She was only thinking about not being late. When the mother and daughter stood downstairs, Guan Shanyue belatedly asked, "Baby, where is your kindergarten?"
Zhenzhen bit her finger and thought seriously, where is it? Hmm... she couldn't think of it, and Zhenzhen smiled awkwardly.
The two of them looked at each other, and Zhenzhen suddenly had an idea: "Mom, where I first saw you! My kindergarten is across the street."
The place where you first met me? Guan Shanyue blinked. The venue Niuniu chose for the cocktail party was next to a shopping district. I had never heard of a kindergarten there.
Zhenzhen continued to describe: "That day, my mother wore a brown dress and a brown skirt, and then got into a car without a roof. After she got in, the roof was sealed up."
A car without a roof? Guan Shanyue has many supercars in her photos, but she doesn't like to show off in public, so she has never opened the roof.
She lacked this memory.
Seeing that her mother hadn't remembered yet, Zhenzhen said anxiously, "The driver was a handsome uncle, fair-skinned, with a smile like a sunflower, and Mom was sitting next to him."
Sunflower? A figure gradually emerged in Guan Shanyue's mind.
Looking back, Guan Shanyue recalled the dinner she had with Yu Yang a month ago, the flashy supercars and the eye-catching handsome guy, and the next day, the vice president blocked her in the office to gossip.
The vice president winked and said, "Who was that handsome guy who came to pick you up last night? We agreed to be single together, so why did you quietly get rid of your single status?"
Guan Shanyue said helplessly: "No, it's a former partner. He went abroad some time ago, and I asked him to bring me some things. I just went to pick it up."
Zhenzhen didn't notice her mother was lost in thought, and continued to speak seriously, "Dad saw it that day, too. He seemed a little unhappy."
Guan Shanyue came back to his senses: "Did your father see it too?"
Zhenzhen nodded obediently.
So, this is the reason why he asked about Yu Yang's recent situation in a sarcastic tone?
Guan Shanyue glanced at the little girl in her arms who had betrayed her father without realizing it. She was like a key to peeking into Shao Zizhuo's psychology, revealing her cards to him in advance when the taciturn man was caught off guard.
Guan Shanyue suddenly felt strangely at peace in her heart. She smiled, pinched Zhenzhen's nose, took a taxi and took her daughter to the kindergarten opposite the company.
All the children in the kindergarten had already gone in, only a few children who did not want to go to school were still struggling with their parents at the door, crying miserably with tears and snot, as if they were not going to school but were being imprisoned.
Zhenzhen stood quietly among the group of children, gently tugging at the corner of her clothes, holding the teacher's hand with her other hand. She was like a butterfly that would fly away at any moment, and she asked cautiously: "Mom, will you come pick me up after school?"
Zhenzhen is clearly Guan Shanyue's flesh and blood, but at this moment she is like an adopted child, blinking her eyes that are exactly the same as hers, eagerly waiting for her response.
Guan Shanyue couldn't resist Zhenzhen's gaze and took a deep breath: "Yes, mom will take you to eat delicious food."
If Zhenzhen had a tail, it would have left a shadow by now. She was so excited that she almost flew away, not forgetting to take her father with her: "Can Dad come with us?"
Guan Shanyue was silent for a moment: "Okay."
Zhenzhen jumped up: "Great! Goodbye, Mom, I'm going to school." She held the teacher's hand and ran into the teaching building, disappearing into the rainbow-colored door.
Guan Shanyue watched Zhenzhen go away and could no longer see her back.
She finally relaxed, the fatigue from the all-nighter coming back to her. She rubbed her solar plexus, sent a message to the vice president telling her she wouldn't be going to work today, and went to the underground garage to drive a new car.
The villa was too far to go back to, so she randomly picked the house closest to the company. The navigation system popped up: "Nine kilometers from the destination, Lanyuan. Estimated travel time: 18 minutes."
When they arrived at Lanyuan, Guan Shanyue was so sleepy that she almost fell asleep in the car. She forced herself to press the elevator button and leaned on the elevator handrail to play with her mobile phone. The elevator stopped. Guan Shanyue subconsciously walked out and suddenly bumped into someone's arms, her teeth knocking against the other's chest muscle.
Guan Shanyue felt a pain in her teeth from being poked by the hard chest muscles. She took two steps back awkwardly, staring directly at the dark mark left on the man's chest. She blushed and apologized, her heart pounding. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. How about I help you wash your clothes?"
"No need, just treat me to a meal."
A familiar voice rang out, and Guan Shanyue suddenly looked up, seeing Shao Zizhuo's haunting face again. Behind him were the conspicuous words "Fourteenth Floor". She blurted out, "Why are you here?"
Shao Zizhuo's expression was unclear: "My home."
His eyes stayed behind her. The elevator door had already closed. The numbers were jumping, and then stopped, no longer increasing.
The 24th floor of Lanyuan.
Shao Zizhuo's heart skipped a beat as the elevator ticked down. He looked at her, a hope he hadn't even noticed: "What about you? Why are you here?"
Guan Shanyue pulled her hair up in an attempt to hide her true identity. She said stubbornly, "I'm here to play at a friend's house."
A chuckle came from above: "I happened to not bring my keys. Can I go to your friend's house?"
Guan Shanyue gritted her teeth and said, "It's not very convenient to go to someone else's house."
Shao Zizhuo leaned over gently, his warm breath radiating across her exposed neck and shoulders. Her skin responded, hairs standing on end. He said, "Twenty-eighth floor. Which friend? Do I know him?"
Guan Shanyue took a step back to avoid Shao Zizhuo's approach. She had never been so angry that she was rich and could easily buy a whole floor of a large flat with only one unit. She regretted even more why she didn't go to the hotel to sleep and had to come to Lanyuan.
Shao Zizhuo tugged at his clothes, frowned, and said, "And this dress, didn't you say you would help me wash it?"
Guan Shanyue was speechless for a moment and looked up at Shao Zizhuo. He was standing there holding his clothes, the wet marks on his clothes had not yet disappeared, and he looked at her leisurely.
Shao Zizhuo asked again: "What does Miss Guan think?"
Guan Shanyue was so sleepy that she didn't want to bother with him anymore. She threw her bag over her and said, "Let's go." He was not going to eat her.
Shao Zizhuo succeeded, and said no more, and followed her obediently.
Guan Shanyue pressed the fingerprint lock, pushed open the door, and without greeting Shao Zizhuo, threw her high heels casually by the door, changed into slippers, and walked inside on her own.
Shao Zizhuo took a deep breath and stepped into the room.
Several years passed, and she didn't know how many owners it had before it came into her hands. The decoration inside the house was completely different from before. It seemed that she had remodeled it again. The original black, white and gray furniture disappeared, replaced by soft warm colors. Her things were thrown everywhere at random. It seemed that there was no aunt, so she didn't clean it up.
Guan Shanyue's voice came from the kitchen: "Zhenzhen said she wanted to have dinner with me tonight."
It's so ethereal like a dream.
He is no longer the owner of this house, but for some reason he feels at home in this house.
Shao Zizhuo walked over and leaned against the kitchen door. Guan Shanyue opened the refrigerator and then closed it again, seemingly carelessly. It was obvious that there was nothing in the refrigerator. He laughed and said, "What do you want to eat? I'll have someone send some food over later and I'll make it for you."
The atmosphere before him was becoming more and more homely and cozy. Guan Shanyue quickly interrupted him and said, "Let's go out to eat. There's a Japanese restaurant there that's pretty good."
Shao Zizhuo said, "Zhenzhen can't eat raw food, and for now, she can't eat food with too many seasonings. Let's wait until she's a little older before going."
Guan Shanyue was speechless. Oh no, he forgot that Zhenzhen was just a three-year-old kid. Besides, this atmosphere was too weird!
Guan Shanyue passed through the gap between Shao Zizhuo and the kitchen door, walked into the living room and drank a glass of water. "If Mr. Shao wants to visit, please feel free to do so."
"Your friend doesn't mind?" Shao Zizhuo asked with ill intention.
Guan Shanyue responded: "My friend is different from Mr. Shao. He is more generous and probably won't mind."
Shao Zizhuo chuckled, ignored her ridicule, and looked around without any hesitation.
Her room remained the same, except that she had opened up one of the study rooms to create a cloakroom, where she arranged clothes by light and dark, with bags covering an entire wall. His room, on the other hand, only had a bed without even a blanket, as if no one had lived there for a long time.
All the decorations in the study were replaced with new ones. Shao Zizhuo ran her fingertips over the books on the bookshelf. The names on the spines were changed to her favorite books, as well as a few professional books. The cabinet next to it was filled with stacks of documents with her annotations on them.
He walked around and found no sign of any man, so he returned to the living room satisfied.
The figure sleeping on the living room sofa suddenly caught his eye. Her slippers were scattered on the floor. She was wearing a skirt, which had been wrapped around her when she fell asleep. Her legs instinctively curled up at the base of her legs, almost completely exposed to the air, their whiteness jarring.
She was completely defenseless.
Shao Zizhuo's Adam's apple moved slightly and he approached her gently.
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