On the other side.
Ning Xiwei, who was already sitting in the nanny car, looked uglier.
Looking at the hot searches related to Gu Qi on Weibo, she never thought that she would be tricked by someone like Jiāng Zhiyu and do such a stupid thing that made her a laughing stock of everyone and cause her personality to collapse.
Because of losing face and wanting to leave quickly, she was so perfunctory when greeting fans for the first time.
How lively Gu Qi's side was was how embarrassed she felt.
The assistant was sitting nearby, not daring to breathe.
Ning Xiwei finished reading the hot searches related to Gu Qi, but noticed another new entry.
＃Gu Qi’s high school graduation photo＃
The reason was that an ‘informed person’ came out to expose the news.
[I seem to be in the same class as Gu Qi... I didn't link these two people together at all]
Netizen: "???"
[What do you mean by seem? If it is, it is. If it isn’t, it isn’t]
[Baiting? Reported]
The other party threw out a graduation photo of Class 6, Grade 3 of Imperial Capital No. 1 High School.
In the picture, the girl corresponding to the name ‘Jiang Qi’ stood in the corner of the last row, wearing rustic black-framed glasses. The mask completely covered the lower half of her face.
The originally dissatisfied netizens immediately slid down to apologize.
[… Sorry, I drink a glass of wine for my recklessness]
[Excuse me, you really can’t tell her face from this]
[Too outrageous, who can recognize her]
[Did Gu Qi look like this in high school? No wonder there were no old photos of her on the Internet]
[Is it possible that Gu Qi wasn't aloof, she just had social phobia since she was little]
[A sour face does not mean she has a bad temper. It’s an introvert’s protective nature! ]
But some people have raised questions.
[Aren’t the key classes of Imperial Capital No. 1 High School always classes one to three? Even if students in ordinary classes like class six perform exceptionally well, they can’t get into the top ten in the province]
The monthly test results of Imperial Capital No. 1 High School were released through the WeChat public account every time. After so many years, they could still be checked.
In order to verify, netizens found a monthly test score sheet of class six that year. There were 40 people in the class and Gu Qi could only rank 20th.
[If she had ranked first or second in the college entrance examination, I would have believed it. But 20th place? It’s too far-fetched?]
[A middle-class student in the top ten in the college entrance examination. Don't be too ridiculous]
But soon, a few monthly exam results from different periods were posted on Weibo. Gu Qi's ranking didn't change much, but netizens were suddenly surprised to find that -
[Damn, look carefully, Gu Qi's total score was actually the same!!!]
[How is only able to get that much grade. It's obviously that she only wants to get that much grade!]
[So, she can control the score so accurately (horrified face)]
[? Awesome, Gu Qi, you are too good at playing, right?]
[This is the real bigshot!!!]
…
Ning Xiwei's gaze was fixed on the graduation photo that was exposed.
Ning Xiwei didn't care about the negative searches mocking her. The current her didn't care about them at all. Her brain was churning crazily.
She also had a copy of this photo. She had looked through it thousands of times in countless sleepless nights, missing the person who would never come back.
She remembered the name of every person in the photo, including ‘Jiang Qi’, but she didn't expect that this was a person.
She hated everyone in the photo. They either participated in or ignored the bullying. No one was innocent.
Gu Qi was also in this class.
Then she was also a murderer who watched the crime coldly.
She couldn't help shaking all over. Her eyes were already red.
＊
On the way to send Mu Yuan home.
Gu Qi looked at the front with a focused gaze and didn't say anything.
After all, she knew that the other party didn't like her that much. She wasn't the kind of person who would actively seek others’ dislike.
In the variety show, she took the initiative to talk to him and take care of him because she was afraid that he wouldn't adapt to the unfamiliar environment alone, but now there was no need for this.
The whole journey was silent.
When Mu Yuan got out of the car, his hand fell on the door handle but he didn't close it immediately. Instead, he glanced at Gu Qi.
In the pair of narrow and dark eyes belonging to the youth, there seemed to be some confusion.
Gu Qi looked up at him and asked, "What's wrong? Did you leave something behind?"
Mu Yuan shook his head to indicate no, nodded to Gu Qi as a farewell, and turned to walk toward home.
Gu Qi didn't think much about it, just stepped on the accelerator and left.
Hearing the sound of the car behind him starting and going away, Mu Yuan finally stopped and turned around.
In just a few seconds, Gu Qi's car had completely disappeared from his sight.
Finally he understood what was strange.
In the past, every time Elder Sister sent him off, she would park the car at the door and watch him enter the house before leaving with peace of mind. However, this time she just left.
In the past, amidst the calm interaction between them, she would always chatter and nag away, saying a lot of boring concerns that seemed like nonsense to him.
She would ask him if he had ever been excluded in school, and told him to tell her if he was bullied; she would say that he had lost weight again, asked him if he had eaten well, and told him which cities she had been to recently for filming and what local specialties they had, and if he liked them, she would bring them back next time.
There were many, many more trivial things like this, which he really can't remember and never took to heart.
But today was different.
On the way, Gu Qi didn't say a word except reminding him to fasten his seat belt. And she didn't even look at him.
Although he didn't know why, she seemed to be different from before.
Very good.
This kind of relationship was what he had always wanted. There was no discomfort of being watched all the time and his ears were much quieter.
The youth turned and walked into the house. His expression was as calm as ever, without any ripples.
＊
On the way home, Gu Qi took a long detour to get something.
She received a call from Jiang Lechuan on the way. His voice carried dissatisfaction: "Didn't you tell me to come over for dinner? I've been waiting for half an hour. Where are you?"
Why hadn't Gu Qi come back yet? Did it take so long to go to Mu Yuan's house? Huh?
"Ten minutes." Gu Qi answered. She was a bit perplexed: "I remember that the road is often jammed. How come you can arrive so early?"
Jiang Lechuan: "..."
He wouldn’t tell Gu Qi that because he received her invitation to have dinner together and in order to arrive earlier, he went to the roadside to scan a public bicycle when the traffic jam occurred and rode it himself!
What was the result? He was so anxious! Even until now, Gu Qi still hadn't answered!
He would never tell! It would make it look like he was looking forward to such a meal!
So Jiang Lechuan threw down ‘Come back quickly. My legs are numb from squatting’ before hurriedly hanging up the phone.
When Gu Qi returned to the door of her place, she saw Jiang Lechuan sitting on the steps with a dogtail grass picked from somewhere in his hand and shook it like a fool.
She couldn't resist curving her lips and called, "Jiang Lechuan."
"Why did you only come back now..."
Face covered with impatience, Jiang Lechuan raised his head, but was stunned by the sight of what Gu Qi was holding.
He blinked his eyes and used all his limbs to scramble up from the ground.
After making sure that he wasn't mistaken, Jiang Lechuan's face showed a little unnatural expression. He opened his mouth but didn't know what to say.
It was a birthday cake.
When he was little, Elder Sister was sent to live with the Jiāng Family. She had little contact with their parents and him over the years, but she would still have a meal with him every year on his birthday.
But the last time they quarreled was on his birthday. Because it reached a stiff stalemate, he ran out without even blowing out the candles, let alone eating the cake.
Because that day.
He mentioned to her that Father was sick and hoped that she could go home to see him.
Elder Sister, who was in a good mood, suddenly turned cold and refused without hesitation.
Jiang Lechuan felt depressed when he thought about it.
Elder Sister lived in someone else's house for a few years, but she seemed to be a different person after she came back. She was extremely repulsive to her original home, and there would always be quarrels when she occasionally went home to get some things.
After graduating from college, she completely left home.
Mother sat on the sofa and cried helplessly, while Father threw things and cursed: "This heartless thing! You have a life of luxury clothes and decadent food outside, but despise your parents when you come back! Back then Jiāng Family clearly chose your..."
That day.
The proud and unbridled boy lowered his head and said in an almost pleading tone: "Elder Sister, my birthday wish is that the whole family can sit together and have a good meal, okay?"
Gu Qi was silent for a long time, but still refused: "I said that I will not go back to that house again. If you mention this again in the future, there is no need for us to meet."
This kind of words that seemed to sever the relationship made Jiang Lechuan's blood rush to his head in an instant, and he blurted out: "Why? What did I do wrong, what did Father and Mother do wrong? Are you really like what they said, meeting those so-called superiors in the Jiāng Family and dislike me and my parents for dragging you down..."
"Pa——!"
The youth's questioning was interrupted by biological elder sister’s slap.
He was stunned, staring at Gu Qi for half a minute with his face covered, and then stormed off without looking back.
Jiang Lechuan couldn't understand why a once good family had become like this.
When they were young, he and Elder Sister had the best relationship.
…
Jiang Lechuan followed Gu Qi into the house in a daze, watching her put the cake on the table, put the candles on it, and then sat in front of him.
Gu Qi softened her voice: "I'm sorry. That day, I shouldn't have quarreled with you and hit you because of impulse. I apologize to you and won't do that again. Today, I'll compensate you for the birthday I owed you that day."
"Haven't we reconciled? Why are you still talking about this?" Jiang Lechuan rubbed the tip of his nose. His eyes didn't know where to look, and muttered: "I don't blame you. And I said harsh words that day, I didn't mean it. I know it hurts people. In the, in the future I will pay attention. If I dare to say those kind of beastly words again, you... you can beat me to death!"
Gu Qi looked at him with some amusement and helplessness: "Then I'm breaking the law."
Jiang Lechuan immediately responded: "Then don't do it. I'll go..."
"Jiang Lechuan!" Gu Qi called his name, interrupting him before he finished speaking: "In this world, I want you to be happy the most. This has never changed."
It was because of this.
So when they were young, their parents took them to the villa of Jiāng Family to please the children of Jiāng Family to advance their careers. Jiāng Family needed to leave someone to be the playmate of the siblings, so she took the initiative to stay.
Even when the person chosen was Jiang Lechuan at the beginning.
Gu Qi saw through Jiāng Zhiyu's disguise and knew that the eldest miss in front of her was definitely the most difficult-to-get-along bad temper. With Jiang Lechuan's personality, he couldn’t stay there. If he really angered the ‘noble’, he would be hurt.
She was different.
She was well-behaved, sensible, and could swallow her anger even if she was bullied.
What’s more, her personality was very dull.
As long as she could endure and when Jiāng Zhiyu got tired of her and wanted a new playmate, she could go home.
But Gu Qi didn't expect that she would stay in that cage for so long.
These years had been very bitter.
She had the most beautiful and luxurious dress, but she could only wear it briefly at the Jiāng Family's banquet, just to let the outside world know how ‘happy’ she was here.
She had been injured many times, but no one knew, because the Jiāng Family also had the best doctors and the most expensive medicines. So that when she met her family, her skin was as fair as before and there was no wound on her body.
There was no evidence, so her crying and grievances were all regarded as unreasonable lies by her parents.
Later, when she grew up a little, she finally understood.
It wasn't necessarily that her parents didn't believe her, but that they couldn't and didn't dare to believe her.
Without the support of a top-class wealthy family like the Jiāng Family, there wouldn't be the subsequent rapid rise of the Jiang Family. Her parents didn't want to live the poor days of sleeping on the floor in one room. They were afraid of losing everything they had now, so they didn't dare to fight for her and could only turn a blind eye to her suffering.
She was a gifted plaything and a sacrifice. Even if she did volunteer at the beginning, she couldn't turn back.
Walking on thin ice, quiet and solemn.
She spent year after year like that.
It wasn’t that she didn't think about giving up.
But receiving the family portrait drawn by Younger Brother, the specialties that her Paternal Aunt took more than ten hours on the green train to bring her, and the care of her friends, these small warmth in life made her persist.
Until the third year of high school.
Jiāng Zhiyu caused a death in school. The Jiāng Family immediately arranged for her to study abroad to clear her relationship to it. Gu Qi finally had her freedom after the college entrance examination.
She didn't know how to tell Jiang Lechuan about these heavy and complicated pasts. She knew he would feel guilty and sad, which was also the thing she didn't want to mention the most in her heart.
It had been deliberately forgotten, but now just thinking about it would still make her eyes sour.
"Jiang Lechuan, will you blame me for not telling you the answer to your question last time?"
Gu Qi raised her head and tried to make her expression as natural as possible.
She knew that Jiang Lechuan's world was either black or white, as simple as it could be.
She didn't know what would happen to him after these things overturned his cognition.
Jiāng Fengzhi saved Jiang Lechuan's life when he accidentally drowned when he was little. He could be considered a lifesaver.
If Jiang Lechuan had to choose between them, he would definitely suffer.
Moreover, his impulsiveness, immaturity and reckless behavior will produce more uncontrollable factors and make the development of things more unpredictable.
If Jiang Lechuan directly confronts the Jiāng Family now, then perhaps there will be the same ending without waiting for the day of the original plot.
She didn't want that. Definitely don’t see such a tragedy happen again.
The four eyes met.
After a short silence, Jiang Lechuan lowered his head and replied, "Then wait until you want to say it."
In fact, he never thought about the words he said in the quarrel at that time. Because his father always said so, the two of them had quarreled countless times in private.
But that day was very strange, as if some mysterious power influenced him, making him have to quarrel with Elder Sister and have a conflict. So he said such hurtful words. Due to this, he regretted it so much that he couldn't sleep all night.
Elder Sister wasn't that kind of person, he had always known it.
So now, there was no need for Elder Sister to explain to him immediately.
Some things didn't necessarily need clear answers, because people knew the answers in their hearts.
Gu Qi responded with a smile.
She said, "Then wait until everything is over. Then I’ll tell you everything."
"En." Jiang Lechuan responded and inserted the cake candles one by one, whispering, "I don't have a brain. Telling me too many things makes me think and I don't understand."
He added very quietly, "...Anyway, no matter what happens in the future, I will stand by your side."
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