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In the car.
Yuan Yi was driving while cautiously glancing at the rearview mirror. He asked perplexedly, "Mr. Gu, with the old man overseeing the company, nothing will go wrong. Why don’t you stay and spend more ti with Miss Ji?"
This is a heaven-sent opportunity!
Gu Shaozhi’s dark eyes lightly closed as he leisurely rested in the backseat.
He was in a good mood, really good, so even though Yuan Yi’s question was silly, he uncharacteristically responded, "I’m not even considered her ordinary friend now, she can call and dismiss as she pleases."
Initially, Yuan Yi didn’t understand, felt like he was in a fog, but after thinking it through carefully, he raised his thumb in admiration at his own inferiority.
"Mr. Gu, you’re... a master!"
Whether it was five years ago or five months ago, it was always Mr. Gu who got dumped, but once Mr. Gu starts playing mind gas, it’s clear that Miss Ji is no match for him at all.
Gu Shaozhi let out a laugh with an unclear implication, the curve of his lips held deep aning.
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This was the fourth day since Gu Shaozhi left.
On the weekend, both Mu Jin Huan and Nan Wan were not working and were resting at ho. Wanxia lived alone, and since the new maid was unfamiliar, the couple asked Pea to bring Wanxia to their ho.
After lunch, Wanxia was in the living room accompanying two kids to watch cartoons.
Although she was sitting on the sofa watching TV, nothing registered in her mind. Each ti Pea asked her a question, she could only fumble her way through with vague responses.
It’s not that Wanxia didn’t understand children’s cartoons, it’s because every few minutes, she would check her phone, her thoughts and attention far from the cartoons.
No ssages, no calls.
She was in a coma for half a month before waking up, shouldn’t he be concerned?
No matter how busy he was with company affairs, he should have ti to make a call.
Wanxia’s distracted and sighing deanor was noticed by both Nan Wan and Mu Jin Huan. Certain words are better exchanged between won, so Mr. Mu, the all-capable, was cheerfully ushered upstairs by Mrs. Mu.
Nan Wan brought a cup of freshly brewed tea, sat down beside Wanxia, and softly said, "If you miss him, just call him and tell him, or go to An City to find him. He won’t know if you keep being absent-minded here."
Wanxia turned her phone face down on the sofa awkwardly, an innocent gesture, but in this context, it seed like a dead giveaway.
"I, I’m not thinking about Gu Shaozhi."
"I never said it was Gu Shaozhi," Nan Wan looked at her with a playful smile, "You grew up in An City, you know many people, he’s not the only one."
In Nan Wan’s words, she used the pronoun ’he,’ without specifying gender, yet Gu Shaozhi was the first person to appear in Wanxia’s mind.
If she denied what she had said, it would seem insincere and pretentious.
Wanxia lowered her head, montarily speechless.
"He’s the one who was dumped, and if you don’t take the initiative, he has no reason to care for you," Nan Wan laughed, picked up the phone, and placed it in Wanxia’s hand, "You still have the wedding ring, and he’s still alive. Given the chance to go back to the start, why not seize him?"
The words shouldn’t be too straightforward, just enough to hit the mark.
Nan Wan patted Wanxia’s hand, then went upstairs with the two kids for a nap.
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Wanxia returned to her ho and sat under the wutong tree in the yard for a long, long ti, until evening when the maid asked what she wanted for dinner, she snapped out of it.
He hadn’t changed his number; even after so long, she still rembered those eleven digits clearly.
After inputting the number, Wanxia took a deep breath and tried twice before she managed to press the call button.
Ring... ring... ring...
In just five or six seconds, the call was connected.
"Who is it?"
The familiar voice rang in her ear, and Wanxia, as if burnt, hung up at once without uttering a word.
Leaning back on the wicker chair, she placed the book she had been staring at all afternoon, still on the first page, over her face, and grumbled discontentedly, "Who is it? Don’t you know my number? Gu Shaozhi, you’re really..."
Before she finished muttering, the phone rang.
It was a call back from Gu Shaozhi.
Wanxia was dazed for a mont, and just as the system was about to hang up, she rembered to answer.
"Why is your temper getting bigger?" Gu Shaozhi opened the study door, walked downstairs, and chuckled helplessly, "I just made a joke, and you hung up imdiately?"
"I, I pressed the wrong button by accident."
"I rember you didn’t save my number, how did you ’accidentally’ dial eleven digits and reach , hmm?"
The man’s unhurried tone, especially the rising intonation at the end, made Wanxia’s flimsy lie stand stripped bare.
She was too lazy to cover up, as explaining further would just be laughable.
Wanxia placed her free hand on her cheek, trying to cool her rapidly warming skin, pursed her lips, and changed the subject, "How long do you plan to be busy?"
The man on the other end didn’t respond imdiately; it seed he was considering.
About half a minute later, his deep and slow voice traveled to Wanxia’s ear via radio waves, "That depends on how long you plan to leave hanging."
Wanxia huffed neither warmly nor coldly, "You’re the one who wanted to leave, don’t turn the tables on ."
That day she tried asking him to stay, even though it wasn’t overt, but wasn’t he smart enough to see through it all...
Gu Shaozhi held the phone a little further, instructed the maid to go upstairs and pack his luggage in a lowered voice.
Then he strode to the sofa, sat down, and said leisurely, "Miss Ji wants to win back her ex-boyfriend, I have to give you space."
Digging up the past again...
Wanxia held back and didn’t just hang up the call.
After drinking half a cup of plain water, she called his na, "Gu Shaozhi."
Even with just three words, the solemnity and sincerity transcended the distance.
Gu Shaozhi paused in his playing with the lighter, "What?"
The courtyard was very quiet, sotis a breeze would blow by, apart from the sound of leaves brushing against each other, there was no other noise.
So, Wanxia could clearly hear her true feelings from deep inside: the long journey of life ahead, without him, every day would feel restless, just like these past three nights.
"Ti is long, I don’t want to end up alone, but apart from you, it seems I can’t fall for anyone else."
"The wedding ring... I didn’t throw it away," Wanxia unconsciously squeezed the phone with nervousness and anticipation, "Will you put it back on ?"
Gu Shaozhi’s lips slowly curved up, even his deep black eyes were filled with a tender spring-like warmth.
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