Chapter 653: Love Above All Chapter 12
“When Mother died, you were only four years old. She held my hand and entrusted you to . When you were in kindergarten, I was in school. I didn’t take good care of you, and you got into the accident. Now that you’ve finally recovered, I have sothing to tell Mother’s mory,” said Mi Xi, unable to hide the excitent in his eyes.
Gu Xiaoxi could feel his sincerity and earnestness.
“Don’t worry, from now on, I won’t let others bully you,” Gu Xiaoxi looked up at the sky, as the night deepened, a few stars twinkled in the darkness.
The city under the night sky was even more spectacular.
She liked this affluent city very much, with its beautiful clean streets and one skyscraper after another, each filled with a sense of the sacred and the grandiose.
“Brother, did Mother really leave her estate to ?” Gu Xiaoxi asked seriously, her bright eyes gleaming.
Mi Xi nodded with firm conviction, “Mother was the only child of the Jiang Family. Grandpa and Grandma left her all their property, but she didn’t expect that after her marriage, she would find out about Dad’s affair with Aunt Tian. She made a will early on, never expecting that Mother would eventually die of cancer. There’s no evidence to prove that Tian i had anything to do with it.”
But in his heart, he was clearer than anyone. Was that really the case?
After all, no evidence could be found.
“What about Bai Yaxuan? Did he marry because of the fortune Mother left behind?” Gu Xiaoxi asked again.
Mi Xi shook his head, “Your childhood car accident was triggered by him. At that ti, nobody knew you had property. He had decided to take care of you for the rest of your life.”
“Is that so?” Gu Xiaoxi was surprised; there were still people in the world so dedicated to their bonds.
“Then can you arrange a eting with him? I want to talk to him,” she said.
Mi Xi was smart; since Gu Xiaoxi was no longer foolish.
If she was asking about the property and then about Bai Yaxuan, she was definitely planning to make a move.
“Then I’ll arrange the eting first!” And Mi Xi did just that.
Afterwards, they went to a high-end gourt city.
Gu Xiaoxi ordered so appetizers, but her favorite was still the delicious crab.
Mi Xi, happy, kept smiling and accompanying her, “Xiao Xi, can you tell when did you beco lucid?”
“I won’t tell you that!” Gu Xiaoxi naturally wouldn’t tell the truth. The more she said, the more she would reveal.
Aside from Shaoqing, no one else knew her true identity so far.
“Then what do you plan to do about taking back Mother’s property?” Mi Xi asked again.
Gu Xiaoxi, with a crab leg in her mouth, glanced at him, “Brother, what do you think I’m going to do?”
“Naturally, you’ll marry President Bai and then successfully inherit all of your mother’s property,” Mi Xi said with a grin.
“That depends on whether Bai Yaxuan cooperates with or not!” Gu Xiaoxi needed to first make it clear with Bai Yaxuan, agreeing to marry him was just for the sake of gaining possession of the property.
Between them, there was no emotional foundation; it was to be a marriage of agreent.
When Bai Yaxuan arrived, Gu Xiaoxi had already eaten her fill.
The KTV presidential suite featured bulletproof glass and was heavily guarded by n in black.
In the past, Bai Yaxuan had received many important officials here.
This was naturally no ordinary place.
Bai Yaxuan stood in front of Gu Xiaoxi, looking at her intently.
The girl was dressed simply, wearing flat shoes, her long black hair cascading down to her waist, with curves in all the right places.
Compared to her previously dull state, she seed much more lively now.
“Was it the last ti on the boat when I saved you that you stopped being ‘foolish’?” Bai Yaxuan was the first to speak. There was no astonishnt in his eyes, nor shock, just calmness.
“Don’t try to guess about my business. I called you here for serious talk,” Gu Xiaoxi said, pointing with her beautiful fingers to a seat not far away.
Bai Yaxuan turned and sat in the main seat, while Gu Xiaoxi sat on the genuine leather sofa next to him.
“You want to talk business with ? Miss Gu, in a month and a half, we are going to have our wedding. From then on, your business is my business. Just speak your mind!” Bai Yaxuan’s slender fingers tapped lightly on the sofa, appearing like a ruler of the world, masterfully strategizing over everything.
Gu Xiaoxi frowned, unsure of what to say. After all, Bai Yaxuan had treated her quite well, a handso and elegant man.
Marrying him, if he was good to her, wouldn’t be a bad thing.
However, there was a part of her that resisted the idea of becoming soone’s wife.
Even better was to marry Bai Yaxuan, whom she knew little about.
“We marry by agreent, or we annul the engagent. I’ll find soone else to enter into a marriage of convenience,” Gu Xiaoxi slightly furrowed her brow, her eyes cold.
What she needed was absolute freedom, not to leap from one cage into another.
Marrying Bai Yaxuan was acceptable, but not to be bound by marriage vows.
“Miss Gu, am I so undesirable that marrying causes you such grievance!” Bai Yaxuan’s amber eyes were filled with sorrow, as if pierced by a knife.
Why it hurt, even he did not understand.
Since childhood, he’d had one fixation about Gu Xiaoxi—to marry her, lest he regret it later.
But he had never known what love was!
“You’re taking it too seriously,” Gu Xiaoxi shook her head, smiling, “If you marry out of gratitude for the childhood accident, there’s no need; I’m well now. The reason for a marriage by agreent is because we both have the right to choose whom we marry freely.”
Bai Yaxuan didn’t understand her logic.
Gu Xiaoxi continued, “Do you love , sir?”
Bai Yaxuan remained silent; to say he loved her would be an overstatent.
Besides the instinctive protection he felt for Gu Xiaoxi, the two of them hardly saw each other. Moreover, Gu Xiaoxi had always been in a state of dullness; surely affection was more than just skin-deep allure.
“Love, naturally, is absent!”
“There, you see,” Gu Xiaoxi said, smiling wryly, “There’s been no love in our marriage from the start. A marriage by agreent is fair to both of us. I am doing it to claim my mother’s inheritance, but what is your goal?”
Bai Yaxuan fell into thought; his goal?
Did he have one?
He thought long and hard but couldn’t figure out his own purpose.
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