Chapter 824: 824 Do You Dare to Be Gentler (4)
"Right!" Eleven actually understood everything inside, "After all, she’s just a timid woman, afraid of suffering, afraid of getting tired, afraid of being dragged down by both of us. Although she doesn’t hate me, and perhaps even loves me a little, she must still hold some resentment toward me in her heart, blaming my birth for ruining the latter half of her life. If it weren’t for me, even if my biological father had left, she could have still continued to live on. In that prolonged wait, her youth was exhausted, and she must have had regrets. And those regrets were transferred onto me."
"Jeez," Gu Liancheng lifted his hand to rub her head and pulled her into his embrace, "If Aunt Luo had the same courage as our Qianxun back in the day, Qianxun wouldn’t have had such a pitiful childhood. It really breaks my heart."
"Are you praising me?"
"Isn’t it obvious?" he smiled and said, "If it wasn’t for my suggestion back then, weren’t you planning to keep hiding Jiujiu in this city all the time? Had we lost touch, where could we have met you? Back then, you would have had to bring up Jiujiu all by yourself, without any bitterness or hatred, isn’t that much braver than Aunt Luo?"
"That’s right!" Eleven patted her chest and tightened her grip around his neck, kissing him on the face, "But our Liancheng had an unfortunate childhood too. Didn’t the Gu family hate you because of your mother?"
"Right," he laughed, not feeling any sorrow or grief from what Eleven mentioned, and hugged her closer, kissing her gently, "So, it seems we are both people abandoned by the world, unloved by others, we can only love each other."
"I’m grudgingly taking you in!" said Eleven, raising her eyebrows playfully.
He suddenly remembered something. "I have never asked you, what was it that you needed the loan for initially? It must have been important enough for you to agree to a loveless marriage, getting nothing in return. I don’t believe it was for money."
If it had been for money, she could have simply brought Jiujiu to him. Regardless of whether she could marry him or not, she would have her own splendor and wealth.
"It was Jiujiu. He caught neonatal pneumonia, and I was terrified at the time, having no money. But I couldn’t just let anything happen to Jiujiu. The only person I could think of was you. By then, I nearly confirmed that you were the man that night; otherwise, why would you offer me a check as compensation? I thought I might at least gamble on it, considering it a loan, which I intended to repay—if you believed me."
"What if I hadn’t lent it to you at that time? Or what if I hadn’t proposed to marry?"
"What else could I have done? Compared to losing Jiujiu forever, I would definitely have told you Jiujiu is your child. Any man with a shred of conscience wouldn’t ignore his own son, right?"
"And what if I really had no conscience?"
Eleven pinched his face fiercely and said, "Stop with all these what ifs! I swear, I’d drag you down with me! But no, of course not. I might die, but what about my Jiujiu? I’d definitely go to the media. The Gu family is such a big target, just say it’s a scandal of the Gu family. So many media are waiting eagerly; I don’t believe your family, big in business and reputation, could really afford to lose face. You’d have to save us no matter what!"
Gu Liancheng laughed helplessly after hearing this and pinched her nose, "You’re always so clever with ideas."
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