“You, you, you!” Gong Yi’s words simply made father Gong unable to refute. He was proud of his son, but as his son getting older and having too many thoughts, he could no longer control him as a father.
“Since you like Xiaotao, then why didn’t you chase her earlier. Why did you pull it out until now?” Father Gong was extremely vexed.
“Dad, Xiaotao’s 20th birthday hasn’t come yet right? She’s not even 18 yet, how am I supposed to chase her? Father, you still have the nerve to talk about this? What did I tell you when I went to America two years ago? I already said that I’m going to be in America for two years, and it is a very critical two years that I have to focus on my career, so I told you not to act rashly and scare the girl. But you didn’t believe me, and you recklessly went to propose marriage to uncle Ye. What happened after that? Xiaotao was scared out of her wits and was preempted by another man. Otherwise, with your son’s ability, what kind of girl can I not take down?”
“I….” Father Gong was stunned, “Isn’t that because you’re 23 years old and you don’t even have a girlfriend? I heard that you went to America to hang out with a bunch of men. How do I know if you’re lying to me that you still like Xiaotao? Foreigners are open-minded. What if you become… gay? What should I do then? I’m doing this for your own good. I want to settle down with Xiaotao first and give you a surprise.”
“That’s a big surprise! Thank you, dad. you’ve worked so hard! Also, dad, those men are just my friends, okay?”
Father Gong,”…”
“In any case, dad, you should mind your own business in the future. Wether it is daughter-in-law or grandson, I guarantee that you won’t miss any of them.”
Father Gong: not that I will miss anything, but I want more than the others, okay?
“Son, do you think Xiaotao can really divorce… young master Leng?” Father Gong gossiped with curiousity.
Gong Yi gracefully folded his long legs and said, “Just wait.”
…
Father Ye held Ye Xiaotao’s hand as they entered the villa, “Xiaotao, why are your hands so cold?”
“Oh, it must because of the wind just outside. Daddy, I’m going back to my room to sleep.” After saying that, Ye Xiaotao went upstairs.
Seeing his daughter’s figure disappear from his sight, father Ye’s amiable face was replaced by a storm with his eyes flashed with a bitter murderous intent.
“Master,” at this moment, the butler walked in and handed a document to father Ye, “This is all the information about Bai Lingyun and her recent developments.”
Father Ye looked down and flipped through the document, “Ha, this woman hid herself very well. I can hardly find any weak points.”
The butler narrowed his eyes, “Master, the cleaner it is, the weirder it is.”
Father Ye threw the documents onto the coffee table at the side, “Xiaotao has been in a series of accidents recently. I wouldn’t believe it if it wasn’t for the mastermind behind it. Bai Lingyun knew that someone would look her up, so she acted very well on the surface. But in my eyes, regardless of whether she covered herself well or not, her appearance has disrupted Xiaotao’s happiness. Then there’s no need for her to live in this world.”
“Master, what should we do? Should we be straightforward, or… torture her?”
…
Ye Xiaotao returned to her room. Just as she lay on the bed, her phone rang.
It was a call from Leng Hao.
Ye Xiaotao didn’t pick it up immediately. Looking at the big words “Kisses on my good hubby” on the screen, she still felt tears in her eyes and pain in her heart.
After a while, the ringtone of her phone continued. Ye Xiaotao bit her lower lip and picked up the phone, “Hello…”
“Where are you now?” The man’s deep voice came clearly from the other end.
“My daddy is back so I’m going to stay with him for a while…”
“For how long?” He asked immediately.
“… I don’t know…”
“What do you mean you don’t Know? Do you want to live apart from me?”
The man’s aggressive tone made Ye Xiaotao frown as she lowered her long eyelashes and did not speak.
In the Lincoln, Leng Hao took a deep breath and tried to suppress the anger in his chest. His left hand gripped the steering wheel, and his right hand almost want to crush the phone in his palm. He tried his best to keep his voice low, “Pack up. I’m coming to pick you up. Come back with me now.”
Go back?
Back to where?
Ye Xiaotao’s pale lips curled into a smile. What was there to go back for? She couldn’t wait for him to come home at night, and when she woke up in the morning, he had left again. Sometimes, she didn’t even know if he had ever come back.
She didn’t like the feeling of waiting for someone, because it was very lonely.
When she was young, there was no one to play with her. She always leaned against the French window and looked at the cobblestone road on the lawn. Every night, daddy would come home from there.
She used up all the time she had spent growing up waiting for her daddy. Now that she had grown up, she ended up spending all her time waiting for him again.
“If there’s nothing else, I’ll hang up first.” She wanted to hang up the phone.
“Ye Xiaotao!” Leng Hao growled in a low voice as he pinched the space between his brows in a mess, “Sorry, I didn’t want to lose my temper either. But when the words are on the tip of my tongue, they become very unpleasant…”
He stuck out his tongue to lick his dry lips, “Don’t hang up the phone, Xiaotao. Come Home with me, okay? I know what happened on the Internet. I just found out. Sorry, I found out too late. I wasn’t there when you needed me the most. I was very upset and blamed myself for all these, but why didn’t you tell me?”
“Xiaotao, come back with me. I will treat you well in the future. I love you, Xiaotao, and I love our Little Xiaotao.”
“Leng Hao,” Ye Xiaotao said calmly, “does your love differentiate people?”
“What?” Leng Hao was stunned. He didn’t understand.
“Why do I feel that you love others by lifting them up in the clouds, but you love me by throwing me into the mud… Du Du…” Ye Xiaotao hung up the phone.
…
In the middle of the night, Leng Hao returned to his home. He opened the bedroom door and sat on the bed alone without turning on the lights.
There was a chocolate box beside his hand. He opened the box and took a bite of a piece of chocolate. He immediately frowned. What was the taste, it was disgusting!
He brushed all the chocolate on the bed onto the floor.
He stood up and poured himself a glass of red wine. His mind was filled with the scene of Ye Xiaotao standing in Gong Yi’s arms. His ears were still filled with her cold words, and she even hung up on him in the end.
Leng Hao took out his phone while drinking. He didn’t give up and kept dialling Ye Xiaotao’s number.
But the phone was full of robotic female voices —— Sorry, the phone you dialled is switched off.
Her phone was switched off.
She ignored him.
He still didn’t understand what she meant. Did she… not want him anymore?
After finishing a whole bottle of red wine, Leng Hao staggered to the big bed and fell to it on his head. The bed still had the lingering fragrance of her body, the sweet milky scent of her.
He stretched out his hand to take her pillow and held it in his arms and closed his eyes tiredly.
He didn’t want to do anything tonight but missing her.
He had a dream, a beautiful dream.
