Translator: SJade, Editor: Dj22031
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Gu Yuan silently searched on the Internet for a long time about the heritage of the high-end jewellery brand Tasakiffy. After much research, she learned that her necklace was called a waterfall necklace, or an endless waterfall necklace. Every diamond and pearl on it was precious and rare, and it was very expensive to customize such a necklace.
Gu Yuan recalled Huo Lanting’s expression when he was about to give her a gift. That little expression of “Do you dislike the gift?” was so real, so real that she felt that if she didn’t accept the gift, she would be hurting the child’s feelings.
She subconsciously thought that there might be a common doll inside, or plasticine that children loved to play with, or other toys, in short, it was something that only children would give as a gift.
How could she have imagined that it would be such a luxurious and valuable gift.
Gu Yuan sighed lightly. She felt that she was really thinking wrongly. Although Huo Lanting was a child, he had never been an ordinary child. How could she judge him with the thinking of an ordinary child?
And if my guess is correct, there might be something wrong with his chance encounter with me today.
She casually searched the Internet for today’s traffic jam. Apart from the traffic jam, there seemed to be nothing else, no car accident or anything. She was barely relieved, at least there were no bad consequences.
Just as she was thinking about it, she received a message on WeChat. Gu Yuan opened it and saw that it was from Huo Lanting.
Huo Lanting: What does your WeChat name mean? It’s so childish!
Yuanyuan loves eating grass: As a child, do you often use your mobile phone?
They added each other on WeChat when he casually mentioned it in the mall. Gu Yuan didn’t pay much attention to it at the time, but now she remembered that Huo Lanting was only four years old, how could he use a mobile phone so often? She was an adult and even her eyes would feel uncomfortable if she used the mobile phone for a long time, let alone children.
Huo Lanting: No, my father stipulates that I can only use my mobile phone for half an hour every day.
Gu Yuan looked at it and breathed a sigh of relief. This was pretty good.
Huo Lanting: So if you have anything to say, please tell me quickly, hurry up, my time is very limited.
Gu Yuan looked at Huo Lanting’s words and slowly formed a question mark in her mind.
Why does he look like a deity from heaven who has condescended to descend to earth? It seems as if nothing happened, he has to fly back quickly.
Huo Lanting: Gift, do you like it?
Gu Yuan burst out laughing. This gift was definitely not something that could be given out casually. Maybe it had been prepared long ago. Now he was giving it out so casually, but he was actually secretly trying to know her reaction, right?
She thought about it and replied: The gift is beautiful, but it is too expensive. I feel unworthy of it because I have done nothing to receive it.
Huo Lanting: What do you mean? Are you rejecting my gift? Do you think this gift is not as good as the Crown Star?
Gu Yuan: “…”
This associative ability was amazing.
At this time, a voice message came, and the child’s lost voice came: You really dislike my gift, I knew that you like the Crown Star that Nie Yu gave you, and you don’t like this one I gave you!
Gu Yuan quickly said: No, no, no, don’t think too much, I like this too! But, but that’s different.
Huo Lanting: Why is it different?
Gu Yuan didn’t know how to explain it for a moment. No matter what, Nie Yu was her son, and they were mother and son. Although she thought that the gift Nie Yu gave her was too expensive, she accepted it and could give it to her daughter-in-law in the future.
But Huo Lanting was different!
She thought so but it was difficult to say it out loud. She vaguely felt that Huo Lanting seemed to be dependent on her, and this dependence prevented her from directly saying to a child, “Because that is my son, and you are not, you are even more distantly related to me.”
She had no choice but to say: You are a child and this is such an expensive gift. If I accept it, your family might think I am trying to cheat you.
Huo Lanting: How about I let my dad talk to you?
….
Gu Yuan didn’t like Huo Lanting’s father. He was a super-rich and handsome guy, but too cold, just like the cold antiques in a museum. He had no sense of worldly affairs at all. She felt that if she came into contact with his father, she would live three years less.
However, thinking of Huo Lanting’s awkward and stubborn personality, after her initial subconscious rejection, she finally said: “Okay, give me your father’s WeChat and I will talk to him.”
Huo Lanting: “Okay.”
Soon, Huo Lanting’s half-hour mobile phone activity time ended, Huo Lanting went offline, and Gu Yuan also applied to add Huo Lanting’s father.
The WeChat name of top boss Huo Jinchen was his real name. The profile picture was very simple, a landscape photo that was not too surprising.
Yuanyuan loves to eat grass: “Hello, my name is Gu Yuan. We met before on the island of Liao Da. Do you remember me?”
Huo Jinchen: “Hello, I remember.”
Yuanyuan loves to eat grass: “You sent your butler to deliver a box of opals before. I am very grateful and sorry.”
If she had known they were so valuable, she would definitely not have accepted them. But at that time, Qisen said they were not valuable, so she didn’t take it seriously. Now that she had accepted them for so long, and even took out two pieces to give away, it would be inappropriate to pretend to stuff them back.
Huo Jinchen: “You’re welcome.”
Yuanyuan loves eating grass: “It’s like this, your son Huo Lanting is in the capital of China recently, and I happened to meet him, so I took him shopping and played for a while.”
Huo Jinchen: “Oh.”
Yuanyuan loves eating grass stared at the brief reply and felt like a subordinate reporting to her boss. For a moment, she almost wanted to say I quit!
But thinking about the hot gift she had received, she finally suppressed her temper and said, “He said that he wanted to give me a gift to thank me. I checked and found that the gift is very expensive. There is no way I can accept such an expensive gift from a four-year-old child.”
She continued to type, “But he is very stubborn and insists on his point. If I don’t accept it, he will think that I despise this gift, so I have to accept it for the time being, but I won’t want the thing. You see, should I give this to your housekeeper in private and let the housekeeper take it back, is that okay?”
In fact, there was another way, that was to buy a gift of equal value for Huo Lanting, or simply give money to Huo Jinchen, but her two sons were now providing her with food, clothing, housing and transportation. She could use her sons’ cards for occasional consumption, but it was impossible for her to repay such a favour so generously.
After Gu Yuan made this suggestion, Huo Jinchen did not respond for a long time. She only saw the message “the other party is typing” on the other side.
She had no choice but to wait. After waiting for a while, no text popped up, so she went to the bathroom first.
After washing her hands and coming back, she saw that he was still in the “other party is typing” state.
Gu Yuan was completely speechless. What on earth was he going to say that took him so long?
Just when she was wondering, a line of words popped up: “I won’t interfere in Lanting’s business.”
Just these two simple sentences, why did it seem like he had been typing for a lifetime!
Gu Yuan: “Excuse me, what do you mean? He is only four years old, he is not yet an adult, he cannot decide his own behaviour. He gave me such an expensive gift, if I accepted it, wouldn’t that be cheating a child?”
Huo Jinchen: “I understand.”
Gu Yuan: “???”
Please forgive me, my understanding ability is limited, please say a few more words!
Huo Jinchen’s “the other party is typing” state lasted for a while, and finally, a line of words popped out: “Ms. Gu, what I mean is, now that I am his guardian, I know about this, so you are not trying to cheat a child into giving you a gift. Since he gave it to you, just accept it.”
Yuanyuan loves eating grass: “Maybe you don’t know what he gave me. I’ll send you a photo.”
Huo Jinchen: “No need.”
Huo Jinchen: “Ms. Gu, is there anything else?”
Gu Yuan looked at the chat history, frowned, and finally said: “Okay, I know, then I’ll accept it, thank you, goodbye.”
This not-so-pleasant conversation ended. Gu Yuan reopened the box and looked at the extremely gorgeous and luxurious gift. In fact, after taking a closer look, she quite liked it. Who doesn’t like beautiful jewellery? Even if you don’t know the value behind it, it’s pleasing to the eye.
Since Huo Jinchen said so, she didn’t want to be polite anymore.
On the other side of the planet, Huo Jinchen frowned as he looked at the chat history on WeChat.
He didn’t know why he accepted Gu Yuan’s friend request. In fact, his personal WeChat only had family members and close acquaintances. Even though he knew Nie Nanqing, Ji Zhentian and others, he would not add them on WeChat casually.
But somehow he accepted the WeChat friend request from a girl he didn’t know at all.
Maybe… it was for Lanting?
Huo Jinchen thought so and scanned the chat records again. She said she wanted to send him a photo to see the gift Lanting gave her.
What gift did Lanting give her that made her think of giving it back?
Huo Jinchen was actually a little curious. After a moment of hesitation, he sent a message to Butler Duan Mu: Send me the photo of the gift that Lanting prepared for Miss Gu.
….
In a spacious and luxurious office on the top floor of a skyscraper in the bustling area of City B, Nie Nanqing sat behind a solid wooden desk and motioned for his son to sit down.
He called his son over today specifically because he wanted to have a good talk.
“Dad, what’s going on? You’re so serious. If someone doesn’t know, they’d think our family is going bankrupt.” Nie Yu asked casually as he sat lazily on the sofa next to him, playing with his phone.
When Nie Nanqing heard this, he almost vomited blood.
He was not superstitious, but as the heir of the Nie family, you can’t curse your own company like this, right?
Originally, after listening to Gu Yuan’s words, he felt that it made sense. As a father, he should give his son more positive feedback so that he can perform better. But now after hearing this, he really wanted to slap him.
But thinking about Gu Yuan and how she was right, he had to listen.
“Nie Yu, is everything going well at the company lately?” Nie Nanqing suppressed his deep helplessness towards his son and asked calmly.
“Not bad.” Nie Yu was sending WeChat messages on his mobile phone while slowly talking about several projects he had worked on recently.
Nie Nanqing was quite satisfied after listening to this. Perhaps Gu Yuan was right. His son was actually very good, but he was just a little lazy. Ever since Gu Yuan suggested that his son work in the company and report on time, his son was indeed much more pleasing to the eye than before.
He helplessly looked at his son who was still playing with his mobile phone, trying hard to ignore his impolite behaviour towards him, thinking desperately about his good points, and then he controlled his temper and said, “Your mother came to the company to see me a few days ago, which reminded me of something. I originally wanted to do it myself, but then I thought about it and it’s not appropriate, so I want to let you do it.”
When Nie Yu heard Nie Nanqing mention his mother, he reluctantly raised his head and gave his father a look: “What’s the matter? Is it related to my mother?”
Nie Nanqing: “Yes.”
As he said that, Nie Nanqing picked up a piece of information and handed it to Nie Yu: “Take a look at this.”
Nie Yu picked up the information, just glanced at it casually, and then looked up at his father.
“Dad, how did you get this?”
“I asked someone to check it out!”
Nie Nanqing sighed, “Miss Gu worries a lot about you, and I thought I should do something to help her. I happened to meet this Miss Hu. I always felt that there was something wrong with this Miss Hu, so I asked someone to check it out. As a result, I found that what happened back then was not simple! Although this Miss Hu was obviously your mother’s roommate, I am afraid she had bad intentions. This matter should be dealt with.”
As he said this, he looked at his son: “Originally, I wanted to do it myself, but your mother and I are not familiar with each other. If I do this, I’m afraid she will think too much, so you should do it.”
However, his son Nie Yu looked at him with a scrutinizing look in his eyes: “Dad, you are not coveting my mom, are you?”
Nie Nanqing was choked: “Cough…cough…cough…cough! What nonsense are you talking about!”
Nie Yu stood up, leaned against the desk, held his chin, and looked up and down at his father who was sitting in the big reclining chair.
In fact, although his father could not be compared with Uncle Ji who was very handsome, but he was also handsome, rich and powerful, and many people pursued him. However, it was said that his father had no eyes for women, only work. He felt that pursuing women, getting married and having children were a waste of time, and that life should be more concise. With this idea in mind, his father happened to get an opportunity, and he was born.
Although his father was now forty-six or forty-seven years old, he worked out regularly and took good care of himself. He wore a high-end suit, had a straight back, was mature and steady, and had the style and demeanour unique to a successful man.
As far as he knew, there were occasionally some short-sighted female celebrities or female company employees who wanted to come up to him and become his stepmother, but they were all dismissed by his father in a ruthless and straight-man way.
Nie Yu suddenly had an idea and said with a smile: “Dad, in fact, if you want to pursue my mom, I’d be happy to see it happen. I can even help you and create opportunities for you. Do you want to consider it?”
Nie Nanqing’s old face flushed, and he lectured unhappily: “Nie Yu, can you be serious? I’m talking to you about business!”
Nie Yu spread his hands: “Dad, I’m talking to you seriously about business. Do you know that Luo Juntian’s father and my mom are old acquaintances? I think they have a deep relationship. When the two met for the first time, you didn’t see that scene, my mom, she even cried her eyes out.”
Nie Nanqing frowned and asked suspiciously: “Really?”
Nie Yu nodded: “Yes, it is said that the money left in my mother’s card was the medical expenses given to her by her grandmother, but it was taken away by her father and transferred to her stepmother. She had no choice but to seek help from Dr. Luo’s research institute in order to survive. The research institute can be said to have saved her in distress.”
Nie Nanqing frowned and sighed: “Oh, it’s a pity that we didn’t know her at the time, otherwise we could help her.”
It’s just medical treatment money, he can pay for it!
Nie Yu looked at his father’s serious expression and laughed in his heart. However, he still said seriously on his face: “Yes, it’s a pity. If dad had known mom back then, he would have definitely been a hero saving the beauty and supporting her. What a pity, what a pity, that this Doctor Luo stole the limelight.”
Nie Nanqing suddenly felt something was wrong when he heard this. He stared at his son and frowned: “What are you talking about?”
Nie Yu laughed and said quickly: “Nothing, I was just joking. Anyway, Dad, you have to know that Doctor Luo and my mom have a special relationship. But Doctor Luo is over 50 years old and not as young as dad. He looks much older than dad to me, and I don’t like him no matter how I look at him. If my mom really were with him, I would vomit to death!”
Nie Nanqing looked solemn: “Has Doctor Luo gone back to the research institute now?”
Nie Yu nodded: “Yes, he’s back at the research institute. He seems to be very busy with research, busy curing diseases and saving lives. But he and my mom have added each other on WeChat, and the two of them may chat often, I guess.”
After saying this, he secretly observed his father’s expression.
Nie Yu was very satisfied.
After a long while, Nie Nanqing suddenly said, “I am grateful for Miss Gu’s teaching, so I want to help Miss Gu. Don’t always spout nonsense, otherwise it will be embarrassing for everyone. Don’t we want to meet in the future?”
Nie Yu understood and laughed secretly, coughed, “Dad, you have a point. I won’t ask. Think about it yourself. Next week it will be Mom’s turn to live with me. You know the saying ‘the one who is close to the water gets the moonlight first.'”
Now Gu Yuan was taking turns living with her sons, Ji Qisen and Nie Yu each had one week, and next week it would be Nie Yu’s turn.
After saying this, he turned around and was about to leave.
Nie Nanqing frowned, then thought about something. It was not until his son walked to the door that he suddenly remembered: “The thing I just told you–“
Nie Yu looked back: “Dad, what a coincidence, do you know what I was talking about on the phone just now?”
Nie Nanqing: “What?”
Nie Yu raised his eyebrows and smiled; “It’s this matter. What a coincidence, I was also checking Hu Yuejing.”
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