Gu Nuan had never thought about hiding from her mother and stated accurately, "This is Chairman Xiao’s home."
"Chairman Xiao?" Gu’s mother caught on quickly, "The company where you work?"
It turned out it was the home of the boss of the big company where her daughter worked. Gu’s mother suddenly realized and then asked, "So, are you here by your boss’s invitation to attend a banquet he is hosting?" Tʜe sourcᴇ of thɪs content ɪs 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵⁂𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮⁂𝓷𝓮𝓽
"Yes," Gu Nuan answered.
Gu’s mother retained her skepticism, "You’re here to attend a banquet, just an ordinary employee invited by the boss, so why did your classmate insist on bringing me over?"
Gu Nuan nodded, "because I and the boss’s son have registered our marriage."
With the next question prepared, Gu’s mother’s pen that was poised to write in her notebook suddenly stopped over the blank page.
"Mom," Gu Nuan said, "Whatever you’re thinking, just say it. I’m listening."
"Nuannuan," Gu’s mother indeed hadn’t recovered from the shock of her daughter’s revelation, but one thing she always maintained unchanged, "Whether it is about your studies and work, or about whom you want to marry, your father and I have always respected your wishes and have never planned to go against your desires."
Gu Nuan knew that because her parents considered her to be deaf, they felt a lifelong guilt for not being able to protect her sufficiently as parents. Hence, her father and mother would always support her decisions as long as she wasn’t doing anything bad.
Their daughter was deaf, after all. What could they do as parents but to make their daughter a bit happier, remaining commoners with no other means?
Gu’s mother continued to express her thoughts, "About you choosing Zicong. I just saw him around here."
"I know—" Gu’s mother couldn’t help but taste the bitterness in her voice, "you were hurt when you broke up with him. Now I can see the biggest reason why he broke up with you. It was because he despised the Gu Family, despised me and your father."
"Mom, since you know the reason, then you should understand even more that we couldn’t really want someone like him in our family. Because of his moral decay, if I really had married such a man, the one who would suffer in the end would be me."
Gu’s mother nodded vigorously in agreement, "His character, compared to when he was in the county city studying with you, is drastically different. Your father and I, had we known he would change this way, would definitely not have let you follow him."
Back in the day, Wa Zicong was considered pure while studying in the county city, striving to achieve results with his own abilities and was often recognized as an exemplary student.
Given Wa Zicong’s image as an all-around good student back then, he was indeed favored by Gu Nuan’s parents.
Since when had Wa Zicong changed, becoming unrecognizable, making the Gu Family feel disheartened while deeply realizing the unpredictability of life?
Perhaps due to this lesson learned previously, when Aunt Qiu mentioned that man surnamed Zhuang, Gu’s mother suddenly thought that older men were much less likely to change compared to young men full of vigor like Wa Zicong, and that certainly, they were more reliable.
"You say you married the boss’s son—how old is he this year?" Gu’s mother asked.
Mr. Big White, two years older than her, Gu Nuan. This fact was hardly noticeable to outsiders. For men, it’s generally easier to conceal their age. Furthermore, being occasionally quirky at home and displaying some childish behaviors made the nearly thirty-year-old seem no more than three.