Chapter 240: Chapter 240: Have We Met Before?
The middle-aged woman simply smiled warmly, knowing that she too wanted that book, so she did not reach out again. Instead, she elegantly turned around and continued to look for other books.
Watching the tall, slender figure, Gu Qiangwei felt a sense of déjà vu.
But that trace of memory, after more than a decade, had gradually become blurry in her mind.
“Please wait a moment.”
Looking at that figure, Gu Qiangwei, for some reason, blurted out.
The middle-aged woman paused and looked back at her.
“Me?” she asked, her voice as gentle as water, matching her beautiful appearance, as if she were nobly untouched by earthly concerns.
Gu Qiangwei glanced at her, then took down the book “Conspiracy and Love” and walked up to the middle-aged woman, “I was only attracted by the name, I don’t need it.”
She could see that the middle-aged woman seemed very interested in the book.
The woman glanced at the book in her hands, then raised her eyes to look at the young girl in front of her, who appeared to be in her twenties and was very pretty.
The woman took the book, politely expressing her gratitude.
Just as she was about to turn around, Gu Qiangwei spoke up again, “Wait a moment!”
The woman turned back again, with a hint of surprise, looking at her.
“Have we met somewhere before?”
Although more than a decade had passed, and her mother’s image had gradually blurred in her memory, seeing the woman in front of her stirred a familiar feeling.
But upon careful consideration, including the calculation of age, her mother would have been in her forties, yet the woman in front of her seemed to be only thirty-six or thirty-seven.
She didn’t dare to directly ask, fearing that it would be too abrupt and rude to talk about this with a stranger for the first time.
The middle-aged woman looked at her, sizing her up from top to bottom, sure that she had never seen this young girl before in her memory.
“I have been abroad all the time. I only returned to the country recently. If you have also been in the UK, then we might have met.”
Upon hearing this, Gu Qiangwei felt a void in her heart.
Let alone the UK, she had never even had a passport.
She gave an awkward smile, “Then I must have remembered wrong, I’m sorry.”
The woman smiled gently, not minding, “It’s okay.”
After saying that, she took the book and turned to leave.
Watching that figure, Gu Qiangwei felt somewhat downhearted.
Indeed, if it really were her mother, she would not have been indifferent at the sight of her own daughter, right?
Perhaps, she was just thinking too much.
That woman, clearly of high status, how could she possibly be her mother?
Suddenly, she felt that her behavior just now was somewhat ridiculous, almost mistaking a stranger for her mother.
After this incident, she no longer felt like choosing other books. Looking out the window, the sunset had already stretched the shadows of Jingcheng.
Carrying that unexplainable sense of loss, Gu Qiangwei walked toward the library’s main door. Just as she reached the entrance, she suddenly ran into that same figure again.
At the entrance of the library, a shiny black Bentley was parked there, and a middle-aged man was walking down from it towards the middle-aged woman.
“Didn’t you say you were picking up a book? Why has it taken so long?”
Seeing her stay inside for too long, Nangong Mingchuan, worried, was about to get out and look for her but just happened to see her coming out.
Tang Yuyan smiled slightly, “Because I didn’t know the location, so it took some time.”
Nangong Mingchuan smiled, said nothing, and walked toward the black Bentley with her.
Gu Qiangwei stood there, motionless until the black Bentley gradually moved away, and only then did she retract her gaze.