Under the cloak of night, a figure standing in the corridor clenched the hand by her side.
Throughout her life, no matter what she did at night, even if she returned home very late, he had never once actively come to pick her up. At most, he would make a phone call to inquire.
Why was it that having just recently recognized Gu Qiangwei as his daughter, he was so protective of her? They had been strangers for over two decades, hadn’t they?
The more Nangong Feifei thought about it, the more she felt out of balance!
But what should she do now? She did not even know if her father had seen the video.
She had intended to come to the hospital to see for herself whether he had seen that video. Just as she arrived, she found him and Gu Qiangwei coming down together, and he was even there specifically to take her home.
They had been father and daughter for over twenty years, living together day and night. Why had he not showed her such care?
Why was everything that belonged to her, whether it was the man she loved or her family, all being taken away by Gu Qiangwei?
The more she thought about it, the thicker the jealousy in her heart grew, her eyes shadowed in the night becoming very sinister and vicious!
The journey back to Jueyuan was long, with Nangong Mingchuan driving the car while Gu Qiangwei sat in the passenger seat, watching the neon lights outside the car window fly past in reverse.
From the driver’s seat, Nangong Mingchuan glanced at her and suddenly spoke.
Gu Qiangwei turned her head, shifting her gaze from outside the window back to Nangong Mingchuan, "Hmm?"
"How did you used to live in the Gu Family? I heard that Chen Peifang was usually very harsh on you?"
Nangong Mingchuan knew nothing about her previous life.
Now that they were alone, father and daughter, he really wanted to know how she lived in the Gu Family. Was she without money to spend, without new clothes, and did she often go hungry?
Sometimes, he had followed some news reports, involving parents treating their non-biological children cruelly, with extremely brutal methods.
When asked about this so suddenly, Gu Qiangwei was somewhat taken aback.
She glanced at her father, then finally turned her gaze straight ahead, "Not great, but at least they didn’t leave me homeless."
Listening to her, Nangong Mingchuan felt a tinge of sadness.
Although she hadn’t been homeless, he could feel from her words just how difficult her life had been at the Gu Family.
"If I had known about your existence earlier, none of this would have happened," he said, suddenly feeling somewhat guilty.
But Gu Qiangwei just smiled. Even though she had been left outside for over twenty years, she never held any resentment against him, because, after all, he had not known about her existence, had he?
As for her mother, she, too, had harbored some resentment once, resenting that if her mother was still alive, why she would abandon her alone at the Gu Family. But when she considered that her mother might already be dead, that little bit of resentment evaporated.
"It’s okay, it’s all in the past now."
After all, it was after meeting Qin Sijue that her fate began to change.
Thinking of Qin Sijue, Gu Qiangwei couldn’t help but glance at her phone and pressed the power button. At the top of the screen, there were still no messages.
In the blink of an eye, they arrived at Jueyuan.
After getting out of the car, Gu Qiangwei had Nangong Mingchuan drive back to the hospital since one couldn’t hail a cab back to the city from here.
As the night deepened, Nangong Mingchuan did not linger any longer and drove away.
Gu Qiangwei, returning to the living room, felt somewhat heavy-hearted.
In the quiet living room, only Uncle Qin came out, greeting her respectfully.