After having lunch together, the sky became more and more oppressive, the dark clouds were rolling, and Gu Qimiao said, "It’s going to rain, you should go back quickly, I still need to go back to work."
"It’s going to rain and you still want to leave! Come back to the store with me."
"I think it’ll be a while before it rains, I’ll go wait for the bus ahead, do you need me to take you back?" Just as she finished speaking, Gu Qimiao pointed ahead, "The bus is here!"
After taking two steps, she looked back worriedly at him, "Can you get back on your own?"
Gu Moming frowned, "Get lost! Do you have any spare change on you?"
Gu Qimiao shook the bus card in her hand, then waved to him and ran to the bus.
Gu Moming stood in place, watching the bus drive away, then turned around leaning on his cane.
At another corner, a girl in a deep blue dress appeared, silently watching him walk away step by step, longing to lend him a hand, but too afraid to approach.
Why doesn’t he show his gentleness to her?
She took a deep breath, determined to try her best to warm him, even if he was cold to her now.
Gu Qimiao just arrived at the station when it started to rain heavily, it would take about two minutes to run from the station to the gallery’s back entrance. The rain didn’t seem like it would stop soon, and just as she was torn between waiting there or making a dash for it, her phone rang.
On the other end, Fang Shaobei asked, "It’s raining, did you bring an umbrella? If not, don’t run around in the rain."
Gu Qimiao quickly asked for help, laughing, "I’m at the bus stop, can you send someone to bring me an umbrella?"
Fang Shaobei scolded her, "I told you not to run around everywhere!" but still resignedly said, "Wait there."
Not long after, a tall figure came through the rain with a big umbrella. Gu Qimiao quickly waved at him, seeing him glare at her, "If I hadn’t called you, would you have stayed here waiting?"
Gu Qimiao got under the umbrella and laughed, "No, I was about to call you!"
"You just knew I would come to pick you up?"
"Mr. Fang is handsome and kind, of course, you would come!"
Gu Qimiao lifted her skirt as she walked, wearing low-heeled sandals, stepping in the water. Her feet quickly got wet, the cold felt comfortable after a sweltering day.
As they walked, Fang Shaobei asked, "Where did you sneak off to this time?"
"I went with my brother to look at furniture. Now that I have money from the exhibit you helped with, I can do some renovations, haha."
Fang Shaobei, hearing this, asked, "Are you still living at your friend’s place?"
"Yeah, I’ll move once the renovations are done."
Fang Shaobei didn’t point out that the "friend" was Shen Yanchen, but wanted to nudge the situation a bit, so he asked, "Are you planning to keep living with your brother? You’re an adult now, and he’s a man, is it really appropriate to keep living together?"
Gu Qimiao paused, she hadn’t considered this. She always thought that since Gu Moming wasn’t married and had no one to take care of him, she needed to live with him and look after him.
"Even if it’s not appropriate, what can I do? You know my brother’s situation, until he finds a wife, I have to take care of him."
Fang Shaobei chuckled softly, feeling a bit distressed by her sense of responsibility. Why did she shoulder this burden? Just because she said Gu Moming was her only family?
But to her, family meant one thing, to him, she meant something else.
"So if he never gets married, you’ll just stay with him forever?"