Chapter 186: Do you want to meet your boyfriend?
“Is it your mother?” the broker asked Gu Chengyu, seeing the helpless look on his face and immediately guessing who had called.
Gu Chengyu tossed his phone aside, grunted, and then slumped onto the couch, “She said she’s coming over tomorrow.”
“Your mother has always cared deeply for you, and now with such a big incident, it’s natural she can’t stand it.” The broker patted his thigh and continued, “It’s good for your aunt to come stay with you, to keep you from overthinking and making more wrong decisions.”
“She will definitely cause trouble for An Lan.”
“You can’t stop her,” the broker told him bluntly, “Now that your aunt is coming, I’m not worried. You just focus on filming. The team will follow up with everything else. I’ll head back to the company now.”
Gu Chenggu had not expected his mother to get involved, nor did he want her meddling in his private affairs, but as the broker had said, with such a big issue at hand, he couldn’t prevent it. Thinking of this, Gu Chengyu began furiously throwing things from the coffee table.
After a busy day, Yan Shixiu finally had some downtime at ten o’clock at night.
At that time, the city’s neon lights were still flashing, and the busy district’s screens were still continuously switching to Shi Lan’s advertisement pages.
“President Yan, heading back to the apartment?” At that moment, the assistant knocked and asked Yan Shixiu.
Yan Shixiu turned away from the floor-to-ceiling windows and shook his head, “You go off work first. I have a call to make.”
“Okay then, goodnight, President Yan.”
After the assistant left, Yan Shixiu took out his phone and dialed Duan Langxi’s number, Shi Lan’s psychologist. As soon as the latter picked up, he began with an apology, “Sorry for disturbing you so late.”
On the other end, Duan Langxi massaged her temples, having been looking at cases, welcomed the change of pace, “What about Shi Lan do you want to ask now?”
“Why does she never seriously celebrate her birthday?”
After hearing this, Duan Langxi snickered and replied, “An unwelcome birth, what’s there to celebrate? You should know that the males in the Shi family are like brain-dead, right? When Shi Lan was born and her grandfather saw she was a girl, he didn’t even look at her and turned away. At that time, her parents were already having conflicts, and after Shi Lan was born, she stayed in the nursery for two to three months, forgotten by everyone, isn’t that tragic?”
“Shi Lan did celebrate her birthdays when she was small, but after knowing about this matter, she found birthdays disgusting.”
“I see…” Yan Shixiu’s tone grew much heavier.
“Don’t tell me you once tried hard to prepare a gift for her, and she didn’t accept it,” guessed Duan Langxi.
“That did happen once, but I wasn’t hurt by it; I just thought she was heartless,” replied Yan Shixiu.
“If she had been sentimental, she wouldn’t have survived in the Shi family.”
In that moment, Yan Shixiu’s feelings were a mixture of emotions. Then, he thanked her and hung up the phone, his eyes slightly swollen and moist.
Shi Lan was someone you wouldn’t dare to deeply understand because her strength came at the cost of half her life.
Standing in Shi Lan’s former office, Yan Shixiu took out his phone and sent her a message on WeChat.
President Yan: “Miss you.”
Shi Lan: “Finished with work?”
President Yan: “[Cake][Cake][Cake], did you have a good day today?”
Shi Lan: “It was okay.”
More thrilling than fun, it seemed.
President Yan: “Want to meet up with your boyfriend?”
At this moment, Shi Lan, who was applying a facial mask, thought to herself that Yan was really clingy. They had just slept together last night, kissed in the morning, and now he was yearning for a hug and a lift, which seemed a bit too thirsty.
Shi Lan: “No meeting, I’m going to sleep.”
President Yan: “Next birthday, I’ll make sure you celebrate properly.”