Gan Yuan listened intently, fidgeting with the cup in her hands without taking a drink.
After discussing official matters, Moses turned his face and saw her slightly tilting her eyes, twirling the cup with her fingers, her long hair swept behind her shoulders, revealing one side of her smooth neckline...
Above the neckline, was her exquisite profile. That face, he had watched her transform bit by bit, from a naive child to a stunning beauty.
Now, however, it was different from before.
It was still the same face, but the girl before him gave him a completely different feeling. Over the past six years, her appearance hadn’t changed much, yet her temperament had become so different from before.
It was more restrained and steady, less naive, and with added touches of a woman’s soft beauty...
Noticing her slightly parted lips, he felt a sudden restlessness.
His gaze unconsciously slid down along her arm, landing on her slender waist.
The tattoo he had helped her with years ago, what would it look like now?
After a long silence from him, Gan Yuan turned her face, puzzled, only to see the man beside her looking at her with an unusual gaze, a gaze she was not unfamiliar with—in Huangfu Jue’s eyes, she had seen it countless times before—intense, strong, with a kind of aggressive dominance.
Her back tensed up, and she swiftly sat up straight, tugging at the thin coat she was wearing.
Noticing her movement, Moses snapped back to reality and abruptly stood up.
"It’s very late. You should rest early!"
He strode out of her room, hastily closing the door behind him.
As soon as he left her room, he raised his hand and fiercely slapped his own right cheek.
What was he thinking, to have such inappropriate thoughts about her...
Gan Yuan, holding the cup, stood on the balcony with her brows also furrowed. Could it be that Moses feels something for her...?
No, it must be a misconception.
She subconsciously lifted the cup to her lips, but quickly withdrew it as she touched the liquid, and set the cup back down on the table.
Her hand gently caressed her abdomen as she turned and went back inside to sit at the computer, logging onto a website.
This time, she only received a message from Gan Tang.
Listening to Xiaotang’s tender voice through the headphones, she felt a wave of sadness wash over her.
It was the first time they had been apart for so long, and she was really not used to it.
Leaning back in her chair thinking of her son’s face, she suddenly felt inspired and quickly logged into her email.
In the inbox, there were the backup photos and information from the night Xiaotang had taken pictures; she had originally planned to organize them, print out the photos, and burn the videos to a CD for safekeeping, but had never gotten around to it because of the recent events.
Opening the photos, she browsed through them one by one.
Seeing the group picture of three, she reached out to caress the faces of the two men, one big and one small in the photo, her lips curling into a smile again.
"It won’t be long before there are four of us."
After looking through the photos, she opened a video and curled up against the back of the chair.
The video was shaky at first, occasionally sweeping past Huangfu Jue’s face or shoulder, and she appeared in it too... When she saw something amusing, she couldn’t help but laugh softly.
Later, after Huangfu Jue’s guidance, Xiaotang’s video work improved. Before the fireworks started, there were shots of the crowd and night sky, but hearing the voices of father and son was comforting to her.
Noticing Moses in the mirror, Gan Yuan restrained her smile.
That night, the people who wanted to target her and Xiaotang, they still hadn’t found out who they were up to this point.
This matter... was it really Moses?