144 Gu Rou Washed Her Name
In the car, Zhang Yue was very silent. Gu Rou hesitated for a moment before asking, “Brother Yue, are you blaming me?”
Zhang Yue didn’t understand. He frowned and asked, “What?”
“I see that you’re very silent. Are you angry with me?” Gu Rou did not know what Zhang Yue was thinking and was a little uneasy.
“It’s nothing. I’m just a little tired.” Zhang Yue found an excuse. He couldn’t say that his mind was filled with images of Gu Man pulling a long face every time she saw him and then turning to leave.
He could not understand why he cared about this. He clearly still liked Gu Rou now. Although he gradually realized that Gu Rou was indeed not that cute in some aspects, they were still a couple now. He did not intend to abandon Gu Rou.
Gu Rou did not believe that Zhang Yue would be silent with her because of work problems. She asked, “Or are you troubled because Gu Man is disobedient?”
“No, I already said that it’s about work. I’ve been tired recently.” Zhang Yue was a little frustrated when he saw Gu Rou wanting to get to the bottom of it.
Seeing that Zhang Yue was obviously impatient, Gu Rou sobbed softly. Zhang Yue heard her and frowned. He did not seem to be in the mood to coax her.
“What’s wrong with you again?” Zhang Yue asked calmly.
Gu Rou looked out of the window and did not say anything. Usually, if she did not speak, Zhang Yue would definitely coax her.
But this time, Zhang Yue saw that Gu Rou did not speak, but he did not want to probe further. He was silent the whole way.
When they arrived at the Gu residence, Zhang Yue asked, “Gu Man said that she’s running away from home, what did your family say? We can’t really let her be alone outside. She’s a high school student. How can she live?”
“Are you worried about her?” Gu Rou pursed her lips and was about to cry again.
“She’s from the Gu family. Shouldn’t you be more worried?” Zhang Yue explained weakly.
Worried? Gu Rou wished Gu Man could disappear. Even if she wanted to return to the Gu family, she had to cry and beg the Gu family.
Hearing Zhang Chuan’s questioning words, Gu Rou pretended to be aggrieved. “Of course we care about her, but you know Gu Man’s temper. She blocked all of us without a word. We can’t look for her on the streets.”
“Gu Man wasn’t like this half a month ago. Why did her personality suddenly change? Have you thought about this?”
When Gu Rou heard this, she immediately cried aggrievedly. “Do you think that we ostracized her and caused her personality to change so much that she ran away from home?”
“I’m sorry, but I really can’t think of any other reason.” Zhang Yue thought about what the Gu family had said to Gu Man in the past. It seemed like they were all talking bad about Gu Man, including him. Therefore, Gu Man did not treat the Gu family well.
“How can you have such speculations about us?” Gu Rou asked while crying.
Zhang Chuan blurted out, “Won’t people speculate? Even you can say that she’s an adopted daughter to outsiders and take her bag to carry. I don’t know what others will think.”
When Gu Rou heard this, she was stunned. So he remembered all the bad things she had said about Gu Man. She asked sadly, “So you’re defending her now because you still remember that she’s your fiancée?”
Seeing that Gu Rou was very sad, Zhang Yue knew that he had gone overboard with his words today, so he said calmly, “I’m just telling the truth now.”
“But I usually care about her. I just said that and used her bag once. Now, you’re suspecting that I abused Gu Man and our entire family abused her?”
“I’m sorry, I said the wrong thing.”
Gu Rou heard Zhang Yue’s attitude of obviously wanting to let this matter go by admitting his mistake. Although she was sad, she knew that it was not the right time to pursue the matter.
“Brother Yue, please believe me. I might have done something wrong unintentionally, but I care about Gu Man. After all, she’s my sister.”
When Zhang Yue heard this, he felt that he had spoken without thinking. Hence, he pulled Gu Rou’s hand and said, “I’m sorry. I misunderstood you just now.”
When Gu Rou heard this, she knew that she had convinced Zhang Yue. She heaved a sigh of relief. It seemed like the matter of her carrying Gu Man’s bag could pass in the Zhang family.
“It’s fine. I’ll get out of the car first.”
When Gu Rou returned home, Gu Yuan and the others immediately asked, “Didn’t you go to see Gu Man? She didn’t beg you to come back?”
“Why would she go back to the Gu Family? She was picked up by the Cui Family just now.”
Qu Bei quickly asked, “Cui Family? Which Cui Family?”
“The Cui Family of Yunlong Mountain.”
When Gu Yuan heard this, he muttered to himself, “The Cui Family of Yunlong Mountain is one of the four great families. Their wealth is unimaginable.”
Qu Bei sneered. “How is that possible? Who is Gu Man? How can she be related to the Cui family?”