In the afternoon, at NTN, the discussion about the 'Marine Transportation Control' project went smoothly, so the whole meeting ended in less than two hours.
Originally, Gu Shao was invited to an exchange meeting later.
However, seeing Gu Xi's absent-minded appearance, Gu Shao finally turned down the other party's invitation and took Gu Xi back home.
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Back home, Gu Xi had already forgotten, but saw Gu Shao handing her a very delicate box.
"What is this?" Looking at the box, Gu Xi's eyes lit up.
"The reward for this competition." Gu Shao said.
Obviously, this reward should have been prepared in advance by Gu Shao. Just looking at the box is so pretty, it's quite exciting.
Gu Xi took the box from Gu Shao and opened it. What caught the eye was a very beautiful hairpin. It was a small one, but it was very delicate.
And this hair card and the school uniform that Gu Xi usually wears are actually the same color.
- It seems to be pretty good too.
Gu Xi muttered, and with some surprise, she took the hairpin out of the box and looked at it again and again.
Gu Shao, who was beside him, looked at Gu Xi as he was holding the card to study, and his expression was as usual.
However, if you look closely, you will find that Gu Shao's eyes are actually so nervous at this time.
- Speaking of which, this is the first time Gu Shao has bought small things for his daughter.
The issuing card is customized, but the style and color are selected and determined by Gu Shao.
Gu Shao has never studied what a girl of this age likes and is suitable for, so Gu Shao has no idea whether Gu Xi will like it or not.
However, Gu Xi obviously didn't realize Gu Shao's nervousness. After reading the card with a fresh one, Gu Xi carefully put the item back into the box, and then hugged the box and grinned at Gu Shao: " Thank you dad!"
Seeing the smile on Gu Xi's face, Gu Shao's expression softened a bit.
only…
How do you feel that the girl's happiness when she received the gift is completely different from when she received the money
Gu Shao thought to himself.
He was sure that if he received cash at the same price as the issuing card, Gu Xi would jump for joy.
"Don't like it?" Gu Shao asked.
Hearing this, Gu Xi immediately shook her head: "No, I really like it!"
But it would be better if it could be discounted...
Gu Xi quietly muttered something in her heart.
However, she did not dare to say this to Gu Shao.
Then, looking at Gu Shao, Gu Xi suddenly smiled embarrassingly and said, "Well, Dad, can you give me another reward?"
"..." It wouldn't be asking for money again.
Gu Shao's temple jumped, thinking to himself.
Fortunately, this time, Gu Xi's request was not money.
"I want to go to NTN." Gu Xi said.
She has specifically learned that the 'Youth Entrepreneurship Competition' itself is a youth competition that NTN focuses on. Some previous participants even got an opportunity to study at NTN directly after the competition.
Gu Xi also wanted to go, and it would be even better if he could be included in NTN's talent training reserve list.
Gu Shao didn't know that all Gu Xi's current efforts were to enter NTN seriously and participate in the NTN security system project in the future. Therefore, when Gu Xi said that, Gu Shao was stunned for a moment, and then smiled calmly in the next second.
"Okay," Gu Shao said, raised his hand and rubbed it on top of Gu Xi's head, and said, "I'll take you there on vacation."
It's not impossible for Gu Xi to take her to work in the center when she is on vacation.
Gu Shao thought.
Thinking of something, Gu Shao looked at Gu Xi more seriously.
"You care about that Lisa?" Gu Shao asked. Although it is an interrogative sentence, it has a declarative tone.
Hearing Gu Shao ask this suddenly, Gu Xi was stunned.
"No..." Gu Xi subconsciously retorted.
But thinking about it carefully, her performance seems to be a little too concerned about Lin Yize's Bai Yueguang, and it's no wonder Gu Shao finds it strange.
"Actually, I don't really care..." Gu Xi whispered, lowered her head subconsciously, and added, "It's that Aunt Lisa, she feels a bit like Song Er, like my mother, so I took a look."
"I just think it's a bit miraculous, how can it be so similar." Gu Xi added another sentence, trying to put her concerns down as lightly as possible.
Gu Xi explained it simply, but Gu Shao took her words to heart.
- So, is Gu Xi looking at Song Kexin through Lisa
Gu Shao looked at Gu Xi, his eyes moved slightly.
He remembered an article he read a while ago, which mentioned how important the role of mothers is in the growth of children.
So, in any case, as a child, Gu Xi always has expectations for his biological mother, right
It's a pity that Gu Shao can give Gu Xi the best of everything except this.
"Miss your mother?" Gu Shao looked at Gu Xi and asked seriously.
As if to hear a trace of tension and apology in Gu Shao's tone, Gu Xi's heart skipped a beat, and quickly shook his head in denial: "No."
As if to prove that she didn't lie, Gu Xi emphasized again: "I don't miss her at all."
This is not a lie, nor is it to make Gu Shao relieved.
What Gu Xi said was true: if it had been before, she might have really expected Song Kexin's occasional concern, but after being sent to Zhang Qiang's house, being transferred out of her household registration, and after knowing the plot of the novel that follows , Gu Xi will not.
She had no expectations for Song Kexin.
The reason why Gu Xi still cares about the affairs of the Lin family is also because of the plot.
Thinking of the next plot, Gu Xi's expression suddenly became tense.
"Dad." Gu Xi looked at Gu Shao and subconsciously pulled the other's sleeve.
"What?" Seeing Gu Xi's nervousness, Gu Shao slowed down.
Gu Xi wanted to remind Gu Shao to be careful about Lin Yize, so he said, "That Lin Yize is not a good person. He has a lot of bad thoughts behind his back, and I feel that he wants to harm us."
Hearing Gu Xi's evaluation of Lin Yize, Gu Shao was not surprised, but his brows were slightly wrinkled, and he looked at Gu Xi and said, "These are adults' business."
As a child, Gu Xi shouldn't worry about these things.
But Gu Xi was worried that Gu Shao didn't take what she said to heart, and the hand holding Gu Shao's sleeve tightened again, and he said anxiously: "Really, if you don't believe me, you can go check it out, he really does. A lot of bad things happened." Maybe a lot of them were aimed at the Gu family.
"And, and..." Gritting his teeth, Gu Xi said again: "I often have a dream that Lin Yize's power will become very large, and then he will come to harm grandpa and them, and will harm our family! He will also use some fundamental There is nothing to frame you! It's going to hurt me..."
Looking at the girl who kept talking in front of him, Gu Shao's eyes deepened a little bit, and the expression on his face became more and more serious.
Dreams, predicting the future, plots... Gu Shao won't believe these fantastic things, but he believes that Gu Xi won't lie.
Therefore, the dream that Gu Xi mentioned must be the one that she really dreamed.
As for the reason, Gu Shao thinks more that his experience in the Lin family and his impression of Lin Yize and Song Kexin left a deep psychological shadow in Gu Xi's heart, so Gu Xi would have such a dream.
Gu Shao didn't tell Gu Xi that since following Gu Yaobai's actions to find out the Lin family, he had already had suspicions about the Lin family, and he had been sending people to keep an eye on Lin Yize's actions.
Seeing Gu Xi's anxious and scared look, Gu Shao assured her, "I will investigate the Lin family, and I will also take precautions against Lin Yize, don't worry."
"Hmm," Gu Xi nodded, "Then you need to arrange a few more people to watch him."
"good."
Gu Shao nodded earnestly, seeing that Gu Xi's emotions seemed to have calmed down, he spoke again.
"Now, tell me one thing," Gu Shao looked at Gu Xi, tried his best to keep his tone calm, and asked, "Have you done anything bad to you in Lin's house, or in other words, Lin Yize?"
Gu Xi's rejection and guard against the Lin family, and the shadow in his heart is too deep. If he was just not cared for when he was in the Lin family, he would not have such a strong emotion and sense of self-protection.
When Gu Shao asked this question, he felt extremely difficult.
But as a father, it's hard for him not to care about that.
Gu Shao's fist clenched secretly: he is not sure what he will do in the next second when he hears what Gu Xi says.
"No..." Gu Xi shook her head, not like she was trying to hide it.
"They just don't like me, and the ones daddy you know..."
As for Lin Yize, she treated her as if she was a dirty thing - when she was younger, Gu Xi didn't understand this, she just simply wanted to be held by 'Dad' and touched by 'Dad' like Lin Anxin. When she got close to Lin Yi Ze, the other party would wave her away with a disgusted expression.
When she was a child, Gu Xi didn't understand what such an expression meant, until she was older, she slowly realized that Lin Yize didn't like her, and gradually stopped approaching each other.
Occasionally, when Lin Yize Lin sees her, he will not rush to avoid her or let her go elsewhere, but will look at her repeatedly with a special look.
Recalling Lin Yize's eyes like that, Gu Xi couldn't tell what it meant, but even now, she still felt hairy in her heart and couldn't help shivering.
"Well, it's nothing, anyway, I don't like them either." Gu Xi looked up, looked at Gu Shao, raised his head a little arrogantly, and hummed.
"Anyway, you have to be careful about him, and Gu Yaobai is not a good person." That's the point. So Gu Xi emphasized it again.
After emphasizing, seeing Gu Shao nodding, Gu Xi said "good night" with confidence and went back to his room.
Behind him, Gu Shao watched Gu Xi go back to the room. After a few seconds, he rubbed his eyebrows and sighed secretly: I really don't know if it's this girl's feeling, or if he was being treated by Gu Xi when he was dealing with some things. heard it.
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On the other hand, Gu Xi felt a lot of peace of mind when he said all the reminders to be said.
After returning to the room, Gu Xi opened the box and glanced at the hairpin inside, then happily hugged the hairpin and ran to the mirror, clipping it on his head and trying it several times.
Looking at the hairpin on her head, Gu Xi giggled, the liking on her face could not be hidden, and the look of joy was much stronger than when she was in front of Gu Shao before.
After 'fiddling' back and forth for a while, Gu Xicai reluctantly put away the card and carefully placed it in the cabinet.
Then go to bed.
Five minutes later, Gu Xi opened her eyes again. He jumped off the bed, ran to the cabinet, took out the box containing the hairpin, took it to the bed, and placed it beside his pillow. Gu Xi stared at the box for a while, then smiled 'hee hee', then pressed the box with his hands and fell asleep contentedly.
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Gu Shao, who was outside, went to the study.
After processing some documents, Gu Shao received a call from Wang Wu.
Wang Wu's first sentence explained to Gu Shao the situation at Qiao Luo's banquet today: "Lin Yize went to the banquet."
"In addition," after a pause, Wang Wu said again: "At the banquet, Lin Yize met Mr. Qiao's secretary and recognized him."
They checked the events 15 years ago, and also checked the past of Lin Yize and Song Kexin. Naturally, they did not miss the part between Lin Yize and Meng Zixin before Song Kexin.
Hearing what Wang Wu reported, Gu Shao was not too surprised, and responded coldly, "Anything else?"
"At the banquet, seeing Meng Zixin, Lin Yize lost his temper, but he was quickly stabilized by Meng Zixin and Mr. Qiao's people at the scene, and it did not affect the banquet. After that, Lin Yize left with Meng Zixin, and the two went to Went to a club next to the hotel…”
In the clubhouse, not much was found by the people under the conversation between the two, so Wang Wu could only make a brief report.
"In the last part of the conversation, Lin Yize seemed to propose that Meng Zixin come to him to help him, and hoped that the two would join forces to prevent the 'transportation control' project from continuing."
After that, Wang Wu said with some worry: "This Meng Zixin doesn't seem very safe. Sir, do you think you need to contact Mr. Qiao and get someone else?"
After all, Lin Yize and Meng Zixin did have a relationship at the beginning. Although the two have not met each other in these years, and Lin Yize also married Song Kexin, it is unpredictable. .
Qiao Luo attaches great importance to this assistant. At present, Meng Zixin is in charge of many things in China. Once Meng Zixin and Lin Yize have reached some kind of cooperation, or have a preference for Lin Yize, then they will be passive.
Wang Wu's consideration was not unreasonable, but Gu Shao was not so anxious.
"You don't have to rush to change people." Gu Shao said calmly.
At present, it seems that Meng Zixin took Lin Yize away in order not to affect the banquet scene, and Meng Zixin did not deliberately conceal the process of the two leaving, which was also a statement.
"After that..." Wang Wu asked again.
"It's up to her to choose after that."
Those who can be favored by Qiao Luo still have professional principles that they should have.
The most important point, in Gu Shao's opinion, this Lisa is not stupid: on the one hand, it is her career and career, and on the other hand, it is just a memory of her first love in the past. Whichever is more important, I believe that as long as it is a normal person, she will choose it.
However, thinking of Gu Xi's nervous look just now and making himself more guarded against Lin Yize, Gu Shao explained again: "Watch more."
"Yes, sir." Wang Wu answered on the phone.
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Regarding the encounter between Lin Yize and Meng Zixin, Gu Shao's attitude was calm.
But in the Lin family on the other side, Song Kexin couldn't sit still after hearing the news that 'Lin Yize went to a banquet and left alone with a woman before the banquet was over'.
"How could he do this! What woman made him do this... " Song Kexin sat on the sofa with an ugly face.
Seeing this, Zhang Cui, who was on the side, quickly said with relief, "Maybe it's just a normal business conversation."
Zhang Cui's words not only did not comfort Song Kexin, but made Song Kexin even more anxious: "Talking about business? Where is there any business talking about this time? And it's still a man and a woman, and even the bodyguard didn't let the bodyguard follow up!"
What made Song Kexin feel the most crisis and anxiety was that Lin Yize didn't answer her call. Since hearing the news, she has made more than 30 calls to Lin Yize in a row, and sent messages and WeChat messages, but none of the other party answered. , did not reply to her.
If it's just business, how could this be possible.
Song Kexin's hand holding the phone tightened again, and couldn't help but make another call.
Lin Yize still didn't answer.
"No, I'm going to find him." Song Kexin stood up from the sofa with an ugly face, ready to go out.
- Song Kexin can find out which clubhouse Lin Yize and the woman went to from the bodyguard and the driver, but because Lin Yize ordered it, the bodyguard did not follow up.
Song Kexin planned to go by herself.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Cui was startled, she quickly grabbed Song Kexin, and advised: "Don't worry, there have been a few times before, doesn't it prove to be a misunderstanding? Didn't it affect Yize?"
"What should I do if I make Yize unhappy then? Just bear with it, it's not necessarily true..."
Hearing this, Song Kexin shook his head: "But this time I don't know why, I just feel very uneasy."
As he was talking, Song Kexin's mobile phone uploaded the message of the bodyguard: [Madam, the chairman and the woman came out. 】
Song Kexin felt nervous, and quickly sent a message to ask; [Who is that woman? What is the state of the two of them now? 】
The bodyguard at the other end didn't know how to describe it, so he secretly took a photo and sent it to Song Kexin.
The photo was passed over. In the picture, Lin Yize and another woman were walking side by side. There was a distance between the two. They didn't seem to be close, and it could be seen that the woman was deliberately keeping the distance between the two.
However, Song Kexin's complexion changed suddenly when he saw the woman's face in the photo.
The woman in the photo looked too similar to her, and almost at first glance, Song Kexin already knew who the other party was through her sixth sense.
"It's her..." Song Kexin's legs softened and she fell on the sofa, her face pale.
Zhang Cui next to her didn't understand what was going on, so she stepped forward nervously and supported Song Kexin.
"Kexin, what's the matter, are you?" Zhang Cui asked.
And Song Kexin just shook his head and repeated in his mouth: "It's her, why is she..."
"Who is it? Kexin, make it clear, don't scare me."
"Meng Zixin..."
—At first, when Lin Yize asked Song Kexin to be his lover, he did not say that she was a stand-in. Until later, Song Kexin accidentally saw a photo while helping Lin Yize to clean up the room, and saw a photo of a girl who was very similar to her. Only then did she realize that she was just a stand-in. And finally realized that when the two were there, Lin Yize was calling 'Xin'er' not her, but Meng Zixin.
But Song Kexin at that time had already fallen in love with Lin Yize, and also needed the other party's money, so she chose to play stupid.
Even though Song Kexin is extremely painful every time she hears the man she loves hug her and call another woman 'Xin'er', she firmly believes that her dedication and love can change everything and heal Lin Yi Ze's pain.
Later, after experiencing countless pains and misunderstandings, Song Kexin finally did it, replacing that first love in Lin Yize's heart and making Lin Yize fall in love with her.
Everything was perfect originally, why did that Meng Zixin appear again!
Song Kexin bit her lower lip tightly, hatred in her eyes.
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This one, maybe he recalled too many things about the Lin family and the plot of the novel before going to bed. After Gu Xi fell asleep, he also slept very restlessly.
The dream that Gu Xi was most afraid of reappeared again.
—In the dream, Gu Xi fled in a hurry, screamed for help, and cried and begged those people to let him go... But everything was to no avail.
In the dream, Gu Xi could not feel the pain, but she could feel the endless fear and helplessness. Her body hurt so much that it seemed like it was torn apart.
Gu Xi looked around with difficulty, in a certain direction, behind those devilish figures, Lin Yize's face became clearer.
He looked at her with that familiar, creepy look.
Under the domination of fear, Gu Xi's consciousness fell into darkness again, and she couldn't tell whether she lost consciousness in the dream, or in reality, because the dream was too terrifying, she closed her consciousness in self-protection.
In the darkness, Gu Xi felt someone walking towards her.
She felt a hand covering her face with warmth. It feels so familiar...
But Gu Xi couldn't remember anything.
…
After Gu Shao finished his work, he was going to go back to his room to rest, but when he passed by Gu Xi's room, he heard cries coming from inside.