"Thank you." Ye zhi coincidentally took the sobering soup and drank it in her hand, one after another. The warm liquid flowed down her throat into her stomach, and the previous pain immediately eased a lot.
She raised her head and smiled at gu mohan, gesturing to the seat beside her with her eyes, "Sit down."
Gu mohan nodded and sat down, then said, "There's still porridge in the kitchen. I'll go make some supper later. You're busy with social engagements. Surely you haven't eaten?"
Ye zhiqiao answered guiltily, afraid that gu mohan would mention letting her leave the gu family again.
However, gu Mohan still mentioned it, but this time he took a step back from before, "You said you didn't want to leave the gu family and wanted to persevere... Just now, I calmly thought for a while and felt that you must have your own reasons, so I won't stop you, but there is one thing I want to discuss with you."
As long as you don't force her, everything can be discussed! Ye zhiqiao put the bowl on the table and approached gu mohan, blinking and waiting for him to say.
"I want to..." Gu mohan bent his finger and hooked his forehead, "I want to make our relationship public in the company. In that case..."
"No!"
Before he could finish, ye zhiqiao, who initially said "Everything is easy to say," immediately stood up and refused," this is absolutely not possible." If we announce our relationship, then I don't have to stay with the gu family anymore. Anyway, whether they like me or not, whether I'm capable enough or not, they'll smile at me for your sake."
"They don't dare bully you, isn't that good?" Gu mohan also stood up, his face filled with heartache.
Ye zhiqiao shook her head firmly and said, "Not good. Now that you're worried, angry, and even about firing Li Ruonan, it's just because I was bullied, because I was ostracized, and you want to feel sorry for me. But if I were your girlfriend and protected by you, wouldn't that be unfair to others?"
Realizing that she was a little excited, ye zhi closed her eyes and calmed down. She took gu mohan's hand and placed it on her face, "With you as my support, I'm not afraid of anything. I just want to gain recognition through my own efforts, not through any opportunistic means."
Speaking of this, ye zhiqiao was already honest with each other. Even if gu mohan was unwilling, he could only choose to respect ye zhiqiao.
He looked at ye zhiqiao helplessly. After a long time, he bent his mouth and smiled softly.
What else could he do? This is how you like someone. Even if she doesn't listen to you, even if she's stubborn and strong, you can't blame or hurt her. Instead, you still support her without regrets.
After their conversation, they reached a consensus on what ye zhiqiao was going to do next. Gu mohan went back into the kitchen to cook, and in less than half an hour, he brought out a plate of porridge and a few dishes.
Little treasure saw the two of them sitting at the table, holding their dolls and following them. He nimbly climbed onto the chair and then sat down with a twist. He grabbed the spoon on the table and said, "Auntie ye, you are tired from work. Little treasure will feed you dinner, okay?"
Ye zhiqiao and gu mohan looked at each other in surprise and smiled at each other. Ye zhiqiao touched little treasure's head and replied, "Of course."
Upon hearing this, little treasure immediately straightened up like an adult, scooped up a spoonful of porridge from the bowl, and blew it carefully on her lips for a long time. Due to her unskilled movements, her pouting lips were still stained with porridge, but her expression was very serious, and she did not notice this detail at all. When she lifted the porridge to ye zhiqiao's mouth, she did not forget to remind him, "Be careful, it's hot..."
Ye zhiqiao ate it with a smile and nodded in xiao bao's undisguised expectant eyes, "It's not hot at all. The temperature is just right. And because xiao bao fed it, it tastes as sweet as adding sugar."
Hearing ye zhiqiao's praise, xiao bao was encouraged and quickly scooped up a few small dishes from the plate beside him. He grinned and said, "Auntie ye eats this again. The celery is very delicious. Dad cooked it for dinner. I ate a lot."
Ye zhiqiao naturally ate as she was told, and the expression in her eyes was unbelievably soft.
She had a child, but she thought that her child had died five years ago. She had been sad and sad, but it was an unborn child. As a mother, she was not impressed.
The appearance of little treasure seemed to make her a real mother, taking care of her daughter's life, going out to play, studying together, sitting and talking together when she was in a bad mood... She didn't mean to use little treasure as a substitute for her own child, but somehow, she felt more and more that little treasure was her daughter, and they were originally a family.
Staring at little treasure's efforts to straighten up and scoop out the dishes from various plates to feed her, ye zhiqiao was moved to tears in her eyes. She had been unconsciously doing these things for little treasure before, but now it seems that little treasure did not take this for granted, but returned them to her in his own way.
This night, ye zhiqiao was comforted and touched by little treasure feeding her. After dinner, she took little treasure to wash up and then lay on the bed together.
Under the warm orange light of the bedside lamp, ye zhiqiao took out the storybook again after a few days and whispered the story of the ugly duckling to little treasure. Her gentle and soft voice comforted little treasure and slipped into gu mohan's ear along the half-open door.
The little boy's breathing gradually became regular and her eyelashes no longer trembled. Ye zhiqiao lightly imprinted a kiss on her forehead and said with her lips, "Sleep, my little baby."
Then, she gently turned over from the bed and walked out of the bedroom.
In the living room, as expected, gu mohan was still sitting on the sofa waiting. When he saw her coming, he immediately opened his arms. The child asked for a sugary scoundrel to act coquettishly and said, "It's my turn to coax the little one, isn't it?"
Ye zhiqiao couldn't hold back when she heard this. She burst into laughter and quickly turned to the bedroom. Seeing that there was no movement inside, she continued walking towards the sofa and joked, "Are you old? She's still competing for favor with her daughter. How shameless!"
"Ah--"
Gu mohan sighed, pulled ye zhiqiao into his arms and held her tightly before continuing, "What's the face? If you don't want it, you can do it."
"I don't want you yet!" Ye zhiqiao shook her head and bumped into gu mohan, then said, "However, when I coaxed little treasure to sleep, I remembered something and wanted to discuss it with you."