Xiaochen raised his head and asked worriedly, "Mommy, who is it?"
"Uh... Mommy is a colleague."
"Is something wrong? Is Mommy too busy to stay with me?" Xiaochen asked worriedly, her clear eyes flashing with uneasiness, fearing that Mommy would leave her again.
Xi Haitang's heart tightened, and her heartache for her daughter overwhelmed everything else. She gently stroked Xiaochen's head and comforted her, "Don't worry, Xiaochen. Mommy isn't going anywhere. Mommy will take you home."
Turning off the phone and removing the battery, she ignored the man's orders.
◎◎◎
The Gu family mansion.
The deliberately lowered crystal chandelier is inlaid with hundreds of small prisms, each polished to a brilliant shine, exuding a moving brilliance. Under the chandelier is a dining table made of pure white crystal.
Wearing exquisitely crafted bone china tableware, it is filled with sumptuous dishes. It is so beautiful and delicious, but the people at the table have no appetite at all.
Yun Hen raised his little face and asked Gu Xijue in a low voice, "Daddy, why hasn't Auntie come yet?"
"Maybe there's a traffic jam. Daddy will hurry her up again." He picked up the phone, but there was an unreachable signal on the other end, and a chill appeared on his stern face.
Yun Hen pursed his lips and did not dare to speak anymore. A gloomy atmosphere quietly rose in the huge square hall.
The gloom in Gu Xijue's eyes became more and more obvious. Damn that woman, how dare she not come! Did she want him to catch her?!
Suddenly, he was about to make a move, but was stopped by Yun Hen.
"Daddy, let's eat together, don't wait for auntie."
Gu Xijue froze, feeling a little distressed when she saw her son's disappointed but pretending to be strong face. He pursed his thin lips tightly, neither agreeing nor objecting.
"Daddy, I'm hungry, can you eat with me, okay?" Junyi's face was full of pleading.
Gu Xijue finally softened his expression and nodded, "Okay, let's have dinner and invite Auntie over another day."
"Um."
The delicious food was tasteless to both father and son. Needless to say, Yun Hen was disappointed, while Gu Xijue's eyes were filled with complex colors: Xi Haitang, do you know what you missed?!
◎◎◎
The next day, Xi Haitang got up early. She didn't know why, but she didn't sleep well last night. She should have been very tired when she came back from the business trip, but she couldn't sleep well all night, as if she was always worried about it.
There was a certain shadow, and several times when I was half asleep and half awake, I thought about my son who had been separated for a long time.
She washed her face and applied ice to her eyes, but her spirit was still haggard. After seeing the cell phone on the coffee table that she had turned off on purpose, she felt even more uneasy. She wondered what would happen to Gu Xijue after work today. He should be like that
She's not used to being rejected, so he won't let her go easily.
Sure enough, not long after arriving at the company, someone from the secretary's office came to convey, "Miss Xi, the president asked you to go to his office!"