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Chapter 571 - 574: The Mystery of The Origins Begins to Show Part 5_1

"Boring." Gu Shaocheng’s cold calm voice shattered her playful atmosphere.

Chenxing popped her head forward to look at the serene, unemotional face of the man. Seeing him uninterested, she sat orderly beside him, her head lowered, gazing up at his face from a lowered angle: "Shaocheng, what’s wrong, aren’t you happy?"

He picked up his wine glass, swirled the wine inside, brought it to his nose to take a light sniff, and brushed off her inquiry with a word: "No."

She wrapped her arms around his neck, playfully pouting at him: "Then why are you sitting here drinking alone? I thought you had fallen asleep."

Gu Shaocheng naturally pulled her into his arms: "Too noisy."

These three words were an explanation, he needed a relatively quieter environment to settle his unsettled feelings.

He enfolded her in his arms, his head lazily knocking against her shoulder: "Thinking about some things from childhood, missing my dad."

"Are you thinking about celebrating New Year’s Eve with your dad when you were a kid?" She turned her head, smiled obediently at him, then turned back to gaze at the dim lights outside the window, she seized his idle palm, spread his palm, and wrote in his palm, "It must have been beautiful, right?"

She too would think about her childhood, even though those were not her birth parents, and there were some unforgivable hatreds, but those memories lived in her mind, those warm scenes, they just could not be erased.

Gu Shaocheng drowned himself in the drink without responding.

A flash of hurt passed his eyes.

His eyes looked through the window, gazing at the foreign scene, his whole being silently emitting a mood that suggested "homesickness intensifies during festivals."

"Shaocheng, how did you and your dad celebrate New Year’s Eve when you were a kid? Tell me, will you?"

"Actually, there was nothing special."

"Did the whole family sit together for dinner and watch the Spring Festival Gala? Did you and your dad set off fireworks at the door at night? Did you also make dumplings?" She asked a lot of questions all at once.

Gu Shaocheng thought for a moment, the corner of his mouth hooked in a reminisce-filled bitter smile: "Mm, my dad loved me very much. Every New Year’s Eve, he would buy a lot of fireworks for me and accompany me in setting them off in the courtyard. My mom..."

Gu Shaocheng paused mid-sentence and changed the way he addressed her: "That woman would stand by and smile. After my dad and I were done playing, she would bring out a tray of beautifully cut fruits. The three of us would sit in the courtyard, eating and drinking."

No one noticed a gleam of water flash in the corner of his eyes: "Back then, my dad, that woman, and I were very happy. In my memory, she was a woman as gentle as water, just like you, often obediently snuggling against my dad. My dad cherished her a lot and protected her well, even the women outside didn’t get the treatment she did. Instead, she was showered with a level of affection even a wife did not have. I don’t understand, how could a woman as gentle as water conceal a venomous scorpion within her..." to the point that she could even abandon her own flesh and blood.

Halfway through his speech, his throat started to hurt.

Chenxing heard his voice, her heart clenched without warning, and she turned her whole body around.

Just when his throat hurt so much he couldn’t continue, a pair of small hands wrapped around his waist. Gu Shaocheng lowered his head, a fiercely suppressed emotion was subdued due to this embrace. His aura slowly became tender, and his tumultuous heart seemed to have been pacified by her embrace.