Gu Jun looked at the two missed calls on his mobile phone. Each call was from the same number. He had setup the call settings on his mobile phone so that phone calls with phone numbers not in his contact list would automatically be hung up on. Previously, he had received many phone calls which were incorrectly dialed. However, he had not experienced two consecutive missed calls from an unfamiliar number like today.
Could it be An Xiaoyan?
But An Xiaoyan has his own mobile phone number. Why would he use someone else’s?
Suddenly, Gu Jun came to realize the possible reason behind this. Gu Jun searched for An Xiaoyan’s phone number and started to dial it. He heard “Hello, the phone number you just dialed is not available…”
After that, he dialed his villa’s number and the nanny said that Mr. An had not returned home yet.
It was almost one o’clock in the afternoon.
“Chen Chen!”
Chen Chen, who was standing at the door, heard his name and hurried in.
“Add minutes to this phone’s plan as soon as possible.”
An Xiaoyan had spent such a long period of time at the villa, even if he had the money, he had no chance to add minutes to his cellular plan at all. By this morning, there were no more minutes on his phone.
An Xiaoyan would only call him when something urgent happened.
The ring tone of the broken mobile phone was very conspicuous in the huge car park. It was as if Gu Jun would be able to hear the ringtone from his end.
An Xiaoyan broke down after taking a glance at the caller id of the phone call. What is it, Gu Jun?
Trembling and pressing the answer button, Gu Jun’s anxious voice was heard.
“Xiaoyan, where are you?”
There was no answer…
“Xiaoyan, I will come over now. You have not made it home yet, right?”
“Xiaoyan, say something.” Gu Jun was so frightened, but An Xiaoyan remained silent.
The voice of pleading finally became a threat.
“An Xiaoyan, if you don’t say where you are, I’ll use all my strength to drill you till you cannot get out of bed. Quick, say where you are now!”
This is the real Gu Jun. When the situation is critical, he will curse and swear at me, and even threaten me.
“I’m at the kindergarten’s parking lot.”
Gu Jun grabbed the car keys and drove straight to the car park. The outcome turned out better than he thought. At least he did not hear An Xiaoyan saying that he was at the top floor of a building or in an abandoned factory.
Looking from the outside of the car park, he could see a few cars parked sparsely throughout it. The white car on the lot was particularly eye-catching, and Gu Jun recognized it at a glance. It was the Honda he’d bought for An Xiaoyan.
Gu Jun stepped on the accelerator, braked sharply as he approached, then jumped out of the car. He saw An Xiaoyan sitting on the ground with his head low.
“Xiaoyan!”
An Xiaoyan looked up and took but a single glance at the man. His eyes were filled with helplessness.
“What happened?”
An Xiaoyan shook his head, and tears streamed down his face.
Gu Jun took off his suit coat and wrapped An Xiaoyan’s body, picking him up off the pavement.
“Stop crying. What the hell is going on!?” Gu Jun asked angrily. After being shouted at, An Xiaoyan wiped away his tears. Why does a grown man like me have to cry? He did not know when he started to hate this cowardly temperament of his.
“I scraped someone else’s car accidentally.”
“That is why they took your clothes?!”
An Xiaoyan did not reply and Gu Jun gradually calmed down.
In fact, the worst thing was that he did not answer his phone. Had he paid more attention to his mobile phone, maybe all these might not have happened?
The root of the problem was that he was not careful enough. Otherwise, An Xiaoyan would not have gone out without money and been bullied by others.
“Let us go back first. I’ll get someone to retrieve the car later.”
Being able to create trouble in A City like this, this person must be someone of considerable power and influence. He must find out who that person was!
Back home, An Xiaoyan was thrown into the bathroom while Gu Jun stood outside the bathroom waiting.
If he had not dressed An Xiaoyan so well, all this might not have happened. Gu Jun felt vexed.
The car park had surveillance cameras installed. Gu Jun found someone to bribe the security guards in order to retrieve the surveillance videos. On the screen, a woman pointed at An Xiaoyan and verbally abused him.
An Xiaoyan did not rebuke her, instead he kept apologizing continuously.
“Who is this woman?”
Chen Chen looked at some of the information in his hand. “It’s the mistress of the chairman of the Oriental Enterprise. It’s said that she came from a nightclub and has her own way of treating others.”
It was no wonder it turned out like this. Normal people would simply ask for compensation and close the case, not take someone’s clothes away. Only a woman from such a place would do that.
“I have to add something important. This woman is not important but we cannot afford to offend the Oriental Enterprise as we have plenty of cooperation projects with them.”
Gu Jun slammed his fist hard on the table. Even as a part of the Gu family, he had to act against his own will. There were so many people he could not lay his hands on, whom he had to be considerate of. He was thinking that if he were to clinch the supreme position, no one would dare to even move an inch without consulting him!
…
“But I cannot let her off just like that. You should already know how I feel about An Xiaoyan. You should also understand that my heart aches for him. He is after all an adult man, yet he has not a single cent with him when he is out. He has to do everything carefully and is afraid of offending people. Things are not that bad if he stays in the villa as no one will disrespect him. But when he is out of my sight, many people will judge him.”
Chen Chen fully understood how Gu Jun felt, but there was still no way to solve the problem. In this society, you have nothing when you have no rights.
“We must give this matter further thought and discuss it later before we make any decision.”
“What is the progress of your investigation on Gu Jing?”
“We found out something big.Gu Jing seems to be trying to win over the support and votes of some businessmen using the Gu Group’s stock. That is, he promised them that once he is elected as the chairman, these businessmen will stand to receive some percentage of the stock.”
Gu Jun gave a sneer. If a man like him really took the leadership role of the Gu Group, he would probably lose the whole business.
“Get the evidence ready.”
“Are we going to use it? If we were to play this card rashly, the people who matter may think that we are deliberately distorting and fabricating the facts. If Mr. Gu Jing’s final vote count is greater than ours, the evidence will not help at all.”
Gu Jun knew the probable outcome and only wanted to keep the evidence safely for the time being. If he could get the support of Nan Qiang, the situation could possibly be reversed.
There are more than ten days left. Let’s wait a little longer.
…
After the incident at the car park that day, Gu Jun did not let An Xiaoyan bring Guo Guo to school anymore. He was worried about what would happen if An Xiaoyan were to meet that woman again.
Gu Jun took out a stack of cards from his wallet. These were all the cards that he had accumulated over the years. Most of them were gold cards, and some of them were ordinary credit cards.
Gu Jun chose one credit card, walked into An Xiaoyan’s room and sat down opposite him.
“Am I useless? I can’t even handle a woman and anyone can tread me under his or her feet. The worst thing is that I can’t even bring Guo Guo to school now.”
“No, you just haven’t found the outlet to use your talent yet.” Gu Jun comforted him.
Being so humiliated by a woman had hit An Xiaoyan so hard that he began to doubt his own abilities.
“Mr. Gu, I don’t know if I can still repay all that I owe you with what I am, and what I have.”
“Let’s not talk about this now. Here, you take this.” Gu Jun had long felt that An Xiaoyan do not owe him anymore. From the beginning to end, what An Xiaoyan owed him were two lives and he had already paid them off after he committed suicide. During this period, An Xiaoyan teaching Guo Guo could also be considered as part of the repayment.
“Mr. Gu, I don’t need this. I owed you five million dollars before and I didn’t pay you back. All the expenses that I have incurred while eating and living in your house, together with the expensive suit…”
“Stop that! Keep this properly. If you really need anything, don’t be reluctant to pay with this. I don’t want to see you down and out again just because you have no money.” In the end, Gu Jun did not believe that he could say such a thing.
If feelings could be used to repay, Gu Jun felt that as long as An Xiaoyan had less guilt, An Xiaoyan would have finished repaying in full.
“Keep it well. Next time, when you are wish to go out, let Chen Chen drive you there. If you meet someone like this again, you must call me. I have bought you a new mobile phone and it will be delivered tomorrow.”
Like a canary, he was confined in this “cage”.
“Meow…”
Wonton scurried in from the door and jumped on An Xiaoyan. The ginger cat was born to eat and had grown a lot bigger than before. It felt plump to the touch and loved to be close to people. It always got close to An Xiaoyan.
“The cat is well cared for.”
An Xiaoyan smoothed Wonton’s fur and nodded his head.
“Do you want to go out to work? You can pick any job and I can find someone to help you.” Gu Jun really did not want to see An Xiaoyan’s decadent appearance. Why can’t he be as energetic as he was when we first met?
“No, no need.”
“Okay. Then you can learn at home, and forget about the past.”
He would always remember the past. How could he forget his past?
Gu Jun came to the study. It was already warm in April. The buds of the sycamore trees which had been frozen before began to grow again, and new leaves were also sprouting out. The delicate green patch was an endearing sight.
It seemed that the flower shop had not been delivering flowers to the villa for a long time. Gu Jun had forgotten to ask the servants to change the flowers.
He always remembered the orange fire, and kapok was the emotional connection between him and An Xiaoyan.
In the back garden, the servant was tending the lawn, shoveling out the winter hay and planting new grass. Flowers and trees were beginning to bud and everything was beginning to recover. However, his relationship with An Xiaoyan was still as cold as winter snow.
The days in the villa were always very boring. Gu Jun had asked someone to deliver a new mobile phone. Unfortunately, An Xiaoyan did not know how to use it and left it on the table instead.
Someone had placed flowers in the vase on the windowsill, and the room was filled with a light fragrance.
An Xiaoyan seemed to be too lazy to read those books on the book shelves. He only flipped through some books on veterinarians. Maybe due to the presence of Wonton, he enjoyed reading information on animals.
Every time Wonton lay in his arms and looked at the pictures of the sick cats on the book, it would whimper, as if to show pity for its sick brethren.
“You, too, seem to be compassionate and know how to sympathize with your poor companions.”
“Meow…”
After reading the book many times, An Xiaoyan could remember almost all the information in the book. However, he laughed at himself. So what if I can remember the information? Would I open a pet shop in the future?