Drama Novel
Chapter 52: Dabai’s Birthday
“Uncle Chen sent you here?”
Qin Xiaobai nodded his head honestly and then held Gu Zijin’s leg,
“Daddy, Dabai’s birthday will be in a few days. I don’t have the money. Can you help me prepare a birthday gift for her?”
“Dabai’s birthday?”
The look in Gu Zijin’s eyes slightly changed. At the time when he investigated Qin Muxuan, he had seen her birthdate, which did seem to be around these days.
“What do you want to present to her?”
Qin Xiaobai wagged his head and then said,
“Well… Let me think about it first. I’ll let you know when I have an idea. But daddy, you have to promise me you wouldn’t tell anyone about this.”
“Fine.”
“Deal.”
Qin Xiaobai raised his chubby hand and tried to entwine his little finger with Gu Zijin’s with a serious look as a sign of agreement. Seeing that, Gu Zijin could not help laughing and reached out his hand. Lisa happened to see what was happening now when she came into the room. Then her heart shivered again… Her proud and grim-faced president was entwining his little finger with a cute boy? After Lisa tried to digest that, she said in a serious tone,
“President Gu, Miss Yan is waiting for you outside.”
“I see.”
Gu Zijin replied to her indifferently. However, the moment Qin Xiaobai heard the phrase ‘Miss Yan’, his ears trembled. Then he asked,
“Daddy, are you going to have dinner with Miss Yan?”
“That’s right.”
“Then I want to go too!”
It was sprinkling in City A. Yan Yuxiao asked her assistant to drive the van away and then waited for Gu Zijin outside his company. She didn’t bring an umbrella on purpose in order to walk with Gu Zijin under the same umbrella and enjoy the intimate moment. However, after a while, when she saw the people walking out from the building, the look on her face completely changed.
Gu Zijin was walking toward her… However, there was a mini-version of him walking behind him. That was Qin Xiaobai… Yan Yuxiao remembered how Qin Xiaobai had given her the cold shoulder in the Gu’s house, feeling her blood freezing.
“Zijin, why is Xiaobai here…”
Hearing her voice, Qin Xiaobai got goosebumps all over. Then he said in a clear voice,
“Miss Yan, why don’t you call my daddy’s full name? Don’t you feel uncomfortable? I heard them calling my daddy President Gu. You can call him that too.”
Yan Yuxiao’s face turned a bit gloomy. Gu Zijin didn’t say anything, which suggested that he agreed to everything Xiaobai had just said.NôvelDrama.Org holds this content.
Even so, Yan Yuxiao still brazened it out and said in an awkward tone,
“It’s raining today. I forgot to bring an umbrella.”
“I only have one umbrella. Xiaobai and I will use it together.”
Yan Yuxiao’s face turned even more gloomy. When she looked at Xiaobai, the look in her eyes also turned a bit malicious. She assumed that it must be Qin Muxuan that had sent this boy here since she couldn’t figure out what a child came to the Gu Group for.
As a result, Gu Zijin held up his umbrella for Xiaobai and himself. In the meantime, Yan Yuxiao had to run toward the underground parking lot while covering her head with her handbag. Qin Xiaobai put his arms around Gu Zijin’s neck, saying,
“Eh… Daddy, I don’t like Miss Yan. Can you stop having meals with her?”
“Why?”
“Because Dabai likes you, daddy. If you are nice to other girls, Dabai would be unhappy.”
Gu Zijin knew that this child only said anything he liked. Thinking of Qin Muxuan’s attitude toward him this morning, Gu Zijin didn’t believe Qin Xiaobai’s words. Still, he was a bit pleased to hear that.
In the Gu’s house.
Not long after Qin Muxuan sent her drawing, she received the customer’s response. Her customer was satisfied with her job and wished for long-term cooperation, which she considered as a compliment to her.
After she learned that, the first one she wanted to tell was Gu Zijin because he had helped her modify her drawing after all.
However, when she thought of Yan Yuxiao and Elderly Lady Gu, she put down her phone with sadness filling her eyes.
On the other side, Qin Xiaobai sat between Gu Zijin and Yan Yuxiao in order to keep the two adults away from each other during dinner. After he had taken a few bites, he said,
“Dad, I’m full. Can we go back now? Dabai has prepared snow pear soup for me.”
“Miss Yan, I need to leave now.”
Yan Yuxiao could only pretend to be generous,
“It’s fine. Just go.”
As Gu Zijin was about to leave, he received a call and went outside to take it. Then Qin Xiaobai took back his smile and stared at Yan Yuxiao with an innocent look, saying,
“Miss Yan, my daddy belongs to Dabai. If you dare to take him away from her, I’ll be really angry.”
Hearing that, Yan Yuxiao showed a sullen look right away. She couldn’t believe she had just been threatened by a child! As Gu Zijin came back, Yan Yuxiao wanted to say something but Qin Xiaobai said ahead of her while hugging Gu Zijin affectionately,
“Daddy, let’s go.”
Gu Zijin, having no intention to care for Yan Yuxiao, lifted Qin Xiaobai up with one of his arms and walked outside, leaving Yan Yuxiao staying on her seat with her fists clenched indignantly.
When they arrived at Gu’s house, night already fell. Qin Xiaobai got off the car drowsily,
“Daddy, it’s your fault that I missed having dinner with Dabai.”
“You didn’t have enough just now?”
“Of course not. I was thinking about the snow pear soup that Dabai made all the time.”
Qin Xiaobai muttered that in a low voice and headed inside. There was still a lamp on in the living room. Qin Xiaobai smelt a familiar sweet scent. Then he twitched his nose and said,
“Mommy has saved the snow pear soup for me.”
Right after Gu Zijin entered the room, he saw Qin Xiaobai running toward the kitchen. However, the little boy wasn’t tall enough to reach the pot and could only stand on tiptoe and ladle out the soup clumsily. After Gu Zijin took the ladle from Qin Xiaobai, he filled a bowl of the snow pear soup and put it on the table, saying,
“Wait until it gets cooler.”
“Daddy, you don’t want to have some?”
“No, after you finish the soup, just leave the bowl on the table and go upstairs to wash yourself and sleep. Daddy still has something to do.”
Qin Xiaobai was more than willing to hear that Gu Zijin wouldn’t share his soup. With his eyes sparkling, he couldn’t stop gulping spoonfuls of the soup one after another.
After Gu Zijin walked upstairs, he saw the room door was left unlocked. As he pushed the door gently, he saw Qin Muxuan already falling asleep. There was still a small lamp giving off warm yellow light in the room. Qin Muxuan covered herself with a quilt, looking tender and delicate with her seaweed-like hair hanging down loosely behind her body.
Gu Zijin closed the door quietly and went to the study.
Lisa had contacted him when he was on the way home. The gossip news about him and Yan Yuxiao had been spreading crazily lately. Some papers even used the headline ‘President of the Gu Group Keeps a B-List Star as His Secret Lover. Rekindle Lost Love!’
Gu Zijin hadn’t bothered to deal with these kinds of news before since he believed that an innocent man could prove himself. However, now that he had Qin Xiaobai and Qin Muxuan, he didn’t want Qin Muxuan to misunderstand him.
“Lisa, buy those magazines which used that headline.”
“Yes, President Gu.”
Gu Zijin hung up the phone with his lips compressed. His deep eyes were fixed on one of the papers which covered that news. The paper was from Shengtian Entertainment. Yan Yuxiao wasn’t powerful enough to be able to make a request to Shengtian Entertainment, so someone must have been helping her in the sly. As for that person’s identity, Gu Zijin already had a clear idea.
It seemed that Elderly Lady Gu would never give up until he declared his stance firmly. Gu Zijin, feeling a bit vexed, pulled open the drawer and tried to find a cigarette. However, he suddenly remembered that Qin Muxuan had forbidden him to smoke and drink alcohol several times. So he stopped looking for the cigarette and closed the drawer.
Qin Muxuan woke up before dawn broke. The lamp on the table beside the bed was still on, which made her wonder if Gu Zijin still hadn’t come back yet.
She rubbed her eyes and then climbed up to have a cup of water downstairs.