I Have Decided to Go Look for My Father

Gu Xi left her house and went back to school.

Her car pulled over closed to the meeting spot and, as soon as Gu Xi got out of the car and before she could even stand still, Gu Chenyi popped out of nowhere.

“Oh hey, what a coincidence.” Walking in front of Gu Xi, he gave her the I-just-happened-to-walk-past-and-saw-youlook.

Gu Xi: Hoho, alright. I’ll just play along and not call you out on it.

“It is surely a coincidence,” said Gu Xi as she raised the corners of her lips expressionlessly.

On the other end, the chauffeur had already pulled Gu Xi’s luggage out from the trunk and, before Gu Xi could walk over there, Gu Chenyi had already beaten her to it and stretched his arm out at the chauffeur.

“Here, give them to me.”

“No……” Gu Xi wanted to say he didn’t need to do that.

The chauffeur had already handed Gu Xi’s luggage over to Gu Chenyi with no hesitation.

“They are a little heavy.” Gu Xi reminded him. She had no idea what Aunty Mei put in them afterward.

“It’s not bad,” said Gu Chenyi, not bothered by it.

***

Under the others’ surprised looks, Gu Chenyi brought Gu Xi’s luggage onto the bus and put the aside for her.

“Em……” Yang Mengmeng walked over to them.

There were only two girls among the 8 members who would be participating in the competition – Gu Xi, then there was Yang Mengmeng.

Yang Mengmeng came over with the intention to sitting with Gu Xi.

As it turned out, before she could even say anything, the spot next to Gu Xi was already taken up by Gu Chenyi.

Having no other options, Yang Mengmeng could only turned around and sit with a freshman.

Over on this side, after Gu Chenyi had set aside both of their luggage, he said down next to Gu Xi with a “praise me” look. Gu Xi put on a smile, patted him on his shoulder and said to him, “Good job.”

“Oh yeah, why don’t you bring down the pink bag from above?” said Gu Xi. That was the snacks that Aunty Mei had prepared for the two of them.

“This one?”

“Mmhmm.” Gu Xi took the bag from him and handed him a box of snacks. “This is yours.”

Gu Chenyi’s eyes widened and he looked at the box of snacks incredulously. “For me?”

Happiness hit him so hard and fast that he didn’t know how to react to it.

“Oh, you don’t want it?” asked Gu Xi intentionally as she lifted her brows.

“I want it!” This was from Xixi, the first in the Gu family!

Besides, judging from the familiar look and smell, this was definitely made by Aunty Mei.

With a bite of egg yolk puffed pastry in his mouth, tears almost rolled down Gu Chenyi’s cheeks. Ever since Aunty Mei was taken away by Second Uncle, the quality of meals at home had been getting worse and worse.

After Gu Chenyi had finished a piece of puffed pastry when Gu Xi handed over a bottle of water to him.

Gu Chenyi, “!” Where was his cellphone? He must send a message to brag to Gu Yanxiao!

***

Sheng Xiuyan, sitting across from them took a look at the two of them and had a dubious look on him: Since when did these two become so close with each other?

No, since when did the brain-dead Gu Chenyi become such a people person?

Did the two know each other from before? Both of their surnames are Gu……

A possibility occurred to Sheng Xiuyan but he quickly struck that down. As far as he knew, with the distantly-related Gu XueEr, there wasn’t one by the name of Gu Xi.

Sheng Xiuyan looked back away, decided not to concern himself with that, switched to a different position and went back to sleep.

***

Over on this side, when Gu Xi looked to have fallen asleep, Gu Chenyi quickly fished out his cellphone, sneakily took a picture of the two of them together, and posted it to their chat group gloatingly along with the texts: [I am heading to the competition with Xixi. No need to worry for us.]

Over at the Gu’s, Gu Yanxiao, who had just seen the message gritted his teeth in annoyance – He had wanted to submit his application as well but Gu Chenyi beat him to it.

His annoyance, however, was short-lived. He looked at the time and waited for two minutes before he sent a private message to Gu Chenyi: [You’ve sent it to the wrong group.]