Priceless Baby: 101 Bedside Stories

“No, it has nothing to do with Burger. I pissed him off.”

“Oh, I’m glad.”

“…” Shen Qianshu looked at him.

Can we still live happily as mother and son?

Lin Kun and Han Fang left in the afternoon. Lin Kun grabbed Lin Xiaojuan’s hand and looked very serious. With tears in his eyes, he asked, “Darling, you can’t break up with him?”

“I don’t even have a boyfriend. What do you mean by breaking up?”

“Can Daddy introduce you to one? Our neighbor Aunt Lee has a son who just returned from England. He’s into venture capital, and he’s really talented. When you were younger, you always said that you wanted to marry him,” Lin Kun said. He looked at Lin Xiaojuan in great anticipation.

Lin Xiaojuan asked, “Who is more handsome, him or Gu Xie?”

Lin Kun almost cried. Han Fang said, “Okay, stop fooling around. Don’t listen to your dad. If you’re dating someone, bring him home.”

“There’s no need!” Lin Kun’s voice changed. He sensed that he had overreacted, and he cleared his throat. Then, he said, “Seeing him on TV is enough.”

Han Fang was speechless.

Lin Xiaojuan was speechless.

After Lin Kun and Han Fang left, Lin Xiaojuan went to her company. CEO Li had been doing some consolidation with Brilliant Entertainment. Lately, Lin Xiaojuan was promoted to become the Director of the Managing team, and she now managed a group of managers. Her speech weighed more now.

Lately, she was only busy with the development of two artistes, so she was happy to be rather free.

When Gu Xie came over, he brought her a white down jacket. Lin Xiaojuan had always been afraid of the cold. He was wearing a black windbreaker, and the two of them looked as if they were wearing couple outfits in black and white. Lin Xiaojuan felt that it was funny yet embarrassing.

After the musical, the two of them went for supper.

“Your parents only stayed for a day?”

“We have a family business, so they can’t stay for long,” Lin Xiaojuan said. “My parents are usually very busy, and they rarely visit me. I wished they would stay for long too, but they are not used to it. They find it boring, so I can’t force them either.”

Gu Xie laughed. “That’s pretty good.”

“Why?”

“After I turned eighteen, I began living alone.”

“You have so many elder brothers. Why don’t you live with them?”

Gu Xie shook his head and said softly, “Due to some issues, my brothers have some conflicts, and we have never gotten along well. When we turned eighteen, we went separate ways to live alone. Even if we return home, we rarely gather around.”

“Wouldn’t that… upset your parents?”

“My father’s a busy man, and he doesn’t have time to be sad. My mom… Other than working, my dad never steps foot out of our home. He keeps my mom company,” Gu Xie said.

Lin Xiaojuan felt something in her heart. “Is she… ill?”

“Vegetable!” Gu Xie said. “We went to many doctors, but none of them could treat her. Every year, we invite professional teams from abroad to come over, but my mom seems to be unable to wake up. The doctors said that the possibility of that happening is really small—almost impossible. The team suggested we euthanize her, but my father could not bear to. He would rather look after her. Just like that, it’s already been over twenty years.”

When Gu Xie spoke of his mother, his eyes seemed to carry sorrow. Although he did not have much memory of her, he remembered that when he was younger, he would always hide in his mother’s room. It was because only when his mother was in the bedroom would his father’s temper be more stable. No matter what wrongdoings he made, his father would let him off.

The eldest brother had said that Mom loved him most.

Lin Xiaojuan’s heart hurt. Since she was young, her family was peaceful, and her parents were healthy. She could not imagine his pain of losing his mother, and she could only drink with him. She did not dare to ask further. Gu Xie seemed distant. He looked into the dark night and seemed to be in deep thought. “If Mom wakes up soon, maybe our family will no longer be in such a state…”