C4 (2/2)

Yuan Han thought about it, then walked over.

Gu Mohan reached out and gently caressed the old tree at the entrance of the Yuan Gate, as his mind returned to twenty years ago …

He said, ”Yuan Han, do you remember that winter twenty years ago when the snow was falling heavily? There was a little boy who was picking up trash here, and his face was completely blue from the cold, as he shivered in fear.”

Yuan Han was startled, and did not know what she wanted to express.

Gu Mohan turned his head and looked at her bright eyes deeply. They were pure and clear, like a clean stream, exactly like the little angel in his memory. She stood in the snow, releasing his goodwill towards the world, just like the Holy Maiden in the Bible.

”Right now, the Gu family is as powerful as the sun in the sky, but very few people know what kind of downfall they had twenty years ago.” Gu Mohan muttered.

Yuan Han was stunned once again. She had actually faintly heard of this matter before.

The Gu family, the wealthiest in Jinzhou, was just a poor family whose business had gone bankrupt twenty years ago.

”That year, my family was unable to repay our debts, and sold almost everything we could. You can't imagine what kind of scene that was, on the first day of the new year, my family didn't even have food to eat, so I had no choice but to go out every day to pick up trash from the streets to sell … ”At that time, I was five years old.”

Gu Mohan raised his head, looked at the big tree at the entrance of the Yuan Gate and continued to recount what happened that year.

”That night, it was snowing heavily. I spent the entire day leaning against this tree to rest. I was filled with hunger and cold.”

”Just when I was unable to endure any longer, the door opened and a little girl appeared before me. She was a beauty that I had seen before. She was so beautiful that I couldn't stop my heart from beating. So beautiful that it made me nervous.”

”I thought she was going to bully me and drive me away like the other children.”

”But she didn't. She gave me bread and a full glass of milk.”

Yuan Han's eyes widened, she finally remembered that snowy winter night when she was young. That night, it was on the windowsill and she saw a little boy in thin clothes leaning against a tree, shivering from the cold, and she felt pity for him.

However, after so many years, that little boy from back then had already grown up. Now, he was standing before him.

Yuan Han was extremely shocked. It was difficult for her to combine the little boy whose face had turned blue from the cold back then with this perfect man in front of her again. ”You, you really are that …”

Gu Mohan nodded, his eyes focused on her clear eyes which had not been tainted in twenty years. Back then, he had also stood in front of her, with only his head lowered, thanking her in such a manner: ”I have nothing to repay you with.”

The girl revealed an innocent and kind smile and said, ”To show love is not to ask for anything in return.”

In that winter of despair, Gu Mohan was like an abandoned puppy, quietly leaning against the tree without a trace of warmth.

He had met her, when he had fallen into the abyss of despair and helplessness.

It was a coincidence of fate, but it was the cause and effect.

Gu Mohan caressed Yuan Han's face and said: ”You are my angel.”