Chapter 35 - I Will Leave You Alone (1/2)

Sitting in the car, Gu Nianbin asked seriously, “Now tell me. Why did you walk away alone?”

Du Xiaoxian lowered her head and bit her lips. Blood seeped from the cut lips into her mouth. It tasted sweet.

She didn’t expect that she caused so much trouble for the young master and even bothered the police.

She didn’t expect the young master was so angry either. She was a fool. No wonder no one liked her. No wonder she had no friends.

Now even the young master wouldn’t like her. She was a nit, simply mindless. If she told the young master or Xiaoding beforehand, things would not be like this.

So many people, including the headmaster, were bothered to look for her. How could she have the nerve to go to school tomorrow? The young master used his connections to send her to school, but…look at what she had done.

Du Xiaoxian felt so guilty that even her guts were twisted and her body further shrank.

“Speak.”

Gu Nianbin pulled down the car window and let the breeze in.

After explaining the case to the traffic policeman, he drove to the river levee, which was shady and quiet with big trees. The wind on the river slowly breezed over, bringing the moist and pleasant air into his nose.

He often drove here to stay for a while during depression and the river breeze would disperse his bad mood.

Now he was extremely depressed. She was under his gaze every day, but he didn’t know every of her thoughts.

She was so simple that he could read her mind easily. Still, he didn’t detect her plan.

Was it because he ignored it, or she concealed it well?

The stifling air in the car made Du Xiaoxian bow her head all the time. However, she couldn’t keep silent as the young master asked her twice in a row.

Although flustered and panicked, she stammered to explain her thoughts clearly to Gu Nianbin.

Gu Nianbin found her thoughts both funny and annoying. It turned out that the little girl was trying to save his times for dating. Did she want to be independent of him?

He planned to made her an independent woman by sending her to school. But before he was ready to let her go, she was trying to be on her own.

“Do you think you are a trouble to me?”

Still a deep voice, but not as cold as before.

Du Xiaoxian sneaked a glance at him. His sights were still cold. She was frightened and turned down her eyes immediately.

She spoke haltingly, “I, I want you to have a happy family. They all said you have long passed the age for marriage…”

Long passed the age…Gu Nianbin’s face further darkened, “Am I that old?”

The voice was much colder now … as if he was somewhat depressed. Du Xiaoxian’s heart tightened up, but she managed to raise her head to look at him and said softly, “You look very young.”

That was pleasant to hear. Gu Nianbin felt better and then realized something weird in her words. Did she mean he was actually old?

Without rhyme or reason, he heard himself saying, “I’m thirty-two years old.”

Actually many of his friends got married at 35 or above. He believed he still had enough time to find a soulmate if the five-year engagement failed.

His honest confession only shocked Du Xiaoxian who didn’t expect such an old age. With the corner of his mouth quivering, Gu Nianbin patiently explained to her, “Xiaoxian, 32 is not an old age here. Many men of this age are not married.”

Du Xiaoxian blinked and said, “You are not old at all. You are four years younger than my uncle!”

“Your uncle is…”

“The husband of my aunt.”

The corner of his mouth quivered again. Du Xiaoxian, are you really comforting me?

Gu Nianbin didn’t want to continue on this topic. They had spent so much time on his age before getting down to the business.

He was afraid of scaring her again by further reproaching. After a while of silence, he said, “It’s alright this time. Don’t make such mistakes next time.”

Du Xiaoxian nodded obediently, “Sir, I am sorry. I will tell you or Xiaoding in advance wherever I go in future.”

“It’s none of his business.”

“Just tell me,” said Gu Nianbin unpleasantly.

He paused and then said, “I told you that the world is not safe for a girl like you. What if you run into a bad guy? This is a big city. What if you get lost? You’re still a kid. Just take my words and don’t worry about others. Get it?”

“I see.”

Du Xiaoxian nodded earnestly, “Sir, don’t worry. I know the way.” She pointed to the street on the right and said, “Walk along the street and turn left at the end and then we’ll be at home.

I won’t be lost.

I can go to school by bus.”

Gu Nianbin was stunned. Did she still decide to go to school on her own after all this taking?

“What if you run into bad guys?”

“This won’t happen. People barely know me. Why do they bully me? Even if they do, I will run away. I run very fast. They can’t catch me.” Du Xiaoxian smiled.

“You run very fast?” Gu Nianbin looked at her.

“That’s right,” said Du Xiaoxian proudly. “Once I was a little far away from home and some kids threw stones at me. I ran away at once and not a single stone reached me.

My aunt said that I ran faster than a rabbit.”

Gu Nianbin recalled the early days of her working in the Gu mansion. She ran away whenever seeing him. She did run fast, sometimes disappearing from his sights like a flash.

“Sir?”