Chapter 41 (1/2)
Chapter 41
The woman who was standing next to him, holding tightly onto his arm, raised her head to look at Zuo Hancheng. She realized that he was looking at the other end of the lobby. The woman looked toward the other end of the lobby out of curiosity but she did not see anything.
Was the most important thing right now not to get rid of these reporters?
The woman quickly leaned against Zuo Hancheng’s shoulder as she asked him, “Hancheng, what are you looking at?”
Zuo Hancheng withdrew his gaze as he glanced as the young and beautiful woman standing next to him. After that, he asked her in a gentle voice, “What do women usually do when they are in a bad mood?”
“What?” The woman, who was snuggled close to him, was stunned by his sudden question. After thinking about it for a short while, she replied, “If I am in a bad mood, I will either cry by myself or go shopping to cheer myself up.”
Cry?
It seemed as though Gu Anhao was not crying at all.
“Then, what would you do if someone hits you?”
“…” The woman was a little confused and she did not know why Zuo Hancheng suddenly had so many inexplicable questions.
However, since there were so many reporters and paparazzi around them, the woman did not want to let go of this opportunity to look like the both of them were sharing secrets with one another as they were whispering to one another with their heads lowered. Therefore, she shook her head before she whispered, “I have never thought about it before, nobody would dare to hit me.”
Zuo Hancheng raised his brows before he let out a sigh.
That was right. One was an orphan who had been bullied throughout her entire life whereas the other party was a celebrity who had a strong and powerful father in the American Chinese business community. How could he compare the both of them?
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Boom!
It was getting dark and the rain was getting heavier.
Anhao did not want to be hospitalized again. Since working hours had just ended, the pedestrians and office workers had already booked all the cabs, and Anhao would need to walk for another ten minutes to get to the bus station. Therefore, Anhao had to temporarily take shelter under the eaves of a cafe nearby.
As she stood under the eaves in the strong and heavy rain, she leaned back against the wall of the cafe, trying to avoid the heavy rain.
Anhao rubbed her cold arms as she raised her eyes to look at the dark dense clouds floating in the dark sky. She then recalled what her mother said to her when she was fourteen years old.
“Anhao, please don’t blame your mother for choosing this path for you. You are still very young and this world is too complicated. No matter how the Gu family treats you, it is still better for you to have a family and a home, than for you to become a wild child wandering around on your own…”
Family?
Could that be considered a home?
She had been punched, kicked and scolded ever since she started living in that house. She had to suffer numerous insults and humiliation daily, and her family treated her worse that they would treat a dog.
This was because Mrs. Gu would always buy all sorts of new clothes and snacks for her puppy, but on the other hand, Gu Anhao had to survive on any leftovers that they gave her as she lived in a small and dark hut.
She could still remember the first time she met Chunchun. At that time, Chunchun had asked her innocently why she was learning Taekwondo when she was the mayor’s daughter. All the other young ladies from these prestigious families would usually learn how to play the piano, or take dancing or art classes instead.
It was only much later that Chunchun finally discovered the hell that Anhao had suffered on a cold winter night five years ago. Anhao had no choice but to learn how to protect and defend herself because she did not have anyone else that she could rely on.
If she did not learn how to protect herself, she would not be able to survive in this cruel world.
However, Gu Anhao’s hands were still tied even though she now had the ability to take revenge on those who bullied her in the past.