Chapter 29

Oh No, Father Is Here!

Ah, I wonder if she will be displeased?

His face turned red and then pale, inwardly resenting his own reckless behavior.

“What’s wrong, brother? Will we still be able to see the fairy sister?” Lu Bainian’s sister asked, shaking his hand.

Lu Bainian forced himself to calm down.

He thought that he had offended Miss Gu, and he would apologize to her tomorrow.

He also needed to prepare a generous gift to express his gratitude for saving his little sister.

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“Yuan Xi, are you sure we’re going the right way? We’ve already passed this way before.”

Gu Qingluan held Yuan Xi’s little hand as they walked leisurely.

Yuan Xi said that his home wasn’t far from the yamen and he wanted to walk back, so they abandoned the carriage and started walking.

However, they had been circling around the city for half an hour, not only failing to find the place Yuan Xi mentioned but also seemingly returning to the area they had walked through before.

Yuan Xi’s gaze shifted uncomfortably. “Um, maybe… maybe I remembered wrong.”

He looked around and pointed in another direction. “It seems like this way, I just remembered it wrong!”

“This path leads directly to the city gate. We took this way when we entered the city.”

“Ah, then… then it must be this way!”

Yuan Xi pointed in the opposite direction.

Gu Qingluan bent down and looked at him. “Do you not want to go home?”

Yuan Xi tightened his grip on her finger. “N-No, I do.”

“Are you sure?”

Under her gaze, Yuan Xi pouted and said pitifully, “I don’t want to leave beautiful sister. If I go back, I won’t be able to see beautiful sister anymore.”

“How could that be! If you want to see me, you can come and find me anytime. I live at the Gu residence, oh no, it’s called Jun Mansion now.” Gu Qingluan told him the address. “I won’t be leaving there for the time being.”

“But my father won’t let me go.”

“Why not?”

“Because my father hates women.”

There isn’t a single woman in the royal mansion, even the guard dogs are male!

If his father knew that he was going to look for his beautiful sister, he would definitely be very angry and lock himself in a small black room.

Ugh!

Gu Qingluan didn’t expect such a reason.

Could it be that Yuan Xi’s mother didn’t die, but ran away with another man, causing his father to resent all women?

With a realization, Gu Qingluan looked at Yuan Xi with a loving gaze.

That woman must be incredibly heartless. How could she bear to abandon her own child after giving birth?

The adorable little one was still in the dark, unaware that he had been abandoned by his mother.

As a mother herself, Gu Qingluan couldn’t understand what the other woman was thinking. She held Yuan Xi tenderly, feeling immense compassion for him.

Yuan Xi snuggled in her soft and fragrant embrace, feeling both happy and sad. “Beautiful sister, can I stay with you tonight and go back tomorrow?”

“Sure, I’ll take you back tomorrow!”

Gu Qingluan couldn’t refuse the little boy’s request, nodding without hesitation.

Yuan Xi’s eyes lit up. That was great!

“Beautiful sister, I…”

He was about to say something when he suddenly sensed a strong and familiar aura approaching. His small body tensed up, and a look of fear appeared on his innocent face.

Oh no, his father, the king, was coming!

“Beautiful sister, quickly hide!”

“Huh?”

Yuan Xi looked around and spotted a lush and dense tree not far away. He hurriedly pushed Gu Qingluan and said, “Beautiful sister, quickly hide in the tree! My father is coming, and we mustn’t let him see us together, or he will hurt you.”

Gu Qingluan was confused.

Was his father really that twisted? She had no grudge against him, so why would he want to harm her?

Seeing how anxious the little guy was, Gu Qingluan reluctantly played along. “Okay, I’ll hide. But what about you? Will your father hurt you?”