Who wants to be a male model after being reborn? I want to be a male god.

Chapter 413 The Last Protection
"Don't be so childish all the time. It's time for you to grow up." Gu Hong sighed imperceptibly.

Gu Xingruo took a bite of the apple as if nothing had happened.

She had heard these words too many times; her father always told her so.

Probably since junior high school, I told her, who was still a teenager, that it was time for her to grow up.

"What exactly do you want to tell me when you asked me to come back?" Gu Xingruo asked.

She deliberately put her legs on the coffee table.

Every time she did this as a child, her father would scold her and tell her to put her legs down.

But today, Gu Hong just shook the red wine glass and didn't care about her impolite behavior.

Gu Xingruo pretended to be calm on the surface, but she was secretly observing Gu Hong out of the corner of her eye.

She is a daughter, and the person in front of her is her biological father.

This should be the closest relationship in the world.

But she found that she seemed to have never seen her father clearly, or even never knew him.

Since childhood, he has been a person far away from home.

In her vague impression, she and her mother depended on each other for survival.

After her mother passed away, she has been living with her grandfather, and the father and daughter have very little time to spend together.

Later, grandpa passed away, and then she came to Linjiang.

But even when he was with Gu Hong, they didn't have much contact with each other on a normal basis.

With so many things happening recently, Gu Xingruo realized that she had never understood her father and didn't even know what kind of person he was.

"How are you getting along with Xu Wen recently?" Gu Hong suddenly asked, his voice much gentler than usual.

Gu Xingruo paused while chewing.

This doesn't seem like a question a father would ask.

Gu Xingruo knew that he never cared about her problems in life.

At most I would ask her if she had money, whether it was enough to spend, and if she needed anything recently.

As for how she was doing in Linjiang and who she usually spent time with, he never asked much.

Even though he now knew that she and Xu Wen were together, Gu Hong noticed that they mostly talked about business matters and never talked about relationship issues.

"That's it. You called me here today just for this?" She was deliberately vague and threw the apple core accurately into the trash can not far away.

Gu Xingruo sometimes envied the parent-child relationship in other people's families.

For example, she envied the relationship between Dai Guizhen, Xu Wen and Xu Ling.

They are a real family. They always try to consider each other, thinking about whether the other party will be happy, and say whatever they want.

Instead of being like she is now, competing to see who will reveal the flaw first.

Gu Hong put down his wine glass, and his eyes revealed a complex expression that Gu Xingruo had never seen before.

He opened his mouth slightly, but no sound came out.

It seemed as if he was about to say something, but he wasn't prepared.

Gu Xingruo found this very abnormal.

What kind of person is her father Gu Hong?

In his situation, it is always others who are nervous and don't know what to say. When has he become unable to speak?

Gu Xingruo was now even more curious about what her father wanted to say to her.

"Ruoruo, have you had a happy year?" Gu Hong crossed his fingers on his knees.

This question made Gu Xingruo even more confused.

She even began to suspect that Gu Hong had been possessed by someone else.

That's not at all something he would say.

In her twenty years of life, her father had never once asked her if she was happy.

As far as she could remember, her father Gu Hong had always been absent.

After arriving in Linjiang, she even asked her employees to attend her parent-teacher meeting.

I just stopped coming to high school.

It seems that Gu Hong's world only cares about goals and results, and he never cares about the process or feelings.

Even if Gu Xingruo was a fool, she should understand that something was not right in the current situation.

She suddenly remembered the transfer records in Xu Wen's computer, so she asked bluntly: "Dad, is there something wrong with you?"

"It's nothing, I just want to ask you how you've been doing recently." Gu Hong smiled rarely.

Seeing that her father didn't want to say anything, Gu Xingruo had to answer his question first: "Very good, this should be the happiest year I have ever had."

This was not an excuse or pretense; it was her true feelings.

Gu Xingruo finally felt that she was no longer alone.

She finally got together with the person she had been thinking about. They became a couple, opened a company together, and experienced many things.
Although the process had some twists and turns, this was indeed the happiest year for her. She had never been so happy.

"That's good." Gu Hong breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he smiled and said in a teasing tone: "Isn't it just being with a rare person? Look, it's for your amusement."

After his father reminded him, Gu Xingruo realized that the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.

The conversation between the two seemed to gradually become more relaxed.

"Of course I'm happy!" Gu Xingruo curled her lips.

The atmosphere seemed to gradually ease, but Gu Hong's next words suddenly made the two of them nervous again.

"I have arranged a direct flight for you to England, and opened a trust account for you at a Swiss bank. It is enough for you to travel in Europe for a few years." Gu Hong put away his smile.

He pushed a file bag in front of her.

After doing all this, he didn't wait for Gu Xingruo's response and continued to talk to himself: "I heard that the climate over there is similar to our hometown. I haven't been there. You can go there for your father to see what it's like and spend a few years there."

Gu Xingruo could no longer hear the rest of the words. She looked at the envelope in front of her, completely immersed in shock.

She didn't understand why she was suddenly allowed to go abroad?

"Why? Didn't you agree to let me stay in Linjiang? Haven't I also fulfilled what you asked?" Gu Xingruo asked hurriedly.

When she graduated from high school, her father planned to send her abroad.

However, she successfully ran a bar and earned her first pot of gold, so this request was put on hold.

I didn't expect it to be brought up again now.

Everything happened too suddenly.

Gu Hong stood up and walked towards the wine cabinet, leaving only his back to Gu Xingruo.

"Shan City is expanding too fast. Linjiang will not be peaceful in the future." He said softly.

"Because you want to deal with Xu Wen? Or are you afraid that I will discover your shady fund transfers?" Gu Xingruo gave up the idea of ​​testing and said bluntly.

The air suddenly froze, and the originally relaxed and happy atmosphere disappeared.

Gu Hong didn't seem nervous, as if he had known his daughter would ask this question.

He poured himself some more wine and sat back on the sofa with the glass in his hand.

"Have you finished reading the information Li Min gave you?" Gu Hong suddenly asked.

Gu Xingruo's body stiffened.

really!

That USB flash drive was actually a bait placed by my father on purpose!
Xu Wen’s hunch was correct.

It all went terribly smoothly, almost abnormally smoothly.

For something to go so smoothly, there must be someone behind the scenes fanning the flames.

"Jiang Jiayi is your person? Are you framing Sister Yan for embezzling public funds just to cover up your transfer of assets overseas?" She stood up, her tone agitated.

In her opinion, Yan Hui had been with her father for so many years, and was abandoned just like that. This was totally inconsistent with her values, and even made her feel a little scared.

When Gu Hong turned around, Gu Xingruo discovered that there were a few wrinkles at the corners of her father's eyes that she had never noticed before.

I don't know when it started, but he seemed to have aged all of a sudden.

This discovery shocked her more than any evidence.

In her memory, her father was always the calm and high-spirited superior.

"I have arranged the plane for you. The villa over there has been packed up. The nanny here will go with you. Your mother always told me that she wanted to visit there." Gu Hong took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.

"My mother has been dead for seventeen years! What are you doing now? Pretending to be a kind father or pretending that you love my mother very much?" Gu Xingruo sat back down.

She crossed her legs and spoke in a cold tone.

Gu Xingruo never mentioned the emotional issues between her parents, but that didn't mean she had no grudges in her heart.

After all, she still had some resentment towards her father.

Gu Hong abandoned his wife and children and came to Linjiang alone with resentment.

Perhaps if he hadn't left, their family of three would have lived a happier life.

Maybe not that rich, but living a simple and happy life.

Gu Hong still had a blank expression on his face, as if he didn't care about his daughter's questioning.

He sipped the red wine in his glass and continued calmly, "It is because of your mother that I cannot let you get involved. I promised her."

This sentence was like a key that suddenly opened a box deep in Gu Xingruo's memory.

She remembered that when Gu Hong first brought her to Linjiang, he seemed to have said something similar.

"What happened?" She tried her best to stay calm and not get too excited.

Gu Hong put down his wine glass.

He stood up and looked down at Gu Xingruo, with a determination in his eyes that she had never seen before.

"The driver will come to pick you up at 8 o'clock on Wednesday morning. If you don't leave, I will have someone tie you up and put you on the plane." His voice suddenly became cold and hard.

Gu Xingruo stood up suddenly. She could no longer remain calm: "Why do you do that?"

"Because I'm your father." Gu Hong interrupted her.

He turned and walked towards the entrance, no longer reluctant to leave: "I have given you enough freedom this year, now it's time for you to listen to me."

The sound of the door closing was neither light nor heavy, but it made Gu Xingruo feel extremely heavy.

She stood there, all the blood in her body rushing to her head, making her feel dizzy for a moment.

The documents on the coffee table made her feel that this world was really absurd.

She grabbed the briefcase and threw it to the ground, and the various documents and bank cards she needed fell out.

One of the photos floated to her feet.

This photo looks like a family portrait of her when she was a child, with the big willow tree in front of her hometown in the background.

There are her mother, her father, her grandfather and herself when she was a child.

But she had no impression at all.

On the back of the photo, there was a faded pen writing "Happy Birthday Ruoruo", which was obviously an old item that had been treasured for many years.

Gu Xingruo's anger suddenly froze.

She squatted down and picked up the photo with trembling fingers.

My father never showed any of this and rarely even mentioned my mother.

This discovery surprised her greatly.

Outside the window, the night is deep along the river.

Gu Xingruo stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and for the first time felt that this city where she had lived for many years was so unfamiliar.

The phone vibrated in my pocket.

Xu Wen's message popped up: "How was the talk? Do you need me?"

She stared at the screen for a long moment, her fingertips hovering above the keyboard.

The abnormal behavior of his father, the funds from unknown sources, and Jiang Jiayi's identity
All the fragments were spinning in my mind, but I couldn't piece together a complete pattern.

Finally, she just replied: "Nothing, I'll come to see you tomorrow."

Gu Xingruo tossed and turned in bed that night.

At three o'clock in the morning, she tiptoed downstairs and found a faint light coming through the crack of the study door.

When he pushed open the door, Gu Hong was frowning at the computer screen.

She didn't expect her father to come back again.

The father and daughter looked at each other in the dim light, and neither of them spoke first.

Finally, Gu Hong looked away: "Go to bed."

"What are you hiding from me?" Gu Xing walked in and closed the door.

The keyboard typing stopped abruptly.

Gu Hong took off his glasses and rubbed his brows, suddenly revealing a tired look: "When you were a kid, you always asked why other people had parents to pick them up from school. Do you remember how I answered?"

Gu Xingruo was stunned.

That was the part of her childhood she least wanted to recall.

After all the children were picked up, she was the only one left sitting in the empty classroom, waiting for her grandfather to come until dark.

"You said mom went far away and you had something important to do." Memories flooded into her mind.

When she grew up, she realized that the sentence meant her mother had passed away.

Gu Hong stood up and walked to the safe, deliberately blocking his daughter's view with his body when entering the password.

The metal door thumped heavily as he placed a brown paper bag on the table.

"check it out."

In the paper bag was a stack of yellowed medical records and several transfer records.

Gu Xingruo turned to the last page and suddenly her eyes widened.

In May 1995, three months before his mother's death, 5 yuan was transferred out of Gu Hong's account.

In the signature column of the payee, it was her grandfather's name.

"That's impossible. Grandpa said you wouldn't pay a penny." Gu Xingruo's eyes revealed surprise.

Gu Hong's voice was particularly cold: "Your grandfather owed foreign debts, and the money was transferred away the next day."

Gu Xingruo felt dizzy.

The truths she had believed in for years were crumbling.

"So what now? Are you telling me all this suddenly to say that you are actually a good husband?" She heard her voice trembling.

"I just want to tell you that what you see may not be the truth. Just like the evidence you think is just what others want you to see."

Gu Hong put the things away again: "It's very dangerous around me now. There are many people who want to kill me, from all over the place, and you are my only weakness, so you have to leave."

This sentence was like a basin of cold water that woke Gu Xingruo up.

She suddenly understood her father's abnormal tenderness, those moments when he was about to speak but stopped, and even the old photos that he deliberately showed tonight.
They all mean farewell.

"I can help you. Xu Wen and I have already..." She grabbed her father's wrist.

"It is precisely because of his presence that you are in greater danger. Use this to contact him when you arrive in the UK. Remember, no matter what news you hear, don't come back." Gu Hong withdrew his hand, took out an old-fashioned mobile phone from the drawer and threw it to her.

"What if I don't leave?" Gu Xingruo finally struggled.

Gu Hong took a deep breath and said word by word: "Then Xu Wen might watch you die with his own eyes."

Now she finally understands.

This was not a threat, but her father's last protection for her.

(End of this chapter)