Ye Tuan Tuan also particularly enjoyed spending time with her father, and the father-daughter bond grew deeper.
The only one feeling dejected was Ye Wan.
Ling Ming had taken her out for a meal. During dinner, he called her name twice, but she didn't respond. It was clear her mind was elsewhere.
"Ling Zi, what are you thinking about?" Ling Ming reached out and took her hand.
Ye Wan flinched as if scalded, about to pull her hand away, but he held on tighter. She lifted her beautiful eyes to look at the handsome man opposite her and said, "I'm thinking about Tuan Tuan."
"You shouldn't have let her acknowledge Gu Yun Ting back then, or you can still take her away now," Ling Ming released her hand and picked up chopsticks to put food on her plate.
"..."
"I don't want Tuan Tuan to be sad," Ye Wan said with a hint of helplessness. Perhaps her decision to return in the first place was a mistake, but it was too late to say anything now.
"If you want to leave, she definitely won't stay. Compared to Gu Yun Ting, she will surely choose you," Ling Ming looked at her with deep eyes.
"Of course I know that, but it would be too cruel for her. Tuan Tuan did nothing wrong, yet she has to bear the mistakes our generation made. It's too unfair to her," Ye Wan couldn't bear to see her daughter sad and upset.
"There is no fairness in this world," Ling Ming was noncommittal about her words. What fairness was there in this world? Unfairness was the norm.
"Let's eat, I'll consider it," Ye Wan said with a frown.
Ling Ming stared at the woman before him and continued to put food on her plate. Ye Wan glanced at the man opposite her, always having a strange feeling, as if Ling Ming wasn't looking at her, but through her, at someone else.
She didn't know if she was overthinking it. She had felt this way since the first time she met him.
After dinner, Ye Wan received a call from her daughter, asking if she wanted to have dinner together.
"I've already eaten. You figure out your own meal," Ye Wan was truly vexed. If she had known this would happen, she wouldn't have returned, and there wouldn't be so many troublesome matters.
After hanging up, Ye Tuan Tuan looked anxiously at her father, "Dad, Mom said she's already eaten and told me to eat by myself."
"Mm, then what do you want to eat, Tuan Tuan? I'll take you," Gu Yun Ting reached out and ruffled his daughter's hair.
"Sigh, Dad, Mom seems to dislike me. Ever since I acknowledged you, she hasn't given me a good look," Tuan Tuan's pretty little face was all wrinkled, showing how sad she was.
Gu Yun Ting's heart ached. He scooped his daughter onto his lap and said, "Your mother doesn't dislike you. She dislikes me. Back then... I truly wronged her and did many things against her."
"Dad, what exactly did you do? Can you apologize to Mom properly? If you gain her forgiveness, we can all be happy together," Tuan Tuan tilted her little face up and asked.
"Mm, I will apologize to her, don't worry," Gu Yun Ting knew that everything that happened before was his fault. It was his stubbornness and obstinacy that had completely chilled her heart towards him, so he was willing to do everything he could to make up for the mistakes he had made.
"Dad, I miss Mom. I want to go back and be with Mom," Ye Tuan Tuan snuggled into her father's embrace. Although she was reluctant to leave her father, she still wanted to be with her mother.
"I miss her too. I'll have her come over tonight," Gu Yun Ting had longed for Ye Wan desperately. The reason he hadn't gone to find her was because he was desperately restraining himself.
Upon learning that her daughter had a fever, Ye Wan rushed to the Gu residence. Her expression was grim. Jin Lan saw her and immediately came to greet her, but Ye Wan completely ignored him, only wanting to see her daughter as quickly as possible.