Little Star looked up and saw the sweat on Qin Tianyi's face. He reached out his dirty little hand and said, "Daddy, I'll help you wipe it too."
Qin Tianyi didn't dodge, nor did he mind Little Star's dirty hands. He let him wipe his face. Both of them were so dirty they looked like big calico cats.
Little Star found that he had actually made Qin Tianyi's face dirtier, and couldn't help but laugh, "Daddy, your face... your face is so funny."
"What's wrong with my face?" Qin Tianyi inexplicably reached out to touch his face, making it dirtier and dirtier.
Gu Susu watched them from the side with a smile. The big one and the small one really looked like a father and son.
Qin Tianyi looked at the mud prints on Little Star's face, one on the left and one on the right, and suddenly realized that his own face was now like Little Star's. He pretended to be angry and said to Little Star, "Okay, you said you were wiping my sweat, but you were actually deliberately smearing mud on my face. Let's see how I deal with you."
"I didn't..." Before Little Star could finish speaking, he quickly stood up and ran.
Gu Susu thought Qin Tianyi was really angry and wanted to stop Qin Tianyi from chasing Little Star, but she couldn't.
Qin Tianyi caught up with Little Star and grabbed him, then just tickled him and played around with him, not really angry.
Gu Susu saw them rolling on the ground in a playful fight and smiled with relief.
She suddenly realized that this was the first time she had seen Qin Tianyi not like an iceberg, but also acting like a child fooling around. She remembered what Chen Ma had said about him being quite lively and cheerful before the accident. She must have been right; he had also been innocent and romantic like other children.
After Qin Tianyi had played enough with Little Star, he picked him up and said, "Let's go take a bath together. No dinner until you're clean."
Gu Susu hurried to follow them back to the villa. Seeing him carrying Little Star upstairs, she quickly said, "No need. Let me help him take a bath. He's used to me helping him..."
Before she could finish, Little Star rushed to say to her, "Mom! I want to take a bath with Daddy. We're both men."
Gu Susu was speechless for a moment. Little Star had only been with Qin Tianyi for a few days and already liked him so much that even his mother was being ignored.
"Did you hear what your son said? He's so young, he knows the difference between men and women and knows to be shy. What about you?" Qin Tianyi said, carrying Little Star upstairs.
She sat in her wheelchair and couldn't follow them upstairs. Helplessly, she heard Little Star say to Qin Tianyi again, "Daddy, after the bath, I want to watch cartoons in your room."
"Okay, no problem..."
Hearing their laughter, Gu Susu felt a little lost. With the child having a father, she, the mother, seemed to have become redundant.
Gu Susu didn't want to stay alone in her room, so she turned her wheelchair and went to the kitchen to see if she could help.
If she just lived like this without doing anything, she would really be restless.
...
In a blink of an eye, she had unknowingly stayed in the seaside villa for a month. The injury on her ankle gradually healed, and she could walk a few steps on her tiptoes without pain.
During the day, Qin Tianyi would send Little Star to kindergarten early and then go to his company.
Only she was left in the villa, along with Chen Ma and Xiao Mei.
She didn't have much to talk about with Xiao Mei, but she saw that Xiao Mei was a diligent girl at work.
Sometimes, when Chen Ma was free, she would chat with her a few words, mostly about Qin Tianyi. In Chen Ma's eyes, Qin Tianyi and the real Qin Tianyi seemed like two different people to Gu Susu.
Perhaps in Chen Ma's eyes, Qin Tianyi would always be the perfect young master.
Most of the time, she was alone in her room, passing the time with the laptop. Fortunately, during the month she was recuperating, Qin Tianyi didn't have any excessive behavior and didn't often bother her.
She lived in a guest room on the first floor, while Qin Tianyi and Little Star lived on the second floor.
The seaside villa was much smaller compared to the former Qin family mansion, and only slightly larger than the small building where the old Mrs. Qin lived.
Her leg was inconvenient, so she had never been to the second floor. Every day after dinner, Qin Tianyi would take Little Star upstairs. She could only stare helplessly from the first floor, occasionally hearing Little Star's happy laughter.
Now, she felt that Little Star was becoming more and more attached to Qin Tianyi and was no longer sticking to her, his mother. What should she do? How could she quietly take Little Star away?
Sometimes she thought that Qin Tianyi was treating Little Star so well and even coaxing Little Star to call him Daddy, it must be intentional. He wanted to use this method to make Little Star unable to leave him, so she couldn't escape.
Thinking of this, Gu Susu felt both angry and helpless. For now, she could only take things one step at a time.
...
Early in the morning, on the top floor of the Ao Xiang Group, the terrifying low pressure in the CEO's office made Xiao Anjing breathless.
Xiao Anjing carefully put down the document in his hand and was about to slip away quickly. He didn't know what was wrong with Qin Tianyi lately. He had found Gu Susu, but he was still so angry every day. Had Gu Susu not helped him vent his anger?
In the two years Gu Susu was gone, some busybodies had arranged blind dates for Qin Tianyi, but he was completely uninterested, and his temper became more and more terrifying.
He had also thought that it wouldn't work for Qin Tianyi to not have a woman around. He had also arranged women for him to have one-night stands with, but he was still not interested. He didn't even have any physiological reactions to those women.
Xiao Anjing suspected that he was ill, and only Gu Susu could cure him of this illness.
But looking at his mood these days, it was still the same. Could it be that he no longer had any reaction to Gu Susu?
"Stop! How is the acquisition of Ai Shi Group going?"
Xiao Anjing had no choice but to brace himself and look at him again, saying, "A professional company is currently conducting an investigation report and risk assessment of their group's current situation."
Qin Tianyi nodded, then asked with a serious expression, "Has Qin Tianlang been causing any trouble recently?"
"He's just spreading slanderous remarks everywhere, trying to get the elders of the Qin family who are still alive to come forward and deal with you together."
Qin Tianyi frowned and said, "Take back the electronics company under his name, and don't give him any more living expenses. Let's see how he can make trouble!"
"I'll go do it now." Xiao Anjing agreed and quickly slipped away.
Qin Tianyi temporarily put aside his inner unhappiness and returned to his work. He was determined to acquire Ai Shi Group. One reason was that the Ai family treated Gu Susu very poorly and had always threatened her. Another reason was that although Ai Shi Group was declining, the e-commerce sector they were involved in was precisely the weakness of Ao Xiang. It was better for them to be absorbed into his company than to be swallowed by other giants.
All of Gu Susu's acquaintances and relatives were under his control. Seeing that, who else could she rely on but him?
...
For the past two days, Gu Susu had been working on design drafts in her room. Recently, the small online shop finally received an order, and she had something to do, so she temporarily stopped thinking about other things.
She was concentrating on designing blueprints online when she suddenly heard a clatter from upstairs, which startled her. It sounded like a pile of things had fallen and hit the ground.
"Chen Ma, is that you upstairs? What happened?" Gu Susu tiptoed out of her room and stood at the bottom of the stairs, asking loudly.
But there was no one to answer her. The villa became exceptionally quiet again, from top to bottom.