Since Huo Shaoheng said he would ask, Yin Shixiong didn't want to be a busybody.
He rubbed his nose and smiled sheepishly. "Huo Shao, please put more effort into this matter. It's for Nianzhi anyway. She will understand."
Huo Shaoheng glanced at him but didn't say anything. He only turned his gaze back to the computer. This action meant that the conversation was over and Yin Shixiong could leave.
Yin Shixiong walked out of Huo Shaoheng's office and closed the door for him.
As soon as the door closed, Huo Shaoheng's gaze returned to his desk. He stared at a coffee cup on the desk for a while, then reached out to open the drawer and took out a book.
The cover of the book was painted with a red rabbit. The title was "The Miraculous-Journey-Of-Edward-Tulane."
Opening the book, there was a photo in the book's interlayer.
Huo Shaoheng took out the photo and looked at it carefully.
In the photo was a little girl around 11 or 12 years old. She was wearing a pretty little princess dress and had long hair draped over the back of her head. She had dark bangs and a round, chubby face. Her eyes weren't big, but they were long and narrow. The corners of her eyes slanted upwards and curved like crescent moons when she smiled.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes all these years, Huo Shaoheng wouldn't have believed that the little girl's long and narrow eyes in the photo would grow into Gu Nianzhi's eyes.
A chubby and even somewhat unattractive little girl, after passing puberty, her facial features actually blossomed. Then, like a rose, from the shyness of a bud to the charm of a blooming flower, she began to display her delicate and charming demeanor.
In short, no one would be able to tell that the little girl in the photo was the current Gu Nianzhi if they only looked at the photo.
Could it be because of this that Gu Nianzhi's family didn't recognize her when they met face to face?
Huo Shaoheng twirled the photo in his hand and looked at it over and over again. It was as if he wanted to see the wonders of the Creator from the photo.
The little girl in the photo was how he first met Gu Nianzhi. On the back of the photo was a sentence: "Gu Nianzhi's 11th Birthday". There was a date below it. It was a year ago.
They had determined Gu Nianzhi's name and birthday based on this photo.
Huo Shaoheng stared at it for a long time before putting it back into the book. He locked the drawer and began to work.
Every day, news from all over the world was sent to Huo Shaoheng's desk. Of course, these news had already been filtered. The unimportant ones had already been taken care of by his subordinates. Only the important five-star news and above would be personally handled by Huo Shaoheng.
Once he started working, he would be especially focused. There were no distractions in his mind. Nothing could shake his tenacious mind.
When it was almost time for dinner, Yin Shixiong poked his head into Huo Shaoheng's office a few times. He saw that Huo Shaoheng was meticulously reading through the confidential documents, so he didn't disturb him.
"Little Ze, I'm going back to the mansion. Are you on duty today?" Yin Shixiong put on his short coat. "I'm so tired today. I want to go back and have a bowl of soup."
"The chefs in Huo Shao's kitchen can be head chefs in three-star Michelin restaurants. How can they not feed you?" Zhao Liangze rolled his eyes at him. "All you know is to eat. Look at how much you've gained."
"No, no, no!" Yin Shixiong was anxious. He couldn't bear to hear others call him fat.
Actually, he wasn't fat. He was just tall and broad-boned, so he looked stronger than the average man.
Although Zhao Liangze wasn't thin, he was small-boned and tall. When he stood up, he was handsome. Yin Shixiong looked like a bodyguard next to him, so Zhao Liangze often mocked him.
"Forget it. I'm not eating today." Yin Shixiong grumbled as he grabbed his briefcase and left the office building.
Returning to Huo Shaoheng's official residence, Yin Shixiong first went to his suite to shower and change before going downstairs to the dining room to take a look. He suddenly remembered how pitiful it was for Gu Nianzhi to be alone in her room, so he ordered the orderly, "Send my food and Miss Gu to her room. I'll go eat with her."
The orderly acknowledged and brought the food and soup to the living room outside Gu Nianzhi's suite. He placed them on the small coffee table.
"Thank you." Yin Shixiong nodded at the orderly, indicating that he could leave.
The orderly smiled. "Lieutenant Colonel Yin, you're too kind. This is what I should do."
After he left, he very considerately closed the door for Yin Shixiong.
Yin Shixiong looked at the food on the coffee table and called into the bedroom, "Nianzhi, dinner is ready. Can you eat by yourself?"
Gu Nianzhi had heard Yin Shixiong and the orderly's voices a long time ago, but she didn't dare make a sound when the orderly was there. She only got up from the bed after the orderly left. Wearing her pajamas, she stuck her head out of the door and looked around. She waved at Yin Shixiong. "Brother Xiong, can you bring me the food?"
Gu Nianzhi's mouth automatically watered when she smelled the food. She was truly hungry.
Yin Shixiong nodded with a smile. He placed the food on the tray and brought it to Gu Nianzhi's bedroom.
There was a small long table against the wall in her bedroom. It was originally used to hold jade screens, landscapes, and antiques. She moved the small jade screen and a double-sided embroidered screen of a cat playing with a butterfly into the House of Bountiful Treasures.
Yin Shixiong placed the food on the long table, and the two of them sat on one side and began eating.
Gu Nianzhi first drank a bowl of soup, then ate two gold and silver steamed buns. She also ate some shredded beef with green peppers and seafood platter before putting down her chopsticks and smiling contentedly. "Ah, I'm so hungry I could eat a cow. Luckily there was shredded beef today, otherwise I would've been starving."
"Tsk tsk, you only had a few bites of that cat food, and you're already bragging about it in front of me." Yin Shixiong shook his head and chomped down on the food.
It wasn't an exaggeration to say that the amount of food he ate for one meal was enough for Gu Nianzhi to eat for two days.
Of course, Gu Nianzhi was already used to the way they ate, so she didn't think it was strange. She sat to the side and slowly drank a cup of tea, occasionally straightening her back.
Lying in bed for too long was also very tiring.
After Yin Shixiong finished eating, he also made a cup of tea and began chatting with Gu Nianzhi about everything under the sun.
After chatting for a while, Yin Shixiong naturally asked about He Zhichu.
"Nianzhi, your Professor He treats you really well, and don't you think he seems to be very familiar with you?" Yin Shixiong looked down to take a sip of tea and didn't look at Gu Nianzhi's expression.
Gu Nianzhi was slightly taken aback. "Brother Xiong, you think so?"
"Yes, it's quite a coincidence …" Yin Shixiong unknowingly mentioned He Zhichu's situation. "Look, when you were in university, He Zhichu became an associate professor at Harvard Law School and was promoted to a tenured professor in two years."
"… Is that so? Professor He … was originally a top student at Yale Law School, and was already a partner at the largest law firm in the United States. "Gu Nianzhi tilted her head as if she didn't believe Yin Shixiong's reason.
"Yes, that's right. He has the ability. Since he's so good, wouldn't it be better for him to stay in the United States as a professor at Harvard Law School? But look, last year he accepted an invitation from B University's Faculty of Law to come here as a doctoral advisor, and the year you graduated, he suddenly decided to recruit a master's student. "
Yin Shixiong finished speaking and looked at Gu Nianzhi motionlessly. "Do you think it's still a coincidence?"
Gu Nianzhi looked down and shook her head. "I don't know. I think it's a coincidence, but since Brother Xiong said it like that, you definitely don't think it's a coincidence."
If it wasn't a coincidence, then it had to be intentional.
If this had happened in the past, Gu Nianzhi would have vigorously refuted him. She didn't think that she was able to get all these opportunities because He Zhichu had opened the back door for her.
She wanted to get all of this with her own abilities.
But after the recent events, and He Zhichu's foresight of her ankle injury, she couldn't use "coincidence" to convince herself anymore.
But she couldn't explain these thoughts to Yin Shixiong in detail right now. They were all just her own guesses.
"It's good that you know it's not a coincidence." Yin Shixiong stood up and winked at her with a smile. "Anyway, I'm just reminding you. Huo Shao will ask you when he has the chance."
He strode out of the living room and cleaned up the dishes, leaving a confused Gu Nianzhi in a daze in the bedroom.
…
Huo Shaoheng finished all his work and left the office building to return to his official residence. It was already 11pm.
He habitually went to Gu Nianzhi's room to take a look.
The room was dark, and when Huo Shaoheng pushed the door open, he walked straight from the living room to the bedroom.
When he arrived at the bedroom, he found no one on the bed.
He froze for a moment, then quickly heard Gu Nianzhi's voice coming from the other side of the bedroom.
"Huo Shao? Is that you? "
Huo Shaoheng turned around. His eyes were now used to the darkness, and he saw Gu Nianzhi standing up from the long table by the wall.
So she wasn't sleeping on the bed, but was sitting alone in the dark bedroom.
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