Back Then, I Adored You

Chapter69-73

Chapter 69: Eight Years of Loving Him Was Like A Dream (9)
"Miss, it's Mr. Gu," said the housekeeper. She raised Qin Zhi'ai's hand, which held the receiver, up to her ear.
Before Qin Zhi'ai spoke on the phone, Gu Yusheng's cold and indifferent voice sounded. "No need! I didn't call for her, I just wanted you to ask her for me how much the medical expense was yesterday. I'll ask the secretary to send it to her; I don't want to owe her anything in case she continues to use it as an excuse to bother me."
Qin Zhi'ai had just been about to greet him, but when she heard what Gu Yusheng was saying to who he thought was the housekeeper, she suddenly choked, not knowing how to respond.
With no one responding to him, Gu Yusheng seemed to have realized who was on the phone, so he said even more indifferently, "You must have heard what I just said, so tell the amount to the housekeeper and let her tell me."
Then he hung up without hesitation.
Qin Zhi'ai held the receiver in a daze and put it down after a while.
Seeing her put down the receiver, the housekeeper immediately smiled at her, saying, "Miss, what did Mr. Gu say to you? This is the first time that he called and asked if you were okey. It seems like Mr. Gu also cares about you—"
"Let's just have breakfast," Qin Zhi'ai interrupted the housekeeper emotionlessly, then walked toward the dining room.
In fact, when she had gone down to the first floor and heard the housekeeper telling him her situation, she had been almost delighted, because like the housekeeper did, she thought he was worried about her... But no, he had just wanted to pay for her medical treatment and draw a line between them.
It was probably because of the dreams about the past that she had dreamed recently, but she kept drifting away and recalling what had happened during breakfast.
What had happened after he missed their second date was much simpler than what happened in her dreams.
Since he had left, she hadn't seen Gu Yusheng for four whole years, so she didn't know where he went or what he was doing.
From time to time, she took walks around the Gu Mansion, but she had never bumped into him by chance.
Four years later, the reason why she finally saw him was that his parents had passed away. She heard the news from Xu Wennuan, who, of course, had been told by Wu Hao. Gu Yusheng's father had killed his mother, then taken his own life with poison.
At that time, she had already gone to college and had been attending a meeting in Shanghai. Upon learning that Gu Yusheng was back in Beijing for the funeral, she had immediately left Shanghai overnight to get to Beijing for the very purpose of seeing him.
The Gu Family was a big household in Beijing, with countless properties and family members, but Qin Zhi'ai had been born to a barren family where no one cared about her, so she hadn't even been able to get into the Gu Mansion. She had waited at the gates of the Gu Mansion for three days and nights, only to see him once from a very long distance. The next time she had seen him was two years later.
She had gotten the chance to attend an evening charity party with her postgraduate tutor.
That day, he had happened to be there, wearing a slim black suit matched with a simple white shirt, the collar straight and the cuffs buttoned, which made him look very elegant and charming.
Like at the funeral, since he had been surrounded by many officials and wealthy people, she couldn't get any closer to him, until she had gone to the bathroom. When she walked out, she had seen him talking to a man. She had stood in the distance, staring at him greedily, as if she wanted to make up for the past six years that she hadn't been able to see him. Then she had walked toward him with courage that came out of nowhere.
She had prepared a lot of questions to ask him, such as how everything had been over the years and whether he had a girlfriend, but the question she had been the most eager to ask was, why hadn't he shown up to the date that day in the past?

Chapter 70: Eight Years of Loving Him Was Like A Dream (10)
However, when she had stood in front of him without saying a word, he had turned his head calmly and asked the man next to him, "Who is she?"
Qin Zhi'ai was shocked, and the words on her lips vanished in an instant.
The man standing next to him looked at her doubtfully, then shook his head, answering, "I don't know her, either."
Gu Yusheng had lowered his head wordlessly and put the cigar between his fingers into his mouth, inhaling slowly. He had put it out and threw it into the trash can, saying to the man, "Let's just go inside!"
Then he had walked by her, unruffled.
When he had completely disappeared from Qin Zhi'ai's eyes, she had lost control once again like she had just before. She had suddenly turned around and shouted at his back, "Gu Yusheng!"
Gu Yusheng and his friends had stopped together, and he had turned around slowly and looked at her with a calm and indifferent expression, as if he had never seen her before.
He didn't speak, only stared at her like a stranger, when she exhausted almost all her strength to squeeze the words out of her mouth, "Gu Yusheng, you don't remember me?"
He had looked at her for a while, like he was trying very hard to remember if he knew her. After about one minute, he had said in a polite and cold tone, "I'm sorry, Miss, I really don't think I know you."
Then he had lowered his head to show his regret and left without hesitation.
His friend had seemed to be very curious. He had looked at Qin Zhi'ai for several seconds, then followed Gu Yusheng, saying, "You don't know her? Really?"
"I don't remember," Gu Yusheng had answered.
"Right, with your handsome face, you always attract many girls. Maybe she was just trying to flirt with you."
"Maybe." His voice was as elegant as always, but the word he said had almost made Qin Zhi'ai cry.
Maybe... He had just understood her question as a way for her to flirt with him?
For six years... the boy she had been looking for and missing hadn't remembered her at all.
The one she had waited for had forgotten her already.
It seemed that all the blood in her body had frozen all of a sudden and she had lost all her senses. She had only heard the song played at the party. "My world changes for you bit by bit, day by day, but you never see."
Qin Zhi'ai immersed herself in her memory absentmindedly, so the housekeeper reached out her hand and and moved it in front of her eyes, saying, "Miss? Miss?"
Qin Zhi'ai rolled her eyes to prevent herself from crying, then smiled at the housekeeper gently.
"Miss, do you still want to eat anything?"
"No." Qin Zhi'ai shook her head, put down her chopsticks, and stood up, then when she remembered what Gu Yusheng had just said on the phone, her fingertips trembled a bit, and she said a number to the housekeeper.