100 Days Of Escaping My Wedding-Chapter 473 There is Only One Father

Xiaoqiao felt a bit heavy in the head. She lay on his chest for a while, then slowly sat up, clumsily climbed off him, groped for her clothes, and sluggishly dressed herself before sitting on the edge of the bed for a few minutes.

Seeing her spiritless and weary expression, Gu Hangshen almost wanted to tuck her back in and let her continue sleeping.

As he was thinking this, she had already turned around, bent down, and gave him a peck on the corner of his lips, "I’m leaving."

She had just taken a step when she felt a hand from behind grab her wrist.

Xiaoqiao turned around and asked, "What’s wrong?"

"Don’t go."

Xiaoqiao suddenly laughed, her brilliance dispelling her fatigue and sleepiness, "Waiting for you to say that wasn’t easy."

"I’m delighted that you’re jealous! But, I must go."

"I will take care of these matters; you don’t need to intervene." Gu Hangshen’s intention was to worry about her safety, yet his words came out as a commanding order, irritating to hear.

Xiaoqiao’s face noticeably darkened, "Even if this matter doesn’t concern me, you do, you’re my husband. Your matters are my matters. If you can’t have your revenge, I’ll be anxious; if you’re hurt, I’ll be sad; if you’re in pain, I’ll be heartbroken. Besides, now Huo Yandong is not just your enemy. What gives you the right to say it’s none of my business? Why can’t I get involved?"

Gu Hangshen massaged his temples, "Xiaoqiao, it’s precisely because he is related to you, and... he’s also your biological father! That’s why you can’t get involved! You can’t kill him!"

"So what if I commit patricide? So what if it’s an unforgivable sin? Does such a man deserve to be my father? I have only ever had one father! Everyone else is irrelevant to me, and if he killed my loved ones, I couldn’t possibly do nothing!"

Gu Hangshen looked somewhat puzzled.

She’s only ever had one father... Could she be referring to Gong Zhiming?

That’s impossible...

Xiaoqiao wrapped her arms around his neck, "Big brother Shen, if that’s what you’re worried about, he’s not my father, I’m not committing patricide..."

Gu Hangshen held his forehead, hating himself for suddenly understanding what she meant.

The little girl had been terribly bullied by the Gong family and had also suffered at school because of her background.

At seven years old, she had run to him, with a face full of hope, asking, "Big brother Shen, can I call you ’daddy’?"

At the time, he found it absurd and scolded her for being "silly," but hearing her grievance and sadness, his heart softened.

In the end, he catastrophically agreed to her nonsense and listened as she sweetly called him, who was only sixteen at the time, "daddy."

As a result, he endlessly regretted that agreement when he found himself harboring inappropriate feelings for her in the following years. That ’daddy’ made him always feel a sense of impropriety.

It wasn’t just Xiaoqiao who felt this way.

He even thought that if he had not always let her have her way, his biggest fear was that her feelings for him were only familial and that what he most rejected was her phrase, "I only see you as a brother."

Being both a father and a brother... and eventually becoming a husband...

Though Gu Hangshen was just one person, he had filled all the voids in her life.

"I know you have nothing to do with him, but blood ties cannot be erased. Without him, there would be no you, and the fact that he’s your biological father can never change."