After more than ten minutes, Qin Zhi Ai saw that the short message she sent was still not delivered, so she dialed another call to Gu Yu Sheng, and it was still busy.

  Qin Zhi'ai seemed to have understood something vaguely, and changed to a nearby phone booth to dial a call to Gu Yu Sheng.

  The phone was easily dialed through.

  It turned out that, as she had guessed, her phone was added to his blacklist the first time he rejected her call.

  Qin Zhi'ai's eyes dimmed slightly, just as she was about to hang up the phone. She had been trying to get in touch with Gu Yu Sheng through his butler, Bai Tian, when suddenly the phone was picked up. Gu Yu Sheng seemed to have guessed it was her calling and answered in an impatient tone: "Are you done yet? Didn't I tell you not to bother me unless it's necessary?"

  "Grandpa called... " Qin Zhi Ai was afraid that Gu Yu Sheng would hang up the phone in the next second, so she quickly spoke to the point: "... Grandpa said he arrived in Beijing early this morning and asked us to go to his place for dinner tonight."

  The person on the other end of the phone, Gu Yu Sheng, didn't say a word.

  Qin Zhi Ai waited for a while and saw that Gu Yu Sheng still had no reaction, so she continued to speak: "Is it the same as last time, waiting for you at that place?"

  The last time referred to the first day she moved into his house, Grandpa asked him to take her home for dinner. He didn't want to drive to pick her up, so he let her go by herself and waited for her in a small alley next to Grandpa's residential area.

  She thought, this time he still didn't want to come pick her up?

  Qin Zhiya suppressed the sense of loss in her heart and tried to make her tone sound as normal as possible, then asked again: "So what time should I come over tomorrow to wait for you?"

  Gu Yu still didn't speak in the face of her inquiry.

  "It's still afternoon..." Qin Zhi'ai had just spoken four words when Gu Yu Sheng's voice suddenly came through the phone, his tone icy and cold: "Every time you use Grandfather as an excuse to pester me, don't you feel disgusted with yourself?"

  Qin Zhi'ai's hand grasping the receiver tightened suddenly, she felt as if her neck was being tightly pinched by someone, and the three words "six o'clock?" got stuck in her throat, unable to go up or down, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

  The silence at both ends of the phone was momentarily terrifying.

  Within two seconds, Gu Yu Sheng hung up the phone.

  Qin Zhi Ai remained frozen in the motion of holding the receiver for a long time before slowly coming back to her senses. She slowly put the receiver back on the phone, lay down calmly on the bed, covered herself with the quilt, closed her eyes, and assumed a peaceful sleeping posture. However, the corners of her eyes flickered with a hint of tears, and her hands clutching the bedding trembled violently.

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  In the early morning phone call, Qin Yilove and Gu Yusheng didn't agree on a time to go to the old Gu house. Before hanging up, Gu Yusheng said something very unpleasant, so Qin Yilove wouldn't humiliate herself by calling him again to ask about the time.

  Qin Zhi'ai didn't know what time Gu Yu Sheng would go to the old house of the Gu family, but she knew he got off work at 5:30.

  So, at 5:30 in the afternoon, Qin Zhi'ai was waiting near the entrance of the old residential area of the Gu family's mansion.

  It wasn't until 6:30 that a shrill whistle came from the street not far away, Qin Zhi'ai turned her head and saw Gu Yusheng's car stopped by the side of the road with double flashes.

  As she walked up to the car, Qin Zhi'ai suddenly realized that it was Gu Yusheng driving today, not his driver.