Together Forever

Chapter 16.2

My Mister Gu

His words seemed to settle down into the depths of her heart.

So long as she was not occupied with anything, her thoughts would turn to these words of his.

According to his logic, she knew that her family had many issues, but she still decided to drag him into the messiness of it all.

If he had been healthy, perhaps he would have had the strength to bear all of this with her, but to make him, who was already in this condition, face this together with her, wasn't that even more selfish?

"What did you think of your visit to the prison this morning?" Another intern opened the microwave, took off the lid of his lunch container, and put it inside. "Before I first went there, I thought for sure it would be really scary, but once I was actually there, I was fine with it."

After hastily eating her lunch, she went downstairs to retrieve some written submissions filed by attorneys. In the main foyer of the courthouse were two dark-skinned elderly gentleman who were following behind a lawyer. One of them was pointing at the other one, grumbling incessantly, "It's all your fault! You've made both sides have to take this to a lawsuit!" ... When Tong Yan walked over and said that she needed to get some information, immediately, a friendly smile was received from both the fierce-looking individual and the party who was suppressing his objection and not daring to retort.

It was as if, so long as a person had come down from somewhere upstairs in this building, he or she would be able to take charge and stand up for them.

She could not adjust very well to this situation where people were misunderstanding her status, and right as she wanted to turn around to leave, she unexpectedly spied a seemingly familiar face. While she was still searching through her memory, that person had already approached her and smilingly greeted, "Miss Tong, do you still remember me? I'm the pharmaceutical rep who went to pick up Associate Chief Dong from the airport last time."

With an "oh," she responded, "I remember now. You are here because ...?"

"I'm here helping a friend drop something off." The pharmaceutical representative's smile was very warm and amiable. "You work here? You just graduated?"

It was very easy to spot clues as to whether a person had ever worked before, and Tong Yan quickly explained, "Not graduated yet. I'm just on internship here."

"It's a good job placement. This type of place is suitable for young girls. It's not tiring, and you don't need to ask people for help." The middle-aged man very naturally turned the topic onto Dong Changting. "Last time I was in a hurry to take Associate Chief Dong to a seminar and did not have the time to meet your boyfriend. Is he a doctor as well, like Associate Chief Dong?"

Tong Yan shook her head. "He is a university teacher."

"Oh, that's great. Are he and Associate Chief Dong relatives? Based on their ages, their relationship should be uncle and nephew?"

Tong Yan did not want to say what their relationship was, but she unconsciously was not willing to deny their relationship either.

Sometimes, things were just this unfair. They were legitimately father and son, yet this could not be acknowledged. Gu Pingsheng's unwillingness to be in contact with him was his choice. However, that man, as a father, should not reject his duties and responsibilities.

Perhaps all medical sales representatives were very capable of exchanging in social niceties for she unknowingly ended up talking to that person for a long time. Piecing together many of the words spoken in casual conversation, a picture of Gu Pingsheng's father was gradually sketched out. He was an associate chief physician for the nephrology department of a certain hospital and was very well known in professional circles. He had a wife who was also a doctor, the chief physician in the cardiology department of the same hospital.