My Brother Was First My Boyfriend And Later My Husband

Chapter 30

Translator: PastTimer

Editor: PastTimer
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After graduating, Gu Yan signed a contract with a famous domestic pharmaceutical company, the salary they agreed on was astonishingly high among other new college graduates. Nevertheless, I was surprised that he didn't return to Gu mansion to learn how to take over the family's business.

When I asked him, he said it was his father's business, not his.

After so many years now, I also vaguely understood the in and outs of the Gu family. Being able to achieve the scale of his company today was obviously not only credited to the ability of my stepfather. Among his efforts, there were not only accurate business acumen and contacts to few vital businessmen involved but also some political connections.

But Gu Yan told me that I didn't need to understand these, I just needed to study hard.

So I listened to him.

Two years after, I also graduated from college and was admitted to graduate school.

Gu Yan came to my graduation ceremony and sat along with the other graduating student's parents.

In fact, my grades were average and I could only be regarded as an upper-mid level student within the sea of talented people in my batch. I just wanted to find an ordinary job to support myself after graduation, but Gu Yan said that I was quite suitable for education.

I only casually said that I would try it, I didn't really expect to be admitted.

Gu Mingzhang was speaking on the podium. He was our student representative this year. The Gu lineage was probably born with a higher IQ than the rest of us. They always took the first places of their departments every semester.

Chen Ling sat next to me, his eyes never leaving the stage.

His eyelashes were very long, and the lights in the auditorium cast a misty shadow over his eyelids, but I still saw a tear glistening in the corners of his eyes, though I didn't know why.

He was probably too excited.

At that time, I naively thought that and didn't think too deeply...

After the ceremony, the people living in our dormitory room ate outside together. Everyone brought family members except for Cao Junwei.

In fact, he had made several girlfriends in the span of four years but most of them didn't last and he was still single till now.

After graduation, he said he would go to the south, sign a contract with a famous international school, and become a physical education teacher.

Chen Ling stayed in Beijing and the company he contracted with was also very good.

Of course, Gu Mingzhang accompanied him. He dared to accompany Chen Ling anywhere.

However, just one year after we graduated from graduate school, news of their breakup came.

Chen Ling's mother was dying. She asked him to go home and marry a girl from their village.

Chen Ling compromised, he and Gu Mingzhang separated. He went back to his hometown, became an ordinary civil servant, and married his mother's chosen bride.

The day he left Beijing, I went to see him. He was blankly looking for something in the crowd, his eyes were helpless and numb. In the end, he gave up his search and said goodbye to me with a smile. He told me that the hot pot we ate together that year during the Lantern Festival was the best he had eaten in his life.