Takeshi if line ④

The old Gu family house.

Gu Zhao led Ji Su all the way back to his room and helped him take off the small school bag on his back.

A few moments later, the nanny knocked on the door of the room, "Young master, the dinner you ordered has been delivered."

Gu Zhao answered, "Come in."

The nanny walked in with a tray and placed dinner on the table, "Is there anything else you need?"

"No." Gu Zhao pulled back his chair, signaling Ji Su, who was standing next to him, "Eat something first."

Ji Su obediently sat on the chair, "Thank you, Brother Gu Zhao."

Knowing that he hadn't eaten dinner yet, Gu Zhao asked the kitchen to prepare a dinner in advance, all made to his liking.

However, Ji Su had a small appetite and put down his chopsticks after a short while, "I'm full."

Gu Zhao drew a tissue and reached out to wipe the food residue from his lips without a second thought.

Ji Su obediently tilted her face up, her big, beautiful, clear eyes full of anticipation, "Brother Gu Zhao, can I sleep with you tonight?"

Gu Zhao motioned, reminding, "There's no thunder tonight, and it's not raining."

"I know ah ......" Ji Su pursed her lips, her soft tone sounded like she was pampering, "Can I sleep with you?"

Gu Zhao lowered his eyelashes for several seconds before reluctantly agreeing, "Yes."

"Thank you, brother!" Ji Su smiled sweetly, jumped down from the chair, and jumped into his arms.

Gu Zhao subconsciously opens his arms and mouths the condition, "But no sleeping in my arms, it's too hot."

Ji Su answers with a full, "Yes!"

After his bath, he changed into Gu Zhao's pajamas and very self-consciously crawled to the inside of the bed and lay down.

Gu Zhao coldly asked, "What do you think of the Gu family?"

"I think the Gu family is very nice." Ji Su rolled over and whispered, "Grandpa's nice, Grandma's nice, Uncle Gu and Auntie are nice, everyone's nice."

"Uh-huh." Gu Zhao responded without much emotion, as if he wasn't very satisfied with the answer.

Ji Su blinks her big eyes and moves her body a little bit towards him.

Gu Zhao noticed, his eyes still on the ceiling.

Ji Su wrapped her arms around him and added with an arched eyebrow, "The best of course is still Brother Gu Zhao!"

The corners of Gu Zhao's lips unconsciously rose, which he forced down again, and continued to ask, "Then do you want to stay in the Gu family?"

Ji Su rubbed his shoulder with his soft and tender face, "I want to."

"Really?" Gu Zhao sidestepped his face, "I mean, stay in the Gu family all the time and not go back to the Ji family."

Ji Su asked, confused, "Can't we ever go home?"

"From now on, you can treat the Gu family as your own home." Zhao Gu followed his advice, "From now on, we can go to school together every day, come out of school together, do homework together and play together, and sleep together at night."

Ji Su obviously hadn't pondered this possibility and his mind hadn't been turned around.

Gu Zhao turned on his side and got close to him face to face, "Don't you want to be with me every day?"

"I want to, but ......" Ji Su looked hesitant, "But dad won't approve of me staying here."

"As long as you want to stay, Grandpa will help us solve all the problems." Gu Zhao asked insistently, "Ji Su, do you want to stay?"

The decision to completely break away from his home was a difficult one for a seven year old child.

"Your father is not good to you, but I will be good to you." Zhao Gu was not discouraged and continued to persuade, "In the Gu family, you can do whatever you want, no one dares to beat you and scold you, and no one dares to withhold food from you."

Ji Su couldn't help but be swayed, "Really?"

"Really." Gu Zhao took his hand and promised in a solemn tone, "I will always protect you."

Ji Su is still young, but he already has a vague understanding of the weight of commitment.

In his mind, every word Gu Zhao had said had finally come true.

Gu Zhao didn't press, just stared at him without blinking, waiting for an answer.

Ji Su suddenly remembered another important question, "But what if mom comes back to pick me up and can't find me?"

"We can contact her first and tell her that you are here." Gu Zhao seemed to have considered this long ago and analyzed it in a calm tone, "If your mom does come back to get you someday, it's not like I'm going to stop you and keep you from going."

"Uh-huh!" Ji Su was convinced of this, "My mom will definitely come back to get me."

Gu Zhao squeezed his palm, "So it's a deal?"

Ji Su nodded repeatedly like a chicken pecking at rice, "It's a deal."

Gu Zhao touched his little finger and hooked it with his own.

Ji Su immediately reacted, hooking his finger and wiggling it, "Pull the hook and hang yourself, don't change for a hundred years, whoever changes is a puppy!"

Gu Zhao laughed, "What's with the extra line?"

"I added it myself." Ji Su curled her eyes with a cute and smug smile, "If Brother Gu Zhao doesn't keep his promise, he'll turn into a puppy!"

"Then if you don't keep your promise, you'll be punished for turning into a kitten." Gu Zhao pinched the tender cheek flesh, "Ji Kitten, purr for me first."

Ji Su's cheeks were pinched and distorted, and his words leaked a bit, "I'm not going to meow like a kitten ......"

The two of them played around on the bed for quite a while, and when Ji Su got tired of playing, she hugged Gu Zhao's arm and fell into a deep sleep.

Gu Zhao looked at the small, sleeping face, took a deep breath, and reached out to turn off the last of the table lamps.

The darkness hit him, and his breathing became instantly labored, his heartbeat quickening uncontrollably.

Just then, there was a murmur in his ear, and the sleeping Ji Su hugged him tighter.

Gu Zhao exhaled quietly, his throbbing nerves settling down.

*

From that day on, Ji Su stayed with the Gu family.

For the Gu family suddenly a boy this matter, at first the outside world speculation may be the Gu family's illegitimate child, and then the old master Gu publicly announced that Ji Su is his recognized god-grandson, all kinds of rumors are not broken.

As a matter of fact, the Gu family did treat Ji Su as their own child.

Ji Su is fed and clothed exactly like the other children and has a bedroom all to himself, although most nights he sleeps in Gu Zhao's bed.

As Gu Zhao says, since elementary school, they have gone to and from school together every day, come home, do their homework together, play together after homework, and cuddle up and go to sleep when they are tired of playing.

Gu Zhao gives all his patience to Ji Su, and the Gu family sometimes teases him that he is so good at taking care of people at such a young age, and will definitely be a good father in the future.

So day after day, the doll became more and more beautiful and more and more dependent on him.

God knows how much Gu Zhao enjoys this dependence, and it's best if Ji Su's eyes never see anything but him.

Time beat a horse and the two went to the same high school.

The high school was farther away from the old Gu family mansion, and Master Gu bought them a three-room, two-bathroom house near the school to live in temporarily.

The two of them were supposed to share a room, but Ji Su got used to sleeping with Gu Zhao, so her own room became a sham.

At the beginning of the sophomore year of high school, students were free to choose their courses. In addition to the required subjects of language, mathematics, and English, Ji Su chose the physics course and Gu Zhao chose the history course.

By choosing students with different orientations, taking the main course together, and taking the side courses in separate classes, Gu Zhao's tight security begins to crack.

Ji Su met a new friend when she was in the vice class.

This is the first good friend Ji Su has made in the true sense of the word, apart from Gu Zhao, in all these years.

Gu Zhao didn't say anything about it, except that he looked at Qiao Jin with a cold look in his eyes.

Qiao Jin was a bit puzzled, "Susu, does School Head Gu Da have something against me?"

As soon as Gu Zhao enters the middle school, he becomes the school bully elected by the forum with high votes. However, Gu Da's character is so cold and unsympathetic that all the girls who confessed their love to him were rejected miserably.

Over time, everyone knows that the Gu Da schoolmaster can only be seen from afar but cannot be approached.

Ji Su blocked her mouth with a book and whispered back, "No, why would you think that?"

"Just ......" Qiao Jin doesn't know how to describe this abstract feeling either, "Forget it, forget I said it."

At the end of the last class, the two men hugged their books and headed out of the classroom.

Gu Zhao was attending classes in another building, and Ji Su was going to wait for him to go to the cafeteria for dinner when she received a WeChat message.

Gu Zhao: [The teacher is dragging the class, so eat something to pad yourself first.]

Ji Su : [Okay, then I'll wait for you in the cafeteria oh].

"Huh?" Qiao Jin curiously approached, "Susu, doesn't your homeroom teacher take cell phones?"

"Collected." Ji Su slipped the phone back into her pocket, "But Gu Zhao was afraid he wouldn't be able to reach me, so he brought it secretly."

"No way, the two of you stay together for almost the entire day except for your sub classes." Qiao Jin was hard to understand, "He's not comfortable with just a short time apart?"

Ji Su thought it was normal: "Yeah, I'd be worried if he couldn't get in touch in case of any unforeseen circumstances."

"Okay." Qiao Jin was speechless, "Let's go to the cafeteria first then."

Ji Su had always appeared in pairs with Gu Zhao at school, but now she appeared alone in the cafeteria, causing a small commotion.

"Little Joe ......" Ji Su asked in a small voice, noticing the stares that were being thrown at her, "Do I have something on my face?"

Qiao Jin looked at him closely, "No."

Ji Su wondered, "Then why does everyone keep staring at me?"

"Staring at you, of course it's because you're good looking!" Qiao Jin paused, "Wait, you don't realize how popular you are in school, do you?"

"Me?" Ji Su pointed at herself, "Where am I more popular?"

"Of course!" Qiao Jin returned without hesitation, "From what I've observed, you're actually a bit more popular than Gu Zhao!"

Ji Su loses his smile, "That's impossible."

"Really, I didn't lie to you." Seeing that he didn't believe me, Qiao Jin added, "But your peach blossoms are blocked to death by Gu Zhao, the big moving iceberg."

Ji Su: "......"

Qiao Jin was about to say something else when he digressed, "Xiao Qiao, let's go see what's good to eat first."

The two of them finished their meal and took their trays and found a seat by the window.

As soon as Ji Su sat down, he heard someone call out to him, "Ji Su ......"

Ji Su lifted his face and realized he didn't recognize the other man, but responded politely, "Hello."

The girl with the ponytail had a red face and held a delicate pink box in her hand, "This is my gift to you, please take it!"

Ji Su was a bit confused, "Do we know each other?"

The girl's face turned even redder and she stammered back, "I don't know, but I, I I I like-"

"Ji Su," a low voice rang out at the critical moment, interrupting the girl's words.

Ji Su turned her face, "You're finally out of class!"

Gu Zhao laughed and put one hand on his shoulder, "Didn't I tell you to eat first?"

"I was going to eat first, but ......" Ji Su re-looked at the girl in front of her, "I'm sorry, what did you just say?"

Gu Zhao lifted his eyes as well, his cold, piercing vision falling on the other man's face.

The girl gritted her teeth and placed the gift on the table about to leave.

"Wait." Gu Zhao called out to her, reaching for the box and handing it over, "Something was forgotten."

The girl gathered her courage and returned, "This is ...... this is my gift to Ji Su."

Gu Zhao lowered his eyes and spoke in a solicitous tone, "Do you want it?"

Ji Su shook her head, "Don't."

Gu Zhao threw the box directly into the arms of the girl, who caught it with her hands and ran away in a hurry, clutching the gift.

Qiao Jin, who had been watching the whole thing, showed his hands, his meaning being self-evident.

Gu Zhao sat down as if nothing had happened, his slender arm resting smoothly on the back of the chair behind Ji Su.

Qiao Jin immediately lowered his head and made a show of looking at his eyes and nose.

Kidding aside, he didn't want to be stabbed to death by the ice knives in the eyes of the Gu Da schoolmaster.

*

At 9:30 p.m., the evening study bell rang.

Ji Su walked out of the classroom with a few books in his arms.

Gu Zhao was carrying his own school bag over one shoulder, his book bag in one hand, and the other arm had to be wrapped around his shoulder.

When they got home, the two sat side by side at their desks and did their homework.

Halfway through writing, Gu Zhao got up, went to the living room, cut up a plate of fruit, and made a glass of hot milk, which he brought back to his desk.

Ji Su's attention was still on the test paper, and she couldn't care less about eating the fruit for a while, "Wait, I'll eat it after I finish this question."

Gu Zhao picks up half a strawberry: "Open your mouth."

Ji Su subconsciously opened her mouth and bit into the strawberry, the sweet and sour juice bursting in her mouth.

Gu Zhao fed several pills in a row, covered with thin calluses of the fingertips inadvertently rubbed over the soft moist lips, can not help but slightly increase the force.

"Uh-huh ......" Ji Su inclined her head, "No more food."

Gu Zhao withdrew his hand, put the juicy finger in his mouth and sucked on it.

After finishing her homework, Ji Su went to the bathroom to take a shower.

Soon, he walked out in his pajamas, his wet black hair resting on his forehead, the ends dripping downward, leaving a few clearly visible water marks on his glistening white skin.

But he ignored it completely and went straight to the end of the bed and sat down.

Gu Zhao picked up a towel that was resting on the nightstand and skillfully wiped his hair.

"Wait a minute......" wiping, Ji Su reacted with hindsight, "That girl in the cafeteria today, was supposed to confess to me?"

Gu Zhao's hand moved, "I don't know."

"How could you not know?" Ji Su tilted her face, "Didn't School Head Gu Da used to get confessions from girls all the time?"

Gu Zhao's tone was calm, "You also said it was before."

"In that case, it seems like I really haven't received any formal confessions hey." Ji Su joked, "By the way, today Xiao Qiao even said that it's because you blocked my peach blossom."

Gu Zhao asked back without moving, "You think so too?"

"Of course not." Ji Su curled her lips, "Do I look like the kind of person who favors his friends over his wife to you?"

"Not like that." Gu Zhao slid his hands down and cupped his face through the towel, "Ji Kitten, you're still too young to fall in love, you know?"

"I'm not young." Ji Su wrinkled the tip of her nose slightly, "In a few months, I'll be an adult."

Zhao Gu stared him in the eye, "So what you're saying is that you want a relationship right now?"

"That's not what I mean." Ji Su returned in a serious manner, "Now I just want to study hard every day and strive to get into the architecture department of University A."

Gu Zhao smiled and rubbed the tip of his nose affectionately, "So good."

After drying their hair, the two lay down on the bed and turned off the lights to get ready for bed.

Ji Su liked to hang on Gu Zhao when she was a child and tried to correct her sleeping position when she grew up, but with little success.

Every time before going to bed obviously honest, and woke up octopus-like on top of each other.

Ji Su somewhat wondered if she was a sleepwalker, and purposely slept with her back to Gu Zhao tonight, hoping that when she woke up in the morning, she would still be in that position.

Hearing the breathing in his ears grow long, Gu Zhao slowly opens his eyes.

He reached out his arms and gently rolled the person with his back to him over and into his arms again.

The moon was silver, and Gu Zhao gazed deeply at the sleeping man in his arms by the light of the moon outside the window.

After a long time, he dropped a kiss on Ji Su's forehead and wordlessly spat, "You're mine."

How could he allow others to get their hands on the flower he raised with his own hands?