Chapter 396 [The Changing Gu Qingyi]
In the end, the beating never happened.
But once Chen Yan threw out lines like "I am my own dad" and "we're not really mother and son," Gu Qingyi realized their conversation couldn't go on.
Young Lady Gu flushed red, waving her fists more to scare him than anything. After she'd frightened Chen Yan into running off, she didn't chase him too hard, just retreated back into the house.
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Chen Yan ran all the way out of the neighborhood in one breath, then went for a lap around the back mountain. When he saw that Gu Qingyi wasn't coming after him, he waited quite a while before slowly wandering back home.
When he got back, the floor‑to‑ceiling window in the living room was still that huge broken hole, glass shards scattered all over the floor.
And Gu Qingyi was sitting on the living room sofa, head tilted up, staring blankly at nothing, no one knew what she was thinking.
