Chapter 67: Still Hate Him?
The other person replied quickly.
[Dad]: I’m here! Dad: What’s wrong?
[Dad]: Did something happen? Or do you need anything? Tell me!
[Dad]: You’re finally willing to contact me!
Bai Cha cried out again in pain. She closed her eyes, turned off her phone, and threw it aside, seemingly not knowing what to say.
But the other person kept sending messages. Until a call came in. Bai Cha looked at the phone call, her eyes flickering.
In endless struggle and pain, she slowly picked up the phone. Bai Cha’s hand trembled, but she finally pressed “answer.” However, neither of them spoke.
Perhaps they didn’t know how to start. Bai Cha opened her mouth several times but couldn’t say a word. “Xiao… Xiaoxue…” In the end, Gu’s father on the other end spoke first.
His voice was hoarse, and he stuttered a bit when he spoke. The phone showed that the network on the other end was poor, and the voice sounded a bit choppy.
“I… you… you’re finally willing to contact me… I… Dad is so happy…”
Gu’s father was incoherent with joy.
Bai Cha remained silent.
She seemed not to know what to say.
Actually, she was a bit annoyed by this kind of drama in her heart.
Why couldn’t any misunderstandings be cleared up directly?
Since they were originally family, especially Gu Baixue, who clearly longed for her father and still loved him, she stubbornly remained silent, using such harsh words to hurt him and not contacting him for years.
And the father too, if he had a reason, why didn’t he explain?
But she was Gu Baixue now.
However…
Actually, what she was more curious about was where the real Gu Baixue had gone. Why was a player playing her role? Was she dead?
Had she died after seven days of being haunted by ghosts?
If so, had Gu Baixue ever really existed? Did she think about contacting her family before she died?
Bai Cha finally sighed silently, her expression looking much calmer.
Her voice still had a nasal tone and was hoarse as she spoke.
“You… I…”
She opened her mouth to apologize, but couldn’t bring herself to say it several times.
A trace of incomprehension and resentment reappeared on her face.
“Why didn’t you come back for so long back then?”
She finally asked this question. After so many years, she finally voiced it. Bai Cha closed her eyes in pain, and tears began to fall again.
Gu’s father on the other end fell silent, but his equally suppressed sobs could be heard, even though the connection was bad.
After a long while, the call on the other end suddenly hung up.
Bai Cha pursed her lips, disappointment and anger resurfacing in her eyes.
Then she saw he had sent a message.
[Dad]: Sorry, my internet is bad.
[Dad]: I didn’t mean to leave back then. At that time… when I was working on the construction site, there was an accident, and I got injured, very badly.
[Dad]: I became a vegetable. The foreman was afraid of trouble from the family, so he didn’t tell you. That was during your four years of university. After I woke up, I thought… you didn’t come home much during those four years anyway, so maybe… but I’m sorry to your mother…
[Dad]: My health is much better now. The medical expenses were paid by the construction site, and there’s still 100,000 in compensation. I thought I could explain things to you. After I came home, I found out your mother was seriously ill and had been sent to the emergency room. When I went there with the money… your mother had already…
[Dad]: I’m sorry, my Xiaoxue, Dad really… really didn’t mean to…
[Dad]: I’m sorry!
[Dad]: I don’t expect you to forgive me, but… Dad really loves you and wants to keep loving you.
[Dad]: Today is your birthday… how are you doing?
Bai Cha was already in tears, sitting on the ground, sobbing uncontrollably with her face on the table.
After another wave of emotions was released, she stared blankly at the chat box.
The other side kept showing “typing,” but in the end, everything went quiet, and no message was sent.
Suddenly, a message popped up.
[Darling Yuqi]: Don’t cry.
[Damn it!]
[Holy crap? Darling Yuqi is dropping the act?]
The moment this message popped up, it was truly creepy.
Bai Cha also felt the dodder vine’s position move from the door back into the room, standing right behind her.
She pretended not to know, paused for a moment when she saw the message, then opened it, typed a line, and sent it.
[gbx]: How do you know I’m crying?
[Darling Yuqi]: You didn’t reply to my messages for so long, I was worried and guessed. You really cried? Don’t be afraid, everything will be alright.
Bai Cha pretended to believe this explanation, or perhaps because she wasn’t in a good mental state, she didn’t think about pursuing it.
[gbx]: It’s not because I’m afraid, I just don’t know… I’m very lost right now…
Bai Cha felt like she was really busy, acting one scene after another.
[gbx]: Haven’t I told you about my family?
[Darling Yuqi]: Hmm, you haven’t mentioned it. What’s wrong?
[gbx]: I have a father. When I was little, in my memory, my mom and dad loved me very much.
This was something Bai Cha made up, but as long as she didn’t explicitly say anything specific, it could generally fit.
And judging from Gu Baixue’s personality, it wasn’t hard to deduce that she should have been quite happy when she was young. That’s why her personality was relatively outgoing, but perhaps some things she encountered while growing up made her sensitive.
[gbx]: But then one day, he suddenly disappeared without a trace. Especially when my mother was seriously ill, I couldn’t contact him no matter what.
[gbx]: At that time, some people around even said that maybe my dad didn’t want me and my mom anymore and had run off somewhere else with someone else.
[gbx]: Especially when my mom died after emergency treatment failed, I really hated him!
[gbx]: But… what I don’t understand is why he never explained anything to me. If he had just given me one reason… maybe I wouldn’t hate him so much.
[gbx]: I know why he left now… I find it ridiculous and also very sad…
[Darling Yuqi]: Then… do you still hate him?
Bai Cha thought to herself, if she said she hated him, would Darling Yuqi kill her father?
[gbx]: I don’t know, maybe. I’m really in pain.
[Darling Yuqi]: Don’t be sad, I really want to give you a hug, really.
Well, that won’t be necessary.
She didn’t want this hug.
[gbx]: Thank you, I feel much better with you here.
[Darling Yuqi]: Are you at home now? Are you still going to work? How about… going out for a meal?
Bai Cha looked at this sentence and finally remembered that the other person had asked her if she wanted to have barbecue on Saturday when the instance had just started.
Speaking of which, Bai Cha had thought they were friends in real life back then, judging by the tone.
Wait…
That’s so strange.
Bai Cha carefully recalled the chat history between the two of them.
She just felt like something wasn’t right.
But her hands didn’t stop typing.
[gbx]: Do you want to meet? But I’m such a mess right now… and… I have been considering whether or not to move. But if I’m really being haunted by a ghost and not a person… moving won’t help, right?
Meeting was out of the question.
Although she hadn’t figured out what was wrong yet.
But Bai Cha’s mind was still highly alert.
[Darling Yuqi]: Have you tried chanting scriptures?
Indeed, the topic was changed, just like last time, very easily changed.
Bai Cha pondered silently in her heart.
Still weird.
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