289 To Forget with a Passion (5)

Gu Deshou looked at her from head to toe before saying, "I heard that you were sick a couple of days ago. Unfortunately, I was abroad and busy then. Your mother… quarreled with me over this certain matter and thus neglected you. But seeing you in person now — you seem to be fine?"

Zhuang Nainai nodded, but she felt a sourness in her chest.

Whatever Gu Deshou had just said was sincere. He didn't have the calculating look in his eyes that he did in the past, and he seemed like a father who genuinely cared for his daughter.

Father…

That word had filled her with expectations and hope when she was a young child, but Gu Deshou's actions as a father back then had left her disappointed. She was unable to draw a relation between Gu Deshou and fatherly love.

Now… just what kind of stimulus had Gu Deshou experienced in order for him to act in this manner?