After Rebirth, the Celebrity Daughter is the Medical Expert!-Chapter 36: Mom’s Lover from Her Past Life
After filming all her scenes, You Guang rushed back to Jin City for the New Year.
On the day she returned to Jin City, it was snowing. Heavy snow fell gracefully upon the earth, covering the entire city in a blanket of white.
Sitting in the car, You Guang gazed through the window, watching the people on the streets coming and going, their heads covered with snow, and the steaming hot atmosphere spilling out from the storefronts along the road, fixated and unmoving.
This was a different world from the golden and lush green mountains of Guangxi.
Beside her, Xia You Qing had just finished a phone call, and turned to see her daughter staring at a hotel outside, her thoughts stirred. She asked:
"Are you hungry? Want to find a place to eat before heading home?"
"Okay." You Guang turned and replied.
"What do you want to eat?"
"Chicken, duck, fish, meat, anything is fine."
"What’s so great about chicken, duck, fish, meat..." Xia You Qing reflexively wanted to object, but suddenly held her tongue, "How bad was the food at your dad’s place, huh?"
"It was alright, just craving some meat."
"Alright then, I’ll take you to a place with really delicious private dishes. Their cooked dishes are superb."
"Alright."
They arrived at the private restaurant.
Xia You Qing generously ordered a table full of the restaurant’s signature dishes for her daughter.
You Guang looked at the beautifully plated dishes emitting a rich aroma, but she realized that without the group dining atmosphere from the film set, she didn’t really miss the city’s gourmet food as much as she thought.
In the end, she merely sampled a bit from each dish as a token gesture.
The flavor was indeed as good as Xia You Qing had described, but she truly couldn’t eat that much.
"My mistake." Lightly biting the tip of her chopsticks, You Guang looked at the table full of untouched chicken, duck, fish, and meat, and sighed.
"What’s wrong?" Across from her, Xia You Qing held a teacup and was drinking tea.
The dishes today were all rich and oily. After a few bites of vegetables, Xia You Qing stopped eating and didn’t touch the chopsticks again.
Regarding her figure and face maintenance, she had the professionalism of an actor.
"I can’t eat anymore." You Guang frowned, "My heart is big, but my stomach is small, I misjudged my appetite."
"If you can’t eat, then don’t eat."
"But I don’t want to waste food."
"If you don’t want to waste, you’ll have to anyway, unless someone else is here to eat it." Xia You Qing said indifferently.
"Spilled leftovers are hard-earned sweat." After a while, You Guang suggested, "Let’s pack them and take them to the animal shelter for the animals to eat."
"It’s so cold outside." Xia You Qing was a bit unwilling, finding it troublesome.
"Then you call someone to pick you up and take you home, and I’ll ask the driver to take me to the animal shelter." You Guang stood up, ready to ask the server for packing boxes.
"Forget it, I’ll go with you." Xia You Qing put down the teacup, although feeling impatient, she held back her emotions.
She’s always been rather temperamental.
"Then let’s agree, if you promised to go with me, no matter whether there’s a traffic jam later, or whether finding the shelter takes a lot of time, you can’t lose your temper, or don’t go with me."
If there were other people present, they would certainly feel the roles of Xia You Qing and Ning You Guang, mother and daughter, seemed reversed.
The mother appeared more like a willful daughter, and the daughter seemed more like a patient and reasoned mother.
"Got it, got it." Xia You Qing looked at her daughter’s young face, speaking conditions calmly and warmly with an absurd feeling arising unbidden.
A bit flustered, slightly embarrassed.
Finally, she continued drinking water to ease her discomfort under her daughter’s clear gaze.
Having been specifically instructed by You Guang, the server quickly packed the meals in insulated bags.
There were nearly ten dishes, which the two of them couldn’t carry alone, so they called the driver inside to help carry them.
The driver walked ahead, carrying the packed food.
Xia You Qing, wearing a coat wrapped in a scarf and mask, stepped in long boots behind.
And You Guang, dressed in white little boots and a cotton jacket, walked in the middle.
She wasn’t wrapped as warmly as Xia You Qing, her young face exposed, snowflakes dancing like starlight on her curly eyelashes.
Gu Cheng and a few friends walked into the courtyard of the private restaurant when they immediately noticed the three walking in their direction.
What caught all of his attention was the girl in the middle, dressed entirely in white, her face pale, glowing brightly in the twilight snow night.
Such a beautiful child, drawing the attention of the group who couldn’t help but take a few glances.
Then Gu Cheng, leading at the front, noticed the young woman behind the child, scrutinized her carefully, and when the two groups met, he stopped, joyfully greeting:
"Qingqing." His voice was mellow, a gentle and affectionate tone.
"Boss." Xia You Qing hesitated for a moment before addressing him.
Hearing this long-lost title, Gu Cheng’s expression briefly paused, discreetly shifting his gaze to the little girl curiously scanning him.
"What a coincidence, you’re out with family for dinner?"
The child resembled Xia You Qing somewhat, and Gu Cheng speculated their relationship, thinking she might be Xia You Qing’s sister or niece.
"Yes, did you just arrive? Did you reserve a table?"
"We did. Would you care to join us for a bit?"
Gu Cheng wanted to keep Xia You Qing there, dining wasn’t the main point.
He mainly missed her and wanted to spend more time together.
"No, you go ahead. We’re leaving now."
Xia You Qing rejected politely, quickly nodding to Gu Cheng’s friends in greeting before eagerly pulling her daughter away.
Ning You Guang discreetly followed Xia You Qing outside, sensing intense gazes on them that lingered painfully long.
She noticed Xia You Qing’s reluctance, also recognizing Gu Cheng’s identity.
Her first stepfather in her past life, Xia You Qing’s second husband, a top player in the Beijing circle, Gu Cheng.
Not surprisingly, Xia You Qing was dating him now.
If it weren’t for the unexpected encounter with Gu Cheng here, Ning You Guang wouldn’t have realized to connect events happening in this life with the same timeline events from her past life.
She quietly calculated, if in this life after rebirth she didn’t immediately make Xia You Qing and Ning Yi divorce, but chose to let her parents continue along the marriage path from the previous lifetime, within another half-year, Xia You Qing and Gu Cheng’s affair would be discovered by Ning Yi.
Back then, Ning Yi hadn’t started his film yet, still working odd jobs in the film crew, frustrated as a young person chasing dreams.
When he found out he’d been cuckolded, proud young master Ning was furious, almost reaching for a knife against Gu Cheng and Xia You Qing.
Of course, Ning Yi was upset, yet he was not so righteous in confronting Gu Cheng and Xia You Qing, because he wasn’t so clean himself either. 1314
