CHAPTER 615: CHAPTER 604: THE DIVINE DOCTOR FATHER-IN-LAW OF THE PRESTIGIOUS FAMILY’S DAUGHTER-IN-LAW

On the other side of the city, inside a beautifully situated Western restaurant, Li Xinyi watched a laughing man and woman around the corner with a resentful gaze that seemed almost spilling over.

"Ming Shen, Brother..." she murmured, her eyes brimming with tears.

"Lady Tong, let me take you home." After dinner, Gu Mingshen offered with a very gentlemanly manner.

This Lady Tong was clearly fond of Gu Mingshen as well, her eyes forming a very charming curve: "Okay, thank you for that."

Gu Mingshen also had a good impression of Lady Tong. They had met more than once today, and seeing her curved eyebrows and eyes, he couldn’t help but compare her with Li Xinyi.

Although Lady Tong was not as beautiful as Li Xinyi, her smile was infectious and made it easy for people to like her. Most importantly, she was considerate towards others, never demanding people to cater to her, and sometimes showing vulnerability at the right time, which evoked a protective instinct in them.

Even though most of it was pretense, Gu Mingshen found it very comfortable. He felt that, barring any accidents, he would be willing to marry someone like Lady Tong.

"Ming Shen, Brother..." Seeing the two of them laughing and ready to leave, Li Xinyi couldn’t resist her impulses and stopped them.

The moment she appeared, surprise flitted across Lady Tong’s face, but Gu Mingshen’s face turned pale.

"Lady Tong, could you please wait in the car for a moment? I want to clarify things with Miss Li." Gu Mingshen handed her the car keys.

Although very curious, Lady Tong trusted Gu Mingshen and gracefully took the keys and left.

But Li Xinyi’s gaze towards Lady Tong was filled with deep resentment, and Gu Mingshen’s frown grew deeper.

"Ming Shen, Brother..." As soon as Lady Tong’s figure disappeared, Li Xinyi immediately put on a vulnerable expression. She tried to grab Gu Mingshen’s sleeve, but he avoided her.

Gu Mingshen took a deep breath, maintaining his composure: "Xinyi, it’s so late, why are you here alone? Did you bring a driver?"

"Ming Shen, Brother, can you take me home, please?" Li Xinyi pleaded.

Gu Mingshen shook his head, then picked up his phone: "Then I will call your older brother to pick you up."

The color drained from Li Xinyi’s face, her tone growing stiff: "Ming Shen, Brother, are you really going to be so heartless?"

Gu Mingshen sensed something off about Li Xinyi’s mood and frowned: "Xinyi, I know our interactions from a while ago might have led to some misunderstandings, but now I only see you as the little neighbor girl from childhood."

"Little neighbor girl?" Li Xinyi murmured these words, looking up at Gu Mingshen, "So the care you showed me after returning to the country was also fake? The emotions we shared in our interactions were also fake?"

"I admit I took a fondness to you at that time, but I later realized we weren’t suitable for each other. Xinyi, I am sorry about this, but there really is no possibility for us, and we never really talked about it, did we? I thought my distance would have made that clear to you."

"Clear? How could I be clear about it?" Li Xinyi cried out to him, "If you didn’t have romantic feelings for me, why were you so nice to me at the beginning? Why did I see you as my boyfriend, yet you refuse to acknowledge it and always avoid me?"

Seeing her cry heart-wrenchingly, Gu Mingshen’s heart couldn’t bear it, and he also felt that his past actions were somewhat inappropriate. Knowing she’d be like this now, he should have clarified things from the beginning.

"Xinyi, don’t be like this, this is a public place, everyone is watching!" Gu Mingshen apologized to her, "I’m sorry, some of my past actions gave you the wrong impression."

"So how do you intend to compensate?" Li Xinyi suddenly threw out this line.

Gu Mingshen frowned: "What do you want? As long as it’s within my power.

"Marry me." Li Xinyi stared at him fiercely.

Then Gu Mingshen looked at her with an unfamiliar gaze and shook his head: "Xinyi, I will not use marriage as compensation. It’s not reasonable, and we aren’t at that stage, right?"

"Then give me a child, a child belonging to both of us." Li Xinyi made another outrageous demand.

Gu Mingshen felt that he was running out of patience: "Xinyi, I think there’s nothing left to say between us. I will call him to pick you up and take you home."

"Him? He can barely take care of himself! You don’t know? Your elder brother has successfully proposed to Ye Chan." After saying this, Li Xinyi kept her gaze fixed on Gu Mingshen, seemingly trying to read something from the depths of his eyes.

But she was bound to be disappointed. Gu Mingshen was surprised for a moment, then said indifferently, "Thank you for telling me this good news. When they get married, I will send them my blessings. Ye Chan is a good woman and is well-matched for my elder brother."

"You’re not angry?" Li Xinyi asked with a low tone.

Gu Mingshen was baffled: "Why should I be angry?"

Li Xinyi fell silent. Gu Mingshen felt that she was emotionally unstable, so he made another call: "Then I’ll call your mother and ask her to send a driver to pick you up."

Li Xinyi looked up, her eyes filled with deep resentment: "After all is said and done, you just don’t want to take me back? Brother Ming Shen, even if you don’t agree to my two requests, can’t you at least give me a lift as if I were a neighbor’s little sister?"

"Sorry, I have someone else to take." Gu Mingshen flatly refused.

"That woman just now? Your new girlfriend?"

Gu Mingshen did not want to talk more with her, and made the call.

"Aunt Gao, Xinyi is here with me. Please send a driver to pick her up. I’ll send you the address."

It was unclear what was said on the other end, but Gu Mingshen continued: "Aunt Gao, sorry, but I have some other matters and can’t escort her."

After a pause, he spoke again: "Aunt Gao, I don’t live near East Lake anymore, so let’s forget about dining together. That will be all for now, goodbye."

In the end, Li Xinyi still took her family driver’s car home and immediately faced interrogation from Li Pengcheng and Gao Juan.

"You stood someone up just to find Gu Mingshen?" Li Pengcheng looked unhappy, "Do you know how much effort I’ve put into smoothing things over because of this? Even if you didn’t want to pursue it, you should have shown your face and made things clear, shouldn’t you?"

"Alright, simmer down." Gao Juan chastised her husband and then turned to her daughter with caution, "Xinyi dear, did you go to see your Brother Ming Shen? How did it go? Are the issues resolved?"

Li Pengcheng pricked up his ears; if his daughter had really won over the Second Young Master of the Gu Family, why would he need to waste so much effort courting other families? Wasn’t it all to find a good match for his daughter?

"Resolved? What’s there to resolve? He didn’t acknowledge anything, he simply looks down on your daughter." Li Xinyi yelled, her eyes flushed red.