Professor Gu's daily life in the countryside after his rebirth

Gu Zhan slept until noon the next day.

During this period, Liu Xiaoxi was extremely worried and wanted to wake up Gu Zhan several times, but when she thought of what he had said before he went to bed, she held back.

It was not until lunchtime the next day that Gu Zhan woke up from hunger.

After waking up from a good sleep, Gu Zhan finally felt refreshed.

"young married woman?"

Gu Zhan called out to Liu Xiaoxi in the room, but heard no answer. He stood up, put on his shoes and walked out the door. The Gu family had already finished lunch. There was only the smell of corn paste in the kitchen, and no one was in sight.

Unable to find anyone, Gu Zhan simply followed Liu Xiaoxi's example and stood at the door waiting for someone.

When Liu Xiaoxi came out from the corner of the house with a bunch of vegetables in her hand, she saw Gu Zhan standing at the door of the Gu family like a husband-waiting stone.

Not wanting Gu Zhan to wait any longer, Liu Xiaoxi quickened his pace and walked towards Gu Zhan.

Seeing this, Gu Zhan hurriedly strode forward.

He frowned and looked at Liu Xiaoxi: "Slow down, why are you in such a hurry? I'm here and I won't run away."

Liu Xiaoxi's smile slowly turned downwards as she watched Gu Zhan. The joy she had felt at seeing Gu Zhan suddenly vanished, replaced by a feeling of grievance. Unable to contain her anger, she tilted her head, her eyes reddening from the angle where Gu Zhan couldn't see.

Gu Zhan was still wondering why Liu Xiaoxi was so quiet today, but when he turned around he realized something was wrong.

I saw that my wife's lips were tightly pursed and her eyes were red like a rabbit.

"What's wrong?" Gu Zhan asked.

Liu Xiaoxi did not respond, shook off Gu Zhan's hand and went into the house first.

Gu Zhan was both angry and amused. He didn't know what he had done to make this girl unhappy.

He stood there for a few seconds, then started walking again and followed Liu Xiaoxi into the house.

"Daughter-in-law, what's wrong?"

Gu Zhan stood in front of Liu Xiaoxi, looking at the woman in front of him with tears about to overflow from her eyes, his heart couldn't help but soften. This was the person he had been waiting for his whole life, how could he be so careless as to make her cry?

Gu Zhan stretched out his hands, gently cupped Liu Xiaoxi's cheeks, and spoke softly again: "Wife, what happened?"

Liu Xiaoxi looked up, looking at Gu Zhan's sincere eyes, and asked softly, "Do you only like children and not me?"

"What?" Gu Zhan was stunned for a moment. He had no idea why his wife had such an idea, nor did he know what he had done wrong to make her have such an idea.

"You always tell me to be careful and pay attention, but you only care about the baby in your belly and not me."

After listening to Liu Xiaoxi's words, Gu Zhan suddenly understood.

Indeed, it seemed that he had not paid attention to this aspect. Every time he reminded Liu Xiaoxi to pay attention to something, he used the baby in her belly as an excuse.

Because he was too regretful and concerned about his past life, he had always stubbornly believed that his wife's suicide by jumping into the river with their daughter in her arms was not only due to his own reasons, but also because his daughter was not in good health.

In the previous life, if his daughter had not been so weak and needed frequent medical treatment, would his wife have been able to hold on until he finished college and came home to visit her and her daughter?

In countless late nights, he tried to understand and replay his wife's helplessness at that time, but no matter how many times he replayed it, he could not escape the tragic ending.

So in this life, after he was reborn and ensured that he would not leave his beloved wife and young son, he focused his attention on the only remaining variable - his daughter's health.

Realizing this, Gu Zhan bent down, his eyes level with Liu Xiaoxi's. He whispered hoarsely, "I'm sorry, I didn't notice this. I'll pay attention next time. But it's not that I don't like you and only like our daughter. It's that I liked you first, and then I liked our daughter."

Hearing Gu Zhan's affectionate confession, Liu Xiaoxi burst into laughter: "Then why do you always say our baby is a daughter, not a son? If it is a son, would you not like it?"

Gu Zhan laughed, straightened up and hugged her tightly in his arms. Holding her tightly, he laughed in her ear and said, "What are you thinking about all day? How could I only like daughters and not sons? As long as it's your child, I like them all, regardless of gender."

"Then why do you keep saying that I'm carrying a daughter?"

"That's because I had a dream, a very long dream, in which I dreamed that you gave birth to our daughter."

"Have you ever dreamed about our future?"

Gu Zhan held back the tears and sobs in his eyes, and tried to keep his tone steady: "I dreamed about it. I dreamed about our happy life, with many children and grandchildren."

Gu Zhan still didn't tell anyone about his past life. He could only bury the endless darkness and pain quietly in a corner of his heart, reminding himself at all times not to make the same mistake again and lose the most important person.

"Pfft!" Liu Xiaoxi couldn't help but burst into laughter. "You really are good at making up stories, but I'll believe you then. After all, our baby's father also worked very hard to make up stories."

Dad? This was the first time Gu Zhan had heard these two words in his two lifetimes. He felt his heart filled with strength and warmth, as if these two words were connected to a real, living person, rather than a cold and powerless title.

His parents died young, so he never had any of them in his memory. He spent many important moments of his growth alone. Even when he faced life-threatening dangers and was abused by the Gu family countless times, he carried it all on his own.

As he grew up, the word "father" became just a title to him, a title that recorded where he came from.

Even if he heard others talk about his father or mother, he had never truly felt the kind of concern and deep love that parents have for their children.

And today, just these two simple words "Dad" magically filled my heart with strength again.

It made him feel that he had the ability to put the power he had into her who was not yet born, and it also allowed him to transform the emotions he had never received into a form that was obtained and pass them on again.

"Thank you, my wife."

"no need thank me?"

"Thank you for marrying me." What Gu Zhan didn't say was, thank you for marrying me when I was the most helpless and penniless, thank you for not holding a grudge against me.

Feeling the strength in Gu Zhan's arms, Liu Xiaoxi hugged Gu Zhan back tightly. At this moment, the hearts of the two were infinitely close again.