The handsome guy next door loves to flirt.

After listening to Yun Shu's explanation, Gu Cheng looked down at his daughter's stubborn face as she knelt on the ground.

Yun Shu looks a lot like her mother, but her way of doing things and her personality are more like hers than hers among the children. She is hardworking and determined. So she started school earlier than others, starting first grade at the age of five, but her grades were no worse than her peers. Now she works in a hospital and is considered successful. Yun Huan and Yun Le are spoiled by their mother. If only they were half as sensible as Yun Shu.

However, no matter how capable Yun Shu is, she is ultimately not a boy and cannot inherit the family business. In the eyes of outsiders, Yun Shu is still Gu Jia's adopted daughter, while his only biological daughters are Yun Huan and Yun Le. Therefore, he is not so worried lately, but rather caught in a dilemma!

However, he was still angry, so he asked again, "Even so, why didn't you persuade them to go home quickly? If something happens, you will have completely disgraced the Gu family!"

"I tried to persuade him, and Yunle can testify!" Yun Shu didn't want to say anything more because she knew that Gu Cheng was usually biased, and he wouldn't protect her now.

Seeing her still so stubborn face, showing no intention of yielding to him, Gu Cheng shook his head and said, "Kneel here for an hour before you go out, and stay at home tonight. Go to work tomorrow."

If we don't temper her temper, she'll suffer in the future, just like he did when he was younger. If he hadn't been so stubborn back then, maybe he would have ended up with Yun Shu's mother!

After Gu Cheng left, Yun Shu obediently knelt there. She remembered that when she was young, especially when she had just arrived at the Gu family home, before even reaching the old Gu family mansion, she had just recovered from a serious illness and was already being punished by kneeling here. In Yun Shu's mind, this was Gu Cheng's form of cold, abusive family discipline.

She didn't know if he had ever punished Yun Huan and Yun Le, but he had never hit her. He had fulfilled his responsibilities as a father to her, especially when she was filling out her college application. He didn't interfere, and when he found out she was applying to medical school, he didn't object. So, the two of them had lived peacefully together all these years.

Yun Shu knew that it was wrong of her father to leave the countryside and return to the city without taking her mother with him, but he didn't know at the time that her mother was already pregnant with her when he left.

Yun Shu was in the study, looking at the alarm clock and carrying the medical books on her back. She knelt for an hour until her legs went numb.

When they went out, the lobby was empty. It was past the Gu family's mealtime, and they were all taking a walk in the neighborhood after finishing their meal.

Yun Shu was very hungry. Because it was Monday, the hospital was very busy at noon, so she didn't go to the cafeteria for lunch. She only ate a piece of bread, which had long since been digested.

She's not going to lose weight. If she gets any thinner, according to Xu Ruo, if a woman is as thin as a bamboo pole, will a man still have any desire for her? She can't be like Xu Ruo. Besides, it's hard to be hungry. She has low blood sugar and can't stand being hungry. She gets dizzy and her hands tremble.

At this moment, the family, especially Aunt Tian, ​​that snobbish woman, must not have left her any food, so Yun Shu went back to her room. Her room was in a corner on the first floor, while Yun Huan and Yun Le lived alone on the third floor, which was said to be very luxuriously decorated.

Li Meng has always been very generous to her two daughters. Her two older brothers are both capable men, so she is not short of money. In fact, she secretly manages some of the family's businesses outside the home.

Yun Shu returned to her room and found it exactly as it had been when she left. She took out the blankets and sheets from the closet; they smelled strongly of mildew. Just as she was about to make the bed, she noticed a takeout box on the bedside table, with a note underneath.

"Sis: I took the food secretly, and... I'm sorry!"

Judging from the handwriting, it was left by Yun Le; no one else could have done it.

In this family, only Yunle treated her relatively well, but she was controlled by her mother and Yunhuan, so there was very little she could help. Sometimes she even helped them punish her. However, she was still grateful to Yunle in the end.

The thought that only she remembered she hadn't eaten and that he'd secretly brought her food made the pent-up resentment in his heart disappear. He put down the blankets first, planning to make the bed later. She wanted to eat, and the food was already cold, but it didn't matter in this weather.

The second time, Yun Shu got up early, not wanting to run into the rest of the Gu family. She told Aunt Tian that she had to leave first and wouldn't stay home for breakfast.

When Gu Cheng woke up, he found that Yun Shu had left early again. His brows furrowed and he thought to himself, "Why is this child so unwilling to stay at home? It seems I have to think of a way. Otherwise, if Yun Shu has no feelings for this family, and Yun Huan and Yun Le are like this, how can I entrust the Gu family to them?"

Yun Shu was busy for the next few days, often getting off work very late. Xiao Mingkun had also gone on a business trip to another city to inspect a project, and it was unclear when he would return. As a result, Yun Shu did not run into him again, which relieved her.

Tian Li from next door was discharged from the hospital after a week and was in postpartum confinement. As expected, A Dong's mother didn't come over, and A Dong personally took care of his wife during her postpartum period. About twenty days after Tian Li returned, A Dong went back to work. He was heavily in debt and had a family to feed and clothe, so he had to make money quickly.

Yun Shu glanced at her wallet, took out a bank card—her salary card, which didn't hold much money. She needed to go to the bank to transfer money to her aunt. Her aunt had a hard time raising three children in the countryside, and her aunt always said her health wasn't good enough to support three children. Yun Shu knew what was going on, but for the sake of her deceased uncle, she didn't hold it against her. However, lately her aunt had been asking her to send money more and more frequently; she had just given them some money last month, and it was gone so quickly.

Yun Shu's original wish to buy a house by the end of the year was uncertain whether it would come true. She had to support her aunt's family while she was in school, so saving any money was really difficult.

Gu Cheng opposed her living outside and would never buy her a house. He had said before that if she could return to live with his family, she wouldn't have to worry about tuition and living expenses, but Yun Shu wanted to move out, so Gu Cheng stopped giving her any money after that. However, Yun Shu still didn't want to come back to live with him and only returned occasionally when she had something to do. Last year, the school paid for their trip abroad.

She does have a house left to her by her grandmother, which is her grandmother's private property, so no one dares to object to her grandmother giving it to her. However, it's located in another city, too far from here, and has always been rented out to others, collecting a small amount of rent each month.

Yun Shu sighed as she looked at the bank card. She wished she were rich someday and didn't have to worry about money anymore. Sometimes she envied Xu Ruo for having such a good father and being an only child. She, on the other hand, had to rely on her own hard work to earn money.