Chapter 897: Uncle Gu Questions Minmin

Mr. Gu, who was sitting to the side, couldn’t listen any longer: "Daughter-in-law, you don’t need to worry about them. If the two kids can’t eat, don’t force them."

"How can that be? When they come home, they ask if there’s food left; they’re definitely hungry." Chen Hong replied with a smile.

Gu Decang lifted his eyes, glanced at Gu Jin and An Mingji, and suddenly said to his wife, "You go back to the room first."

Realizing there were things she wasn’t supposed to hear, Chen Hong pursed her lips but still got up and returned to the room.

After their aunt returned to her room, Gu Jin put down her heavy chopsticks.

She glanced at An Mingji, who was sitting beside her with his head down, his expression unclear.

He was holding chopsticks but hadn’t eaten a single bite of food.

However, when the aunt urged them, he had scooped a few bites of rice.

A grain of rice stuck to the corner of the young man’s mouth, and Gu Jin gently wiped it off with her hand.

"Jin girl, tell me the truth, what exactly happened to Minmin?"

The sudden question from her uncle caused Gu Jin’s heart to tremble.

Even the hand she had yet to remove from An Mingji’s face shook violently.

Her fingernail scratched across An Mingji’s fair skin, leaving a conspicuous red mark.

An Mingji snapped back to reality, put down his chopsticks, and looked at Gu Jin’s uneasy expression.

He slowly lowered his hand, gently patting Gu Jin’s leg.

Gu Jin quickly calmed down, revealed a faint smile, and said with a smile to Gu Decang, "Uncle, didn’t Minmin go to study? What could happen? I hardly see her now. I heard she went for an exchange study; it’s in a rather closed environment."

"Really?"

That question came from Mr. Gu.

The granddaughter hadn’t contacted home for so long, making Gu Decang and Chen Hong anxious, and even the old man was a bit uneasy.

"Really, if you don’t believe, ask Cousin."

As Gu Jin said this, she didn’t even blink.

In fact, under the table, she was squeezing An Mingji’s hand tightly, nervous to death inside.

Mr. Gu and Gu Decang asked Gu Jin some questions about Minmin, and she answered them perfectly.

Night had fallen.

Considering An Mingji had just lost a family member, and both he and Gu Jin had been busy all day, Mr. Gu asked them to go back to their rooms and rest.

They were grown-ups now, each an adult, and naturally couldn’t sleep together like when they were children.

Back then, not only did their young age make them share a room, but also the lack of rooms in the house.

Now, what the Gu Family lacked the least was rooms.

Their rooms were next to each other.

After Gu Jin went back to her room and washed up, she soon fell asleep.

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The next day.

Under the warm sunlight shining through the window, Gu Jin opened her sleepy eyes.

The moment she opened her eyes, they felt dry, gritty, and slightly sore.

She knew it was from crying too much the day before.

Even though she and An Feng weren’t related by blood, she respected this elder in her heart.

She and An Mingji had long been prepared for the other’s passing, but when that day finally came, it was still very painful.

If she felt like this, one could only imagine how much sadness and grief young An was experiencing.

Gu Jin sat up in bed, glanced at the tightly closed door, and slipped into the space.

After a simple wash in the space, she went to the Alchemy Room, looking through the rows of wooden cabinets for an ointment to apply to her eyes.

The cool ointment applied around her eyes soon eased the pain, and her eyes quickly returned to normal.

When she left the space, Gu Jin took the bottle of ointment with her, prepared to give it to An Mingji.

Recalling the silent tears the young man shed yesterday felt like sharp needles piercing Gu Jin’s heart.