“My deskmate.”
Ah Wu felt that it was most appropriate to use this identity to describe the other party now.
“Oh?”
A hint of surprise flashed across Xiang Yancheng’s eyes.
He thought that the boy was the boy pursued by his daughter whom the head teacher had mentioned to him many times on the phone, because the look in his daughter’s eyes when she looked at him was too brilliant, as if carrying feelings that she herself was not aware of.
“You have performed well during this period. The teacher called to praise you.”
The atmosphere in the back seat of the car was a little quiet.
When working, Xiang Yancheng obviously missed his troublesome daughter, but when they really sat together, he didn’t know what to say to his daughter.
After finishing the previous topic, the two of them looked at each other in silence for a long time before Xiang Yancheng squeezed out such a dry compliment.
“I hope you can keep up the good work. By the way, your birthday is coming soon. Didn’t you say before that you wanted to go to the amusement park? This time, Dad will definitely make time for that day and play with you for the whole day.”
Xiang Yancheng looked at the girl who kept a distance from him even when sitting in the back seat of the car, with her back straight and never slacking off. He couldn’t help feeling sad.
Once upon a time, this daughter was so close to him that she wanted to stick to him 24 hours a day. When they were separated for a long time, she would cry and shout for her father.
Even when they were in the car together, the little girl was restless like a monkey and kept getting into his arms, shouting for her father to hold her.
However, it was not known since when the relationship between father and daughter became somewhat distant.
Perhaps it was because Xiao Wu was getting older and when it was time for her to go to school, he could no longer take her to work every day like he did when she was a child or bring his daughter with him when he went to other places or abroad to discuss cooperation projects.
As the distance between them increased and the days of separation became more frequent, their feelings naturally became distant.
In addition, adolescents are prone to rebellion.
Gradually, his daughter grew up to look like someone he didn’t even recognize. Every time they met, the father and daughter would quarrel.
These days, his daughter seems to have the correct attitude. Xiang Yancheng felt that this might be an opportunity for them to reconcile.
Amusement park?
Ah Wu remembered that this was her birthday wish six years ago.
At that time, she was only eleven years old. She was very envious when she heard other classmates talk about their experiences of going to the amusement park with their parents.
So, when her father asked her what her birthday wish was, Ah Wu told him that her birthday wish was to be able to stay in the amusement park for a whole day with her father’s company.
Her father agreed. But three days before Xiang Wu’s birthday, a big mistake occurred in Xiang’s branch in Japan. If it was not handled properly, it might directly end Far East International’s expansion in Japan.
So, Xiang Yancheng hurried to Japan and only called Xiang Wu, who was looking forward to that birthday, to explain briefly. Then he asked the life assistant to prepare a birthday gift for her and asked the life assistant to take her to the amusement park on her birthday.
That time, Xiang Wu stayed in the amusement park for ten days. She played all the projects over and over again dozens of times.
Since then, she has never set foot in the amusement park again.
Now hearing her father mention her birthday wish, Ah Wu was still a little dazed.
She didn’t know whether she should be happy that her father could keep her birthday wish in his heart for so many years, or whether she should be sad that there were so many birthdays in between, but the other party always ran around the world on the day when she was most looking forward to the reunion.
Ah Wu knew that if others knew about her resentment, they would only think that she was hypocritical and ridiculous. Perhaps since she had such a high level of material wealth, she should sacrifice some family companionship.
After all, Xiang Yancheng spent so much effort on the Xiang Group, to a large extent, to create a better life for his daughter and leave her with enough material security.
Especially in recent years, Xiang Yancheng has never remarried for the sake of his daughter. In the eyes of others, if this cannot satisfy Xiang Wu, it can only be said that she is greedy.
But she had lost her mother since she was a child, and even her father spent most of his time at work and the remaining little time belonged to her.
She lived in an empty villa every day, with only servants coming and going. When she was sad, she wanted to call her father, but she was told by the secretary that her father was in a meeting and would not end until a few hours later.
Isn’t this kind of emotional loss sad?
“Okay.”
Ah Wu felt dull in her heart.
She thought of herself crying silently while riding the merry-go-round in the amusement park. She wanted to say that she was no longer the child who wanted to go to the amusement park with her father six years ago, but her body honestly gave the answer she wanted most.
After more than ten minutes of driving, Ah Wu stared at the scenery receding outside the car window in a daze.
Xiang Yancheng, who was expecting his daughter to tell him some interesting things that happened at school, felt a little disappointed and sighed deeply in his heart.
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Ughh, yeah, loneliness kills too. The material wealth is important, but so is quality time with family, especially when they’re young.
I don’t even want a dog or a cat because im away 10 hours a day and sleep 8 hours a day and that leaves 6 hours for things like making food, cleaning, and personal time and its not 6 subsequent hours even. Leaving an animal at home in an empty house bored and lonely feels cruel too because they can’t even go to school or hang with other kids or anything, so….
Yeah. Feels difficult to balance work, life, me-time, and family.