Chapter 370: Among All Beings, He Has Jiang Lai

Jiang Lai tossed and turned.

She really couldn't sleep, gently lifted a corner of the blanket, covered Ke Zhongying beside her, grabbed the phone on the nightstand and went out.

Jiang Lai sat where Ke Zhongyu had slept last night, slowly lowered her upper body, pressing her face against it.

Though she didn't fall asleep, her mind wasn't that empty.

Her finger accidentally brushed the phone, the screen lit up, and she opened the chat with Ke Zhongyu, the last message being "Good night."

It was already 3 a. m.; Ke Zhongyu was surely asleep, she shouldn't send a message this late to disturb him, yet she couldn't resist.

【Ke Zhongyu】

She sent three characters, didn't expect Ke Zhongyu to reply, put the phone back, and the faint light illuminated her face.

After three minutes, the phone gave a slight vibration.

Ke Zhongyu：【Can't sleep?】

Jiang Lai's dim eyes rose in surprise, and she sat up straight on the sofa.

Jiang Lai：【Did I wake you?】

Ke Zhongyu：【Got up at night】

Jiang Lai：【Drank too much water or your stomach feels off?】

Ke Zhongyu：【Drank too much water, what about you?】

Jiang Lai：【Can't sleep】

Ke Zhongyu：【Sitting on the bed or in the bathroom?】

Those are the only places to be on the phone in the middle of the night.

Jiang Lai：【Sofa】

Ke Zhongyu：【The other party is typing…】

Ke Zhongyu：【Is the heating enough?】

Jiang Lai：【Enough】

Ke Zhongyu：【Hmm】

Ke Zhongyu：【No need to force yourself to sleep】

Jiang Lai：【Okay】

After that Ke Zhongyu fell silent, Jiang Lai thought he had gone back to sleep and didn't mind.

She thought about how Shen Xun never replied to her in the middle of the night before; sometimes it took two or three days without a reply.

Ke Zhongyu was already great.

She set the phone down and lay back on the sofa.

Half an hour later, the phone, which had been silent, lit up again.

Ke Zhongyu：【Wear your thickest down jacket, don't wear a coat, and bring the scarf and gloves】

Ke Zhongyu：【Come down】

Ke Zhongyu：【I'll take you to watch the flag raising】

Thump, thump, thump…

Jiang Lai's heart raced, and her previously vacant eyes suddenly lit up.

She dropped the phone, the suitcase already spread out in the living room, she put on the white down jacket, blue scarf, blue gloves, slipped the phone back in, and hurried downstairs.

When the door opened, she bumped straight into Ke Zhongyu.

Jiang Lai slightly widened her eyes.

Ke Zhongyu reached out to touch her head, closed the door, and led Jiang Lai downstairs by the hand.

Jiang Lai wore gloves, Ke Zhongyu did not; she always felt the coat pocket wasn't warm, so she slipped his hand into her down jacket pocket.

Ke Zhongyu thought to himself that being indebted to her in this life was inevitable.

In the jacket pocket, Jiang Lai wrapped his hand, her small hand enclosing his large one, yet her face remained cool and distant; Ke Zhongyu wanted to laugh, A Lai was truly too likable.

But he had to drive, so holding hands could only go so far.

It was still winter; the flag raising was after seven in the morning, and although it wasn't yet five o'clock, people were already passing security.

Their luck was good; they got a front seat, the best viewing spot.

Jiang Lai stood at the front, Ke Zhongyu stood behind her like a guardian deity, keeping others from getting too close.

Actually the Nian Family could see the flag raising, but how could it be the same? Since New Year's Day when he walked with Jiang Lai through the crowded place, Ke Zhongyu had come to like this feeling.

Among all beings, he has Jiang Lai.

Jiang Lai was especially afraid that Ke Zhongyu would get cold; her gloves were too small for him, so she let him stick his hand into her down jacket pocket.

"Stuff both."

"Are you sure?"

Jiang Lai nodded.

Ke Zhongyu slipped his hand into her down jacket pocket, then embraced her fully, his chin resting on her forehead.

There were a lot of people around.

Jiang Lai's eyes darted around, noticing no one was looking this way, she breathed a sigh of relief and followed Ke Zhongyu.

The flag raising is a sacred act, watching it is also solemn; the two looked up as the Hongqi Car Car Car Car slowly rose, fluttering in the wind.

Jiang Lai's heart gradually filled with strength.

Her revered teacher had told her, while he was alive, that if she felt her energy waning, she could go to the red land for a walk.

This wasn't Jiang Lai's first time watching the flag raising, but it was the fastest way she felt recharged.

In front, Motherland; behind, Ke Zhongyu.

After the crowd behind gradually dispersed, Jiang Lai turned around, stayed a little longer in Ke Zhongyu's embrace, raised her head and said: "Are we going back today? There's a lot of work; it's almost March, the product needs to be tested as soon as possible."

Ke Zhongyu: "Whenever you say to go back, we'll go back then."

Jiang Lai nodded in his embrace, let go, then pulled his hand into her down jacket pocket, walking out slowly, they ate breakfast at a nearby bustling lane, and she didn't forget to bring a portion for Ke Zhongying.

Thinking Ke Zhongying would sleep in again, who knew that upon opening the door they saw her with messy hair, looking at the two resentfully: "You went on a date? You watched the flag-raising without calling me."

Ke Zhongyu: "Don't be so boundary-less."

Ke Zhongying snorted, too lazy to bother with him.

Jiang Lai handed over the breakfast, amusedly looking at her: "How did you know we went to watch the flag-raising?"

Ke Zhongying: "Someone saw it and couldn't believe it, took a photo and sent it to my uncle; my uncle casually forwarded it to the group, praising my brother as really not bad, turns out his eyesight is pretty good, the scenery isn't unviewable either."

Ke Zhongyu: "......"

Ke Zhongyu looked at Jiang Lai: "Don't listen to her."

Ke Zhongying had already sat down to eat breakfast; upon learning that her brother and Jiang Lai would leave today, she raised both hands and feet in agreement, saying it's good to go back, B City is their turf, no matter whose old master comes, it's useless.

In the afternoon, as Ke Zhongyu and Jiang Lai just walked out of the residential complex, the Gu family elder appeared again with a cane, and Gu Kai was also there.

Gu Kai saw Jiang Lai and was stunned for a moment; it wasn't that their features looked alike, but their bearing resembled that—truly possessing the same aloof yet hard-to-ignore noble aura that Gu Sen had in his youth.

By comparison, the one at home is completely fake.

Some things cannot be erased, some are hard to cultivate later in life; they are etched into the genes.

"Jiang Lai?" Gu Kai smiled and stepped forward, but seeing the door-god-like Ke Zhongyu beside Jiang Lai, he dared not get too close, saying, "You should already know you are a child of our Gu family; you ought to call me uncle."

Jiang Lai frowned.

They didn't seek her twenty-eight years ago, but now, twenty-eight years later, they appear just in time.

Ke Zhongyu said in a low voice: "She doesn't bear the Gu surname."

The Gu elder kept looking at Jiang Lai, slowly stepping forward and saying: "I know you have a knot in your heart; as long as you return to the Gu family with me, I will tell you what exactly happened twenty-eight years ago that caused you to drift outside for so many years."

As expected of the family head, after just one night they knew where to find leverage over Jiang Lai; Ke Zhongyu turned his head to look at Jiang Lai.

Jiang Lai couldn't help but admit she indeed wanted to know what exactly happened twenty-eight years ago, and what reason caused her to be abandoned less than twenty-four hours after birth.

Who abandoned her?