Waves of clouds are mysterious and unpredictable.

  As more and more eyes wandered back and forth between the real person and the painting, Zhao Zimo grabbed the hand of the person beside him: "Extremely precious, let's not look anymore, anyway Mom will give these paintings to me later, come on, it's creepy being surrounded by people."

  The two left the gallery, and Zhao Zimo's phone rang. It was his mom calling. After hanging up the phone, she jumped up and hugged the arm of the person beside her: "Awesome, my mom has booked a spot at Fenglin Hotel to celebrate my birthday. Let's go, we'll head over first."

  "Isn't it a celebration tonight?"

  "My birthday is on the same day as my mom's, so of course I'd want to spend such a great evening celebrating with her." Zhao Zimo smiled gently, "I always celebrate at noon every year."

  Gu Cheng smiled slightly and replied: "Mm, got it."

  The Fenglin Hotel is not far from the pedestrian street, and the two of them strolled over. When they arrived, Zhao Zimo's parents had not yet come, so the waiter led them into the reserved private room.

  Fenglin Hotel is not the highest-starred hotel in Fengcheng, but it is a local time-honored brand with the most authentic and traditional dishes. The decoration is classical and elegant, with a distant and secluded atmosphere.

  It's the season when flowers are in full bloom, a wooden round dining table has a yellow ceramic vase placed in the center, with two or three branches of peach blossoms inserted at an angle, emitting a delicate fragrance.

  Gu Cheng stands by the window with his hands behind him.

  Zhao Zimo smiled and leaned in: "Top quality, are you nervous?"

  Gu Cheng's expression was calm: "It's okay."

  "But I'm nervous!"

  Gu Chengge turned his head sideways and looked at her, with a faint smile: "How is it? Don't you have confidence in me?"

  Zhao Zimo: "......"

  How is that possible! But she also didn't know why she was nervous, as soon as she thought of her old man who had always educated her with an "iron and blood policy"...she couldn't help it.

  Who knows what kind of expression that serious old man will have towards them!

  Zhao Zimo: "Let's not talk about this anymore." With her mom around, she shouldn't have to worry too much, "By the way, didn't you say yesterday that you were going to prepare a birthday gift for me? Where is it?"

  She stretched out her hand to him.

  Gu Cheng's song lost its smile.

  "Who behaves like you, asking people for gifts?" He took her outstretched hand and said, "Come sit down."

  Zhao Zimo pouted in dissatisfaction: "Anyway, it's going to be mine sooner or later, why should I waste my brain trying to guess what you're going to give me just because I'm embarrassed!"

  Don't be so pretentious!

  She sat down in a chair beside the dining table.

  "Go ahead, you're always right anyway." Gu Cheng Song reached into his pocket and handed her a small round box.

  The box is exquisitely crafted, with intricate carvings of auspicious patterns on the lid, resembling dragons and phoenixes, which doesn't seem like modern craftsmanship.

  Zhao Zimo took it over, his eyes barely concealing a radiant light.

  "Is this a makeup box for me?" Although she didn't like makeup and seemed not to need it, she took one look and especially liked it.

  Gu Cheng's mouth twitched quickly: "It's not a makeup box. Open it and take a look."

  Zhao Zimo sweated profusely.

  Carefully opened the lid, inside lay a bangle and a chain.

  The bangles are made of extremely fine jade, transparent to the point of seeming to emit light; the chain is also made of the same jade, with the main chain consisting of a string of long, oval-shaped jade seeds, and on the chain, there are scattered, elegant, long and short jade pendants, strung together with small jade seeds and jade blocks.

  Zhao Zimo immediately put a bangle on one hand and a chain on the other, but when he put his two hands together, no matter how you looked at it, this combination seemed very strange.

  Gu Cheng's song slightly curved up at the corners of his mouth.

  "Silly girl, you're not wearing it right." He took off the chain she was wearing on her right hand with one hand, "This is an ankle chain."

  Zhao Qingyun and Beiye Qingyu gently pushed open the door and saw this scene:

  A young man with a refined and elegant appearance slightly lowered his head, squatting on the ground with one knee slightly propped up against the earth, yet even in this posture, he could not hide his clear and airy temperament.

  He took a delicately designed anklet and slowly tied it around the right ankle of the girl sitting in the chair.

  Due to the bandage on his injured right hand, he appeared a bit clumsy and awkward when tying it, but he was not impatient or flustered, with a calm and composed expression on his handsome face.

  After fitting it, he raised his head: "The size is just right, do you like it?"

  Zhao Zimo happily moved his feet and smiled deeply: "I like it! Very beautiful!"

  Gu Cheng smiled slightly, and his eyes were filled with fine, sparkling lights.

  "So from now on, never take it off again."

  "That won't do!" Zhao Zimo opposed without hesitation, "If the pearls and jade pieces on top are not carefully picked up, it would be a pity. I must collect them and take good care of them!"

  She bent down to untie it.

  "Silly ink." Gu Cheng Ge stopped her, gently pinched her nose with his fingers, and indulgently teased her, "No matter how good something is, if you lock it up in a high pavilion, it's no different from the dust in the air - it's nothing at all."

  Zhao Zimo: "Uh..."

  "Don't worry, it's tied with golden thread and won't fall off without being cut. And this ankle chain has two ways of fastening. The first is a very ordinary buckle, just like the one you just put on your hand; while the second is locked with a key." Gu Cheng Ge spread out his intact left palm, on which there was an extremely small jade key, "I used the second method, so as long as you don't force it to break, it will be on your foot forever."

  Forever...

  Zhao Zimo felt that she liked this word.

  She looked down shyly and asked: "Is this what you bought yesterday?"

  "No." Gu Cheng shook his head gently, pausing for a moment before speaking. "The jade bangle was left to me by my foster mother, Fu Qinglian - one each for Castle West and me; as for the ankle chain... it was hers to me."

  "She?"

  Xiao Xiao, my birth mother.

  Zhao Zimo: "......"

  "Cough..."

  Kitano Kiyoyuki coughed intentionally.

  Gu Cheng's eyes widened as he stood up and stared at the middle-aged man who walked in with a majestic stride, his expression momentarily dazed.

  This face has been seen many times on TV.

  Mayor Zhao Qingyun of Yingchuan City.

  He didn't know that Ah Mo was actually born into such a prestigious family.

  Zhao Zimo jumped up: "Dad, Mom, you're here!" She linked her arm with her father's, "This is the one, my elegant and refined, handsome and extraordinary... a rare talent."

  "Zhao Zimo!" Zhao Qingyun's serious face interrupted her, "Be more serious for me!"

  What's all the fuss about? These are all phrases Mom used to describe me!

  Zhao Zimo stuck out her tongue and said, "Oh! Be serious!" She introduced formally, "This is my dad." Then she pointed to the person opposite her, "Dad, his name is Gu Chengge."

  Gu Cheng's song favored humiliation without surprise, calm and composed: "Uncle Zhao." Then he nodded to the person behind him, "Qing Yi."

  Zhao Qingyun looked at him with a scrutinizing gaze, nodded and sat down directly. His face was stern as usual, often like this even to his wife and daughter.

  At Kitano Sei's invitation, the other two also sat down together.

  The waiter brought two menus, and the two men tacitly handed them over to the woman beside them.

  Zhao Qingyun casually asked: "How old is Little Guo this year? What major did he study?"

  "Fourth year, majoring in law."

  "So you're preparing to be a lawyer?"

  Gu Cheng Ge was about to answer when Zhao Zi Mo jumped in: "He's already a lawyer and has even started his own law firm with someone! Dad, don't ask anything else. If you want to know more about him, watch the campus channel 'Xiao He Jian Jian' next Saturday night, there's a special report on him." She was beaming with pride, "I personally filmed and produced this program!"

  Zhao Qingyun and Beiye Qingyu exchanged a glance, but neither of them said anything.

  After the dishes were served, Zhao Zimo habitually picked out the side dishes he didn't like, such as the soybeans in the boiled beef or the bamboo shoots in the chicken stewed mushroom soup.

  Zhao Qingyun spoke up: "Zhao Zimo, no picking at your food! If you don't like something, then just don't take it!"

  Pick up a piece of beef with chopsticks, and those bean sprouts will follow on their own! Scoop up a spoonful of chicken mushroom soup, and the bamboo shoots will run in on their own too!

  Zhao Zimo pouted, then...

  She leaned in close to Gu Cheng Ge and discontentedly expressed her opinion: "See, I told you that you're just like Dad!" She picked up all the bean sprouts and bamboo shoots and put them into his bowl, innocently looking at her father, "Dad, how can you say I'm picky? He's having trouble picking food, okay?"

  Because his right hand was injured, Gu Chengge ate with his left hand, although it wasn't very awkward, but indeed not very agile.

  He ate the bean sprouts and bamboo shoots she had brought over.

  Zhao Qingyun didn't know about his daughter's bad habits, he just spoke in the direction of Gu Cheng Ge: "Don't spoil her too much, she will be lawless."

  Gu Cheng Ge put down his chopsticks and said seriously: "Uncle Zhao, spoiling her is my good fortune."

  Zhao Qingyun looked at him and didn't say another word.

  Kitano Sei's smile was all that escaped her lips.

  After finishing a meal, the four of them left the private room. Zhao Qingyun instructed his daughter: "You don't have to come back tonight, we're celebrating your mom's birthday."

  Zhao Zimo smiled slyly: "I know, I won't disturb your little world of two!"

  Bei Ye pinched her little face and said to another person: "Next time we have time, let's go home and have dinner with Mo Mo together."

  Gu Cheng nodded in agreement.

  That means he has been recognized!

  "Mayor Zhao!"

  A loud and thick voice came from nearby.

  Wang Jizheng came out of another private room, accompanied by Professor Cheng Jin'nan from the Law School.

  Zhao Qingyun stopped in his tracks: "Director Wang."

  After everyone had greeted each other, the two of them exchanged formalities and chatted with Professor Cheng. Gu Cheng Ge and Zhao Zi Mo also greeted Professor Cheng.

  After exchanging a few pleasantries, Wang Jizheng's gaze swept over Gu Chengge without leaving any trace, and he asked the person next to him with interest: "Does Mo Mo have a boyfriend? Doesn't she like our family's Ah Yan anymore?"

  Zhao Zimo smiled and said: "Uncle Wang, it's because your Ah Yan looks down on me, so I have no choice but to fall in love with someone else!"

  After exchanging a few pleasantries, Wang Jizheng and Cheng Jinan took their leave first. As they walked away, Zhao Zimo gazed at their receding figures with puzzlement, muttering to himself: "Why would Uncle Wang be with Professor Cheng?"

  These two people shouldn't be worlds apart, should they?

  What a strange combination!

  Kitano Kiyoe enlightened her: "The younger sister of Wang Tingzhang, Wang Yuhua, is the wife of Professor Cheng." She couldn't help but sigh, "Wang Yuhua passed away many years ago, I didn't expect that these two uncle-nephew relationships would still be so close."