Contract Marriage: Billionaire and His Deaf Wife
Chapter 327: The Appearance of the Arch-Enemy (4)

Chapter 327: Chapter 327: The Appearance of the Arch-Enemy (4)

No one dislikes it.

Actually, she didn’t think he really hated the house.

The house, both exterior and interior, was nothing but luxurious and elegant, filled with a flavor that could make everyone fall in love with it.

Disliking a place often stemmed from certain events or people. And now, listening to his tone, it seemed as though he had quite liked the house a long time ago, before he had grown to dislike certain people and things.

"My dad made his fortune rather early. And this house, to be honest, wasn’t really my dad’s, it belonged to my mom. It was part of the dowry she brought when she married my dad, supposedly left to her by an ancestor," said Xiao Yebai.

"If your mom has passed away—" Since he called her mom ’mom’, Gu Nuan thought it appropriate to refer to his deceased mother that way as well.

Hearing her naturally call out "mom," a smile played on Xiao Yebai’s lips, and he gripped her hand a bit tighter.

"My mom was an only child. No siblings. So there wasn’t any dispute over inheritance. When she married my dad, she brought everything to the Xiao Family. My maternal grandparents, my outer grandparents, passed away quite early, too. They had both left this world before I was born," Xiao Yebai explained.

From the sound of it, there were almost no relatives on his mother’s side.

"My mom didn’t feel any pressure when she married my dad, since my dad was also an only child. My grandmother had only my dad as her son," Xiao Yebai narrowed his eyes as he spoke, "I heard that my grandmother raised my dad by herself. When my dad almost had an accident on a mission in the army, it nearly drove my grandmother to her grave with worry."

It sounded like his parents’ generation was quite pure and simple, surprisingly so.

Gu Nuan listened with some astonishment.

"Does it feel like my dad’s situation was similar to your family’s?" Xiao Yebai asked with a smile.

Gu Nuan only knew that he liked his father very much. This emotion, though never revealed through external media reports, was inadvertently coming through in his tone and manner now, and she wondered if even he realized it.

"To make money, my grandmother struggled hard, you can imagine how difficult it was for her to raise a child alone," Xiao Yebai said. "My dad was very filial to my grandmother and listened to almost everything she said. That’s why, as a child, if my grandmother hadn’t insisted on not having an abortion and instead raised him into an adult, giving him everything good she had, my dad would not have achieved what he has today, definitely not."

Grandma Xiao was a good mother, something that people on the outside probably wouldn’t expect.

People probably always assumed that since Grandma Xiao was the mother of a wealthy tycoon, she must be extremely harsh, a person who was only after money because after all, she was a businesswoman.

Gu Nuan said, "Grandma is a very rational woman, which is why she was able to raise such an outstanding son."

"You’re not wrong. My grandmother has been through so many hardships, and if she hadn’t had some cunning and plans in mind, my dad wouldn’t be where he is today," Xiao Yebai said without his usual hint of sarcasm.

Whatever calculations Grandma Xiao had made for her son to climb up the social ladder were just human nature.

No one dislikes climbing higher.

It’s just that there are various paths to climbing higher. Not everyone has to do it the same way.

Actually, Yebai has never been simple-minded.

Gu Nuan looked up at his profile, feeling that some parts of him, especially the angle of his jaw, were very much like his father-in-law, Xiao Jianming.

The two of them walked into the hall, which was empty. Even Xiao Shuzhu, who had been clinging to them earlier, was nowhere to be seen.