Chapter 89: The Torn Drawing

Huh, wait?

Soon, Gu Xue discovered a pile of paper shreds that had been shaken to the very bottom of the trash bag. She frowned in confusion.

What… is this again?

It wasn’t that Gu Xue had nothing better to do—though during her vacation, she was indeed quite idle. But the real reason she was willing to painstakingly piece together these shredded bits was a powerful obsession burning in her heart. That deep curiosity about the little green tea made her especially fixated on this drawing that had been torn into such tiny fragments.

What exactly was depicted on it?

From just one or two shreds, there was no way to reconstruct anything. So Gu Xue had to start a jigsaw puzzle on the spot. The auntie who had been watching her discard trash was now staring in bewilderment at Gu Xue crouched on the ground. After a long pause, she whispered,

“Little girl, there really doesn’t seem to be anything valuable in this pile of trash. How about… I refund you the 50 bucks? Don’t bother with this. It’ll get cold out here at night…”

“Leave me alone!”

Gu Xue snapped irritably. Then she pulled out another 50-yuan note, stood up, and slapped it into the auntie’s hand.

“Don’t worry about what’s in the trash. Auntie, from now on, whenever you see that little girl come out to throw away garbage, just keep the bag and call me. That’s all. You’re busy, so go ahead!”

With that, Gu Xue crouched back down and frantically resumed her jigsaw. The auntie stood there, dumbfounded. She wanted to remind Gu Xue of something, but she couldn’t remember what it was. After staring blankly for a moment, she finally left.

Gu Xue didn’t bother with her and continued piecing together the shreds.

Unfortunately, the mess Zhou Ruoyu had left was enormous. With so many pieces and not even a reference image, Gu Xue struggled for a long time.

After a while, Gu Xue only felt dizzy—she had been squatting too long, leading to insufficient blood flow to her brain. She nearly collapsed when trying to stand up.

So she shifted positions and sat down on the ground. As she kept working, she finally noticed a pattern…

Mainly, she discovered something that looked like a metal chain, apparently serving as some kind of linking element in the composition…

Yes. Soon, Gu Xue deduced that this chain-like thing should connect two parts of the drawing. The whole picture was composed of these two parts with a link in the middle—a classic structure…

But… Gu Xue thought carefully.

Wait. A chain? In the middle? With two parts on either side?

Hiss—

Could it be… that the two parts are, respectively, someone holding the chain and someone being chained?

!

Suddenly realizing this, Gu Xue’s jigsaw speed accelerated rapidly. She quickly got the gist of it. Starting from the hands and the collar, soon a man’s figure and a bunny girl’s silhouette emerged before her.

Gu Xue had been too scared to think midway. Only after she had mostly assembled the sketch did she finally muster the courage to look at the finished scene.

Then…

She almost choked.

Hiss—!

What—what is this?!

A deep blush rushed to Gu Xue’s face. She couldn’t bear to look at the scene in the drawing. The impact on her was even more shocking than the office spanking scene from that day. The little green tea was dressed so seductively, and… she was deeply kissing Daddy!

Impossible! How could this be?!

Huff… huff. Absolutely impossible! This is just some weird fantasy the little green tea drew because she was feeling pent up and indulging her masochistic urges. Daddy would never do that. Never!

But… to draw such a lewd scene… That little green tea is utterly shameless! So depraved!

No, I must take a picture and tell Daddy, so he knows she’s not a good person. Waaah…

But… what if Daddy sees this and gets interested in her?

Gu Xue had trusted Gu Jiachen before. After all, Daddy didn’t seem very interested in women. But after peeking through the door crack that day and witnessing the strange office scene, that trust had been shaken…

The girl now had to suspect whether her father had some peculiar hobby. Could it be that the little green tea managed to win him over by catering to some strange taste of his?

And… there was another important question Gu Xue couldn’t figure out. Why did the little green tea draw this and then tear it up so thoroughly? The degree of shredding felt like either she was upset over a failed drawing or too embarrassed to keep it.

But clearly, the drawing wasn’t a failure—the artistry was pretty good. Moreover, if she drew it herself, she already had the nerve to depict such a scene, why would she feel ashamed?

So… everything pointed to another possibility. Could it be that this drawing wasn’t made by the little green tea at all? Instead… based on a real scene, drawn by another person involved as a memento and given to her?

In other words…

Could this have been drawn by Daddy?

It was possible! The artistic style was clearly different from the complete bunny girl costume sketch she had—much better, obviously not by the same hand. And… the action in it was too realistic. It gave Gu Xue the feeling that it had actually happened.

So… could it be… that Daddy spent the whole day out today doing… this?

Uh…

Gu Xue blinked. Just as she was about to take another careful look, a sudden gust of wind swept through, blowing the pieced-together shreds into the air.

Only then did the auntie slap her thigh and remember what she wanted to warn Gu Xue about: “Little girl, there’s wind! Wind!”

“Why didn’t you say so earlier!!!”

Gu Xue desperately chased after the flying shreds, but they were gone. Soon, the pieces were blown into a garbage truck and mixed into the trash pile… never to be found again.

Standing there covered in dirt, Gu Xue stomped her foot in frustration. It took a long while for her to calm down.

Unable to retrieve the drawing, she could only silently recall the image she had seen. Then… she clenched her fist and fixed her gaze on the girl’s new costume draft.

Heh…

It seems summoning Ling Bo isn’t enough… Come Monday, I’ll have to take matters into my own hands!

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