794 I failed
"You should have nothing to do with that brat! And yet you met with him? Why would you do something like this?"
Yating was taken aback by his extreme reaction. "No matter what you say Dad, Dong was my good friend in high school. I never got to talk to him after everything that had happened."
"Yes and you should have never spoken to that liar brat either!"
"Liar?" His gaze darkened. "What are you even saying?" Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m
"What else should I say when he tricked you by falling from the third floor?"
Yating's mouth fell open with sheer disbelief. "How could you say something like that! He would have died for God's sake. Do you think he would be that stupid to put his own life at risk?"
"You were so naive back then and still are!" He lashed out. "You are so blind to see how he fooled you!"
Butler Mo tried to diffuse the situation, but Gu Rong didn't allow that to happen.
"Why are you trying to calm me down? Say something to him!"
Yating angrily gritted his teeth. "It's like you are my enemy more than my father. You have a problem with everything that I do in my life! Whether it was Dong or Ai or my career choice, you stood against every single thing that I held important to me! You never respected what I cherished."
"You expect me to cherish your wrong decisions?" He shot back.
Yating's expression twisted with hurt and fury.
"That shameless Ma Dong and his family took hefty compensation from us because they blamed you for his fall!" He angrily laughed. "They were more worried about getting the compensation money rather than their son who lay at the hospital with a broken body. What was that if not for a well executed plan! He became your close friend and feigned all that friendship just so that he could pull this move in the future! He saw you for the Gu family's money, not you!"
Yating turned to leave and Gu Rong exclaimed. "Wait! Where are you going? Come back! It's disrespectful to leave in the middle of dinner like that!" He glared at him.
Yating equally shot back a deadly glare. "You have been more than disrespectful to me and my choices, Dad. Perhaps to my entire existence. Leaving dinner hardly counts. You don't gain respect by disrespecting others."
He walked away with larger strides never looking back again.
"Yating! Yating! Don't you leave! Come back! Yating!!!"
Gu Rong continued to breathlessly call him back but to no avail. His body trembled and he pressed his lower lip inward.
"Master Gu!"
Butler Mo helped him sit comfortably on the chair. He tried to calm down his haywire breaths as he offered him water. Gu Rong didn't take it.
"He left...Did you see him? He left just like that."
He stared at the empty chair opposite him, his body continuing to tremble. "For the first time in twenty-nine years, he uttered that word."
Butler Mo was helpless. He didn't know what to say to comfort him.
Gu Rong clenched the chopsticks in his hands, his nerves bulging on the back of his hand. "So I failed, right?"
His eyes widened. "Master Gu, that's ridiculous! How does it mean that you failed?"
"He never felt the need to mention his mother in all these years but now he did...Now he wished she would have been there with us today. So I lacked somewhere. I failed if I made him feel that way. I have failed as his father."