I Have Decided to Go Look for My Father

Shao’s voice, Gu Xi’s dream stopped and she woke up slowly from her dream.

Had she had another dream? Who was calling out to her? Was it Gu Shao?

Opening up her eyes groggily, Gu Xi could saw Gu Shao standing in front of her.

She was still a bit dazed having just woke up.
She didn’t even think before she threw herself into his arms.

“Mmm, Dad……” Gu Xi started to bawl.

Gu Xi didn’t even cry so hard when she was facing the horrible event by herself but, when she saw Gu Shao, she could no longer control herself.

All of her fear and aggrievance came pouring out that very moment.

Gu Shao felt a little helpless when faced with Gu Xi in her current state ­– he could fear that she was frightened but he had no idea how to comfort her.

As such, all he could do was to pat her on the back of her head and try to say something that would calm her.

“Did you have a nightmare?

“It’s just a nightmare.
There’s nothing to worry about.”

***

It wasn’t so much his words but that fact that he was there that calmed Gu Xi.
Her trembling body calmed down slowly and her weeping quelled.

Seeing the change in her emotion, Gu Shao let out a sigh of relief.
He stroked Gu Xi on her hair again and said to her, “It’s not real.
It’s just a nightmare.”

His intention was to comfort her but, as soon as he was finished saying that, he heard Gu Xi rebutting him from his embrace.
“It’s real!”

Her voice was very affirmative.
Perhaps because she had just cried, her voice was dull and still sounded like she was chocking back her tears.

“It really is real!” Gu Xi tugged at Gu Shao’s clothes and stressed again.

Her insistence upon it made Gu Shao felt somehow helpless but he did not cut her off.

A long while had passed when Gu Xi had finally shook the effects from her nightmare and calmed down completely and returned to her normal self.

She was still holding onto Gu Shao’s clothes with both of her hands.
Sniffling, she nuzzled Gu Shao reflexively.
She finally looked back up at Gu Shao when she felt that her face was cleaned and repeated, “I’m not lying.
Everything in my nightmare is real.”