Three days before the weekend, Gu Qingwu asked for leave from the director. She didn't tell anyone the reason and just said she had some personal matters to attend to.
On that day, she got up early. Even though she didn't call He Sui Chen to ask what time it was, she subconsciously made preparations in advance. She also took out the dark green thin silk cheongsam from the suitcase and ironed and hung it up in advance.
At half past eight, the phone rang.
Gu Qingwu was wearing a white cotton bathrobe with a slightly loose belt. She ran to the bedside in slippers to answer the call. When she saw the caller ID was from the teacher's assistant, she felt something was wrong and asked directly:
"Yang Xi, is there something wrong?"
It was already afternoon when Chu Sanyan finished performing nearly five minor operations.
Fortunately, the operation was successful and he did not need to be admitted to the intensive care unit, but was instead kept in the VIP ward.
Gu Qingwu rushed to Licheng at short notice without bringing anything with her. She sat on the blue chair outside the ward, her long black hair loose, and she was only wearing a simple loose sweater and shorts. Her calves were slender and pale, and when the light shone on her, her half-white porcelain face showed no expression.
Yang Xi came over with a lunch box and whispered, "Sister Qingwu, eat something."
The smell of hospital disinfectant was unpleasant. Gu Qingwu had no appetite. He took a bottle of water from the hospital to moisten his throat and asked, "Why didn't you tell me about the teacher's health condition?"
"Director Chu won't let me, because he's afraid you'll worry." Yang Xi hesitated for a long time before privately notifying Gu Qingwu to come over. After all, if this tumor surgery fails, it might cost someone's life, and Chu Sanyan is old and has no children around him, so she is the closest young person to him.
While Chu Sanyan was still asleep in the ward, Gu Qingwu chatted with Yang Xi for a while, and gradually, they mentioned the lawsuit with Qi Lan.
Fortunately, Zhou Tingliu is the agent, so Chu Sanyan can rest assured to recuperate. Qi Lan has been very busy recently and has come to the hospital to look for him more than once.
Gu Qingwu twisted the cap of the mineral water bottle with his fingers, again and again, and then stopped and said, "I'll give you the money to spin the pen, and go hire a bodyguard. Next time Qi Lan comes, don't let her disturb the teacher."
Yang Xi nodded: "Okay, I will take good care of Director Chu."
It was dark when Chu Sanyan woke up from his deep sleep. He was lying on the hospital bed and lecturing Yang Xi that he shouldn't have let Gu Qingwu come all the way here.
Gu Qingwu moved a chair and sat by the window, peeling an ugly orange and occasionally saying, "You are already sick, why are you talking so much? This orange is good, which fruit store nearby bought it from?"
Chu Sanyan was quickly interrupted and looked over: "Your mother planted it."
Yang Xi added at the right moment: "Ms. Fu sent it last week, but Director Chu has left it there without eating it."
Gu Qingwu pinched the orange flesh with her fingertips and stuffed it into her mouth, almost frowning from the sourness.
Her mother, Fu Wanwan, was so beautiful when she was young that no other woman in Licheng could compare to her. Later, the Fu family went bankrupt and she experienced two failed marriages. She seemed to have seen through the mundane world and ran away to a remote town in the south of the Yangtze River to live in seclusion.
Gu Qingwu rarely contacts her, and her motherly love is almost nonexistent.
Chu Sanyan still needed to have a good rest, so the nurse came to check on him and chased him away at the exact time.
Seeing that her teacher's health had improved, Gu Qingwu felt relieved and booked a room in a nearby hotel for the time being. After taking a shower that night, she lay in the unfamiliar bed, tossing and turning but couldn't fall asleep.
Finally, he took out his cell phone and opened the text message he sent to He Sui Chen stating that he could not keep the appointment.
She read over and over again every word of the content she had hastily edited before boarding the plane during the day. From the time it was successfully sent to now, it was as if a response had fallen into the sea. He Sui Chen did not even reply with a period.
Gu Qingwu placed her clean fingertips on the screen, hesitating whether or not to make another call and apologize in person.
After all, this time he had waited in vain again.
…
Private club, in a private room on the third floor.
He Sui sat behind the screen, wiped the blood off his long fingers with a tissue, threw them into the ashtray, and picked up the cigarette box next to him.
Wen He came in and saw the thin black phone that was broken on the carpet. He smiled and said, "You can't take her with you twice. Sui Chen, it seems you have to accept your fate. Fate is always so tricky."
He Suichen raised his eyelids and glanced at the woman in a red knitted dress in front of him, his tone flat: "Is that so."
Wen He was actually very familiar with him in private. He Sui Chen was a man of high position and had always been very cunning. He was good at self-control and was very tactful and polite to everyone, maintaining a somewhat unpredictable sense of distance.
Only when it comes to Gu Qingwu's matter, all the calmness and restraint become empty talk.
"How do you feel about her? Tell her..." Wen He spoke softly, sharing his love experience before marriage. He paused for two seconds and laughed again: "Otherwise, my sister-in-law might think you are a good person who does good deeds."
He Sui Chen crushed the cigarette butt heavily into the ashtray without saying a word.
The room was silent for a while, and Yan Shu knocked on the door cautiously and said, "The owner of this club, ahem... sent a girl over, saying she's new, and she was stopped downstairs, saying they wanted her to come in and make Mr. He a cup of tea to relieve his boredom."
Wen He understood men's hearts best, and he quickly asked, "What kind of girl?"
Yan Shu's expression stiffened slightly, and his voice became lower: "She has a temperament similar to Miss Gu."
It’s hard to find a beautiful face like Gu Qingwu, but it’s possible to find a needle in a haystack with her temperament.
Wen He glanced at He Suichen's profile, which was illuminated by the white light. He looked cold and heartless. Then she pressed her fingers on the edge of the white porcelain teacup and twirled it around, saying:
"You don't have any good eyesight, you're courting death."
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Three days later.
After the doctor checked Chu Sanyan and found that he was fine, Gu Qingwu bought a plane ticket and returned directly to Sicheng.
The plane landed in the evening.
She didn't inform Luo Yuan to pick her up. She walked out of the airport and got on a private car she booked online. She arrived downstairs of Shengyu Media's office. The lights in the office building were as bright as day. She took the elevator up in high heels. Her face was eye-catching. Those who didn't know about it stopped and gossiped secretly.
Gu Qingwu ignored all this. When she arrived at the office, Wen He had just finished explaining his work to the secretary. He looked at her calmly for a moment, then stood up from his chair with a flawless smile: "Ms. Gu, what are you doing?"
"Boss Wen." Gu Qingwu extended his hand and shook hands with Wen He to greet him. As his personality dictated, he didn't beat around the bush: "Can you contact He Suichen? His calls have gone unanswered these past two days."
To be precise, she unilaterally couldn't contact He Sui Chen. The two of them had no connection before, and once the Internet connection was gone, it was as if they had disappeared into thin air.
Seeing that she came to ask about He Sui Chen's whereabouts, Wen He took out a black cell phone from a drawer of the desk and handed it to her.
Gu Qingwu took it subconsciously, lowered her eyelashes, and noticed that the glass of the phone screen was broken and was scrapped.
"It's normal that you can't contact Sui Chen. He broke his phone that night." Wen He looked at Qing Wu's expression with a half-smile, and then said, "Are you here to apologize to him for breaking the appointment?"
Gu Qingwu nodded, not even afraid to admit it since he hadn’t replied to the crew.
Wen He, as an outsider, saw the situation most clearly. She thought for a while and said, "It's easy to get Sui Chen's whereabouts from me..." She left some suspense in her words and continued, "I remember that Miss Gu's contract with her old employer will expire in a year, right?"
Gu Qingwu looked up, his dark eyes met hers, and he immediately understood what he meant.
—Wanted to get He Sui Chen’s whereabouts, terminated the contract with Hengcheng Entertainment, and signed with Shengyu Media instead.
Without waiting for her to make a decision.
Wen He smiled and patted her hands affectionately: "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law is just joking with you."
At around eight o'clock in the evening, Wen He arranged for a driver to take her there.
Gu Qingwu didn't expect that He Sui Chen was at the private horse farm in the southern suburbs. Sitting in the car, he turned his head to look at the wide view outside, and for a moment he didn't know how to prepare his opening remarks.
The driver was obviously instructed to bypass the buildings in the dark night and personally take Gu Qingwu to the stable safely.
From a distance, I could see Yan Shu in a suit under the street light.
Meeting someone familiar made Gu Qingwu let down her guard a little about this strange and remote environment, and she walked over in her high heels.
"Miss Gu, why are you here?"
"Where's He Suichen?"
When Yan Shu saw her, it was like seeing a savior. After all, there is a saying that when gods fight, the little devils suffer.
In his heart, he was waiting for Gu Qingwu to ask this question. He raised a warm and brilliant smile and made a gesture of invitation: "Follow me."
The stable was very large. Walking along the dimly lit corridor, Gu Qingwu's vision finally became clear when he reached the end. Raising his eyelashes, he saw the outline of a man standing next to a black horse inside the fence. He was particularly conspicuous under the bright light.
He Sui Chen completely overturned his usual image of a gentleman, with his shirt thrown aside. Due to his long-term self-discipline and exercise, his figure was impeccable, his skin was cold and white, the firm muscles on his chest had smooth lines, and downwards, he had eight abdominal muscles, and his long straight legs were wrapped in black pants.
He looks thin and tall when dressed, but every bone of his body reveals a man's toughness, as if drawn with a hard pen, full of masculine hormones.
It was too late for Gu Qingwu to turn around and leave.
His deep eyes swept over and looked at her in the darkness in the light.
…
All the idlers in the fence dispersed, even Yan Shu was nowhere to be seen.
Gu Qingwu was afraid of the tall black horse and did not dare to approach at first. He watched He Sui Chen walk to the lounge chair, slowly took a bottle of ice water, raised his head, and his Adam's apple rolled gently on his slender and sharp neck.
She stood there for a while as if she was being punished. Her eyes with curled eyelashes noticed the clean towel beside her, so she went to get it and walked slowly towards the handsome man.
"Mr. He?"
“…” Ignored her.
"He Suichen?"
“…” Too lazy to pay attention to her.
Until Gu Qingwu pursed her lips and called out very softly: "Brother."
He Suichen turned his face to the side, and the light cast an arc of shadow on his tall nose. After a long time, his thin lips moved, and his voice seemed to melt the chill of the night, and he slowly uttered a few words: "Rare guest, how come Miss Gu has time to come to see me?"
Gu Qingwu used this overly beautiful face to smile and said, "I didn't have time before, but I'll come right away now that I'm free."
After that, she courteously handed him the towel to wipe his sweat, and said very considerately: "It's cold in late autumn, don't catch a cold."
He Sui Shen didn't answer, staring deeply at her beautiful hands.
The atmosphere was silent for three seconds. Gu Qingwu vaguely understood what was meant and her eyelashes fluttered nervously.
Then, He Suichen said in a neutral tone: "If you don't want to, forget it."
“I’m willing, I’m willing…” Gu Qingwu took a deep breath, and as her eyes moved downwards, she could see the mermaid line on the man’s waist and abdomen. She had not looked carefully from a distance just now, but now that she was so close, she could clearly see which line the sweat on his back was flowing along.
Gu Qingwu had never touched a man's body before, and her fingertips trembled when she put the white towel on his tense shoulders.
He Sui Chen said nothing, but lowered his head slightly, staring at her quietly.
Until Gu Qingwu wiped the entire back clean despite the pressure, and subconsciously said: "You are so hot."
Even through the towel, I could feel his temperature burning my fingertips.
He Sui Chen finally pursed his thin lips at this time, not as cold as before: "Little liar, you deceived me again."
Gu Qingwu protested her injustice: "Who told you to choose bad days twice... And I came to apologize sincerely, but you are still fierce."
When He Suichen's small hand holding the towel quietly moved to his abdominal muscles, his palm covered the back of her white hand without warning: "Apologize with your mouth?"
Gu Qingwu was an adult woman, and it was easy for her to misunderstand what he said. She was always good at making up stories, so she pretended not to understand and said, "It's just physical labor. Doesn't it count if I help you wipe your sweat?"
He Sui Chen looked down at her and suddenly smiled.
When Gu Qingwu instinctively realized that the atmosphere was not right and stood up to slip away, she suddenly felt a heat on the back of her fair neck. It turned out that he leaned over and kissed her.
“It’s interest.”
In an instant, Gu Qingwu's small piece of skin became incredibly hot.