As the lights came on, rain was drizzling outside the French windows.
Not long after taking a shower, Gu Qingwu changed into a long-sleeved cotton nightgown and curled up in a chair, staring at the movie playing on the computer screen. After a while, she wanted to reach out for the milk next to her, but found nothing.
When she looked up, she found that He Sui Chen had come back very early tonight. He was standing quietly beside the table in a light gray suit, with metal-framed glasses pressed on his high nose bridge. There seemed to be a gentle smile at the corners of his eyes. He took a sip of her milk before returning it.
Gu Qingwu took it, lowered her head and took a sip, then said coquettishly, "You're back so early."
In the past half month, she has gotten used to He Sui Chen going out early and coming back late, and the time he sleeps in the same bed with her does not exceed four hours.
"I'm free tonight, so I'll keep you company."
When He Sui Chen saw her watching a movie, he stretched out his arms, picked her up, and sat on the chair himself.
Gu Qingwu had no choice but to nestle in his arms, with her legs curled up, and gently sniffed the scent of the man's suit with her nose. The ebony scent was very light, mixed with the smell of hospital disinfectant. She didn't like it very much, so she used all her hands to take off his suit.
For some reason, I always felt that He Suichen's chest was very cold through the fabric of his shirt, so I had to raise my hands and hug his neck tightly. The voice was very slow, floating into his earlobe, and the word "brother" sounded very soft.
He Suichen pressed down the computer screen with his bony palm. The whole suite was silent except for the slight movement of a chair on the carpet. His cold long fingers clasped the back of Gu Qingwu's neck, and his thin lips held her lips, kissing her.
Gu Qingwu's nightgown was pushed up a bit, revealing her legs to be really white. At first, the two of them were limited to simple tenderness, as if kissing wasn't enough. Her eyelashes and the faint little mole on the bridge of her nose were stained over and over again by his warm breath, pressing against her cheek.
Later, it became increasingly out of control. He Sui Chen's long fingers penetrated into her collar and slid down to her slender back. Like taking off a child's clothes, he threw the nightgown on the carpet. The sound of rain outside the window covered the subtle sounds of their kiss.
This time, unlike before, he was restrained throughout the process, holding her on the dark wooden desk, very slowly, sideways
…
Inexplicably, the more He Sui Chen gave her the experience of fatal tenderness, the more physiological tears fell from the corners of Gu Qingwu's eyes.
She cried so hard, her white knuckles kept tugging at the man's shirt buttons. Then she was carried back to the bed and continued crying. She felt the quilt was damp, as if the rain outside the floor-to-ceiling window had no glass to block it and was pouring in. She touched it with her palm and felt very uncomfortable lying down, so she simply lay on the man's chest.
After lying down for a while, Gu Qingwu fell asleep, her breath lightly falling on He Suichen's slender collarbone.
It was not until she felt someone gently wiping her with a towel that she woke up and said in a thin, hoarse voice, "Brother."
After He Suichen wiped each of her slender fingers clean, he leaned over, hugged her again, and pressed his thin lips against her forehead: "I'm here, you can sleep peacefully."
Gu Qingwu shook her head, not wanting to waste the time she had with him tonight. When she looked up at him, her eyes were dark and bright: "How is your elder brother?"
"You can get off the ground in a wheelchair now."
He Yunjian has a strong will and actively cooperates with the doctor's treatment plan. However, he has been in a coma for so many years that it will take at least a year for him to be like a normal person.
"Then your aunt..." Gu Qingwu hesitated as she looked at the man's profile, her fingertips unable to resist grasping his palm: "She sent a lawyer to talk to Yu Siqing and wanted to get back the equity and property. Did you know about this?"
It is impossible that He Yuliu did not blame He Suichen for insisting on giving away his brother's property, which led to the current awkward situation. If Yu Siqing was unwilling to return it, it would mean that He Yunjian would be controlled by others.
He Suichen didn't look surprised. He lowered his eyes and stared at her intently for a while. He asked with his thin lips, "Qingwu."
Gu Qingwu was affected by his voice. She felt that the time between them was slowed down to the extreme. The heart in her chest began to beat very slowly. Her eyes seemed to hide some emotion as she just looked at the man.
He Suichen gently stroked her hair and the beautiful contours of her cheek with his fingertips, and whispered in her ear: "Do you want the position of the head of the He family?"
Maybe three seconds, maybe ten seconds.
Gu Qingwu was in a trance, as if she had returned to the Nanming Temple in those days. He sat on the futon and slowly handed her the jade plaque with the word "congratulation" engraved on it, which was crystal clear under the candlelight, and asked with a smile, "Do you like it?"
"Well, I like it... Did my brother accept it?"
He smiled again: "Do you want me to accept it?"
"If you don't accept it, what should I do with this jade token?"
"Someone will take it away tomorrow."
"Well, you should accept it. The uncles who go up and down the mountain are old... Brother, please be considerate of them."
…
These words seemed to be replayed in Gu Qingwu's ears. She breathed slightly faster and raised her eyelashes to look at He Sui Chen seriously. Looking at him in front of her, it was as if she was seeing the young man in her memory, wearing white clothes and white pants, standing among the burning incense and the scent of cotton.
It took her a long time to come back to her senses. She opened her red lips slightly, and after a moment of silence, she trembled and said, "… What my brother wants is what I want."
Gu Qingwu didn't care about the identity of the head of the He family, or the power and status it represented. What she was thinking about was the young man who smelled of incense when she first met him at Nanming Temple.
He is also the real man who is alive in front of her now.
He Sui Chen looked down at her, his eyes reflecting a dark and silent color. He wanted to say something, but finally he gently kissed her fair cheek that looked as white as if it had been washed by water, and his slender fingers interlocked with hers tightly.
The sound of rain outside the window seems to be getting louder and louder.
Gu Qingwu closed his eyes and felt that the quilt would get wet again.
She was exhausted and fell asleep unconscious in the second half of the night. In her hazy consciousness, she knew that He Sui Chen fed her water twice. He was afraid of the glare from the light, so he used the faint light from outside to feed her.
A little after ten in the morning.
Gu Qingwu woke up, stretched in the quilt, raised his head, and saw He Suichen's figure at the first time. He was sitting lazily on the sofa by the window, wearing a white shirt and suit pants neatly. His glasses were broken when they fell on the floor last night, so he changed into a pair of silver ones, which made his handsome face look more delicate and restrained.
She was not in a hurry to get up. She rested her face on the pillow and looked at the man carefully for a long time, studying how he looked and how his bone structure was so perfect, from his forehead to his eyebrows, nose bridge and lips, and even the line of his jaw, forming a seamless outline in the golden morning light.
He Sui Chen returned to his usual calm and indifferent attitude, playing with her phone with his long fingers. He put it down only after he saw that she was awake, and walked over: "Are you hungry?"
Gu Qingwu raised her fair hands from the quilt, asking him to hold her. She was naked, and there were deep and shallow marks on her snow-white back. The man casually pulled a shirt over her, and gently took out her thick black hair with his long fingers.
After being carried to the bathroom and washing up briefly, Gu Qingwu walked out barefoot by herself. On the dining table in the living room, there was a bowl of candied date chicken soup and clean tableware. It was obviously made by someone.
Gu Qingwu suddenly didn't know what to say. It was true that in order to drink chicken soup, one had to pay a terrible price first.
"Brother..." She pulled out a chair and sat down, watching He Suichen approach with a smile in her eyes, deliberately teasing: "Fortunately we don't live together every day, otherwise we would have to drink chicken soup every other day, the chicken wouldn't be able to bear it, right?"
He Suichen filled her half a bowl with elegant movements, and asked with his thin lips, "You don't like to drink?"
This statement sounds like a double entendre.
Gu Qingwu's ears felt slightly hot, he lowered his head to drink, and said in a soft voice, "I love it."
He Suichen also had a smile in his eyes, just like he was trying to seduce an ignorant girl. He stared at her pretty face and asked, "Do you like drinking chicken soup, or do you like doing the things before drinking chicken soup with your brother?"
Gu Qingwu discovered that no matter how serious his image was in public, once the two of them broke through the line of defense between men and women, even the most abstinent man would become indecent in private and would deliberately say things that would cause misunderstanding.
Who isn't a member of society? Can't you take advantage of someone verbally and then sleep with him
Gu Qingwu drank another mouthful of chicken soup and said slowly, "It's better not to come to this billion-dollar project every night. I'm afraid my brother won't be able to keep up with it physically."
He Suichen's smile did not diminish, and he was very advanced: "If you don't have enough physical strength, then I can only explain it in simple terms, which is what you like best."
"… "
Gu Qingwu was defeated, but he was not as shameless as him.
Fortunately, He Suichen didn't say anything to tease her. He waited until she had almost finished drinking the chicken soup, and asked casually, "Why do you like acting?"
Gu Qingwu wiped the corners of his lips with a wet tissue. After hearing this, he paused for two seconds and said, "Because I like crowds."
She is used to being alone in the crew and doesn't like to get together with others for gossip parties. When she says lively, she means something else.
Afraid that He Suichen might misunderstand, Gu Qingwu added, "Growing up, no one has ever given me normal emotions except in Nanming Temple... Later, one time, I went to visit my mother's friend Chu Sanyan's house. It happened that day that he selected a few actors to audition..."
She was young at the time and knew nothing about acting, but she just stood by and watched with great interest out of curiosity, as if she understood it.
Seeing this, Chu Sanyan handed her a script and asked her if she was interested.
Gu Qingwu came into contact with this industry by accident. She found that after getting into the role, she could experience the normal emotions of various characters in the play. She didn't have to pretend to maintain superficial communication with others, or bother to explore anyone's background and entanglements.
How great is this! For her, who has a somewhat cold and lonely personality, acting is more suitable for her.
Gu Qingwu is obsessed with acting and aspires to become an award-winning actress. She did not follow the Gu family's arrangement to study abroad, but insisted on applying for the film academy. Although she is often criticized as a vase beauty on the Internet, her die-hard fans also know that she is a serious professional and a very popular one.
Her excessive beauty and top-notch resources have become her original sin in the entertainment industry.
Gu Qingwu confessed his true feelings to He Suichen, and finally said confidently: "Maybe I have social phobia."
It’s just that her social phobia is not very obvious, and she is often regarded as a big shot with a beautiful face.
He Sui Chen did not respond to her self-deprecating words. The atmosphere was silent for a while until Gu Qingwu stood up and wanted to change her clothes. Just as she pulled out a chair and stood up, she heard him say in an exceptionally low voice: "I asked Luo Yuan to buy you a plane ticket back to Sicheng, Qingwu... I don't want the Gu family's affairs to hinder your career. I hope you can pursue everything you love without distractions."
Gu Qingwu stood there, her white knuckles lightly resting on the edge of the table, without turning around to look at him.
From the moment she woke up and found He Sui Chen holding her phone, she had a vague premonition in her heart. He didn't mention it, and she pretended not to have guessed anything.
He Sui Chen still brought it up, and did not hide the fact that he had seen the content of Luo Yuan's text messages urging her to go back to film.
"Go back to your bright and shining world. I want to see you win the Best Actress trophy. Don't leave any regrets in your life..."
Gu Qingwu is not a dodder that clings to anyone, nor is she an antique vase that can only be collected by men.
She is neither arrogant nor impatient. She remains sober in the circle of fame and fortune and insists on fulfilling her dreams.
He Sui Chen was unwilling to keep her by his side and would rather let her go, allowing her to experience some wonderful life experiences at a young age and have her own life with both love and career.
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Late at night, the airport in Sicheng is brightly lit.
Luo Yuan was afraid that the plane would land too early, so he waited at the airport entrance an hour in advance, checking his watch every ten minutes. At nine o'clock, the flight from New York landed on time, and passengers came out one after another.
One by one, no one saw the familiar figure of Gu Qingwu.
Until Luo Yuan almost couldn't hold his breath and took out his phone, the sharp-eyed assistant next to him called out: "It's Sister Qingwu!"
Gu Qingwu walked out of the airport in a black long dress. She wore sunglasses on her pretty face and had a cold expression. She got into the nanny car directly without taking a suitcase.
Luo Yuan was afraid of being criticized, so he tried his best to act as invisible as possible on the way to the crew. Until he couldn't help but look over, he saw Gu Qingwu taking off his sunglasses with his fingertips, staring at him with his dark eyes.
"cough!"
Luo Yuan was caught peeping and felt extremely embarrassed. He took the initiative to unscrew a bottle of mineral water and handed it over: "Are you thirsty?"
Fortunately, Gu Qingwu took it and took a sip.
After all, they have been together for a few years. Luo Yuan saw that her anger value seemed to be very low, so she thought there was hope, so she said in a flattering tone: "Miss, you have just become a new rising star, and your foundation is not stable yet... I don't know how many female stars want to replace you, and the director is urging you to do so. As for me, I have no choice but to ask Mr. He."
He just wanted to ask He Sui Chen when he could let Gu Qingwu return to China to film.
Who knows how easy it is for a big boss to talk to? He thinks the same as him on everything. This makes Luo Yuan like He Sui Chen no matter how he looks at him. It is rare to meet such a sensible man in this society.
Luo Yuan had praised He Sui Chen to the skies, but when he saw that Gu Qingwu didn't frown, he said earnestly, "I'm not talking nonsense. In the entertainment industry, if a female star dares to fall in love, she will ruin her career with her own hands."
Gu Qingwu listened to him for more than half an hour, knowing that he was trying to persuade her. After a while, she slowly said, "Brother Yuan, I don't blame you."
Luo Yuan held his breath and finally let it out: "My little cotton-padded jacket is still considerate and understands your brother's hardship."
Gu Qingwu shook his head slightly, looked sideways at the familiar streets of Sicheng, and continued, "He Suichen has to accompany He Yunjian for rehabilitation surgery. It will take at least more than a year to accompany him throughout the whole process. My job does not allow me to disappear from the screen for a whole year... So I am destined to return home early."
It was not easy for her to take a half-month leave from the crew to go to New York this time.
Gu Qingwu knew the priorities in her heart, adjusted her mood, turned to Luo Yuan and smiled: "The things you are worried about, whether it is pregnancy before marriage or announcing the relationship, will not happen."
Luo Yuan was caught off guard and blurted out subconsciously: "Why do I feel like... you've grown up."
In the past, Gu Qingwu never cared about whether he was popular in the entertainment industry. Apart from taking acting jobs seriously, he didn't care about other business activities. He would just do it perfunctorily and would never cooperate seriously.
This caused him to have nightmares frequently, and he was afraid that when he woke up, Gu Qingwu would run away, leaving him with a mess to clean up.
Gu Qingwu asked him for a cigarette and lit it gently. In the light and transparent smoke, she was breathtakingly beautiful at that moment. She smiled, and the tails of her eyelashes curled slightly: "Maybe it's because the 14-year-old Gu Qingwu and the 25-year-old Gu Qingwu... are both lucky. They didn't miss the man who influenced her life."
She didn't love He Sui Chen that much, she was just pretending.
Deep down, loving him deeply is the real thing.
I am also willing to become an excellent and perfect person for my dream, and appreciate the most beautiful night view of Sicheng with him.
The author has something to say: There is a second update.
There are many kinds of love, besides living and dying for you, and being passionate...
Being able to endure loneliness and giving everything to make the person you love worry-free and become better is also a way to love her.
Thanks for reading.