Gu Qingwu was taken away from the banquet hall by He Sui Chen. No one noticed when she disappeared. The early autumn night outside was a little chilly. The wind blew away her long, thick black hair that fell to her waist, and her palm-sized face looked a little dazed.
Soon, He Sui Chen stuffed her into the passenger seat of a car. The car was fully heated and a thin blanket was placed over her knees.
When Gu Qingwu first saw this situation, she misunderstood that he wanted to rush back to Sicheng overnight. No one spoke for a while. She curled herself up in the thin blanket, pulled it above her shoulders, and looked quietly at the man driving the car.
After looking at it for a long time, I felt sleepy and closed my eyes and fell asleep without realizing it.
When he woke up again, He Sui Chen was still driving, but there were few cars on the road. Only the headlights illuminated the road ahead. It seemed that he had gotten off the highway early and no one knew where he was going.
Gu Qingwu couldn't help herself and finally spoke to him: "Aren't you going back to Sicheng?"
He Sui drove steadily into the road ahead, freeing his hands. With his slender fingers, he easily unscrewed the thermos cup and handed it to her, saying slowly, "Let's go to Yanling."
Yanling.
This is where the two met, and it is also the ancestral home of the Gu and He families.
Gu Qingwu hadn't been back there for many years, and he was suddenly awake. He opened his mouth and subconsciously wanted to say something, but he couldn't speak.
After a while, she quietly curled back into the blanket and looked out the window. It was pitch black and she couldn't see the strange environment outside. But with He Suichen by her side, she felt inexplicably safe and not afraid of going anywhere.
The car was not driving fast and had to follow the navigation, so it stopped when passing a gas station.
He Suichen got out of the car. The pitch-black night made him look tall and straight. He disappeared from sight soon. Gu Qingwu did not continue to sleep. She was distracted for a while until the man returned to the car.
His coat was stained with cold, so he took it off and threw it on the back seat. He was only wearing a snow-white shirt, and his tie had long been untied and casually stuffed into his pocket. This look added a long-lost youthfulness to his appearance, making him look much younger than his actual age.
Gu Qingwu was distracted for a few seconds until a slender, cold white hand handed the thermos cup back to her.
Just now, He Sui Chen went to the convenience store to get hot water and made a cup of milk for her. A rich fragrance hit her face.
The cold war between the two was instantly offset by the glass of milk. Gu Qingwu thought to herself, as expected, if there was no cooling-off period during the quarrel, she would be unable to resist He Sui Chen in a matter of minutes. She no longer felt angry, and even her complexion looked much better.
She lowered her head slightly and drank in small sips like a kitten, her messy hair falling down. Beside her, He Sui Chen brushed the liquid to her shoulders and gently rubbed her fair earlobe with his fingertips. It felt a little hot and numbing.
Gu Qingwu took a few sips and stopped drinking. She raised her dark, bright eyes to look at him and slowly handed the thermos cup back.
He Suichen didn't take it, but took two sips from her hand.
From the perspective, one could clearly see the throat along his neck line slowly rolling, and the faint scent of milk filled the closed compartment. Finally, when he raised his head, Gu Qingwu stretched out her white fingertips and wiped the corner of his mouth.
Before He Suichen wanted to hold her hand, he hid back in the thin blanket and said softly, "It's not safe to drive late at night. Don't rush."
"good."
…
The two whispered a few words in the car and then fell into silence.
He Sui Chen turned off the overhead lights to prevent being peeped at from outside. He sat in the driver's seat with his tall stature and long legs. In the dim light, only a few seconds of light would flash in when a car passed by.
Gu Qingwu didn't ask him what he was going to Yanling for. The map showed that it would take about an hour and a half. She stayed in the passenger seat, exited the interface with her fingertips, opened WeChat, and sent a message to Jiang Dianying first.
Ask her, she didn't murder her brother
There was no news from Jiang Dianying for the time being. Gu Qingwu put away her phone. When she looked up, she saw He Suichen staring at her quietly. The atmosphere was quiet for a moment. She could no longer pretend and pursed her lips and said, "Look at what I'm doing."
He Suichen had a smile in his eyes. He stretched out his bony hand under the blanket to grope for her hand. Unlike her, he acted as if nothing had happened. The temperature of his palm was hot, waking Gu Qingwu up. She heard his thin lips move, "I haven't checked for a month. I need to take a closer look."
Gu Qingwu was not as good at sweet talk as he was. She pinched the back of his hand with her fingernails but didn't dare to use too much force. "You sound like you've been miserable for the past month. Don't think I don't know that you haven't returned to the apartment. The old man at the security booth said you moved out."
He Sui Chen did not hide it from her and explained calmly: "I went back to the old house for something."
After all, he has not been removed from the family tree, so strictly speaking he is still considered a descendant of the He family.
There was nothing wrong with him returning to the old house. Gu Qingwu said nothing, and quietly held his fingers. She let him see her magnanimity to her heart's content.
Gradually, He Sui Chen leaned very close to her, and she could hear the rise and fall of his shallow breathing. He was driving the whole way, so naturally he needed to rest enough, so he closed his eyes and rested for a while.
There were few people at the gas station late at night, and it was empty and dark all around.
Gu Qingwu didn't bother him. It was her turn to stare at the man's handsome face. In the past month, she had worked so hard to squeeze her time out of work that she had no time to think about him every minute. She couldn't help it anymore, so she asked her assistant to buy some food and send it to the apartment.
Originally, I wanted to find out his condition through the assistant's thoughts.
The feeling of separation like this was uncomfortable. Gu Qingwu tried it a little and felt that she could hardly bear it.
She lowered her long eyelashes, her mind drifting with thoughts. After an unknown amount of time, she felt the man's unique breath coming towards her. Her heart suddenly choked and her body froze. After a while, he kissed her forehead and a slightly hoarse voice came from above her head: "Let's set off."
…
When it was dawn, He Sui Chen restarted the car and set off, arriving at Yanling before seven in the morning.
Here, people live by the mountains and by the water, and the environment is quiet. It is one of the rare undeveloped natural scenic spots. After listening to He Sui Chen's orderly explanation, Gu Qingwu suddenly realized that this is the ancestral home of the He family. Every year, the He family invests a sum of charitable funds to protect the environment, and never publicizes the scenic spots to the outside world, so it has not been developed into a tourist scenic spot by profit-seeking businessmen.
When talking about this, she became curious and asked, "Why does the He family have an ancestral precept that generations will not marry the children of the Yanling Gu family?"
"This can be traced back to when our ancestors were still living in Yanling. The two families had a personal feud over the position of the local clan leader." All He Suichen knew was from the He family tree. He paused for a moment and said calmly in a more obscure way: "Several lives were lost at that time."
The two families formed a blood feud for power and status, and even forced the He family to establish ancestral precepts.
It was not difficult for Gu Qingwu to imagine how deep the hatred was at that time.
But when it comes to He Sui Chen's generation, as the head of the family, he dares not set an example and violates this bloody ancestral precept... Gu Qingwu suddenly realizes that in this relationship, He Sui Chen has been with her at any cost from the beginning to the end.
There was an indescribable sadness in her heart that instantly permeated her whole body, causing her to subconsciously roll down the car window to get some fresh air.
The cold wind outside blew in. Gu Qingwu saw the familiar streets of Yanling Town and felt a sense of familiarity. He turned around and said to He Suichen, "Brother, are we going to stay here for one night?"
He Sui Chen noticed her address and smiled: "If your schedule is convenient, you can stay for a few nights."
Gu Qingwu nodded. Since he had finally come here, he was not in a hurry to go back.
He Sui Chen did not go to the street to find a hotel to stay in. Instead, he drove into the deep alley at the end of the street, took her hand, turned left, and walked for about ten minutes before arriving at the old wooden attic.
“This is where I lived for three years.”
Gu Qingwu blinked and looked at the wooden attic in front of her carefully. After she was taken in by the Gu family, the old grandmother who took care of her daily life was taken to a nursing home by her children who lived in the city because of her old age.
I don’t know how He Sui Chen contacted the old lady’s family and successfully got the key.
He calmly unlocked the door and led her in.
The wooden loft had obviously been cleaned in advance, and was spotless everywhere. Except for the slightly poor lighting, the furniture was still in place and had not been moved. Gu Qingwu pointed at the wooden staircase and recalled: "I used to like living on the second floor, and I climbed up from this staircase... I felt like a princess in a fairy tale at that time."
He Suichen whispered in her ear: "We will sleep on the second floor tonight."
For no reason, an ambiguous atmosphere arose between the two of them. Gu Qingwu's ears felt hot and she turned around to look at the kitchen again. She still remembered that the wonton noodles and chicken soup cooked by her grandmother were particularly delicious. When it was time for dinner, she would take the initiative to watch the fire in the stove just for that bite of food.
The wooden attic was not very spacious, and Gu Qingwu finished her tour in no time.
He Sui Chen and she didn't get much sleep last night, so he locked the door again, got some water from the kitchen, washed up quickly, and went upstairs to catch up on some sleep.
The space on the second floor is lower than that on the downstairs. It only has a single bed and a wardrobe. The desk is facing the window, letting in light.
It was OK that Gu Qingwu had a slim figure, but He Sui Chen seemed a little crowded. He needed to lower his head and sit down slowly on the wooden floor, leaving the small bed for her to have a good sleep.
Gu Qingwu was still wearing the complicated long dress she wore to the birthday party. It would be uncomfortable for her to lie down and sleep, so she asked He Sui Chen to take off his shirt and let her wear it. She then untied her skirt and threw it casually on the desk not far away. The dark green hem of her skirt hung down, illuminated by the light.
He Suichen handed her his shirt. He was only wearing a pair of trousers. Before he lay down on the floor, she urged him in a low voice: "Brother, come up too."
At this moment, Gu Qingwu had already put on her shirt, which was slightly loose, revealing her snow-white shoulders. When she bent slightly to pull his arm, her slender waist could be seen along the neckline, and her curves were extremely captivating to a man.
Gu Qingwu's idea was very simple. She couldn't bear to see He Suichen, a man nearly 1.9 meters tall, huddled on the floor, so she took the initiative to give up her bed. When He Suichen came up, she considerately lay on her side so as not to take up the space, closed her eyes, and placed her wrist in front of his chest.
He Sui Chen didn't say anything for a long time, waiting for her to fall into a light sleep, his long fingers combing her messy black hair intentionally or unintentionally.
It seemed that they were using this method to kill time. The wooden attic was not soundproof, and anyone passing by in the alley or greeting someone could be heard clearly, which made the attic even quieter.
Gu Qingwu slept until almost noon and woke up. She felt a little hot because she was pressed down. The small bed was too small. She wanted to move back a little, but her back was already against the wall. She couldn't help but open her eyes. With blurry vision, she saw He Suichen suddenly propped up his arms, and the shadow of his body completely covered her.
She was held down, a month's longing for love condensed in this kiss, so intense that it almost took her breath away.
I don’t know if it’s because it’s been too long since I last did that, or if the surrounding environment now is similar to the attic where I lived for three years.
Gu Qingwu was unusually sensitive this time. Within ten minutes or so, sweat covered her long eyelashes. Besides the heavy breath of the man, she could also hear the sound of the bed legs rubbing against the wooden floor. She couldn't help but worry that if there was no sound insulation, people passing by in the alley outside would hear it.
"… Slower"
"It won't be slow, dear... just lie down and take it."
The windows on the second floor were tightly closed, appearing even more airtight at the moment. The dazzling light of noon came in from outside and sprinkled on the peony-printed sheets on the edge of the bed. Time was racing against time, and at a certain moment, the woman's slender fingers suddenly clenched the cloth tightly, as if she had used up all her strength, her knuckles almost turned white, and then slowly loosened their fingers, and all of a sudden fell softly on the edge of the bed.
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