The tightly closed wooden carved window was opened a crack to dissipate the stuffy smell in the attic.
He Sui Chen wiped her a few times with the white shirt next to the pillow. There was no bathroom here, so they could only endure the stuffiness and heat. He went downstairs to get a glass of cold water, fed it to her personally, and then bent down to kiss her forehead tenderly.
Gu Qingwu drank more than half a glass of water before he was able to relieve his extreme dehydration. When his fingers touched the quilt, it was damp.
She hugged the man's neck, pressed her face against it, and complained softly.
He Sui Chen laughed softly: "I originally wanted you to lie down on this little bed and have a good sleep, but you insisted on coming so I came up."
Gu Qingwu opened her dark, watery eyes and complained to him coquettishly, "I was so kind that I couldn't bear to see you sleeping on the floor... but you are repaying kindness with hatred!"
He Suichen used his long fingers to massage her calves, and began to ask her in a low voice where she felt tired. The after-service was very good, knowing to coax her. Gradually, Gu Qingwu stopped being upset, and lay limply against his strong chest, listening to the sound of her heartbeat for a long time.
The whole afternoon passed like this. When Gu Qingwu felt better, she remembered that she was hungry. She gently pushed the man beside her and asked in a low voice, "Is there any takeout service in town?"
The people here are simple and honest, so I guess that's not the case.
He Suichen saw that she was hungry, so he immediately left the bed and gave her the clean clothes he had taken from the trunk while Gu Qingwu was catching up on her sleep. The temperature here had dropped significantly, unlike in the city, so before leaving the house, he found a blue windbreaker and put it on.
Gu Qingwu was wearing a long-sleeved dress that outlined her slim figure. She didn't like wearing coats, so she asked He Sui Chen to hold one for her. They walked out of the alley side by side and found a noodle shop nearby to fill their stomachs.
Her beautiful face is particularly eye-catching wherever she goes.
The shop owner thought she looked familiar, and when he served the vegetables and cornmeal, he got closer and said in surprise, "You really look like the heroine in the Legend of Pingle."
Gu Qingwu played with the white teacup with her fingers, her eyes slightly curved: "Many people say so."
The shop owner believed it easily, and gave a thumbs up to He Suichen next to him, praising him: "Your girlfriend is like a star, you are blessed."
He Sui Chen smiled faintly but did not deny it.
Gu Qingwu suddenly sighed and joked with the shop owner: "My boyfriend likes that female star named Gu Qingwu the most. He loves her like crazy. I had to go under the knife and have plastic surgery to look like her. It was successful, right?"
The shop owner looked at her face with a strange look in an instant, then looked at He Sui Chen.
After a long while, she managed to utter a sentence: "If he doesn't like Gu Qingwu and likes another female celebrity, wouldn't your plastic surgery be in vain?"
Gu Qingwu tilted her head slightly and looked at He Suichen, pretending to be the most selfless and devoted woman in the world, and sighed softly: "Let's see how long he can remain infatuated with Gu Qingwu..."
The shop owner looked shocked and didn't know how to respond for a moment.
On the other hand, He Sui Chen was calm and took the opportunity to say, "Don't worry..." He gently comforted his girlfriend in person, and every word was full of affection: "My love for Gu Qingwu will last until death. I will live my whole life for her. There is no room for other women in my heart."
The sudden confession made Gu Qingwu feel at a loss. She coughed twice and said, "Knowing that you love Gu Qingwu, I admit defeat."
The shop owner who was watching the whole process nearby walked away with his three views shattered, secretly sighing that these days, young people in the city really know how to have fun.
Next second.
Gu Qingwu smiled softly with her red lips, and used her slender white fingers to grope the fabric of his pants on his thighs.
He Sui Chen tapped the edge of the bowl with chopsticks, implying that she should stop messing around and eat the noodles obediently. Gu Qingwu was not afraid of his expression and took the initiative to kiss his chin at an angle where no one around could see.
The moment his red lips touched hers, He Suichen's long fingers stiffened slightly, and his eyes stared at her smile with great concentration.
It took me half an hour to eat two bowls of noodles.
Seeing that more and more diners were coming into the restaurant, Gu Qingwu didn't want to cause a commotion among the crowd. After all, not everyone would believe the excuse of having plastic surgery to look like a female celebrity as firmly as the restaurant owner. After He Sui Chen got up to pay the bill, the two walked out of the noodle shop hand in hand.
After walking on the street for a while to digest the food, He Sui Chen took her for a stroll before the sun completely set. Whenever they came to a familiar place, Gu Qingwu would dance with joy to recognize it, and talk about how she had played in the streets and alleys of the town, and later found it boring, so she groped her way to the mountains to play.
Before we knew it, we had arrived at the foot of Nanming Temple while walking and chatting happily.
"Want to go up and take a look?"
He side-glanced and asked.
Gu Qingwu's thick eyelashes trembled, a faint emotion flashed across her face, and she opened her lips and said softly, "After walking for a long time, your legs will be very tired."
Compared to the pointed high heels she usually wore when attending events, this time He Sui Chen prepared flat shoes for her. She didn't feel tired after walking around the street for a while. If you listen carefully, you can hear the rejection in his words.
He Sui was silent for a while, then whispered, "I'll carry you up."
Having said that, Gu Qingwu knew he had no excuse to refuse, and he didn't want to ruin the atmosphere that had finally been eased, so he thought for a moment and said, "Let's walk for a while first. If you get tired, you have to carry me down the mountain."
There are three roads leading to Nanming Temple. He Sui Chen took her along a shortcut, but the steps were so winding that passers-by could hardly see them. There were deep bamboo forests on both sides, and when the cool breeze blew, they made a rustling sound.
Gu Qingwu's hand was always held by his warm palm, and he never let go. When they climbed halfway up the mountain, they stopped for a while and asked He Suichen, "Are you tired?"
"It's okay... maybe I'm used to it."
At that time, she ran to Nanming Temple every day, going up and down the mountain several times, like a wild monkey with no one to take care of her.
The sky gradually darkened. Looking up, she could see lights on in Nanming Temple. When they passed the pavilion, He Sui Chen took her inside to sit for a while. The street lights were particularly dim. Gu Qingwu sat on a wooden chair and stretched. Looking up, she saw the nearby temple, and looking down, she saw the lights of thousands of homes in the town.
In a trance, it was as if I had returned to the past, away from the mundane world, and I felt relaxed.
"Brother, you live on the mountain, can you see where my attic is?"
He Sui Chen pointed her in a direction and she followed the direction, but in fact she couldn't see anything.
When Gu Qingwu turned her head, she fell silent instantly. She was kissed by him without any warning. The moment he kissed her, her whole body felt like it was acupunctured. She froze in the wooden chair, allowing He Suichen's lips and tongue to gently explore her, hook her, and then return to her mouth.
Her thick, long eyelashes were trembling, and gradually, she remembered to raise her hands to hug him and began to respond.
The cold air in the forest was thick, but Gu Qingwu didn't feel the chill when the wind blew over. Her whole body and mind were moved by the man. After kissing for nearly half an hour, her lips were numb. He Suichen let her go and put his forehead against hers. His voice was mixed with a thin and hot breath: "I have been thinking for this month, no matter how much you want to love me, Qingwu...but I love you. It has become my destiny."
The word love is the heaviest thing in the world.
He Sui Chen almost never said anything, and she didn't ask either. But once he opened his mouth, it was like spilled water that could not be taken back, with no room for negotiation.
Gu Qingwu felt that her heart was being suffocated by this word. Her fingertips subconsciously dug into his collar. She opened her red lips and her voice became hoarse: "What do you mean by your destiny?"
He Sui Chen held her tightly in his arms, his handsome face pressed closely against her cheek, pouring out the love he had for Gu Qingwu that had grown when she was young.
For a cunning and resourceful person like him, the habit of hiding his inner thoughts is innate. It would be very difficult for him to reveal his inner thoughts to others now.
"When you accidentally broke into the backyard of Nanming Temple, it was the most difficult and dark time in my life. Compared to my parents who died in a car accident, He Yunjian was the last relative I had depended on for many years in this world."
He Suichen admitted that he had been attracted to Gu Qingwu for a long time, but he was entangled in the affairs of the He family and could not spare some time to consider his lifelong affairs. He was also afraid of wasting Gu Qingwu's youth in vain, so he restrained his secret feelings at the beginning. Until one day when he was in New York, he accidentally saw a movie starring Gu Qingwu.
She is not the heroine and only appears a few times in the movie.
In order to watch those few times, he watched the movie over and over again no less than a hundred times.
He Sui Chen was confirming one thing without anyone noticing: after seven years, whether he still had feelings for the girl from Nanming Temple.
"In the beginning, having you accompany me every day was like a healing elixir, which helped me to alleviate the pain of losing my brother during that period... Later, do you remember? One time I had a high fever and fainted in the temple. When I woke up, you copied a whole prayer book for me. It was then that I fell in love with you."
Gu Qingwu lay obediently in his arms and listened very carefully. Only after she heard how she accidentally approached his heart, she couldn't help but ask: "Are you moved?"
He Sui was lost in thought, and whispered in her ear: "I am touched... After all, it was not easy for you to write a whole book with your crooked handwriting at that time."
"So after you woke up, you flipped through the books for more than ten minutes and made up your mind to teach me calligraphy?" Gu Qingwu pinched him with her fingertips, pretending to be angry, but her beautiful, dark and bright eyes were actually smiling.
As I laughed, I felt like crying.
"I love you." He Sui Chen continued to repeat these three words over and over again in her ear. After saying them so many times, it didn't feel frivolous. Instead, it felt like these were the most truthful words he had ever said in his life.
Gu Qingwu didn't want to cry, so she held back her tears and said with a nasal voice, "I have reflected on myself this month... Brother, I thought about it for a long time, wondering if my fear of the unknown of marriage really overshadowed my feelings for you. Later, after seeing you, I found that it didn't matter. If I didn't stay with you, I would definitely not live a hundred years and would die early in pain."
She didn't cry, but she seemed to have cried a lot. She hugged He Suichen's waist tightly with both hands. At close range, she could clearly feel the warmth of his body, which she longed for. As she spoke, her voice choked up: "I'm not afraid of marrying you. I'm afraid that after marriage, we will end up being disgusted with each other like my parents. Brother, I'm afraid of being separated from you."
He Suichen hugged her trembling back tightly and patted her gently. The dim light of the street lamp made his eyes seem moist, but it was not easy for others to notice. The voice that came out of his throat suddenly lowered: "No, the old man said... People who have burned incense and worshiped the Buddha together in the temple will be together for life as long as they love each other."
Gu Qingwu raised her eyelashes, looked at him wetly and asked, "Is there still such a saying?"
He Suichen lowered his head to kiss the corners of her eyes and the light-colored mole on her nose. His slow voice was already bewitching: "The Bodhisattva can see the fate of marriages. Two people who are suitable to be together will love each other until old age. Moreover, we have been praying for three years. This marriage must be tied together for generations to come."
Gu Qingwu was willing to believe it. She held his slender fingers tightly, revealing her undisguised admiration: "Yes, I want to be with my brother for the rest of my life."
He Suichen stared at her eyes that seemed to be soaked in water for a long time, and after carefully choosing his words, he finally asked gently with his thin lips: "Then how about getting married? Follow brother, and I will treat you well in this life..."
Gu Qingwu nodded his head slightly, and then hummed softly, almost inaudibly.
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