The underground parking lot was dark and quiet. I didn't know who was passing by. The sound of footsteps startled Gu Qingwu who was in the car. She knew that the car windows were covered with black film, so even if others wanted to lie down and peek, they wouldn't be able to see anything. But she couldn't help but tremble her shoulders suddenly.
He Sui Chen lazily leaned against the back of the chair to dissipate the alcohol smell. He was afraid of disturbing her, so he didn't hug her closely. Seeing this, he stretched out his bony hand, grasped her fingertips, and warmed her with his body temperature.
"How about... asking Yan Shu to come down and drive?"
Gu Qingwu couldn't help but move closer, smelling the unique scent on him, and feeling an indescribable sense of security in her heart. Her beautiful eyes were bright, and she could see into the man's heart.
He Suichen pursed his lips and was about to say something when he was interrupted by the ringing of the cell phone in his pocket.
Gu Qingwu leaned over and stretched out her slender hand to take it out for him to look at.
On the screen that lit up, the caller ID read: "He Yunjian"
"Answer it?"
"Hmm..." He Suichen leaned back in his chair, his posture somewhat casual. When he tilted his head slightly, his shirt and tie were half-untied, revealing his slender neckline, looking extremely sexy. He did not raise his hand to answer the call, so Gu Qingwu had to slide to the answer button and turned on the hands-free function.
In the closed carriage, it was so quiet that only He Yunjian spoke, and the first thing he said was: "Where did you take the bride?"
He Suichen replied in a non-serious tone: "Qing Wu and I will go back first... Big brother, I'll leave the wedding to you."
He Yunjian was probably speechless for the first time in his life. He was silent on the phone for a long time. He could vaguely hear someone talking in the background. It was because they couldn't find the groom, so they ran to the groom's brother to get him to drink.
After a pause of one or two minutes, he smiled instead of getting angry and asked, "It's not my wedding tonight. Get back here in three minutes."
He Sui Chen hung up the phone directly, feeling particularly at ease using He Yunjian as a tool to stop him from drinking.
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After hanging around in the car for a while, he eventually called Yan Shu from the wedding to drive.
Instead of returning to the old house, they chose to spend their wedding night in their ancestral home in Yanling. After all the hassles along the way, it was already almost three o'clock in the morning.
The night was very quiet, and even the shadow of a wild cat could not be seen in the deep alley, and the environment was dim.
No one would have thought that the newlyweds at the wedding tonight would come all the way here. He Sui Chen supported her and came to the attic.
Long before, he had already bought this attic in advance and registered it in Gu Qingwu's name.
Except for the new decorations, the place was kept as original as possible, as it was when Gu Qingwu lived there when she was a teenager. Compared to the Gu family home, this place was more like her boudoir during her teenage years.
Only a warm yellow light was on, and the halo of light dimly enveloped the attic. In the dead of night, in this small space, there were only two people snuggling together for warmth. Gu Qingwu raised her hands and hugged He Suichen's neck, foreheads touching, sitting on the edge of the bed with him, unwilling to move.
This place is closest to Nanming Temple, so close that she suddenly felt as if she had returned to the past and had never left.
Unknowingly, more than ten years had passed. Gu Qingwu sighed quietly, which was noticed by He Suichen. He touched her face with his palm and asked in a low voice: "You are so young, why are you sighing?"
Gu Qingwu's voice was a little soft: "Brother... When I was sent here by the Gu family to reflect on my mistakes, I felt lonely and helpless. During the day, I was heartless and caused trouble everywhere. At night, I often looked at the night sky from that window."
The night sky in the deep alleys is narrow, and only a few starlight can be seen.
She pointed at He Suichen and said, "At that time, I wondered why I was not born in an ordinary family. It seems that as far as I can remember, the people in the Gu family, including my grandmother, looked at me with a bit of disgust. Fu Wanwan put love first and didn't care about me... I was just like a broken child fostered in someone else's home. At a very young age, I was wondering if no one would take care of me... I was so young, how would I live?"
Later she was sent to Yanling and kept in this shabby and dark attic.
Gu Qingwu once thought that she would be locked up here and live out her life alone, but she met He Sui Chen, a boy who was even lonelier than her, in Nanming Temple.
Gu Qingwu slowly raised her thick eyelashes, looked into He Suichen's distressed eyes, and laughed: "I know... Have you consulted a psychologist on how to heal my childhood trauma? Brother, I am healed. Since I became pregnant with Xiaoli'er, I am no longer afraid of these things."
All the credit here goes to He Sui Chen, starting from when she got pregnant unexpectedly and made up her mind to give birth to the child.
He Suichen used all his patience and tenderness to take care of her, sometimes playing multiple roles at the same time: husband, nanny, and gynecologist. He knew more about what a woman would encounter during pregnancy and raising children than she did.
After the little carp was born, the first thing he drank was the milk powder he made for him.
It was also he who personally taught the child how to use a toothbrush, how to dress himself, how to eat with a spoon, and how to learn to speak.
Gu Qingwu began to realize from the bottom of her heart...she had a home.
She has a blood-related child with He Sui Chen. That little person looks like her, but will be luckier than her and will be raised like a treasure by his parents.
On the wedding night tonight, Gu Qingwu hugged He Sui Chen and talked for a long time, as if he had endless things to say.
Unconsciously, she fell asleep with her head resting on her arm. The dim light shone on her, making her thick and curled eyelashes look long and thin. He Suichen stared at her for a long time, and after a while, he put his arm around her and put her into the bed, covering her with a quilt.
At almost five in the morning, He Sui Chen personally posted a Weibo. It was not about the grand wedding scene, nor about Gu Qingwu wearing a white wedding dress. It was about her curled up in the small bed in the attic, her face looking particularly small under her long dark hair, sleeping peacefully.
On the wedding night, the entire Internet had no idea where the fugitive bride and groom had gone, but was inexplicably touched by this photo.
Compared to the world of drunkenness and decadence, and abandoning those glamorous identities, Gu Qingwu at this moment is just Gu Qingwu, the carefree girl in Nanming Temple.
It is also the case now that Gu Qingwu, who can be deeply loved by He Sui Chen just by standing still and doing nothing.
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After the wedding night, there is still a honeymoon period when the couple are in love.
The next day, Gu Qingwu originally planned to stay in Yanling for half a month, but Fu Wanwan and Xiaolier were living in Guanshan Imperial Mansion, and Shen Yu frequently came to disturb their peace, so they had to return to Sicheng early.
Gu Qingwu told He Suichen bluntly: "Shen Yu has an obsession with my mother... He was the one who wanted to match me with Shen Xingdu in the first place. But how can I put it? Apart from having some small thoughts, Shen Yu has been very nice to me over the years."
Gu Qingwu was closer to her mentor Chu Sanyan for a simple reason. Even if the former was nice to her out of their friendship with Fu Wanwan, it was purely nice to her. Shen Yu was nice to her out of a desire to please Fu Wanwan, not out of genuine love.
So she couldn't treat Shen Yu like a father. After thinking for a while, she said, "Fu Wanwan will never look back. She lives in that small town raising white geese because she is ready to live out her life alone. Why would she become someone's stepmother?"
He Suichen drove the car to the underground parking garage, unbuckled her seat belt, and led her down, whispering, "When my aunt was young, she also had a lover who she had been in love with for many years, but she made up her mind to break up with him and didn't want him anymore."
Gu Qingwu slightly widened his eyes and asked curiously, "Is there any follow-up?"
He Suichen recalled for a few seconds and said: "I met that person once by chance in New York..."
In order to listen to the gossip, Gu Qingwu was not in a hurry to get into the elevator. She raised her hands and hugged his waist and acted coquettishly: "And then?"
He Suichen was led into the elevator by her, and he said in a leisurely tone, "That man begged my aunt not to break up. He was willing to give up his business and change his surname, abandoning his family responsibilities. But he failed to save my aunt's obsession with keeping the He family. Later, he followed his parents' arrangement and got married and had children. He has three sons and one daughter. In another ten years, he will have many children and grandchildren."
"But he's divorced... I asked him in New York if he still wanted to rekindle his relationship with my aunt."
Gu Qingwu said: "He rejected you?"
He Sui Chen's thin lips curled up slightly and he said, "He wants to rekindle the old relationship, but my aunt won't look back."
At that time, he had already quietly undermined He Yuliu's power and wanted her to stay in the He family to live out her old age. As a nephew, he naturally dared not forget that if He Yuliu had not been in charge of the He family for ten years, the family would have been broken up long ago, and he should also make some plans for He Yuliu's future happiness.
When he hinted at the man's marriage, He Yuliu did not point it out, but just said lightly: "I owe him a debt of love in this life, I will pay it back in the next life... I can only live for 34 years, I want to treat myself better and don't want to repay the debt."
Therefore, He Yuliu and Fu Wanwan are essentially women with strong personalities and clear-headedness. They know very well what they want, and even when they are greedy for the warmth of love, they do not forget to maintain their own dignity.
Gu Qingwu stood on tiptoe and kissed He Suichen on the lips: "Speaking of which, He Yuliu is also a pitiful person... I heard that when she gave birth to Xiaolier, she knelt in front of the ancestors in the ancestral hall for half a night, and she also liked Xiaolier very much in private. Brother, let the child accompany aunt more often in the future."
He Sui looked at her with deep eyes and whispered: "Qing Wu has grown up..."
Gu Qingwu learned to understand and compromise, willingly, and also because she loved He Suichen. Her beautiful eyes curved and she kissed him again. Until the elevator door slowly opened.
A burst of laughter was heard from the living room. Looking over, I saw Xiaoli riding on Shen Yu's neck, with his little hands pulling his tie, riding him like a horse. Children's toys were thrown everywhere, and cartoons were still playing on the TV.
On the black leather sofa next to her, Fu Wanwan, wearing a lavender dress, leaned against the pillow, flipping through a magazine elegantly.
Seeing this scene, Gu Qingwu suddenly felt that it was quite good, lively and yet indescribably harmonious...
She pursed her lips and smiled, and in the midst of laughter and joy, her fingers were tightly intertwined with He Sui Chen's slender and distinct fingers, never to be separated.
The author has something to say: Here it comes, here it comes, the next chapter of Big Brother’s extra story begins!!!
Finally, there is the growth story of Xiaolier, which will also be written (>w