Chapter 10 Brother, do you dare to leave me alone?

Seeing this, Xiao Jiangran no longer thought about Qin Mu's meal and said, "Let's go directly to your place."

When I got home half an hour later, I saw Aunt Zhang standing at the door with a worried look on her face. She took Xiao Jiangran's suitcase and pointed towards Qin Mu's room on the second floor. "The young master hasn't left his room since you left. I went upstairs to bring him some food, but there's been no sound from inside."

Xiao Jiangran said, "It's only been a few hours." He just said it casually. Qin Mu said that the child seemed to be mentally unwell.

Qin Mu didn't respond, but went upstairs and knocked on the door, "Gu Chuyue! Open the door!"

“Bang, bang, bang!”

Qin Mu turned the doorknob and locked it from the inside. He couldn't help but frown and said to Aunt Zhang, "Go get the spare key."

"Oh, okay."

Xiao Jiangran didn't feel anything, just leaning against the wall. "What's your relationship with this kid? How come I didn't know you were so kind?" When they first met, it was clearly him who saved Qin Mu's life. Qin Mu had done it out of sheer strength, and he had begged him to live. Thinking of this, Doctor Xiao silently wiped away his tears in his heart. This world isn't worth it.

"Stop talking about the Gu family in Beijing. Others believe it, but I don't."

Qin Mu panicked for a moment. Maybe he had seen something. Was he too different from the original owner in the book? "We'll talk about it later."

Aunt Zhang also brought up the key. Qin Mu took it and immediately inserted it into the lock. After turning it a few times, he opened the door. No one was in the bedroom. Qin Mu opened the closet and searched for any place where he could hide. "Gu Chuyue!"

I looked around outside but there was no one.

Xiao Jiangran's voice penetrated the bathroom door, with a hint of barely perceptible tension: "Here."

As soon as he entered the bedroom, his keen hearing caught the faint, continuous sound of running water in the bathroom, and his heart suddenly tightened. He pushed open the door, and a thick steam hit him in the face. The scene before him instantly confirmed his worst premonition.

Qin Mu followed closely behind, and when his eyes fell on the scene in the bathtub, a cold rage instantly exploded, almost bursting through his crown!

In the enormous jacuzzi, the faucet still gurgled with warm water, the surface nearing the brink of overflowing, an ominous calm pervading the air. Gu Chuyue's small body sank silently into the clear water, his head tilted back slightly against the smooth wall, his eyes closed, his face a disconcerting, water-soaked pale, his chest still motionless—he had clearly lost consciousness, like a fragile porcelain doll encased in this lukewarm "water coffin."

"Chu Yue!" Qin Mu's roar was filled with tearing fear.

There was no time to think; Xiao Jiangran's body moved faster than his thoughts. He dashed to the bathtub, and with a loud splash, he plunged his arm into the water. He didn't care if the splashing water soaked his expensive clothes. He quickly and forcefully pulled Gu Chuyue's soaking wet, cold body out of the water! Water droplets dripped down the child's lifeless limbs, quickly spreading a dark streak across the expensive marble tiles on the floor.

Xiao Jiangran moved swiftly, carefully laying Gu Chuyue flat on the cold, hard ground. He knelt on one knee, one hand quickly reaching out to the child's slender neck for confirmation. Then, without hesitation, he tilted his head and leaned down. With one hand, he pinched Gu Chuyue's small jaw, forcing his lips slightly open, while with the other hand he cleared any obstruction.

Then he interlocked his fingers, placed the base of his palms precisely on the middle and lower part of Gu Chuyue's sternum, and began to press firmly and rhythmically. Time seemed to freeze, leaving only the steady sound of his counting and Qin Mu's heavy, suppressed breathing beside him.

"Cough cough... cough cough." After spitting out the water he choked on, Gu Chuyue raised his eyelids and then closed them again after a while. His slightly frown relaxed. In that moment, Gu Chuyue was sure of the anxiety on Qin Mu's face.

Before falling into coma again, I thought: Brother, do you dare to leave me alone?

Qin Mu and Aunt Zhang didn't notice that Xiao Jiangran handed the person to Qin Mu and said, "He's fine now. Let him rest for a while."

Aunt Zhang cried out in pain. She had not expected this to happen, and hurried downstairs to the kitchen to prepare ginger soup to dispel the cold.

Knowing Gu Chuyue's temperament over the past few days, Qin Mu said to Xiao Jiangran, "Thank you for your hard work. Stay at my place for now. You should also go and have a rest. Aunt Zhang will call you when it's time for dinner."

Xiao Jiangran didn't refuse. He really needed to rest and adjust to the jet lag more than eating.

Qin Mu let the water out of the bathtub, and his hand touched the water. Huh? He put his hand in, and his anger rose again. The water was already so cold, no wonder the little villain had no heat on his body.

He changed the water to hot again, took off the wet clothes, carried the person in, and simply cleaned the person up. He immediately hugged the person and wrapped him in the quilt. Feeling the person's body temperature, it was still very low. Qin Mu gave himself a hot shower, changed into pajamas, lay on the bed and held the person in his arms.

This kid must have been his ancestor in his previous life, so difficult to serve.

And what Xiao Jiangran said just now should not have any other meaning. On the day he came, he knew most of the plot of the book, and he also felt that the world in the book had a butterfly effect because of his appearance, and would automatically deal with the differences between him and the original owner. This was also the reason why he had been testing it based on his own temperament for so many days. It was indeed the case, and no one was surprised.

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Gu Chuyue woke up and found herself lying in Qin Mu's arms, and was held tightly. She was very happy and couldn't help but smile.

Just as she was about to bury her head in someone's arms, she met Qin Mu's gaze.

Qin Mu didn't need to look in the mirror to know that his face looked scary right now, but he had to settle the accounts that needed to be settled. He let the man go and stepped back a little, while stopping Gu Chuyue from moving towards him. "Don't come over here, Gu Chuyue. Tell me what happened this afternoon and why did it become like this?"

Gu Chuyue's eyes were red. She wanted to lower her head, but Qin Mu lifted her chin up. She didn't say anything, and her tears were stuck in her eyes.

Calm down, calm down. Qin Mu kept repeating this to himself in his heart. He had never felt so aggrieved before. He was the one who made others angry. Who dared to anger him?

A cold voice echoed in Gu Chuyue's ears: "If you continue like this, do you want to go back to the Gu family's old house?"

Gu Chuyue's muffled voice finally came out: "No, I want to stay with my brother, I..."

Qin Mu didn't want to listen anymore and interrupted Gu Chuyue: "What do you mean by 'you'? Do you know how dangerous today is? What if I don't come back in time? Have I taught you to protect yourself these days? Gu Chuyue! You weren't like this when we first met! At that time, you at least knew how to protect yourself. I've been following you these days, but did you use it to threaten me like this?!"