Chapter 58: Adultery 25

Gu Rong didn't react for a moment.

By the time he reacted, Gu Yanchen had already pulled him to stand between his legs.

Gu Yanchen pulled him with great force, and Gu Rong staggered a bit, subconsciously placing his hands on Gu Yanchen's shoulders.

He lowered his head and looked at Gu Yanchen. The distance between them was shortened to only the length of a forearm. They were so close that they could see each other's eyelashes, and the other's eyebrows were clearly reflected in his eyes.

For a moment, no one spoke.

The muscles in Gu Yanchen's shoulders and neck were tense. He could feel the heat from Gu Rong's palm. Within a few seconds, it began to become scorching, as if it was burning through the place where their skin touched, all the way to his heart. A tingling sensation suddenly spread, causing Gu Yanchen to suddenly increase the strength of his grip on Gu Rong's wrist.

"You really should loosen up."

Gu Rong grasped Gu Yanchen's shoulder muscles and slowly pushed him away. "I'm just afraid someone might come in and see Mr. Gu here, which would be disrespectful."

Gu Yanchen subconsciously grabbed the person and said, "How can this be considered as a loss of status? Have we done anything inappropriate?"

Gu Rong suddenly felt a little annoyed: "Gu Yanchen!"

He wanted Gu Yanchen to stop saying such ambiguous things.

"Are you interesting?!"

"What on earth do you want—"

"I don't know either."

Gu Yanchen looked at Gu Rong and said, "I don't know either."

"What?"

"I'm upset when I can't see you. Knowing you've moved out of the Gu family makes me anxious, even terrified. I regret more and more every day. Why didn't I take good care of you? Why did I let you go through all that? I'm increasingly unsure what to do with you. So, Gu Rong, can you tell me what this is called? What do I really want?"

As Gu Yanchen spoke, he naturally slid his hand down.

He lowered his eyes, held Gu Rong's hand, and stroked the back of Gu Rong's hand with his thumb, as if he was thinking, but also as if he cherished Gu Rong.

Mingming asked Gu Rong, but he didn't wait for Gu Rong to answer, but continued talking.

"I've never felt this way before, only for you, Gu Rong. You are special to me. Maybe I—"

"That's enough, Gu Yanchen."

Gu Rong suddenly interrupted Gu Yanchen and pulled his hand away: "I told you last time, don't feel sorry for me anymore, I don't need it."

"Is this pitiful?"

Gu Yanchen laughed at himself: "If I felt sorry for you, I would feel distressed and anxious, then wouldn't I feel uncomfortable when I heard you call someone brother?"

Gu Rong choked: "Who am I calling brother?"

"LaCrosse."

"I--"

Gu Rong took a deep breath: "What's the big deal? I can call anyone older than me brother. Xu Junyue is your biological brother, and he still calls you brother."

"If you mind, I can stop him from yelling."

""

Gu Rong tilted his head and took another deep breath.

"Are you going to give me a massage or not? If not, can you just put on your clothes and leave?"

"All right."

Gu Yanchen sat up straight and raised his chin towards Gu Rong: "Come on."

Gu Rong pursed her lips and turned to get the massage oil.

He walked around behind Gu Yanchen, rubbed the massage oil on his palms and warmed it up, then pressed it on Gu Yanchen's shoulders and neck, massaging circle after circle, from the oblique muscles above the head to the posterior scalene muscles, and then to the subscapularis muscles under the shoulder blades. It was really effective and did make Gu Yanchen feel a lot more relaxed, but at the same time, he couldn't help but think of what Gu Rong said before -

"After you practiced on me, you want to help here?"

Gu Yanchen frowned: "I only gave you one month's leave."

"I'm going to quit."

After he finished speaking, Gu Rong clearly felt that Gu Yanchen's shoulders and neck were tense again.

"Gu Rong, do you want to completely break away from the Gu family?"

Gu Yanchen paused: "Or do you want to completely draw a line between you and me?"

Gu Rong spoke in a somewhat nonchalant tone: "I'm not planning on changing my name, so how can I be considered drawing a line in the sand?"

"If you are worried about your second uncle and aunt..."

Gu Rong sneered: "I'm worried about them?"

"Only by staying at Gu's company can they be pissed off to death."

Gu Yanchen nodded, his breath sinking for a moment: "Okay, then you are still blaming me."

"I don't."

"If you didn't, you should have asked me what you blamed me for. I'm saying this now because you obviously know what I'm talking about, right?"

"Gu Yanchen, do you think you are smart? You——"

"Rather than revealing the fact that we're not blood brothers, isn't it more important for you to stay by my side?"

"Gu Yanchen!"

Gu Rong suddenly shouted, his chest heaving violently: "You think you know me well, right?! Why did you say that?! What gives you the right to say that?! Why did you force me! Isn't this the result you want now? What else do you want to do?!"

"I give up, okay? You and I are not even brothers anymore. From now on, we will just be strangers—"

"Gu Rong!"

Gu Yanchen turned around, grabbed Gu Rong's neck with one hand, and pulled him close to him: "If we don't become brothers, can we just be strangers?!"

Both of them were breathing heavily. Gu Rong supported himself on the therapy bed with both hands, staring directly at Gu Yanchen. After a while, he raised the corners of his mouth and sneered, then whispered: "Gu Yanchen, do you think we are Fan Jingzhuo and Fan Zitong? Fan Zitong is a woman after all, and you and I...what are we..."

[Besides, do you really love me?]

"Gu Rong, I——"

"Gu Yanchen, have you ever thought about grandpa?"

Gu Yanchen's voice froze in his throat.

"What's more, my parents are here now."

Gu Rong chuckled: "Of course, the most important thing is that I have no choice."

"I'm tired, Gu Yanchen."

In the evening, Tao Yining was called out by Gu Yanchen for a drink again.

After one, two, and three glasses, Tao Yining stretched out his hand to block the mouth of Gu Yanchen's glass: "Okay, please start your speech."

Gu Yanchen: “…”

"Nothing to say?"

Tao Yining clicked his tongue twice: "Don't tell me you just asked me out for a drink, I don't believe it."

Gu Yanchen put the wine glass on the coffee table and breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he loosened his tie, which was not tied properly, leaned back on the sofa, and then said, "Gu Rong and I are not brothers."

"Pfft! Cough cough cough—wha—cough cough, what?!"

Tao Yining spat out a mouthful of wine, looking very embarrassed.

He shouldn't have drunk while Gu Yanchen was talking!

But isn’t this news too explosive?

Tao Yining even suspected that he was hallucinating.

"Is this true?"

"real."

Gu Yanchen dodged slightly with a look of disgust, frowned and looked at Tao Yining: "Thank you for this."

"Thank me? Thank me for what?"

"The Xu Junyue you saw at the engagement party of Fan Jingzhuo and Fan Zitong, Fan Jingzhuo's junior, is my biological brother."

When this was mentioned, Tao Yining remembered it instantly.

He opened his mouth and said, "The one I mentioned who looks like your Gu family? Shit... Is that how you thank me? What about Gu Rong and him?"

"Wrong one."

"Ah, is it a TV drama or a novel plot?"

Tao Yining couldn't help but sigh twice, and said with great emotion: "Isn't this good? You and Gu Rong are not brothers anymore, so you two can do whatever you want."

After he finished speaking, Gu Yanchen seemed to be even more annoyed, and his brows were even more tightly furrowed.

"What can we two do?"

"Huh? What's going on?"

Tao Yining remembered what Gu Yanchen had said before and couldn't help sucking his teeth: "You said that when you didn't know that Gu Rong and you were not brothers. Now that you know that Gu Rong and you have no blood relationship, you can do whatever you want. Gu Yanchen, what's wrong with you? I'm not saying anything bad about you, but why do you look even more annoyed? "

Gu Yanchen pursed his lips and said, "Because I'm very confused now."

"I thought I would be relieved after revealing the truth, but I found that it was not the case at all. The only connection between Gu Rong and I was broken. He could leave if he wanted to, and he could not see me if he wanted to. He wanted to resist me, and I no longer had the right to hold him back and say that I was his brother. He said he was tired, and I didn't know what reason to use to -"

"Hey, wait, wait—"

Tao Yining took a deep breath and looked at Gu Yanchen: "Why do I feel something is wrong the more I listen?"

"Between you two, it's Gu Rong who likes you as her brother, right?"

"like......"

Gu Yanchen pinched his brows and his tone became even lower: "I don't know how much Gu Rong still likes me now-"

"Yeah! That's what I mean!"

Tao Yining clapped his hands: "No matter what, it's Gu Rong who has feelings for you and likes you, right? But why are you acting like you're the one who's being rejected?"

Gu Yanchen paused suddenly.

Tao Yining continued:

"I see that you relied on the blood relationship between you and Mr. Gu before, so you always meddled in Mr. Gu's affairs. Whenever others asked you, you would just say 'I'm his brother', feeling fearless. So now that you're no longer related to Mr. Gu, you can't adapt, right? Then why not establish another relationship? Anyway, when you thought you were Mr. Gu's biological brother, you didn't care that your 'brother' fell in love with you, and you even said you would give Mr. Gu what he wanted~~ Now that you're not related by blood anymore, wouldn't it be possible to give Mr. Gu more by changing the relationship~~"

When he spoke of the latter part, Tao Yining's expression became mean, as if he wanted to deliberately embarrass Gu Yanchen, and his words were almost slapping Gu Yanchen in the face.

But Gu Yanchen ignored Tao Yining completely, and was stunned, as if he had just realized something.

In fact, Gu Rong cares about the relationship between the two of them, and so does Gu Yanchen.

He needed a bond between them, and the basis of this need was that he could have the rightful possession and ownership of Gu Rong.

so......

Gu Yanchen whispered, "Now I'm the one who can't get what I want?"

"What else?"

Tao Yining rolled his eyes, speechless. "Brother, you don't even care about sacrificing yourself to have an incestuous relationship with your brother. Do you think you can be selfless?"

"Now that you two are not brothers, and such a big problem has been solved, you still want to drink to drown your sorrows. It must be because you are trapped by love."

Tao Yining spread his hands and laughed, "Oh no, it's over. Although Gu Rong is not your biological brother anymore, it seems that he doesn't want to like you anymore."

"Hehehe."

""

Gu Yanchen pulled the corner of his mouth and looked at Tao Yining indifferently.

"hey-hey."

Gu Yanchen had no expression on his face.

"Hey......"

cough.

Forget it, I won’t bother with an old man who has just been heartbroken.