Chapter 67 Provocation: Don't be too concerned about other people's girlfriends
The next morning, when Liang Yizhi woke up, her Bluetooth earphones, which she had worn all night, were nowhere to be found. She searched through her pillow and blankets for a long time before finally finding them.
I opened my phone, and the chat history showed that the call ended at 4:30 a.m.
Below the call termination notification, Gu Yinyan wrote: 【Goodnight.】
Liang Yizhi was slightly taken aback. He hadn't slept until four in the morning? And he was still on the phone?
She told Gu Yinyan she was up and went to wash up. When she returned and checked her phone, Gu Yinyan had replied instantly again:
I'm on my way, I brought you breakfast.
Liang Yizhi glanced at the time at the top of her phone; it was only a little past seven.
Even after staying up all night, I can still get up early.
This man has incredible energy.
Gu Yinyan was coming to pick her up for work soon. Liang Yizhi pondered that his journey would only take about ten minutes, which was not enough time for her to prepare.
She changed her clothes first, feeling her hair was too messy and frizzy. She then hurriedly applied hair oil and straightened it, and even planned to put on some light makeup.
Liang Yizhi sat in front of the dressing table, looking at her face in the mirror, and hesitated a little.
When Gu Yinyan came to see her before, when had she ever gone to such lengths to tidy herself up? Did she really have to make it so deliberate...?
She hesitated for just a moment, and time slipped away in an instant. She had just applied foundation to her face when the phone rang.
Liang Yizhi placed her phone on the dressing table, turned on speakerphone, and said to the mirror, "Hello, have you arrived yet? Five minutes, five minutes."
Gu Yinyan could probably tell she was busy, and asked, "Are you putting on makeup?"
"...Is that not allowed?"
Although she wasn't ashamed of wearing makeup and often wore it in public, Liang Yizhi felt somewhat embarrassed when she was caught.
She originally thought Gu Yinyan might say something like, "You don't need to wear makeup, you look good even without it," since that's what her ex-boyfriends had all said.
Gu Yinyan's reaction was different from what she expected; he simply said, "Then take your time."
Liang Yizhi felt bad making him wait in the car. Gu Yinyan had arrived early, and there was still some time before his work hours. Liang Yizhi looked at her face in the mirror and realized that it was about time.
She said, "Why don't you come up and wait?"
She opened the door for Gu Yinyan and saw that he was carrying a white insulated box.
"Wow! It's breakfast!" Liang Yizhi took it and held it up, sniffing it. "It smells so good."
Gu Yinyan: "Have you smelled what's inside?"
"Let me think..." Liang Yizhi placed the lunchbox on the table, tapped the lid with her fingers, and smelled the aroma of bread.
"Is it a sandwich? Aunt Jiang must be very good at making them. The ones you brought me before were all delicious."
Gu Yinyan glanced at her face, and the meaning in his eyes was hard for Liang Yizhi to understand.
He raised his chin: "Open it and take a look."
Liang Yizhi opened the lid, and there it was—a round muffin. The surface was smooth and flat, sprinkled with icing sugar, and topped with a square piece of butter.
The stacked pancakes were accompanied by side dishes: eggs, bacon, cherry tomatoes, and blueberries. The combination was truly visually appealing and appetizing.
"What beautiful pancakes!" Liang Yizhi exclaimed. "Is breakfast this exquisite today?"
Gu Yinyan walked closer to her, placed his hand on the table, and stared at her leisurely:
"Because I made it."
Liang Yizhi awkwardly rolled her eyes.
She wished she hadn't said what Aunt Jiang had just said. She hadn't expected Gu Yinyan to make her breakfast himself, and naturally assumed it was Aunt Jiang who made it.
Now that things had come to this, Liang Yizhi immediately tried to salvage the situation, her smile and words sweet: "I knew it! Otherwise, how could there be such an exquisite and sumptuous breakfast?"
She picked up the insulated box and praised, "Look at this pancake, so smooth and round, it blows Aunt Jiang's ordinary sandwiches out of the water!"
Gu Yinyan: "Those sandwiches before, I actually made them too."
"..."
He's deliberately trying to mess with her.
Liang Yizhi chuckled twice, covered her face with the insulated box, and silently turned away.
She said, "Who told you to always tell me that Aunt Jiang brought your breakfast? And didn't you stay up all night? Getting up so early to cook, aren't you tired?"
Gu Yinyan: "Not tired. A little excited, can't sleep."
Liang Yizhi's face instantly turned bright red, like a blooming lily.
Seeing that she had her back to him, Gu Yinyan said again, "Aren't you wearing makeup? Turn around and let me see."
Liang Yizhi turned her head slightly, but still kept her head down: "It's not like we haven't seen it before."
Gu Yinyan's gaze lingered on her face.
Even with makeup on, her skin still looked smooth and soft because the base makeup was very thin. It reminded him of winter snow, pure white and crystal clear.
Her eyelashes drooped, and her freshly brushed lashes curled up like fluttering little wings waving at him.
Further down—
He didn't hold back much, bent down, and kissed the spot where his gaze shouldn't linger.
The sudden kiss landed, and the force of the touch made Liang Yizhi stumble back a fraction of an inch, almost losing her balance.
It was just a fleeting kiss.
Gu Yinyan released her, but his gaze remained fixed on her face.
Liang Yizhi felt uneasy under his gaze: "Why...why are you staring at me like that?"
"Take a second look, I want to remember it." He carefully examined the face, the way it had been specially made for him, wanting to imprint that image in his eyes.
He had certainly seen her wearing makeup many times, but those times were different from today.
Because today is for him, only for him.
Just this small change made specifically for him was enough to make him extremely satisfied.
Gu Yinyan reached out and pulled the person into his arms, holding him tightly.
Liang Yizhi didn't understand the meaning behind the hug, but she simply reached out and hugged him back, a gentle smile on her face.
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Two days later, the orchestra will have a concert.
This was their first concert since they got together.
Gu Yinyan originally didn't have time, but after Liang Yizhi mentioned it, he asked his secretary, Xiao Tang, to rearrange his schedule.
That evening, he went to the concert hall.
Gu Yinyan glanced at his seat number. His seat was a few rows down the middle of the audience, slightly to the right. For a symphony orchestra, this was the best spot for listening, and the view was also excellent, allowing him to see the performers on stage clearly.
He walked slowly toward his seat.
However, when he got closer, he discovered that the person sitting next to him was someone he never expected.
He Xintu probably didn't expect to be watching the same performance as Gu Yinyan, and even to happen to be sitting next to him.
Fate is just too mischievous.
He Xintu: "...What a coincidence. You were also invited by Yizhi?"
That phrase, "Yizhi invited him," is a clear case of protesting too much.
Gu Yinyan sneered and sat down in his seat.
A few minutes before the show was scheduled to start, his phone vibrated; it was Liang Yizhi.
【arrive? 】
Holding his phone in his hand, Gu Yinyan pondered for a moment, but still didn't ask, only replying that he had arrived.
The audience members took their seats in an orderly fashion. Perhaps out of boredom, He Xintu struck up a conversation with him: "It's been a long time since I've seen President Gu."
"It has been quite a long time," Gu Yinyan replied calmly.
"It seems like the last time we met was at my bar."
This differs slightly from Gu Yinyan's recollection. Their last meeting should have been in Tongzhen. As for the bar, his memory only included five people gathered around a table doing tarot readings.
He Xintu seemed to sense what he was thinking and said gently, "Not the time with the tarot cards."
Gu Yinyan glanced at him.
He Xintu shrugged: "I'm really sorry, I saw you guys that night."
"Really?" Gu Yinyan reacted calmly. "What did you see?"
“I saw you put her in the car. And she looked very unwilling.” He Xintu’s eyes flashed with sharpness.
"We were having a great time, and you forcibly took her away halfway through. Isn't that disrespectful to her opinion?"
He Xintu hadn't shown any outward sign of his displeasure about Liang Yizhi being taken away from his territory; he only kept quiet out of consideration for Liang Yizhi. In reality, he was extremely unhappy.
Having a rare opportunity to speak with Gu Yinyan alone, he couldn't suppress his provocative thoughts and secretly wanted to stir up trouble.
Gu Yinyan asked, "And what about you?"
The unexpected rhetorical question made He Xintu's smile fade, his playful expression disappearing. He felt it necessary to emphasize something to him:
"That night, she took the initiative to come to me."
“You said it yourself, only that day,” Gu Yinyan’s attitude was equally assertive. “And recently, has she come to see you?”
He Xintu remained silent. Liang Yizhi had indeed reduced her contact with him a lot recently, and hadn't even replied to his last message.
He guessed that something might have happened that had changed her attitude.
He Xintu smiled and shrugged: "I don't mind."
“Of course.” Gu Yinyan nodded, surprisingly without refuting.
"You don't care about her, so naturally she doesn't care about you either."
After being retorted by him, He Xintu was speechless for a moment. He realized that he seemed to have been caught in Gu Yinyan's trap. Although he had started the conversation, he had been constantly being controlled by the other party.
Not to be outdone, he retorted sarcastically, "So what? Isn't your concern also driven by impure motives? If you care about her, how can you watch her flirt with others, hug, and hold hands? Do you know that she's never happy when she comes to see me? You know very well who that's because of."
He said sharply, "Although you're friends, I think you're just using this relationship to blackmail her."
Gu Yinyan readily admitted, "You're right, I did kidnap her."
“But I paid for this.” Gu Yinyan pointed to his heart, turning the conversation back to him, “And you, what did you pay for?”
He knew about He Xintu's suggestion to Liang Yizhi and could understand part of the reason behind it.
But he couldn't fully agree.
He Xintu's claim that he only wanted to enjoy himself and not be bound by any relationship was, in his view, just a way of escaping reality.
Gu Yinyan: "Boss He, not everyone is like you, only pursuing so-called feelings, and as long as there is a feeling, you can throw everything else to the back of your mind."
Looking at his face, He Xintu felt that familiar feeling towards this man once again.
He and Liang Yizhi share a similar temperament.
He Xintu nodded casually: "Perhaps you disagree, but I believe there are people in this world who share my views. You don't need to treat me like an enemy."
At this point, the pre-performance bell rang, and the theater began broadcasting announcements. The lights dimmed, and the chatter of the audience quieted down.
The band members, dressed in uniform colors, took their seats on stage and went to their respective sections.
The performance is about to begin.
Gu Yinyan quickly found the target and set his eyes on Liang Yizhi.
Seeing her sit down, he finally responded to He Xintu's words: "I don't quite understand why you're so persistent about her, so I've never considered you a rival or anything like that. I just wanted to remind you one last time."
He glanced at the people on the stage:
"Don't be too concerned about other people's girlfriends."
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