Chapter 1276 The Painting
Jiang Yun said this tentatively.
Li Jinxing's expression was indifferent, and his tone was even colder than his face: "They think it's their business, as long as you don't think so."
He was reminding her not to be so self-indulgent.
This answer was already expected, but when she heard Li Jinxing say it in person, her heart still trembled.
It is undeniable that Li Jinxing is the most perfect man she has ever met. He is young, promising, handsome, and seems to be able to handle any difficult problem with ease.
Li Jinxing was a man who could attract so much attention from others that even she couldn't help but think about how lucky she was to be loved by this man.
During this month, Li Jinxing took her to various events and took great care of her, making her the envy of everyone in the circle.
Even though she knew he was acting, she couldn't help but immerse herself in his gentle treatment and almost couldn't get out of it.
Sometimes, when Li Jinxing was nice to her, it always gave her the illusion that he really had a good impression of her. She couldn't help but even think that as long as they spent enough time together, he would really fall in love with her.
But the reason he liked her was because of her face. She still remembered the first time she and Li Jinxing met, the man only had Gu Wanqiu in his eyes from beginning to end. He didn't even look at her.
Why doesn't Gu Wanqiu like Li Jinxing?
Jiang Yun thought about it carefully.
In her and Gu Wanqiu's life, Gu Wanqiu was a flower that was carefully watered and nurtured. Because she had received so much love since she was a child, she could not ignore Li Jinxing's love.
And she is just a piece of weed beside the flower. If someone loves her a little, she will want to rip her heart out. But she is just a piece of weed, what can she pluck out? At most, she can set herself on fire to warm others' hands.
Jiang Yun lowered her head and swallowed the bitterness at the corner of her mouth. Fortunately, her profession was an actor, so she was able to sort out her emotions quickly. When she looked up again, she had already raised a familiar smile.
"Don't worry, Mr. Li. I know what I'm doing. I just can't understand why Miss Gu has been gone for so long, and you're still keeping me here. I thought I'd never show up here again. Mr. Li, how long do you plan to keep me this time?"
Li Jinxing actually didn't like the word "keeping a sponsor". He always felt that he and Jiang Yun had an unclean relationship, but in fact, they did nothing.
"There's no reason. You just need to know that we each get what we need."
"Yeah." Jiang Yun nodded and lay on the sofa. The weather was getting colder and the quilt on her body was getting thicker. She touched her hair and said, "I understand, Mr. Li. You are willing to use me and let me know that I am still useful..." She said the last sentence very quietly.
Li Jinxing didn't hear clearly and didn't care about what she said, so he didn't ask.
The lights were off. Li Jinxing was sleeping on the bed and she was sleeping on the sofa. There was some distance between them and she had to get up to see the bed.
If all this drama were real... that would be great...
Apart from Gu Wanqiu, who can resist Li Jinxing's kindness? Perhaps this is the gap between them and Gu Wanqiu, and it is also because of this that Li Jinxing loves that woman.
If she didn't have a bad past, let alone a family like Gu Wanqiu's, if she was a little luckier and happier, an ordinary family, perhaps she could still have a chance.
Jiang Yun looked at the location of the safe. With so many things weighing on her, she couldn't fall asleep at all.
She wondered, if Li Jinxing really fell in love with her, would he take the initiative to exchange important company secrets for her? If such a thing really happened, she would treat Li Jinxing as an existence more important than her own life and love him with all her strength.
Jiang Yun sighed softly. A night light was turned on in the room. The light was printed on the ceiling, forming light purple stars. She reached out and reached for it.
Li Jinxing was a light sleeper, so Jiang Yun didn't dare to act rashly. She held her cell phone and kept observing his movements. It was past one in the morning before Jiang Yun slowly propped herself up and got up carefully. She didn't go to the safe immediately, but went to the bathroom.
She wanted to try and see if Li Jinxing would be woken up by the noise she made.
After going to the bathroom, Jiang Yun mustered up her courage, took a deep breath, opened the door, and saw the figure standing by the bed. She almost lost her soul in fright.
Jiang Yun didn't dare to breathe, his face was expressionless, and he was still in shock.
Li Jinxing opened his eyes and faced the door, not looking at her. He didn't move, and Jiang Yun didn't dare to move either.
Jiang Yun gradually felt something strange. She took a small step forward and said, "Mr. Li..."
Li Jinxing finally moved. Jiang Yun thought that Li Jinxing moved because he heard her voice. At this time, she was a little relieved that she did not go to the safe immediately.
However, although Li Jinxing moved, he still did not look at her, but walked straight outside.
It seemed a little weird in the middle of the night. Jiang Yun didn't dare to call him. She followed him closely, wondering what Li Jinxing was going to do.
Li Jinxing ignored him and went downstairs to the patch of champagne roses downstairs. He bent down and started plucking them.
Jiang Yun was frightened by his action and covered his mouth in surprise, afraid that he would scream out.
Li Jinxing acted as if he didn't feel any pain. He simply grabbed the rose stem and pulled it up. After pulling it up, he knelt on the ground and started digging.
No wonder when she came today, she saw his fingers wrapped in gauze. She asked him how he did it, but he didn't say anything.
Jiang Yun now understood that Li Jinxing had sleepwalking.
Li Jinxing had never had this before, and it looked like it had been more than a day or two.
But it’s better this way, it makes it easier for her to open the safe.
This is a good opportunity.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yun turned around and went back to her room. She had already memorized the password. She entered it and pressed confirm. A moment later, there was a "bang" and the door opened.
Jiang Yun put his hand on his chest, trying to calm his rapid heartbeat. The safe was empty, with only a file bag. Was this the secret that the man wanted?
When Jiang Yun opened it, he was slightly stunned. There was only a painting inside. The person in the painting was Li Jinxing. The painting was well preserved, but it could still be seen from the yellowed edges that it was a bit old. There was a line of words on the back of the painting.
——Happy birthday to Li Jinxing.
At the bottom is Gu Wanqiu's handwriting.
This painting was painted by Gu Wanqiu.
I thought the safe contained some confidential information, important documents, or at least jewelry and gold bars, but I didn't expect it was just a painting.
The password of the safe is Gu Wanqiu's birthday, and the painting inside was drawn by Gu Wanqiu himself. Is this really that important to him?
Jiang Yun bit her lip somewhat unwillingly. She should have put it in. Perhaps it was the unwillingness that made her take out the painting, then closed the safe and put the painting in her bag. Because the bag was not big enough, she folded the painting.
After doing all this, Jiang Yun ran to the window and looked at Li Jinxing. It was obvious that Li Jinxing's hands were bleeding without a close look. Couldn't she feel any pain?
Why did Li Jinxing sleepwalk, and why did he do these things while sleepwalking... Jiang Yun didn't understand, but she guessed that it was probably related to Gu Wanqiu.
This may be a knot in Li Jinxing's heart, so after falling asleep, his body will do this uncontrollably.
Even if he let Gu Wanqiu go and said that he didn't love her, his body honestly showed that he couldn't let her go.
Forty minutes passed before Li Jinxing finally stood up slowly and brought up two stones.
Jiang Yun's mood tonight was the same as He Tian's mood when he first saw Li Jinxing sleepwalking.
Watching Li Jinxing put the two stones on the pillow, Jiang Yun finally understood where the pile of stones on the bedside table came from.
Including today’s, the total is 14 yuan.
Li Jinxing lay motionless on the bed. Ignoring the mud and blood on his body, judging from his sleeping face, one would never have thought that he had just sleepwalked to pick flowers.
Jiang Yun walked over quietly, squatted beside the bed, and looked at Li Jinxing's exposed fingers.
Jiang Yun opened his mouth and called out, "Mr. Li..."
No one responded.
She touched his hand again and said, "Does it hurt..."
Li Jinxing felt pain in his fingertips, which seemed to be a conditioned reflex caused by the pain.
Just looking at these hands hurt her. Not a single finger was intact. All the nails were ground to pieces and the fingertips were bleeding.
She once thought that killing Li Jinxing was as difficult as climbing to the sky, but now she was in front of him, and it seemed that she only needed a knife to kill him in less than ten seconds.
Jiang Yun thought, maybe she still liked Li Jinxing.
I was deceived by the false care and couldn't help but be moved even though I knew it was an act.
Directors in the circle once said that she is a talented actor who can get into the role quickly and has a good control over emotions. However, an actor like her also has a shortcoming, which is that she cannot take on many roles because it is too difficult to get out of the role.
So after so many years since her debut, she has very few works, and most of them are supporting roles with small parts.
She is not the Buddhist type that her fans say she is, she is just too difficult to get out of the role.
Even now...
The only thing to be thankful for is that she is not love-brained. Compared with her family, she naturally chooses her family.
Seeing that he couldn't wake Li Jinxing up, Jiang Yun simply found a medical kit and gave Li Jinxing's hands a simple treatment. Perhaps due to the irritation of the iodine, Li Jinxing's hands were shaking violently. However, even so, he didn't wake up, but just frowned tightly.
After washing both hands with iodine, Jiang Yun broke out in a sweat and his feet were numb from squatting. The iodine on the bed sheet was very glaring, but the bed sheet was already dirty, so Li Jinxing probably wouldn't want it.
After bandaging it with gauze, Jiang Yun stood up and wiped the sweat off her face. Li Jinxing also had scratches on his face. She wanted to reach out and touch it, but suddenly stopped when she was about to reach his face.
Never mind, it doesn’t look that serious, I’ll wait for him to wake up and handle it himself.
Jiang Yun was also a little sleepy at this moment, having been frightened. After she calmed down, she fell asleep soon after lying down.
But she didn't sleep for too long. It was already half past two when she fell asleep. She woke up after sleeping for four or five hours, and Li Jinxing also woke up.
He first looked at his hands, whose fingers were still wrapped in gauze. He thought his body had finally obeyed and stopped sleepwalking, but then the familiar feeling of soreness came over him. He looked at the mud on the sheets and then at the two familiar stones beside the pillow, and he knew that his sleepwalking was still there.
Even though he brought a woman back to live in the same room with him, trying to replace Gu Wanqiu's existence, his body still honestly got up in the middle of the night to look for her. He could deceive his heart but not his body, which made him feel that everything he did was a ridiculous struggle.
"Mr. Li, are you awake? Do you feel any discomfort anywhere in your body?"
"No." Li Jinxing raised his hand. "Did you bandage my hand?"
"Well, you were sleepwalking last night..." Jiang Yun paused, "I wanted to wake you up, but the internet says that if you encounter a sleepwalker, it's best not to scare him. I called you twice, but when you didn't respond, I gave up."
"Thank you for bandaging my wound."
"It's nothing, just a small matter." Jiang Yun smiled gently. It was obvious that she didn't get enough rest last night. Her face looked much paler than yesterday, and her eyes were a little swollen and had dark circles.
Jiang Yun looked at him worriedly: "Mr. Li, do you want to see a doctor? Your sleepwalking has seriously affected your life. Look at the injuries on your body. If this continues, I'm afraid your hand will be crippled."
Li Jinxing's impression of Jiang Yun only stayed on her face. He didn't have a very deep impression of her other aspects. If he had to describe her, she would probably be honest and obedient, and a little smart.
He likes dealing with people like this, which saves him a lot of trouble.
There was clearly a better choice than Gu Wanqiu in front of him, but he found it hard to be moved.
Jiang Yun has the same face as Gu Wanqiu, but a better personality than Gu Wanqiu. She is obedient to him, depends on him when she goes out, cares about him, and is more considerate than he could ever dream of. She even secretly bandages his wounds.
Jiang Yun saw that Li Jinxing was staring at her, as if he was looking at another person through her face.
She knew that he was looking at Gu Wanqiu in the past.
Jiang Yun didn't like being stared at like that. She touched her face, blocking half of his sight: "Is there something on my face? Why are you looking at me?"
"No." Li Jinxing finally answered her previous question, "I don't want to go to the hospital for a check-up right now. I know my body well."
Li Jinxing's approach has always been to solve problems as they arise. When faced with difficult problems, he has a strong character and will either solve the problem or face destruction. Because of this principle, he has struggled through step by step and completed one problem after another.
But this extreme approach can easily lead to destruction and collapse.
Now, he just refuses to admit defeat. He wants to rely on himself, not on external forces, and simply wants to use willpower to get rid of sleepwalking.
But during these seven days, he tried various methods, whether it was locking the door, planting flowers on the land, or deceiving himself by bringing someone back, but he still couldn't solve the problem.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
