"Yes, yes, I spread rumors."

After breakfast, Gou An sat in He Jinxing's office for a while. Not long after, Secretary Liu came with great help and found her cell phone that she had lost last night.

After charging and turning on the phone, the first thing I saw was dozens of missed calls from He Ran...

Thinking about how this guy grabbed Lu Wan and fled without looking back last night, and how he interpreted the sentence "Husband and wife (vomit) are birds of the same forest, but when disaster strikes, they fly away separately" so accurately that it even includes punctuation marks, Gou An curled the corners of his lips and cursed "idiot" in his heart.

On WeChat, she skipped He Ran and reported her safety to all the friends and relatives who had left her messages. After being busy for a while, she put down her phone and sat patiently, waiting for He Jinxing to come back and clear her out of the way.

As a result, when the man came back, he didn't even look at her. He sat back at his desk and continued to work.

……………………Hello? There is another person here.

Throw me out if you can.

Gou An wanted to say something several times but stopped himself, but he still didn't dare to "not know how to appreciate the courtesy", so he sat stupidly on the sofa on the top floor of the He's Building and played with his phone for the whole morning...

Three hours later, the man behind the desk finally locked up the computer.

With a "pop", the person sitting on the sofa, who already had PTSD, raised his head and looked at him in confusion and bewilderment.

"Let's go," He Jinxing said as a matter of course, without showing any expression of "why are you still here?", "I'll take you home."

“…”

"You're not leaving?"

"……Walk."

There's nothing wrong with me walking.

Why are you acting like you want to join us? Vicious female characters are never very smart - Gou An doesn't know how superficial she is - superficial here doesn't mean anything particularly derogatory, it just means that her thoughts are basically written on her face.

In the face of her resistance, He Jinxing did not show his displeasure at her indifference. He loosened his tie and glanced at her calmly: "Lunch break... In your eyes, do I not need to eat?"

"Of course not."

Liar.

Of course.

After all, the King of Hell is just responsible for being worshipped and receiving incense.

Sitting back in the back seat of the car, which was so new that it smelled of leather, Gou An couldn't help but glance at the people around him frantically.

The man beside him seemed very tired after being busy all morning. He didn't say a word the whole time. It was about half an hour's drive. He was leaning against the car door to relax. When Gou An peeked at him for the fifteenth time, he found that he had fallen into a light sleep...

Or simply close your eyes and rest.

The tall bridge of his nose seemed almost transparent under the sunlight shining through the half-lowered car window. Half of his face melted into the sunlight. His brows were only slightly frowned out of habit because of the glaring sunlight, and the relaxation at the corners of his lips showed his peace.

Gou An was a little dazed, and then he slowly remembered that although there was a generation difference between them, He Jinxing was not much older than He Ran. He shamelessly said that they were all around the same age, in their twenties.

When he dozed off, his head would shake slightly, little by little.

In the end, Gou An even stopped playing with his phone. Although he turned on the typing mute function, he seemed to be afraid that the sound of his fingertips tapping the screen would wake him up.

As the car entered the residential area, Gou Dan Bao Tian Di poked the man's elbow with a finger.

He Jinxing opened his eyes immediately.

This person's emotions were really stable. When he just woke up, he didn't lose his temper or get impatient. However, his dark pupils were darker than usual, and he looked at her without focus.

"Uncle, we're home." Gou An said lightly, summarizing a series of events that happened this morning. "Thank you for what happened this morning."

He Jinxing seemed not to have fully woken up from her sleep, so her answer was still a simple monosyllable.

"Um."

No offensive look.

The white Rolls-Royce stopped at the door of Gou's house with familiarity. When Gou An bent down to get out of the car, she heard the man behind her calling her name. She held the car door and looked back in surprise.

"Next time if you have any problems, you can call me. Don't make yourself so embarrassed again."

"?"

Gou An was stunned for a few seconds.

Then he asked an even dumber question.

"But I don't have your phone number, how can I call you?"

He Jinxing was stunned for a moment, then rubbed his nose and laughed softly.

Gou An's face was heating up quickly, and he realized that the other party might just be being polite...

Love from elders or something like that.

Damn.

"What should I do? I forgot to bring my business card."

He spoke slowly with a smile, that kind of artificial, interesting, regretful tone.

Okay, bye.

As the friendship level above He Jinxing's head flashed to the number "27", Gou An's face turned red like a tomato and she climbed out of the car and fled.

The family was already at home, and lunch was just about to be prepared. Ade was about to set the table with a pot of winter melon and pork ribs soup.

At this time, Gou An had changed into new clothes and shoes, and his face was clean, without any trace of the embarrassment he had when he fled from Zhaipu District this morning.

No one will ever know about this, about her dark history of feeding the black-eyed bodyguard with her sincere heart——

Permanent Seal (X).

【Jiao Jiao: It is indeed very tragic. 】

Gou An: Shut your cat mouth.

"An An, you're back. Come to see if your little brother has grown taller again."

Jiang Yuan's voice always sounds so soft. At this moment, she is standing on the sofa, warmly inviting Gou An to come and comment on her son (?).

Gou An's younger brother Gou Xun is eighteen years old this year. He has a spiky haircut and is about 1.8 meters tall, strong and tall. He is at the age of being an annoying and restless teenager.

At this time, the boy was sitting on the sofa playing games. He was wearing a pure white short-sleeved T-shirt and black sports shorts. He had inherited the advantages of his parents perfectly, so he looked quite good...

Unfortunately, his IQ is beyond the scope of what the Gou family can agree on. He is just a fool.

Hearing Gou An's footsteps at this time, the rude child raised his eyelids and made a "tsk" sound.

This just happened to respond to Gou An's rolling eyes.

Gou Xun studied in the best high school in Jiangcheng and lived on campus for a long time, so he basically had no time to go home before.

In the past few years, I was not well-educated and my grades were always at the bottom. I heard that I made rapid progress in this opening exam, jumping up dozens of places.

Gou An thought it was nothing strange. After all, generally, key high schools like these would have one or two classes allocated to rich second-generation rich people with brain stem defects. Gou Xun's improvement in ranking was probably just from "a blank paper with only his name filled in" to "filling in a few multiple-choice questions after filling in his name and luckily choosing the right ones."

But his parents were very satisfied, and Jiang Yuan was so moved that he almost cried when he saw all the reds on his report card.

"Mom, you make me feel that your crying over my top-ranking report card a few days ago was an offensive act. Is this all you ask of your children? If you had told me earlier, I wouldn't have studied so hard." Gou An sat down on the sofa and picked up a grape. "Stop crying, okay?"

During the whole process, she ignored Gou Xun who was sitting on another sofa.

They have never gotten along well with each other and usually quarrel whenever they meet.

Gou Xun had just finished a game, and he glanced at her coldly, "What right do you have to say anything bad about me when you didn't come home last night? How old are you, and you've learned to stay out of the nightclub?"

There is no "I see the ebb and flow of his love" on the head of the boy who is barking at the microphone. It seems that the system has a very positive outlook. It is obviously a green product. Orthopedics is certainly not allowed. It should be purely an existence to be annoying.

His words made Gou An pause in chewing grapes. He suddenly thought of the "tune-up party" active on the Internet, who summarized the facts in a few words with outrageous words, and made it sound like something completely different.

"I didn't come home last night and you were walking down the street with a loud speaker, calling my name to look for me. What's wrong?" Gou An asked, "Are you so resentful?"

Gou Xun made another "tsk" sound, turned over, and started the next game.

"Say less." Gou Yu walked through the living room with a teacup in his hand. "Gou Xun, you can't talk to your sister in that tone. There was a big mess at Ye Weiyang last night. It's a blessing that your sister is okay."

When Gou Xun heard this, he paused playing the game and turned his head to look at Gou An.

Jiang Yuan sat down next to Gou Xun and patted him on the shoulder: "Tell me how your grades improved?"

Gou An was free to look through his physics test paper - it was now spread out on the coffee table - and he wrote something down, which was not all guesswork...

It means that there are ten knowledge points in a book, and Gou Xun has mastered two or three of them, and then he can answer all the related questions correctly.

She held the test paper in her hand and said shockingly, "Are you in love?"

Gou Xun's cell phone fell from his hand.

Gou An didn't bother to pay attention to his shocked face, and shook the paper in his hand: "The knowledge points and question types you answered correctly have clear biases. It's obvious that someone gave you extra lessons."

Probably because he didn't expect Gou An to have such reconnaissance ability, Gou Xun's arrogance subsided a little, and he didn't care about playing games anymore. He shrank his long legs that were casually hanging on the sofa, and his ears turned red: "No, I'm not in love, don't talk nonsense."

Gou An sneered.

Gou Xun hated her arrogant look.

"Really not," the boy frowned, "someone introduced me to a little teacher. She teaches well and is very patient."

"Little teacher." Gou An repeated. Gou Xun jumped up as if he had been hit on the knee: "Stop being so sarcastic! I'll invite her to our house later. We agreed to make up for the physics lesson today! You'd better be polite!"

Gou An found it funny to see him standing on the sofa with his hands on his hips, looking mad. The depression that had been brewing in her chest for the whole morning dissipated a little bit. She raised her hand to touch her hair and said, "I didn't say anything, why are you so excited... and you asked me to be polite. We have no grudges against each other, what can I do to your little teacher?"

“…”

Gou Xun stared at her, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

Gou An didn't notice the hesitation on his face at all, he stood up and walked to the dining table: "And who is being rude? It's already this late, why don't you invite your little teacher to your home for dinner? She must be short of money to teach a fool like you who is almost illiterate, otherwise how could she come to suffer this? If you ask her to come for a simple meal and chat with us, mom will definitely give her a big red envelope--"

She talked a lot and sat down at the dining table. Gou Yu, as if afraid that she would get tired of talking, handed her a bowl of soup.

Gou An took the soup, took a sip, and said sweetly, "Thank you, Dad."

Gou Yu turned to his son and said, "An An is right."

Gou Xun: “…”

Gou Xun: "Dad!"

Jiang Yuan took his irritable son to sit at the table and said gently, "Your sister is right. Since your teacher has helped you make such great progress, you should thank him/her and have a simple meal with him/her."

“…No.”

Gou Xun glanced at Gou An.

"?" Gou An was puzzled. "Why are you looking at me?"

"……fine."

Gou Xun lowered his head and ate his meal.

Gou Xun had not been back from school for a long time. The family of four finally sat down to eat together. Except for the siblings' constant quarrels, the atmosphere could barely be considered happy.

During this time, Gou Yu asked Gou An about what happened in Ye Weiyang yesterday. Hearing her concise and evasive description, he still frowned.

"You should avoid going to places like that." Jiang Yuan patted the back of her husband's hand. "I told you that the boy from the He family is unreliable. He took An An to that kind of place... Fortunately, he brought her out safely, otherwise I would not forgive him."

"I got out safely and it had nothing to do with him. He didn't even know where I was at the time," Gou An corrected calmly, "I got out by myself."

When Jiang Yuan heard this, he was a little surprised, as if to say: In that kind of situation, doesn't he care about you?

Gou Xun was drinking soup at first, but he frowned when he heard this: "Brother Ran is not that kind of person."

Gou An once again felt that he was so fucking miserable.

"Yes, yes, I made up a rumor." Gou An said, "I didn't really see him rushing out holding someone else's hand, nor did I see him carrying her onto a motorcycle and considerately putting a helmet on her..."

Gou An paused and said, "I bought the helmet as a birthday present for him."

What kind of heartbreaking scene is this? The table fell into a brief silence.

Gou An glanced at all the people who were frozen at the table, and raised the corners of his lips: "Look, I didn't want to tell you about this. It was wrong of me to lie and take credit for someone else's work. But it was exposed and I couldn't cover it up. It's not enough to be embarrassed. I couldn't handle the engagement and my fiancé was stolen by someone else. When disaster struck, my fiancé ran off holding someone else's hand. These things are not honorable..."

"Who are the others?" Jiang Yuan was very good at grasping the key points.

"Who else could it be? Mom, you shouldn't ask even though you already know the answer." Gou An thought for a moment and said, "I didn't tell you before because I felt that we should just figure out how to solve our own problems. It would be a bit embarrassing to tell our parents about it... You insisted on asking, are you embarrassed now?"

There was a hint of teasing in her tone.

In fact, it is not sad at all——

Being betrayed by someone once and still thinking about forgiving him was already a good thing because they had known each other for many years, so she endured it when He Ran slapped her in the face by saying "I don't have a girlfriend" in the group for the first time...

But it doesn’t mean that things can happen again and again.

She's not a Ninja Turtle.

If she didn't confess now, the whole world would think that it was that bastard who rescued her from Ye Weiyang?

………………Although the one who saved her was another bastard.

There was too much information in Gou An's words, so no one spoke at the table for a while. Everyone was digesting this huge amount of information.

After a while, Gou Xun suddenly asked, "You said that the man He Ran was holding hands with was your classmate?"

"Hey, you're not calling me 'Ran Ge' anymore?"

"I'm asking you a question." Gou Xun muttered, "You talk a lot of nonsense."

"Do you have to tell me her name before you can understand me?" Gou An said expressionlessly, "Lu Wan, remember, she was the one who caused Jiao Jiao to die young last month and reported to the King of Hell in advance, and whose hair I washed with red wine."

Gou Xun's face was blank.

Just then, the doorbell rang.

The maid Ade went to open the door. Gou An just wanted to end this awkward topic, so he turned around and said to Gou Xun with a half-smile, "Your little teacher is here."

After saying this, Gou Xun rarely did not refute her.

She was still wondering when she heard a soft female voice from the entrance asking:

"Ah, I'm still eating... I came too early."

If I hadn't been familiar with this voice before today, after this morning, even if it had turned into ashes, I would recognize it.

Her mind went blank for three seconds.

Then he turned his head quickly and stared at Gou Xun.

Gou Xun's heartbeat slowed down a bit when he was looked at by her. He twitched the corners of his lips unnaturally, and then said in a somewhat awkward tone: "He Ran introduced Lu Wan to me for tutoring, saying that she was a top student in your school and needed money... After she knew that you were my sister, she had long wanted to come and formally apologize to you in person for the Jiao Jiao incident."

Gou Xun: "I only know that you impersonated her to save He Ran, and thought that you two were even in Jiao Jiao's matter, but I didn't know that she and He Ran——"

Gou An: "Are you an idiot?"

Gou Xun: “…”

Gou An: "Do you know how much financial aid our school gives out every year? The student union would need to screen the forms of poor students for three days and three nights? Young Master He, you have nothing better to do than to introduce a girl - a girl who needs money - to tutor you?! I can't help but ask again, are you an idiot?!"

Gou Xun was speechless.

"Let her go."

Gou An threw the spoon in his hand.

He paused and raised his chin again.

"etc."

Gou Xun's eyes lit up, as if he thought there might be a turn for the better, and he turned to look at her.

But he saw that face, which was very similar to his but softer, was full of murderous determination, and the round white fingertips pointed at him——

"You go too."

(End of this chapter)