I'm not in a bad mood.

Gou An had no idea what was happening on the deck. When she received Tang Xinjiu's report for the eighth time, and saw that He Ran was near the restaurant, she finally couldn't help rolling her eyes.

[Don't be afraid that I can win: Don't worry about me, just let me die! ]

[Don't be afraid, I can win: Why are you only worrying about me? Have you found your designated item? 】

Tang Xinjiu chattered that she had found it a long time ago. She was lucky and drew a "diamond earring", which was something you could see at banquets. She got it while laughing and hugging a little lady's neck.

Instead, the usually talkative and shy comrade groundhog fell silent, as if he had been disconnected.

Gou An was just about to ask her again, maybe someone had gone crazy and fell into the sea, when her cell phone started vibrating. She looked carefully and saw that it was the annoying person who had come up to her.

【H Ran: Where did you hide? 】

Gou An raised an eyebrow.

Reflexively, my finger moved to the "Delete Friend" column, but I thought that doing so would seem too deliberate. I would see this person every day for the next three days, and he might even drag me into some unnecessary matters because of this.

Forget it.

[Don't be afraid, I can win: Hmm? ]

[Don't be afraid, I can win: I'm surprised I didn't block you? ]

【Hran: …】

【H Ran: Don’t be poor. 】

【H Ran: Where are you? 】

[Don't be afraid, I can win. If you want to fart, just fart. But you'd better control your tone when talking to the emperor and eunuchs. ]

While typing the warning, Gou An raised his head and looked around vigilantly. After a moment, he simply hid in the shadow of a corner corridor.

【Don't be afraid, I can win: Why are you looking for me? 】

[Don't worry, I won't lend you a penny. ]

People who talk a lot usually type quickly.

Before you know it, you've been personally attacked all over the screen.

【Hran: …】

【H Ran: Speak properly. 】

【Don't be afraid, I can win: Are you worthy? 】

After replying to this message, Gou An stuffed the phone back into his bag.

However, fate likes to play tricks on people.

After He Ran appeared like a ghost, Gou An immediately followed Tang Xinjiu's report to He Ran and walked in the other direction around the cabin corridor on the kitchen side.

As she walked, she arrived at the casino. She hesitated for only a second, and then simply plunged into the crowded and bustling entertainment venue in order to avoid it.

The lights in the casino were so dazzling that Gou An squinted his eyes slightly, like a stray cat illuminated by a flashlight in the grass at night.

His expression at that moment was definitely not very friendly.

Then, across a busy gambling table, she unfortunately met He Ran with an unhappy face.

At this time, He Ran's image was not very dignified, as if he had just come back from a fooling around somewhere -

His tailored holly-colored suit jacket hung between his elbows, his shirt was unbuttoned to the third button, and his tie had long been removed and wrapped around his hands.

Young Master He is handsome, and his unruly appearance has charmed countless ignorant girls.

He frowned slightly, his hair was slightly messy, and across the table of gamblers waiting for the dealer to deal the cards, his eyes were accurately locked on Gou An——

Gou An also looked at He Ran calmly, whom he met by chance after hiding for a long time.

At this moment, the boy's eyes were fixed on her, not willing to blink...

Counting on my fingers, it seemed that this was the first time they met alone, face to face since the cancellation of their engagement.

When He Ran saw Gou An, he looked like a wild dog seeing a cat, excited and scared at the same time.

The expression of wanting to flirt but being afraid of not being able to win.

At this time, Gou An inevitably discovered that the reason why He Ran looked like a playboy and in tattered clothes was because the second button on his shirt was missing.

Zhou Yutong said that there were only two pieces of paper with the words "Second button of a men's shirt worth more than 20,000 yuan" written on it. One was in Gou An's hands, and the other was in Lu Wan's hand.

So where is the button on He Ran's collar at this moment? The answer is very obvious.

But Gou An didn't bother to care about this. He sneered, turned his head away, and wanted to pass by him.

The result was that he was grabbed by the arm and dragged to a corner where a bunch of slot machines were placed.

Her back hit a machine, but it didn't hurt. The person in front of her must have had experience or something, and he used his hand to cushion her back.

But the hand pressing on her shoulder was very strong, and there was no intention of letting her go.

The wild dog finally couldn't help but stretched out his eager claws.

"Why are you running? It's fate that we met."

The pink note was waved in front of Gou An's eyes, and Young Master He smiled like a real dandy, "Since it's fate, and God has the final say, An An, please come with me? You also know that my credit card has been suspended due to someone's blessing, so I don't have money to treat you tomorrow!"

“…”

Gou An snatched the note from him and took a look at it, [The person I like].

Tsk.

As if holding a hot potato, he quickly stuffed the note back into his shirt pocket. Although He Ran was smiling dissolutely, his tightly clenched jaw betrayed his nervousness at the moment...

These dogs all look the same when they put on airs.

Gou An had no empathy at all. He raised his hand and pushed away the person who was pressing on him!

He Ran was pushed unexpectedly, took two steps back and bumped into another machine——

With a height of over 1.8 meters, she was as tall and strong as an ox. When she bumped into the machine, the heavy slot machine had to shake for a moment! He steadied himself. He originally thought that Gou An would take this opportunity to turn around and leave, but he didn't expect that she would take two quick steps forward and easily pin him to the wall in the same position as before.

At a very close distance.

The face that had appeared frequently in my dreams recently was right in front of me, and the familiar sweet perfume drifted into my nostrils.

He Ran moved his lips, and his heartbeat inevitably accelerated. His eyes, which were almost frozen with tension in the last second, turned into a pool of spring water, rippling because of her active approach.

Just as he was about to say something, a piece of paper was slapped heavily on his chest, and then Gou An stepped back silently -

The soft warmth that had been pressing on his shoulder also disappeared along with the fragrance.

A feeling of loss surged in his heart. He Ran was stunned for a moment, picked up the note and took a look. When he saw the same borrowing content that he had seen about fifteen minutes ago, his face changed.

"Tang Xinjiu only wrote two identical notes, and the other one is in Lu Wan's hand."

Gou An raised his chin towards him and asked calmly, "Master He, where is your second button?"

He Ran couldn't utter a word.

After waiting for a long time, he finally found his voice: "I don't know--"

I didn't know your note was also designated as this.

Before he finished speaking, Gou An waved his hand and interrupted him, saying, "You don't have to explain to me. I don't care. I didn't intend to ask you for this button."

“…”

"So, if I don't look for you, you don't look for me either."

As she spoke, she pulled the note back from his hand and was about to walk past him expressionlessly, preparing to leave this strange place, the casino.

But he was grabbed before he took two steps. "I didn't give it to you on my own initiative."

"What? Lu Wan also pressed you against the wall?"

"...No, she said it was my uncle." He Ran pursed his lips, not looking like he was lying, "My uncle told her that she could come to me for it - although I don't know what it means exactly, and I haven't received any detailed instructions, but since my uncle said so, I can't not give it to him."

After he finished speaking, he unexpectedly found that Gou An's pupils sank, and he didn't understand why.

But she didn't know that Gou An was thinking that the male and female protagonists were indeed mixed up together again, and it was her fault. Why should she bother to ask Tang Xinjiu to keep Lu Wan to play this boring game with them?

What kind of tone and gesture did He Jinxing use to make Lu Wan go to He Ran? Was he a god who came down from the sky to save everything? Yes, the male protagonist should be like this.

Her stomach was churning. She couldn't explain why she had such a strange and strong reaction. When she first saw Lu Wan getting on He Jinxing's car, she wanted to watch the excitement more than anything else.

Maybe I've been too close to this person recently.

Gou An pursed her lips and stopped thinking too much. She attributed all the emotions that were carried away and went astray in an instant to the fact that she just didn't like the male and female protagonists being together like before. After all, it didn't do her any good at all...

Apart from that, there is nothing.

Gou An was very annoyed. She frowned and pulled her arm back, but the other party increased his strength.

Is this ever going to end?

"Let go."

When she spoke again, she found that her voice was terribly hoarse.

He frowned and turned back impatiently, and found that the person behind him was also frowning. He thought for a long time, and probably had no other tricks to use, so he said: "I will pay for your dinner tomorrow."

“…”

Gou An was so absurd that he chuckled and brushed his hand away.

"Belated affection is cheaper than grass, Master He."

She paused.

"Besides, who told you that I'm going to treat you tomorrow? Wake up, how could I lose to Lu Wan?"

In the VIP room on the second floor of the casino, He Jinxing was playing cards with a group of people.

With his chin propped up by one hand, the man was like a shrewd fox, with a faint smile on his lips as he reminded his superior, "Chen Jinli, if you keep feeding me cards absentmindedly, all this year's bonus will go into my pocket."

Chen Jinli rolled his eyes and threw out a 90,000 note.

He Jinxing ate three of his cards, and then he took advantage of the situation and pushed the only 90,000 in his hand, adding a hypocritical sentence: "I reminded you."

The other two players on the opposite side sighed, and Master Hong Jiu laughed out loud: "What's wrong with Ah Chen? Did he go to the toilet just now and his luck with the cards went away? He didn't win a single hand when he came back, and he just kept feeding the cards to Ah Jin!"

He Jinxing smiled and glanced at Chen Jinli, who looked annoyed, but did not expose the show he was watching on the deck.

"What are you laughing at?"

"Don't be so fierce. I helped you block a passerby who almost saw the excitement."

"Would you be so kind?"

"Chen Jinli, you really hurt my heart by doing this."

Just as He Jinxing was thinking about asking Chen Jinli to sell him his underwear after losing everything, and what good things he should use as collateral for this ungrateful man, Secretary Liu pushed the door open.

Putting down a pot of freshly brewed tea, she leaned over to the man's ear and whispered simply:

"The young master and Miss Gou had an argument downstairs."

In fact, Secretary Liu was not sure whether to report this kind of childish play, which disturbed Mr. He's interest...

But for some reason, he still said it.

As expected, the relaxed smile on Mr. He's face faded, and he pushed the cards away expressionlessly, "Rest for a while."

Then he stood up decisively.

When I went downstairs, I didn't know how the two people who had been fighting in this ghost place were gone. He Jinxing rarely lost the smile on his face.

Where they went is unknown.

Maybe they quarreled so intensely that they decided to go to another place to fight, or maybe they found that they had deep feelings for each other during the quarrel and decided to reconcile and go to another place to talk about love...

He wasn't interested in guessing.

I even feel that it is unnecessary to let He Ran and Gou An get together at this time and it is just looking for trouble.

Twenty minutes later.

When He Jinxing found Gou An on the deck, He Ran had disappeared and she was the only one left.

She was standing where Chen Jinli was talking to another person, with her hands behind her back, adjusting the smoky pink bow tie around her waist.

Maybe it was because of the angle that she couldn't see, so no matter how she adjusted it, she seemed unsatisfied. Finally, she angrily pulled one side and directly untied the entire bow. The laces blew down and hung on the hem of the skirt on both sides of her waist, fluttering in the sea breeze.

The moonlight is beautiful tonight. The dim moonlight falls on the sea surface, and the golden spots are rolled up and swallowed up in the delicate foam, disappearing in an instant...

When the ship sailed through the waves and the sea returned to calm, the moonlight once again fell without any grudges.

He Jinxing stood in the shadow and watched for a while, until the little girl on the side of the boat not far away impatiently pulled off her tied bow three times and stomped her feet hard.

Without much reason or concrete evidence, He Jinxing could see that she was in a bad mood.

He walked behind her, and when she was holding the railing and gasping for breath, he reached out and picked up a strap and held it in his hand to examine it.

A person suddenly approached from behind. Gou An was startled and turned around to look into a pair of dark eyes. She was like a small animal whose fur had stood up and was being held back.

The fair face quickly turned red.

She frowned, and her tone didn't sound very welcoming: "Uncle, why are you here?"

“Breathable.”

He Jinxing flicked her arm with one finger, and she immediately understood. Although she was reluctant, she still turned around obediently.

Thanks to her cooperation, He Jinxing took the opportunity to pick up another belt.

The soft smoky pink satin belt lay in his hand, and even he found it ridiculous: he had never touched anything made of such a material with such a strong feminine atmosphere in his life.

The man stood silently behind Gou An, his attention rarely distracted by the ribbon in his hand.

The distance was not too far, not too close, so she could smell the scent of cigar mixed with cologne on him.

It’s still the same cologne as before.

After just one night of settling, the sweet and fishy smell of blood has been diluted, leaving behind a lingering woody scent, like a century-old sunken wood fished out of the water, and then burned by the scorching sun after seeing the light of day again.

The hollow back design of the dress exposed a large area of ​​white skin under his eyes, and it could be perfectly distinguished from the dim yellow moon halo under the moonlight.

It is easy to distinguish them.

My memory seemed to go back to a bleak early autumn night a month ago. On the narrow staircase at night, the image of the little girl in the same color miniskirt overlapped vaguely...

He Jinxing was surprised why his memory was assigned such a boring picture.

This time, because he had important work in progress, the man no longer had to avoid her sight.

"I heard that you and A'ran had a fight in the casino."

He Jinxing's voice sounded as light and casual as usual, like a casual chat, with concern for the younger generation.

The little girl in front seemed unwilling to talk about this matter. She frowned and said "hmm" vaguely.

But unfortunately, the person you were talking to didn't have the word "muddling through" in his or her dictionary.

"Why?"

Perhaps she was tying a bow, and the small knuckles of her bent fingers accidentally brushed against the upper part of her tailbone, leaving no obstruction to the place they touched, even if it was only for a moment.

Her heart still skipped a beat, and she subconsciously dodged forward.

"Don't move."

Then it was discovered immediately.

Gou An was very dissatisfied with the feeling that everything was under her control, so from an angle where He Jinxing couldn't see, she pouting, and her fair face puffed up childishly.

Then she gave He Jinxing a very emotional answer: "Why? Do I need a reason to quarrel with He Ran?"

If any senior executive of He Corporation gave such a nonsense answer, it would probably be enough to get him fired more than eight times.

"event."

He Jinxing patiently moved the overly soft fabric around his fingertips.

"..." Gou An said, "Borrowing game."

Feeling that the person behind her had stopped, she turned slightly and found that the person behind her was also looking at her -

The moonlight shone on his profile, which was different from his usual hypocritical smile that seemed so distant. This made the aloof He Jinxing look softer than ever at this moment.

When their eyes met, Gou An said with a little temper: "Lu Wan and I got the same note."

Without waiting for his response, she turned her head back as if to escape, "The second button of a custom-made shirt worth more than 20,000 yuan - He Ran is the only one on this ship who can produce something qualified."

There was a sense of emotion in her tone.

——Yes, that’s right. It’s not resentment, nor is it cold disgust, but a feeling of “Although I don’t accept it, it’s really hard that fate always arranges for me to lose.”

He Jinxing didn't know why she used such a strange tone, and subconsciously frowned slightly, but quickly relaxed his brows.

He lowered his head and continued to carefully organize the "business" in his hands.

At this point in the conversation, there was no need for Gou An to say more. He Jinxing finished the rest of the words for her: "It seems that my dear nephew betrayed me without hesitation when faced with your questioning."

The voice seemed to contain a chuckle.

What the hell are you laughing at!

Gou Ancai couldn't laugh and could only respond with silence.

"An An blames me?"

Gou An couldn't say the word "no".

"I didn't think too much about it at the time." He Jinxing explained, "Generally speaking, if you want to reject someone, give her another goal to strive for. This may make her give up faster."

“…”

Gou An was stunned.

Subconsciously looking back at the person behind me——

"Lu Wan asked you for buttons?"

The fingertips slid across the folds on one side of the bow, and the man made a "tsk" sound, not very satisfied with the interruption of his final finishing work. He didn't even raise his head, as if he was really concentrating on serving that bow.

"I'm really curious, how did Gou Yu raise his daughter? Why is her brain so slow sometimes?" He Jinxing glanced at the little girl's eyes that slowly widened in shock, "What makes you think that the shirt He Ran is wearing is more expensive than the one I'm wearing."

“…”

The belt hadn't been tied yet, He Jinxing loosened his hand, took a step back, and looked at the bow that was beginning to take shape.

The cool sea breeze blew across her face, but the man still looked calm and composed, as if he was not offended. He even reminded her in a low voice that it was not finished yet and she should turn back.

Gou An turned around again with mixed feelings, with his back to the man. When he felt him picking up another piece of cloth, he couldn't help but defend himself: "I didn't think about it that way. The rules of the game are that you are not allowed to borrow things from Dad."

“…”

“…”

"I'm not your father."

“…”

In the strange silence, the man finally fixed the bow. He admired it and found it was more beautiful than any other bow she had tied tonight.

"So how did you plan to solve it?"

Ah, what are you doing? Is this a serious negotiation? Raise the question - cut the crap and don't beat around the bush - solve the problem.

"Go ask He Yuan for his buttons," Gou An said confidently, "and then force them to say that it is a handmade shirt made by a royal tailor in England, Spain, or even Dubai. Then force them to admit that it is expensive."

“…”

“…”

"So you never considered coming to see me from the beginning?"

As the little girl remained mute, the corners of the man's lips curled up slightly, and a smile once again climbed onto those deep black pupils dotted with starlight.

"Well, it's hard not to be sad."

The tone is still half true and half false.

"Stop teasing me."

"Um?"

Because no matter how you look at it, asking you for the second button on your shirt is a little too scary.

Haven't you read a book? Don't you know that this thing also has a special meaning? It's even more suffocating to be rejected! Gou An opened his mouth, speechless, and his eyes fell uncontrollably on the collar of the man's intact, of course expensive, shirt that he was not willing to damage and scrap.

After a few seconds, he moved his eyes away with a tingling scalp.

The man seemed not to notice her gaze at all and finished what he was supposed to say as if he had completed his task.

But at the end, he didn't forget to add, "Now you know the whole story?"

"Hmm?"

"Don't be in a bad mood."

“…”

Ah! The cat’s tail was stepped on in the end.

"You farted."

Gou An stretched out his hand to cover his tied bow, as if he was covering his lifeblood——

"I'm not in a bad mood."

After a stray cat was accidentally touched on the head several times by passers-by, it didn't think it was a big deal.

Until one day when I was taking a walk, I accidentally passed by the window of a passerby's house and found him feeding canned food to another cat squatting on his knees.

The house cat inside was clueless.

The stray cat outside the window was furious.

Later, the people in the house opened the window, greeted the stray cat with a smile, and told it: It’s a wild cat in the corridor, and it’s the first time I’ve seen it today. It followed me into the house, and I just fed it... So, don’t be in a bad mood.

Faced with passers-by, the stray cat, who had always restrained his temper and pretended to be obedient, finally couldn't bear it anymore.

It said: You farted, I'm not in a bad mood.

Nothing else.

It's just a possessive desire that grew up at some point in time and cannot be explained or acknowledged.

(End of this chapter)