Gou An was originally my fiancée.
Gou An was surrounded and blocked by her classmates the whole afternoon. She had heard the words "First Lady of the He Family" so many times that her ears were callused. Even when she blew her nose, people would make a fuss about it, saying "As the First Lady of the He Family, can you be a little more polite?" She almost rolled her eyes out of her rims.
At the same time, she felt her social status rising rapidly -
Probably, when she opened WeChat Moments, she found that the number of likes on her Moments suddenly reached 999, even though she hadn’t posted anything today.
I opened it and took a look without knowing why, and found that many people were liking her past messages. Even the meaningless post in the middle of the night "I really want to eat soufflé" had more than a dozen likes.
Gou An couldn't help but post a text-only circle of friends:
[Polite question, I would like to ask you guys to go through my circle of friends here, the most outrageous one is even liking a post about menstrual pain five years ago, why is that? 】
[Shy Groundhog: Let’s see what kind of person Mr. He likes? ]
[Jiujiu: Let’s see what Mr. He likes? ]
【ZZZ: Let’s see what Mr. He likes? 】
There were hundreds of people lining up like the above in an instant, one by one, even VE jewelry salesmen appeared in her circle of friends, and everyone enjoyed it.
These people might be suffering from some serious illness.
After class, Gou An walked out of the classroom and found many people in the corridor watching her. Gou An suddenly felt the same way. The pandas in the panda house in the zoo might not be as happy as she imagined.
Outside the classroom, her bodyguard, dressed in black, was standing there like a statue. She stood on tiptoe and patted his shoulder. "From today on, your task will become more difficult because I have become an animal protection officer."
Of course I was joking; she was rarely humorous.
However, the bodyguard probably didn't understand her humor at all. After looking at her for a while, he pursed his lips stubbornly and turned his face away as if refusing to cooperate.
Gou An: “?”
Staring at the pretty face in front of her, Miss Gou blinked blankly, and after a moment her expression became increasingly strange.
Gou An: "What's wrong, are you in a bad mood?"
Ye Lang turned his head back in surprise——
For the first time, Gou An treated him as a human being with a mood and asked him personal questions;
It also enabled her to detect when he was in a bad mood the first time.
Mr. Bodyguard didn't know that, because they were too familiar with each other, his emotions were mostly like a blank sheet of paper to Miss Gou, with sunny and rainy days written on it.
But he couldn't explain why he was in a bad mood. He just felt depressed for no reason since the afternoon and he had no idea why.
He moved his lips and was about to find an excuse to get away with it, when Tang Xinjiu saved him.
Carrying his schoolbag, Tang Xinjiu came over like a gust of wind, hugged Gou An's arm, and dragged her into his car.
"The school anniversary is next week. It's the only time in the year that the department student union and the school student union will hold an event together... We need to think of a solution. The school student union is so annoying. They just know how to boss people around!"
Gou An remembered that she was in the Propaganda Department of the Student Union.
Last year, during the school anniversary celebration, the student union did a stupid thing and asked each department to produce eight posters, four to be posted on campus and four to be posted for external communication with other colleges and universities...
Then I was only given two days in total.
At that time, Gou An was still a freshman secretary. He did everything by himself and almost vomited from being too busy.
"What are you commanding us this time?"
"This time, we are in charge of the dessert table." Tang Xinjiu said, "Last week, Mr. He celebrated his birthday. Wasn't the dessert table in your house very well made? So He Ran has been thinking about it."
Gou An frowned. In his two years in the student union, for the first time he thought, "How can I let such a person be the president of the student union?"
A dessert table of this size with a hundred or so people is already busy for a while. A University has more than a dozen colleges and departments. How big a dessert table would it take to accommodate them? What if their College of Marine Biology is a branch of New Oriental?
"What's a dessert table? Didn't I join the Propaganda Department? When I applied to join the department, they told me that I only needed to draw a poster and post a notice--"
"It is indeed outrageous, but now the department's students will share honor and disgrace."
"Don't share the honor and disgrace. You tell me how to run a dessert table for tens of thousands of people? Just lie down and let the humiliation go. If you ask, I just can't do it. I don't know how to do it."
"Buy it ready-made, buy it ready-made!"
As the two were talking, they had already arrived in the city center, near a hotel owned by the Gou Group. From afar, they could smell the aroma of butter filling the entire street. This familiar smell made Miss Gou subconsciously stop and look back.
The bodyguard behind him gave him a puzzled look.
A long queue has formed at the door of the Western pastry bakery selling butterfly cakes. The butterfly cakes made by this bakery, which is attached to the five-star hotel owned by Gou family, are considered to be a popular souvenir in Jiangcheng. They are available for a limited time, in limited quantities and in limited purchases at 3:30 p.m. every day. Many people come to the store early to queue up, and those who come a little later may end up empty-handed.
——It’s really delicious, but it’s this thing that brings back some unpleasant memories for Miss Gou.
Without saying a word, she grabbed Tang Xinjiu's arm and walked back. Tang Xinjiu shouted that since they were already here, even if the school celebration couldn't give everyone one for free, it wouldn't be too much to queue up to buy one now!
Ten minutes later.
Gou An squeezed out of the line carrying a few red paper bags, wondering why they had to queue in the cold wind for something they could get by just making a phone call at home.
With a sour face, he stuffed a paper bag into Tang Xinjiu's hand and threw the other paper bag to Ye Lang.
Ye Lang: “?”
Gou An: “?”
Ye Lang took the paper bag and said expressionlessly: "I don't like sweet food."
Gou An: “?”
Gou An: "Why are you pretending?"
Ye Lang was very confused after being scolded. He really didn't like sweet things and he was not pretending.
It was almost evening when Gou An returned home.
After thinking of ten thousand plans seriously, it seems that she cannot take on the task assigned by the school student union. So Miss Gou thought about discussing a solution with He Ran, and by the way, asking him if he was mentally ill and had such a wild idea. Which serious school would have a dessert table for its anniversary celebration? This is not a wedding banquet.
Arriving at the He residence, Gou An was naturally welcomed as He Jinxing's new fiancée.
Except for He Ran's biological mother who seemed a little embarrassed, she actually didn't like Gou An very much. She always felt that her son was more than worthy of her. Gou's daughter had a good family background, but she was more lively than elegant.
But in the past, during festivals, when Gou An entered the house, if the old man was not around, the little girl would be the first to greet her. But today, she did not...
She smiled and mechanically greeted each elder in order. When it was her turn, she followed the order in the wrong order, which was very unfamiliar.
Gou An sat for a while but didn't wait for He Ran, so she was about to leave. However, as soon as she reached the entrance, she heard a loud noise from the exhaust pipe of a motorcycle outside. The boy was wearing the X15 safety helmet that Gou An had given him. He sat astride the motorcycle and tilted his head to look at her.
Gou An stood in the He family's yard, and the two of them simply looked at each other.
He Ran asked: "Looking for your uncle? He's so clingy, he won't get off work so soon."
The stiff tone and the barely concealed sarcastic atmosphere made Gou Anduo look at him twice. He knew that this guy had misunderstood something, but he was too lazy to explain to him.
Although he may think that he can disguise himself well with malice and harshness, the words [Friendship: 75] above his head betrayed him without any concealment that he was probably going crazy with jealousy.
"No." Gou An looked at the pair of eyes that slowly opened wide in surprise through the gap in the helmet, "I came to find you."
He Ran paused deliberately. When hope ignited in an instant, he saw the little girl standing behind the fence of his yard, smiling at him, revealing a small canine tooth: "Let me ask you what you think in your head, arranging the task of setting up a dessert table for our department's student union - the school has tens of thousands of people, and you are used to feeding fish as one of our people, so it's okay to feed people?"
Sure enough, the flames that leapt out of those bright eyes quickly died out.
Gou An liked to see his mood swings, and the joy of teasing cats and dogs returned.
At this time, He Ran stared at Gou An for a while, and after a while, he said as if his soul had left his body: "Oh, just do it casually for show. I didn't ask you to feed everyone in the school——"
The helmet was placed on the back seat. The back seat of the motorcycle was originally changed to a hump that could not be used for sitting but had a better-looking shape. But now, I don’t know when it was changed back to a back seat that can be used for sitting...
But after it was changed back, no one ever sat in it again.
After hearing what he said, Gou An said "Oh". He Ran parked the car, got out of the car with his long legs, and saw Gou An waving to him: "It's okay then, bye."
So cold and heartless.
The person who used to always come up to him to talk about something, now is too lazy to say anything extra to him.
He Ran's stomach churned. The discomfort from the contraction of his heart was probably transmitted through the blood flowing through his heart, bullying his internal organs in all directions...
When the two were about to pass each other, he grabbed Gou An and said expressionlessly: "Let's talk?"
Gou An didn't know what to talk about with this person, but the strength of his grip on her elbow showed no sign of compromise, so she had no choice but to nod.
There was a light drizzle in the sky. It was easy to catch a cold if you get caught in the rain in early winter, so the two of them returned to the eaves together. However, as there were too many people in the villa, they did not go into the house, but chose to stand under the eaves.
"Why uncle?"
The young boy's handsome eyebrows drooped. He had been holding this question in his mind since the moment he saw the news, and he couldn't wait to ask it when the time came.
Actually, there is nothing wrong with using the universal excuse "There has to be someone, why can't it be He Jinxing", but when the perfunctory words come to my lips, I suddenly feel that this answer is not lethal enough——
So Gou An sneered: "Why not him? If you think about it, could it be you? I am not like a mountain stream that flows thousands of miles to a low place."
Translation: People always strive for higher goals, do you understand?
He Ran was speechless, unable to even utter the words "I didn't expect you to be such a vain person" -
It's strange that He Jinxing's image of being above everything else compared to his peers is inexplicably deeply rooted, and even if one is unwilling, one cannot help but be speechless.
Whether in terms of appearance, education, height, power or other hardware conditions, He Ran still has a long way to go.
The broad shoulders collapsed all of a sudden, and the stiff back bent in frustration because of anger. The young man in front of him once thought that everything belonged to him, at least in his field, but now it seemed as if he had just woken up from his dream.
"Is that your only question?" Gou An asked, "If there's nothing else, I'll leave first. It's raining and a bit cold."
"……have."
He Ran's voice was hoarse, and his dark eyes became dim. "Gou An, before... have you ever liked me for even one day?"
In Gou An's memory, this person occupied almost most of his memories from childhood to adolescence. They went to school and went home together, and had dinner together on weekends, because he was instilled with the idea that they were a perfect match.
When she was in middle school, she ran to the high school next door with her schoolbag on her back, shouting "He Ran, if you fight again, I will tell grandpa"; she took his sweaty wristband across the wire fence of the basketball court; she gained three pounds eating the chocolates he gave her on Valentine's Day, and got furious in return, "I didn't ask you to eat them, but who told you to save food?" She also sat nervously in front of his computer, with him covering her eyes with his big hand, listening to the "click" sound of him clicking the mouse, and checking the results of the middle school entrance examination and the college entrance examination. At that time, he was still very mean, and he shouted in surprise "Gou An, didn't you fill in the answer sheet for the math test? Why did you get zero?" She was so scared that she almost wet her pants...
There are a lot of memories that are not bad actually.
It was enough to make Gou An smile at this moment and say: "I once thought that we were the best of allies and could spend our lives in peace and trust each other."
He Ran's eyes lit up.
But I heard her say -
"But I'm sorry, I have someone else I like."
As if the final word had been given, He Ran actually had the illusion that his vision was blacking out, his face turned pale, and he reached out to hold on to the wall, thinking dazedly that it turned out that in TV dramas, when people suffered a huge blow, they really were at risk of collapsing immediately.
It's like a moment of lack of blood supply to the brain.
"Do you like He Jinxing that much?"
However, that person was not He Jinxing.
Gou An denied it in her heart, but did not say it out loud, because it was not a name that could be said openly. Moreover, the current situation was so complicated that she did not know what she thought of Mr. Bodyguard...
A messy smell.
"At least he didn't do anything particularly bad, He Ran." Gou An heard his own light voice, "I really hate Lu Wan, and I hate everyone who always likes to revolve around her, and you were the one who rushed the blade towards me for her in the beginning."
Lu Wan had not done anything unforgivable, and certainly had not intentionally murdered Gou An's cat.
But if we say that all the tragedies of Gou An, the vicious female supporting role, are caused by her own fault, the audience may not care at all, but the vicious female supporting role actually has a heart——
She is bad, but she has her reasons for being bad.
She hates the person who made her become bad. It has nothing to do with her values, but only with herself.
Speaking of this matter, Gou An himself would feel very frustrated.
He Ran stared at the eyes of the person in front of him that were inexplicably beginning to turn red. When he heard her mention that she hated Lu Wan, he vaguely remembered that Lu Wan's appearance was indeed the beginning of all the changes...
Like an uncontrollable gear, it rolled bloodily towards the next page in the book.
She lowered her head, and when she said "I hate Lu Wan", she didn't look arrogant at all. She even looked a little pitiful. She frowned slightly and looked distressed afterwards, which made it difficult for people to refute her with words like "You also bullied her a lot" -
Compared to what most people think, the young master of the He family is actually quite stubborn.
It was heartbreaking. The knife that she had said "pointed the blade at me for her" was now backfiring and stabbing into his own chest.
His body was one step ahead of his brain, and before he could react, he had already pulled the person in front of him into his arms.
When her nose bumped into his strong chest and she cried out in pain, and raised her head to ask him "what are you doing", he lowered his head and wanted to kiss her lips that were tightly pursed because of grievance and frustration.
He should have done this a long time ago.
He had wanted to do this for a long time.
His brain was screaming to kiss her desperately. As they got closer, he could almost smell the scent of her mouth and nose, which mixed with the sweet fragrance that always came from her body, and finally mixed with the scent of his own body...
The hot breath sprayed on her nose. Her lips were slightly opened because of surprise. The color of her lips was very light. Anyone who saw it might want to dye it red in the next second.
He Ran heard something in his mind "snap", as if a wire had been cut.
However, when their lips were about to touch, a hand stretched out from behind directly covered his mouth and nose——
There was still the familiar scent of cologne on the man's cuffs, and the light woody base notes were now tinged with a sense of coldness and indifference.
He Ran was pulled by the huge force and was forced to let go of the person he was hugging. The moment his arms were empty, his nose was sour and he remembered the day at the Yima race track. She didn't even look at him and ran towards another person with determination.
It was as if everything was foreshadowed.
The person she ran towards was now standing between the two of them. Because he was half a head taller than him, when he looked at him, he lowered his head and looked down at him.
"Uncle."
He Ran heard his voice was extremely hoarse, as if it contained moisture. He had probably never been so embarrassed in his life, crying in front of his elders and the person he loved.
"Gou An was originally my fiancée."
There was dead silence for a few seconds.
"Is that so?"
He Jinxing's face still looked so warm, although his extremely indifferent voice hinted at displeasure.
"I'm sorry."
I'm sorry.
Now, it's mine.
(End of this chapter)