"Don't worry. The school has taken care of it. You can consider it an early retirement. But I'll remind you again, from now on, don't mess with Gu Yao, and especially don't provoke that woman named Zhou Chunhua, understand?"
I can protect you for a while, but not forever. Gu Yao's patience will only last this once!
Liao Nanxing felt a mix of emotions, like a jumbled mess of feelings.
...
Meanwhile, Zhou Chunhua, in the passenger seat, noticed that Gu Yao seemed to be in an exceptionally good mood today.
He couldn't help but ask curiously, "What's making you so happy?"
Gu Yao glanced at her, his dimples deepening.
"Because we are confident of victory."
"You mean... the villa under Su Mu's name?"
"Yes. Just wait for the debt-for-equity swap agreement to be signed. However, the wait may be a bit long, because the public notice period for the first auction is at least 30 days."
Zhou Chunhua nodded; she just couldn't understand how Gu Yao could be so confident.
After all, he had previously said that Liao Nanxing might bid the lowest price during the third auction, which would allow him to legitimately acquire the property.
But over the years they've spent together, Gu Yao has never broken his word.
After that, they didn't continue the topic. Instead, they started discussing their work for the day, as usual.
When she arrived at the law firm, her colleagues avoided her gaze and walked away.
They looked as if they were man-eating monsters.
Upon reaching the second floor and arriving at the office door, she nearly bumped into Gu Yao's back again.
Perhaps because this kind of thing has happened so often, her reactions are much more sensitive than before.
Peeking over, I saw a bouquet of roses on her desk.
The bouquet was exactly the same as the one from before.
This time, she got to the small card on the bouquet before Gu Yao could.
Upon opening it, I was surprised to find that the signature was indeed Qin Xiuyuan!
"You like it?" Gu Yao's voice suddenly rang out from behind.
Startled, she immediately threw the roses into the trash can.
I still vividly remember the time I spent a whole day receiving roses.
She didn't want to go through that again.
I grabbed the card just to confirm if Qin Xiuyuan was the one who gave me the roses last time.
Now I know.
So the little card and all went into the trash can.
When Gu Yao entered the office, his complexion hadn't improved much.
She didn't dare ask any questions, and sat down in her office chair to get busy.
She will do her best on the last day.
However, when she took her phone out of her bag, a browser notification popped up on the screen and caught her attention.
The title of the push notification was: "Liao Nanxing, a well-known professor at Jiangnan University, has been dismissed from the teaching staff."
Huh?
Clicking on it reveals a notice.
The gist of the argument is that Liao Nanxing, as a teacher, condoned school bullying, which was not only dereliction of duty but also a breach of professional ethics. He was directly expelled from the teaching profession.
Zhou Chunhua rubbed her eyes in disbelief and looked at it carefully again.
At that moment, Gu Yao received a call from Qin Xiuyuan.
"Xiao Gu, what you can do, I can do too. I can even do it better than you."
Gu Yao glanced through the glass at the person behind the desk outside, then closed the webpage on his computer screen.
"Teacher Qin, you really won't listen to advice."
"Hehehe... Little Gu, whether you like it or not, I'm determined to play this game. It's perfect now, in the final round it's just the two of us, you'd better..."
Before Qin Xiuyuan could finish speaking, Gu Yao hung up the phone.
Because in his eyes, she was a living, breathing person, not a game of chess or a tool for competing with others.
...
Hospital.
Upon receiving the news, Liao Nanxing went berserk, smashing things in the ward.
The nurses and doctors who received the news had a great deal of effort to calm the person down on the hospital bed.
Liao Nanxing, unable to lift her eyelids, muttered to herself, "Why? Didn't you say you could protect me? Teacher... you lied to me."
...
Law firm.
After a busy day, Zhou Chunhua invited everyone to dinner while they were still at the law firm.
The young people were thrilled to hear that they were being treated to barbecue.
Only Gu Yao asked her why she wanted to treat everyone.
She made up a random excuse to get away with it, and Gu Yao didn't press the matter further.
Then she booked a barbecue restaurant nearby that wasn't too expensive.
It's very close to the law firm, about a ten-minute walk.
After work, everyone went there.
She ordered two cases of beer, and without using glasses, she opened the bottles and gave one to each person.
When she handed it to the young people, they all said how awesome it was.
When it was handed to Gu Yao, Gu Yao did not take it.
"You don't like beer?" She then realized that she had never seen Gu Yao drink beer in all the meals she had eaten with him.
"How about... a bottle of white wine?"
Gu Yao picked up the meat and placed it on the baking tray.
"I'm drunk, who's going to take you home?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the previously noisy surroundings immediately fell silent.
The girls' eyes were full of envy, the boys whispered among themselves, and Zhou Chunhua's cheeks inexplicably flushed.
She turned around and picked up the wine bottle: "You're not allowed to keep fish!"
This immediately livened up the atmosphere.
After a few bites of food and drink, someone asked her, "Sister Zhou, you've gone to such lengths to treat us all to barbecue, there must be something going on, right?"
Zhou Chunhua nodded.
"I won't be working at the law firm tomorrow. This meal today is to thank everyone for taking care of me over the past month. Also, in front of everyone, I want to clarify that Professor Gu and I are not a couple as you all think."
From now on, please don't make wild guesses. Don't ruin Teacher Gu's chances of finding a good match.
After she finished speaking, she put down the bottle and suddenly fell silent.
They were all so quiet, as if their mouths had been zipped up.
As she reached for the bottle, Gu Yao suddenly grabbed her hand and forcefully pulled her away from the barbecue table.
"Oh my god! Did I hear that right? Sister Zhou said she and Teacher Gu aren't in a relationship?"
"Do you believe me? I don't. Look at Teacher Gu's face just now, it was as black as if it had been smeared with soot."
The crowd looked at each other, none of them knowing what had happened.
Until someone whispered, "Could it be... that Teacher Gu has a crush on Assistant Zhou?"
"Pfft! Cough, cough cough cough..." Wen Yu, who hadn't said a word, almost choked on his beer.
"Minister Wen? You must know something, right?"
"That's right! Minister Wen, please tell us what happened!"
"If this is just a crush, then all my shipping for the past two months has been for nothing! This is the CP I've been shipping!"
Wen Yu picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth: "Don't talk nonsense! I don't know anything."
Meanwhile, in the corridor at the other end, Gu Yao's gloomy face frightened Zhou Chunhua so much that she didn't dare to breathe.
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