Chapter 101
Jiang Nuo woke up in Gu Jiangkuo's arms.
They clearly slept separately last night, but when he woke up, he found that he was resting his head on Gu Jiangkuo's arm, his back against his chest, his butt against his lower abdomen, and they were very close and intimate. Gu Jiangkuo's body temperature was also high, and he hugged him warmly, making the winter morning warm. Young Master Jiang was a little greedy for this body temperature and wanted to stay in bed.
He quickly went over his schedule in his mind. He didn't have a meeting this morning, so it was okay if he didn't arrive at the company on time. So he went back to bed with peace of mind.
Perhaps because he felt too safe nestled in his lover's arms, Jiang Nuo fell asleep again. When he woke up, he was shocked to find that it was almost ten o'clock!
“!!!”
President Jiang suddenly jumped up from the bed and found that Gu Jiangkuo was awake. He immediately took out his anger on him: "Why didn't you call me when you woke up?!"
Gu Jiangkuo lied with his eyes open: "Actually, I just woke up too, and you don't have any important plans this morning, so there's no need to delay."
Yes, Assistant Gu knows Mr. Jiang’s schedule very well, even better than he knows it himself.
But since taking over as CEO, Mr. Jiang has been strict with himself. This was his first time oversleeping, but he still couldn't accept it: "How could I fall asleep again? I never do this..."
Then I saw Gu Jiangkuo's arms still stretched out, strong and sturdy.
Could it be that the leather pillow is too comfortable?
Young Master Jiang suddenly thought, "I feel like I've been using my head as a pillow for a long time. Is your arm numb?"
"Why would it be numb? How much do you weigh?" As if to prove something, Gu Jiangkuo moved his arms and made a muscle-flexing movement, and the thin pajamas bulged out the full curve of his biceps.
"..." For some reason, Young Master Jiang felt that Mr. Gu Dajiang in front of him was a little too exaggerated, like a peacock in the courtship period.
It’s too deliberate to show off your muscles so early in the morning!
Gu Jiangkuo threw back the quilt and patted the still warm bed. "There's nothing to do this morning anyway, so let's sleep a little longer."
"...No." Although the condition of staying in his lover's arms for a while longer was too tempting, Mr. Jiang was very career-oriented. While refusing, he muttered to himself: As expected, men will affect the speed of my sword drawing. I can't indulge in the gentle land like this anymore!
Then, Young Master Jiang experienced the dressing service.
Gu Jiangkuo diligently helped him change out of his pajamas, and then carefully put on his work shirt, formal suit, and other items one by one - although there was a suspicion of taking advantage of him during this period, Young Master Jiang was generally satisfied.
Before Jiang Nuo entered the second grade of elementary school, he could enjoy the nanny's dressing service. Later, Lao Jiang realized that there were differences between boys and girls, and helping to change clothes was not conducive to the physical and mental development of children, so she forcibly canceled this service for him.
Young Master Jiang hadn't been served so attentively for many years, and he quite enjoyed it.
Gu Jiangkuo worked as a full-time driver as usual, but did not go to the company. Although Assistant Gu's dressing service was thoughtful, it took a long time because he couldn't help but seek benefits for himself. When the two of them finally got dressed and went out, it was almost eleven o'clock.
"It's almost time for lunch if we go to the company now. Why not find a place to eat first?" Gu Jiangkuo suggested.
The company cafeteria opens at 11:30 every day and is open for one hour. If Mr. Jiang does not have any social events at noon, the assistant will deliver the meals to the office as soon as possible.
It’s not the right time to eat as soon as you enter the door, so Mr. Jiang agreed.
Gu Jiangkuo consciously treated this half day as a "date" and drove to a high-end shopping mall that Young Master Jiang liked very much. When he arrived, he didn't go straight to the top floor to eat. Instead, he asked first, "Would you like some coffee?"
Jiang Nuo was used to drinking coffee every morning to stay awake. Because he got up late today, he hadn't had his morning coffee yet. He was also used to Gu Jiangkuo's thoughtfulness and said, "Okay."
The two of them walked into a Starbucks like an ordinary couple. Jiang Nuo ordered coffee and asked Gu Jiangkuo what he wanted to drink, but he saw that he was frowning and looking at something. Mr. Jiang followed his gaze and saw through the glass that there was an acquaintance standing in the outdoor square outside the mall.
"Rong Yi?" Jiang Nuo asked uncertainly, "What's wrong?"
The winter vacation hasn't ended yet, and the children are playing outside, so it's normal to run into each other.
"The other person is Gu Xin." Gu Jiangkuo murmured, "How does he know Rong Yi?"
"Is it your..." Jiang Nuo hesitated for a while and said, "cousin?" They have the same grandfather but different grandmother, so they should be considered cousins, right?
"right."
"Tsk, that's not surprising."
Gu Jiangkuo: “?”
Young Master Jiang said solemnly, "Fate is beyond words."
Then he took the coffee and pulled Gu Jiangkuo to sit by the window, looking at them curiously. He found that the two seemed to have met by chance. When Rong Yi left, Gu Xin chased after him, as if asking for his contact information.
Jiang Nuo then concluded confidently: "There is definitely no conspiracy between them. Don't worry, it's just ordinary love at first sight."
After all, they are the protagonists in the original world. Fate is really amazing. Maybe people who are destined to fall in love will meet each other somehow. Did they know each other so early?
Young Master Jiang felt something and asked quietly, "Do you believe in love at first sight?"
Gu Jiangkuo immediately pulled his attention away from Gu Xin and blurted out, "Believe me, I fell in love with you at first sight."
"Love at first sight means falling in love the first time you meet someone," Jiang Nuo said in disbelief, "How is that possible?"
When they first met, he was building momentum on behalf of the company to save the P2P that was going bankrupt. He accidentally met Gu Jiangkuo on a dusty construction site. It was not romantic at all.
Gu Jiangkuo said, "Really."
He took Young Master Jiang's hand, stroking it slowly, lost in memory, "I still remember the first time I shook your hand..." Half of his shoulder softened, and I thought, how could there be such a beautiful person in this world, with such soft hands? If only I could stand by this person's side forever.
"how?"
"I fell in love with you from the first handshake."
Mr. Jiang still didn't quite believe it: "Then what do you like about me?"
Gu Jiangkuo said seriously, "I like your personality. I like your stable emotions. Although you are picky, you never lose your temper over trivial matters. I like your kindness and tolerance. I like your interesting soul. I like your transparency. I like your occasional naiveté even more. I also like your ambition, your composure in the face of danger, and your sentimentality that ordinary businessmen cannot achieve."
Jiang Nuo: "...You're praising me so much that I feel embarrassed. Am I really that good?"
Gu Jiangkuo said confidently, "Of course, and that's only part of it. I could praise your virtues for three days and three nights."
"Then why is it all about inner beauty?" Jiang Nuo asked. If it really was 'love at first sight', shouldn't it be 'lust at first sight'?
However, Mr. Gu Dajiang, who is in the courtship period, worked hard to maintain his image and said firmly: "I just like your inner self. I am not a superficial person."
Jiang Nuo: “…”
Young Master Jiang, who has been praised for his good looks since he was a child and is self-aware of his handsomeness, said: "You don't like my face? You don't like my body?"
Gu Jiangkuo felt a little timid: "It's not that I don't like it, it's just that I pay more attention to the inner qualities."
Jiang Nuo said expressionlessly, "You said that Chinese people don't cheat Chinese people."
Gu Jiangkuo: “…”
Gu Jiangkuo: “…………”
"Okay," Gu Jiangkuo whispered, "I just thought you were pretty... But that was at the beginning! Although it started with your looks, later on I..."
Jiang Nuo laughed out loud.
Gu Jiangkuo felt embarrassed by the laughter and mumbled stubbornly to finish, "Now I just like you as a person. Even if we both become old grandfathers with wrinkles on our faces in the future, I will still like you as much as I do now."
Jiang Nuo's smile faded slightly. "Could a relationship really last that long?" He thought, "Growing old together? That's too extravagant. He didn't dare to think about it. He didn't know what they would be like in a year or two."
Anyway, he is used to living in China and doesn't want to go to a foreign country.
But Jiang Nuo didn't want to show such pessimistic thoughts. She raised the corner of her lips and rubbed Gu Jiangkuo's chin vigorously. "I wonder if your mouth will still be so hard when you are old?"
"You just know how to laugh at me... I'm not just tough on the outside, you're unwilling to try other areas." Gu Jiangkuo took advantage of no one's attention, grabbed Jiang Nuo's hand that was rubbing his chin, and took a light bite of the fingertip as if to vent his anger.
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Mr. Gu didn't look for Gu Jiangkuo these days, and Gu Jiangkuo was calm and steady, running between the construction site and the company step by step.
Sometimes when he returned to the company, he was still covered in construction dust, and his hands with thick joints were occasionally stained with paint. He did not have the idol image of a wealthy young man at all.
He only remembers to pay attention to his image when he is in front of President Jiang.
Today, two things happened at once, which made Assistant Gu feel a strong sense of crisis. He almost went against his nature and went to the beauty salon to make an appointment for photorejuvenation.
——Early in the morning, he heard Jiang Nuo received a call from Yu Min, saying that he would come to Yanlin on a business trip soon and set a specific time for dinner with him.
However, Mr. Gu Dajiang quickly persuaded himself that he was now Mr. Jiang's bedmate - in the literal sense - and was not comparable to a slutty bitch like Yu Min.
However, when he rushed back from the construction site, he heard that General Manager Jiang had postponed a meeting and freed up a full twenty minutes to meet with two male college students who had started their own businesses.
Male college student?
Mr. Jiang is the president of a prestigious group and he only talks about big business. How could he be interested in college students’ entrepreneurship which is like playing house as children?
"What kind of male college student is this?" Gu Jiangkuo asked the second secretary on duty at the door in a menacing manner.
The second secretary was a new employee seconded to help Xiao Wang. She was so intimidated by Assistant Gu's aura that she forgot the two university students' majors and tried to describe them: "Just two well-mannered university students, quite young, wearing glasses..."
Before he finished describing, Gu Jiangkuo strode to the door of the president's office. When the second secretary reminded him, "President Jiang said no one is allowed to disturb us," he almost couldn't control the volume of his knocks.
"Come in."
Gu Jiangkuo muttered to himself: Of course I can't scare Nuonuo, I have to control my emotions, but I also have to let those two little goblins know how powerful I am...
After preparing myself mentally, I walked in with high morale, not forgetting to tell the reason I had just come up with as I walked: "Sorry, Mr. Jiang, I have something urgent to report."
His eyes were not on Jiang Nuo, but on the two 'little goblins'. Then he saw two ordinary-looking young men wearing thick glasses with wine bottle bottoms, one of whom had a face full of acne.
“…”
The two university students were startled by a tall, muscular young man approaching them aggressively. But when he reached them, his expression suddenly relaxed. He turned to the beautiful young CEO, who looked like a movie star, and said with a wry smile, "So you have guests here. Things on the construction site aren't that urgent. I'll report back after you two finish talking."
"Wait a minute," President Jiang said, "I'd like to introduce you to Mr. Gu. His company, Baimi Technology, is a perfect match for your field and can help you with financing."
Gu Jiangkuo: “?”
President Jiang pulled him over and said, "Do you know who they are? You definitely don't know. Guess what project they're working on? A two-piece workbench! These are top students from the University of Science and Technology, here to raise investment for their mentor."
Gu Jiangkuo didn't understand a word, but he understood the excitement in Mr. Jiang's tone and asked, "Is this a very profitable project?"
Jiang Nuo shook his head. "It might not even be profitable within ten years, and the investment is huge, so it's a very expensive project. But it's of far-reaching significance. The dual-piece workbench is one of the core components of the lithography machine. This technology is mostly in the hands of foreigners. You can buy and sell it now, but if someone doesn't want to sell it to you one day, it will become a monopoly technology that chokes you. I wonder, what if our country can also develop its own patent?"
Gu Jiangkuo knew that it was Mr. Jiang's sentimentality that was at work again, but he was willing to support him no matter what. Mr. Jiang was willing to spend money to realize his ideals, and that was fine, as long as he didn't raise a little goblin behind his back.
"Of course," Gu Jiangkuo said, "Bai Mi Technology is a technology company. I'll ask the finance department to calculate the investment required."
Yes, after acquiring Shengchen and investing in several technology laboratories, Gu Jiangkuo also set up the company in a proper manner, recruited a few employees, and started working in an office building not far from Jiang’s headquarters.
"You don't have to really invest. I'm just borrowing Baimi's name, and Jiang can provide financial support." Mr. Jiang was embarrassed to use Gu Jiangkuo's real money to realize his dream. For such a long-term investment, the accounts still had to be settled clearly.
However, they didn't know that Mr. Gu had already tacitly agreed that all his property should be handed over to his wife, and Nuonuo was the only wife he would have in his life.
Gu Jiangkuo couldn't help but ask: "Does it require a lot of investment?" Is the required funds too much and Baimi Technology can't afford it?
Every time this happened, he couldn't help but think of the 'business' he discussed with Gu Zhonghong.
Money can really solve many problems.
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Gu Zhonghong stayed in Thailand for three full days, meditating with the master in front of the Garuda statue, but it was of no avail. He still dreamed of his deceased wife demanding his life and could not sleep at night.
He finally believed completely that the reason he was able to sleep well that night was not a coincidence, but because Gu Jiangkuo was by his side and he was temporarily forgiven by his deceased wife.
"Master, is Akuo really my life-saving medicine?" Gu Zhonghong asked devoutly before leaving.
The master only said one sentence: "When cause and condition meet, the result will be borne by oneself."
Gu Zhonghong felt uncomfortable after hearing this and tried to understand it in a positive way: "You mean, as long as I am willing to make amends to A Kuo, this bad karma can be resolved?"
The master shook his head repeatedly and finally said, "Nightmare is your mental illness, and he is your mental medicine. You can understand it this way. If you want to understand the cause and effect, you should go back to him as soon as possible. It's useless to stay with me any longer."
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