Chapter 296 Pursuing You
At this moment, a "bang" sounded...
Su Nanzhi trembled all over and suddenly opened her eyes.
Beneath her was the familiar bed, with the quilt wrapped messily around her waist, and Gu Xizhou, who had been so close to her just now - was gone.
"Nanzhi?" A familiar voice came from the door, with obvious anxiety.
Su Nanzhi turned around blankly and saw Gu Xizhou walking in from the open door.
Gu Xizhou was wearing a somewhat disheveled white shirt, with sweat dripping from his hair on his forehead. He had obviously just returned from outside. He glanced around the room vigilantly and breathed a sigh of relief.
He had just returned from outside when he heard whispers coming from Su Nanzhi's room.
Because of the incident of Ying Fang drugging someone before, and because he knocked on the door outside but heard no movement from inside, he felt nervous and didn't care about anything else. He just pushed the door open and walked in.
After confirming that Su Nanzhi was the only one in the room, he just breathed a sigh of relief. However, when he saw that Su Nanzhi's cheeks were unnaturally flushed and the hair on her forehead was soaked with sweat, he didn't care about anything else and leaned over to put his palm on Su Nanzhi's forehead.
"What's wrong with you?"
He felt a moist and warm sensation in his palm, and Gu Xizhou's voice unconsciously softened.
"Are you tired from going out today?"
The man placed his calloused palm against her forehead, and Su Nanzhicai woke up as if from a dream. She took a step back with a panicked chest.
Was she just dreaming?
Su Nanzhi's resistance made Gu Xizhou realize that his actions at the moment were inappropriate.
He took a step back and was about to apologize when his eyes accidentally caught a glimpse of the red marks on the bed sheet.
"Are you injured?" Gu Xizhou didn't care about anything else. A look of panic flashed across his face. He lowered his head and pretended to check where Su Nanzhi was injured.
Su Nanzhi looked down following his gaze and discovered that the floral bed sheet she had just changed yesterday was stained with a few dark red bloodstains at some point.
Her cheeks suddenly burned.
"No, I..." She hurriedly pulled the quilt to cover herself, but Gu Xizhou grabbed her wrist.
"Don't move!" His voice was tense, his brows knitted together. "Where are you hurt? Let me see."
Su Nanzhi was so embarrassed that she couldn't speak. She could only struggle hard to cover the bloodstains on the bed sheet.
Seeing this, Gu Xizhou misunderstood her meaning and became even more anxious. He knelt on one knee at the edge of the bed, pretending to lift the quilt to check.
"Gu Xizhou!" She finally couldn't help shouting, her voice trembling with shame and anger, "It's...it's that guy who's coming..."
Gu Xizhou's movements suddenly stopped.
He remained bent over, his shirt collar slightly open, revealing a sweat-soaked vest underneath. A drop of sweat slid down his jawline and landed on the bed sheet, right next to the bloodstain.
The room suddenly became eerily quiet.
Su Nanzhi saw that Gu Xizhou's ears turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye, spreading all the way to his neck.
He straightened up stiffly, his Adam's apple rolling violently a few times, and immediately stood up and turned around.
"You...you take care of it." Gu Xizhou's voice stuttered unusually, and he didn't even dare to look Su Nanzhi in the eye when he handed the bed sheet over. "I'll go boil some hot water for you."
After saying that, he walked out quickly as if he was avoiding a flood or a beast. In his anxiety, he even stumbled at the door.
Su Nanzhi listened to the sound of his footsteps as he left and suddenly couldn't help laughing out loud.
Who would have thought that Captain Gu, who is usually cold and serious, would be frightened to the point of being at a loss for words by something like this?
She just lowered her head and looked at the red marks on the bed sheet. Su Nanzhi's face was as red as a ripe apple. She hurriedly pulled the quilt to cover the red marks on the bed sheet.
She hadn't expected that she would actually dream, and the content of the dream was so...
It was obvious that she was calm in her previous life and nothing like this had ever happened.
How did I meet Gu Xizhou and everything became a mess?
"I've put some hot water at the door." Gu Xizhou's voice came through the door, a little deeper than usual. "I added some brown sugar to it. You...you should feel better after drinking it."
Su Nanzhi listened to the sound of the enamel pot being placed on the table outside the door, but her mind was a little confused, and finally it turned into a sentence.
"How do you know that...drinking brown sugar water will make you feel better?"
How could Gu Xizhou, a bachelor, know that women can relieve menstrual discomfort by drinking brown sugar water?
There was a light cough outside the house. It was obvious that Gu Xizhou was frightened by Su Nanzhi's shocking words, but after all, he had been to the battlefield, so Gu Xizhou reacted quickly.
"I heard from my comrades before that when their partners feel uncomfortable, they drink brown sugar water." He said a little dryly, "I'll go make dinner first."
Without waiting for Su Nanzhi's response, the footsteps outside the door gradually faded away, even more hurried than before.
Su Nanzhi's original guilt and embarrassment faded a little because of Gu Xizhou.
But those words kept floating in my mind.
The man is unmarried, the woman is unmarried...
***
Gu Xizhou’s cooking is not only delicious but also fast. In just half an hour, he can prepare three dishes and a soup.
Stir-fried vegetables, cucumber with tofu, steamed fish, and a tomato and egg soup.
The combination of meat and vegetables is very good. Su Nanzhi felt a little hungry after sleeping for a while.
"There's no need to cook so many dishes for just the two of us."
Looking at Gu Xizhou's shirt which was a little wet due to the heat, Su Nanzhi felt a little embarrassed.
It’s not that she felt ashamed that she, a lesbian, couldn’t cook and asked Gu Xizhou, a gay man, to cook.
But she and Gu Xizhou are now colleagues and partners. Since she returned to Zhoushan County, Gu Xizhou has been taking care of her.
"And your right hand is not convenient either."
Looking at Gu Xizhou's bandaged right hand, Su Nanzhi felt even more embarrassed.
Because of Gu Xizhou's skills, she always forgets from time to time that Gu Xizhou is half "disabled".
Gu Xizhou's hand holding the chopsticks tightened. He looked up at Su Nanzhi with a complicated look in his eyes, "It won't be wasted."
As he spoke, he picked up a piece of green vegetables for Su Nanzhi with his chopsticks and said, "You are too thin. You need to eat more."
He remembered that Su Nanzhi liked the stir-fried vegetables he made.
Su Nanzhi was stunned, poking the rice in the bowl with the tip of her chopsticks, not knowing how to respond.
"You and I are just..."
She was interrupted by Gu Xizhou before she could say no.
Gu Xizhou picked up another piece of fish with his chopsticks and put it into her bowl. "Even if we are just partners for now, I have an obligation to take good care of my colleagues."
This was a bit shameless, and Su Nanzhi was a little slow to react, "You..."
As if he didn't notice the surprise on her face, Gu Xizhou had an expression that showed he was done pretending, looking quite rogue.
"Besides wanting to be your temporary colleague, I'm also pursuing you."
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