Chapter 21: The CEO's Substitute - The Crippled Boy - An Unspoken Deep Love
"What should I choose?"
Gong Ye frowned as he spoke, then hugged Gu Shanshan tightly.
There were clearly only the two of them in the room, so who was Gu Shanshan talking to?
Upon hearing Gong Ye's question, Gu Shanshan realized that she had almost shouted out loud and immediately covered her mouth.
If my brain immediately processed my thoughts at the last second, I would say, "Stay, I choose to stay."
[Okay, host. 007 has received your answer. If nothing unexpected happens, you can live with your target until you're seventy years old before being sent to the next world. After that, you can do whatever you want. 007 will always be with you. Have a good time! Mwah!]
[Hey 007, please remove the "accident" part. Don't throw up any more plot holes for me.]
When the system said that, Gu Shanshan felt her eyelids twitching.
007 continued acting cute. [Okay, host.]
"Sparkling, who are you talking to?"
Gong Ye pinched Gu Shanshan's chin impatiently, his sharp eyebrows furrowing into a deep frown.
Gu Shanshan's behavior always made him uneasy.
Gu Shanshan gave an awkward laugh and said evasively, "N-nothing... haha..."
"Really? Shining, I don't want you to be hiding anything from me."
Gong Ye still harbored doubts.
"It's really nothing." Gu Shanshan shook her head firmly.
Thinking of what the system said, that he could spend his life with Gong Ye until he was seventy, which was practically a lifetime.
Just thinking about it makes me happy.
Then she realized that she wasn't a substitute and that Gong Ye only loved her, and Gu Shanshan felt incredibly happy.
She opened her arms and threw herself into Gong Ye's embrace.
He pressed his advantage, saying, "Gong Ye, could you please put away all the paintings on the fourth floor and not look at them anymore?"
Gong Ye chuckled and gently flicked Gu Shanshan's upturned nose. "After you left, it was sealed away. I haven't looked at it since. From tonight onwards, I will only look at you."
Sweet words between lovers always bring joy, and Gu Shanshan's mood index soared.
He leaned down and kissed Gong Ye on the cheek. "Gong Ye, I love you."
“My dearest Shanshan, I love you too.”
After he finished speaking, he responded to Gu Shanshan with an even more passionate and forceful kiss.
......
In the blink of an eye, a month has passed.
This month, the two, who are deeply in love, are like conjoined twins, sticking together wherever they go.
Gong Ye's possessiveness towards Gu Shanshan did not decrease as they spent more time together; on the contrary, it grew stronger.
He almost never allowed Gu Shanshan to leave his side for more than fifteen minutes, and he even took Gu Shanshan with him when he went to work.
This led to the entire Gong family knowing that although their president's wife was a disabled person confined to a wheelchair, the president was jealous and doted on her.
They cherish her dearly, afraid she'll fall from your hands or melt in your mouth, making everyone envious.
After work that day, Gu Shanshan suddenly had a whim and told Gong Ye that she didn't want to go home for dinner, and Gong Ye naturally agreed.
The two acted like an ordinary couple outside. Gu Shanshan, who used a cane, was eventually carried on Gong Ye's back. They strolled along the riverbank together for a long time.
When it was lunchtime, we randomly picked a restaurant and went in to eat.
It wasn't a fancy restaurant; the place was bustling with people.
With his lover by his side, Gong Ye did not show any impatience.
As long as Gu Shanshan is happy, he is willing to accompany her to do anything she wants.
The two sat down at a window seat and ordered a hot pot with two separate broths to start eating.
Gong Ye himself didn't eat much; he spent most of his time feeding his little wife.
Neither of them knew that a suspicious-looking person wearing a hat had been secretly following them for a long time.
Gu Shanshan had drunk too much milk. She turned around and saw Gong Ye on the phone, so she took her cane and whispered to him.
"Gong Ye, I'm going to the restroom."
"I'll go with you."
Gong Ye was about to hang up the phone and stand up when Gu Shanshan stopped him.
Gu Shanshan could hear that the person on the other end of the phone was Gong Ye's special assistant, who usually wouldn't contact Gong Ye unless it was something important.
"Don't hang up, you're busy, I'll be back soon."
"It's definitely a very important call," Gong Ye frowned and said, "Sweetie, I'll finish this as soon as possible and come find you."
Gu Shanshan nodded and walked towards the bathroom, leaning on her crutches.
As soon as she entered the restroom, Gu Shanshan, leaning on her crutches, walked towards the designated stall for disabled people.
Hearing footsteps behind me, I glanced up casually and saw a fully armed man wearing a mask and hat following me through the mirror in front of me.
Gu Shanshan was surprised, and a strong sense of unease suddenly rose in her heart.
She immediately turned around, leaning on her cane, and was about to walk outside when the masked man suddenly looked up at Gu Shanshan. Gu Shanshan met a pair of bloodshot eyes.
Those eyes were very familiar. As if she had remembered something, Gu Shanshan's face turned pale.
"Manage it..."
Before Gu Shanshan could even utter a word, the masked man quickly reached out.
A flash of cold light appeared, followed by a sharp pain in his abdomen.
"Ha, die, you bitch."
After stabbing Gu Shanshan, the man ripped off his mask, revealing a horribly disfigured face with carbonized flesh.
"Butler, is that you...?"
“It’s me.” Xu Ming revealed a hateful expression, glaring fiercely at Gu Shanshan.
He pulled out the knife and stabbed the victim several times swiftly and viciously.
He hated Gu Shanshan to death. If Gu Shanshan hadn't appeared, he definitely wouldn't have coveted Mr. Gong's love, which led to him losing his job, being beaten so badly that he had to stay in the hospital for so long, and having his face disfigured by sulfuric acid.
Gu Shanshan coughed up blood and tried desperately to scream for help, but she couldn't utter a single word.
Before losing consciousness, he only saw a tall figure appear at the bathroom door, running towards him with a pained expression.
"Get out of my way!"
Gu Shanshan heard Gong Ye's familiar voice, and the next second, she was pulled into a familiar embrace.
Gong Ye never expected that such a change would occur in just two minutes.
When he saw Gu Shanshan lying in a pool of blood, covered in blood, his heart ached as if a huge hole had been torn in it, and a cold wind was rushing in.
"Shanshan, don't sleep, the doctor will be here soon."
Gong Ye's hoarse voice was choked with sobs as he held Gu Shanshan in his arms, his expression filled with sorrow.
Gu Shanshan wanted to cry, but his life force was weakening, and he could no longer control his body, so he couldn't even cry.
He cursed the system under his breath, thinking, "Why did I set up these flags for him? Now they've come true!"
He was supposed to live to seventy, but he was stabbed to death just a month later.
Gu Shanshan tried to raise her hand, wanting to touch Gong Ye's face and wipe away his tears.
"Gong Ye, don't cry, I love you..."
Gu Shanshan could clearly sense that he was about to die.
He only wanted to tell Gong Ye "I love you" one last time before he died, and to touch Gong Ye's face one last time.
But he couldn't finish speaking. His hand, raised halfway, was like a withered leaf falling from a tree branch in winter, unable to withstand the ravages of the cold wind, and finally fluttered to the ground, crushing into the soil and disappearing...
"Sparkle!"
Gong Ye held the lifeless body tightly in his arms, his tall frame trembling with grief.
But the person in his arms could no longer hear his painful cries, and would never wake up again...
Gu Shanshan's soul detached from her body and floated in mid-air.
He tried desperately to float down and embrace the tormented Gong Ye, but being without a physical form, he could never touch her.
[Ding! Due to damage to the host's body, you will be immediately transported to the next quick transmigration world.]
Suddenly remembering the system's voice, Gu Shanshan's soul had no time to react before being sucked into a vortex of spacetime distortion...
......
In the noisy and dirty shed, people lay sprawled everywhere, snoring loudly.
As soon as I opened my eyes, I heard a harsh, angry curse.
"Go to hell, you dead pig head! Get up and get to work right now, or you're fired and can't do anything anymore."
Afraid of being kicked again, Gu Shanshan quickly scrambled to her feet.
"I'll get up right away, I'll get up right away."
He looked at the foreman timidly, "Please don't be angry, I'll go get to work right away."
The foreman spat at Gu Shanshan and cursed angrily.
"Enough with the nonsense, get back to work and lay some bricks!"
Gu Shanshan didn't dare to go back, nodded and hurriedly ran out.
When she went outside, it was still dark, and the cool night breeze made Gu Shanshan shiver.
"Ouch, it's so cold."
In this world, he was a migrant worker who carried bricks.
He wasn't lying through his teeth; he really was a bricklayer.
"You fucking dare to slack off? Get back to work!" came the foreman's angry roar from behind.
Gu Shanshan thought of the contractor's stout body and then thought of her own thin, frail frame.
Resigned to his fate, he bowed his head and began carrying bricks.
This time, the world has a new way of playing. Every step of his plan must be done according to the system's instructions, otherwise the mission will be judged as a failure.
The system said that he must stay obediently in this shed until he encounters his target.
Looking at the pile of bricks stacked haphazardly in front of her, forming a small mountain, Gu Shanshan's hands trembled slightly as she moved the bricks.
Ha, while others joke on social media that going to work is like getting up to lay bricks, he's actually laying bricks for real.
Damn!
[007, you get the hell out here! I have a million "mmp"s to say, I'm going to play them in your ear nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight times with a megaphone!]
[Host, don't lose your mind. It's just a string of data; it doesn't have ears.]
Gu Shanshan: Damn it, I'm even angrier now, what am I going to do!
The foreman stared at Gu Shanshan for a few minutes, and seeing that she was obediently carrying bricks, he went back to sleep.
As soon as the foreman left, the system prompted: "[Host, please proceed immediately to the intersection of Xinshi Road to trigger a new quest.]"
Okay, I'll go right away.
Following the instructions, Gu Shanshan went to the place the system had indicated.
We've arrived, 007. What should I do next...?
Just as he was about to ask the system what to do next, a blinding light nearly blinded his titanium alloy eyes.
I instinctively reached out to shield my eyes from the intense, blinding light, stunned by the sudden appearance of the car.
Standing in the middle of the intersection, I stared blankly as cars sped towards me...
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