After making the wish, Lan Shuang opened her eyes. The candlelight danced in her eyes, making them as bright as stars. When she looked up, there was a kind of distant and gentle feeling that lasted for a thousand years.
Gu Xiao was stunned. He saw his own reflection in it. That look seemed to transcend thousands of mountains and rivers, as if they had known each other for a long time.
It seems like they have been in love for a long time.
"Huh—I've made my wish." Lan Shuang blew out the candles and pulled them out one by one. "Do you have a knife and fork?"
"Ah...yes." Gu Xiao came back to his senses, picked up the disposable paper tray and knife and fork, cut a piece of cake with the most cherries and handed it to Lan Shuang.
"Thank you, Mr. Gu." Lan Shuang took the cake, picked up a big cherry with a fork and fed it to Gu Xiao's lips: "Here."
Gu Xiao paused, then opened his lips, bit the cherry, and began to chew slowly.
"Aren't you very busy lately? Why are you here?"
Lan Shuang only remembered this after taking two bites of the cake.
Gu Xiao leaned back in his chair and looked at her in a relaxed manner, "Because I missed you and wanted to see you. I originally wanted to wait until you finished filming before coming, but..."
He looked down at his feet and chuckled, "My legs and feet just won't obey me."
Lan Shuang smiled and leaned on his shoulder. She ate a bite and then fed him a bite, and they ate together.
"Did you drive here yourself?"
"Well, my assistants are all out dealing with company matters, so I took a break from my busy schedule to come here. It's such an important time, and I just wanted to see you. Even if I don't do anything, just looking at you makes me happy."
Gu Xiao's words were not full of passion, but Lan Shuang's heart was filled with tingling sensations from his straight shots one after another, and she was filled with the desire to pounce on him.
She lowered her eyes and took a bite of the cake almost viciously.
"Then you're going back soon? Did you sleep last night?"
Lan Shuang finished the last bite of cake and touched Gu Xiao's head lovingly.
Gu Xiao meekly lowered his head and let her touch him, and said softly: "Well, I'll rest for a while and then go back. I have a board meeting this afternoon. I only slept for three hours last night."
He didn't say much, but Lan Shuang could imagine how worried he was. After all, Gu Ting was a member of the Gu family. They shared the same fate. Kick him out of the Gu family like cutting flesh with a knife. Although it was good for the family as a whole, it was really painful.
As soon as they met, Lan Shuang noticed that Gu Xiao had dark circles under his eyes, which were very heavy. His eyes were no longer as clear as before, but full of bloodshot.
"How long can you stay?" Lan Shuang took out her cell phone.
Gu Xiao thought for a moment and said, "Two hours."
"Okay." Lan Shuang set an alarm on her phone, then sat up and leaned against the back seat, patting her thigh. "Go get some sleep, I'll keep you company."
Gu Xiao didn't refuse. He took off his coat and adjusted his posture, lying on his side in the back seat with his head resting on Lan Shuang's thigh.
Lan Shuang took his coat and put it on him, humming softly, and patting Gu Xiao gently with her hands.
Gu Xiao closed his eyes, and soon his breathing became even.
Lan Shuang's voice gradually weakened until it disappeared.
She lowered her eyes to look at Gu Xiao's tired face, leaned over and kissed him gently on the forehead, "Go to sleep, my baby."
888 looked at Lan Shuang's movements and eyes, feeling a little strange. "Host, how come I sense your maternal side?"
Lan Shuang: “…”
The warm atmosphere that had just been brewing was shattered in an instant.
"I don't have a son that old, thank you." She gritted her teeth and said to 888, "If you are allergic to romance, I suggest you get treatment."
888 pointed at each other: "I'm just telling the truth."
"If you have children in the future, will you be so gentle to them?
Lan Shuang was stunned. "Child?"
"Yes, when you return to reality in the future, you will definitely have children after you get married. They are the fruit of your love, don't you want them?" 888 looked at Lan Shuang curiously.
Lan Shuang's fingertips gently brushed across Gu Xiao's eyebrows, and the corners of her lips curled up: "If it's the fruit of love, of course I want it. No matter whether it's a boy or a girl, I will educate him (her) well, but the premise is that I find the person I really like, otherwise there will be no children."
"Eh?" 888 was puzzled. "I see that the hosts in these worlds love each other very wholeheartedly. Haven't you ever thought about having a child? You didn't ask if I didn't. Don't you think it's strange?"
"Taskers generally don't have children in the mission world, right?" Lan Shuang said naturally, "Having children would create ties, so they usually decide not to have children before they start the mission. Since you didn't mention it and I didn't ask, I just took it as a tacit agreement."
888: "That's true. There was a host who was reluctant to leave after giving birth, and ended up sending both the child and the lover away in that world. After returning, he suffered a mental breakdown and couldn't get over it for a while, and finally stopped doing missions."
Lan Shuang spread her hands: "So I love with all my heart in every world, but I never plan to have children. If I can reach reality in the future, it won't be too late to consider having children."
She seemed to be talking to 888, but her gaze fell into the void, as if she was talking to someone else.
But 888 didn't notice it, and after chatting for a few more words, he fell silent.
…
Two hours of sleep isn't enough to restore your energy, but it's better than nothing and still allows you to relax.
When Gu Xiao woke up, he saw Lan Shuang leaning against the car window with her eyes closed. He sat up carefully. He reached out to touch Lan Shuang's face, but before he could touch her, Lan Shuang opened her eyes.
"woke up?"
Her eyes were clear, and it was obvious that she had not slept.
"Well, you just sat there like that for two hours?"
Gu Xiao pressed Lan Shuang's leg. Lan Shuang immediately gasped, patted his hand, and said softly, "It's numb, don't press it."
"Then let me massage you." Gu Xiao said as he lowered his head and massaged Lan Shuang's legs seriously. There was a red mark on the side of her cheek.
Looks a bit silly for some reason.
Lan Shuang couldn't help but rub his head, "Be good."
Gu Xiao: “…”
Both of them were very busy and had very little time together. After enjoying their warmth, it was time to say goodbye. Before leaving, Lan Shuang and Gu Xiao gave each other a long kiss in the car. There was not much desire, only longing and dependence.
…
After Lan Shuang returned, she devoted herself to the filming. Gu Xiao drove back to the company and was busy until late at night again.
He didn't even have time to go home and had to spend the night at the company.
Maybe it was because he was too tired, but he started having bizarre dreams again.
This dream was different from the previous ones. There was no Lan Shuang and no various people in the dream.
Only him.
He sat in the pitch-black mist, with a suspended throne beneath him. The corners of his dark robe were hidden in the mist, as if he was swallowed up, yet also as if he was one with it.
This feeling was very mysterious. He knew that the person sitting there was him, but he was "looking" at himself from the perspective of an observer.
The person on the throne was also looking at him. A strange arc appeared on the corner of his lips with white hair and red eyes. His voice was low and seemed to echo in the air.
"You came earlier than I thought."
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