Loss
Time stretched endlessly in the silence, each second feeling like a slow, agonizing torture. Gu Nan felt her heart, which had been pounding in her throat, would suffocate if it didn't jump back in. She loosened her almost stiff hands, letting them fall to her sides, and silently muttered, "Are you asleep?"
Lu Yushi seemed to have just woken up from a dream. He glanced down at the bathrobe that she had crumpled in front of his chest, turned around and distanced himself from her. He walked over to close the door, turned his back, and replied indifferently, "Wouldn't it be clearer to just ask his boyfriend?"
"Well……"
A lump formed in my throat.
Gu Nan cursed silently. If you don't want to talk, then don't. What's the point of wasting time? You made her worry for so long.
She secretly rolled her eyes, thinking to herself, "I asked, so why don't you answer?"
With a silent sigh, Lu Yushi thought, "Since we're already here, we can't give up halfway." Ye Xu was right; there were still three hypnosis sessions left. Until it was completely over, Lu Yushi had to endure it no matter how unwilling he was.
He was torn between joy and sorrow, but of course, it was best not to truly provoke Lu Yushi.
Cheer yourself up, rallied your spirits, and asked, "What if it were you?"
Lu Yushi gripped the doorknob; with a click, the bedroom was completely separated from the hallway. He slowly turned around, feigning ignorance, and asked, "What about me?"
"Your girlfriend and... ouch." Gu Nan tapped his head. No, it seemed he had gotten himself into a mess.
"You can accept your girlfriend and... uh." Something doesn't seem right.
"Your ex-girlfriend... um." I don't think I had a girlfriend before.
Gu Nan rubbed her forehead, then lowered her head and dry-washed her fingers repeatedly until her knuckles turned pink.
In Lu Yushi's eyes, she looked conflicted and helpless. Lu Yushi leaned back against the wall for support, his gaze lingering on Gu Nan, his lips pressed tightly together.
He blurted out out of the blue: "My girlfriend cheated on me?"
Gu Nan looked up sharply, like a snake whose vital spot had been grabbed, and retorted fiercely, "How could that be! I..." She paused for a moment, then pointed to herself, "I love you so much, how could I cheat on you?"
Lu Yushi glanced at her from head to toe, his meaning unspoken.
Their eyes met briefly, and Gu Nan froze, her fingers still moving. She stood there stunned for half a second, then cursed under her breath.
Did she come looking for answers or to expose herself?
On second thought, since I've already come this far, I might as well close my eyes and go all the way.
“I remember you said before that you didn’t like your girlfriend being too close to other men.”
Lu Yushi pressed down on the corners of his mouth and let out a flat "Mm" from his throat.
Gu Nan immediately straightened her back, put her hands behind her back with a mysterious air, and said as she walked, "But I just don't understand, what counts as being too close? Chatting together? Eating together? Putting your arm around someone's shoulder or back, or..."
"Are you here to provoke me?"
As she landed right in front of Lu Yushi, Gu Nan raised her hand to cover his mouth and waved her finger in front of his face: "No, don't look down on yourself."
Lu Yushi glanced down, his face expressionless.
Gu Nan wisely let go, stood up straight with her hands behind her back, gave an awkward laugh, and explained, "You're always so quiet and never say anything, I was just testing your limits."
She tried her best to appear gentle and harmless, but to her surprise, Lu Yushi responded very quickly this time, so quickly that she suddenly missed the Lu Yushi who used to take half an hour to answer her question before.
"It makes it easy for me to cross my bottom line..."
"Hey!" Gu Nan's mind raced, and she immediately shouted to stop her, "Don't say that again! Don't you understand my feelings for you?"
Lu Yushi seemed to be deep in thought for a while, and unexpectedly, he nodded.
This left Gu Nan even more confused.
Understood?
She had always felt that "playing the lute to a cow" was already exhausting, but suddenly she realized that "playing the lute" to Lu Yushi was utterly exhausting and hopeless.
Because that calm, expressionless face can never give feedback after receiving a signal.
You either rely on guessing based on sufficient knowledge, or you go completely by guessing.
Gu Nan has never been a gambler, so the probability of him winning should theoretically be extremely low.
Wipe away a tear of bitterness, and keep playing.
The enemy remained still, while she moved erratically.
“At the entrance of Ping An Hospital, I didn’t mean to get so close to Wan Yi.” Gu Nan looked up at Lu Yu, blinking her eyes sincerely and innocently. “When people are anxious, some of their reactions are subconscious and don’t go into their brains…”
Lu Yushi calmly interrupted her, saying, "You've come here just to provoke me."
The confident tone gave Gu Nan a sense of frustration, like when you can't punch Lu Yu's brain.
"I?"
She had never felt such a strong urge to help someone clear their head.
With a flick of her wrist, she tilted her head back, hands on her hips, and declared defiantly, "Fine, I've provoked you. So what, break up?"
The saying goes, "No destruction, no construction."
Lu Yushi's gaze swept downwards, and before he could even finish uttering the word "good," Gu Nan immediately nodded and replied, speaking at lightning speed: "Alright, we've already broken up. You have three hypnosis sessions left. I hereby declare that from now on, J will only hypnotize his own family members."
Without giving Lu Yushi time to react, she raised her chin arrogantly and said, "Either you get back together with me, or you find someone else."
Lu Yushi remained silent, and Gu Nan tried to take the initiative: "But let's make it clear first, we can reconfirm our relationship, but since it's a newly established relationship, there's no reason to bring up old grievances."
"laugh."
A soft laugh, brief, shallow, and utterly abrupt.
The expected displeasure, exasperation, and rage did not occur. Gu Nan rubbed her ears in confusion, as if something was wrong. She could actually hear pleasure in what should have been a mocking laugh.
Before she came here, she couldn't tell whether Lu Yushi liked or disliked her.
Now I understand, Lu Yushi probably used her as a source of amusement during his free time, and keeping her around also had the purpose of hypnotizing people.
He can readily agree to break up, doesn't care about her interactions with other men, and even when she's being provocative, he's so indifferent and shows no reaction. What kind of affection could that be?
The fact that the journey could be shortened from three and a half hours to two hours suggests that, at least for now, Lu Yushi won't do anything to her.
After resolving the issues in my mind, I inexplicably felt depressed.
"I'm going back to Beicheng early tomorrow morning. There's not enough time today. I'll do hypnosis next time." After saying that, she walked straight to the sofa without even looking at Gu Nan, who was struggling with her inner conflict.
Gu Nan's gaze followed him for half a circle, and only one thought remained in her mind: the old man is really difficult to deal with.
He shrugged and lied without batting an eye: "What if arbitrarily changing the treatment time ruins all the previous efforts?"
Lu Yushi smiled faintly, as if he saw through her tricks, yet seemed unconcerned by her reactions. His tone returned to its usual coldness: "Will J cause the patient to lose all their previous efforts?"
Suppressing his surging emotions, Gu Nan thought to himself: A good opportunity.
She took a few steps to Lu Yushi's side, braced one hand on the back of the sofa chair, and boldly hooked her other arm around Lu Yushi's shoulder, forcing him to turn to face her. She said confidently, "I'm not sure, but your girlfriend who loves you very much definitely won't."
His eyes shone with unwavering determination as he blinked slowly, deliberately emphasizing the words "I love you very much."
Their breaths mingled, their stares sharp and intense, each trying to read the subtle changes in the other's expression. One retreated, the other advanced, but it was Lu Yushi who first looked away.
Lu Yushi felt a slight warmth on his shoulder and shifted slightly, seemingly trying to break free. Gu Nan pressed down even harder, with an undeniable force.
After a few seconds of pause, Lu Yushi suddenly exerted his core strength, stretched out his arm, grabbed Gu Nan's waist, and pulled her from behind the sofa chair to the seat next to him.
The movement was fluid, and in an instant, the positions were reversed, with the coercer becoming the one trapped in the shackles.
The time it took Gu Nan to recover from the shock was even longer than the time it took Lu Yushi to complete his series of actions.
Before she could even utter a cry of surprise, Lu Yushi suddenly moved closer, his warm breath brushing against her face. Gu Nan stared at him, instinctively covering her mouth.
"What are you doing?"
Lu Yushi pointed to his wristwatch; the hour hand pointed precisely to 11.
What do you think of this time?
"Again...again we're going to eat?" The last syllable of her voice rose uncontrollably.
"What?"
Gu Nan shook her head frantically. If her hands weren't so tightly bound, she would have loved to slap herself.
You should just think it in your heart, why did you have to say it out loud?
"Hypnosis is important, boyfriend."
Lu Yushi lowered the corners of his mouth: "There's no rush."
"We didn't prepare everything." The voice was muffled as he covered his mouth.
"thing?"
Gu Nan frantically winked at the bedside table.
Lu Yushi didn't understand: "Huh?"
Gu Nan continued to wink at him: "That one!"
Lu Yushi's confusion deepened, and he even followed her gaze to the empty bedside table: "Which one?"
"You..." Gu Nan swallowed the curse with difficulty, smiled speechlessly, and said expressionlessly, "You bastard who will help you wipe out your descendants."
What a joke! She actually studied it specifically after the last time.
In this regard, they absolutely possess the ability to talk the talk but not walk the walk.
But for some reason, Lu Yushi seemed less composed than her. Not only was he not composed, but his facial expression was also a mess, which Gu Nan couldn't describe.
However, it's certain that she fooled Lu Yushi.
Because the shackles have loosened.
The moment she was freed, Gu Nan immediately raised her head and accused him with righteous indignation: "Don't you have any sense of safety? Is this something to joke about? As a proper boyfriend, shouldn't you put your girlfriend's safety aside?"
She rattled off one sentence after another, like a firecracker, leaving Lu Yushi speechless before he stood up, satisfied.
"I don't have time today, so let's do it tomorrow night." Xiao Sa set the date for the hypnosis session.
Not daring to linger any longer, she rushed out of the room with unsteady steps, closed the door, leaned against the wall, patted her chest, and breathed a long sigh of relief: "Thank goodness."
He muttered to himself, "How many brain cells does it take to talk to Lu Yushi every day?"
After thinking about it with his arms crossed, it seemed that Sun Qian's hair volume wasn't very good.
If you have the chance, visit the Lu Group and interview the senior executives who have contact with Lu Yushi to find out if they all have problems with hair volume.
Inside the room, Lu Yushi stared at the tightly closed door until the tremors caused by the excessive movement had completely disappeared. He then glanced at the time and opened his tablet.
There were exactly three minutes left before the scheduled multinational meeting.
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