Autumn insects chirped softly, and fireflies carrying lanterns drifted by in the distance.
Looking at Gu Yuheng's smile, Lin Chuxia couldn't help but feel a bit embarrassed and annoyed: "You're still smiling! I prepared a birthday cake for you and brought it all the way back, but you gave me a cold shoulder and locked me out!" Thinking about it now, she was still so angry that she wanted to punch him.
"I wasn't giving you the cold shoulder." He wanted to laugh, but he didn't want her to know what he was thinking, so he kept a straight face.
I didn't answer her because I was worried that if I opened my mouth, I would reveal my feelings, or I might say something wrong and make her angry.
After a pause, Gu Yuheng added, "I didn't lock you out either."
"I know, it's Feng Guan's, you told me that back then." However, although she said that, Lin Chuxia looked distrustful.
Gu Yuheng: "..."
Well, actually, when he looks back on his past self now, he feels that he deserved some of the consequences of his past behavior.
However, Gu Yuheng still felt it necessary to explain his past actions: "It really wasn't me who locked it."
Although given their current relationship, the misunderstanding from back then wouldn't matter much even if it wasn't resolved, Gu Yuheng still hoped that Lin Chuxia could understand his thoughts at the time.
At least, he wanted her to understand his initial intention that day. He wanted her to know that what he did to her that night wasn't just a matter of male instinct.
It wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision; it was something he had been planning for a long time.
"But didn't you decide to attend the party? Why did you come back halfway through?"
Lin Chuxia rolled her eyes at him, annoyed, and snorted, "Don't you know why I came back?"
During the college entrance examination, she was assigned to take the exam at the No. 1 High School in the county. However, the entire Jianing County was so big that it wouldn't be appropriate for Gu Yuheng to order a birthday cake there; he insisted on ordering one from across the street from her exam room.
He wanted cake, couldn't the kitchen at Jinxiu Manor make it? There were also cake shops further away in Jinxiu Valley. But he insisted on going the long way around. If the cake shop opposite the county's No. 1 Middle School were high-end and classy, that would be one thing, but it was just an ordinary, unremarkable shop.
She had just left the exam hall when she received a call from Gu Jiu, who said he had an urgent matter to attend to and needed to leave for a while. He asked her to pick up a cake for him and said he wouldn't be able to come back that night, so he could only ask her to celebrate Gu Yuheng's birthday.
As if afraid of being rejected, Gu Jiu finished speaking and hung up the phone. When she called back, he pretended that the signal was bad and the wind was strong so he couldn't hear her. His acting was terrible.
Gu Yuheng coughed lightly and explained awkwardly, "As for the cake, Gu Jiu made the decision on her own." Although, he had tacitly approved of such a foolish act at the time.
"Even if the cake incident was Gu Jiu's doing alone, what about Sister Hongxiu and Mom and Dad? Did Gu Jiu also make those decisions on her own?" Lin Chuxia asked.
"Ahem," Gu Yuheng's eyes flickered, his confidence weakening slightly: "That's not it." It was he who had Gu Jiu subtly communicate with those people.
Lin Chuxia hummed in response, her face serious and stern: "I knew you were behind it."
Following Gu Jiu's call, her aunt and mother-in-law called one after another, expressing their regret at not being able to celebrate Gu Yuheng's birthday with him, and asking her to help them deliver their blessings.
"Actually, I didn't want to talk to you at first. I was already in a taxi and almost at the party venue," Lin Chuxia pouted.
"Hmm, so why did you change your mind later?" Gu Yuheng looked at her with a good mood.
"I don't know either, maybe... Oh, why are you asking so many questions? Just know that I turned back later, isn't that enough?" She wasn't really sure why she went back at the time.
Perhaps she was brainwashed by those phone calls and felt sorry for him spending his birthday alone; or perhaps it was because she had taken over his wife's identity at the time... Anyway, she went back.
"I waited and waited for you for so long, I thought you weren't coming. I was thinking about how the person who was going to catch you in person should make an entrance."
Lin Chuxia: "..." Luckily, she turned around in time, otherwise it would have been very awkward that night.
"I came home late because I made you a birthday cake!" Lin Chuxia couldn't help but puff out her cheeks and said angrily, "I don't know what you guys were thinking, going to such a far place to order a cake. The weather was so hot and humid that day, it was already melted by the time I got it back, okay? And the cream from that shop wasn't good quality either. By the time I got there, the design was already a bit ruined."
So after she got back, she didn't go straight home, but went to Jinxiu Villa first and used ingredients from the Jinxiu Restaurant to make him a new meal. That's why she got home so late.
"Is that so?" Gu Yuheng was also hearing about this for the first time, and he looked somewhat stunned.
Lin Chuxia gave a noncommittal "hmm" and said sullenly, "If I had known, I would have taken that lousy cake back with me. I kindly made you a new cake, but you gave me a hard time when I got back. If I had known you were so ungrateful, I wouldn't have bothered with all that trouble."
The girl opposite him seemed genuinely angry and even kicked him angrily.
However, Gu Yuheng looked at her intently, a faint smile in his eyes: "Have you ever thought that you might have liked me even a little bit back then?"
"How could that be?!" Lin Chuxia denied it outright. "You were so annoying back then, how could I possibly like you!"
"Oh?" Gu Yuheng's smile remained unchanged, even deepening. "But if you really don't like me at all, then why, knowing that I had ulterior motives that night, did you not only not expose me, but instead obediently fell into my trap?"
"I..." Lin Chuxia looked away, not daring to look him in the eye. "I didn't know you had those kinds of thoughts at first."
"But when you found out later, you didn't refuse, did you?" Gu Yuheng looked at her leisurely, his thin lips slightly parted, "That night, I originally planned to let you go, but later, you offered yourself up to me."
His original plan was completely ruined by that silly Lin Xiaoran. He had planned to get her drunk at dinner, but that idiot Lin Xiaoran drank all the wine he had prepared.
Because Lin Xiaoran helped her avoid drinking, she didn't get a single drop, while that idiot Lin Xiaoran got completely drunk.
Looking at the drunken and unconscious Lin Xiaoran and the empty wine bottles on the table, his temples throbbed with pain, and he finally gave up on the idea.
But who knew that when he was drowning his sorrows in alcohol under the moon, she would offer herself to him.
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