Chapter 3: Secret love? Seven years? No return?
Inside the restaurant booth.
Xu Ruochu was drinking lemonade from a glass.
The other two chatted back and forth, asking some questions.
"Xiaochu, what's wrong with you today? You're going home before the party's over! I kindly opened a room for you next to Gu Yixiao, why don't you stay there? What's going on?"
"Also, you once said that being able to live under the same roof with the person you secretly love is a blessing earned in several lifetimes, and that you would never leave the Gu family. Why do you want to move out alone now?"
After Ran Ran asked, Xia Xiaomo continued.
"Did something happen? Before, whenever you mentioned Gu Yixiao, you would excitedly praise him for hours. Now, why don't you react when you mention him?"
"Did his upcoming engagement partner see that you like him and is trying to cause trouble for you? Don't be afraid, tell us and we'll see if we can help you vent your anger!"
"No, no one is causing any trouble."
She lowered her eyes, took a sip of water, and then shook her head. "Until now, no one else knows that I have a crush on Gu Yixiao. However, I have decided to give up on him and no longer like him. I will stay away from him from now on!"
Ran Ran and Xia Xiaomo looked at each other, both a little surprised, "Why?"
"A few years ago, you said that having a crush on someone was a wonderful feeling, and you planned to just quietly like him, do what you could for him, and not affect his life or future relationships. Why did you suddenly give up..."
"Now... secret love is a burden to me. After all, I'm just an ordinary person and shouldn't covet anything that doesn't belong to me." Xu Ruchu smiled bitterly.
Although it is difficult to give up someone she has liked for many years, she will try her best to forget him!
Thinking of this, her tears involuntarily slid down her eyelids.
"...Xiaochu, don't cry!"
Her two best friends were so anxious that they came over to comfort her, but she still couldn't stop crying.
Ran Ran sighed, took out a tissue and handed it to her, "You silly girl, why don't you go and tell him your feelings right now, and don't leave yourself with any regrets!"
"No! No... I can't confess!" She immediately became panicked when she heard her friend's suggestion.
"Don't tell him... Don't let him know!"
Because the man who had caused her an extremely painful death had only become disgusted with her after she confessed her feelings. If she had made her feelings known, she would have made the same mistake again.
She had finally persuaded her mother to move out of the Gu family and away from that man's area. She really didn't dare to see him again! She just wanted to stay away from him.
"That's right!" Xia Xiaomo glared at Ran Ran at this time, "Don't give me such blind advice..."
"...When Gu Yixiao was single, Xiaochu didn't have the courage to tell him. Now that he's about to get engaged, she can't tell him anymore. People who don't know would think our Xiaochu is a mistress!"
Ran Ran: "Oh~ I just feel bad for Xiaochu! She has never liked someone so much before, and she has secretly liked this man for seven years! No one else would do this, to love someone so deeply for so long without expecting anything in return!"
"It's okay, thank you for helping me...but..." Xu Ruochu wiped the tears from her face and said softly:
"I won't cause him any trouble. Just treat secret crushes like this as a dream... I'll wake up soon, and everything will be fine when I wake up. You don't have to worry about me."
"well......"
Not far away, in a monitoring room.
A man is debugging the newly installed surveillance equipment.
When he accidentally saw what the three girls were saying in the video that was synced to his laptop from the camera, he couldn't help but open his eyes wide in shock...
"Oh my god! Ah Xiao, guess what secret I discovered!"
The man excitedly took off his headphones, turned around, and pointed at the computer screen showing the footage he had just captured.
Gu Yixiao, who was using a USB drive to help his good friend design advertising software, glanced at the screen and responded indifferently, "Boring! When will you stop craving beautiful women?"
After saying that, he withdrew his gaze, then pressed the keyboard and continued to make the software.
"..." Lu Beichen's mouth twitched. He looked at the video again and said mysteriously, "I don't believe you won't be shocked after hearing this news."
As he spoke, he scrolled back to the beginning of the original video and clicked play.
Don't forget to turn the volume up to the maximum.
There was no one else in the entire monitoring room except the two of them, so Lu Beichen would have the audacity to broadcast such a private matter.
“…”
Listening to the sound in the video, Gu Yixiao's brows gradually furrowed.
Secret love?
Seven years?
No reward?
Xu Ruochu...had actually been secretly in love with him for seven years?!
This discovery shocked Gu Yixiao, and he immediately thought of the notebook with her name on it that he had picked up...
Because his expression is always cold, people have the illusion that he has no expression on his face.
Seeing that Gu Yixiao didn't react, Lu Beichen couldn't help but complain, "How can you be so unromantic? Your unrelated cousin has been in love with you for so long, and you didn't even notice?"
"Let's end this matter here. I don't want anyone to ruin the engagement party next month." He said lightly without stopping the work in his hands.
"What are you doing? Are you really going to get engaged to Lin Yuan?! I'm impressed... This isn't the way you repay a favor!"
I have seen women repaying a favor by giving themselves to him, but I have never seen a man repaying his favor by getting married.
Lu Beichen couldn't help but wonder if his good friend, Young Master Gu, was mentally ill or possessed by a ghost.
"It's not what you think. I just agreed to help her realize her dream," he explained calmly. "After we agree to get married and deal with our families, we can get a divorce. By then, she and I will owe each other nothing."
“…”
Lu Beichen glanced at him speechlessly, "Are you so damn sure that she's the one who saved your life?!"
Gu Yixiao paused and pondered for a moment: "Yes, I'm sure."
Eight years ago, during a graduation party on a yacht, he drowned and drifted to a remote place. It was she who called the emergency number. What was important was that she gave him first aid at the time. Otherwise, he might have become a vegetable if not dead.
"OK, I have no right to interfere in your affairs anyway!"
Lu Beichen shrugged helplessly and spread his hands, saying that he didn't care. He just felt sorry for his friend who didn't want to be with someone he truly loved.
"Giving up love and marriage to repay a favor is simply the most foolish way. Can't you repay a favor with money or a career? I thought you were smart!"
His friend had always been a rational and calm person, but this time he acted so impulsively! He was so disappointed with him!
As he thought about it, he couldn't help but add, "But, as a side note, I think your little cousin is more suitable for you than Lin Yuan!"
Gu Yixiao didn't even raise his head and said a few words coldly, "You talk too much."
After typing out the last paragraph of programming, he took his hands off the keyboard, stood up, picked up his suit jacket, and went out without saying a word.
"Hey? Where are you going, Xiao? Don't you want to try the flavor of my new chef?"
Lu Beichen shouted when he saw him leave the room.
“I’ll try it next time.”
He threw down a sentence and walked out of the restaurant.
The night gradually enveloped the entire city, neon lights flashed, cars shuttled back and forth, and crowds surged.
Gu Yixiao was smoking a cigarette while staring at the scenery along the road, as if he was thinking about something, or just appreciating it casually.
At this time, there was a burst of noise in the air, as if there was an argument.
He turned his head and saw three men getting out of a luxury car on the side of the road not far away, blocking a girl.
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