Chapter 61 Published
"...Ms. Liu is very grateful to the sanitation workers in the community for helping her find her dog, and promised to provide assistance to the best of her ability..."
At home, Aunt Zhao was listening to the news and humming a little tune while preparing dinner. The built-in elevator opened with a "ding" sound, and she quickly turned off the fire and went over to take a look.
"Oh, why are you back so early today?" Aunt Zhao smiled happily when she saw the two of them enter the house together.
But Ji Ruan's face didn't look very good, and Xiao Gu's expression was also very serious. He put his arm around Xiao Ruan's shoulders and said something with his head down. He also reached out to hug her, but Xiao Ruan stopped him with his arm.
Aunt Zhao asked quietly: "What's going on?"
Gu Xiuyi smiled and said, "It's okay, Aunt Zhao. Please make dinner a little lighter. He doesn't feel well. Let's go upstairs and talk about something."
“…Okay.”
Aunt Zhao slowly put down the hand holding the spatula and looked at the two figures walking away on the stairs with a puzzled look on her face.
The study door was closed gently, and Ji Ruan went straight to the small sofa and sat down.
Gu Xiuyi brought a cup of warm water and stuffed it into Ji Ruan's hand: "Drink some first, your mouth is dry."
This glass of water also gave Ji Ruan some time to buffer. He slowly drank half a glass and thought about where to start.
Gu Xiuyi spoke first.
"I like you."
"cough!"
Ji Ruan spilled water all over the floor and started coughing while covering his mouth.
"Ji Ruan?!"
Gu Xiuyi immediately patted him on the back and took out some paper to wipe his hands: "Blame me, blame me. I should have waited until you finished drinking."
Ji Ruan wasn't choked seriously, but was more shocked. He never dreamed that Gu Xiuyi would be so direct.
This was the first time in his life that he had seen such a confession-like conversation style.
Gu Xiuyi simply learned the lesson from the last "Today's Statement" incident.
He felt that what Li Suian said was very right. Even if the content of some words is exactly the same, the order in which they are spoken can have a decisive impact on the outcome of the event.
If he had expressed his feelings to Ji Ruan first and then talked about the law that day, he would not have made Ji Ruan cry. He might have kissed Ji Ruan earlier instead of waiting until now.
Afterwards, Gu Xiuyi recalled it and felt very regretful every day and night.
So he also knew that when chatting with Ji Ruan, he must put the most important thing first, so as to avoid the following words touching Ji Ruan's tears, causing her to cry and not be able to hear anything else.
Although it doesn't seem to be very successful now.
He stroked Ji Ruan's back carefully, "Are you feeling better, baby? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
Ji Ruan waved his hand: "You...why did you suddenly say this?"
His eyes were red from coughing, and he tilted his head slightly when looking at Gu Xiuyi, as if he had just cried pitifully, but his eyes were full of shock and confusion, with a big question mark on his head.
Gu Xiuyi couldn't help but touch the top of his head. Hmm, his hair was thick and soft.
"Ahem," he cleared his throat in the face of Ji Ruan's even more puzzled look, "because this is the most important conclusion today."
He observed Ji Ruan's condition and said considerately, "Digest it first, and then I will slowly explain the rest."
Ji Ruan: “…………”
Ji Ruan inexplicably felt a sense of fear of being dominated by his math teacher.
This kind of confession, which felt like both a class and a meeting, was the first time Ji Ruan had experienced it, and he thought it would be hard for him to encounter it again.
While I was shocked, I also felt a little aggrieved for some reason...
Gu Xiuyi is not romantic at all!
But now is not the time to feel aggrieved, he really has a lot to explain to Gu Xiuyi.
Ji Ruan stabilized his condition: "Okay, go ahead."
Gu Xiuyi reached out and held him in his arms. His body temperature passed through him, and Ji Ruan could barely believe that he was not in a meeting.
"I--"
Buzz.
His cell phone rang.
Gu Xiuyi picked it up, took a look at it, frowned and crossed it out.
"I have never--"
Ding-a-ling.
The other side called directly.
Gu Xiuyi: “…”
He thought for a moment and showed the caller ID to Ji Ruan: "It's me, the class monitor in high school."
After Ji Ruan nodded, he pressed the answer button to turn on the speakerphone.
"Hey? Mr. Gu? Hahaha, it's me, Lao Ma!"
"Hello, monitor."
"Well, after all these years you are still so polite - well, our class is having a reunion the day after tomorrow, would you mind coming?"
Gu Xiuyi casually placed his phone on the coffee table and hugged Ji Ruan into his arms: "Sorry, I'm quite busy recently."
"Eh? I heard that you're free the day after tomorrow, so I chose this day specifically. Mr. Gu, please listen to me," the squad leader lowered his voice and said slyly, "Bai Yue is back!"
"——This class reunion is to welcome him. Didn't I rush here to inform you?"
Gu Xiuyi looked at Ji Ruan. The child lowered his head with his long eyelashes drooping, revealing a little bit of the curve of his snow-white cheeks, as delicate as a piece of jade.
He was playing with his fingers, seemingly not caring at all about what Gu Xiuyi was talking about.
Gu Xiuyi couldn't help but kiss the back of his neck. The person in his arms trembled instantly, and that piece of snow-white skin turned pink in the blink of an eye.
Ji Ruan raised her head and glared at him, feeling embarrassed and ashamed, but worried that there was someone else on the other end of the line, so she was too embarrassed to speak, and whispered angrily in Gu Xiuyi's ear:
"I haven't promised you yet!"
Gu Xiuyi didn't dare to really provoke him, and quickly comforted him: "I was wrong, I was wrong."
"Mr. Gu? Mr. Gu, are you still here?"
Gu Xiuyi's eyebrows and eyes were full of smiles, but when he looked into the phone, no emotion could be heard:
"Captain Ma, I don't know where you heard that I'm free the day after tomorrow, but even if I'm free, I'll choose to stay at home with my lover. What do you think?"
"——It's alright, I'll hang up now."
Although his "lover" could not accept this intimate name at first and her cheeks turned red.
"Uh...ah..." Squad leader Ma, who failed to take credit, obviously did not expect this situation, and his voice sounded like a stone blocking his way.
"No, Mr. Gu Gu, I didn't mean that. I didn't mean that—"
Beep beep beep.
Gu Xiuyi pressed the hang-up button.
In the suddenly restored silence, Ji Ruan looked at him quietly.
This phone call still made Ji Ruan feel very uncomfortable, but strictly speaking, it was not a bad thing.
At least it directly took away the heaviest stone in Ji Ruan's heart and placed it in front of Gu Xiuyi.
Gu Xiuyi stopped laughing and looked at Ji Ruan seriously: "Let me explain it to you?"
This is what he was waiting for. Ji Ruan nodded: "Go ahead, I'm listening."
Gu Xiuyi paused for a few seconds: "First, I have never liked him."
"Secondly, Bai Yue and I did know each other a long time ago, but our relationship was not close, and we didn't even have a good friendship foundation."
"Third, there is no factual basis for the rumors about him and me. He and I did not have an improper gay relationship."
"I can explain each of the above three points in detail based on your questions."
Ji Ruan: “…”
Ji Ruan's eyes became a little dull.
A completely unimagined path appeared again.
Ji Ruan originally thought that Gu Xiuyi's explanation would be the same as in all idol dramas, with kisses and hugs, a few facts mixed with sweet talk, and then they would put aside their past grudges and hug each other happily.
But Gu Xiuyi...Gu Xiuyi is really an amazing person, he directly started the negotiation mode.
Ji Ruan even suspected that this man had forgotten to carry the emotional gene when he inherited it, which resulted in him only thinking rationally for the past thirty years of his life.
But it's also good. Although this model is a bit strange when applied to relationship issues, it can indeed resolve all unnecessary misunderstandings as quickly and clearly as possible.
Ji Ruan was silent for a moment, got up from Gu Xiuyi, went to the desk to get a pen and an A4 paper, and under Gu Xiuyi's gaze, squatted back in front of the small coffee table.
He uncapped the pen and raised his face:
"Which three points? Please say it again, I forgot."
Gu Xiuyi: “…”
Three minutes later, the two sat opposite each other at the desk. In front of Ji Ruan were the three key points written by General Manager Gu with great passion. The handwriting was majestic and powerful, and the writing was profound.
Ji Ruan's serious expression filled the air with a strong atmosphere of business negotiations.
Gu Xiuyi stared at his mouth, which was unconsciously puffed up due to his seriousness, and felt something was wrong.
He then stood up and carried Ji Ruan to sit on his lap. Looking at Ji Ruan's long eyelashes so close to him, he felt relieved.
Ji Ruan was not satisfied and moved around on him. Gu Xiuyi held his shoulders and said, "That's it. We can still talk in this position."
And it doesn't look that business-like.
Although Ji Ruan despised it, he felt that it was a free meat cushion and would rather sit on it, so he reluctantly let him go, flicked the A4 paper in his hand, and took out the shelf:
"Based on your statement that there is no improper relationship between you and Bai Yue, we will temporarily recognize and trust your statement."
He raised his big watery eyes and said, "When that guy was showing off to me, he didn't even dare to mention your name, and only dared to call you a friend. If you two really had something going on, wouldn't he have used a loudspeaker to play it on repeat throughout the street?"
After Ji Ruan finished speaking, he nodded to himself affirmatively and crossed out items one and three.
Gu Xiuyi couldn't help but laugh, thinking that Ji Ruan was like a young intern who had just arrived at the company, cute and serious. He really wanted to join her internship and leave a strong mark in it.
He kissed Ji Ruan's ear: "Well, our baby is great, his logic is clear and reasonable."
Ji Ruan raised the corner of his mouth due to the compliment, but then he suppressed it modestly: "Don't try to get close to me."
“I have a question about point two.”
Gu Xiuyi nodded: "Baby, you say it."
"Hiss," Ji Ruan frowned, "Don't call me baby, let's talk about business."
Gu Xiuyi laughed: "Okay, baby."
“…”
"Whatever..." Ji Ruan shook his head: "In your second point, you said that you knew each other very early but were not close. If you knew each other at such a young age, why are you not close?"
Gu Xiuyi became more serious:
"Because he knew Gu Xuli first."
Ji Ruan was stunned.
"I don't know exactly how they met. I first met Bai Yue when I was eleven years old. At that time, he was playing in the yard with Gu Xiuli. After that, he often came to my house."
"You also know that Gu Xuli is the illegitimate son of my father and Fang Lan. My mother died of depression because of this. I have a natural aversion to everything about them. Although I am not angry at innocent people, Bai Yue and I are indeed just casual friends."
As he spoke, he paid attention to Ji Ruan's expression and continued, "It's just that maybe because he and I are the same age, and Gu Xuli is much younger than us, outsiders would think that he comes to my house so often just because he wants to be close to me."
Ji Ruan digested this carefully: "But if you are just casual acquaintances, why does he think he is your best friend?"
Gu Xiuyi smiled bitterly: "Because I really didn't have any friends at that time. If you have to count it, he is indeed the only one."
He hugged Ji Ruan tighter: "My best friends, Song Ling and Li Suian, are from junior high school, and before that I didn't think I needed friends."
"I...I have another question." Ji Ruan frowned.
Gu Xiuyi picked up the water cup and brought it to his mouth: "Your lips are dry, drink something first."
Ji Ruan took a sip obediently, looking a little conflicted.
Gu Xiuyi was sensitive to his emotions and said softly, "It's okay, just say whatever you want to say."
Ji Ruan looked up, worried: "Why does he know your phone password?"
"What?" This was the first time today that a look of genuine surprise appeared on Gu Xiuyi's face.
"1028." Ji Ruan said: "He made this into a mobile phone chain and said it was the date of the day he left."
He glanced at Gu Xiuyi and said, "It is said that you were so heartbroken over his departure that you went out to get drunk late at night."
Gu Xiuyi: “…”
"I don't know when he went abroad," Gu Xiuyi said firmly, "He didn't tell me, and I didn't see him off."
"What does 1028 mean?"
"I began to take control of Gu's life."
“……!”
His voice was flat, but it stirred up waves in Ji Ruan's heart.
The relaxed look on Gu Xiuyi's face when he was teasing Ji Ruan disappeared without a trace, and was replaced by a gloomy look:
"My mother owned 25% of Gu's shares. Before she died, she made a will that all of them would be inherited by me after my 18th birthday. But in fact, due to procedural issues, I only received all of my mother's shares more than ten days after my birthday."
He looked into Ji Ruan's eyes and said, "From that day on, I really began to have the strength to fight against Grandpa."
Ji Ruan swallowed.
Because Gu Xiuyi was too rational and believed in the law, Ji Ruan would always forget that his background was actually a wealthy family. He also forgot that he had to bear a lot and go through hardships that others could not imagine to get to where he is today.
The seemingly indestructible shell is actually just a thick callus formed by struggle and endurance.
Ji Ruan's voice weakened: "Is that so..."
Gu Xiuyi gently held him in his arms, as if seeking comfort, and then successfully received the kind-hearted child's soft-voiced caress: "Okay, it's okay, you're very powerful now!"
Where Ji Ruan couldn't see, Gu Xiuyi's mouth corners raised.
Honestly speaking, it didn't take him more than a few years to go from sidelining the old man to completely controlling the entire Gu Group, and he didn't even spend too much effort. Perhaps he was born to do this kind of thing.
However, it was a pleasant surprise that Ji Ruan felt sorry for him because of this.
After taking enough of the sweet scent from the kid, Gu Xiuyi let go of him a little: "As for getting drunk..."
He looked a little embarrassed for a moment, as if preparing for a rainy day: "Ji Ruan, first of all, I must make it clear that I was only eighteen years old at that time, not yet at the age where I could completely hide my emotions. Can you understand me?"
Ji Ruan was still immersed in Gu Xiuyi's life experience of losing his mother in childhood and seizing power for revenge, and without thinking, he said, "Yeah!"
"So I'm very happy to finally get my mother's shares. This feeling is understandable, right?"
Ji Ruan nodded heavily: "That's right!"
"So good." Gu Xiuyi touched his face.
"——So I went to drink with Li Suian to celebrate that day."
He looked serious: "But I couldn't drink very well at that time, and when I left, I was seen by others..."
"so……"
Gu Xiuyi shut up, leaving everything unsaid.
Ji Ruan was stunned for two seconds, and then he couldn't suppress the twitching of the corners of his mouth.
So Gu Xiuyi was just too happy and drank too much in the bar. It happened that Bai Yue went abroad that day, so the rumor spread that he got drunk late at night because Bai Yue was rejected in love.
Bai Yue thus became the unattainable white moonlight, and after being spread about in the outside world as something miraculous, he even believed it himself.
Ji Ruan tried hard to suppress the smile but he was losing control.
There was no way. Whenever he thought about the eighteen-year-old Gu Xiuyi and Li Suian getting drunk in the bar, and then being made into a series of lingering love stories, he really wanted to laugh.
Ji Ruan could also understand why this would become a sadistic article.
With such a weird reason, if the two of them didn't sit down and talk it out frankly, who could have guessed it?
It wouldn't be a big deal if the misunderstanding caused a few hundred thousand words.
Gu Xiuyi pinched Ji Ruan's jaw, his calm face almost unable to maintain: "What are you laughing at? Didn't you say you could understand me?"
Ji Ruan's eyes curved into crescents, and her face was pinched so that dimples could not appear: "Well... understanding is one thing, wanting to laugh is another..."
Gu Xiuyi: “…”
Helplessly, Gu Xiuyi had to wait for Ji Ruan to laugh enough and stop.
He put his arm around Ji Ruan's waist and whispered, "Actually, there is a fourth point, which is the most important point today, but I didn't say it just now."
Ji Ruan wiped away the tears from laughing and sat up straight: "You say."
Gu Xiuyi looked straight into Ji Ruan's eyes, his expression at this moment extremely serious, even pious.
Ji Ruan was also infected and gradually stopped laughing: "What?"
Gu Xiuyi's hand around him tightened slightly:
"The fourth point is that I really like you."
Ji Ruan paused.
"But this is not allowed to be discussed, because it is difficult for me to give a rational answer."
He smiled softly, "I'm sorry."
Ji Ruan stayed in his arms.
My heart is beating so fast.
Gu Xiuyi’s confessions are always like this, so unexpected that people are at a loss as to what to do.
But Gu Xiuyi confessed his feelings.
He really confessed!
According to the plot of the novel, he should confess his feelings at least before the finale, and only at the finale do they both realize their feelings to each other.
But he said it now!
Does this mean that the plot has changed?
Yes, as long as he confesses his love to Gu Xiuyi now, the plot will have nothing to do with the novel at all, and he won’t have to be tortured so badly, right?
Ji Ruan's brain was filled with blood and the blood in his body was boiling with excitement.
But in Gu Xiuyi's eyes, this expression of his made him look like a silly little idiot.
"Ji Ruan?" Gu Xiuyi lifted his chin and shook it: "What are you thinking about?"
"Wake up, kid."
He couldn't help but chuckle, "Did I kiss you?"
Ji Ruan suddenly came back to his senses and clenched his fists excitedly: "I like it too--"
Knock knock!
"It's time to eat, kids!"
There was a knock on the door and Aunt Zhao shouted happily at the door.
Ji Ruan was startled and jumped up from Gu Xiuyi in a panic.
Gu Xiuyi couldn't stand it anymore and laughed out loud: "I know, Aunt Zhao, we'll go down right away."
"Hurry up, or the food will get cold."
"good."
As he spoke, he stood up, walked to Ji Ruan who was sorting his clothes in front of the mirror, turned his face and kissed him:
"I see. You like me too."
Then he was satisfied to see Ji Ruan turn explosive red.
·
At nine o'clock in the evening, Gu Xiuyi swaggered into Ji Ruan's room with milk.
Ji Ruan had just finished taking a shower and was blowing her hair. When she came out and saw Gu Xiuyi, she suddenly felt uncomfortable.
"What are you doing here?" He pretended to be calm.
Gu Xiuyi approached, touched Ji Ruan's stomach, and said seriously: "You ate dinner in a hurry, do you feel uncomfortable in your stomach?"
Ji Ruan's cheeks were red from the steam and the hair dryer, and he pinched the small towel and said stiffly: "No, it's very comfortable."
Gu Xiuyi smiled: "Then kiss me again?"
Ji Ruan immediately bit her lip, blinked her big eyes and looked around: "No, no, no, okay..."
"Why? Don't we like each other and have obtained a marriage certificate?"
“…”
It seemed to make sense, as they had already confessed their feelings to each other.
But if I kiss Aunt Zhao now, will she see it? That would be so embarrassing!
Ji Ruan looked towards the door nervously, like a thief: "Then why don't you... go and close the door first?"
Hiss, but what if once the door is closed, he gets wild with animal instincts and wants to do something else?
"Hey wait wait...don't turn it off."
It is safer to leave it turned off.
No, no, Aunt Zhao will definitely see it!
How can she watch such things at her age? Absolutely not!
"Gu Xiuyi..." After hesitating for a while, Ji Ruan grabbed Gu Xiuyi's sleeve and looked at him eagerly, "Why don't you just not kiss him? It's not good for you at night - huh?!"
Gu Xiuyi held his face and pressed forward.
In the darkness, hot lips fell on Ji Ruan's cold lips. Ji Ruan's teeth were pried open as he trembled in response to the stress.
Blood rushes to the brain and heart faster, and the limbs gradually become numb and lose sensation.
Boom boom boom!
Ji Ruan heard the thunderous heartbeat.
But he couldn't tell whether it was his own or came from Gu Xiuyi who was holding him and pressing his chest tightly against his.
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