"Brother."
Shen Zhiyi stopped in front of him, raised her pure yet timid eyes like a doe's, looked at him with misty eyes, and called out to him in a soft, natural voice.
"What's wrong... Is it that I can't call you that?"
She seemed a little scared, unsure if she had called out the wrong name.
She had been secretly observing Gu Lianzhou's expression.
A gentle night breeze blew, parting his bangs.
His deep-set eyebrows and eyes, sharp as if carved by a knife and axe, were revealed, his pupils were pitch black, and his emotions were hard to discern.
Gu Lianzhou lowered his eyes to look at her.
In the Shen family, no one acknowledged his identity.
Everyone wanted to immediately bring him back to his original form.
But she called out that name so easily.
Gu Lianzhou didn't know whether to laugh at her naivety or ignorance.
She probably doesn't understand the power vortex she's already in, or how she'll be torn apart.
There is no warmth here.
Only cold calculations.
Countless people are waiting to devour her completely.
Yet she showed such a soft and harmless expression to her greatest enemy.
How naive.
"Whatever you want." He looked away, led her to show her face in front of the servants, and took her to the fourth floor in the elevator.
Pointing to one of the rooms, he said, "This one is yours."
"From now on, you'll work with me and learn how to manage the company."
Shen Zhiyi looked confused.
"But I can't do anything..."
"That's why you need to learn," Gu Lianzhou said indifferently. "I will personally teach you etiquette of wealthy families, financial knowledge, personnel management... all of these."
"Get ready, it starts tonight."
He turned away with an icy expression.
But the hem of her clothes was grabbed.
Gu Lianzhou stopped in his tracks, turned around, and his gaze fell on the slender white fingertips at the corner of her suit jacket, then slowly moved upward to meet her upturned face.
His eyes were deep and calm.
It carried a silent question and a strong sense of oppression.
Shen Zhiyi seemed to be burned by his gaze. Her fingers trembled, she let go, and nervously twisted the hem of her clothes.
"I'm sorry... I just wanted to ask, where does my brother live?"
She looked around, her voice trembling as she lowered her head, "This place is too big, I'm a little scared."
Gu Lianzhou looked at her in silence.
The girl's neck hung low, its curved lines delicate and fragile, as if it would break at the slightest touch.
He looked both dependent and fearful.
She didn't know how much time had passed, so much so that Shen Zhiyi felt he wouldn't even answer.
A low, resonant response broke the silence.
"next door."
After he finished speaking, he turned around and walked away.
The cold footsteps faded into the distance and then disappeared completely at the end of the corridor.
Shen Zhiyi pushed open the door and looked around.
A girlish style of dress.
Everywhere you look, there are cute and cozy decorations, which fit the stereotype of her age.
The Shen family truly deserves to be called the most prominent family in the capital.
With just a phone call from the hospital and the short time it took to drive back, she managed to tidy up a room with a completely different style.
She closed the door and walked to the bedside.
He picked up one of the pink rabbit plush toys and gave a soft snort.
childish.
With a flick of his wrist, he tossed the doll back onto the bed.
She sat down in front of the dressing table and stared at herself in the mirror.
The girl's gentle and harmless face was no longer filled with any confusion; instead, her eyes shone brightly.
And flowing within it... a deep-seated ambition.
On the other side.
Gu Lianzhou sat on a single sofa in the room, his long legs spread apart, his tie loosely tied, and he was playing with a small black medicine bottle in his hand.
His fingers were long and slender, and his expression was no longer as cold as before, but instead revealed a lazy, crazy, and wicked side.
Since it's a pawn... it naturally has to obey.
He will make her the most obedient lamb, standing in the position he permits.
otherwise……
He didn't mind ruining her himself.
*
In the evening, Gu Lianzhou brought a large pile of documents and a glass of milk to Shen Zhiyi's room.
"Get to know the person first." He placed the milk on the table and pointed to the documents in his hand.
"You need to know every single one of the company's core members and the major families closely related to the Shen family."
Shen Zhiyi looked at the thick stack of documents and obediently crossed her hands on her lap.
I looked up and gazed at him quietly.
"I want to get to know my brother first."
"Is there any information about my brother in here?"
Gu Lianzhou's gaze paused.
"If you want to see my resume, I'll give it to you tomorrow."
"I don't want to see those things." Shen Zhiyi shook her head, her lips pursed, as if she had mustered a lot of courage. She lightly touched the ground with her toes, pushed the chair's rollers, and moved closer to him.
She said in a soft, sweet voice, "I want to know how tall and how much my brother weighs."
"What you like to eat and what you like to do."
"What do you do when you're not working?"
Gu Lianzhou stared at the milk on the table, his eyes deep and his brows furrowed.
"You don't need to know this."
“But…” Shen Zhiyi boldly moved closer, “From now on, most of the time in this house will be just my brother and me.”
"Can't I even ask myself to know more about you?"
Gu Lianzhou leaned back in his chair, his face cold and distant.
"Aside from teaching, we don't have many opportunities to be together."
"Therefore, you don't need to know me."
A clear look of hurt flashed across Shen Zhiyi's face.
"...That's right."
Does my brother hate me?
Her voice was very soft, and she sounded somewhat aggrieved.
Gu Lianzhou's back, which was leaning back in the chair, tensed up almost imperceptibly for a moment.
Hate?
He had never thought about this question.
In his eyes, she was merely a tool, an obstacle, a variable that needed to be evaluated, utilized, and even eliminated when necessary.
He should have answered "yes" decisively, completely cutting off her unnecessary curiosity and attempts to get closer.
But looking into her soft, timid eyes, his cold reply stuck in his throat.
For some reason, I can't easily spit it out.
He pushed the milk away somewhat irritably, stood up, and said, "Drink this; it will help me sleep."
"I will come to check how much you have memorized tomorrow morning at nine o'clock."
He did not leave after he finished speaking.
"Drink it now, I'll take the cup downstairs for you."
Shen Zhiyi's eyelashes trembled under his intensely oppressive gaze.
"good."
She picked up the cup and obediently drank it.
Until not a single drop remains.
Then, she put down the empty cup and looked up at him.
"I obediently swallowed all the milk my brother gave me."
She slowly parted her lips, revealing a little bit of her tongue, letting him examine it, her expression utterly obedient. "Is this alright?"
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