Lu Sui took the marriage certificate and went upstairs without a word.
In the study, he called Gu Kuankuan.
"Mr… Mr. Lu?" Gu Kuankuan called out, surprised and uncertain.
"Are you free tomorrow night or the night after?" Lu Sui asked her.
Gu Kuankuan froze. She remembered how so many people online said that when a man you barely know asks you out at night, he's definitely up to no good!
Sure, she was married to Lu Sui.
But she wasn't mentally prepared to sleep with him yet!
"Not free!" Gu Kuankuan refused flatly.
"What about the weekend?"
"If it's during the day, I can spare two hours," Gu Kuankuan said warily.
"Alright, I'll come pick you up next Saturday."
Lu Sui hung up as soon as he finished speaking.
On the other end, Gu Kuankuan put away her phone, restarted her electric scooter, and continued delivering food.
She had taken an errand order to pick up a box of desserts from an upscale restaurant for a customer and deliver it to the most affluent district in A-Cheng.
Silver Beach International Residence.
Since Gu Kuankuan wasn't a resident there, she couldn't get in.
Gu Kuankuan said to the security guard, "Hello! I'm a delivery runner. I need to deliver something to Building 5, Room 4601."
Because the customer had already spoken to the guard.
The guard opened the gate for her and said, "You can go in on foot, but the scooter can't."
"Thank you!"
Silver Beach International Residence was huge. Gu Kuankuan walked for nearly twenty minutes before finally arriving at the foot of Building 5.
Gu Kuankuan called the customer. "Hello! I'm the runner picking up your dessert. The ground floor entrance is locked, and I can't get up…"
Grandma Lu, hearing a soft, gentle girl's voice, softened her tone kindly. "Wait at the ground floor. I'll open the door for you. You haven't registered your fingerprint, so you can't take the elevator up."
"Okay, I'll wait for you downstairs."
Gu Kuankuan stood outside the entrance for a few minutes before an elderly lady appeared, dressed simply yet fashionably, without losing an air of elegance and refinement.
Grandma Lu opened the door, and when she saw Gu Kuankuan's face, she was stunned for a moment.
I-isn't this the girl on Lu Sui's fake marriage certificate?!
"Ma'am, did you order the errand pickup?" Gu Kuankuan asked in a gentle tone.
On the phone just now, she had heard a kindly old lady's voice.
"That's me, Room 4601," Grandma Lu nodded.
"Here's your item."
Gu Kuankuan confirmed the address and immediately handed the item over to Grandma Lu.
Grandma Lu promptly opened the box, took out two cupcakes, and stuffed them into Gu Kuankuan's hands.
"Ma'am, what are you doing?" Gu Kuankuan asked, stunned.
"I'm getting old, I can't eat too many sweets. Help me eat some," Grandma Lu said, then changed the subject. "Young lady, what's your phone number? Next time I buy something, I'll have you run the errand for me."
To protect personal privacy, the number displayed was a virtual one.
Grandma Lu was secretly scheming.
She mused to herself: She had just randomly found a runner to pick up her desserts, never expecting it to be the girl on Lu Sui's fake marriage certificate…
Hehe!
"Thank you, ma'am!"
Looking at the little cupcakes in her hands, Gu Kuankuan was deeply touched.
One who eats another's food softens.
She readily told Grandma Lu her phone number.
"What's your name? Let me save it," Grandma Lu asked again.
"My surname is Gu. You can call me Xiao Gu."
"Xiao Gu, you can call me Grandma Lu." Grandma Lu dialed Gu Kuankuan's number. "By the way, how old are you this year?"
"Grandma Lu, I'm 23 years old this year," Gu Kuankuan replied.
"Mm…" Grandma Lu nodded with satisfaction.
At 23, she was already of legal marriage age.
Gu Kuankuan glanced at the time. "Grandma Lu, I'll go back to delivering food now. If any of your friends ever need someone to pick things up or run errands, you can call me too."
Gu Kuankuan never forgot to expand her business scope.
"All right, Xiao Gu, off you go." Grandma Lu waved her hand.
As Gu Kuankuan walked out of Silver Beach International Residence, she saw a tip notification.
Grandma Lu had tipped her a thousand yuan!
A thousand yuan—she would have to work from dawn to dusk, delivering food for three days, to earn that.
Gu Kuankuan didn't refuse the tip. People living in a place where one square meter cost four hundred thousand— a thousand yuan was nothing to them.
Gu Kuankuan sent a text: Thank you, Grandma Lu! Wishing you good health and happiness every day!
Soon, Grandma Lu replied, telling her not to mention it.
Gu Kuankuan called her mother. "Mom, I just ran an errand for an elderly lady—picked up dessert from a restaurant for her. She tipped me a thousand yuan, and Grandma Lu also gave me two little cakes. They smell so sweet and delicious!"
She shared this happy news with her mother.
"That much?" Mother Gu exclaimed in surprise.
"Grandma Lu lives in Silver Beach International Residence—four hundred thousand a square meter. I'll accept this tip with a clear conscience," Gu Kuankuan explained.
The two hundred thousand betrothal gift Lu Sui had given her—she only had a hundred thousand left.
The ICU cost eight to nine thousand a day. Two hundred thousand wouldn't last long.
She desperately needed money.
"That's good, then…" Mother Gu breathed a sigh of relief and praised her with a smile. "It must be that our Kuankuan's service was so good that the lady was happy and gave you a tip."
Gu Kuankuan said, "Probably. Grandma Lu said next time she buys something, she'll ask me to run the errand again."
Only when customers experience good service do they come back.
Mother Gu changed the subject. "Kuankuan, ask your boyfriend if he's free tomorrow. Invite him over to our place for dinner."
"Mom, I have to deliver food tomorrow."
Until her father woke up, Gu Kuankuan didn't dare slack off on earning money.
"Your boyfriend lent you a hundred thousand yuan—shouldn't you thank him properly? Take tomorrow off and invite your boyfriend over for a meal!" Mother Gu suddenly became forceful.
She was seizing the chance to make her daughter rest for a day.
Since her husband's accident, her daughter hadn't dared take a single day off, all for the medical bills.
"All right, I know."
Gu Kuankuan couldn't out-argue her mother, so she agreed.
Afterward, Gu Kuankuan called Lu Sui.
"What is it?" Lu Sui's cold, deep voice came through.
"Mr. Lu, are you free tomorrow? My mom would like to invite you to dinner," Gu Kuankuan asked.
"That's fine," Lu Sui agreed.
"Then I'll contact you tomorrow."
"Mm."
After hanging up, Gu Kuankuan went back to delivering food.
One of her orders happened to be for the hospital where Father Gu was staying.
After handing the food to the customer, Gu Kuankuan went to find her mother.
"Mom…"
"Kuankuan? What are you doing here?" Mother Gu asked, somewhat surprised.
Gu Kuankuan took out the little cakes Grandma Lu had given her from her lunch box.
"Grandma Lu gave me two little cakes. I wanted to share them with you, Mom."
Mother Gu hurriedly refused. "Mom has cavities—I can't eat sweets, they'll make my teeth hurt, and then I'd have to spend money seeing the dentist…"
Her daughter loved sweets, but since her husband's accident, she hadn't touched them once.
"Mom, eat. This past month has been so hard—I know it's been hard on you too." Gu Kuankuan took a small bite of the cake, and her taste buds were instantly wrapped in sweetness.
She lowered her head, and tears rolled down from her eyes. "The little cake Grandma Lu gave me is so sweet… We'll definitely make it until Dad wakes up."
She felt lucky today. Even though she'd mistaken the person at the blind date,
Lu Sui had given her two hundred thousand without hesitation, solving her urgent need.
When she ran errands for Grandma Lu, Grandma Lu gave her two little cakes and even tipped her a thousand.
This was the happiest day she'd had in the month since her father's accident.