Gu Qing recognized it.
It was Meng Yue’s low, heavy breathing, and Gu Qing grew even more flustered at once.
She might not have eaten pork before, but she had at least seen a pig run.
The situation inside the room was, nine times out of ten, exactly what she had been imagining: the two of them were probably doing something naughty inside.
No!
She had to stop them!
Gu Qing made up her mind, but she did not have the courage.
She raised her hand.
She brought it up to Meng Yue’s door, then lowered it again. She raised it once more, then lowered it again. In the end, she still did not have the courage to knock.
Instead, she stepped forward half a pace, tilted her head, pressed her ear tightly against the door, and decided to listen a little longer.
Meng Yue’s low breathing and soft moans made Gu Qing’s face slowly turn red, and her mind gradually began inventing an entire dramatic scene.
At the same time, her small hands clenched tightly.
She bit her lip lightly and cursed inwardly.
“Vixen! Shameless! How dare you seduce my Chen Luo!”
But even though she was furious, Gu Qing still did not have the courage to barge in. Maybe she simply did not have a good enough reason to knock.
Or maybe she was afraid Chen Luo would get angry. After all, Chen Luo was such a total scumbag. If he was doing this kind of thing with Meng Yue, he was probably enjoying it a lot, right?
Gu Qing did not even need to think about it.
Because Meng Yue’s figure was something even she envied. She was already approaching 30, yet her skin was still as fair and tender as that of a girl in her early twenties. On top of that, Meng Yue’s full figure was even more voluptuous than many young married women, and with her captivating, seductive smile, she was surely keeping Chen Luo completely under her thumb.
Just as Gu Qing’s thoughts were in chaos, she suddenly heard Meng Yue say softly,
“Let’s go inside!”
Hearing those words, it was as if a time bomb had suddenly exploded in Gu Qing’s mind, instantly igniting all the emotions she had been suppressing.
No!
Absolutely not!
At that moment, courage welled up in Gu Qing’s heart for no apparent reason, or rather, she had already lost all reason. Even if Chen Luo got angry, she was going to stop them.
At once,
Gu Qing lifted her hand and banged hard on the door. Inside the room, Chen Luo, who had both arms around Meng Yue, heard the knocking from outside.
For some reason, as if by reflex, he let go, and his expression immediately turned serious.
Meng Yue also almost at the same time pulled her hands back from Chen Luo’s body, then quickly adjusted her underwear.
Her eyes gradually cleared.
She composed herself and then asked in the same serious voice she used when teaching classes,
“Who is it?”
“Uh… Teacher Meng… do you want to eat oranges? I accidentally bought too many online.”
Gu Qing asked from outside the door, extremely embarrassed.
Hearing Gu Qing’s tone,
Meng Yue inexplicably felt a trace of guilt. Had Gu Qing been listening outside just now? She usually could control the volume of her voice when speaking, but once she got too worked up, it was no longer under control.
Or rather, not under her control at all.
Thinking about it now, her voice just then did seem a little loud. Could it be that Gu Qing had really heard her? The thought made Meng Yue feel a little shy.
So Meng Yue replied, “No need. I still have fruit in the fridge at home that I haven’t finished.”
“How about you take a few? It would be a pity if they spoiled before I could finish them.”
Gu Qing asked again, somehow summoning up more courage.
“…All right then.”
Meng Yue replied.
Then she opened the door.
The two women immediately exchanged a glance, both with slightly flushed faces. Then, as if by unspoken agreement, they looked away, as though each already knew exactly what the other had been doing.
At that moment,
Gu Qing looked up and glanced into the room. Sure enough, she saw Chen Luo sitting by the dining table, along with the hot pot on the table. She immediately understood why Meng Yue had bought so many groceries at noon.
So Meng Yue had planned everything from the beginning. Gu Qing became even angrier at her. This bad woman had clearly already made up her mind.
No wonder she had not answered when asked at noon. It seemed she had been guarding against her all along.
“Teacher Meng, are you eating hot pot with Chen Luo?”
Gu Qing asked, even though she already knew the answer.
“Since I was cooking for one person, I made quite a lot of food, and it just so happened that Duoduo went out to play, so I called Chen Luo to eat with me. Do you want to join us?”
Meng Yue explained.
At a time like this,
Meng Yue could only invite Gu Qing to eat together. Otherwise it would make it look even more like she was doing something bad, even though she had indeed been planning to do something bad…
“I’ll pass.”
Gu Qing shook her head and replied, “The meal at my place is already cooked. But my younger male cousin should like it. I’ll go ask whether he wants to eat hot pot.”
At this point,
Gu Qing was already almost unable to hold back her emotions. She was afraid that if she ate with them for a while, she would start crying right there at the table.
That would be too humiliating.
Especially in front of Meng Yue, she absolutely could not shed a single tear.
But she also could not let the two of them eat hot pot alone. Otherwise, who knew what tricks that vixen Meng Yue might pull again.
Chen Luo had no resistance at all and definitely could not handle Meng Yue, so sending her younger male cousin Langlang over to eat was the best choice.
“…All right.”
Meng Yue answered those two words with a bleeding heart. She had only been being polite; she had expected Gu Qing to refuse.
After all, she was blushing too at this moment.
But she never expected Gu Qing to send her younger male cousin Langlang over. That was when things were truly, completely over.
“Then I’ll head back.”
Gu Qing replied politely.
Then she walked out of Meng Yue’s home, and the very next moment her expression changed, showing one part anger, two parts resentment, three parts coldness, and four parts murderous intent.
After returning home, she startled Langlang, who was eating fruit on the sofa, so badly that he froze.
“Langlang.”
Gu Qing looked at Langlang and asked, “Auntie Meng is having hot pot at her place. Do you want to go eat?”
“It’s fine to eat at home too.”
Langlang said with a well-behaved expression. “Actually, I don’t really like hot pot that much.”
“You should want to go.”
Seeing how reserved her younger male cousin Langlang was, Gu Qing realized she had scared him. She then eased some of her angry expression and said,
“When you go to Auntie Meng’s place for hot pot, it’s not just about eating hot pot. Remember to keep an eye on Chen Luo for me. See whether he and Auntie Meng are… secretly doing anything strange.”
“What counts as something strange?”
Langlang asked with a confused look.
“Well…”
Gu Qing was at a loss for words when asked that. She still could not tell a child too much; it could easily affect his physical and mental health.
So she organized her thoughts and said, “I mean whether they send you away so the two of them can be alone together.”
“…Got it.”
Her younger male cousin Langlang paused for a few seconds before answering.
“Okay.”
Gu Qing nodded and then added, “And if Auntie Meng asks you, you absolutely cannot tell her I said any of this.”
“Okay.”
Langlang nodded again.
Then Langlang left the house and went to Meng Yue’s place. Gu Qing, left alone at home, looked at the rice in the pot and had absolutely no appetite.
She went straight into the bedroom, shut the door, then lay down on the bed and started pounding the pillow hard, imagining it was Chen Luo.
A round of squeezing and beating later, once she got a little tired from pounding the pillow, she covered herself completely with the blanket, burying herself under it as if she were dead, lying motionless beneath the covers.
Tears at the corners of her eyes spilled out, completely against her will.
At the same time, she began to plan a counterattack in her mind.