No matter what the girl did, the man’s gaze followed her like a shadow.
Even the air around them seemed sticky with intimacy.
Lin Zheng’s old face turned red again. “Shut up!”
“If you don’t say anything, I won’t mistake you for a mute!”
Damn it, he was actually flirting with her. Did she look that easy to flirt with?
As a straight-as-steel woman, Lin Zheng had the pride of a straight-as-steel woman!
Gu Yanche reached out, but Lin Zheng dodged him and said fiercely, “Sleep! Go to sleep!”
“Don’t pull any tricks in the middle of the night!”
She had been reading too many novels these past few days. There were way too many male leads who got sexually frustrated and got up in the middle of the night to “exercise”!
Were women not people?
Couldn’t women even get a full night’s sleep anymore? Did they have to provide men with exercise in the middle of the night?
Lin Zheng firmly opposed nighttime exercise.
If they wanted to exercise, they could do it earlier. They weren’t little wild cats in spring, yowling and going into heat in the middle of the night.
Gu Yanche watched her pull the air-conditioning blanket over herself and lie down stiffly.
Everything she did clearly conveyed one message:
She had absolutely no feelings.
He lay down too, facing her. Even while sleeping, his eyes remained fixed on her face.
The girl’s round, fleshy face looked adorably innocent. Her lips were slightly pursed, and she was cute without even realizing it.
Gu Yanche got up to turn off the light, then lay back down beside her.
He slowly moved closer. Only after hearing the faint sound of the girl’s deep breathing did he reach out and pull her into his arms.
Their bodies pressed together. His palm rested firmly on her slender waist, as though he wanted to meld her into his body.
The girl’s unique fragrance filled his breathing, surrounding his entire body and making every part of him stir restlessly once again.
He was excited, pressing himself even closer to her, almost as though he wanted to sink into her.
In her sleep, Lin Zheng felt uncomfortable and slapped the annoying mosquito disturbing her dreams.
The slap landed squarely on Gu Yanche’s face with a loud smack.
Not only did it fail to suppress his desire, it somehow made him feel even better.
In the darkness, his sense of touch became increasingly sensitive, and his mind grew more excited. He wanted to disregard everything and possess the woman in his arms.
He wanted to become her real man.
His desire grew stronger, and his breathing became heavier.
But in the end, he only kissed the girl’s lips a few times before closing his eyes and falling asleep.
As for everything else, it would settle down once he fell asleep.
Besides, this was how he had been getting through every night lately.
As long as he could hold her while sleeping, that was enough.
Holding the girl in his arms, Gu Yanche felt completely satisfied.
There was, however, someone else who hadn’t gone to sleep yet.
Ever since Xu Meng had seen Gu Yanche at the night market that evening, she had been turning the matter over in her mind.
She felt that Jiang Manshu definitely knew the barbecue-cold-noodle stall owner was Gu Yanche.
That had to be why she wanted to pursue him.
The Gu family was a threshold they could never hope to reach. Any woman would dream of marrying into wealth and rising above her station.
Xu Meng thought that she had caused trouble in the capital. If Gu Yanche became her backing, she could return to the capital in triumph!
At that thought, her desire to win Gu Yanche over began stirring.
She would go to the night market again tomorrow night to investigate!
Xu Meng’s plan was excellent, but the outcome was destined to disappoint her.
Gu Yanche wasn’t coming to the night market anymore!
Xu Meng waited at the night market from a little after seven until nine.
That was roughly the time Gu Yanche had usually set up his stall. She had found that out by chatting with the classmates who frequently went there to buy grilled cold noodles.
She waited and waited…
And got absolutely nothing for it.
He never came.
Xu Meng came to the night market for several nights in a row, but never saw him again.
She thought that because she had recognized Gu Yanche, he had run away!
Xu Meng couldn’t figure out why the dignified President Gu had appeared at this shabby night market to set up a stall in the first place.
Could it be that he was tired of eating delicacies every day and had come here for a change, wanting to try plain porridge and vegetables?
Xu Meng refused to give up.
This was an opportunity Heaven had given her. She absolutely couldn’t let it slip away!
She began frantically searching for him.
The person being searched for, Gu Yanche, had no idea what was happening.
He had already sold all the equipment he used for the stall.
With the new drone entering the market, his salary had risen from twenty thousand to sixty thousand.
At the same time, he had become much busier.
Even so, that didn’t stop him from reporting everything to Lin Zheng.
Qi Zhongping, his boss, couldn’t always get Gu Yanche’s reports on time.
But Lin Zheng could.
Although Lin Zheng wasn’t his boss, Gu Yanche was genuinely sincere with her. Every day, he would tell Lin Zheng what he had done.
The female employees at Da’an were both jealous and envious of Lin Zheng.
They were all women, so why was someone else able to get such a wonderful boyfriend?
“Stop being jealous. It’s all fate!”
“Seriously. He’s handsome, doesn’t cheat, and takes such good care of his girlfriend. Men like that are impossible to find these days, even with a lantern!”
It really was fate!
Lin Zheng was incredibly lucky!
She didn’t even have to work, yet she could still have such a wonderful boyfriend!
“Don’t you think Lin Zheng is pretty too?”
“She is. That face, that skin… it’s so soft-looking you could pinch water out of it!”
“Forget Brother Gu. If I were a man, I’d like her type too!”
“And have you noticed? Lin Zheng can be a little spoiled, but she really knows how to act cute. That sweet, coquettish voice makes your bones go soft!”
“That’s because she’s from the south, isn’t it? Southern girls just talk like that. Their voices are so gentle and soft. Even I want to protect them when I hear them!”
“No wonder men are obsessed with them!”
“Exactly. And Lin Zheng has a great figure too. She’s not the cute little potato type. She’s a gorgeous woman with everything!”
They had clearly started out talking about Lin Zheng’s shortcomings.
How had they ended up praising her instead?
The more Feng Jia listened, the more uncomfortable she became.
“What’s wrong with being from the south? Strictly speaking, Shulan City is in the Central Plains. I can call myself a southerner too!”
“As long as you’re not from the Northeast, who can’t call themselves a southerner?”
Feng Jia didn’t want to hear them praise Lin Zheng anymore, so she said sarcastically, “This has nothing to do with being from the south or not. Some women are just naturally good at pretending!”
“They rely on men to support them and hold out their hands for money. If they weren’t good at putting on an act, how could they get money out of a man’s pocket?”
“Don’t think women like Lin Zheng are innocent. She’s actually extremely scheming!”
After Feng Jia spoke up, the others stopped talking too.
The atmosphere suddenly froze.
Feng Jia was so angry she gritted her teeth.
These people were so stupid they were practically hopeless!
The new drone was going to participate in a competition, and Gu Yanche would be leading the team.
After dinner that evening, Gu Yanche told Lin Zheng, “We’re going to Shenzhen. We’ll be gone for three days.”
“We won’t have time to move before I leave. We’ll move after I get back.”
Ever since his salary had increased, Gu Yanche had decided to move somewhere else.
This place was too shabby and wasn’t suitable for Lin Zheng.
She had suffered by following him, so he wanted to take good care of her and make sure she never regretted choosing him.
Lin Zheng played with her phone.
“Sure. We’ll wait until you get back to move.”
In her previous life, she had lived in all kinds of places. She had actually spent the longest amount of time in tiny rental apartments like this one.
She didn’t think there was anything wrong with it.
Besides, there was air-conditioning in the bedroom. When the weather was hot, she could turn it on every day!
During the day, whenever she felt like it, she could go shopping with the system.
All the pressure of earning money and supporting the family was on Gu Yanche.
She didn’t have any pressure at all.
Could life get any better than this?
No!
Gu Yanche felt a little jealous when he saw her constantly playing on her phone.
Had she been playing with him too much lately and lost interest in him?
He quietly moved closer.
Then he saw that she was actually looking at a muscular man with abs!
Gu Yanche’s face darkened.
What?
Had she gotten tired of looking at his abs?
Tired of touching them?
He spoke quietly.
“Is he good-looking?”
Lin Zheng answered without thinking, “Just average. I can only look at him. It’s not like I can touch him.”
After saying that, she froze.
She turned around and met Gu Yanche’s resentful-husband expression.
His resentment seemed almost tangible, practically soaring into the heavens!
It looked as though he was about to eat her alive!