Yu Yuan immediately replied, “It’s nothing, I’ll hang up now and talk to you later.”
“Our Yuan’er has so many friends.” Gu Shaocheng looked at Yu Yuan with a half-smile.
Yu Yuan quickly explained, “I don’t know him. He asked me if there were any seats available, and I realized that there was indeed one empty seat for the three of us…”
As the two were talking, Zheng Liang also sat down.
Two tall men, each over 1.9 meters tall, suddenly appeared in the booth. One of them was a muscular hunk. Zheng Liang stared intently at the young man who was trying to poach his boss’s mistress.
The enthusiastic “sports committee member” quietly put the displayed QR code back into his pocket. To be honest, he didn’t expect that when the handsome young man said “there’s no one there,” he really meant “there’s no one there.”
The table was now completely full of four seats. Gu Shaocheng’s cool, dark eyes swept over them indifferently: “Oh, stranger.”
Even the most oblivious sports committee member realized that the two people opposite him were a couple, and immediately stood up and slunk away.
Gu Shaocheng raised his lips slightly: “Want some water?”
Yu Yuan shook his head: “I want to sleep as soon as I get on the plane.” Drinking water requires using the restroom, how can I expect to sleep soundly until I arrive at my destination?
Gu Shaocheng nodded slightly, glanced at the bottle of water for a moment, and then reached out to unscrew the cap. Unexpectedly, he choked as soon as he took a sip.
Zheng Liang immediately handed over a tissue. Gu Shaocheng wiped the water from his lips, turned to Yu Yuan who was chatting enthusiastically with Ye Qiutang, and after thinking for a moment, asked thoughtfully, “Are you unhappy that I drank your water?”
Yu Yuan looked completely bewildered: “Huh? How could that be?”
It’s just a bottle of water… Given their relationship, what’s wrong with giving the old man a bottle of blood to drink?
Gu Shaocheng gave him a deep look, then put the bottle cap back on and said nothing more.
*
Yu Yuan slept all the way back, and his cheeks were rosy from sleep when he landed.
Yu Yuan slept all day and night the day before, and then slept again on the plane. He had really slept too much, and when he got off the plane, he was still dizzy and a little groggy. He followed Zheng Liang to get his luggage, but Gu Shaocheng pulled him back to his side.
Yu Yuan was still in a daze when he was pulled back. He looked at Gu Shaocheng with a puzzled expression. Gu Shaocheng was on the phone with one hand and didn’t have time to explain. He put his arm around Yu Yuan’s shoulder and walked towards the parking lot.
After getting on the car, Yu Yuan yawned, then familiarly pulled out a blanket from the armrest box, wrapped it around himself, and prepared to take another short nap.
Gu Shaocheng turned his head to look at Yu Yuan, who was still half asleep and wrapped up in a fluffy ball. He noticed the driver’s gaze and looked up. The driver immediately handed him an eyeglass case and said in a low voice, “It’s already glued back on.”
Gu Shaocheng responded softly, opened the glasses case, and took out a pair of large black-framed glasses, which were the ones he had taken off himself because he thought they were an eyesore… However, he did not expect that the little liar who took off his glasses would be so attractive.
With slender, pale fingers, he gently traced the frame of the glasses before unfolding the temples and putting them back on Yu Yuan.
Gu Shaocheng stared at it silently for a moment, and indeed it was an eyesore.
*
When Yu Yuan woke up again, the world had suddenly become high definition. Still half asleep, he patted his face and wondered, “Was this dream about getting nearsighted surgery?”
Gu Shaocheng opened the car door and was about to get out when he heard Yu Yuan’s incoherent ramblings.
Gu Shaocheng: “…”
Yu Yuan was instantly sobered up by the cold wind after getting off the car, and he immediately thought of the long-awaited dream of living alone!
He was swaying unsteadily, feeling top-heavy and unsteady, but suddenly he sprang up and quickly moved his legs, like a small motorcycle stepping on the gas pedal, overtaking Gu Shaocheng and rushing into the elevator. At this moment, he didn’t care about the pain in his hip, and even turned around to urge Gu Shaocheng to walk faster.
Gu Shaocheng stepped into the elevator and looked at Yu Yuan’s radiant appearance on the metal wall. He asked in a low voice, “So eager to get LASIK surgery?”
Yu Yuan pushed up his glasses, looking embarrassed. “I was just talking nonsense while I was half asleep.”
As the two entered the villa, Yu Yuan saw Gu Shaocheng answer a call from his secretary and head towards the study. He immediately composed himself and started playing on his phone, intending to let loose after the other person came inside.
Even his closest adoptive mother couldn’t fully understand his social difficulties.
Humans are best at thinking about other people’s problems from their own perspective. Common and ordinary things are easy to resonate with, but social anxiety to this extent is rare, making it difficult for others to empathize with him.
When he was a child, he heard the most “So what?”, “Everyone else has gone through this too”, and “Be brave”. He understands other people’s lack of understanding and tries his best to “fit in” within the limits he can accept.
Therefore, he felt that no one would understand why he would be so happy to be locked up here in the future. If Gu Shaocheng knew that he was so excited about the nanny leaving that he wanted to spin around like a top, he probably wouldn’t understand either. So he could only celebrate this great joy by himself.
Yu Yuan poured himself a glass of water, sat down on the sofa, and played on his phone while secretly glancing at Gu Shaocheng’s actions, planning to start having fun as soon as he left.
I only realized I was trending on social media again when I checked my phone. To be precise, Gu Shaocheng and his mistress were trending again.
The reporter originally went to the airport to wait for the popular boy band Bit to return from recording a program. However, halfway through the shoot, Gu Shaocheng and his lover unexpectedly appeared in the frame. These two faces were the key to wealth that all the reporters in Yun City remembered. The camera focus immediately switched, and the reporter followed the two all the way to their car with his equipment.
The reporter initially thought it was just evidence of the two traveling together, but after checking the morning flight, they immediately identified it as a flight from Hainan Island to Yuncheng. The hashtag #GuShaochengBringsNewMistressToMeetParentsSuspectedOfMaritalDissolution# quickly went viral and became a trending topic.
[Meeting the parents in Hainan? Didn’t they say just a couple of days ago that Gu Shaocheng angered his grandfather so much that he was hospitalized, so Old Master Gu is recuperating in Hainan? A filial grandson bringing his lover to meet the parents despite the storm? Good heavens! I’m really something else!]
[Putting everything else aside, their looks are absolutely top-tier. Bit’s entire group is already visually stunning, but when they’re in the same frame as these two, they immediately become outsiders in the entertainment industry, hahaha, so pitiful (DMs are off) /doge]
[Love is like a beam of light, so green it makes monkeys freak out. / Fight it out, fight it out already.jpg]
[So Gu Shaocheng has already replaced him in a flash? Or is he just doing this to spite people…?]
*
Just as Gu Shaocheng entered the study, his secretary was reporting this passage. Before the door was even fully closed, he heard Yu Yuan’s extremely excited shout of “Whoosh!” coming from outside.
Gu Shaocheng raised an eyebrow, turned on his computer and pulled up the surveillance footage, confirming that Yu Yuan had suddenly become happy after reading the news online…?
The “Wuhu” was just the beginning. Yu Yuan suddenly sat up, first laughing as he punched the air, then started walking around the house.
Because his hip injury had not yet healed, Yu Yuan tried his best not to hurt his thighs when he walked quickly, which made him look a bit comical. However, he walked quite fast and his pace became more and more like he was running.
Gu Shaocheng needed to switch between monitoring devices very quickly to keep up with Yu Yuan’s joyful and frantic running around the house; he felt that if he went any faster, he would become a blur.
Gu Shaocheng frowned in confusion. Being trending on social media with him… makes you so happy?
While keeping an eye on the little figure running wildly on the screen, Gu Shaocheng opened his phone to check carefully. Wasn’t it supposed to be a negative trending topic?
He carefully read through several news articles related to the two of them. They were indeed negative, but the premise of the negativeness was that “monkey” and “little lover” were not the same person.
From his and Yu Yuan’s perspective, who knew the truth, almost the entire internet was praising their good looks and swooning over their sweet interactions, even easily surpassing Wang Jingxiao from the Bit boy band.
Gu Shaocheng turned off his phone, lost in thought as he recalled Yu Yuan’s unmistakably intense gaze upon him the previous night…
Given the current situation, Yu Yuan has absolutely no need to put on an act in front of him, let alone be this happy when he can’t see him.
Thinking of this, Gu Shaocheng turned his gaze back to the screen, where he saw Yu Yuan running and stumbling towards the rooftop swimming pool.
Perhaps thinking he couldn’t hear him from a distance, he ran while pounding his chest with both hands and making cries similar to those of an ape: “Ah-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo—”
Gu Shaocheng: “…”
Gu Shaocheng was stunned for a moment before pressing his brow. He finally understood why this person would regress into an ape when drunk; it was just something he usually kept hidden.
At the same time, the scales in his heart couldn’t help but tip. He was so excited that he looked like an ape. It really didn’t seem like he was deliberately putting on a show for him knowing there were surveillance cameras… Could it be that she really likes him?
A hiss—a howl— interrupted Gu Shaocheng’s thoughts. He looked at the screen and saw that the figure who had been running happily just a second ago suddenly stopped, clutching his hip bone, clearly having twisted the injured area again.
Gu Shaocheng thought the other party would stop, but Yu Yuan changed to walking while holding onto the wall and continued to party. However, his steps were obviously much slower, and even his staggering and unsteady steps could not stop him from continuing to have fun.
Gu Shaocheng: “…”
After Yu Yuan, with his “disabled but determined” spirit, had thoroughly explored the villa inside and out, he strolled into the kitchen with great satisfaction and began brewing a herbal foot bath for Gu Shaocheng.
He hadn’t had a chance to properly explore the villa before because there were too many people there. Now that he had, the sightseeing immediately gave his father a golden glow. This dream was too beautiful; he had to give his benefactor father a proper send-off to repay this kindness!
Seeing that it was almost time, Yu Yuan found his newly bought caster tray, placed the extra-large foot bath tub on it, poured in the medicine, adjusted the temperature, and then easily pushed the tub into Gu Shaocheng’s study.
Looking at Yu Yuan’s slightly flushed face and the fine sweat on his forehead, Gu Shaocheng was overwhelmed with mixed feelings.
He wouldn’t believe it easily, but Yu Yuan’s happiness on the surveillance footage wasn’t fake, the burning gaze he gave him the night before wasn’t fake, and his eagerness to make medicine and soak his feet for him right away wasn’t fake either…