Lu Yan felt even more guilty after hearing that.
She deliberately wrinkled his perfectly neat military uniform even more, then widened her moist eyes and glared at him.
“…Who said I didn’t want the child? Can’t I want him now?”
Gu Chenyu’s gaze remained cold and emotionless.
“Lu Yan, even so, I can’t possibly entrust the child to you. I can’t guarantee that once this sudden burst of enthusiasm wears off, you won’t abandon him again.”
“…”
Lu Yan was rendered speechless.
So, in Gu Chenyu’s eyes, she had absolutely no credibility left.
She pressed her damp lips together and gave a soft snort, deciding to play along with his assumption.
“Good. Since you know that, then don’t bring up divorce with me again.”
As she spoke, she released Gu Chenyu. Her eyes fell on the hand that had been holding the communicator, and she immediately changed the subject and started picking another fight.
“Who was calling you just now?”
Gu Chenyu met her moist, beautiful eyes. His thin lips moved slightly.
“The Gu family.”
The moment Lu Yan heard that it was the Gu family, her brows immediately knitted together.
Back when the results of her and Gu Chenyu’s high compatibility rating had just been announced, the Gu family had eagerly sought her out behind Gu Chenyu’s back.
Not only had they acted like her future in-laws before the marriage had even been finalized, but they had also brought a stack of documents that hadn’t even been approved yet, hoping she would use the Lu family’s influence to help the Gu family.
At the time, Lu Yan had been particularly domineering and ill-tempered. How could she possibly tolerate the Gu family humiliating her, a noble young lady?
She had immediately ordered her people to throw them out without showing them the slightest courtesy.
Because of that incident, when she officially met Gu Chenyu for the first time afterward, she had lumped him in with the rest of them.
She had hurled cruel words at him and found fault with everything he did, no matter how hard he tried.
Thinking about it now, Lu Yan grew irritated all over again.
“Why did they call you? Are they asking you for resources and favors again because of their useless second son?”
Gu Chenyu looked at Lu Yan with his cold eyes. There was a faint flicker in his gaze.
“No.”
Lu Yan still looked wary.
“If they call you again, tell me immediately!”
“I can handle it myself.”
Lu Yan was about to say something else when, from the corner of her eye, she noticed that the communicator in Gu Chenyu’s hand was ringing again.
Thinking it was another call from the Gu family, she answered it for him without thinking, her tone extremely forceful.
“What do you want with Gu Chenyu?”
There was a brief silence on the other end.
Then a middle-aged man’s voice came through, carrying a hint of surprised amusement.
“…Is that Xiaoyan? You actually came all the way to the frontier base to find A-Yu yourself?”
The moment Lu Yan heard that voice, embarrassment flashed across her face.
The person on the other end was General Pang, an old family friend of her father’s and an elder who had watched her grow up.
She coughed softly and immediately answered in a proper, respectful tone.
“Uncle Pang.”
As she spoke, she quickly shoved the communicator back into Gu Chenyu’s hand, then gave him a stern glare, deliberately looking as though she were blaming him for not answering the call himself.
Gu Chenyu took the communicator and listened to General Pang for a few moments.
He glanced indifferently at Lu Yan, who was still blocking his way, then explained, “It’s regarding the exercise in the Y-Zone. I’ll handle it in the study.”
Only then did Lu Yan reluctantly step aside.
“Go ahead.”
Once Gu Chenyu left, Lu Yan sat down on the edge of his bed.
Then she suddenly remembered something.
She had been so busy rushing to the frontier that she’d forgotten another equally important matter.
She opened the star ring on her wrist, found a contact number, and dialed it.
The call was answered quickly.
A steady and respectful male voice came through.
It was Rosen, a member of the guard unit who had been responsible for protecting her since childhood and one of Lu Yan’s most loyal confidants.
“Miss, what would you like me to do?”
Lu Yan said, “Keep a close eye on the military academy these next few days. Don’t let Lu Chi escape from school.”
Rosen asked no questions and immediately replied, “Understood, Miss.”
After hanging up, Lu Yan leaned against the headboard, a complicated mixture of emotions churning in her heart.
Lu Chi was her younger brother.
He was also the yandere second male lead in this novel.
In her previous life, she and Lu Chi had been the quintessential villainous siblings in the story, nothing more than tools for pushing the male and female leads’ romance forward.
As the vicious supporting female character, she had been willing to abandon her husband and child and use every underhanded means imaginable to pursue the male lead, Cheng Linzhou, even deliberately sabotaging the relationship between the male and female leads.
And that foul-mouthed little brother of hers was even more extreme in his yandere tendencies.
Ever since the female lead, Chen Ziyi, had been assigned to teach a class at the military academy, he had fallen in love with her at first sight.
After learning about Chen Ziyi’s relationship with Cheng Linzhou, he repeatedly schemed against Cheng Linzhou and framed him.
Later, he even attempted to imprison Chen Ziyi by force.
In the end, however, Cheng Linzhou—who had uncovered the truth about his own identity—took revenge and killed him instead.
And because of the things the two siblings had done, the Lu family had rapidly fallen from one of the Imperial Star’s most prominent noble families.
Their family had been destroyed, and everyone had suffered.
Fortunately, it wasn’t too late.
Lu Yan planned to take advantage of the fact that Lu Chi hadn’t yet fallen too deeply for Chen Ziyi.
She would have Rosen keep a close watch on the military academy and make sure Lu Chi stopped skipping classes every day to go looking for Chen Ziyi.
Once she had settled things with Gu Chenyu and the child, she would find time to return to the Imperial Star and deal with Lu Chi herself.
With all this running through her mind, Lu Yan waited for Gu Chenyu.
But before she knew it, she had fallen asleep.
When Gu Chenyu finished handling his affairs and returned to the bedroom, he found Lu Yan sleeping facedown beside his pillow.
Her two delicate, pearly-white toes were sticking out over the edge of the bed, and she hadn’t even covered herself with a blanket.
Gu Chenyu’s gaze rested on her for a moment.
He walked over, reached down, and gently grasped her slender ankle, placing her foot back onto the bed.
Then he bent down and carefully pulled the blanket over her.
Just as he was about to withdraw his hand and leave the room, Lu Yan suddenly grabbed him.
Unlike Gu Chenyu, who spent all year training and carrying out missions in the military, Lu Yan’s fingers were delicate and pampered.
When they curled around the back of his large, rough palm, even the tips of her fingers were soft and pink.
A faint ripple passed through Gu Chenyu’s eyes.
He exerted a little force and pulled his hand free.
That movement was enough to rouse Lu Yan, who had been hovering between sleep and wakefulness.
Her lashes fluttered open.
She gazed hazily at the man so close to her, her lips parting slightly as she asked sleepily,
“Finished?”
Seeing this unusually soft side of Lu Yan gave Gu Chenyu an almost absurd, unreal feeling.
He answered coldly.
“Mm.”
But in the very next second, Lu Yan completely reverted to her usual self.
She bit her lip in mild irritation and complained to him,
“Your bed is so hard. It’s really uncomfortable to sleep on.”
Gu Chenyu lowered his eyes, just about to explain that the bedding was standard issue throughout the military.
But Lu Yan clearly had no patience to listen.
Her fingers once again caught hold of his hand.
Using his strength, she suddenly pulled the man, who had been leaning beside the bed, down onto it.
Then, taking advantage of the momentum, Lu Yan climbed onto him and buried herself against his chest like she had no bones at all.
Her arms wrapped domineeringly around his neck as she grumbled in a threatening little voice,
“Gu Chenyu, if you dare push me off, you’re dead.”
Gu Chenyu’s brows twitched slightly.
He could clearly feel Lu Yan’s face buried against his chest, her breath passing through the thin fabric of his shirt—warm, soft, and faintly ticklish.
His back remained straight and rigid.
He neither pushed Lu Yan away nor made any move to put his arms around her.
He simply lay there motionless, serving as Lu Yan’s human pillow.
The bones beneath his taut skin were faintly pronounced.
It looked almost like the uncontrollable precursor to his beast transformation.
No one knew how much time passed.
The breathing of the woman lying on top of him gradually became slow and even again.
Her arms, which had been wrapped around his neck, slowly went limp.
She had clearly fallen into a deep sleep.
Gu Chenyu raised his hand and touched Lu Yan’s slender waist, which had sunk slightly beneath him.
The callused pads of his fingers, roughened by years of handling weapons, rested against the smooth skin at her waist with restrained detachment.
He was just about to tighten his hold and lift her off him when—
Lu Yan seemed to have dreamed of something.
Her brows suddenly drew together, and the fingers clutching his shirt tightened slightly.
Then, in a vague murmur, she whispered,
“Cheng Linzhou…”