When Gu Cha woke up, all he saw was a familiar ceiling. He blinked a few times, as if unsure where he was.
[Cha Cha… wuwu, you’re finally awake.]
Tong Tong was terrified.
Gu Cha recalled the events before he had fainted and asked curiously, “What happened to me?”
While Gu Cha had been unconscious, Tong Tong had been digging through data, so now he was Tong·Knowledgeable·Tong.
[Cha Cha, this happened because seeing Wen Xuqian follow behind the male lead was too much of a blow for the Original Owner. The Original Owner’s lingering thoughts came out to cause trouble, and the system detected it and activated emergency measures.]
[But don’t worry. Once the Original Owner’s body fully merges with Cha Cha, this won’t happen anymore.]
Gu Cha seemed to understand and gave a soft, “Mm.”
He had slept for quite a while and now felt that his whole body was off, especially his stomach. He murmured, “Cha Cha is so hungry… wants to eat…”
This time, he didn’t hear Tong Tong’s response; it had probably entered hibernation again. Gu Cha didn’t speak to it.
He lay on the bed for a while before getting up to find something to eat, but the moment his feet touched the floor, his legs went weak. “Ah…”
At that moment, the door made a “click,” and a pair of straight legs appeared in his peripheral vision.
Lu Chenyu opened the door and saw Gu Cha on the floor. Raising an eyebrow calmly, he said, “Young Master Gu is awake?”
Gu Cha was in pain from the fall and didn’t respond immediately.
Lu Chenyu walked in, looking down at the boy struggling to rise.
Gu Cha, seeing him approach, thought he was coming to help, and for a moment felt that Lu Chenyu was a good person. But then he noticed that Lu Chenyu had stopped a couple of steps away and wasn’t moving further.
He lifted his head in confusion.
Because the Sickly Gu Cha didn’t go out often, his skin was pale to the point of glowing. The black shorts left his knees exposed, pink from scraping the floor. His small face looked puzzled, his eyes staring blankly at Lu Chenyu.
He was pure innocence to the extreme.
Lu Chenyu cursed inwardly and reached out, pulling Gu Cha up before lifting him effortlessly with one arm.
“So the young master can still seduce someone, huh?”
Gu Cha was lifted so suddenly that he barely had time to shout before he was seated on the soft bed.
After putting him down, Lu Chenyu lazily patted his hands as if expressing mild disdain, then looked at him again. “What do you want to do?”
Gu Cha was touched by Lu Chenyu’s “helping hand.” Facing such a good person, he didn’t hide his thoughts. “I’m hungry. Cha Cha wants to eat… Lu Chenyu…”
Lu Chenyu recalled carefully—this person had been lying in bed for an entire day and night. Being hungry was normal, but he had no intention of getting food for the young master.
Seeing Lu Chenyu remain still, Gu Cha thought he hadn’t heard correctly. He tugged on Lu Chenyu’s sleeve with small hands. “So hungry… I’m going to starve…”
Feeling his shirt being tugged back and forth, Lu Chenyu impatiently brushed Gu Cha’s hand away. “Then go ahead and starve.”
After saying that, he left the room and called the Family Doctor from downstairs.
The Family Doctor hurried upstairs.
Lu Chenyu sat on the sofa, lit a cigarette, and smoked quietly.
Poor Gu Cha waited in the room for a long time, only to have the Family Doctor come to examine him. The doctor circled around Gu Cha for over ten minutes, then had him lie back on the bed and covered him with a blanket.
The Family Doctor had long been checking Gu Cha’s health and knew his condition well. After the examination, he spoke. “Young… Cha Cha, you mustn’t let your emotions get too intense in the future. Your body can’t handle it.”
“Luckily, this time, the young master and Young Master Wen brought you to the hospital in time. Otherwise, the consequences could have been severe. Also, for the physical checkup—you haven’t had one for half a year…”
Gu Cha hugged his starving belly, conflicted about whether to interrupt the doctor.
“Hungry, huh? Cha Cha, maybe you should eat something, or your body will—”
Hearing the doctor mention eating, Gu Cha couldn’t resist and immediately agreed. “Okay, okay. Cha Cha will eat.”
The Family Doctor was briefly surprised—when had Gu Cha become so obedient? He usually had to be coaxed for a long time to take a few bites. But this was good. He said happily, “Alright, I’ll have the servants bring the porridge up now.”
…………
The servants brought pumpkin porridge into the room and, as before, set up a small table on Gu Cha’s bed. Gu Cha didn’t have to get up; he obediently drank the soft, sweet pumpkin porridge.
In the room were the servants attending him, Lu Chenyu, and the Family Doctor reporting on Gu Cha’s condition.
Lu Chenyu made it clear he didn’t want to listen, but with Gu Songqing and Zong Lan absent, only Lu Chenyu could hear the Family Doctor. The doctor had no choice but to report to him.
“Cha Cha fainted because his emotions were too intense, combined with the recent illness. You’ll still need to take care of him carefully.”
Lu Chenyu listened expressionlessly, his gaze fixed on the small figure sipping yellow porridge. He still wore pajamas; the sleeves were short, revealing a slender arm like a lotus root, so fragile it seemed like his large hand could snap it with a gentle twist.
A few soft strands of hair swayed with his movements, and his pink lips opening and closing made Lu Chenyu oddly thirsty.
“Too emotional?” he thought. He had considered Gu Cha’s reactions to Wen Xuqian—crying, shouting, questioning—but he hadn’t expected him to collapse from the shock.
Wen Xuqian was that important to him?
“Make sure to remember all these precautions, or it could affect his lifespan…”
Only when the doctor said this did Lu Chenyu lift his eyelids. He glanced at the doctor who was packing up to leave and suddenly said, “Send me the precautions.”
Huh?
The Family Doctor was momentarily stunned. Usually, when someone has their wealth and status taken, they feel animosity toward the person. Especially since he heard that Gu Cha had bullied him—Lu Chenyu not only didn’t punish Gu Cha, he actually considered him?
If the other two masters of the Gu family were present, he wouldn’t have even spoken to this Real Young Master.
Lu Chenyu didn’t get an immediate response. He noticed the Family Doctor giving him a suspicious look and clicked his tongue. “Don’t understand?”
“Ah, y-yes, yes, Young Master.”
Once everyone else had left, Gu Cha leaned against the headboard, his stomach full from three big bowls of pumpkin porridge.
“Uh… hic—”
Suddenly, he hiccuped, his cheeks flushing red. Panicked, he covered his mouth, only relaxing when he realized no one was in the room.
Looking out the window, Gu Cha recalled the increase in fortune points over the past two days and seemed to understand how to absorb the male lead’s fortune.
He had to make contact with Lu Chenyu to do it!