Chapter 423: Chapter 423: Dressed So Scantily, What Is This Decorum?
"Lu Jinyang, I think we really need to talk." Xiao Qing sat down on the sofa, exhaustedly rubbing her temples.
Going shopping so early in the morning, and then fussing over hairstyles and outfits until night, even an iron man would find it tough.
Lu Jinyang was slightly surprised, "Talk here?"
"Yes!" Anyway, Tan Biyang was definitely waiting outside for the person inside to leave, she wouldn’t be foolish enough to go out now, wouldn’t that make her feigned fainting before be for nothing?
Lu Jinyang was quite cooperative, nodding his head, "I’ll make a phone call first."
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Gu Chen was driving when he received the phone call. He glanced at it; it was a call from Young Master Lu.
"Where are you?"
Gu Chen was silent for a moment, uncharacteristically asking for leave, "I can’t attend tonight, I’ll find someone to go in my stead later."
The other party seemed relatively calm, grunted in acknowledgment, and hung up the call.
Gu Chen put down the phone, looked through the rearview mirror at the woman in the passenger seat with tightly closed lips, he opened his mouth to say something, but ended up saying nothing.
In the car, it was so quiet there wasn’t any sound, and the atmosphere was very tense.
Perhaps the woman in the passenger seat couldn’t stand the silence anymore, she spoke softly, "Gu Chen, where are you taking me?"
Gu Chen didn’t expect her to speak, his gaze deepened, "Home."
The woman panicked immediately, her slender hand grabbing his arm, nervously saying: "I can’t go home with you, I still have work~"
But Gu Chen ignored her, the car continued driving forward, after a while, the car suddenly braked to a stop, he slowly turned his head, looking at the woman panic-stricken, "Gu Li, if I hadn’t run into you tonight, you would have kept running, wouldn’t you?"
Gu Li didn’t dare to look at him, keeping her head down.
From an outsider’s perspective, the man in front of her appeared gentle, never showing his emotions outwardly, no matter how angry he was, his tone would never fluctuate much.
But somehow, she inexplicably felt that Gu Chen was angry, and very much so.
"I don’t know."
"You don’t know?"
Gu Chen looked at the woman with her head lowered, her unease playing with her dress’s hem, like a little girl who had done wrong, the anger rising inside him suddenly extinguished by half.
He sighed, seemingly halfway between a sigh and resignation.
"Lizi, aren’t you tired after running for so many years?"
That one sentence nearly made Gu Li’s tears fall.
Tired, how could she not be tired, but besides running away, what else could she do?
"Not tired." She said.
"But I’m tired. If you keep running for a few more years, when I’m old and can no longer chase after you, what will you do if someone bullies you outside?"
Gu Li blinked, forced back the tears that were about to fall, she said, "It won’t happen, you have always taught me to be good since I was young, that a girl should not cause trouble, I have always been very well-behaved."
Gu Li’s words seemed to upset him; under the streetlight, Gu Chen’s face turned visibly upset, the air inside the car instantly became so quiet it was terrifying, so terrifying that Lizi didn’t dare to take a deep breath.
It was unclear how long it took, but Gu Chen sighed deeply again, "Sit tight, I’ll take you back, let’s pretend I never saw you today."
Next time, if he caught her again, he definitely wouldn’t let go so easily.
He told himself in his heart, let her be capricious one last time, the outside world is so chaotic, she would understand his intentions.
When she was getting out of the car, he frowned at her barely leg-concealing evening gown, tossing a suit jacket to her, "Wearing so little, what kind of image is that?"