With a scream, Gu Nianxi woke up from her nightmare. She looked at the ceiling with tears still in her eyes.
The dream just now was so real, so real that the kiss actually made her feel the warmth of the other person. Gu Nianxi closed her eyes tiredly, feeling very bad.
"woke up?"
Suddenly there was a voice in her ears. Gu Nianxi looked over alertly and saw a man sitting next to the sofa. She was so frightened that she sat up quickly.
I didn’t expect Mr. Funder to come so early today?
"Sorry, I accidentally fell asleep."
As soon as Gu Nianxi stood up, the coat covering her body fell to the ground. She hurriedly picked it up and realized that the coat in her hand belonged to the benefactor.
"Haha, thank you." Gu Nianxi thanked him with a smile. She was afraid of getting his coat dirty, so she quickly patted the place where it landed, "I'll help you hang up the coat."
Gu Nianxi stood up and found that the collar of her shirt was open, so she quickly covered her chest with her hands.
Her panic was seen by Su Yuheng. He smiled and said, "Don't be nervous. It's not the agreed time yet. I'm early."
"What time is it now?" Gu Nianxi looked at the clock on the wall. It turned out to be only seven-ten. It seemed that he was really early. She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It doesn't matter. Start earlier and finish earlier."
"You haven't had dinner? I brought you some snacks."
Gu Nianxi looked in the direction he pointed. There was a box of exquisite desserts placed on the coffee table. She looked at him in surprise and then at the dessert box. She was surprised that he would bring her something to eat.
Jinshan Villa is located in a remote place, and it is a place where the delivery boys are not willing to take orders. Usually their lunch is delivered, and the dishes and taste are very good. Later, Gu Nianxi found out that he was the one who opened their Chinese food.
Qianqian Yimeng is responsible for the delivery.
Seeing that she was silent, Su Yuheng thought that she didn't want to eat dessert.
"If you don't want to eat these, let's go to Qian Qian Yi Meng." Su Yuheng said and stood up, but Gu Nianxi stopped him.
"No, no, no." Gu Nianxi waved her hand repeatedly, "It doesn't have to be too much trouble."
Su Yuheng was stunned for a few seconds, then picked up the white paper on the coffee table, wrote a phone number and handed it to her.
"When you work overtime from now on, make this call and ask them to bring you dinner. Don't miss your meal."
Gu Nianxi looked at him absentmindedly, and couldn't help but wonder why he was so nice to her. Was he so nice to every woman, or just to her?
Gu Nianxi felt that this way of getting along was very awkward.
No, she couldn't be ambiguous with him. She was about to get married, so she had to straighten her stance and draw clear boundaries with him.
"Thank you, Mr. Su, I'm not very hungry." Gu Nianxi said against her will. In fact, she was already hungry and had a stomachache.
Su Yuheng didn't listen to her and leaned closer to the coffee table. His long fingers pulled open the silver ribbon on the snack box. Without saying anything more, he opened the package and took out a piece of exquisite chocolate cake and placed it in front of Gu Nianxi.
The cake was very tempting. Gu Nianxi took a look. Tiramisu, chocolate towel roll, and black forest were all her favorite flavors. She smelled the aroma of the cake and her stomach growled unsatisfactorily.
"Be obedient and eat."
Su Yuheng put the fork into her hand, which scared Gu Nianxi to the point where she almost stood up.
He actually talked to her in a coaxing tone!
Gu Nianxi looked at him carefully and took the spoon in his hand. Somehow, she seemed to be particularly sensitive to the word "obedient", especially when these two words came from his mouth, it was like chanting a spell to make her lose her resistance.
force.
The atmosphere became a little subtle. Gu Nianxi lowered her head and took a bite of the cake. The cake melted in her mouth. The taste was very familiar. She seemed to have eaten it somewhere before, but she couldn't think of it.
"This cake..."
"Is it tasty?"
Gu Nianxi was embarrassed to ask him where he bought it, so she nodded and said it was delicious and took another bite.
Gu Nianxi held the spoon and put it into her mouth one spoon at a time. She looked very delicate when eating. Su Yuheng looked at her and couldn't help but smile on his face.
In fact, Gu Nianxi had already felt his persistent gaze, but she pretended not to see it and did not dare to make eye contact with him.
"You look pretty when you eat."
"Huh?" Gu Nianxi blushed at his praise and shyly put down the cake in her hand, "Thank you, I eat a little slowly. Some people say that I eat like I have no appetite. In fact, it was my father who taught me when I was a child that girls
You have to eat slowly, not like a hungry wolf, but still like a lady no matter how hungry you are."
Her words shocked Su Yuheng, and memories came flooding back. He was the one who said she had no appetite.
"Remember who said this?"
Even though he knew the answer, he still wanted to ask her because he wanted to stir up some memories in her and hoped that she could remember something about their past.
Gu Nianxi tilted her head, thought for a while, shook her head with a smile, "I forgot, maybe it was a friend around me."
"I think this friend of yours cares about you and wants you to eat well. You are too thin."
Gu Nianxi was a little embarrassed when he said that. She smiled and said, "Maybe, but my boyfriend never said that I eat slowly. He said that chewing slowly helps with digestion."
It was just a casual sentence, but it made Gu Nianxi a little curious. Who said she didn't eat well before? After thinking for a long time, she couldn't think of an answer. Could it be Lin Yiduo?
Su Yuheng looked at her silently, with a somewhat complicated expression. He smiled and nodded, echoing her words, "Your boyfriend is right, you should listen to him."
"Then... let's get started."
Gu Nianxi put down the cake plate, stood up and gave him the sofa.
Before starting, Gu Nianxi hung his coat in the closet and when she closed the closet door, she smelled a special fragrance. The fragrance was very light and not something you can buy on the market.
She was also a little curious as to which brand of perfume he was wearing.
"Oh, by the way, I've washed your suit and just brought it today. You can take it back when you leave later." Gu Nianxi patted the bag on the hanger, "And...this."
Gu Nianxi trotted to her desk and picked up a white box on the table. She had nothing to put his pair of cufflinks in yesterday, so she could only use the box with the single cufflink to put them in.
"Your cufflinks." Gu Nianxi opened the box, looked at him, and said, "Give them back to you."
Su Yuheng looked at the box and looked up at Gu Nianxi with sharp eyes, "This box..."
"Oh, I dug it out randomly at home. If you don't like it, just throw it away."
Su Yuheng stroked the letters on the box. He was immersed in the image of her crawling all over the place looking for the cufflinks a few years ago, and the corners of his mouth curled up.
"Thank you. The box is very beautiful. I will return it to you next time."
"There's no need to return it. This box means nothing to me. It doesn't matter if you use it and throw it away."
In fact, Gu Nianxi chose this box to store the pair of cufflinks because she felt that the box matched his temperament. Of course she hoped he would keep it.
"Thank you, I'll take the things, and you take the box back." Su Yuheng took the cufflinks out of the box, and he gently placed the box on the coffee table.
Gu Nianxi thought that he didn't like the box, so she was too embarrassed to push it around anymore, "Okay." She held the box in her palms, her mood was a bit complicated, and she felt like she had a hot face against a cold butt.
"What was originally in this box?" Su Yuheng asked her.
"It's also a cufflink, but there's only one."
Su Yuheng's eyes lit up, but he quickly returned to his previous indifference, "It must be something very important to you." He lowered his head and held the cufflinks in his palm tightly, "Except for one cufflink, there is nothing else.
?”
"Well, there's only one cufflink, but it's not something important to me. Maybe I picked it up somewhere and just put it in the box."
Su Yuheng was silent, and his eyes fell on the box in her hand, "As long as it's not important."
When he said this, Gu Nianxi didn't see the expression on his face, but she saw the corners of his mouth turning down. This slight expression indicated that he was in a bad mood.
Gu Nianxi looked at him in surprise, but found that he didn't look sad. Could it be that she had seen it wrong?
"By the way, there is also this card." Gu Nianxi almost forgot that there was something else. She walked to the desk and handed him the black gold card that was pressed under the mouse pad.
"You left this card in your bag that day."
He lowered his eyes and looked at the card in her hand without any intention of taking it, "This is for you."
"Huh?" Gu Nianxi was shocked, "For me?"
"Well, I usually don't go to the mall to buy things. You can use it. The password is-"
When it came to the password, Su Yuheng was silent. The password for this card was her birthday, and he almost let it slip.
"Thank you, thank you. I don't really need it. You should keep it for yourself." Gu Nianxi quickly put the card in front of him.
Was he bribing her? Could it be that he wanted her to be more careful when speaking in front of Lin Wei?
In order to reassure him, Gu Nianxi hurriedly swore an oath.
"Don't worry, I swear I won't say anything nonsense in front of Lin Wei." Seeing that he didn't answer, Gu Nianxi picked up the card from the coffee table and stuffed it into his hand, "Thank you."
Su Yuheng tilted his head and looked at her. He didn't understand what she meant. He didn't ask further questions and nodded, "Okay."
Then, he pressed the card under the teacup and sat down on the sofa.
"Can we start?" Gu Nianxi asked for his permission.
He nodded.
"Can I record today?" Gu Nianxi asked.
"Can."
Gu Nianxi didn't expect him to agree so readily and happily pressed the record button.
Today I finally don’t have to write down the conversation in shorthand!
The light from the floor lamp hit the sofa area, surrounding him like a stage spotlight. Gu Nianxi, who was sitting in the dark, looked at him quietly, waiting for him to speak.
Today, Su Yuheng gives people a solemn and rigorous feeling, wearing a dark gray suit and a black tie. The metal lapel pin on the collar of the shirt is the finishing touch, whether it is the pocket square on the chest or the looming cufflinks and watch.
All show composure and charm.
He is a man who dresses very tastefully, and every detail is extremely exquisite.
"What do you want to talk about today?" Gu Nianxi broke the dull atmosphere between the two.
"What are we talking about..." He thought as he took off the collar pin and placed it gently on the coffee table.
Gu Nianxi's eyes followed the collar pin. When she raised her eyes, she happened to see a piece of skin exposed by his loosened collar. There was a shallow scar on the left side of his neck.
"Let's talk casually."
"good."
Su Yuheng looked forward, his pupils gradually losing focus. He thought for a long time and finally spoke.
"You should ask questions, I'm not good at chatting."
"good."
Gu Nianxi had already finished her work, and she asked the prepared questions without thinking.
"What kind of person is your wife?"
Gu Nianxi was beating a drum in her heart. She was not sure if he was willing to tell the story about him and her wife anymore, but she guessed that the cause of his illness was related to his wife, so she had to know more things to help her decide how to help him later.
He lowered his head and played with the white box on the coffee table, as if he was thinking about what to say but also seemed not to want to discuss the topic.
Gu Nianxi waited quietly for him to speak. After about five minutes, she saw his thin lips slowly opening.
"My wife was still a student when she married me. She was a very simple girl who loved life. She loved reading, watching movies, growing flowers and doing charity." He paused and continued:
"And she and I are from completely different worlds. I am a person with few hobbies."
"Don't you have any other hobbies after work? Don't you know a lot of things?"
"No, but I did learn a lot of things. I have a lot of skills, but they are not what I want to learn from my heart. My childhood was arranged by adults. If I have to say something that I am interested in, it is
I love work and I am a workaholic. Only when I pursue my career can I feel secure enough. I have always believed that when I have a place in the business world like my father, I can get rid of his control and live the life I want.
The life you want.”
It can be heard from his words that what he always wanted to get rid of was his parents' high control over him.
Nowadays, there is a popular saying about highly controlling parents, called "helicopter parents". Children must take off according to the flight path set by their parents, and then reach the destination they set.