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About ten minutes later, Tian Yi received a call summoning him to President Gu’s office.

“President Gu, you asked for me?”

As soon as Tian Yi pushed the door open, he heard Gu Huaiyu ask, “Did Shen Qing come looking for you?”

The question was abrupt.

His tone, inscrutable.

Tian Yi: “???”

He hurriedly checked the time; it was already nine o’clock at night.

Why would the Madam come looking for me?!

He suddenly recalled the fate of Dr. Ling Ziyao, who had previously offended the Madam. Although Ling had dug his own grave by daring to harm President Gu, who knew if his ultimate downfall was actually because he had been caught flirting with the Madam by President Gu?

Tian Yi immediately shook his head like a rattle.

“No! Why would the Madam be looking for me?”

Gu Huaiyu: “…”

Tian Yi felt his answer was crisp and resolute, without a hint of shadiness or concealment. It was purely the confidence of a clear conscience.

But unexpectedly, upon hearing his answer, President Gu’s expression grew even darker!

Abruptly lifting his eyes to look at him, Gu Huaiyu asked again, “Shen Qing didn’t come to you?”

“No, really, he didn’t,” Tian Yi reiterated.

Then he watched as President Gu’s perennially straight back slumped slightly. He leaned forward, propping up his elbow, and pinched the bridge of his nose.

—This was a gesture the boss only made when he encountered something particularly frustrating or thorny.

Tian Yi hesitated for a moment before asking, “President Gu, is something wrong?”

Gu Huaiyu: “Check with your subordinates. See whose room Shen Qing went to.”

Tian Yi: “???”

What? No?? What does that mean? His subordinates and the Madam???

His men were all burly tough guys!

Does the Madam have a habit of running into other burly men’s rooms late at night? …

?

Madam, are you that bold? Are you playing that dangerous of a game??

Tian Yi wore a completely dumbfounded expression.

Seeing his subordinate still frozen, Gu Huaiyu felt even more stifled in his chest and offered a terse explanation: “Shen Qing went to borrow shower gel. Find out who he borrowed it from.”

Then he issued the command: “And bring him back here to me.”

Tian Yi snapped back to reality. Hearing the severity and unquestionable authority in the boss’s tone, he reflexively responded with a “Yes” and immediately exited the office to carry out the task.

While executing the order, Tian Yi mulled over President Gu’s words and suddenly felt that their boss was truly… truly not an ordinary man!

Look at how President Gu came up with “borrowing shower gel” as an excuse and pretext to exonerate the Madam! This way, even if he found the Madam in someone’s room, he could claim to the outside world that the Madam was just there to borrow shower gel.

It wouldn’t blow things out of proportion and would save President Gu’s face.

…

My God!

President Gu is indeed worthy of having grown up in a large clan; he is well-versed in the art of domestic warfare.

Truly someone who has weathered the storms and seen it all!

How did he come up with such an excuse!!

Lamenting as he went, he quickened his pace. When on duty, Tian Yi always carried a walkie-talkie to easily mobilize his men.

But just as he unclipped the walkie-talkie from his waist to query his subordinates, he glanced down and suddenly spotted the Madam’s figure somewhere on the first floor.

Tian Yi: ?

At the same time, Gu Huaiyu had also left his office.

He came up beside Tian Yi and looked down along with his frozen assistant.

They saw the young man, dressed in two-piece pajamas, quietly backing out of a room. He closed the door with very gentle force.

That room was very secluded, located in a small corridor off the side of the small living room, and the lighting was extremely dim.

From the third floor, the viewing angle was limited, making it almost impossible to see exactly what the person downstairs was doing.

But the problem was that Shen Qing’s movements looked incredibly sneaky.

Especially after emerging from the small corridor, he even looked around furtively.

Gu Huaiyu: “…”

Tian Yi: “…The room the Madam came out of… seems to be a storage room…”

Tian Yi looked at his boss and just felt that President Gu was so pitiful. He was in poor health yet still supporting the family, and the result was the Madam… having a secret tryst in a storage room!

No, he had to know who exactly dared to do something so disloyal to President Gu!

Tian Yi immediately unclipped his walkie-talkie, intending to go downstairs personally to catch the culprit.

But before he could, Gu Huaiyu grabbed him with a movement even faster than his own.

“Where are you going?”

“President Gu! This cannot be tolerated! I can’t control the Madam, but my subordinates, I must…”

Gu Huaiyu: “Didn’t you see that Shen Qing is holding a bottle of body wash in his hand?”

Tian Yi: “…?!!”

Huh?

Don’t tell me…

The Madam really was…

Borrowing body wash??

Tian Yi was stunned again, while Gu Huaiyu squeezed his eyes shut heavily.

Then, forced to take a deep breath, he composed himself once more.

…So, when he said he was going to get body wash, he meant going to the small storage room to take Gu Duo and Gu Ao’s supply.

The key to the mansion’s main warehouse was with the butler, but Shen Qing had the key to the storage where the cubs’ daily necessities were kept separately.

…

So that was it. That explains it.

A crack reappeared in the usually calm and ripple-free expression on Gu Huaiyu’s face.

“Wait, that’s not right,” Tian Yi thought for a moment and said, “If he was just getting body wash from the warehouse, why was the Madam acting so sneaky?”

Tian Yi was a veteran who had undergone special reconnaissance training; he prided himself on being sensitive to such details.

His intuition told him something was off.

If it was just getting body wash from the warehouse, why did the Madam have to be so secretive?

The former Madam felt a bit timid, afraid of strangers, afraid to even lift his head.

But the current Madam had clearly started to reveal his true nature; he gave off a vibe of being cheerful and straightforward, doing things boldly and without taboo. Why would he be so cautious just taking something from his own warehouse?

So, this definitely wasn’t simply about getting body wash!

Perhaps their voices were too loud, or because the entire villa was silent enough to hear a pin drop.

Shen Qing, who was sneaking around downstairs, seemed to hear the commotion on their side—the young man looked up sharply, as if startled.

Gu Huaiyu’s gaze, which had been directed downward, met the young man’s eyes.

Shen Qing was obviously stunned for a moment.

Then, in the next instant, after realizing who was upstairs, the young man suddenly made a “shush” gesture at him and shook the bottle of body wash in his direction.

There was no longer any tension on his face; Shen Qing even smiled, a smile that was sunny and brilliant.

Even from a distance, Gu Huaiyu could see his pearly white teeth and his bright eyes curved in a smile.

Shen Qing shook the pink, unopened bottle of new body wash in his hand, made the “shush” gesture again, and then pointed in the direction of Gu Duo and Gu Ao’s room on the second floor.

He repeated this set of actions twice. The meaning was already obvious. He was asking the person upstairs to keep his secret—

Do not let the cubs know that their “Auntie” ran to the warehouse in the middle of the night to steal a bottle of their children’s body wash for his own use.

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