SFBF CH69

In the photo, the kids wearing their little sheep onesie pajamas were all lying on the shaggy rug, pressing three small indents into the soft carpet.

If you didn’t click to enlarge the photo, they really did look like three soft little cotton candies.

But…

“You two interact quite frequently,” Gu Huaiyu commented, his voice cold.

Shen Qing leaned over and saw the chat window. He quickly said, “…It’s not this one.”

He swiped the screen as he spoke, exiting the WeChat interface, and reopened his photo gallery to show the big boss the screenshots.

One second earlier, Gu Huaiyu’s gaze had still been fixed on Shen Qing and Xu Yujie’s chat window, but the next moment, he saw Shen Qing’s brilliant speeches in the family group chat.

“This is…”

He read extremely fast, practically only needing one glance at each image to know what was said.

Three seconds later, Gu Huaiyu looked up at Shen Qing.

Shen Qing: “Ah…”

Shen Qing suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

Just now, he instinctively felt this matter was pretty funny. Having felt a thrill of satisfaction, he naturally wanted to share it with Gu Huaiyu.

But now that he had calmed down, he suddenly realized—

Someone of President Gu’s status probably wasn’t interested in this kind of petty family drama…

The things President Gu dealt with were all wealthy family feuds.

Last time, when the Gu family’s Third Miss asked President Gu to borrow money, she opened her mouth to ask for thirty million right off the bat.

…

Perhaps this thirty thousand yuan dispute with Lu Xin wasn’t even enough to cover the cost of a single meal in Gu Huaiyu’s eyes. The other man might even find him baffling, or petty.

Thinking like this, Shen Qing wanted to pull his phone back and not let him see it anymore.

However, when he lowered his head and saw the big boss’s pale, handsome face, looking serious and earnest, Shen Qing suddenly felt that even if a thirty thousand yuan dispute couldn’t compare to thirty million, there was no need to belittle himself!

Perhaps he had been momentarily influenced by Gu Huaiyu’s cold, noble aura, making him feel a flash of inferiority.

But it was only for a moment.

Shen Qing quickly reasoned it out: whether it was thirty million or thirty thousand, the emotional experience the incident itself brought was the same.

Even if it was just thirty yuan, if someone acted like Lu Xin—biting the hand that fed him—he would still be upset, and he would still roast them.

Moreover, he just wanted to share this with the person he liked.

It wasn’t like he could only talk to the other person about earth-shattering news.

Having thought through all this in a flash, Shen Qing confidently stood up straight again, placing one hand on his hip.

Gu Huaiyu, looking up at him, had deep, dark eyes like spots of lacquer. He had already spoken: “You’re quite good at identifying the problem.”

He evaluated it objectively.

Shen Qing: …He hadn’t expected the big boss to actually discuss this matter with him the moment he opened his mouth.

And it was just a discussion; he wasn’t judging him as good or bad.

Shen Qing couldn’t help marveling again: As expected of the man I set my sights on!

At the same time, his interest was piqued.

“Hm? What problem?”

Gu Huaiyu raised the corners of his lips slightly and pointed them out one by one: “Not only were you able to directly point out your cousin’s issues, but you also saw the problems with the person echoing him. This Tang…”

“Tang Ziyao.”

“Mm. His problem is also very serious.”

“Wow, you saw through all that?!” Shen Qing immediately looked at Gu Huaiyu with a shocked face.

Tang Ziyao was the child of the original owner’s uncle, currently a university student.

His problem was indeed very serious. Every time Lu Xin played the victim to borrow money from the original owner, this guy would pop up to coordinate with Lu Xin in the group chat, asking Lu Xin what was wrong, saying how pitiful Lu Xin was, and saying the original owner should help him.

Without him chiming in, Lu Xin would have just been met with awkward silence in the group chat, completely unable to put on a show.

After all, the whole family knew Lu Xin was just a petty hooligan, and he never spent the money he asked for on the right path.

And if anyone else chimed in, it was inevitable that Lu Xin would latch onto them to borrow money too.

But Tang Ziyao was still a student, and he was even better at selling his misery and showing weakness than Lu Xin. Lu Xin uniquely never thought about borrowing money from him.

Yet this person—whom Lu Xin never borrowed money from, and who wouldn’t get much out of it even if Lu Xin did get the money—despite having no direct or indirect conflict of interest, insisted on getting involved every single time to bully someone in the group chat along with Lu Xin…

Tang Ziyao wasn’t doing it to curry favor with Lu Xin.

He was simply purely malicious.

Shen Qing reviewed the original owner’s memories and felt that compared to Lu Xin, the original owner probably hated this Tang Ziyao even more.

Lu Xin was at least just trying to get money, and he didn’t hide his ‘bad and stupid’ nature; he was bad plainly and clearly.

But that cousin Tang Ziyao was the one who made people sick.

This was also the reason why Shen Qing had pulled him out and roasted him along with the other guy in the group chat.

But he hadn’t expected that Gu Huaiyu would perceive this problem just from looking at these few screenshots of the chat logs.

Simply sitting down beside the big boss, Shen Qing took another look at those screenshots and couldn’t help but marvel. Gu Huaiyu was practically a… master at identifying green tea bitches!

But Gu Huaiyu indicated this was nothing.

Handing Shen Qing’s phone back to him, he said, “People like this are very common.”

Then he asked, “But are you just going to leave that group chat like that?”

“If I don’t leave, am I supposed to wait around and celebrate New Year’s with them?”

Shen Qing said, “But I still have to thank you, Boss. Look how scared that Tang Ziyao was at the end. A petty person like him, who only knows how to scheme behind people’s backs, started getting scared the moment he realized I was someone he couldn’t afford to mess with.”

The reason petty people were petty was because they liked to play dirty tricks behind the scenes. In reality, they were nothing.

Shen Qing opened his WeChat conversation with Tang Ziyao again. Even though he had blocked the other party, the chat history was still there.

After Shen Qing left the group chat, Tang Ziyao had tremblingly drafted a very long message. First, he asked him in a very green-tea manner why he left the group, then used hundreds of words to praise him and the garage behind him, and finally asked suggestively: Is that really your garage now, Cousin?

This showed that he still didn’t believe it, but at the same time, largely did believe it.

Just looking at this text, you could tell his heart was anxious and uneasy, because he also knew he was bad, and was afraid Shen Qing would take revenge on him.

Although Shen Qing wouldn’t go so far as to take revenge on him, for a petty person like this, just scaring him was enough to make him suffer.

Looking at the young man’s radiantly smiling face, Gu Huaiyu asked him, somewhat amused, “You fought a battle of words against a whole group all by yourself. What are you thanking me for?”

In the brightly lit bedroom, Shen Qing was sitting right next to Gu Huaiyu, the two of them suddenly very close.

Gu Huaiyu had just finished his shower, and Shen Qing had already washed up before him. Right now, both of them were clean and fresh, carrying their respective scents, and wearing pajamas…

The atmosphere suddenly became somewhat ambiguous.

Shen Qing couldn’t help blinking, hit by this sudden atmosphere. He said, a little slow to react: “Thanking you… because you have my back!”

Having said that, he hugged Gu Huaiyu once again.

He scrambled up into a bear hug.

“Weren’t you the one who said I could be willful? That’s why I was so willful. I roasted them when I felt like it, and left the group chat when I felt like it,” Shen Qing said.

He meant it sincerely, too.

If he didn’t have the big boss backing him up, he probably would have engaged in some internal friction, pondering the consequences of doing this. After all, they were relatives… As someone who had also been pestered by his own relatives before, Shen Qing knew what the consequences of doing this were.

Probably no one liked, or could truly bear, the feeling of being betrayed by everyone and alienated by their family.

The reason the original owner lent money to Lu Xin time and time again was also because he didn’t want to be ostracized by the family.

But Shen Qing’s current situation was completely different.

His emotions were independent.

He also had the confidence to say no.

He could just be himself.

…In this villa, he was infinitely indulged, even in front of Duoduo and Aozai… Uh, except when it came to drinking milk and eating carrots, there was never a time when what Shen Qing said didn’t go.

With these conditions, did he still need to care excessively about other people’s emotions and feelings?

Moral kidnapping and the like were even more impossible!

Shen Qing, locked in a bear hug with his husband, even swayed a bit. Noticing that Gu Huaiyu wasn’t getting angry even as he grabbed his shoulders and rocked him back and forth, Shen Qing smiled exceptionally brightly for a moment.

Gu Huaiyu tilted his head and saw the young man’s massive smile.

His hand, originally hanging naturally at his side, lifted, instinctively wanting to press the young man into his embrace.

But his raised hand ultimately only rested lightly on the young man’s distinct, sexy, narrow waist, faintly guarding him to prevent him from carelessly toppling off the soft mattress.

Although this way, it looked very much like they were hugging.

The room was brightly lit, while outside was relatively much darker.

The uncurtained window reflected the silhouettes of the two people, looking exactly like tenderness and snuggling.

Gu Huaiyu sized up the reflection of the two seemingly embracing people on the window. It took a long moment before he snapped back to his senses, and in the other’s ear, said softly: “As long as you’re happy.”

“Of course I’m happy…”

Halfway through speaking, Shen Qing suddenly felt something wasn’t right—

“Isn’t that phrase Duo Zai’s newly acquired catchphrase?”

“What?” Gu Huaiyu didn’t understand.

Shen Qing: “Duoduo also frequently says ‘As long as you’re happy’ to me.”

After hearing this, Gu Huaiyu pondered for a moment, then nodded rigorously. “There’s nothing wrong with that.”

Shen Qing: “…?”

Gu Huaiyu said deadpan: “Duoduo is turning seven soon. It’s time he took up the heavy burden of taking care of you.”

Shen Qing: “??… Are you serious? …I’m at least twenty… twenty-one? Twenty-two this year?”

Shen Qing suddenly couldn’t say for sure either.

He was twenty-five before transmigrating. That was a hard fact; he remembered it and could calculate it clearly.

But the original owner… he should have been twenty-one before he transmigrated. Hadn’t a Spring Festival passed since then? Then he had to be twenty-two…

After thinking this through carefully, Shen Qing snapped back to his senses and met the big boss’s handsome but deep and piercing phoenix eyes. For a moment, he wanted to find a crack in the floor to crawl into!

Wuwuwu, he couldn’t even clearly calculate addition and subtraction under thirty anymore. He really seemed to have been raised into a useless bum, and did need someone to take care of him…

Sob, sob, sob!

“But that’s not right.” Shen Qing quickly realized—

In the past, the big boss would still struggle to persuade him not to be a salted fish, and to have his own career.

Shen Qing had even suggested that the big boss hang in there for a few more years, and when Duoduo grew up a bit, hand the family business over to him to manage…

And Gu Huaiyu had directly rejected him.

So why was he now taking it for granted that the kid should turn around and take care of him instead?

Thinking it over from start to finish, Shen Qing felt Gu Huaiyu was just teasing him, deliberately joking.

It was just that the big boss was usually too serious. Even when he told jokes, they were deadpan jokes, making it sound like he was being completely serious…

Once he realized this, Shen Qing disagreed again, and instinctively went to tickle the other’s ribs.

Then, after a flurry of activity, and discovering that Gu Huaiyu wasn’t ticklish at all…

Shen Qing simply used the momentum of his bear hug to push the other man down.

And without a second thought, straddled him.

…

This posture probably originally stemmed from elementary school kids fighting.

One side wanted to suppress the other, so in a moment of desperation, they sat on the other person’s waist.

But Shen Qing and the other man weren’t elementary school kids after all.

As soon as he threw his leg over, Shen Qing felt something was wrong. Gu Huaiyu, who had initially let him mess around and only smiled when tickled, also froze at this moment.

“What are you… doing?” he asked a moment later.

“I…”

Looking at the shadow reflected in the window, Shen Qing was sitting right on Gu Huaiyu, his back straight, his profile thin and slender. As he looked down at the person beneath him, his neck was delicate and long, his posture as graceful as a swan on the water.

However, the truth was that all the muscles in Shen Qing’s body had stiffened. Maintaining this current posture, he didn’t dare move another inch.

…He knew he was only pressing down on President Gu’s waist.

But he just didn’t dare move anymore.

He stayed in this position, dazed over and over again.

After a long time, he said: “I’m… practicing wrestling with you?”

Gu Huaiyu: “…”

Whether it was because of being tickled or being pushed down, Gu Huaiyu’s usually pale cheeks had gained some color.

And Shen Qing, whose complexion had been getting better recently, flushed completely red right to the base of his ears.

The two looked at each other, neither of them moving.

As far as Shen Qing was concerned, he didn’t dare move.

Time seemed to stretch out infinitely.

Until both of them, having maintained their stillness, felt tired.

Gu Huaiyu’s low, hoarse voice sounded: “You… why don’t you get up first.”

Shen Qing supported his waist, which had already gone stiff from forcefully keeping still, his face full of embarrassment. “…I, I think I don’t know how to move anymore.”

Gu Huaiyu: “…”

Propping his hands down, Shen Qing blushed: “Why don’t you move instead?”

Gu Huaiyu: “…………”

The long fingers resting properly on the bed trembled unexpectedly.

Gu Huaiyu raised his eyes and lifted his hands, instinctively supporting the young man’s waist.

Just then, Shen Qing’s phone ringtone suddenly went off.

Someone was calling him.

The gentle and melodious piano tune made both of them turn their heads in unison. It had to be said that in such a delicate atmosphere, someone suddenly calling him was indeed quite thrilling.

The good news was that the deadlock seemed to finally be broken. Shen Qing, as if granted some sort of power, forgot his embarrassment. In that instant, he lifted his waist and his leg, stepped off the big boss, and with lightning speed, felt for his phone and answered it.

Gu Huaiyu followed him and sat up.

His hands were still hovering by Shen Qing’s waist. Due to the intense movements, a corner of Shen Qing’s shirt flew up, exposing a section of his narrow waist.

Gu Huaiyu instinctively pulled the other’s hem down, covering the young man’s exposed waist, his voice deep and slightly hoarse: “Protect your waist well.”

At the same time, a hesitant female voice came through the phone: “…Hello? Shen Qing? Who are you talking to?”

Gu Huaiyu’s hand paused, and he raised his eyes to look at Shen Qing.

Shen Qing realized that in his excitement just now, he had directly answered the phone without telling Gu Huaiyu.

But it was fine, not a big deal, because the caller was—

“Hello, Mom?”

Shen Qing forced this word out very stiffly.

The original owner’s mother, Ms. Tang, also seemed to notice the unusualness in his voice, and couldn’t help asking: “…It’s so late, what are you doing?”

Shen Qing: So you also know it’s late!

He sat back down on the bed. Fortunately, the situation from just now—where he seemed frozen by a nightmare, not daring to move—had vanished. Shen Qing fanned himself with his hand, glanced at Gu Huaiyu, smiled at the big boss very naturally, and said: “It’s so late, of course I’m sleeping.”

The young man sat casually on the bed. His collar had opened a bit more due to their horseplay just now, revealing a large expanse of snow-white skin.

After the horseplay, a trace of blush still hung on his cheeks. He looked very much like a large narcissus flower, its stem slender and long, its petals lustrous white, with a touch of tender pink right at the very top.

Gu Huaiyu’s pupils contracted. He said nothing, only staring fixedly at the young man in front of him.

On the other end, Shen Qing was still having a conversation with his mother.

Calling this late, Ms. Tang didn’t beat around the bush. She cut straight to the point, questioning and lecturing Shen Qing on how he could criticize his cousins like that in the group chat.

“You can act however you want with them normally, but that’s a large group chat, and there are other elders present. If your aunt and uncle see this, what kind of proper behavior is that!”

Shen Qing wasn’t one to just take a scolding quietly. “Oh, so Auntie and Uncle actually read the group chat. I thought they only knew how to snatch red packets and never looked at anything else. Otherwise, when Lu Xin causes trouble, why doesn’t his mom do anything about it? Also, does Tang Ziyao’s dad know how much of an obnoxious prick he is?”

“…Shen Qing?!” Ms. Tang’s tone sounded absolutely shocked.

Her usually taciturn son was actually so sharp-tongued now, and even knew how to find reasons to retort…

She actually really disliked the current Lu Xin too. He was getting harder and harder to discipline, just a petty hooligan.

But he was her sister’s child after all. If he really caused trouble, she couldn’t truly ignore it.

Usually, if her own son could give his cousin a hand, she would just turn a blind eye.

Now that Shen Qing was unwilling, it was Lu Xin bringing it upon himself. Ms. Tang was currently getting a headache from Lu Xin’s annoying behavior too, and didn’t want to say or ask much about his matters.

But in her eyes, there was absolutely nothing wrong with Tang Ziyao. She couldn’t help saying: “How is Ziyao an obnoxious prick? Is this how you speak as an older brother? Ziyao is a university student after all, and he cares about his face. For you to directly say that about him…”

“If he cares about his face so much, why doesn’t he do things that make people give him face? In the end, he still doesn’t care about his face,” Shen Qing said.

“You, that’s enough from you! I haven’t even talked about you yet!”

Ms. Tang was originally someone who spoke very quickly and frankly. Usually, she worked at the Shen family’s factory as a minor supervisor, with a little bit of authority, and her life was fairly comfortable.

After work, she would dine out with her colleagues, go square dancing, and the like. She rarely called.

If she called, there was definitely a matter at hand: “Let’s not talk about this for now. Last time when you had dinner with Young Master Yuan and the others, how did your discussion about Xiao Yi’s matter go?”

Xiao Yi referred to Shen Yi, Shen Qing’s biological younger brother. He was eighteen this year, and his personality was similarly a bit introverted.

A few days ago, when Shen Yuan returned, the Shen family siblings organized a gathering. Ms. Tang had called Shen Qing to ask him to attend.

Besides not wanting Shen Qing’s relationship with Shen Yuan to become distant, the other reason was that Shen Yi was graduating from high school this summer.

He didn’t plan to continue his studies and wanted to enter the Shen family company to work. Ms. Tang hoped Shen Qing could talk to Shen Yuan about this, because Shen Qing’s relationship with Young Master Yuan had always been very good.

But Shen Qing had rejected her right then and there, his reason being: “Shen Yi is only eighteen this year. Is he not going to university? What is he going to work for.”

As a result, Ms. Tang at the time had said: “…Xiao Yi has at least graduated high school. You stopped going to school before you even turned eighteen! I don’t care, Xiao Yi is your younger brother. You must get this finalized for me!”

Shen Qing at the time: “…”

Forgot that the original owner dropped out in middle school.

At the gathering later on, he did casually mention it to Shen Yuan.

For Shen Yuan, arranging a job for Shen Yi wasn’t difficult, but the level of the job was still tied to academic qualifications.

Unless Shen Yi was willing to do manual labor at the factory and work his way up to a minor supervisor like Ms. Tang.

If he wanted to enter the Shen Corporation, there were a massive number of bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral graduates waiting for employment. How could they immediately arrange a position that particularly trained people for him? At most, they could arrange for him to be a low-level clerk.

Shen Qing expressed his understanding.

Moreover, as someone who had graduated from a Project 985/211 university and genuinely rolled his way up the corporate ladder through sheer strength, Shen Qing himself strongly disliked parachuted hires.

He wasn’t insistent about it anyway. Ms. Tang had just told him to inform Shen Yuan, and he did. Now he just relayed the message back to Ms. Tang using Young Master Shen’s exact words.

As a result, Ms. Tang blew up upon hearing it: “If it’s just a regular clerical job, did I need you to talk to Young Master Yuan about it?!”

Knowing her eldest son’s feelings for Young Master Yuan, and also knowing a bit about his lapdog tendencies, Ms. Tang felt some disgust in her heart, and immediately roared: “To avoid causing trouble for Young Master Yuan, you won’t even take care of your own younger brother. Are you trying to disown your own family?!

Originally, you married that Gu whatever-his-name-is in place of Young Master Yuan. Do you know how much face you made your father and me lose over this matter? What, now I ask you to get Young Master Yuan to do something for us, and you’re unwilling?”

Shen Qing: “…”

He subconsciously raised his eyes to look at Gu Huaiyu across from him.

Uh uh uh, his phone’s noise cancellation wasn’t very good, and Ms. Tang was famously loud-mouthed…

Saying “Gu whatever-his-name-is”… Good lord, did this Ms. Tang not realize President Gu was right beside him?

She clearly heard President Gu’s voice just now!

Hearing this, Shen Qing stopped being polite and said, “If Shen Yi doesn’t go to university, he won’t get a good job. Young Master Shen himself graduated from a top university and is still pursuing his master’s! Why should Shen Yi be able to reap without sowing? I’ve made myself clear, you figure it out yourself.”

…It wasn’t that he lacked patience with the elderly.

It was just that President Gu’s eyes… were as black as ink! His gaze looked absolutely terrifying!

After Shen Qing finished speaking, he directly hung up the phone.

Afterward, he looked at Gu Huaiyu and said, “I’m sorry about that.”

Even though he couldn’t treat Ms. Tang as his biological mother and felt no familial affection, it was still that same old saying: since he had gained a new lease on life, he couldn’t just take the good and reject the bad.

The reason the original owner had become increasingly insecure in the first place was because Ms. Tang had disciplined him strictly, showed favoritism, and constantly invalidated him.

So, since he had become the original owner, he had to face these vexing matters along with it.

Shen Qing looked at Gu Huaiyu and spoke: “Are you angry? My mom, she…”

To this day, every time he opened his mouth to say the word “Mom,” Shen Qing still felt unaccustomed to it.

From childhood to adulthood, he had truly rarely mentioned that word.

So he hesitated slightly.

At this moment, Gu Huaiyu had already spoken: “I also graduated from a top university. And I have already graduated with my Ph.D.”

Shen Qing: ???

Uh uh uh, the big boss suddenly brings this up?

What does he mean? …

Gu Huaiyu raised his hand. The hand wearing the wedding ring lifted only an index finger, the tip slowly pressing against Shen Qing’s open collar, looking as if he was casually fiddling with it.

He lowered his eyes, carefully inspecting the pattern on the young man’s silk collar, then suddenly raised his head and asked: “…Are you really unwilling to trouble Shen Yuan? You can’t bear to?”

The big boss asked this question with distinct modulation, almost pausing after every word.

Shen Qing: “…?”

Why were we back to Shen Yuan?

The big boss’s focus…

Shen Qing’s eyes went round. “No, isn’t the point that my mom called you ‘Gu whatever-his-name-is’… Don’t hold that against her. She said that because she only knows you’re from the Gu family. She doesn’t really interact with wealthy families like yours…”

Gu Huaiyu raised his eyebrows slightly upon hearing this, indicating: “It doesn’t matter. I was the one who breached etiquette to begin with. I should have paid a formal visit to your home.”

Shen Qing hurriedly said: “That’s not it at all.”

The original owner was elevated in status by the head of the Shen family himself, and married into the Gu family under the title of a Shen family young master.

Back then, it was the head of the Shen family who personally stepped forward to negotiate, and Gu Huaiyu had also met with the family head.

Furthermore, the original owner’s parents had always opposed him marrying in place of Shen Yuan.

They disliked his lapdog behavior, and because people talked about their eldest son clinging to the high and mighty—simultaneously currying favor with Young Master Shen and gaining Gu family resources—they felt it was humiliating to have their spines poked at behind their backs.

So at the time, they had no intention of going with the Shen family head to meet the Gu family.

They had, of course, heard of Gu Huaiyu.

But the level of people they usually interacted with was limited. Coupled with their reluctance to mention the original owner’s matters, they also largely avoided topics regarding the Gu family. Right now, their situation should be that they only knew Gu Huaiyu was very powerful, but didn’t know exactly how powerful.

And when the original owner married as a substitute back then, he had almost completely severed ties with his parents. After moving into this large mansion, his parents had refused to contact him for a period of time. Facing parents who treated him mostly with criticism and judgment, the original owner hadn’t told them about his life and situation here either.

After Shen Qing transmigrated over, he had naturally contacted the original owner’s parents even less.

When Ms. Tang called him to ask him to attend the gathering a few days ago, it was his first time speaking with this “mother.”

Shen Qing briefly explained some of the background situation to Gu Huaiyu.

Because he had already accepted Gu Huaiyu, he didn’t want President Gu to be considered an outsider by his own “relatives.”

However, seeing that President Gu had almost no reaction to this, Shen Qing figured he probably didn’t mind it, and set his heart at ease.

But Gu Huaiyu instead said: “No, I mind these things very much.”

Shen Qing: “…?”

“However, let’s talk about ‘your young master’ first.”

The big boss resumed his pace of almost pausing after every word, his voice echoing faintly. “Do you… really like Shen Yuan that much?”

As he asked this, his back was ramrod straight. Shen Qing was sitting on the bed the same as him, so he couldn’t match the other’s height.

He only felt that Gu Huaiyu’s voice came from high above, like a deity descending, as if he could manipulate everything.

…It felt like…

Shen Qing: “If I liked Shen Yuan, would you help me snatch him over?”

Shen Qing didn’t ask this intentionally.

It was mainly because the feeling the big boss gave him was that if he nodded and said yes, he would actually think of a way to break up Shen Yuan and Lu Jingyi, and then fetch the person for him…

But after he asked this, Gu Huaiyu’s eyelids trembled slightly, yet he said: “I wouldn’t.”

Shen Qing: “?”

Gu Huaiyu: “Shen Yuan isn’t worthy of you. Stop having improper thoughts about him, and find someone else to like as early as possible.”

Having said that, Gu Huaiyu pulled the blanket, looking as if he was about to go to sleep.

Shen Qing: “???”

No wait, Boss, why aren’t you following the script?

He didn’t let Gu Huaiyu just go to sleep like that, but instead followed President Gu and drilled into the blanket too.

The woody fragrance assaulted his senses. Smelling it, Shen Qing felt joyful. “I didn’t fight for an opportunity for Shen Yi because I fundamentally don’t agree with him dropping out of school so early to work. Also, my mom has gotten carried away, thinking Shen Yuan is a panacea that can be used casually. Nowadays, graduating high school without any work experience, finding a clerical job is already pretty good… Let alone Young Master Shen’s side, even if it were you, I wouldn’t open this mouth.”

Lying flat on his back, Gu Huaiyu, who had already slowly closed his eyes: “…”

And abruptly opened his eyes again.

Shen Qing lay on his side, dropping his arm to very naturally loop around one of the big boss’s arms, and continued: “As for the question of liking Young Master Shen, haven’t I already told you? I don’t like him. I like you.”

“…”

Both of Gu Huaiyu’s eyelashes and eyelids trembled, and he abruptly turned his head to look at the young man.

The bedroom suddenly fell into silence.

A moment later, Gu Huaiyu spoke again, asking Shen Qing: “…Your parents don’t treat you well? They’re biased?”

“…”

Shen Qing hadn’t expected the big boss to not only be an expert at identifying green tea bitches, but also be as meticulous as a hair.

But he suddenly didn’t want to tell Gu Huaiyu too much about the original owner’s matters.

…

That was the original owner’s experience, after all, not his.

Shen Qing responded with a vague hum: “Mhm.”

Seeing his reluctance to say more, Gu Huaiyu didn’t ask further, and very considerately hummed in response: “Mm.”

Shen Qing was still hugging Gu Huaiyu’s arm. His arm suddenly tightened, wanting to say something.

But at that moment, his phone rang again. It was WeChat, sent by Ms. Tang again.

Being hung up on made her very unhappy, but she belatedly realized that someone beside her son might be able to hear what she was saying, and she really shouldn’t have gotten so agitated just now.

So without mentioning a single word about the minor dispute just now, she used text on WeChat to tactfully express: She had already roughly heard that Shen Qing currently had a pretty good relationship with his President Gu, and got along well with the two children at home too.

So she proposed having Shen Qing come home for a meal, indicating that after all, it had been so long since they last saw each other, and there was no overnight grudge in a family. They should meet up.

[Ms. Tang: Also, since your family is getting along well, try to bring them all along. You’re legally married after all… At the very least, Grandma should get to see the children.]

Shen Qing’s finger paused when he saw this sentence.

He looked at Gu Huaiyu, who was reading the message with him, and said completely unceremoniously: “Does this give you a sort of déjà vu, like we ran off and eloped with our cubs, and after many years gained approval, returning to bring the cubs to meet the parents?”

Gu Huaiyu: “…”