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Once the meeting officially began upstairs, only Shen Qing and the two little ones remained in the small parlor.

Shen Qing sent Ao Zai off to continue sunbathing with the large robots nearby, then sidled up to Duo Duo to ask about Ao Zai’s reluctance to attend kindergarten.

The information Duo Duo provided was limited—he only said that Ao Zai had been to kindergarten before, but hadn’t gotten along well with the other children there. After that, Ao Zai never wanted to go back.

Gu Duo had never attended proper kindergarten either when he was young, since his father had passed away and he’d drifted around with his mother.

He was still young and didn’t understand the pros and cons of kindergarten for human cubs.

He only knew that if Ao Zai didn’t want to go, then he wouldn’t go.

Anyway, he could teach his younger brother himself.

Moreover, based on Gu Duo’s personal experience, kindergarten felt like a waste of time—the things they taught there were too simple and elementary.

So if Ao Zai didn’t want to go, he wouldn’t force him as his older brother, and he didn’t see any problem with it at all.

However, as the head of the household, Shen Qing had to consider many more things.

The main concern was whether not attending kindergarten would affect Ao Zai’s personality and development.

First, Ao Zai wasn’t autistic—he got along well with adults and could play nicely with other children.

For example, he’d hit it off with that eight-year-old horse child they’d met at the amusement park.

So what exactly had caused him to clash with the other children at kindergarten? That needed attention.

Secondly, Shen Qing only realized after Duo Duo mentioned it that while Duo had classmates like Xu Weiming to call occasionally, Ao Zai seemed to have no one.

Of course, it was normal for a three-and-a-half-year-old cub to have no phone buddies, but they stayed in the villa every day. Ao Zai already had limited contact with other children—if he didn’t go to kindergarten either, who knew if he’d become withdrawn in the future?

…In the original novel, the future villain Long Aotian had been very reclusive.

He’d been domineering, looked down on everyone except his older brother, and had been quite violent and stubborn.

Yikes.

After careful consideration, Shen Qing felt he needed to discuss this with the big boss.

However, President Gu had been busy all day—Sister Lian and the others hadn’t left until the afternoon, and he’d reportedly been in cross-border video conferences after that.

Enrolling the cubs wasn’t something that could be settled in a day or two, so Shen Qing wasn’t in a rush.

After checking President Gu’s schedule, he returned to his original room to reorganize his belongings.

Well, though he’d promised Duo Duo he’d sleep with his little uncle, Shen Qing hadn’t said all his daily activities had to take place in the big boss’s bedroom…

Ha, he’d decided to transform his original room into a storage room plus gaming den—he’d play here when he wasn’t sleeping.

And for fairness’ sake, to keep the cubs psychologically balanced, Shen Qing specifically designated another room as the children’s game room.

A playroom specifically prepared for human cubs hadn’t existed in Shen Qing’s worldview before.

…This was still the fault of poverty.

Back when having a roof over your head was good enough, and having never seen how wealthy families lived, he’d naturally never realized that little cubs could have their own dedicated spaces for fun!

It was only during his chat with Sister Lian earlier, when she’d wondered why Ao Zai wasn’t sunbathing his robot friends in the game room but had to move them all out instead, that Shen Qing had an epiphany. He made a mental note that building a game room for the cubs was necessary.

—He was someone who loved to play, after all, a 996 veteran turned salted fish who loved entertainment.

The contrast before and after was huge. Shen Qing knew exactly how much joy a room filled with entertainment could bring a person.

Providing cubs with larger, freer activity spaces also helped their physical and mental development.

Plus, with a game room, the two cubs would have another place to play.

That way, when people they didn’t want to see came over, they wouldn’t have to hide in the bedroom anymore.

Anyway, what his family had most of was rooms.

Considering there were two cubs, Shen Qing specifically chose another suite.

The outer area would serve as their game room, while the inner room would be their study.

After selecting the room, Shen Qing asked the housekeeper to have people remove the unnecessary furniture and decorations to prevent them from falling and injuring Ao Zai and Duo Duo.

This made the room look somewhat empty, so Shen Qing planned to purchase some child-specific furniture.

But before that, he had the cubs organize their toys and books first, then had them placed in chosen spots.

A seemingly simple project took nearly half a day to complete when actually executed.

…Shen Qing had only needed a few minutes to move his own room, but planning the game room for the cubs and finishing everything took until the afternoon.

Now Shen Qing was really too tired to straighten his back.

But the upside was that with a new room fully dedicated to entertainment and learning, the cubs were very happy.

Ao Zai was the happiest of all.

Because Shen Qing told him the game room was specifically for storing his precious treasures that he was afraid others would steal, Ao Zai performed an on-the-spot rolling celebration right there.

Out of joy.

Shen Qing analyzed that this was because he’d always had his things stolen by cousins at the Gu family mansion, and after moving here, he’d often been yelled at by the original owner… So even now, the bedroom didn’t give Ao Zai a sense of security.

But this newly established game room—Ao Zai had never had anything stolen here yet.

To him, this was absolutely safe.

Though the cub didn’t even know what a game room meant.

That didn’t stop him from bustling around behind the adults, following back and forth trip after trip like a little tail, keeping watch over his treasures!

Shen Qing let him run around, and the adults helping move things all adored this sturdy, cheerful young master. Anyone who passed by would tease him, and Ao Zai had no temper—he giggled happily at everyone.

Compared to Ao Zai, Duo Duo, who was recovering from illness and no longer so fragile, wasn’t as expressive with his emotions.

Besides, he was still sick, so Shen Qing didn’t let him do work. He just had him sit nearby with a tablet, selecting furniture.

During the moving period, Gu Duo indeed found it hard to focus on studying, so he simply held the tablet and carefully examined children’s furniture and toys.

His aunt’s exact words were that he should pick whatever he liked and add it to the cart—the toy room would be completely arranged by them.

To prevent Gu Duo from having no concept of what to choose, Shen Qing had even looked up some concept images online for him.

But actually, Gu Duo had already sketched out the layout of such a room in his heart long ago.

…At the Gu family estate, Gu Ming and the others all had their own rooms.

He and his brother had visited their rooms when they were first brought over. He couldn’t say he’d been envious—just somewhat surprised by how much stuff they had.

Especially the rooms of his eldest uncle’s son and daughter gave Gu Duo the feeling of being in a treasure-filled cave.

Perhaps every child longed to have a treasure cave of their own.

Gu Duo was no exception.

But if Shen Qing hadn’t mentioned it, he would never have remembered this occasionally rising desire.

With a mental blueprint, selecting things became much easier.

This was Gu Duo’s first time shopping for himself. He didn’t really understand it, but as Shen Qing said, he just added whatever he liked to the cart—it was actually quite simple.

By the afternoon, when Shen Qing was almost done, the one adult and two cubs sat in a row in the small parlor on the second floor, drinking milk.

To prevent the two cubs from actually growing up short, drinking milk became very important to Shen Qing.

It was one of the mandatory daily check-in items.

Besides milk, Shen Qing also had coconut milk and almond milk prepared—surely one of them would meet the cubs’ requirements.

But milk remained the daily essential.

The original owner had never given Duo Duo and Ao Zai milk before. The two cubs had felt that not going hungry was good enough, and even if they wanted to drink, there was none. After a long time, they naturally stopped wanting it, almost forgetting what milk even was.

Until recently, when Shen Qing had been forcing them to catch up on milk, even making them drink before bed…

Duo Duo was fine, but Ao Zai smelled like milk all over and would even burp milk. Ao Zai didn’t like being like this, so he refused to drink.

Helpless, Shen Qing had to personally take the lead and drink with them.

While drinking milk, Shen Qing looked at the furniture Duo Duo had added to the cart.

Picking and choosing with the two cubs, deleting duplicates where there were too many of the same type—for example, Duo Duo had selected five or six sets of desks and chairs for children, and they removed the excess that couldn’t possibly all be used. After settling on the rest, Shen Qing looked at the total displayed at checkout…

Nice, over two hundred thousand.

It had to be Young Master Duo—tasteful, picking things that weren’t cheap.

But…

Buy buy buy!

Shen Qing didn’t hesitate, placing the order directly.

Anyway, living expenses like this were all charged to the big boss’s card, ha.

And he had to admit, the feeling of swiping that card was absolutely amazing—indeed, shopping could satisfy basic human desires.

Even though these weren’t things he personally needed, the moment of paying felt so good!

This made Shen Qing recall the computer setup he’d configured a few days ago, which had cost nearly six figures.

So after placing the order and finishing the milk, Shen Qing settled the two cubs into their game room and returned to his own game room to rest.

Called resting, but he actually turned on his computer and started gaming the moment he got back.

…Gaming plus binge-watching dramas, even eating dinner in his room, playing until after 8:30 PM, when Shen Qing finally got up on time to personally supervise the cubs’ washing up and bedtime.

…Ah, what a fulfilling day of childcare!

Nine o’clock at night.

The cubs were asleep, and the villa was completely quiet. Only then did Shen Qing go upstairs.

President Gu was still in his office reading documents at this hour.

…The villa was very quiet, but occasionally you could hear a cough or two from President Gu on the third floor.

Shen Qing heard it as soon as he approached, and for a moment he suddenly felt a pain in his own chest—he was really worried that the big boss working so hard would speed up his journey to the grave.

Subconsciously quickening his pace, Shen Qing knocked on Gu Huaiyu’s office door, then pushed it open, poking his head in discreetly to look around.

Gu Huaiyu looked up at him upon hearing the sound.

“Back to sleep?”

Shen Qing: “…”

The way he asked that, why did it sound like he was some stray cat who liked to wander around?

Without waiting for him to speak, Gu Huaiyu lifted his chin again: “You go wash first.”

Shen Qing: ?

That sounded even stranger!

…Reluctantly interpreting this as the big boss telling him to use the bathroom first as a roommate, Shen Qing tried hard not to overthink.

He blinked and walked directly into the office: “No, it’s still early, I’m not planning to sleep… I just came to see what you’re doing?”

Gu Huaiyu paused, then set down his pen: “Something wrong?”

“There is something. Is it convenient now?” Shen Qing had already arrived at President Gu’s desk.

“…”

Gu Huaiyu’s gaze flickered: “What do you want to do?”

Shen Qing: “…Discuss some things about the cubs.”

After speaking, Shen Qing sensed something off about the big boss’s expression and couldn’t help asking strangely: “What did you think I wanted?”

Gu Huaiyu: …

Remembering what the young man had said during the day about waiting for him in the room tonight, Gu Huaiyu’s gaze flickered again.

“Nothing.”

Shen Qing: “?”

“Sit.”

Gu Huaiyu extended his hand to indicate the chair opposite for Shen Qing to sit, then suddenly asked: “How’s your waist?”

Shen Qing: “?”

The big boss was suddenly concerned about his waist?

Did he know he’d strained his back organizing the game room for the cubs that afternoon?

Shen Qing: “It’s okay, still a bit sore, but nothing serious.”

Gu Huaiyu frowned upon hearing this, his expression troubled: “So what exactly did I do to make your waist sore?”

Shen Qing: “???”

Heavens… no way.

Shen Qing suddenly remembered what he’d done that morning.

Originally, that had been half-joking, half-acting—true and false mixed together so that probably nobody would take it too seriously. Anyway, he’d forgotten about it himself after acting it out.

He hadn’t expected President Gu to still remember!

And he actually… didn’t understand!

?

The big boss was this pure?

This pure virgin…

Perhaps geniuses who were academic tyrants as children and grew up to be presidents really were different from others.

Shen Qing hadn’t believed such people really existed before.

But after witnessing Young Master Duo’s uniqueness, he suddenly felt that any kind of person could exist—species were just that diverse.

Wuwuwu, thinking about it this way, his husband really was… well, he couldn’t say pitiful, exactly.

It just makes people feel sorry for him.

He hasn’t enjoyed life yet, hasn’t dated, and doesn’t even understand many things before he’s going to die—how can that not be sigh-worthy!

Shen Qing was wondering whether he should give him a popular science lesson [explain the facts of life].

“What I meant when I said you made my waist sore was that I was deliberately saying it for others to hear.”

Gu Huaiyu: “? Why say it for others to hear?”

Shen Qing: “…”

Sorry, this is hard to explain.

Shen Qing: “Nothing, just think of me as someone who likes to act spoiled.”

Gu Huaiyu: “…”

Facing Gu Huaiyu’s continuous scrutinizing gaze, as if he wanted to get to the bottom of things, Shen Qing massaged his own waist and said, “This afternoon I helped the cubs build a game room.”

“Game room?” Gu Huaiyu asked.

“Yeah.”

Shen Qing took the opportunity to share this major accomplishment of the day with the big boss. As he spoke, he even hiccuped…

A milky taste rushed straight up his throat.

Shen Qing subconsciously covered his mouth.

Gu Huaiyu: “? Are you okay?”

“Fine…” Shen Qing shook his head. He’d supervised the cubs drinking a cup of milk before bedtime, and Shen Qing had accompanied them with a cup too.

He’d drunk milk several times throughout the day and couldn’t even eat proper meals anymore—now even his hiccups smelled like milk.

Gu Huaiyu: “…”

He subconsciously pinched the bridge of his nose.

At this moment, Shen Qing noticed that even though President Gu had been in meetings all day, his desk was still completely empty.

There were plenty of things, just arranged orderly—documents stacked neatly in several piles, the desktop smooth and reflective, spotless.

…Unlike the desk in his game room, which had become a tragic sight due to being piled with snacks.

Mentioning food reminded Shen Qing: “Right, did you eat dinner? Sister Lian said you didn’t touch the cake she bought at all. Why aren’t you eating again?”

The hand pinching his nose paused. Gu Huaiyu opened his eyes suddenly upon hearing this: “…She told you? Why did she tell you these things?”

Shen Qing: “…Just casual chatting.”

Gu Huaiyu’s eyes half-closed as he continued pinching his nose, his tone unreadable: “When did she tell you?”

Shen Qing: “In the evening, during dinner. She sent me a WeChat message.”

Gu Huaiyu: “…”

After speaking, Shen Qing didn’t know if it was his imagination, but he suddenly felt the air pressure around President Gu drop.

The big boss’s action of pressing his nose bridge was sexy, but paired with his pale face and somewhat gloomy profile, it gave off a bit of a yandere vibe.

Yandere and manic.

Gu Huaiyu suddenly nodded, taking a deep breath: “Fine, it seems she has everything under control with the tasks I gave her, since she’s so idle.”

Shen Qing: “…”

Alright, in fact Sister Lian had indeed been casually chatting with him, and one of the main topics was complaining about how President Gu was strict, temperamental, and would turn on people. Being suddenly sent on a business trip, she had to catch an overnight flight blah blah blah.

Not wanting Sister Lian to be misunderstood by her boss as slacking off, Shen Qing emphasized: “Sister Lian really did send me a message during her dinner break. She’s not that idle!”

Gu Huaiyu paused again upon hearing this: “So you’re saying she’s already very busy, yet still made time to tell me I didn’t eat cake?”

Shen Qing: “The cake thing was just casual chat…”

Hmm, why does it feel like no matter how we talk, we circle back to this?

However, Gu Huaiyu suddenly nodded, giving the conversation a new direction—

President Gu said: “Okay, understood. So she made time to chat with you even when busy.”

Shen Qing: “…?”

This feels even more wrong!

Fine, Shen Qing chose to avoid Sister Lian’s topic as much as possible, trying hard to steer back to the cake.

He said: “That cake was pretty good… No, I mean, you didn’t eat much again today, did you?”

Gu Huaiyu said: “I don’t…”

The big boss paused mid-sentence. Shen Qing subconsciously tilted his head to look at him, already prepared to hear the boss emphasize that he doesn’t eat sweets.

Unexpectedly, after the pause, Gu Huaiyu actually changed his tune: “I don’t eat just any cake.”

Shen Qing: …?

So the boss only likes carrot cake?

While he was spacing out, his eyes stared straight at President Gu the whole time.

Being looked at so intently, Gu Huaiyu suddenly “slap” closed the folder on his desk and said: “Let’s go, back to the room.”

Shen Qing: “? Go back to the room for what?”

Gu Huaiyu raised his eyes to look at him: “To sleep, of course.”

“…?”

Gu Huaiyu: “Didn’t you say you’d wait for me in the room…”

“Uh?!” Shen Qing subconsciously stepped back.

After stepping back, he was a bit confused himself.

…Strange, Gu Huaiyu clearly hadn’t done anything, but the moment he met that aggressive gaze just now, Shen Qing had been startled into retreating!

Looking at the young man’s confused expression, Gu Huaiyu’s habitually tight lips actually relaxed slightly.

He raised an eyebrow slightly: “I shouldn’t keep you waiting too long.”

“This… we’re really sleeping together?” Shen Qing was completely confused: “Isn’t that inconvenient? I don’t sleep very well…”

Gu Huaiyu: “It’s fine, I sleep well.”

“…I’ll disturb your rest,” Shen Qing said. “Ah, how about I sleep in the sickbed?!”

Gu Huaiyu: “…”

Seeing how nervous the young man was, Gu Huaiyu couldn’t quite gauge his true thoughts, so he stopped teasing him.

Becoming serious again, Gu Huaiyu said: “You came to find me earlier to talk about Duo Duo and them?”

Shen Qing: “…Ah, actually it’s about Ao Zai.”

Gu Huaiyu: “Speak.”

Shen Qing: “Ao.”

Finally getting to the main topic, Shen Qing breathed a sigh of relief and explained Ao Zai’s situation.

“I suspect Ao Zai might have been bullied at kindergarten, so he doesn’t want to go to school. Otherwise, how could a cub who’s fine with everything else resist so strongly only when hearing about kindergarten?”

“Mm.”

Gu Huaiyu listened and said: “I know Ao Zai attended kindergarten. I roughly know what happened.”

Shen Qing: ?

Then Shen Qing learned from the big boss that Ao Zai had indeed attended kindergarten last year.

At the time, Ao Zai had just turned three, but was ostracized by other children at kindergarten.

Someone bullied him and falsely accused him of stealing. Ao Zai’s temperament wouldn’t let him suffer losses—he immediately beat up the bullies and the ones who framed him.

Afterward, the teacher contacted the parents, but the cub who had been fostered with his second uncle didn’t receive any protection from that uncle… According to Gu Huaiyu, his second brother Gu Huaiyao was always pleasure-seeking and loved gambling; he couldn’t be bothered with anything else.

Gu Huaiyao didn’t deal with Ao Zai’s problem either.

He didn’t want to deal with it and wasn’t capable of dealing with it. The kindergarten Ao Zai attended wasn’t an ordinary one—the child he injured was also some young master from a wealthy family.

…Even Duo Duo and Ao Zai’s tuition came from the Gu family general accounts, so naturally Gu Huaiyao didn’t want to bear this responsibility.

In the end, it was Gu Huaiyu who stepped in to settle things.

After that, he brought the cubs directly here.

Shen Qing: “…”

Looking at the boss’s pale face and thin figure, Shen Qing couldn’t help asking: “Then how did you settle it?”

Gu Huaiyu glanced at him: “Naturally, I found evidence of the others framing Ao Zai, then made those few children who bullied him apologize to him.”

His tone was quite matter-of-fact.

Shen Qing: “…”

Great. Good. Very boss-like.

So satisfying!

“However, after that Ao Zai didn’t want to go to kindergarten anymore,” Gu Huaiyu added.

Shen Qing could understand this behavior—after all, it was said that future villains hold grudges.

And according to Shen Qing’s observations, Ao Zai was also very sensitive to environments. Wherever he suffered trauma, he would guard against that place. …This might be related to losing his parents early and drifting around.

But understanding is understanding.

Shen Qing continued: “I just feel it’s not good for him to never go to kindergarten? …Okay, I don’t know whether cubs Ao Zai’s age really need to go to kindergarten. I just searched online—some say it’s necessary, others say it’s not… So big boss, how about you ask around?”

“Okay.” Gu Huaiyu nodded crisply again: “Leave it to me.”

“Mm-mm.” Shen Qing nodded along.

Gu Huaiyu said: “If Ao Zai never wants to go to kindergarten, we can also hire a tutor for one-on-one lessons. Don’t worry too much.”

Shen Qing: “Ah, I’m not worried about his studies. I’m worried about him not having anyone to play with.”

Gu Huaiyu: “…”

“What?”

Seeing him silent, Shen Qing widened his eyes, “I’m protecting the cubs’ childhood! Childlike innocence, do you understand?”

“…”

President Gu, being questioned like this, not only didn’t get angry but curved his lips into a smile. He said: “Mm.”

Shen Qing: …With President Gu’s attitude, there was nothing more he could say.

Instead, Gu Huaiyu said again: “Since you brought this up, there’s also something I want to tell you.”

“What is it?”

Gu Huaiyu said: “Sit first.”

Saying this, he rummaged through a drawer, and after a while took out a document and handed it to Shen Qing beside him.

Shen Qing had no choice but to sit opposite President Gu, taking the document and opening it: “Adoption process?”

“Yes.”

Gu Huaiyu said: “I plan to adopt Duo Duo and Ao Zai under our names.”

Shen Qing: “.”

In the original novel, the two cubs were eventually adopted by President Gu too—the kind where they directly called him Dad. It was said to be convenient for inheritance purposes.

Since it was destined to happen, Shen Qing had no objections.

He looked at the thick document in his hand—there seemed to be some inheritance legal documents attached at the back. Flipping through quickly, Shen Qing had no concept of these things and immediately expressed he had no opinion: “Pretty good, I approve.”

Gu Huaiyu: “You won’t look carefully? After the adoption… you’ll also be their father.”

“Fa…”

Don’t mention it—the sudden prospect of becoming a father gave Shen Qing a very subtle feeling.

Although they were cubs with no blood relation and actually no relation at all, once he became their father, there was still pressure.

Fortunately, when he first started as their aunt [uncle’s wife], Shen Qing had also hesitated, retreated, and worried.

But after getting along during this period, thinking of Duo Duo and Ao Zai’s two young, tender faces, Shen Qing immediately said: “I’m OK.”

…Right, previously he had worried that Duo Duo and Ao Zai wouldn’t be willing to call him father.

After all, in the original novel, the two cubs were only close to their little uncle.

But after last night’s talk, knowing that Duo Duo also didn’t want to leave him, Shen Qing was now full of confidence, believing the two cubs definitely wouldn’t have objections to changing what they called him.

Gu Huaiyu said: “Good. I’ll talk to them about this, and you’ll need to be present then.”

“No problem.” Shen Qing nodded.

“Also, one more thing.” Gu Huaiyu: “In a couple of days I’ll return to the hospital. …For a while.”

“Big boss?”

“It’s fine.” Gu Huaiyu said.

He usually had no expression, and when speaking of serious matters he became even more serious, even appearing stern.

But this time, he raised his hand, then specially added: “Really nothing serious, just… a minor surgery.”

Shen Qing: “?”

Really?

Why did he feel something was off—would a normal big boss specially tell you he’s going to the hospital…

Thinking again, it wasn’t wrong to say so. After all, they were roommates living together now!

And it should be nothing serious… Gu Huaiyu originally often went to hospitals too.

And Shen Qing remembered that in the original novel, Gu Huaiyu wouldn’t die this early.

At least not in winter.

But.

…Was it because ever since he transmigrated to this world, the big boss had been staying at home? Hearing suddenly that the big boss was going to the hospital, he felt a bit unaccustomed and also very averse to the word “hospital.”

“Shen Qing.”

Hearing the big boss suddenly call him, Shen Qing subconsciously: “Mm?”

“If one day I’m not here, what are you planning to do?” Gu Huaiyu suddenly asked.

Shen Qing: …

Was this the ultimate test the big boss was giving him before adopting the two cubs under their names?!

He immediately perked up, but didn’t act too deliberate, instead continuing to react as an ordinary person who didn’t know President Gu’s condition would, smiling: “Not here? Where would you go?”

Gu Huaiyu stared at him steadily, not smiling, even explaining seriously: “When I say I’m not here, I mean dead.”

Shen Qing: “…”

Fine, the boss was serious.

“Then of course I’d continue raising Duo Duo and Ao Zai, accompanying them properly. What else could I do?”

Gu Huaiyu still looked at him: “Besides that?”

Shen Qing: “Nothing else!”

If there had to be something else…

Shen Qing suddenly heard Gu Huaiyu ask him: “You don’t consider finding a new partner?”

Shen Qing: ?!

“Ah no no no.” Shen Qing shook his head like a rattle-drum.

He had actually thought about this question before… After Gu Huaiyu died in the plot, the original owner of course took the inheritance the big boss left behind and went wild.

He would probably do the same in the future.

And with his current relationship with the two cubs, plus how accustomed they were to his laziness, generally whatever he did they wouldn’t find strange or have opinions about.

The only thing to consider appropriate was whether he could find them a new step-uncle.

…Or should it be called step-aunt? …Step-dad? Step-mom???

Forget it, anyway that’s what it meant.

But later Shen Qing figured it out—if he didn’t find one, he didn’t find one. This was already a second life obtained by accident, why ask for more [why ask for a bicycle when you have a car]?

His current life was already pretty good.

People can’t have everything.

So now Shen Qing’s attitude was firm.

He directly said: “Rest assured big boss, I will remain widowed for you! …Uh I mean, whether you’re here or not, I’m yours!”

Gu Huaiyu: “…”

He tried to hold it in but couldn’t.

Gu Huaiyu: “Cough cough cough!”

“Big boss?”

Shen Qing hadn’t expected President Gu to react so intensely this time. Seeing the empty desktop, he immediately stood up: “I’ll get you water!”

Fortunately, there was a water dispenser in President Gu’s office. Shen Qing quickly brought water back for him to drink.

While Gu Huaiyu was catching his breath, Shen Qing stood by with his head lowered.

Until he heard the big boss call him again—

“Shen Qing.”

Shen Qing subconsciously looked up, his gaze accidentally falling into the other person’s eyes. For a moment, Shen Qing was somewhat dazed.

After staring for a moment, he recovered, tilting his head: “Mm? What is it, big boss?”

Gu Huaiyu gazed at him fixedly, not speaking.

A moment of strange quiet appeared in the office.

After a long while, Gu Huaiyu suddenly said again: “Back to the room.”

Shen Qing: …Why back to the room again!

Gu Huaiyu lightly curved his lips, his pale handsome face not looking as serious as usual.

He said: “Prepared some things for you. Go get them yourself.”

Shen Qing: ?!

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