SFBF CH6

Afterwards, Shen Qing lay in bed for a full three days, nursing the wound on the back of his head.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to move, but the aftereffects of transmigration into the book plus the headache kept him in a comatose mode for most of these three days.

He seemed to have had many dreams, but he couldn’t remember anything in them.

It also seemed like he didn’t dream at all.

He just slept and couldn’t get up at all.

And obviously, he wasn’t the only one who couldn’t get up.

When he was occasionally lucid, Shen Qing heard the servant who brought him food say—Mr. Gu was also sick.

He hadn’t gotten up for the past two days, and it seemed the doctor said the situation was not optimistic.

The nanny who delivered the food sighed, worried about Mr. Gu and also worried about her own future—after all, the salary here was high and there was freedom, no one wanted anything to happen to the pillar of this family.

The nanny sighed so much that Shen Qing, who was lying down, also felt a trace of guilt.

…Gu Huaiyu seemed to have been stimulated into illness by him this time.

…Anyway, that night, after he sweetly called the other party “Hubby”, Mr. Gu started coughing frantically, and finally couldn’t catch his breath at all, scaring Shen Qing into calling the doctor quickly.

Fortunately, a medical team was already stationed at home and treated President Gu in time.

Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Shen Qing was interested in the other party’s inheritance, but he was just an ordinary citizen and couldn’t bear to watch a person die.

Having said that, was calling the other party “Hubby” really that stimulating for Gu Huaiyu? …

As a straight man, Shen Qing used to be joked about by straight male friends.

Of course, they wouldn’t call each other “Hubby” or anything, but there were still jokes.

When playing around, anything could be said. Shen Qing always thought it was normal, and calling Gu Huaiyu “Hubby” was also quite smooth, without any psychological burden.

Why did President Gu…

Sigh, didn’t they say that person thinks too much? He is prone to internal friction.

Or maybe, it’s because Gu Huaiyu is gay himself, so his reaction was particularly big? …

But with his body like that, does it matter if he’s straight or gay?

For a person who can only sit in a wheelchair, the CPU below shouldn’t be able to run either, so what’s the point of talking about sexual orientation?

Thinking about it this way, Shen Qing felt that President Gu falling ill this time had little to do with him.

Perhaps the other party was just overworked and couldn’t hold on anymore.

I heard Gu Huaiyu is a workaholic.

Even when he was weak to that extent, he was still handling official business when he had the energy…

As someone who worked 996 plus overtime until fainting and eventually falling to death, Shen Qing seemed to understand President Gu’s feelings.

Sometimes there are some jobs that you can’t quit just because you want to. Like Shen Qing, who was just a worker in a big factory, he couldn’t leave his post.

President Gu makes hundreds of millions in minutes, and so many employees depend on him to support their families and eat, so he can’t relax even more.

In this situation, Shen Qing could only sigh deeply and then firmly choose to lie flat.

Yes, having experienced life and death once, he has already taken money and houses lightly.

If he tires himself to death, he will have nothing.

The money saved hard will also be gone.

What’s the point then?

So for these three days, Shen Qing lay very peacefully.

It seemed that in his lifetime, he had never slept like this without worries, regardless of consequences and gains or losses, and without setting an alarm clock.

When he was completely recovered, slept enough, and the trauma and swelling on the back of his head were almost gone, Shen Qing got up.

Turning on the original owner’s phone, a wave of messages poured out.

The original owner was not good at socializing, but many people sent him messages.

Shen Qing turned off the phone at first because it rang too frequently.

The original owner was introverted and timid, and had few friends before. It was during the time after marrying Gu Huaiyu that his friends suddenly increased.

Most of these friends were people the original owner knew in the entertainment industry. It should be said that except for the few people under Miao Feiyu who debuted at the same time and had always looked down on the original owner, other people in the circle who could connect with him had long come over to curry favor with him.

People who were completely unfamiliar before suddenly became enthusiastic towards the original owner. Whether they were stars, models, anchors, or staff in the circle, it seemed that overnight, everyone intentionally or unintentionally added the original owner’s WeChat for various reasons, and then often gave him appropriate care and greetings.

The sudden liveliness would be hard to adapt to.

The original owner is still in a state of being flattered.

But indeed, he enjoyed this concern very much.

The original owner was very inferior, but suddenly one day there were people around him who cared about him, everyone praised him and flattered him. Over time, this inferiority complex healed without treatment.

And this feeling of being surrounded by stars like the moon will gradually make the original owner swell in the future, and his desires will become stronger.

Although he knew deeply that others were only flattering the power and money of the Gu family, he still got lost in it.

This caused him to become more and more greedy in the future, and more and more rampant after Gu Huaiyu’s death.

Shen Qing hurriedly flipped through those WeChat messages full of warmth and greetings.

Honestly speaking, although Shen Qing himself was not inferior, he didn’t think he could resist this flattery without swelling, so he simply didn’t look closely or reply.

Then Shen Qing was surprised to find that when everyone was saying some flattering and unnutritious words, he occasionally saw one with a less polite tone, and he was actually quite excited.

[Hao Yi: Yo, what are you doing? You haven’t replied for a few days? Playing missing or playing dead?]

[Hao Yi: How is your husband who was given for free recently? Are those two kids still there? When will you let me visit your villa!]

Shen Qing: “…”

Excitedly turned on combat mode!

This is the original owner’s childhood friend.

He is also a person with very incorrect values who led the original owner astray.

Just look at what he said, it’s infuriating.

Shen Qing remembered that the original owner started abusing and PUAing the children now, and even intensified the abuse and persecution later, all instigated and even encouraged by this person.

Otherwise, for such a cowardly person like the original owner, no matter how disgusted he was, he wouldn’t dare to break his promise and bully the children while Gu Huaiyu was still alive.

Regardless of Hao Yi’s purpose, for such a person, the sooner the relationship is severed, the better.

Shen Qing, who turned on combat mode: [My husband is in good health recently, and the children are also very cute. Thank you for your concern.]

Send, block, delete friend.

Happily throwing the phone aside, Shen Qing decided to tidy himself up.

In front of the mirror in the bedroom bathroom stood a young man with red lips, white teeth, and handsome eyebrows.

His black hair was a bit long, hanging loosely on his temples and both sides of his ears, making the person in the mirror look fair-skinned, with perfect and exquisite contours.

Shen Qing blinked at himself in the mirror, simply too satisfied with his appearance.

The character Shen Qing in “The Big World” was very controversial. Besides his viciousness shaping two villains, the topic of him marrying for love as a substitute was also very high back then.

Because in the setting, Shen Qing was just a side branch of the Shen family, belonging to those working for the Shen family.

But he could inexplicably get the favor of Shen family’s young master Shen Yuan.

Not only were the two familiar, Shen Yuan gave him the opportunity to send him to debut in the entertainment industry, which itself was abnormal.

In fact, “Shen Qing” was introverted and paranoid. If Shen Yuan hadn’t taken the initiative to play with Shen Qing when they were young, Shen Qing wouldn’t have dared to get close to the young master.

And if Shen Yuan hadn’t helped him directly or indirectly several times and given him warmth, the selfish and narrow-minded Shen Qing wouldn’t have fallen in love with Shen Yuan, to the point of marrying as a substitute for love.

Granted, as the protagonist shou, Shen Yuan has always been a white moonlight-like heartthrob character setting, so it’s not strange at all that the original owner would like him.

But for Shen Yuan to take the initiative to approach Shen Qing like this and play with him, that’s a bit unreasonable.

After all, there were many men and women of Shen Qing’s age working in the Shen family.

And among these people, there were many willing to marry into the Gu family for benefits…

Although Gu Huaiyu was dying, he was famous and rich!

Why did it have to be Shen Qing who ‘sacrificed’ himself in the end, rushed up to marry as a substitute for love, and then harmed the children of the Gu family because of various dissatisfactions?

This setting sounds unreasonable.

It is said that many readers at the time said this was a forced setting by the author, a brainless plot.

When Shen Qing read the book, he didn’t scrutinize the rationality of these plots carefully. He only remembered that the author emphasized that all this was because “Shen Qing” looked very good, quite good—

Good enough to catch the eye of the head of the Shen family.

Sending him to the Gu family could also uphold the face of the Shen family.

So they didn’t mind promoting his status to let him marry as a substitute.

But it wasn’t until he substituted his own face that Shen Qing finally understood the author’s good intentions—for someone as handsome as himself, no wonder the protagonist shou couldn’t help but take the initiative to approach back then.

No wonder the head of the Shen family would agree to let him go.

Even more no wonder the Gu family would accept such a forcefully promoted side branch!

Everything is because of the face!

Shen Qing knew he was handsome before.

When he was studying, the love letters he received could fill the whole desk drawer.

However, for poor people, studying is more important. Shen Qing rarely looked in the mirror and never paid attention to his appearance.

But once he substituted himself into “Shen Qing” in the book, the feeling that the author’s assumption was true and not forced at all rushed to his heart.

How Shen Qing wished to return to the original world and defend the author in the comment section—

Being handsome is really the answer to everything!

After washing up, Shen Qing changed into a refreshing home outfit and left his room.

…The pink color inside the room was still a bit too eye-stinging, he wanted to go out and wash his eyes.

And walking out of the room, seeing the corridor and small hall decorated in black and white, his heart finally calmed down.

He loves European minimalist style!

From this point, his taste is consistent with the billionaire boss. Not too unworldly and shabby.

Oh yeah!

“Mistress, do you need something to drink?”

Shen Qing appeared in the living room on the first floor, and the servant at home took the initiative to come over and ask what he needed.

At first, Shen Qing was very uncomfortable with titles like “servant” and “mistress”, but he transmigrated into an ancient style wealthy family literature, everyone called it this way, changing the title would be strange for others, so he acquiesced.

“…A cup of coffee and a cup of milk, no sugar, thank you.”

The servant agreed and went to prepare quickly.

Reasonably speaking, Shen Qing’s head injury hasn’t healed yet, so he shouldn’t drink coffee.

But the servants only focused on their own business, dared not gossip, and even more dared not interfere with the mistress’s affairs by skipping levels.

Gu Huaiyu has a cold personality, dislikes liveliness, and is strict with people.

He moved to this villa to live alone after getting sick and avoiding the world. Because he was dying, he only hired simple servants to take care of the most basic life.

Now the servants at home, including the butler, were temporarily hired and pieced together after taking back Gu Duo and the others. They have been together for less than half a year, and no one has any affection with Mr. Gu, so no one dares to talk nonsense or make random suggestions.

Similarly, the servants in the villa didn’t have any special opinion on him, the mistress who came to power later. Everyone worked for money, and as long as it was within the scope of work, they were very obedient.

Shen Qing had discovered long ago that he was very free in this home.

Probably because of this, the original owner could abuse the two children so openly without being discovered by others.

He just needed to dismiss the servants, or take the children to a place with no one…

Eh, speaking of which, where are those two little future villains during the three days I was in a coma?

The servant quickly prepared the coffee for him.

But before Shen Qing could drink this sip of coffee, he heard movement coming from the stairs.

Besides the elevator used by Gu Huaiyu, there were two staircases in the entire villa. One was a wide and grand straight staircase, and the other was a unique but not very practical spiral staircase.

The movement came from the spiral staircase.

Shen Qing vaguely heard it sounded like children playing and fighting, so he quickly stood up and walked towards the spiral staircase.

At this time, the butler appeared again. He probably also knew something happened over there, and whispered to report to Shen Qing: “This morning, Third Grandaunt brought the children over. I guess the young masters are playing together.”

Shen Qing: Third… what is a Third Grandaunt?

He tried hard to mobilize the original owner’s memory to know that this should refer to Gu Huaiyu’s third sister.

The Gu family is a top wealthy and influential clan. Just the brothers and sisters of Gu Huaiyu with the same father are 7 people.

But the Gu family is also a famously cold-hearted family. On the surface, they look harmonious and the whole family lives together, but actually, the inside is full of discord and contradictions.

Otherwise, Gu Huaiyu wouldn’t have ended up like this now, and Gu Duo and Gu Ao wouldn’t have no one to take care of them.

As the birthplace of villains in the book, the original work described all the information of the Gu family carefully.

However, Shen Qing didn’t read it carefully at the time and didn’t know much about the Gu family.

And the original owner had only obtained the marriage certificate for a few months, far from being familiar with the Gu family…

Even this “Third Grandaunt”, the original owner had only seen her once hurriedly. Except for the general arrogance of the Gu family members, he had no other impression.

Over there, some child let out a piercing scream.

Many adults rushed over upon hearing the sound, and Shen Qing also quickened his pace.

From a distance, he saw four children pulling around the same toy. Gu Ao and Gu Duo stood on one side, and a boy and a girl stood together on the other side.

The scream was made by Little Gu Ao.

The three-and-a-half-year-old child still had some slurred speech, but perhaps he was pissed off, Shen Qing still heard clearly what he shouted: “This is ours, why give it to you, why!”

The boy and girl opposite were taller than Gu Duo and Gu Ao, and looked older than them.

The boy who looked a bit older grabbed the toy desperately and didn’t let go: “I like it, I have my eyes on it, it’s mine, so what, give it to me!”

The girl was slightly more polite than this boy. She didn’t touch the toy, and her tone was also very gentle and polite: “My brother likes it, please let him have it! My mom will buy you a new one later!”

Shen Qing: “…”

Mn, polite, but not much.

Shen Qing was thinking this, and Little Gu Ao over there didn’t wait for the other party to finish, and had already domineeringly refused: “You dare to take my Gu Ao’s things, dream on!”

Shen Qing: “…”

Worthy of being the future Long Aotian.

Although only three and a half years old, and the little voice was still milky, the tone of this shout was already quite domineering.

Anyway, it’s unsafe for children to wrestle on the stairs. Shen Qing had to drag his still weak sick body and quicken his pace.

And couldn’t help sighing that this villa is really fucking big!

Before he arrived, a lady wearing a business-style dress suit had already appeared at the stair entrance on the second floor. Seeing the children tearing at each other, she immediately roared: “Playing on the stairs for what? What if you fall down?! Gu Ming, Gu Jie! What did I tell you before coming? Come up here!”

The woman wore exquisite makeup, her age couldn’t be seen, but her voice was not low.

Obviously, she was Gu Huaiyu’s third sister.

Her words were also very deterrent to the children, causing the two children Gu Jie and Gu Ming to look at each other and stop arguing.

Gu Huaixiang wore high heels of more than ten centimeters, making it inconvenient to go downstairs, so she walked slower.

The man behind her had already gone downstairs first to control the situation.

The man was Gu Huaixiang’s husband, who married into the Gu family.

Shen Qing organized his memory and summarized while arriving at the stair entrance.

Upstairs, Gu Huaixiang came down steadily and walked in front of the children, asking them what they were arguing about.

The four children talked at once. Finally, the adults understood that it was because there were two transforming robots in Gu Duo and Gu Ao’s room, which Gu Ming took a fancy to.

Seeing there were two similar ones, Gu Ming wanted one. He thought anyway his mother was rich. He could give Gu Duo and them money.

But Gu Duo and Gu Ao resolutely refused to give or sell.

In fact, Gu Ming was half a year younger than Gu Duo, but taller than Gu Duo, and looked fatter than the baby-fat Little Gu Ao.

He was used to being willful at home.

With Gu Huaixiang around, even in the Gu family mansion, many people pampered him. The little young master had never encountered anything he couldn’t get.

Gu Ming never thought too much. Seeing Gu Duo and them refuse, he simply grabbed it and ran.

But Gu Ao had a proud nature and a stubborn temper. He couldn’t stand being wronged, so how could he let him grab it?

A child of his size didn’t know how to use other means to protect himself, so the three-and-a-half-year-old little bean sprout immediately fought with the boy who was bigger and stronger than him.

Gu Duo wouldn’t let his brother be wronged and also joined the battle. Finally, the 7-year-old Gu Jie also joined the fight protecting her brother.

“They obviously have two robots, why can’t they give me one? Stingy!” Gu Ming also felt wronged. He stopped snatching the robot, just wiping tears while “complaining” to his mother.

Beside him, Gu Duo said sinisterly: “Not giving you other people’s things is stingy? You are too unreasonable.”

“…”

Gu Ming felt what he said was a bit right, but he didn’t consider agreeing.

Yet couldn’t think of any words to refute.

He couldn’t stand this grievance, his small chest puffed up high with anger, tears falling clatteringly: “It’s not like I want yours for free! I said my mom would give you money!”

Gu Duo still had a calm expression, and his tone was also very rational: “I also said, this was given to us by Little Uncle, no one can have it.”

“You! …”

“Gu Ming! Enough! Isn’t it shameful?” Gu Huaixiang shouted, not allowing her son to speak anymore, and criticized: “How can you snatch your brother’s things!”

Hearing this, Gu Duo looked at Gu Huaixiang.

When he and Gu Ao lived in the Gu family, they were raised by Big Uncle and Second Uncle respectively. Although everyone lived in the same courtyard, their understanding of this Third Aunt was not deep.

During the few months living in the Gu family mansion, Third Aunt rarely appeared.

However, Gu Duo didn’t like Gu Ming and Gu Jie.

They were in the same group as Big Uncle’s family’s children.

In fact, Gu Duo didn’t like any of the children in the Gu family who were about the same age as him.

It wasn’t the first time he and Gu Ao had their toys snatched.

Gu Duo blinked lightly. Seeing his aunt scolding Gu Ming, he couldn’t help but wonder what this Third Aunt would say next.

…Maybe Third Aunt doesn’t know Gu Ming and Gu Jie’s usual style…

Although Gu Ao, this Little Long Aotian, was young, he also vaguely understood his brother’s meaning.

Gu Ao looked up, staring at the tall woman who criticized Gu Ming with big round eyes, thinking: Third Aunt is really a good person.

So Little Gu Ao also politely fell silent, just subconsciously still hugging the robot that was only a few centimeters shorter than himself, tightly, not letting go.

But Gu Huaixiang seemed not to see the bright light in the children’s eyes.

There was also no expression on her exquisite face. She was usually a very strict person, her word was law at home. As soon as she spoke, Gu Ming and Gu Jie quieted down, daring not to talk back or resist.

Gu Huaixiang brushed away a strand of hair on her forehead with her hand, and her perfectly painted red lips opened again.

However, it wasn’t to continue educating her own children.

Instead, she said to Gu Duo: “Do Duo Duo and Gu Ao have anything you want? Third Aunt will buy it for you.”

“It’s just a toy, don’t hurt the harmony between brothers and sisters.”

Saying that, she actually bent down directly to take the robot in Gu Ao’s hand: “Let Ming brother have this toy, I’ll tell your Little Uncle later…”

Gu Huaixiang’s voice paused. She thought Gu Ao was only three and a half years old and had no strength, so she wanted to take the toy directly.

But she didn’t expect this child to have such great strength. When she pulled, not only did she not move it, but she also pulled her exquisite nails with nail patches.

Ao Zai wasn’t stupid. Realizing this Third Aunt wasn’t a good person protecting him and his brother, and even wanted to snatch his and his brother’s toy, he immediately resisted with all his might: “I won’t!”

After roaring, he also cried out.

Gu Huaixiang, whose finger hurt, was in an even worse mood, and the smile on her face disappeared: “What are you crying for! I didn’t do anything to you!”

Ao Zai cried even louder. He was too young to express emotions and thoughts, and could only sob and say: “Ao, Ao Zai just wants this one, wants this one! Won’t give, definitely won’t give, Ming Gege.”

Gu Duo beside him quickly hugged his brother.

His small body wished to wrap up his brother and the robot entirely, and he never looked at his Third Aunt again, just silently lowered his eyelashes.

Although he knew this toy couldn’t be protected either.

Adults like to say: It’s just a toy, brother likes it, so let him have it.

It’s just an ice cream, you child are really good for nothing, protecting food like this since childhood, why can’t you let sister have it if she wants to eat?

—When they lived with Big Uncle and Second Uncle, it was all like this.

A mass of ink-like black appeared in the depths of the child’s eyes that should have been clear. There was unspeakable bitterness and forbearance in Little Gu Duo’s eyes.

But at this moment, a voice suddenly came from downstairs: “Since the toys belong to Duo Duo and Ao Zai, if they like it, they can’t give it to others. Sorry.”

A clear and pleasant voice came, everyone upstairs was stunned and looked down together.

Below, the handsome Shen Qing smiled at them: “Whatever Gu Ming wants, Little Aunt can also buy for you.”

But smiling and smiling, he stopped smiling.

Instead, his expression was very serious: “But snatching brothers’ things, this is absolutely not allowed.”