SFBF CH78

Nine forty.

When Shen Qing arrived at the art studio where he usually painted, he had just stepped inside the main door when he suddenly heard someone calling him.

It was Teacher Zhang, who had been responsible for teaching him painting all this time.

At this moment, there was a young man next to Teacher Zhang. Dressed formally, he walked over face-to-face with Teacher Zhang, his gaze landing directly on Shen Qing, sizing him up intently and with eyes full of pleasant surprise.

Such a gaze was too naked; Shen Qing couldn’t help but notice it.

He looked at the young man with some curiosity, until the other party took the initiative to speak: “You… what a coincidence?!”

He pointed at Shen Qing, then pointed at himself: “You, oh, do you not remember me?”

“……?”

Confirming that the other party didn’t seem to have mistaken him for someone else, Shen Qing said, “……I really don’t remember.”

The young man wasn’t surprised either, merely smiling a bit bitterly, then pretending not to care as he said, “Haha, it’s normal not to remember. We only had a drink together once.”

Shen Qing: “……”

Originally, no matter how he looked at this person, he seemed completely unfamiliar, and he truly didn’t remember him.

But with that bitter smile, combined with his pale complexion that was almost identical to Mr. Gu’s, and a similarly thin build……

Shen Qing had a bit of an impression now.

Suddenly, it clicked—

Wasn’t this that fellow drinker from another table during the gathering he had with Shen Yuan and the others a few months ago?!

……Cough.

It was that time when he suddenly discovered his feelings for Mr. Gu might not be brotherly affection. Then, Shen Qing had drunk too much. In order to test whether he had turned gay or only had feelings for Mr. Gu, he had stared into this person’s eyes for over ten seconds, but in the end, he hadn’t kissed him!

“Oh, it’s you!”

Shen Qing also revealed a surprised expression, mainly astonished that after so long, this person still recognized him, and he himself could actually recall him.

“What a coincidence, but why are you here?”

Seeing that they knew each other, Teacher Zhang introduced them.

He first briefly introduced Shen Qing, and then said to Shen Qing, “This is Mr. Dai Honglin, Mr. Dai, who is also one of the partners of our studio. He has been abroad sketching during this period, I didn’t expect you to actually know each other.”

Shen Qing understood: “So you are a famous painter.”

“Can’t be called a painter, just have a few more hobbies.”

Mr. Dai smiled very modestly: “Mr. Shen, after meeting you during dinner last time, I’ve been deeply regretting not asking for your contact information ever since I went back.”

The expression of pleasant surprise on Dai Honglin’s face couldn’t be hidden at all. His gaze remained pinned straight onto Shen Qing’s face, and he couldn’t resist taking a step forward: “I really drank too much back then and reacted slowly, otherwise I wouldn’t have……”

“Honglin? A-Qing?”

Just then, another male voice came over. It was Xu Yujie, who had also come to the art studio today.

Seeing Dai Honglin and Shen Qing standing face-to-face, Xu Yujie walked up, his eyes similarly showing surprise: “You two actually know each other too? The world is so small!”

Compared to Dai Honglin’s pale complexion, Young Master Xu’s face was practically rosy, practically beaming with radiant happiness.

Standing together with them, the three young men were each more handsome than the last, instantly drawing the attention of many people.

The studio was opened inside an office building, renting an entire floor on the third floor to set up the art studio. At this moment, they were located in the main lobby on the first floor of the office building.

It was currently a busy time in the morning, with people coming and going in the office building.

Noticing a few strikingly elegant handsome guys standing here, each with long legs, refined, and gentle, some people had already guessed they were all from the third-floor art studio, and couldn’t help but whisper in low discussions.

Over here, knowing Mr. Dai was also a studio partner, Shen Qing wasn’t surprised that he knew Young Master Xu.

Because Young Master Xu was also a studio partner, and it was he who had recommended Shen Qing to come here to learn painting in the first place.

Shen Qing said to Xu Yujie, “You came to paint today too.”

Having known each other and communicated on WeChat for over four months, Shen Qing and Young Master Xu were already very familiar, and his tone of speech was naturally not as polite as it was initially.

Xu Yujie: “Yeah…… well not painting, I just came over to take a look since I had nothing to do.”

Teacher Zhang said, “Yujie has been coming very frequently recently. Before, when the studio was built for so long, I didn’t see you come even twice. This time after returning, you’ve been running here every single day instead.”

Teacher Zhang was also a partner, only his age was nearly double theirs.

At his age, he wasn’t as fond of playing around as Xu Yujie. The studio was basically managed by him. When he wasn’t working, he focused on his own paintings. If it weren’t for Xu Yujie personally recommending Shen Qing, and the fact that Shen Qing indeed possessed great talent, he wouldn’t have personally taken him as a disciple.

But his character itself was very easygoing, and he could chat well with Xu Yujie and the others.

So at this moment, relying on his status as Shen Qing’s teacher, he intentionally spoke with a bit of an old-fashioned tone, continuing to joke with Xu Yujie: “This isn’t me complaining about you, but in the past, getting Young Master Xu to come over for something was an ordeal. Now when there’s nothing, you run here every day, and you don’t even paint. Come to think of it, it seems ever since A-Qing started taking classes with me, you started running here after returning, so you wouldn’t happen to be here to see A-Qing, right?”

Xu Yujie: “You actually hit the nail on the head, I really came to keep A-Qing company.”

He joked, and Young Master Xu didn’t mind either. Anyway, Shen Qing was exceptionally talented, and the other classmates liked him very much too; A-Qing had almost become the group darling of their studio.

Adopting the posture of a romantic playboy, Young Master Xu directly smiled and joked, “If I hadn’t been out of town when A-Qing said he wanted to learn painting, I definitely would have taught him myself, how could I let you have it so cheap? What kind of relationship do A-Qing and I have, right, A-Qing?”

Shen Qing blinked his eyes at him, not speaking.

During this period, he had already grown fond of listening to Young Master Xu and Teacher Zhang engage in verbal sparring.

On the other side, Dai Honglin’s pupils shrank slightly. He looked at Shen Qing and then at Xu Yujie: “I didn’t expect you to have such a good relationship. Yujie, you never mentioned before that you knew such a…… such a handsome guy?”

Xu Yujie paused, thinking about where he and Shen Qing had met. To be honest, if it weren’t because Ming-bao and Duo-duo played well together, he wouldn’t have any contact with Mr. Shen at all.

Under such circumstances, it was impossible for him to casually gossip about knowing this person.

Come to think of it, they had become thoroughly familiar only after Shen Qing started learning painting.

Xu Yujie didn’t want to explain so much, but Dai Honglin couldn’t help but continue the topic: “I simply can’t believe it. Knowing someone like you, Mr. Shen, this kid Xu Yujie didn’t even utter a single word!”

He asked Shen Qing, and the target of his speech was also Shen Qing.

Being spoken to in a way that left him baffled, Shen Qing: “……?”

Someone like me?

He didn’t quite grasp what was up with “someone like him.”

Dai Honglin smiled mildly throughout, saying in a half-joking tone, “Just wanting to express that if I had known early on that my partner knew you, then perhaps we would have met again long ago. So how did Mr. Shen and Yujie get to know each other?”

His eyes looking at Shen Qing were bright with persistence.

Shen Qing didn’t understand what his excitement point was, but still answered, saying, “Mr. Xu and I met while bringing our kids along together.”

Xu Yujie nodded, and remembering those few lively, adorable kids, he couldn’t help but smile knowingly.

Dai Honglin, however, froze: “?…… What, what bringing kids along?”

“Let’s not talk about that.”

Xu Yujie still didn’t want to discuss this topic. He turned to ask Dai Honglin, “I’m actually quite curious too, how did you and Mr. Shen get to know each other?”

Dai Honglin was quite happy to answer this question: “This is actually quite magical to speak of. It was a few months ago, an accidental meeting during a gathering.”

Saying that, Dai Honglin looked at Shen Qing again: “I only realized later, Mr. Shen seemed to want to kiss me at that time.”

Xu Yujie & Teacher Zhang: ???

Shen Qing: “Cough cough cough!“

Facing his partner’s shock, Dai Honglin seemed not to care, only maintaining a face full of regret: “Regrettably, I drank too much back then, and only reacted to it later, and also forgot to ask Mr. Shen for his contact information.”

Thoroughly shocked, Xu Yujie recalled the ring on Shen Qing’s hand, as well as the identity of his significant other at home. After a face full of blank shock, he still didn’t believe it. He said directly, “That’s not right, that’s impossible, it can’t be!”

Although Dai Honglin and Xu Yujie were partners, both had joined because of Senior Zhang, and their personal relationship wasn’t good.

After all, a bit of a competitive relationship existed between them—both were relatively famous young painters, both painted oil paintings, and both even shared some commonalities from build to appearance, which caused Dai Honglin to be frequently confused with Xu Yujie by others.

He was already quite displeased with Xu Yujie, and now knowing that the person he had been searching for was actually more familiar with Xu Yujie, and Xu Yujie was now even glaringly rejecting his relationship with Mr. Shen, Dai Honglin grew even more displeased, simply smiling darkly as he said, “Yujie, how do you know it’s impossible?”

He turned his gaze back to Shen Qing: “If he didn’t want to kiss me, then why did Mr. Shen cup my face and look at it for so long back then? Was there something on my face or……”

“Shen Qing.”

Before Dai Honglin could finish his words, another male voice cut in.

The voice was very low, deep and cold, but the volume wasn’t small, sending a sudden chill down one’s spine upon hearing it.

So much so that everyone turned around, looking towards the main entrance of the office building.

A man who was sitting in a wheelchair, very thin, but looked like he should be quite tall and possessed a terrifying aura, was currently appearing behind them.

……

The man had a cold face.

His pale face lacked any color, his similarly whitened thin lips tightly compressed. His gaze was sharp, the depths of his eyes murky, as he expressionlessly sized up everyone in the center of the main hall.

Being swept by his gaze, the hairs on Dai Honglin’s body directly exploded: ?!

Xu Yujie, who recognized who the newcomer was: ??!

He also subconsciously trembled all over.

Comparatively speaking, the most calm and the least affected by the other party’s aura was still Shen Qing.

Cough cough, just now when Mr. Dai suddenly brought up what he did after getting drunk back then, Shen Qing felt extremely ashamed and completely mortified.

Because what Mr. Dai said was right.

Even though he had truly drunk too much back then, his cognition collapsing and his mood in turmoil, leading him to do such a foolish thing.

But at that time, he indeed felt this Mr. Dai looked a little bit like Mr. Gu, so he had a foolish thought to try.

Though in the end, he simply hadn’t gone through with it, and there was no need to try anymore—he already knew the answer.

But it was also thanks to Mr. Dai that he recognized his own heart.

Yet this couldn’t deny that what he did to Mr. Dai was indeed very presumptuous, and he truly owed the man an apology.

He didn’t blame the other party for speaking out about this matter in public.

Mr. Dai had a good temper; if it had been someone else, they probably would have beaten him up long ago.

Just now, Shen Qing was thinking about how to explain and apologize to Mr. Dai.

That was when Gu Huaiyu arrived.

The moment he heard Mr. Gu’s voice, Shen Qing directly forced his mind back, and didn’t manage to register the hostility in Mr. Gu’s eyes in time either.

He had long since become immune to the dangerous aura on Gu Huaiyu’s body. At this moment, Shen Qing’s head was entirely filled with: “Why did you come? Your body??……”

Gu Huaiyu: “Coming to see how my wife usually attends class.”

His voice faint, Gu Huaiyu directly interrupted him, extending his hand towards Shen Qing: “Wife, come here.”

Shen Qing: …… Oh my goodness?

Mr. Gu had rarely called him that before.

A flash of astonishment crossed the depths of his heart for a split second, but he obediently walked over.

Until his hand fell into Gu Huaiyu’s palm, seeing the two identical rings worn on their ring fingers reflecting each other, Dai Honglin on the side: ???

The one sitting in the wheelchair…… called who wife?

Who is his wife?

Mr. Shen???

At this time, Xu Yujie very considerately whispered an explanation to him from the side: “Cough cough, you probably don’t know yet, A-Qing is already married.”

Dai Honglin: ……?……?

Young Master Xu didn’t have very complex thoughts to wonder why A-Qing would want to kiss Dai Honglin when he was already married.

After all, who didn’t know A-Qing and Mr. Gu were in a marriage agreement? Marriages among wealthy families were originally quite complex; Xu Yujie simply didn’t take the matter of Shen Qing having once wanted to kiss Dai Honglin seriously.

What made him feel tense was that he had recently come to know some secrets, such as A-Qing’s completely undisguised affection for his family’s Mr. Gu.

So he had felt from the start that Dai Honglin bringing up the fact that Shen Qing wanted to kiss him after so long was a bit awkward…… awkward for both sides.

……They hadn’t even kissed, what was there to bring up!

But right now, sensing the attitude of A-Qing’s family’s Mr. Gu, Xu Yujie felt things were even less simple.

Worried Dai Honglin would court death, he reminded him again: “They already have two kids.”

Dai Honglin: !!?

……So what Mr. Shen said just now about meeting Xu Yujie while bringing kids along actually meant this??

Seeing him freeze, Young Master Xu gave a final reminder out of humanity: “A-Qing’s husband is not to be messed with, you absolutely can’t afford to provoke him, don’t think too much anymore, okay.”

Over there, after gripping Shen Qing’s hand, Gu Huaiyu closed his five fingers together, applying a slight backward force, directly pulling Shen Qing to his side.

His complexion was terrible. There wasn’t a single shred of expression on his face either, making him look sinister and fierce.

Pulling his lover to his side, his thin lips compressed, his gaze straightly sizing up Dai Honglin and the others opposite him, Gu Huaiyu didn’t speak.

Shen Qing hadn’t seen the big boss pulling such a long face in a very long time. Sensing the coldness of that hand holding his own, he couldn’t help but feel a bit worried again: “Why did you come out of the hospital, are you alright?…… Could it be that something happened?”

……Mr. Gu had actually gone against his usual behavior today, dressing up formally for his outing.

For several months, due to repeated comas and continuous follow-up treatments, he had barely left the hospital, and mostly wore hospital uniforms.

But today, Mr. Gu had put on a relatively formal suit.

The custom-tailored suit, ironed so well that it didn’t have a single wrinkle, looked exceptionally grand on its own.

Although Gu Huaiyu’s face still looked very weak, because his sitting posture was always one with a straight back and chest, his aura was terrifying, making it impossible for people to tell this was a patient who had just walked through the gates of hell. At most, they would only think he had temporarily sat in a wheelchair for some reason.

But that was the perspective of outsiders.

Shen Qing, who knew the big boss’s true situation, had a first reaction that was: ……The big boss couldn’t be in a bad situation, experiencing a final rally before death, right??

……People who were about to die would have a bit more energy and spirit for a period of time compared to before.

Mr. Gu had run out of the hospital like this, and dressed so formally……

Pulled to Gu Huaiyu’s side, Shen Qing’s eyelashes fluttered nonstop, then he suddenly bent down and hugged Mr. Gu: “Husband, did you…… miss me?”

“……”

The onlookers: What kind of thrilling character relationship is this?!

The people watching from afar had only seen three handsome guys of entirely different styles standing opposite each other just now, each with a smile on their face, but one person had sparks flying in his eyes when looking at the other two, deliberately boasting about kissing or whatnot.

……Originally, they thought this was a minor love triangle revolving around the most handsome youth among them.

Who would have thought a wheelchair-bound big boss would suddenly appear, and he was actually that most handsome youth’s rightful husband!

So is it a misunderstanding? Or caught red-handed stealing a taste by the husband?

Is it the decline of humanity or the distortion of morality?……

At the entrance, hugged by the youth, with the youth’s sweet, upward-inflected voice by his ear, the eyes with which Gu Huaiyu had originally been straightly sizing up the few people opposite him suddenly drooped downward, and he turned his gaze back to the youth hugging him.

The youth still carried that familiar strawberry fragrance on his body.

Gu Huaiyu raised the finger he had resting on the wheelchair, lowering his voice: “Originally I just wanted to come and tell you some things, I didn’t expect it to be so lively.”

His speech rate very slow, Gu Huaiyu looked back at Mr. Xu and Mr. Dai again. A sharp, cold light flashed in his eyes, and he slowly asked, “Why haven’t you gone to class yet?”

While speaking, he lifted his wrist to check his watch; it was almost ten o’clock.

Shen Qing: “……What class is there to take anymore.”

His own husband was experiencing a final rally before death, how could he still have the heart to take a class!

Shen Qing said, “Let’s leave here.”

Gu Huaiyu was stunned once more upon hearing this.

After being stunned, his eyebrows rare picked up high, and Gu Huaiyu even nodded, but his voice was even colder: “How is it that the moment I come, you want to leave.”

Hearing this, Shen Qing simply hooked Mr. Gu’s neck, and incidentally stroked his hand.

He didn’t know why his husband was throwing such a big tantrum; thinking about it, it must be that his body was in too much pain, causing his state to be so poor.

Thus, while hooking his husband’s neck in public, he couldn’t help but use his fingertips to slowly and lightly scratch across the big boss’s palm, lingeringly and affectionately.

Shen Qing’s voice was full of soothing and pleasing: “Or is there somewhere you want to go? We’ll go together.”

Gu Huaiyu: “……”

Abruptly raising his hand to cover his chest.

Frowning to force his way through a wave of pain, his lip color turned even paler, and his tone also grew stiffer:

“Then let’s go home.”

He only said a single sentence about going home, and bodyguards stepped out from behind him, respectfully opening the door of the office suite for him.

Shen Qing also agreed with a nod without a second word, then said very apologetically to Teacher Zhang, “……I’m sorry, Teacher, I’ll explain to you later. Today’s class can just be counted normally as my class hours, I’m sorry.”

Then he said to Dai Honglin, who had long since completely frozen, “I’m sorry, Mr. Dai, I’ll explain that day’s matter to you later, I’m really sorry.”

Mhm, explaining clearly was necessary. Anyway, now that he knew he was a studio partner, he didn’t worry about not running into him in the future. Shen Qing didn’t bring up adding the other party’s contact information either.

Mainly because there was no time.

Finally, he looked at Xu Yujie again…… the fact that Gu Huaiyu’s body was so poor he was close to passing away was unknown to the outside world, and it wasn’t convenient for him to tell Young Master Xu either.

In the end, he only nodded to Young Master Xu, indicating he was leaving first.

Xu Yujie, quite understandingly, lightly raised his hand to wave at Shen Qing, comforting him that it was fine…… and wishing he could turn danger into safety.

Young Master Xu had seen plenty of those paranoid, highly possessive men; summarizing his experience, it was often the case that the more successful and the higher the social status of the man, the more paranoid they were in this regard.

The moment they met just now, Xu Yujie knew Mr. Gu might be a prime example among them, and having accidentally overheard the story of his lover with someone else, it was very obvious Mr. Gu was angry and about to go crazy.

Though he quite admired Mr. Gu.

With possessiveness that strong, he could still let A-Qing out to roam around……

Recalling those men he had encountered, each of whom frequently wanted to lock him up in a dark room, Xu Yujie couldn’t help but comment emotionally that someone like Mr. Gu was a real man—liking is crazy, but love is restraint!

So thinking about it, A-Qing probably shouldn’t have any major issues either……

Sob, after all, bearing a divine face that no art student could—absolutely could not achieve—disliking, Young Master Xu, who had always favored beautiful people and loved beautiful people all his life, still sincerely hoped A-Qing would be happy.

On the way back, Gu Huaiyu kept his eyes closed and didn’t speak.

Shen Qing sat next to him, somewhat worried. But looking at the appearance of Assistant Tian and the others driving in front, he felt things weren’t like the final rally before death he had imagined. For a moment, he was also a bit bewildered, unable to fathom why the big boss had suddenly left the hospital to come find him.

Later, he discovered the direction the car was traveling wasn’t the hospital, but home; they were actually going home.

Shen Qing finally asked, “We aren’t returning to the hospital?”

“Mhm.”

Despite keeping his eyes closed the entire time as if asleep, Gu Huaiyu still responded to him.

Shen Qing: “……Did some situation happen?”

“Shen Qing.”

Gu Huaiyu suddenly opened his eyes again.

He raised the small partition of the car, and Tian Yi in front very professionally turned on music, doing his best to avoid hearing what they were chatting about.

Afterward, Gu Huaiyu extended his slender finger to hook it towards Shen Qing, saying, “Come here.”

Shen Qing leaned over, his eyes wide as he looked at him.

Gu Huaiyu had his eyes half-drooped. Viewed from the side, the corners of his eyes turned upward, his eyes looking like a half-crescent moon, his eyelashes long and thin.

In terms of appearance, the big boss’s eyes were truly very beautiful.

But it just so happened that his cheek lines were sharp and distinct, his features handsome beyond measure; when he pulled a long face, he appeared extremely rigid and cold, and looking from the side, he was even a bit sinister.

And now, amidst the sinister quality, there was also a few hints of gloom.

After a moment, Gu Huaiyu slowly lifted his gaze, turning towards the youth’s direction to say, “Do you actually understand clearly that you can only kiss me alone?”

Shen Qing: “……Ah?”

This caught-off-guard question made Shen Qing directly freeze.

When he put on a puzzled expression, he was actually incredibly fetching.

Because his eyes were large, his almond-shaped eyes watery and bright; opening them wide suddenly to stare, his expression was like that of an innocent and cute little animal, naive and guiltless.

Gu Huaiyu took a deep breath as he watched.

Afterward, he suddenly reached out to grip the youth’s wrist, and with another burst of force, cleanly pushed the youth backward.

Shen Qing: ???

His back was completely sunk into the pure handmade leather seats of the luxury car, not feeling any discomfort.

But Shen Qing’s heart suddenly tightened, and he said nervously, “Don’t move recklessly, your wound!…… Mmph?”

After that, he couldn’t make any sound, because Gu Huaiyu’s thin lips had already attached to his.

Washing over him was entirely the woody fragrance from the big boss. His wrist was tightly gripped, the touch a bit cold.

Any more than that, Shen Qing couldn’t pay attention to.

The crucial point was that Gu Huaiyu went all the way conquering territory……

It was the kind of very deep exchange that hadn’t happened in a long time.

……

No one knew how much time passed before Shen Qing collapsed into the seat, panting for air.

His whole body was soft, like a puddle of mud.

As if he had lost his breath for too long, he could only continued to lean back on the leather seat very unpromisingly, breathing heavily.

Of course, there were also a few other minor reasons, such as they were pressed too close, and he could even feel the heart beating inside Gu Huaiyu’s chest cavity, just like his own, thump thump.

……The heartbeat sounds of the two people blending together was just different.

Listening to the sound emitting from each other’s chest cavities, Shen Qing’s blood couldn’t control itself from surging to his cheeks, bringing along breathing that became increasingly difficult as well.

……

Under such adverse conditions, still being tightly suppressed by the other party, it felt as though some wonderful reaction had also incidentally been generated……

And the kiss ended.

Gu Huaiyu, however, was still pressing down on him. The hand gripping his wrist tightly had already loosened, but the big boss himself hadn’t left.

“Phew, get up quickly……”

Shen Qing said intermittently.

He remembered the big boss’s wound couldn’t take this.

Usually, even moving required caution, and if it wasn’t handled well, it would hurt; he didn’t even dare to press on it.

Now, Gu Huaiyu had actually taken the initiative……

The space inside the car was limited after all, and both of them were tall individuals. Shen Qing’s legs even needed to stretch diagonally to Mr. Gu’s side to be able to extend fully and rest on the foot mat; Gu Huaiyu maintaining this posture would only be more tiring.

But Shen Qing didn’t dare to push him either, so he could only say, “Your wound…… uh.”

Panting, and having no choice but to swallow a mouthful of saliva, Shen Qing then continued to say, “It hasn’t healed yet.”

But hearing this, Gu Huaiyu not only didn’t move, but instead looked even deeper directly into his eyes.

On his cold, expressionless face, the depths of his eyes seemed to be brewing a storm.

Gu Huaiyu’s Adam’s apple rolled. He suddenly touched the youth’s cheek, asking him, “I kiss you like this, and you don’t mind?”

Shen Qing: “What time is it already……”

Gu Huaiyu: “How many people have you kissed?”

Shen Qing: “? What kind of question is this…… only you.”

Sensing the big boss’s expression becoming dazed and perplexed, while his eye color became even deeper, Shen Qing then remembered that he might have heard something just now, misunderstanding him and Mr. Dai?……

Then this misunderstanding was huge!

Shen Qing expressed: “I really haven’t kissed anyone else. Mr. Dai…… cough, I couldn’t bring myself to do it, he is different from you.”

Speaking up to here, Shen Qing was still somewhat guilty.

Thinking that he must definitely apologize and make amends to Mr. Dai in the future.

And Gu Huaiyu, who was pressing down on him, relaxed slightly at first, but upon hearing the latter part, he suddenly shuddered violently, as if his whole body had frozen, giving off the feeling that his face had turned even whiter.

Shen Qing: “?!! Husband, get up quickly!”

At this time, even if he didn’t dare to use force, he had to push the person away. Gu Huaiyu, who had woken up after that major surgery and severe coma, had entered the operating room a few more times; his body was almost riddled with holes.

Not wanting his husband to continue suffering, Shen Qing was truly afraid Mr. Gu’s surgical wounds would burst open!

Placing the other party securely back onto the seat, Shen Qing directly retrieved his long legs, kneeling on one leg on the seat to inspect Mr. Gu’s injuries.

Gu Huaiyu was originally still pressing his own chest, seemingly enduring some immense pain, a thread of cold sweat even breaking out on his forehead.

But he reached out to grip Shen Qing’s hand again when the youth extended his hand over.

The action of his suddenly raised hand was sharp to the extreme, not at all resembling a patient who hadn’t recovered from a severe illness.

Mr. Gu remained sharp in style and cold in voice as he said, “I’m fine.”

“?”

Shen Qing: “In any case, it’s better to go back to the hospital to check……”

Gu Huaiyu said, “No need.”

“Starting from today, I am moving back home to live.”

Shen Qing: “……Will that be alright?”

Gu Huaiyu tilted his head up slightly, revealing his sharply contoured jawline, and fell into silence again.

Even the passionate music drifting over from the front row of the car couldn’t cover up this silent atmosphere.

Suddenly, it gave off the feeling of walking in an extremely deep and dark cave, pressing down on a person so much they couldn’t catch their breath.

Very obviously, the big boss was in a bad mood.

But Gu Huaiyu never let go of the hand gripping his.

Shen Qing wanted to ask him what was wrong, yet feared asking and hearing some result he didn’t want to hear. After debating back and forth, before he could manage to ask, the car had already driven back to the villa.

……The art studio wasn’t far from his home.

In the garage, after the car came to a steady stop, Tian Yi once again cautiously inquired whether Mr. Gu wanted to get off the car now.

Before Mr. Gu could make a sound, Shen Qing already said directly, “Get off. Also, please have the doctors and nurses from the medical team come over for a moment…… Mr. Gu might have strained his wound.”

Tian Yi, who had naturally grown accustomed to listening to the Madam’s orders: “Alright, Madam.”

After responding, he had the bodyguards under him fetch the wheelchair for Mr. Gu, while Tian Yi himself went to contact the medical team, hurriedly explaining the situation.

Sitting back in the wheelchair, Gu Huaiyu pressed his chest again, steadying his frame as he said, “I’m fine.”

Shen Qing also directly spoke up again with a tone that brooked no argument: “Whether something is wrong or not, we have to look first before saying anything.”

And then he led the people to hurriedly send Mr. Gu upstairs.

Gu Huaiyu: “……”

Returning to the bedroom, the medical team hadn’t arrived yet. Shen Qing was worried Mr. Gu’s wound had burst open, so he directly reached out to unbutton his clothes.

In the room where only the two of them remained, Gu Huaiyu sat in the wheelchair, and Shen Qing squatted down in front of him. Gu Huaiyu pressed his hand down again when the youth extended his hand over.

“I’m fine,” he repeated.

He had indeed pulled on his wound; Gu Huaiyu frowned slightly at this moment, but still insisted, saying, “I’m already well, Shen Qing, don’t worry about me.”

“Well? You call this well?”

The big boss always reported the good news and hid the bad; Shen Qing wouldn’t take words like this seriously.

Gu Huaiyu continued to tightly press the youth’s hand against his own chest, his strength very large, his expression also excessively strict and serious as he said, “Shen Qing, let’s talk.”

“……”

The other’s cold and solemn voice simply left one unable to resist or refuse. Although he didn’t know what he wanted to talk about, Shen Qing still nodded: “……Okay.”

Gu Huaiyu said, “You can kiss me, but from now on, you can only kiss me.”

Appearing to have considered it for a very long time, his voice when he said this was very calm, his tone faint, no different from usual.

Only, after finishing his words, he looked out the window, his pale lips compressed, the aura around his entire body pressed very low, looking even gloomier.

Shen Qing: “……?”

“……This, I know I can kiss you, and I can only kiss you anyway. Who else would there be?” he shot back.

Gu Huaiyu: “……”

The person who had looked out the window right after speaking turned his gaze back again, continuing to tighten the corners of his lips. Gu Huaiyu suddenly said, “I love you, Shen Qing.”

Shen Qing: “?”

He had long since been in a relationship with the big boss in his heart for several months, but this was indeed the very first time Shen Qing heard the other party say they loved him……

……

Suddenly, it felt as though his heart had been gripped by someone, and even his tailbone experienced a current of electricity running through it; he suddenly felt a bit excited.

……So this was what it felt like to be told someone loved you…… wait, what was the big boss saying?

He really loved him too???

All along, Shen Qing hadn’t thought too much, only feeling that since Gu Huaiyu didn’t dislike hugs and kisses either, then they could casually hug and kiss.

Anyway, given the big boss’s state, it was impossible for him to go outside to look for people, nor would the two of them take a step further.

It was just like family, giving each other warmth.

Thinking about anything else was useless anyway.

But suddenly being told someone loved him…… the feeling still surpassed his imagination.

Squatting at Gu Huaiyu’s feet, Shen Qing directly froze.

He was currently tilting his head up, his handsome face unreservedly facing the person in the wheelchair, appearing straight up open and defenseless, as if waiting to be plucked, pure and innocent.

Gu Huaiyu: ……

Subconsciously squeezing the armrest tightly.

Closing his eyes briefly again, Gu Huaiyu continued to finish what he wanted to say: “It doesn’t matter if you treat me as a body double, or as a replacement for someone. But since you chose me, you are not allowed to choose anyone else.”

“?”

“I have a bad temper and many rules.”

The hand whose fingertips were overly strained rose, pale fingers brushing onto the youth’s cheek. Gu Huaiyu’s voice was cold and solemn, speaking seriously: “And this is the only rule I need you to abide by, do you understand, Shen Qing?”

Shen Qing: “……”

After his elegant cheek was caressed, his jaw was also clamped to slightly lift his entire face.

Shen Qing found himself completely unable to turn his head or look down, and could only be forced to lock eyes with the big boss.

He actually didn’t mind actions like this.

But……

“I…… didn’t understand?”

Gu Huaiyu: “……”

Shen Qing blinked his eyes and said, “……What body double, what replacement for someone, I didn’t understand.”

A glint moved in Gu Huaiyu’s eyes. He stared thoroughly into the youth’s eyes, carefully sizing up the other party’s expression and demeanor, while the hand clamping the youth slightly relaxed.

But this time, it was Shen Qing who suddenly gripped that hand, expressing: “Didn’t I say it long ago? I love you too, how could I possibly treat you as some replacement.”

Shen Qing himself was bewildered; why did he say he loved him and then bring up some body double right after? What exactly was the big boss thinking?

He was truly bewildered at first.

Until Gu Huaiyu lowered his voice, slowly saying, “……You tried to kiss people everywhere, wasn’t it to find a body double so you could forget Shen Yuan?”

Shen Qing: “???”

Shen Qing directly sucked in a breath of cold air!

“What trying to kiss people everywhere, where did I do it everywhere? It was only that one time with Dai Honglin!…… No, wait, what Shen Yuan? That time I wanted to kiss Dai Honglin, it was to see whether I actually liked you or not!”

Gu Huaiyu: “……”

The bedroom suddenly fell into a dead silence.

Both of them were a bit dazed, so much so that neither uttered another sound.

Following a continuous, bizarre, and dead silence.

Time seemed to pass for a very, very long time.

Gu Huaiyu: “……What did you say just now?”

Being the first to react, Gu Huaiyu’s cheeks were pale, but his deep, dark eyes suddenly filled with brilliant spirit, his eyes like polished jet: “Say it one more time.”

Shen Qing, however, stood up directly. He had also reacted, and simply took a deep breath to roar: “I said…… you are really driving me to death!”

……Outside the door, hearing that Mr. Gu’s situation was unoptimistic, Tian Yi, who had hurriedly invited the medical team over, had just brought the people to the entrance of Mr. Gu and the Madam’s room when he heard this roar.

The people at the door all froze in unison, sucking in a breath of cold air to varying degrees, then you look at me, I look at you—what’s the situation?

Mr. Gu just came back and he’s already fighting with the Madam??

The moment Tian Yi turned around, he saw Ao-zai, who had also followed them up. He couldn’t help but quickly go over, bowing his body to hug the young master’s tiny frame, while trying to cover his small ears.

Ao-zai, who had just followed them up and was still completely out of the loop: “Big Dad?”

Ao-zai didn’t use to run up to the third floor on his own before. Because when they had just moved here, the entire house was completely quiet. The auntie responsible for bringing him and his brother had said the third floor was the place where Little Uncle worked, and if they went up to disturb him, it would make Little Uncle unhappy. His brother had told Ao-zai that they couldn’t go up to the third floor to disturb Little Uncle.

Ao-zai had kept it in mind the whole time.

But later, Little Uncle turned into Big Dad.

During this period, Ao-zai had also played with Little Dad every day.

Little Dad would occasionally hug him to go up to the study on the third floor to play, and Ao-zai would also frequently come to the study or bedroom on the third floor to look for Little Dad. He had already formed a habit, long since ignoring the past rules.

Just now, hearing that Dad had returned, Ao-zai threw down his toys, running up with his bare little feet pitter-patter to find Dad.

Though he hadn’t comprehended either why Little Dad had just left not long ago, yet returned again.

Ao-zai was completely out of the loop, while the two teachers, a man and a woman standing next to him, were filled with deep worry—they had also heard the Madam’s roar.

Hearing that the master of the house had returned, the two early childhood teachers, who had never met the other male master of this family before, would naturally feel a bit nervous.

Mhm, they had all heard that the other male master of this house was of an entirely different type compared to Mr. Shen. It was said his temper was very bad and he was very hard to deal with; none of the servants in the house dared to gossip even a single word.

Now, the other male master had fought the moment he returned…… it was hard not to cause worry.

While they were worrying like this, they heard the roar that clearly belonged to Mr. Shen rise again: “Mr. Gu, I originally thought you were a genius, how can you be so stupid!!”

This roar directly caused even Tian Yi to shudder—what was the Madam saying?? Is he insulting Mr. Gu??

Reviewing his professional career, Tian Yi felt he had never heard anyone call Mr. Gu stupid.

But those who roared at Mr. Gu with this kind of tone…… er-er, they had either already disappeared from Huacheng, or they were like those parasites of the Gu family, all panting on their last legs amidst mounting debts……

Even Assistant Tian hadn’t seen this kind of battle display; the others were even more silent as cicadas in winter.

But right at this moment, they heard a hoarse, cold, and sharp voice rise, yet sounding as if slightly low and submissive as it said: “Mhm, my wife’s criticism is right, it’s my mistake.”