Chapter 50 - Have You Kept It in Mind?

Gu Nianbin felt that this was a problem. She still called him “young master” even if they were already lying on one bed side by side. This made him feel as if he had taken her by force. However, the truth was that they liked each other.

Gu Nianbin hugged Du Xiaoxian and sat up, “Xiaoxian, don’t call me young master from now on. Just call me by the name, okay?”

Du Xiaoxian gaped as she replied, “But…you are the young master!”

“I was the young master when you worked for my family. But now you left the house, and I’m not the young master anymore. So now let’s call each other by name. I’ll call you Xiaoxian, and you call me Nianbin, okay?”

Du Xiaoxian suddenly chuckled and said, “But you’re so much older than me, I can’t call you that way.”

Gu Nianbin became a little depressed. Was the little girl saying that he was old? He narrowed his eyes and asked her in a threatening tone, “What do you want to call me?”

Du Xiaoxian knew that he was only putting on a show to act like a paper tiger. She took the courage to pinch his face and tilted her head with a smile. “You must be unhappy if I call you uncle. I think I will go with brother.”

Gu Nianbin felt really awkward because even Gu Shanshan never called him brother seriously. At most, she would call him bro or old bro, or she would only call him by his full name. “Brother” sounded a little…But then he remembered that in the Korean dramas that Gu Shanshan enjoyed watching, girls would call their lovers brother. So he felt relieved. Anyway, being called brother was better than uncle.

Gu Nianbin smiled and nodded. “Alright, call me brother.” He kissed Du Xiaoxian on the cheek and said, “Brother will get you something to eat.”

“I’ll go, I’ll go.” Du Xiaoxian jumped off his body, opened the door quickly and ran out.

Gu Nianbin’s arms suddenly emptied, making him feel a little at loss. They were madly in love right now, but she ran away from him faster than a rabbit. Didn’t she want to linger in his warm embrace at all?

Shaking his head, Gu Nianbin followed her out and found Du Xiaoxian was already busy in the kitchen. Still a little unfamiliar with the automatic kitchen, she was a bit flustered. Her hair was loose and a little messy, but her bright eyes showed that she was very focused. Wearing a loose T-shirt, she really looked like a pretty wife who got up early to cook for her husband.

Gu Nianbin leaned against the door watching her and felt warm inside. He walked over, gently hugged her from behind and kissed her earlobe before asking in a low voice, “What can you cook? Huh?”

His question really had her there. She could cook ever since she was a kid. With limited food and seasonings at home, she could only mix them together, add some salt, and boil them. That would be her dish. So the dishes she could cook were pretty much the same every day. It never occurred to her to give names to the dishes. Du Xiaoxian suddenly felt a little worried. The young master had lived a life of luxury since birth, would he eat the dishes she cooked? When she worked for the Gu mansion, she helped to prepare the meals. There were all kinds of delicate dishes on the table which she could tell were delicious just from the looks of them. Even the dishes for the servants were very delicious to her. Anyway, they were much better than what she cooked for herself.

“What’s wrong?” Gu Nianbin asked when he saw that she didn’t say anything and only bit her lips in a daze, as if she was somewhat frustrated.

Du Xiaoxian lowered her head embarrassedly and said in a low voice, “Young master, the food I cooked is not delicious.”

Turned out she was worried about this. Gu Nianbin asked her, “Then do you still want to do it?”

Du Xiaoxian hesitated and couldn’t make up her mind. She was the one to serve, but she couldn’t even cook well. But, how could she let the young master cook for her?

Seeing that she remained silent, Gu Nianbin continued to ask softly, “You still want to cook for me, do you?”

Du Xiaoxian nodded and Gu Nianbin touched her head with a smile, “Alright, then you do the cooking. I’ll wait outside.” Although he was reluctant to leave her, he knew that she would be even more nervous if he stayed.

Seeing Gu Nianbin leave, Du Xiaoxian heaved a sigh of relief. Looking at the food, she had an idea. She decided to cook only one dish first. If the young master was not satisfied, she would not continue cooking. She couldn’t let the young master eat awful dishes everyday just because she wanted to cook.

She cut some meat and half a cucumber. After thinking for a moment, she cut half an onion and threw them all into the pot. She added some water, covered the pot and waited until they were boiling, then she added some salt and poured them out when they were boiling again. Regardless of the taste, Du Xiaoxian was very happy that she cooked a dish. She poured the dish into a plate and happily placed it on the dining table. Then she sat at the table and waited for Gu Nianbin to have a bite. After waiting for a while, she still didn’t see Gu Nianbin coming out, so she went to look for him. The dish wouldn’t taste good if it went cold.

Gu Nianbin was shaving in the bathroom when he heard her knocking on the door. He answered, “Come in.”

Du Xiaoxian gently pushed the door open and peeked inside, only to find him half-naked. She was so scared that she instantly pulled backwards. Gu Nianbin wiped his face with a towel and dragged her back in. It would be a problem if she kept being so shy. On one hand, Gu Nianbin was actually a traditional Chinese who was devoted to love and wouldn’t treat relationships frivolously. On the other hand, he had been educated in western style for many years. So he advocated freedom and romance and liked to express his feelings like westerners. He wouldn’t mind showing his body to his lover.

Du Xiaoxian still didn’t dare to open her eyes while being hugged by him. Gu Nianbin threatened her, “If you don’t open your eyes, I’ll kiss you.”

Du Xiaoxian slowly opened her eyes while trembling, only to find Gu Nianbin was holding her in front of the mirror. In the mirror, she saw herself blushed and was stuck tightly to Gu Nianbin’s wheat-colored chest. Du Xiaoxian felt shameful and covered her eyes again. She was still very ignorant of sex, but the instinctive reaction she felt made her confused. She was afraid that she would become a bad woman after a single mistake, then she would be like her mother and ended up living a hard life.

Gu Nianbin pulled her hands off her face. “Silly girl, we are closest to each other. I can look at your body, and you can look at mine as well. There’s nothing to feel shy about it, understood?”

Du Xiaoxian narrowed her eyes and looked at Gu Nianbin in the mirror. She could look at him if the young master said so. Although she had never seen a man’s body before, she could tell that his figure was very good. His muscles were thick with clear textures. She stretched out a finger and pressed down on the muscles of Gu Nianbin’s arm. “Young master, you are so strong!”

Gu Nianbin was amused, strong! She might be the only one who could say such a word. If it were any other ordinary women, they would definitely say that he was hot or sexy.

“Do you like it?” Gu Nianbin teased her with a smile.

Du Xiaoxian was shy again. Everything about the young master was great, except that he liked to ask strange and embarrassing questions. She wouldn’t answer such questions!

Gu Nianbin gave her a soft kiss on the face and said, “I’ve got a toothbrush and a towel for you. Hurry up, wash up before eating.”

Now that he mentioned eating, Du Xiaoxian remembered what she had come in for. She dragged Gu Nianbin out and said, “I’ve cooked a dish for you. Come and have a taste.”

Gu Nianbin followed her out with great interest. There was a dish on the table. It looked grey and thick as if it had been added with starch. However, he could still recognize cucumber, onion and a bit of meat in the dish. He searched the dish for meat with chopsticks and found that there was too little meat in it. Gu Nianbin guessed that it wouldn’t taste good from the look of it. He picked up some and put it into his mouth. Although he was prepared, he couldn’t help but frown because it tasted even worse than he had imagined…

Du Xiaoxian raised her little face and stared at him nervously. When she saw Gu Nianbin frowning, she felt somehow relieved since she knew that the young master wouldn’t like such dishes. But she was a little discouraged anyway. She had put in a lot of effort to cook this dish. First, she used pork, and she used much pork. Besides, she intentionally added a little more salt, hoping it would make the dish taste better. However, she sighed. The young master still did not like it. She also knew that there was a world of difference between her dish and those cooked by the chef of the Gu mansion.

Gu Nianbin chewed the food in his mouth and remained silent for a while. He instinctively wanted to spit it out after the first bite, but he swallowed it in the end. Even if it didn’t taste good, Xiaoxian had cooked it with heart, which he should keep in mind. Besides, he felt sorry for her as he ate it. His little girl grew up eating this kind of food. What kind of life had she lived for over ten years?

Du Xiaoxian became scared when she saw that Gu Nianbin frowning with a solemn face. Was the young master angry because the dish she cooked was too bad? Like a child who had done something wrong, she lowered her head and started rubbing her fingers. Gu Nianbin came back to himself and found her like this. He knew that she was frightened by him even if he didn’t mean to. He forgot that his little girl was timid as a mouse and would be scared by any sign of trouble.

Gu Nianbin held her in his arms and kissed her hair on her forehead. He sighed softly, “What a pitiful little girl!”

Du Xiaoxian was sensitive enough to know that the young master was not angry when she was held by Gu Nianbin in his arms. So she regained the nerve to speak, “Young master, the food I cooked is very bad, isn’t it?”

Gu Nianbin began his answer with a long “hmm” and said, “It’s not that…delicious.”

Du Xiaoxian was a little depressed and said, “I’m really stupid. I can’t even cook well.”

“It’s not your fault. If you want to learn, I’ll teach you step by step in the future.” Gu Nianbin stroked her hair and said, “But you’ve been calling me young master. How do you think this score should be settled?”

Settle the score? What did the young master want to settle with her? Du Xiaoxian raised her head and just was about to ask him when she was caught off guard. He kissed her before she could ask her question. After s short groaning, she became silent.

Gu Nianbin kept kissing her until her body turned soft. He looked at her with a teasing smile, “Have you kept it mind?”

Du Xiaoxian gasped and looked at him blankly. Gu Nianbin said while lowering his head, “It seems that the lesson is not long enough.” Du Xiaoxian instantly blocked him with her hand and hurriedly said, “Yes, I have.”

“Have what?”

“Kept it mind.”

“And then?”

“I would call you brother instead of young master.”

“That’s more like it.” Gu Nianbin pinched her face and smiled with satisfaction. “Go wash your face and brush your teeth. I’ll go and cook.”

Du Xiaoxian was very servile. She always felt that it was not proper to let Gu Nianbin cook, but there was no other way. So she stood there with a strange expression.

Gu Nianbin smiled and said, “Just like you wanted to cook for me, I also really want to cook for you. Perhaps the dish I cook is also very bad!”

Hearing this, Du Xiaoxian felt relieved. She smiled and said to him, “Even if it’s bad, it doesn’t matter. I’m not picky at all. I can eat anything. Well, I’ll go and wash up first.”

She ran away with a smile like a deer. Looking at her back, Gu Nianbin suddenly realized something. Was she accusing him for being picky about food so that he thought the food she cooked was not delicious?