Chapter 13

The next second, Lu Yu almost blurted out: "But you never used to be like this before!"He remembered it clearly that she would always take the initiative to tell him whenever she went out.

Gu Wan also thought of those chat records that she had deleted, and said: "You said it yourself, that was before."

Before was before, how was it related to now? Gu Wan didn't know or understand what kind of feelings her former self had for him, but that was just the kind of person she was, she would never worry about things that hadn't happened.

As for whether she would regret it or not after her memory was restored, that obviously belonged to things that hadn't happened yet.

Seeing Gu Wan trying to separate the past and present, Lu Yu somehow felt a panic in his heart, then Lu Yu got angry: "How can you be like this?!"

"It was clearly you who didn't come home for the night, and didn't let me know in advance either, yet I only said a couple of words and you are yelling at me!"

Even someone as calm as him on ordinary days was almost rendered speechless by anger at this moment, especially the cold, warning look in Gu Wan's eyes just now made Lu Yu's heart tighten and extremely uncomfortable.

He had never thought there would be a day when Gu Wan would look at him like that, just thinking about it made his already stuffy heart tighten and hurt even more.

What bothered Lu Yu the most was that she would actually be like this to him because of someone else.

Gu Wan felt that the other party was overreacting.

It was clearly just a trivial little thing, she didn't know why he was clinging onto it. She hadn't noticed it recently until today when she finally realized what a petty person he was.

Gu Wan herself was not the kind of person who liked to argue with others, she really didn't want to continue arguing with him.

"Why can't I?"

Gu Wan casually said: "Didn't you use to be like that too?"

Although she had deleted everything that could be deleted, but the chat records on WeChat were clear and unambiguous. Gu Wan had only lost her memory, her other memories were still as good as ever. So she didn't know what was the matter with him.

"Wanting to go out whenever you want, coming back whenever you want, saying something when you're free, and it doesn't matter if you don't remember. It's so much more relaxing. Don't you like it that way? What are you getting angry about now?"

Although she now knew that Lu Yu hadn't slept at all, Gu Wan obviously wouldn't stay with him anymore. Plus, having been dragged around shopping all day by Qianqian yesterday, Gu Wan was already very tired. Her originally still decent mood at this moment had become exceptionally bad. So after throwing down these words, she left without noticing Lu Yu's stunned expression as she left him there.

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Ignoring the housekeeper who had come over after hearing the quarrel, Lu Yu silently returned to his room.

After Lu Yu closed the door, his mind was full of the few words Gu Wan had said. After a while, it seemed like he thought of something. He took out his phone and for the first time looked through all their chat history with a scrutinizing gaze.

The man's hand kept sliding upwards. The further up he went, the tighter the man's eyebrows furrowed.

One afternoon at 2:28 pm, Gu Wan sent a message.

【Are you coming home for dinner tonight?】

At 9:30 pm that night, he replied:

【Not coming back, have to work overtime, go to bed early.】

Friday night at 7:15 pm, Gu Wan asked: 【When are you coming back? Are you working overtime? Should we postpone going to Happy Valley tomorrow morning then?】

At 8 pm, he replied:【Sorry, something urgent came up at the company, I might have to go abroad, taking off in 3 hours.】

He saw that she fell silent for quite a while, before asking again:【Do you need me to help you pack?】

【No need, the company has everything.】

【...Okay, be careful on the road.】

...

Lu Yu flipped through for a very, very long time. Basically all the conversations were like this. Gu Wan almost never got angry. Every time she silently accepted his last minute changes. At the beginning he would still explain a little, but as time went on, he gradually became negligent. Sometimes it would be a very, very long time, even until the next day, before he would suddenly remember and hurriedly send her a message saying he didn't see her previous messages before because he didn't check his phone, which was why he was only replying now.

Every time, Gu Wan would be as if nothing had happened, and would persistently follow up afterwards.

If it wasn't for today's incident, Lu Yu would have thought she really wouldn't feel sad.

Or rather, the trivial little things that he thought insignificant in the past, turned out not to actually be trivial at all.

Being treated like this, it turned out the person would actually feel sad.

That night, Lu Yu barely slept a wink.

The next morning when he passed by the guest room door, Lu Yu's footsteps noticeably paused. The housekeeper next to him saw as he raised his hand, seeming as if he wanted to knock on the door. But before the housekeeper could say anything, Lu Yu withdrew his hand again, then walked away.

Lu Yu had originally wanted to apologize, but he didn't know why, after last night, he was actually a little afraid to see her now.

In the end, Lu Yu almost fled from there.

When he arrived at the company and his personal assistant saw his boss with dark eye circles under his eyes, his gaze was immediately drawn to it.

There was no need to think about it, Chairman Lu must not have rested well last night.

He didn't see Chairman Lu arrange any work yesterday night, so it was probably a family matter then.

Chairman Lu had clearly not been himself recently. His marriage was probably going through some changes. Hopefully it wouldn't affect the company.

That's what the personal assistant was thinking to himself. He was originally planning to show Chairman Lu some things early this morning, but now seeing him like this... forget it, it's better not to touch this moldy head.

Noticing his personal assistant's momentary struggle, if it was before, Lu Yu would have asked about it on the spot. But now, he really wasn't in the mood.

It wasn't until he received the message from the marketing department that Lu Yu knew what his personal assistant had wanted to say earlier but held back.

It turned out that when Gu Wan was out shopping yesterday, she had been secretly photographed by a big internet celebrity. The internet celebrity posted the video and photos online. After fermenting overnight, by now it already had over 100,000 likes and the numbers were still increasing. Judging from the collection volume and repost volume, it was feared that it wouldn't take long before it would spread all over the Internet.

A company employee happened to come across it while browsing. Recognizing the familiar face of their boss's wife in the video, the employee immediately forwarded it to the marketing department without a second thought. The marketing department staff then forwarded it to their department head... going through layers of forwarding, by not even noon yet it had already reached Lu Yu.

In principle this wasn't a big deal. Usually the marketing department could have handled it themselves. But this time it was different, since it involved the boss's wife, they had to notify the boss no matter what.

The marketing department manager was still babbling on. From his professional standpoint, since the video was already out, and netizens were still quite interested, why not simply buy some hot searches, take advantage and promote it a bit, give the company some publicity, increase popularity and whatnot.

However after the marketing manager finished speaking, he didn't get a response for quite a while. When he looked up, he inadvertently saw his boss staring fixedly at the video and photos on the phone, clearly not looking like he agreed with his proposal.

The marketing manager suddenly remembered something. The photos and video taken by that internet celebrity were still quite suggestive. The main reason they spread so quickly was also because the netizens in the comments section were going crazy over it. But the marketing manager didn't take it seriously at all. In this day and age, not to mention male and female, female and female, male and male, even animals, pets, plants, and even inanimate objects, as long as the atmosphere was right netizens could go crazy over anything. As long as they who knew the truth didn't care, it was fine.

The marketing manager didn't consider that Chairman Lu would take this kind of thing seriously.

If it was before, Lu Yu certainly wouldn't have cared. Whether Gu Wan loved him or not, could he not know?

But at this particularly sensitive time...

Lu Yu saw the loving and tender gaze filled with affection directed at someone else.