C2

At nine in the evening, at the Gu family villa.

A beautiful woman followed Gu Yan in through the door and glanced at him before going up to the second floor.

Gu Yan followed the path the lady took and walked slowly up the stairs. Step by step, he walked and counted.

On the 23rd floor, she didn't know how many times she had counted.

The door at the end of the hall opened and closed. Gu Yan stepped onto the last flight of stairs, lowered his head in shock, and then reached the end.

Within the study.

"Mushen, I've made another deal for you. What are you planning to give me this time?"

Li Xian supported himself on the table in front of the man with both of his arms folded close to the center, as if he was showing the man that other than his outstanding working ability, there were other aspects of him that were also very outstanding.

The man didn't raise his head as she had expected. He only lightly flipped through the documents in his hands. "What do you want?"

What did she want, he didn't know?

After so many years, Li Xian had been by his side since he started out from scratch. It could be said that Li Xian had followed him from being empty-handed to becoming like this.

"Are you going to be promoted?"

It wasn't that Li Xian didn't understand the meaning of the man's words. Could it be that if the director was promoted, he had to change his position?

"You really know how to tease me. What I want …"

Li Xian took the folder in his hands and leaned over, his gaze was level with the man, "Mushen, you know it."

Just as he finished speaking, the clock on the dark red wall rang, a total of ten times.

It was ten o'clock, and the Gu Family, which represented that the time was up, had declined all guests. This also meant that it was time for Li Xian to leave.

Gu Mushen raised her gaze to look at Li Xian, her deep eyes stared unfathomably deep, causing her heart to tremble uncontrollably.

It couldn't be denied that Li Xian really knew how to display her advantages. She gave off the vibe of a mature woman, and it really suited the tastes of men.

But she also knew that Gu Mushen had never been one of these men.

Even if she were to bump into a wall every time, she would choose to remain the same as before. She … She wasn't willing to give up …

Exiting the study room, Li Xian's expression did not look too good. Turning around, he suddenly saw the person at the stairs standing with one hand on the stairs, looking at her indifferently.

She pretended to adjust the collar of her shirt and walked closer. She spoke in an unfriendly tone, "Why aren't you resting yet? Isn't the exam about to begin?"

Gu Yan didn't like the way Li Xian spoke to her. He slightly knitted his eyebrows, and the first thing he saw when he raised his head was her unnaturally red cheeks. His tone unconsciously became sarcastic, "Is it interesting?"

"What?"

"Every time."

He always came at night, always in the study, and always at this time.

Gu Yan laughed without warmth.

Previously, when Li Xian left, she had thought that only she herself knew how terrible she was, but she didn't know that there was another person who knew this secret as well.

"You!"

When he thought about all this, Li Xian became a little angry from embarrassment, "So you were here the entire time?"

Always, always, every time she came to the Gu household at night, not just today.

An almost imperceptible curve appeared on the corner of the girl's mouth. From a certain point of view, she looked very much like the man in the study.

"Don't you find it boring?"

Gu Yan did not bother with Li Xian's question. It was taunting but at the same time, it was ridiculing him.

Being mocked by the little girl in front of her, Li Xian's face, which usually never changed even once before the collapse of Mount Tai, finally became sinister. She roared out with a low voice: "Gu Yan, are you sick!"

Even if she could not climb onto Gu Mushen's bed, she, Gu Yan, could not do so.

"Gu Yan, you are just …"