Quick Travel: Destiny for Thirty Lifetimes

Gu Quechen was away on this business trip for three days, and during that time, there wasn't a single new message in his chat box. Gu Quechen put his phone back in his pocket, and his already solemn expression became even uglier. When someone next to him saw this, they asked cautiously, "Master Gu, you've checked your phone more than a dozen times today. Is there something urgent?"

The location of the business trip happened to be City A where the Gu Group was located. His family was here. Gu Quechen was not bad in ability to begin with, and he felt like a fish in water after returning to City A. After all, everyone in City A knew about the "rebellious" deeds of the young master of the Gu family!

Born into a wealthy family, he adhered to strict discipline and was at the top of his class since childhood, which attracted everyone's admiration. People praised the young master of the Gu family a lot, but it was not entirely true to say that he was very well-behaved. After graduating from university, he did not join his family's company at first, but disappeared for several years.

When he reappeared, he was already 26 years old. Other families of equal status were all eyeing this high-quality man, waiting to marry their daughters to him. However, Gu Quechen made an even more puzzling decision with his stern face. He went to a small company of the Gu family in another city for an interview and was hired as a low-level employee!

If you want to be a low-level employee, then so be it. But that's at the head office. What are you doing out in the city? He has connections and abilities, but instead of leveraging them, he's deliberately taking a detour. While others are desperately striving for higher positions, he's slipping away and going too far. Outsiders like them can't say anything, waiting to see if the Gu family's elder and president will fly into a rage and bring Gu Quechen back for punishment. After a closer look, they discovered that his family hadn't tried to stop Gu Quechen's decision at all.

In the past two years that Gu Quechen has been in City C, apart from coming back once for the Chinese New Year, Mid-Autumn Festival and his family's birthdays, the only time he met anyone was during this business trip to City A. He was supposed to rush to City C this morning, but the general manager of the company he signed the contract with somehow got wind of it and invited him to lunch today. In the workplace, one must always leave a way out for everything. He knew that the general manager wanted to curry favor with him, so he did the favor.

I did some research before coming here. This company is about the same size as the one he was working for. It has good market prospects and growth potential. It is a relatively reliable company and there are not too many worries about cooperating with it.

The person who had just spoken to him was the general manager. He looked over, frowned, and shook his head: "It's okay. Mr. Lin, just call me by my name."

The meal was almost over, and after the meal, Gu Quechen went back home first. It was summer vacation now, and Gu Yiya had gone out to travel with friends some time ago, and now she stayed at home all day, petting the dog, rubbing the cat, and playing games.

When Gu Quechen walked into the living room, Gu Yiya was curled up on the sofa playing games. Hearing the noise, she looked up at him and said, "Brother? Didn't you fly today? Why are you back? Is your plane delayed?"

Gu Quechen sat on the single sofa at the side and frowned at her: "Why are you playing games again? Don't you have class today?"

"Hey, brother, I've already finished my high school entrance exam. Can't you just let me rest for a bit?" Gu Yiya looked like a well-behaved girl, but her movements were unruly. She leaned over, propped one leg up under her arm, and rested the other arm on the sofa. She chewed the gum in her mouth, frowned, and said half-complainingly and half-coquettishly, "Didn't I go to dance and piano lessons yesterday? Mom said she'll hire a tutor for me the day after tomorrow, so I have to have some fun while I have time."

Gu Quechen sat upright, ignoring Gu Yiya's mumbling for the first time. After a while, he coughed lightly and asked casually, "I have a friend..."

Before he could continue, Gu Yiya laughed and interrupted him directly: "Brother, how can you have a good friend? Don't make friends out of nothing, just say it's you."

"..." Gu Quechen choked for a moment, but still said stubbornly, "My friend's subordinate, who is actually an intern, asked for my friend's contact information. When we first added each other, he often sent messages, but now he hasn't. What's going on?"

Gu Yiya had already sat up with her eyes narrowed. She stared at Gu Quechen for a long time, "tsk"ed, and said in a serious tone, "This is a bit difficult to deal with!"

"Brother, is it you, I mean, your friend rarely replies to other people's messages?" This is still a tactful way of putting it. Her brother probably doesn't reply to other people's messages at all.

Sure enough, after listening to it, Gu Quechen thought for a few seconds and nodded: "But I...my friend said he read every one of them carefully."

Gu Yiya rolled her eyes and threw her phone on the sofa: "Brother, this doesn't show any read or unread information, so how would people know you read it? No, your friend has seen it. She's a girl, it's great that she took the initiative to send a message. If she never responds, can she still expect a love that is unrequited?"

Gu Quechen froze for a moment, coughed again embarrassedly, and corrected, "That intern is a boy."

"Brother! You've been harassed by a boy!" Gu Yiya came up to Gu Quechen, touched his shoulders and arms with both hands, looked left and right and said, "Brother, are you okay? Did anyone take advantage of you? You're so reserved, it must be that boy who took the initiative, right?"

Even when Gu Quechen was pointed out, he remained expressionless. He listened carefully, and from the tone of her voice and the expression on her face, he could not see that his sister was worried about him at all. Instead, she seemed to have a hint of excitement and joy that her brother had finally welcomed spring.

When Gu Yiya finally calmed down, he simply retorted: "I'm not a stuffy person."

*

It was almost evening when he returned to his apartment in City C. Gu Quechen carried the food he bought from outside, ate his meal as usual, and then picked up his phone to check.

Gu Yiya didn't teach him anything, only saying that it's best to reply immediately when someone sends a message. If you can't, try to respond to everything they say. She finally said, "Brother, if you don't have any feelings for that person and they're just harassing you, don't reply if you can. You can even delete and block them. If your iron tree really blooms, you must seize the opportunity! I just didn't expect that after 28 years of being single, you would actually have a flash romance!"

Gu Yiya said that a flash romance means falling in love after only a few meetings, but that's not the case with him and Lian Qingyang. He sees Lian Qingyang every day, and they spend a lot of time alone together each time. It shouldn't be considered a flash romance, right? No, he and Lian Qingyang haven't started dating yet. No, he doesn't want to date Lian Qingyang.

Before boarding the plane, Gu Quechen remembered what Gu Yiya said. He usually would just stare blankly waiting at the airport, but this time he took out his cell phone, flipped to the top page, and carefully replied to each message starting with the greeting. At least he finished replying before turning off the phone.