Night Fire Lingering

Wen Yan was very pleased with his discomfiture and immediately beamed with joy.

"I'm leaving now!" Wen Yan picked up her phone and bag.

"Wen Yan!"

"Hmm?" Wen Yan tilted her head, patiently waiting for him to speak.

Gu Yanci pursed his thin lips, and after several seconds, asked, "I want to eat too."

Wen Yan was dumbfounded.

After holding it in for so long, he finally managed to utter this sentence?!

After a while, Wen Yan couldn't help but find it funny again.

"Go ahead and eat. Didn't they arrange special meals for you at the old house?" Wen Yan pretended not to notice his little mood and deliberately made him feel awkward.

It's all because she was unhappy before!

Gu Yanci stared at her without speaking, his eyes swirling with emotion.

Before leaving, Wen Yan instructed the caregiver and bodyguard to keep a close eye on Gu Yanci and not to get out of bed without permission.

As Gu Yanci watched Wen Yan leave, he was stopped by the caregiver who was wielding a feather as if it were an imperial edict: "Young Master, the young mistress just said that you should rest well!"

Gu Yanci looked at him coldly.

The caregiver stubbornly refused to back down, and was almost in tears.

Fortunately, Gu Yanci was eventually persuaded to stop.

Senior Jiang, senior...

What a terrible senior, he's so good at winning her over!

When Lou Qi arrived with tonics and fruit to visit Gu Yanci, he saw Gu Yanci sitting on the hospital bed with a dark face, several documents in front of him, not turning a single page.

"Why are you here?" Gu Yanci asked.

"Looks like Mr. Gu isn't too happy to see me." Lou Qi plopped down on the sofa, directed the caregiver to wash an apple, and after washing it, he ignored Gu Yanci and started eating it himself. "That's true, after all, your wife went on a date with another man, and you only have me, your brother, to keep you company. How can you be happy? —Hey!"

Lou Qi was speaking when Gu Yanci grabbed an apple from the bedside table and threw it at him, which Lou Qi caught steadily.

Considering that Gu Yanci was a patient, Lou Qi kindly said, "Wen Yan asked me to come and keep you company, are you happy now?"

Gu Yanci couldn't be happy; he kept a cold face and didn't say a word.

Lou Qi grabbed a few blueberries and tossed them into his mouth, nonchalantly, before asking, "You really don't plan to get a divorce?"

Gu Yanci finally reacted.

He seemed to have heard an absurd joke: "Didn't I never intend to get a divorce from the beginning?"

Lou Qi stared at him in astonishment for a few seconds, then nodded knowingly after confirming that he wasn't joking.

Indeed, their willingness to risk their lives to save Wen Yan from being kidnapped, enduring explosions and gunfire, is definitely not an ordinary sentiment.

As for Wen Muzhi?

Lou Qi himself didn't believe in feelings, and he never thought that Gu Yanci liked Wen Muzhi that much.

-

Last time, Wen Yan ate Cantonese food, but this time she chose a fusion restaurant that serves light and refreshing cuisine.

When the waiter served the dishes, Jiang Huaixu specifically asked them to place a few dishes next to Wen Yan.

Wen Yan was slightly taken aback, as it was exactly the dish she liked.

"Senior, you..."

"Am I mistaken about my preference for you?" Jiang Huaixu asked with a smile.

"All correct! Senior, you're so meticulous and have such a good memory!" Wen Yan was pleasantly surprised.

Jiang Huaixu's smile deepened as he poured Wen Yan a small bowl of black chicken and matsutake mushroom soup, saying, "I don't care about everyone."

Wen Yan paused in her act of taking the soup and looked at him.

Jiang Huaixu added, "Everyone is taking it all seriously; it's exhausting."

Wen Yan felt something was off.

When he said, "I don't care about everyone," she always felt that he was implying something.

However, he added, "It's tiring to take everyone so seriously," which seems to suggest that she is just one of many people he cares about, and she doesn't need to think too much about it.

“These are still extraordinary times. How about I arrange for a few people to protect you?” Before Wen Yan could come up with a solution, Jiang Huaixu had already changed the subject.

"No need, no need!" Wen Yan immediately refused, "Gu Yanci has already made arrangements."

Jiang Huaixu paused briefly while picking up food, but quickly resumed his normal actions.

He casually gossiped, "Didn't you say before that you were planning to break up with him?"

Wen Yan bit her lip, feeling somewhat embarrassed to gossip about her marriage with her senior.

She hadn't expected that Jiang Huaixu would be interested in these things.

"Well...some things have happened recently, and I...I'm thinking of reconsidering."

"He doesn't want a divorce, does he?" Jiang Huaixu asked.

Wen Yan looked at him in shock: "People outside probably think that I don't want a divorce. Why would you think that?"

"Because those people are blind."

—Wen Yan is so wonderful, of course Gu Yanci doesn't want a divorce.

Wen Yan was amused by Jiang Huaixu's overly sharp words, taking it as him being biased towards her.

As she smiled, a wisp of hair fell down.

Before she could even raise her hand, Jiang Huaixu had already taken the initiative and gently tucked a strand of hair behind her ear.

This action is too intimate, carrying a hint of ambiguity.

Wen Yan was startled and stared at him with wide almond-shaped eyes.

"Feel sorry."

Jiang Huaixu withdrew his hand, put it behind his back, and gently touched his fingers, savoring the touch he had just felt.

"Ah, no, it's nothing." Seeing his composure, Wen Yan felt guilty instead. "It's just that I'm not used to it. It's my problem."

Jiang Huaixu sighed inwardly.

He only offered a verbal apology, and she began to reflect on her actions.

Tsk, such a nice person, no wonder Gu Yanci bullies him!

Just then, Wen Yan's phone rang.

It's an abandoned building.

"Wen Yan, your husband is disobedient and insisted on going out, and he fell." Lou Qi said in a helpless tone, as if to say, "I can't do anything about it, let him die if he wants to."

Wen Yan stood up instantly, said she would go back immediately, and hung up the phone.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Huaixu asked.

"Gu Yanci got into some trouble, I..." Wen Yan started to say, but then remembered that she had invited Jiang Huaixu to dinner and was now leaving halfway through, so she couldn't bring herself to say it.

"I'll take you back to the hospital," Jiang Huaixu offered.

"Senior..." Wen Yan looked at him apologetically.

Jiang Huaixu helped her carry her bag, smiling and saying, "Let's go, the patient comes first."

He emphasized the word 'patient'.

If Wen Yan paid closer attention to Jiang Huaixu, she would have noticed that there was absolutely no hint of a smile in the man's eyes.

"Thank you, senior!"

Jiang Huaixu suddenly turned his head and asked, "Will you be this worried about me next time I get sick?"

Wen Yan couldn't stand hearing him say he was sick, so she quickly spat three times and said very seriously, "Don't talk nonsense! You won't get sick, you'll be fine!"

Jiang Huaixu felt a little less gloomy because of Gu Yanci's mischief, and couldn't help but smile as he asked Wen Yan, "Yan Yan, why am I so concerned about me? You seem to care a lot about my health."

Wen Yan guiltily avoided looking at Jiang Huaixu.

Jiang Huaixu raised his hand and gently rubbed her head, without asking any more questions.

He gave her full freedom and rights; since she didn't want to talk about it, he didn't ask.

Why care?

Why do we care?

Why, does it matter?

Isn't the key point that she cares about him and is concerned about him?

-

hospital.

Gu Yanci warned Lou Qi: "Wen Yan holds grudges, so be careful."

Lou Qi said nonchalantly, "I'm not going to date her girlfriends. She'll hold a grudge, and I won't be able to get revenge."

Young Master Lou never imagined that one day his words would come true.