Night Fire Lingering

Chapter 243 Could it be that his skills are too poor? Impossible!

Wen Yan was a steady driver, and Gu Yanci patiently followed her red sports car in his Rolls-Royce all the way to Longyu Bay.

As soon as Wen Yan stepped out of the car, she turned around and met the gaze of Gu Yanci, who had just gotten out of the car.

She glared at him, snorted, and turned to enter the villa.

Gu Yanci wasn't angry. He silently followed behind, and even took out slippers for Wen Yan before she bent down to take off her shoes.

Wen Yan accepted the man's advances and put on the slippers he gave her, but still didn't want to talk to him. She turned around and went upstairs to take a shower—she felt very uncomfortable because she smelled so bad at the bar.

Gu Yanci lagged a few steps behind, took off his suit jacket and tossed it onto the sofa in the master bedroom, then naturally went to open the bathroom door. Only then did he realize that Wen Yan had locked it!

Wen Yan never used to lock the bathroom door when she showered. Before they confessed their feelings to each other, he wouldn't open her bathroom door unnecessarily. After they confessed their feelings, she had a tacit acceptance of his entering the bathroom as if it were the same as his entering her body.

But now, she's locked the door!

"Wen Zhizhi?" Gu Yanci stood outside the bathroom, feeling a sense of frustration that was neither here nor there.

No one paid him any attention; there was only the sound of rushing water.

Inside the bathroom, Wen Yan stood under the shower, looking like a child who had successfully tricked someone, a pleased smile playing on her lips.

Forcibly breaking down the door would have been easy, but Gu Yanci chose to obediently cooperate with his wife's little temper and went to the bathroom next door to wash up.

When he returned, Wen Yan was already nestled in the blankets, her face practically screaming, "I'm still angry!"

However, if she were truly angry, she would have already gone to Luo Beiqing's place.

Gu Yanci asked the bar owner for the surveillance footage, which showed Wen Yan sitting on a high stool at the bar, repeatedly craning her neck to look into the crowd, clearly waiting for someone—him.

Unfortunately, no one came, and her delicate face showed undisguised disappointment.

Gu Yanci looked at it again and again, feeling a pang of heartache. He leaned down and lovingly kissed the hair of the woman sleeping beside him.

"Thank you, my baby."

Wen Yan's eyelashes trembled.

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Jiang Xing woke up with indescribable aches and pains all over her body. She was extremely tired, and it felt as if some hallucinatory sensations lingered on her body and skin.

The temperature beside him had dropped considerably, indicating that Lou Qi had been gone for some time, a realization that relieved Jiang Xing.

She endured the pain, got up and went into the bathroom, only to see in the mirror that her skin was covered with marks, a shocking sight.

Uncontrollably, memories of last night flooded her mind—Lou Qi's possessive and satisfied gaze, Lou Qi's hot yet unfamiliar touch, and his gentle coaxing when she pushed him and cried out in pain.

He coaxed her, but kept doing so.

This perfectly matches her stereotype of a scumbag!

Looking down again, Jiang Xing saw brand new toiletries in the bathroom, neatly placed next to the abandoned toiletries, in pink, a color the little girl liked.

Great, she doesn't like pink.

……

Lou Qi is different from Gu Yanci. Lou Qi's position in the Lou family was earned through his own hard work and scheming. He can't just skip work whenever he wants. Countless eyes are watching him, waiting for him to make a mistake.

He barely rested. After finishing, he went to the company after Jiang Xing fell asleep, processed the documents ahead of time, held the necessary morning meeting, and went home immediately.

He thought Jiang Xing had only gone to sleep close to dawn and wouldn't wake up until noon, but when he got home, the bed was empty!

Lou Qi, unwilling to give up, lifted the covers, only to find the bed empty. He then searched the bathroom.

What about people?

Such a big person!

Lou Qi immediately dialed Jiang Xing's number.

"Where are you?" The man's voice was filled with barely suppressed anger after the call connected, like a volcano about to erupt.

Anyone who didn't know better would think he'd been cheated out of his money and feelings!

Jiang Xing looked at the commercial law lecture slides on the computer screen in front of him, and finished typing the annotations he had just started writing, without having a chance to speak.

Lou Qi's tone grew even more sinister: "Jiang Xing, speak up. Do you always turn your backs on people after you've done your bidding, or is this just a one-time deal?"

A one-off deal?

Does he think she's a prostitute?

But the first half of what this person said made it sound like she was a scumbag!

"Young Master Lou, don't speak so harshly," Jiang Xing said calmly. "Ordinary people need to work to support themselves."

Lou Qi was taken aback, then remembered that Jiang Xing had joined Gu Yanci's company and was currently in his internship period.

Realizing that he had wronged Jiang Xing, and also surprised that Jiang Xing would seriously answer his question about her whereabouts, Lou Qi's resentment vanished instantly, like an inflated balloon being punctured.

"Are you alright?" She didn't need to rest after working all night?

Jiang Xing closed her eyes and immediately felt her lower back ache even more.

She didn't want to talk to Lou Qi anymore.

"Young Master Lou, I have to go to work. If there's nothing else, I'll hang up."

Before Lou Qi could react, Jiang Xing hung up the phone.

Lou Qi and she are unlikely to have anything of substance.

Looking at the phone that had been hung up on, Lou Qi couldn't help but grit his teeth in anger.

work?

How much money can you make working a regular job?

He could easily support a hundred of them.

She should go work for Aci. Does Aci really want her to work for him? He clearly wants her to protect Wen Yan!

They're taking this lousy class so seriously.

They slept with you and then ran away, not asking for any compensation or even a gift. Have they gone crazy from studying too much?

Lou Qi was unaware that he was muttering countless sentences to himself.

Suddenly, his gaze faltered, and he quickly walked to the bedside to examine it closely—a splash of red!

Lou Qi's mind went blank for a moment.

What is this… ?

Jiang Xing and Ying Kaian have been dating for two years, surely this isn't their first time together?

Or is it... that his skills are really that bad? Damn, impossible! He has no doubt about his skills!

Did I go too far last night? Did I hurt her?

Lou Qi was completely baffled, but when he thought of the first possibility, he felt a faint excitement, as if something had filled his heart, like he was poisoned.

After standing there for a few minutes, Lou Qi bought the medicine and headed to the Gu Group.