Night Fire Lingering

Chapter 163 The CEO's Wife is Pregnant!

Moon stars are rare.

Gu Yanci attended a multinational conference before returning to Longyu Bay.

He initially thought Wen Yan was probably asleep, but when he quietly entered the master bedroom, he found that the bedside lamp was still on. Under the dim light, the woman was resting her head on one hand, taking a nap with her eyes closed.

There were two stacks of printed documents next to me, covered in dense English text.

It is a paper related to law.

Gu Yanci bent down to look at the woman under the warm yellow light. The fine hairs on her face were clearly visible, and her features were delicate and very cute.

After he had seen enough and satisfied his craving, he carefully removed the printed materials. Just as he was about to lay her down to make her more comfortable, Wen Yan opened her eyes with a soft moan.

She was still sleepy, her brows furrowed, looking at the man who had suddenly appeared before her with a hint of doubt. After several seconds, that doubt gradually cleared.

"Just got back?" Her voice was still sleepy and soft. She turned her head and glanced at the clock in the corner. It was one o'clock in the morning.

"Ah."

Gu Yanci easily lifted Wen Yan's body with his strong arms, laid her flat in the quilt, kissed Wen Yan's forehead, and couldn't help but touch her cheek.

He touched it again and again, unable to put it down.

Wen Yan was woken up by his touch and angrily slapped his hand away.

"You didn't wash your hands! -- Hey, what did He Tingchuan say to you?"

"Ok?"

"Don't think I don't know. After Bei Qing and I left, you must have had a private chat with He Tingchuan!" Wen Yan said, looking like she was saying, "Confess and you'll be treated leniently, resist and you'll be punished severely."

Gu Yanci was amused by her: "I didn't say anything."

Wen Yan said with a serious face, "Gu Yanci, I firmly support Bei Qing. If you have any intention of becoming He Tingchuan's accomplice or lobbyist, I will be angry with you!"

Gu Yanci was not surprised by this: "I have no interest in meddling in other people's business."

Wen Yan nodded in satisfaction, and with that movement, she buried her chin in the blanket, making her look even softer and cuter.

Gu Yanci's hands were itching to touch her face, but he held back, remembering how she had just rejected him.

He stood up, loosening his tie as he said, "I'm going to take a shower."

When Gu Yanci came out after washing up, he was surprised to see Wen Yan sitting up again, leaning against the headboard and continuing to look at the documents she had just reviewed.

"Why aren't you asleep yet? Are you under a lot of academic pressure?"

Gu Yanci frowned, feeling that the school shouldn't put so much academic and research pressure on its students.

"I'll go to sleep after I finish watching it."

Wen Yan didn't even look up, quickly browsing through the English text while making simple notes; the language barrier posed no obstacle for her.

She is a prospective doctoral student, and the department has not yet set requirements for her, but Wen Yan has high expectations of herself.

Gu Yanci lay down next to Wen Yan. Since she wouldn't sleep, he took out his tablet to submit his bids.

After he finished reading the tender documents and even replied to his subordinates' emails, Wen Yan was still reading them, her eyes even sparkling, seemingly getting more and more energetic!

"Aren't you sleepy?" Gu Yanci asked.

"Huh?" Wen Yan was taken aback. "I just dozed off for a bit, I'm not sleepy anymore."

Realizing something, she said, "I'll go to the study to look at it. You go to sleep first."

"Tsk!"

Gu Yanci was so angry that he laughed. He snatched the documents from her hand, marked the page with a small triangle, and then tossed it onto the sofa.

"Hey! -- Ugh!"

Just as Wen Yan was about to question him, the man sealed her lips with his.

"Gu Yanci!" Wen Yan pushed his face away.

Gu Yanci paused subconsciously, and breathed a sigh of relief when he realized that Wen Yan's action was not out of disgust or resistance.

He said in a low, hoarse voice, "I'm clean."

Wen Yan was momentarily speechless, not understanding his thought process.

He continued kissing her, saying as he did so, "Since you can't sleep, let's exercise a bit to help you fall asleep."

She doesn't need this exercise to help her sleep!

"I haven't finished reading my thesis yet!"

"We'll see tomorrow."

When Gu Yanci was focused, his technique was excellent.

Wen Yan was quickly forced to succumb, as if she had fallen into a soft whirlpool, her reason completely swallowed up by her consciousness...

I don’t know how long it took.

She only felt a chill on her ankle.

Her body trembled involuntarily, and she opened her eyes to look.

Gu Yanci placed her left foot on his shoulder and was putting on... an anklet?!

In the heat of passion, Wen Yan could barely see clearly. She tried to pull her legs back, but the man held them firmly in his grasp.

"W-what is that?" Wen Yan tried her best to make her voice sound normal.

"Anklet." Gu Yanci's low, husky voice was filled with satisfaction. "It looks good."

I've wanted to put it on her for a long time.

In a daze, Wen Yan saw her legs being lifted high in the air.

Something gleamed and glowed red near my left ankle...

-

Gu Yanci's description of 'aiding sleep' was quite accurate; Wen Yan slept until noon the next day before waking up.

When she regained consciousness and remembered something, she immediately lifted the blanket to look at her left foot.

At her ankle was an exquisite anklet adorned with tiny, finely broken rubies, none of which were large, but of very high purity.

Blood red against snow-white skin, with a large ruby ​​on the protruding part of the ankle bone, surrounded by red hickeys, is particularly... stimulating to the eye!

"Is this guy a pervert...?" Wen Yan couldn't help but complain.

"Say who?"

A man's voice suddenly rang out.

Wen Yan was startled, only then noticing that Gu Yanci was sitting in the small hall outside the master bedroom, working on his laptop.

Wen Yan glared at him. "Why didn't you go to the company?"

"Let's go after lunch." Gu Yanci remembered the property certificate he had seen in the study and asked Wen Yan, "Have you bought a house recently?"

"Ah."

Wen Yan deliberately placed the property certificate in the study, wanting Gu Yanci to know, as she did not intend to keep it from him.

"You wanted a house, why didn't you tell me?" Gu Yanci walked over. "The house I have is better than the one you bought."

“I know.” Wen Yan pursed her lips. “But that’s your house. This one I bought belongs entirely to me.”

It wasn't given by him, it wasn't given by Nan Yun, it wasn't given by anyone.

Gu Yanci knew that Nan Yun's incident had left her with psychological trauma.

Wen Yan got out of bed to organize her documents.

When I picked it up, I saw that the document had many creases and even strange marks!

Scenes from last night suddenly flashed through my mind...

"Gu Yanci!" Wen Yan held her own appalling documents, her chest heaving with anger. "Look what you've done!"

Gu Yanci glanced at the documents, made no attempt to deny it, admitted his mistake, and said, "I'll be more careful next time."

He loves to move things around; he likes to do things that should be done in bed all over the house!

Wen Yan glared at him fiercely, her eyes practically spitting fire.

Gu Yanci took the documents from Wen Yan's hand, and after eating his fill, he was very agreeable: "I'll reprint a copy for you."

He paused for a second, then added, "Also, complete the notes you made before."

"You'd better not let anyone see this, I'm embarrassed!" Wen Yan warned through gritted teeth.

Gu Yanci, who originally intended to hand this task over to the secretary's office, said: "...Okay."

That afternoon, the secretary's office received a call asking them to deliver some markers to the president's office. When the secretary went to the president's office to report on the work, they found that the usually busy boss was actually doodling with various colored markers, his expression more serious than when he was reading the report. The scene was quite jarring!

Unable to resist the urge to gossip, the secretary quietly inquired about the situation with Zhou, the boss's most trusted assistant.

Zhou Qixin said, "How would I know?"

"Maybe it's to prepare for making crafts for my daughter or helping her with her homework in the future?" He couldn't think of a second reason; the shopkeeper was using colored markers!

"Makes sense!"

the next day.

Wen Yan went to the Gu Group to retrieve her thesis materials.

As soon as she arrived at the president's office floor, she ran into the secretaries, who treated her with utmost respect.

She went to the restroom and was reminded, "Madam, please be careful as the floor is slippery."

She was strolling around casually when she was reminded, "Madam, please watch your step."

She went to the break room to get an iced coffee and was reminded, "Madam, you'd better drink less iced coffee lately."

"I haven't had my period," Wen Yan said directly. The secretary-general was a woman in her thirties.

The secretary-general had an "of course I know" look on his face: "But aren't you pregnant? Although many traditional dietary restrictions have no scientific basis, it's still best to eat less cold food in early pregnancy."

Wen Yan: "???"

"What pregnancy?" Wen Yan was full of questions.

The secretary-general looked puzzled: "You...you're not pregnant?"

She suddenly remembered something, and realized what she meant. She lowered her voice and said, "You want to keep it a secret for the first three months? It's okay, that's just superstition. My friend and I announced our pregnancies as soon as we got pregnant, and there were no problems!"

"..." Wen Yan felt a sense of helplessness, like a widow being embroiled in a scandalous rumor, but... she only had the scandalous part, not the rumor!

Wen Yan went directly to Gu Yanci's office.

As soon as the man ended the call, she confronted him, "Did you tell them I was pregnant?"

Gu Yanci practically jumped up from his chair, his shock mixed with ecstatic joy: "You're pregnant?"

Wen Yan: "..."

Now she knows how rumors start to spread!

"I didn't!" Wen Yan was speechless. "Have you forgotten the measures you took yourself?!"

"The effect of the condom isn't 100%." ​​Gu Yanci actually hoped that he was using some defective products.

Unfortunately, Wen Yan takes contraception very seriously.

Gu Yanci's gaze fell on Wen Yan's lower abdomen.

Wen Yan subconsciously took a step back: "Don't look! There's nothing there!"

"Oh." I was disappointed.

Wen Yan: "..."

Gu Yanci called the secretary-general in to ask him questions.

The secretary-general quickly realized it might be a misunderstanding, but then thought it unlikely: "Isn't your wife pregnant? But... everyone thinks so..."

Wen Yan was terrified: "Who are you all?"

"The entire secretary's office and assistant's office..."

Wen Yan closed her eyes.

"Where did the information come from?" Gu Yanci asked.

The secretary-general answered honestly, "Assistant Zhou."

Zhou Qi was called in, looking completely bewildered and utterly innocent: "I just said it offhand. President Gu scribbling with a marker does indeed fit the image of someone tutoring children in the future..."

Secretary General: "We thought you were implying something to us!"

Zhou Qi: "...Am I crazy?"

Gu Yanci waved his hand, telling the two to leave quickly and to stop spreading rumors.

Gu Yanci felt a pang of longing when she thought of the little life that He Tingchuan and Luo Beiqing were still developing.

"Mrs. Gu, we've been married for so long and still don't have a baby. People are starting to doubt my abilities."

Wen Yan gave a forced smile: "You can explain to them, as long as you have thick skin."

Gu Yanci walked around the desk, approached Wen Yan, and placed his large hand on her flat and firm abdomen.

"Why don't you want to? Zhizhi, what are you worried about? We're not the same as before."

"I don't want to study while pregnant."

Gu Yanci sighed: "Honey, you'll need at least three more years to complete your doctorate."

Three years is the minimum time required to pursue a doctorate.

Wen Yan blinked, raised her chin, and deliberately asked, "What, you're not willing to wait three years?"

Gu Yanci reasoned with her: "You're pregnant now, our baby can grow up with Luo Beiqing's baby. They'll be childhood sweethearts, and maybe they'll even be together in the future."

"Gu Yanci, where did you come from, a remnant of feudalism! There were no more arranged marriages between children!"

Observing Gu Yanci's reaction, Wen Yan suddenly realized something: "Gu Yanci, you... are you insecure?"

After asking this question, Wen Yan wondered if it was ridiculous. How could Gu Yanci possibly lack a sense of security when it came to matters of the heart?

However, Gu Yanci did not refute it.

He even gave a self-deprecating laugh.

Wen Yan was stunned, finding it unbelievable: "You..."

Gu Yanci pulled Wen Yan into his arms and buried his face in the crook of her neck.

He said helplessly, "Honey, you've already bought a house, which makes me feel like you're ready to leave me at any moment."