A knock on the door interrupted the stubborn confrontation.
Gu Huaizhi stood up and opened the door.
"Mr. Gu, the porridge is ready." The nanny was waiting quietly by the door with a tray.
"Give it to me." He reached out to take it and glanced at his watch. "Go down and rest. You're not needed here."
The nanny responded and turned to leave.
"etc!"
The girl turned around, looked at the cold-faced man in front of her, and stood with her hands down, "What's the matter? Mr. Gu."
"May I have your name?"
"My name is Chen Mingxi!"
Gu Huaizhi nodded and then asked,
"I heard from the housekeeper that you just graduated from college. Which school did you go to?"
Chen Mingxi responded with a smile, "I am in Haizhou Normal University, majoring in education."
"Okay, you go down."
The door closed with the voice, and Chen Mingxi stood there, replaying the scene over and over in his mind. He didn't turn around and go downstairs until he was sure that his performance was impeccable.
The people inside the door naturally didn't know the other people's thoughts outside the door, and were still stuck in the stalemate just now.
Gu Huaizhi handed the bowl to Gu Yufei's hand,
"Eat midnight snack first."
"I won't eat!" Gu Yufei pushed the bowl away, her words gradually getting choked up, "What do you mean when you asked her where she graduated? Why can anyone do it, but only Sister Nan Xing can't. You clearly said that Sister Nan Xing went abroad to study. When she comes back, continue to teach me. Now that she's back, why don't you come to her? You... are lying! "
Gu Huaizhi was silent and his face became increasingly ugly.
Gu Yufei looked at him without giving in with tears in her eyes.
The irritability in his heart gradually amplified. Gu Huaizhi put the bowl on the low table aside. The bottom of the bowl and the glass panel made a thud. The sound was not loud, but it was enough to make Gu Yufei stop crying.
"Gu Yufei, hiring a tutor for you is just one of the ways for you to learn, and it is not a reason for you to bargain with your elders. If you feel that no tutor is satisfactory to you, then I will arrange for someone to register for you tomorrow. Go Go to public school.”
When she heard the words "public school", Gu Yufei pursed her lips and shed tears. After a while, a large piece of the gray velvet blanket on her legs became wet.
After being anxious for a while, Gu Huaizhi finally couldn't bear it anymore and sighed slowly,
"Okay, don't cry. If you don't like this teacher, then find another one."
"Why...you...can't let Sister Nan Xing come back?"
Gu Yufei's eyes turned red and she gradually began to cry.
Her current appearance reminded Gu Huaizhi of when she was a child. In order to teach her the rules, he took away a little stuffed rabbit that she would hug when she fell asleep. She cried like this at that time.
Sighing slowly, he patiently coaxed,
"I promise you, as long as you get all A's in your homework this semester, I will take you to see her."
"real?"
"real."
The big one and the little one finally shook hands and made peace, and ate their supper quietly.
After coaxing Gu Yufei to sleep, Gu Huaizhi returned to his room.
I took a shower, but I didn't feel sleepy at all. He pushed open the floor-to-ceiling windows, and the wind blew in finely with bits of rain. It was damp and entangled, making his heart feel stuffy.
He put on his bathrobe and went downstairs, and went to the wine cellar to look for the red wine that Lu Xiao gave him last time. He didn't know which floor the nanny had received it on, but he couldn't find it after several searches.
"Mr. Gu, what are you looking for? Let me help you."
In a midnight dream, there was a girl's murmuring voice, and Gu Huaizhi turned around.
Chen Mingxi was wearing a nightgown and a big sweater, standing quietly by the door of the wine cellar.
His eyes passed over her exposed calves and then moved to her face. The girl looked calm, as if she just wanted to help him find a drink.
Gu Huaizhi looked away, curled his lips, and refused, "No, thank you." Then he chose a bottle of wine and left.
Passing by, there was a faint scent of orange peel filling the surroundings. Gu Huaizhi stopped, turned his head and asked,
"Do you know Shen Ruzhen?"
Chen Mingxi suppressed the shock in her heart and replied calmly,
"do not know."
"good."
As the words fell, the breath that belonged to him gradually dissipated.
The tall and tall back gradually disappeared from sight. Chen Mingxi touched her chest, which was beating violently and uneasily.
Gu Huaizhi took the wine to the terrace.
The cool breeze seemed to blow away the chaos in my mind.
He took out the phone from the pocket of his bathrobe and called. When the call was connected, Lu Xiao's furious voice came out.
"Gu Huaizhi, do you have a grudge against me? Look what time it is? I..."
"Stop talking nonsense." Gu Huaizhi heard a woman's voice on the other end of the phone, interrupted him and asked, "Has Shen Ruzhen returned to China?"
"That's your fiancée, you ask me? Is there anything else? If nothing happens, I'll hang up."
"Yingbonai..."
Before Gu Huaizhi finished speaking, Lu Xiao on the other side of the phone immediately said, "I'm back. He mentioned it to Zhiyu when I was playing golf a few days ago."
"knew."
"Hey, let's talk about the agency rights of Inbonite..."
"It's getting late, let's talk about it another day."
"Gu Huaizhi, you use people to move forward, don't use people..."
Lu Xiao was still chattering over there, but he was not in the mood to chat with him today. He already knew what he wanted to know, so he raised his hand and hung up the phone.
The night was thick, and raindrops hit the monstera in the corner, making regular sounds.
Gu Huaizhi raised his head and drank the wine in the glass, looking into the distance. Something in his mind gradually fermented and expanded in the rainy night, and finally exploded with a bang.
——Young girl
——Home teacher
And Shen Ruzhen, who suddenly returned to China.
Before it was Xu Nanxing, and now there is Chen Mingxi, different person, similar tricks.
Gu Huaizhi sneered, really persevering.
Some things that seemed to have been buried in the mind seemed to come out all at once, forcing people to recall them.
Such a beautiful night was as lingering as tonight. Xu Nanxing's strong eyebrows seemed to be right in front of his eyes. Her soft palms were tightly pressed against his chest, her arms clinging to his arms, and she was tender in his arms. Call his name softly.
A trace of heat gradually spreads from a certain part of the body.
He raised his hand and looked at his fingertips, where the body heat of holding her still seemed to linger, but what echoed in his ears was her suppressed cries and hurried face.
He knew her purpose clearly, but he allowed her to get closer to him step by step.
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Xu Nanxing woke up from his sleep, his face was wet, and he glanced at his phone. It was four o'clock in the morning.
Pulling a few tissues to wipe the tears on her face, she turned over and closed her eyes.
Scenes from the dream were surging in his mind, and Gu Huaizhi's eyebrows kept flashing in front of his eyes. His body was obviously tired and sleepy, but his brain was still active, tossing and turning.
In the haze, she seemed to see the man standing at the head of the bed. She wanted to open her mouth to say something, but found that she could not make a sound. She wanted to reach out and pull his sleeve, but she clearly raised her hand, but she saw it in her blurred vision. His hand was still on the pillow.
It wasn't until there was a ringing sound in her ears that she gradually woke up.
It turned out to be a nightmare just now.
I touched my cell phone and picked it up.
"Hello."
"Nan Xing, bring last night's dress and jewelry to the company today. I have to return to the studio. Come early!"
It was Liu Lili who reminded her to return the dress she wore last night.
Xu Nanxing glanced at the dress at the end of the bed and said vaguely, "I know, I'll send it to the company today."
After hanging up the phone, Gulu went to the other side of the bed and wrapped himself tightly, so that he seemed to feel a little safer. Just as he fell asleep, he heard his sister calling her in the living room,
"Nan Xing, are you up? Breakfast is ready. Come out to eat when you get up."
Lai lay awake on the bed for a few seconds before she responded,
"right away."
After hastily washing up and going out, Xu Silan has already put breakfast on the table.
Simple steamed buns with eggs, leftover seafood porridge from last night, and a plate of pickles made Xu Nanxing's stomach growl. She had something on her mind last night, so she took a few mouthfuls of porridge and then washed up and went to bed. She was really hungry.
After taking a mouthful of pickles, Xu Silan slid over from the kitchen with the bowl in hand and patted her.
"Serve the porridge and drink it, be careful that the salty taste hurts your throat. Isn't there an audition today?"
Xu Nanxing patted her forehead, and then remembered that she complained that Liu Lili had just asked her to go to the company early.
Liu Lili made an appointment for her to audition a while ago. It was said to be a big-budget film invested by Boya Pictures. Although she is the third female lead, she has a lot of roles and is considered an important role. I heard that many already well-known actresses also wanted to compete for this role. Boya Pictures held an audition, which caused a stir in the entire industry, but in the end it seemed that only a few were selected.
Only she and Lin Qingying were selected in the company.
After dinner, Xu Nanxing went back to his room and changed his clothes. He also put away the dress he wore last night. When he was putting away his accessories, he found that an earring was missing.
She remembered that she had taken it off and put it in her handbag last night, but she opened the handbag and checked it over and over again. She even took out the inner bag and shook it out a few times, but there was still nothing there.
Last night's gala was a charity dinner led by Boya Pictures. Because it is a relatively well-known gala in the industry, many designers expect their works to be shown on such occasions, so when they heard that they were attending the Boya charity dinner, Even unknown young actors like Xu Nanxing have received sponsorship.
Xu Nanxing remembered the earrings. Although they looked simple, she recognized that they were Kong Ke beads, and they were of rare flamingo color with fine flame patterns on them.
She was putting on makeup at that time, and Liu Lili stood next to her and told her the origin of the earrings. She took a look at them twice and found that they were indeed very beautiful. The small pair of earrings exuded the aura of money.
If one earring is lost, it cannot be paired and naturally loses its original value.
Xu Nanxing thought about the price Liu Lili mentioned at that time. It seemed like 50,000, or 80,000?
She wailed in her heart, no matter tens of thousands, it was a huge sum of money to her.
Xu Sionglan heard the sound of her rummaging and came over in her wheelchair.
"What's wrong?"
Xu Nanxing got up and went to the living room and kitchen, looking for it as he walked, "Sister, did you see a pink pearl earring in the house this morning?"
"No." Xu Silan went out with her and looked around for her.
Nowhere.
Xu Nanxing recalled the route he took last night, and suddenly a possibility flashed through his mind.
