Soon after, she went upstairs, took a bath, and then lay in bed.
Staring at the ceiling and the dazzlingly luxurious crystal chandelier above her, she felt completely sleepless.
She checked her phone repeatedly, but still no messages had come through.
Could something have really happened?
Tossing and turning, she picked up her phone again and sent Qin Sijue a WeChat message: "Qin Sijue, are you still busy?"
After sending the message, she held her phone and waited for a long time, but still no reply came.
Her heart became even more chaotic.
Thinking over it, she dialed Luo Chen’s number.
But there too, no one answered...
Could something really have happened?
With her heart in turmoil, she lay in bed until 00:13, when suddenly her phone rang.
The moment the ringtone sounded, Gu Qiangwei was so startled that she almost dropped her phone. Looking down, she saw the familiar three words light up the caller ID: Qin Sijue.
She didn’t hesitate for half a second and quickly answered the phone, putting it up to her ear.
Hearing her urgent voice, Qin Sijue, far away in C city, felt all his irritation dissolve, his lips curving into a faint smile.
"Missing me that much?"
Hearing his warm, magnetic voice on the other end, Gu Qiangwei’s anxious heart finally settled down,.
Still, upon hearing his words, she instinctively paused, "What?"
"Sending me so many messages and calling twice, isn’t that because you miss me?" he teased lightly, with a hint of mischief in his tone.
After her worry subsided, Gu Qiangwei couldn’t help but frown, "I did not miss you!"
"Oh? Then who sent those messages?"
"Me, but who says sending messages means I missed you? I was just bored and killing time by messaging you!"
On the phone, Qin Sijue slightly raised an eyebrow but didn’t expose her.
"Is that so? Well, I missed you."
"..." A warm surge suddenly swept through her heart.
"Well, I didn’t see you messaging me, not even a single call," she complained in a low voice.
He imitated her tone, "Who says missing you means I have to message you to prove it?"
Gu Qiangwei instinctively responded, "Then according to your logic just now, shouldn’t it be exactly like that?"
"So, you admit you missed me?"
"..." She got wrapped up in it again!
For a while, Gu Qiangwei didn’t speak again.
Only after a moment did she change the subject, "So, have you been busy all this time?"
Gu Qiangwei fell silent, because she hadn’t experienced such things before; she didn’t know what to say or do that could help him even a little.
"Why aren’t you talking now?"
Hearing her sudden silence, Qin Sijue couldn’t resist asking.
"I don’t know what to say." Her thoughts were that regarding the issues at his corporation, she didn’t know what to say.
But Qin Sijue seemed to misunderstand, asking, "You and I, no more words to say? Then what are we supposed to do in the future?"
"What?" Gu Qiangwei didn’t understand for a moment.
Qin Sijue looked up, frowning slightly, "Let’s see, if we live until we’re ninety, that means we still have at least 60 years to spend together. If you have nothing to say to me now, how are we supposed to spend the rest of our lives, just staring at each other?"
Gu Qiangwei was stunned by his sudden topic, taking quite a while to realize what he meant.