"You’re not going home again tonight?" Gu Qimiao asked him as her stomach was almost full.
He wiped his mouth and said, "If you want to go home, I can take you."
"I don’t want to." Going back would definitely get her scolded, they wouldn’t care about her, only blame her, so she didn’t need to consider their feelings.
Seeing her put down her chopsticks, Gu Moming handed her a tissue. "Not going to work tomorrow, right?"
"Yeah, it’s a holiday."
"Then don’t go back to the dorm tonight. Go to the hospital for a check-up tomorrow morning."
Gu Qimiao hesitated, "Tomorrow morning... Oh right, it’s been almost two months since my last check-up, but..." She was now staying at Shen Yanchen’s place.
Hearing her hesitation, Gu Moming gave her a sidelong glance, and Gu Qimiao said, "There’s no place to stay here, I’ll come find you tomorrow morning."
"It takes me half a day just to pick you up from your workplace! I stay at a hotel near the hospital, we can go directly tomorrow morning."
Gu Qimiao thought for a moment and then agreed, "Alright."
She looked at her phone, thinking of calling Shen Yanchen, but seeing Gu Moming there, she gave up on the idea.
"Let’s go back, it smells strong here."
Gu Qimiao picked up her things; he paid the bill, and they walked out together, but the man from across the street had already disappeared.
Along the way, with Gu Moming by her side the whole time, she had no chance to call. She suddenly realized, since when did she have things she couldn’t let others know about?
Although staying at Shen Yanchen’s place wasn’t something shameful, she feared Gu Moming would try everything to separate them if he knew. Since he and Shen Yanchen had always been somewhat antagonistic, and she had finally gotten close to Shen Yanchen, even if they couldn’t be together in the future, she wanted more memories with him. So, she didn’t want to miss the chance to stay by his side.
Gu Moming focused on driving while Gu Qimiao, pretending to be playing with her phone, secretly sent a message to Shen Yanchen: Brother Yan Chen, I won’t be staying at your place tonight.
Inside a Guston a few cars away from a gorgeous red Ferrari, the phone rang briefly. The man glanced at it, saw the woman’s name, picked up the phone, and the message added another layer of frustration to his already disappointed heart.
She was with him, and she wouldn’t be coming back all night.
Agitated, he threw the phone on the seat next to him. The car took a side road, but after a short distance, a sudden turn brought him back to the original road, continuing to follow the Ferrari...
He followed them to an underground parking lot of a certain hotel, watching Gu Moming slightly embracing her as they walked into the elevator.
Shen Yanchen picked up a cigarette from the car’s dashboard, lit it, and looked at his phone. He picked it up, lit up the screen, and it was still her message.
Not wanting to look at it further, he returned to the home screen and called He Ye.
It took a while for He Ye to answer, and there was a faint hint of a woman’s coquettish voice and a man’s panting, "Brother Chen, you picked a bad time!"
He seemed oblivious to the suggestiveness on the other end, his voice icy cold, "Come to the office."
"The office?!" He Ye was clearly shocked, "Aren’t we off tonight?"
"You have five minutes."
"Come on, Brother Chen, five minutes isn’t enough! Half an hour, I’ll be there in half an hour!"
He continued, "Three minutes."
"Wait, wait, ten minutes, just ten minutes."
He hung up the phone, reversed the car swiftly, and drove out of the parking garage wildly. Judging by his speed, the driver’s mood was not good.