Chapter 212: Chapter 212: Does She Want to Ask Him Out? (2) Chapter 212: Chapter 212: Does She Want to Ask Him Out? (2) “…”
Lu Wanwan frowned tightly. Had he recently taken a special liking to watching her get flustered?
“Go ahead,” Gu Annan said after a moment. “Is there anything else?”
“Um…” she began tentatively. “Do you have time tomorrow… evening?”
Lu Wanwan spoke very carefully, even her gaze shying away.
Gu Annan’s eyes brightened for a moment, and when she asked that question, he felt his heartbeat fall into disarray.
“Gu Annan?” Her uncertainty was evident, and, finding only silence in response, she grew more nervous.
Looking up, Gu Annan’s eyes, deep as the night, seemed to ignite with a spark of heat.
“What time?” He took a moment to compose himself, already starting to plan tomorrow’s schedule.
“Around six o’clock.”
If he remembered correctly, MK’s night usually began at six in the evening.
“Approximately?” Gu Annan sharply caught a glimpse of confusion in her eyes.
Could it be that she wasn’t the one who wanted to invite him?
“Gu Annan…” Lu Wanwan hadn’t released her grip on his arm, mustering the courage to meet his unfathomable gaze. “Tomorrow night at MK’s night, could you take me with you?”
Gu Annan’s gaze darkened, as if his blood had frozen in that instant.
What had he been thinking just now? How could Lu Wanwan possibly harbor such thoughts!
If it weren’t for her current difficult situation, if it weren’t for the coincidental revival of a joking verbal marriage proposal, their interactions would merely consist of brushing past without acknowledgment.
The night they reunited, what had she told him?
—Once out of this room, let’s pretend nothing happened.
If it hadn’t been for the subsequent necessity, she wouldn’t have even thought about stopping his engagement to Lu Kexin.
For a month, he had waited for her to do something. Yet, before Lu Kexin appeared at Yongkang Hospital, she hadn’t shown any inclination to stay by his side.
After the engagement, everything she did was merely to secure her position as a fiancée for protection.
So, her recent closeness and compliance were all because of this.
“Gu Annan, do you not… want to go?”
She almost immediately felt the change in him.
Through the thin fabric of his home clothes, she could sense the cooling temperature.
In Gu Annan’s deep and sharp pupils, a hint of mockery appeared. He pulled his gradually stiffening hands from his neck, his voice cold. “Leave.”
Lu Wanwan staggered off him, her face rapidly losing any trace of color.
“Have you been scheming these past few days to win my favor just for this?”
She couldn’t speak. Under that chilling atmosphere, she didn’t even know how to open her mouth.
It was always at the last moment that she realized how ridiculous her request was.
He stared at her with a trace of scorn. “Lu Wanwan, you truly have no dignity left now.”
Lu Wanwan’s fingers trembled with cold. Without waiting for Gu Annan to say anything more, she walked out of the study.
Lu Wanwan took a shower, and it was past eleven when she came out of the bathroom; the bedroom was empty.
She felt terrible, as if she had suddenly fallen from the clouds and crashed painfully. It wasn’t because the dinner was canceled; she couldn’t adapt to the sudden change in his attitude.
It was much later when Gu Annan finally entered the bedroom; the room remained dark without the lights on, engulfed in deep shadows.
His body wrapped in a faint smell of smoke, his face hidden in the darkness, his eyes somber, making his handsome face look particularly grim.