Lu Wanwan lay in bed, already tossing and turning for over half an hour, yet she still couldn’t fall asleep.
She lay on the soft bed, flipping her phone over and over.
So why was Gu Annan in such a rush to come back?
The slight guilt that had been circling in her heart just now had now all turned into confusion and incomprehension.
After so long, was it because of... the call he didn’t take just now?
Lu Wanwan suddenly remembered that he said the call was from a journalist, so she quickly checked her phone for any news about the Xigang Film Festival.
She had looked through various media outlets, but there was nothing for the moment.
Not wanting to think too much about it, she buried her head in the pillow, tightly closing her eyes to force herself to sleep.
Half asleep, she heard knocking from outside the door and woke up.
Checking the time again, she realized that another hour had passed.
Her phone suddenly lit up—Gu Annan had called.
She frowned as she looked at the string of numbers on the screen, uncertain whether she should answer.
Let a hungry wolf into the room? Between inviting it in and then kicking it out, and simply not opening the door at all, she chose the latter.
After quite some time, she pressed the answer button.
That familiar, deep voice came through the receiver, "Asleep?"
"Hmm..." she murmured.
"Get up and open the door, I’m at the entrance."
Lu Wanwan showed no intention of getting out of bed, turning over, "Asleep, won’t open."
"Be good, open the door then sleep."
She rolled her eyes; how could she sleep after opening the door?
She wasn’t so naive to think that he just wanted to have a simple chat about life.
"Really not opening!"
Gu Annan paused, surprised at her firmness.
A moment later, Lu Wanwan heard the person on the phone say, "I left my room card inside, can’t get in."
She almost laughed out loud, fully awake now.
"You can go downstairs to the front desk, President Gu!" Lu Wanwan’s reply carried a hint of a laugh.
"Or I could also go to the front desk and ask for your room card, right?"
"I would complain about this hotel, no matter who you are!"
"This is a hotel under the Ji Shaoyang’s flag, do you think what the result of a complaint would be?" he said, laughing threateningly.
After seeing his shamelessness several times recently, Lu Wanwan no longer found it rare.
She got up unhappily under this threat and walked to the door.
She cracked open the door just a sliver and coldly looked at the man still dressed in his suit outside.
She was in her pajamas, having taken a shower after coming back, and then lying down intending to go to sleep early.
So what had Gu Annan been doing all this time, that he hadn’t even changed his clothes?
"Speak directly if you have something to say." She kept the door just cracked open, watching him hang up the phone and slowly put his left hand in his trouser pocket as he approached.
His right hand rested on the door as he said, "You’re being so cautious, guarding against wolves?"
Isn’t that the truth!
Lu Wanwan kept her hand on the doorknob, "I see you have nothing serious to say, if you don’t speak up, I’m going back to sleep."
As the door was about to close, the man’s thigh swiftly pushed through the gap.
The door couldn’t close now because his foot was blocking it.
Seizing the opportunity, he effortlessly pushed the door open and walked in with an air of entitlement.
Lu Wanwan was infuriated by his presumptuous behavior, grinding her teeth.
"Didn’t you say you wanted to go to the beach?" Gu Annan didn’t move further inside, just stood by the door, leaning against it, looking down at her, "Got held up by something just now, shall we go now?"
Before she could reply, he added, "Or have you changed your mind and just want to... sleep?"
Coming from his mouth, the idea of wanting to sleep struck Lu Wanwan as off, her clear eyes glaring at him.