Chapter 426: 0424, does your stomach still hurt? Chapter 426: 0424, does your stomach still hurt? “But…”
“Don’t ‘but’ me now, I’m almost done here–go on.”
Su Ran looked into the man’s resolute eyes, and finally nodded, leaving the restroom.
On the nightstand in the room, there indeed was a cup of steaming brown sugar water. Su Ran’s face softened at the sight.
She walked to the bed, picked up the cup, and sat down on the bed, her starry eyes gazing into the calm surface of the liquid, seemingly lost in thought.
After a long while, she began to sip it slowly.
Fu Qiyuan finished washing Su Ran’s clothes and took a shower himself. When he came out, she had finished the brown sugar water and was sitting at one side of the bed.
His deep and quiet dark eyes first swept over the cup on the nightstand, then he lifted the blanket and lay down beside her.
“Why aren’t you sleeping yet? Does your stomach still hurt?”
As he spoke, he pulled her entire body into his embrace, placing his warm palm on her lower abdomen and gently massaging it.
Su Ran felt a warm current flow from her abdomen into the depths of her heart; it was a comforting heat that instantly filled her.
“No, I just wanted to wait for you.”
Fu Qiyuan paused slightly, his black eyes intently gazing into hers, the corners of his lips gradually lifting.
“Can’t sleep without me?”
Su Ran looked up at him, rubbed her cheek against his chest, and replied softly.
Hearing this, the curve of Fu Qiyuan’s lips deepened; his hand cradled the back of her head, and he gently planted a kiss on her forehead.
“Sleep, I’m right here.”
Su Ran nodded slightly–her eyelids were indeed heavy. His unique, crisp scent filled her breaths, a cool fragrance that brought her immense comfort.
It wasn’t long before she was sound asleep.
Fu Qiyuan hooked his lips upward, pleased with her trust and her growing dependence on him.
When he first met her, she appeared to be a strong, independent woman. Only after he forcefully entered her world did he find that she, too, was a girl with a fragile and tender heart.
She had her own insecurities and loneliness; she had just grown accustomed to hiding them, revealing all silently to him alone.
She had no family, no relatives, waiting through the long nights for the only hope.
Waiting for her mother to wake up!
She had managed to get this far alone, her strength touching.
He sighed softly and tightened his hold on her shoulders.
From now on, she would not be alone!
After dealing with the matter online, Su Xinyan felt a great relief as the situation finally seemed to improve.
She rushed to the company to find Gu Heng, but came up empty; the assistant informed her that Gu Heng had left the company just twenty minutes before her arrival.
Su Xinyan’s face grew stern, her anger having nowhere to vent. The recent blow to Chongguang due to her incident meant that the company no longer treated her with the former respect and kindness. Whispers began to circulate.
The shareholders were already dissatisfied with her; now their looks were even more contemptuous.
After staying at the company for about ten minutes, she couldn’t stand the atmosphere any longer and left with a gloomy expression.
She then went to the Gu Family residence, only to find it empty as well. With no other choice, she headed to Gu Heng’s private villa to wait.
Gu Heng also had no time to spare, as an excessive number of investors had expressed their intention to withdraw their funds. Now that Starry had abandoned them, if things continued this way, the company might face a financial crisis due to a shortage of capital.
So, as soon as he left the office, he took the most important investors out to dinner. After an evening’s entertainment, only two were willing to continue investing in Chongguang.
Gu Heng was exhausted. Xinyan had been calling him all day, but whenever he thought of the happenings at the forum, he truly didn’t know how to face her.
He leaned tiredly against the back seat of the car, his eyes shut tight.
At that moment, his phone in his pocket suddenly rang again. By the ringtone, he knew it was Xinyan.
He suddenly opened his eyes, revealing a red web of blood vessels, raised his hand to rub his temples, but did not answer the call, letting it ring and get cut off repeatedly.
When Gu Heng arrived at his private villa, it was already late at night, and the house was pitch black.
He ripped off the tie around his neck, threw off his coat, and went straight upstairs to the bathroom.
Twenty minutes later, dressed in a bathrobe, he walked out and, on lifting the covers, was suddenly greeted by a faint scent of perfume.
The bedside lamp was turned on, and Xinyan lay on the bed, slowly opening her eyes.
“Brother Heng, you’re back?”
Her soft voice rang out as she sat up in bed, clad in a revealing, sexy slip nightgown. As she moved to sit up, more than a little was inadvertently exposed.
Gu Heng’s gaze flickered slightly, “Why are you here?”
“Because I missed you. I’ve been looking for you all day. Brother Heng, why didn’t you answer my calls?”
As she spoke, Xinyan stepped forward and hugged his robust waist, her exquisite body pressing against him.
Gu Heng was briefly taken aback, raising his hand to circle her slender waist.
Before he could finish, Xinyan raised her arms to encircle his neck and initiated a kiss on Gu Heng’s lips.
“Brother Heng, are you still angry with me?”
His body tensed suddenly, the hand clutching her waist loosened for a moment, but before he could let go, Xinyan hugged him even tighter.
“Brother Heng, don’t reject me, I missed you.”
With the warmth and softness of her body in his arms, and the sultry voice in his ear, even a man as upright as Liu Xia Hui couldn’t resist the advances of the woman he loved.
Gu Heng’s body tensed, the kiss grew more fervent, and eventually, the last thread of restraint broke.
Turning the tables, he pressed the woman in his arms onto the bed, with Xinyan’s kisses bringing a hint of appeasement, and her breath beginning to hasten.
Before long, their clothes lay scattered on the floor.
“Brother Heng, Brother Heng…”
In the darkness, Xinyan’s urgent and restrained voice continued.
But just at the last moment, Gu Heng stopped all his actions and withdrew from her.
Xinyan’s beautiful eyes, still flushed with passion, looked up at him, puzzled and hurt.
“You sleep first, I still have things to do.”
After speaking, he picked up the bathrobe from the ground, put it on, and turned to leave.
Xinyan panicked inside, not minding her nakedness, she quickly jumped out of bed and hugged Gu Heng from behind.
“Brother Heng, you have to believe me, it really wasn’t my doing, I didn’t frame my sister, I really didn’t… Don’t you understand my feelings towards my sister? I’ve always wanted to make it up to her, to improve our relationship, how could I possibly hurt her…”
Gu Heng stood with his back to her, not turning around, and Xinyan could no longer hold back her tears and began to cry.