Gu Xiyu took out a neatly folded white paper from his pocket which contained several addresses and contact numbers and said in a serious tone: “I will call the house owner to make an appointment to see the house tomorrow. As long as there is no major problem, I will rent it. So, one night should be—”
Before he could say the word ‘enough’, the paper he was holding was suddenly taken away.
Gu Xiyu watched Ji Chen tear the paper to pieces in front of him without hesitation and was confused.
??
It wasn’t until that paper containing addresses and phone numbers became fragmented and difficult to piece together that Ji Chen asked him again: “Is it still enough?”
His voice sounded like the calm before the storm.
“…”
Gu Xiyu was stunned for a long time before realizing that Ji Chen wanted him have to stay here but didn’t want to say it directly. But he was confused. Why didn’t Ji Chen directly ask him to stay? If he was shy, how could tear his paper without so much as a blush? But if he wasn’t shy, then why wasn’t he directly asking him to stay???
After a short silence, Gu Xiyu softly said: “Let’s eat.”
He didn’t answer Ji Chen’s question directly but he didn’t raise the topic of looking for a house again.
“Did you make these yourself?” Ji Chen asked, holding a bowl of hot rice in his hand.
Gu Xiyu was still thinking about his extremely absurd behavior just now and he lied through his teeth: “No, I ordered a takeaway.”
President Ji, who was ready to throw a few poems of compliments was blocked by his words.
Gu Xiyu lowered his eyes to cover the flashing smile under his eyes. He was trying to uphold the attitude of not talking while eating so he didn’t say a single word at the dinner table.
On the contrary, it was unknown why but Ji Chen seemed a little absent-minded.
When dinner was almost over, Ji Chen suddenly said: “I asked the people from the Supervising Department and they said that they could give me the results from the investigation in your betrayal of company secrets within two weeks.”
“Two weeks are too long.” Gu Xiyu frowned, thinking that if he checked it himself, he might find the answer in two days.
Ji Chen said: “I think so too.”
Gu Xiyu was just about to suggest to let him do it himself when he heard Ji Chen continue to say: “So I plan to take you on a trip until the results come out.”
“…?”
The word “Honeymoon” on the task panel suddenly jumped in front of him.
He had almost forgotten about it.
The house fire had a big impact on his mood today and he had temporarily forgotten about this strange mission.
“It’s okay, you can arrange it.” Although Gu Xiyu wasn’t looking forward to it, he didn’t feel scared either.
Anyway, Ji Chen hadn’t really obtained the marriage certificate with him because he liked him.
Moreover, due to business affairs next week, Ji Chen needed to go to Country F, which is called the country of romance. He must have decided to spend their ”honeymoon” there.
Ji Chen was to meet Gu Xun and Xu Caiting on Thursday.
Gu Xiyu calculated the time and went to pick up his parents before Ji Chen got off work.
Before departure, he opened the storage compartment of the passenger seat and took out the USB flash drive that he had left inside.
He has been wondering whether the fire had anything to do with this thing. It’s a pity that the house was burned down and he couldn’t confirm whether there were any signs of infiltration in his room. It was also a coincidence that he had accidentally carried it out that day after transferring the data. He only found it when he reached in the car, and temporarily left it there, so, it was not damaged by the fire.
Among other things, if the person who wanted to kill him was the same person who set the Gu villa on fire, then this person was worse than the mission target Ji Chen.
Gu Xiyu, who was getting a clear understanding of this incident, put away the USB flash drive and set off to pick up Gu Xun and Xu Caiting from the hotel. He has never mentioned to them that Ji Chen has an apartment with him. Even if they’ll meet there today, his explanation to the two of them will only be that ”this is Ji Chen’s house”.
When Xu Caiting helped Gu Xun enter the door, the white cat that had just woken yawned and cat walked to the entrance, like a king patrolling his territory.
“Oh, our son-in-law has such a cute cat.” Xu Caiting stretched out her hand to touch it but the cat snarled at her and she screamed loudly and quickly avoided. The cat only rubbed its body back and forth on Gu Xiyu’s legs as if asking him who were these stupid people breaking into their lovely house were.
Gu Xiyu said, “These are my parents.”
It was unknown whether Xixi really understood but it didn’t bare its teeth to Gu Xun and Xu Caiting anymore. It only hid far away, not wanting to get close to them.
“This house is really big…” Xu Caiting held Gu Xun, her cheeks were flushing with excitement, “I heard that the apartments in this building are really expensive, several times the price of our broken villa.”
“Haha.” Gu Xun smiled like a loving father. “It’s already very low-key for someone as great as him to live in such a place.”
Seeing them sitting on the sofa, Gu Xiyu went to the kitchen to make tea and cut fruit for them, without joining their conversation. Mainly because he had nothing to say to them. The two people have never had any affection for him or the original owner, and they lived together like strangers.
Regardless of individual circumstances, Ji Chen can be regarded as a punctual person. He returned home at the appointed time again. He entered the door carrying several paper bags in his hand, which seemed to contain gifts to give away.
Gu Xiyu was sitting at the table bored, holding a bowl of homemade salad in his hand and gnawing it like a herbivore.
“Oh, that, Ji…” Gu Xun stood up with the help of a cane. His mouth opened and closed for a long time but he couldn’t finish the sentence.
It was too unfamiliar to call Ji Chen ‘President Ji’, but if he was to call out ‘Ji Chen’ directly, he always felt that the other party’s momentum didn’t allow him to call him that way directly.
Seeing Ji Chen carrying and putting a bunch of things on the coffee table in front of him and Xu Caiting, Gu Xun smiled: “How can you buy so many things when we are just meeting to discuss about something? It’s too much of a waste!”
“No.” Ji Chen smiled at them and said while taking out the things inside the bags, “How can the things I buy for Xiyu be called a waste.”
Gu Xun thought these were Ji Chen’s meeting gifts and his smile stiffened. Xu Caiting uncomfortably lifted her hand and tucked her hair behind her ears, and asked, “Ahh….are……. are all of these just for our Xiyu?”
“Well, it happened that a brand company cooperating with Fengming sent some gifts over today.”
After that, he took out a small box from a small bag and handed it to Gu Xiyu: “Your mobile phone is already very old even if you are to get it back. I left the company earlier today and bought you a new one on the way. ”
Gu Xiyu glanced at the two people on the sofa whose faces were obviously not very good and silently reached out to take the new phone that even had a phone case made for him.
He turned on the screen and then again turned it off. He took off the phone case in front of Ji Chen and revealed chip underneath: “Did you get this from my previous phone?”
“…” Ji Chen put his hand on his chin in a contemplative manner, without replying.
Gu Xiyu had already discovered that Ji Chen had messed with his mobile phone the morning he woke up in the hotel. This chip should be a tracker that could allow Ji Chen to track his whereabouts.
Because he didn’t have anything to hide for the time being, he hadn’t expose it.
Gu Xiyu carefully put the phone back into the phone case and suddenly smiled at Ji Chen.
“Thank you.”
Ji Chen moved his hands subconsciously to take the chip but hesitated when his line of sight caught the slight smile under Gu Xiyu’s eyes. He finally just rubbed Gu Xiyu’s hair.
He turned around and walked back to the living room: “I heard Xiyu say that father and mother have something to discuss with me?”
Gu Xun immediately recovered his senses and said with a smile: “Ah yes, I don’t want to beat around the bush….. the point is… I want to say that Ji… Ji Chen, your company is very successful. Our Gu Technology has just encountered some problems recently, so I wanted to talk to you.”
“I’ve heard a little about the Gu Technology. However, I heard that the specific situation of this incident seemed to be because you were conspiring to operate a less formal business. There were disagreements in the middle, which led to someone taking advantage of the chaos to steal funds. If the information I received is correct, your company’s internal turmoil hasn’t been resolved yet, right?”
Gu Xun didn’t expect that Ji Chen would even check out the situation of Gu Technology. All the explanations he had prepared were not needed, so he could only smile awkwardly.
Ji Chen added: “What’s more, your company has a record of leaking customers’ private information. Even when it was reported, it continued to do such actions in private. The most important principle im my career is to pay attention to integrity. ”
“So I won’t help solve Gu Technology’s troubles, sorry.”
Gu Xun and Xu Caiting couldn’t hold back their smiles anymore. Xu Caiting glared at Gu Xiyu with resentment and regardless of Ji Chen’s presence, asked directly, “Was it you? You must have told President Ji a lot about me and your father not treating you well before we came here. So now your bad words made him misunderstand us!
“How can this child be so vicious?”
Gu Xiyu put the phone that he was repeatedly wiping clean on the table and asked Xu Caiting calmly: “Have you ever heard me mentioning something bad about my family to others over the years?”
Seeing Xu Caiting’s hesitation, he added softly: “I am obviously your biological child, but why can’t you treat me a little better as you did to my brother?”
Gu Xiyu was obviously asking Gu Xun and Xu Caiting this question but Ji Chen always felt that his gaze was more like asking someone else through them.
Perhaps this was the first time that this taboo topic was brought up in the Gu family as Gu Xun and Xu Caiting did not scold Gu Xiyu but instead fell silent.
Ji Chen’s attitude was very form and Gu Xun knew that it was impossible to get his support for the time being. After asking for the car key from Gu Xiyu, he took Xu Caiting and left. Life was revealing its vicissitudes back and forth.
After that, Gu Xiyu temporarily broke contact with the Gu family and the day for going on a “business trip” with Ji Chen soon came.
Before leaving, Ji Chen gave him a bank card.
“Marriage generally requires giving something but I hadn’t given you anything yet. There are tens of millions of funds in it.” Ji Chen said as he packed his simple luggage, “In my own opinion, I really don’t want to help that type of bad company.”
“But at the end of the day, they are your family. The money is yours, you can decide how you want to use it.”
Gu Xiyu held the bank card that Ji Chen handed him and was a little lost.
Ji Chen thought he was struggling but he was actually calculating all the assets he possessed in the space-time realm.
Help! This was the first world but he already owed the Great Demon a luxurious prison gift package.
