“Dear passengers, please note that your flight is about to arrive in city B of country F. The plane is preparing to land, please fasten your seat belts…”
Gu Xiyu opened his eyes amidst the sweet voice of the flight attendant. The curtains on the left and right windows of the plane had been opened and the warm sunlight slipped in, staining the cabin with vibrant colors.
Ji Chen next to him had just put the tablet away. He closed his eyes and pinched his brows, showing noticeable fatigue on his face.
Ji Chen turned his head to see Gu Xiyu. He said, “I’m going to see a client right after I get off the plane. If you are tired, I can ask Jin Ke to send you back to the hotel first.”
Gu Xiyu grabbed the blanket that he didn’t know who had put on him: “I slept quite comfortably. I’m not tired.”
The Great Demon’s character was actually not as bad as he had expected and the task did not seem that difficult. But why did the people sent to perform tasks in these small worlds where the Great Demon’s soul fragments were always needed to flee in embarrassment?
About half an hour later, the plane finally landed smoothly.
There was a blond girl sitting two rows away from Gu Xiyu. When everyone was preparing to get off the plane by taking out their luggage, she remained seated in the chair watching him. The little girl was about five or six years old, with a round and tender face, her eyes were big and she ws smiling sweetly at him.
It’s normal for children to be curious so Gu Xiyu didn’t care too much. It was later that he discovered that other passengers seemed to look at him from time to time too. They would cover their mouths and laugh in a low voice to communicate with their companions around them. He could vaguely hear them mentioning words like ‘cute’.
Although those smiles were kind, he felt a little strange.
It was only when he and Ji Chen left the plane with their hand luggage that he saw the red thing on his head through the reflection of the passage glass window.
It was a strawberry hairpin that little girls use.
Ji Chen whi receiving Gu Xiyu’s death gaze explained immediately: “It was that cute child on the plane. She kept wandering around you when you were asleep, pointing at you and saying you looked like ‘Sleeping Beauty’, she gave me the hairpin and said she wanted you to have it.”
“To make her happy, I put the hairpin on your head.”
“…”
—–
After meeting Jin Ke and the bodyguards who had come in the same plane as them but were in a different cabin, they arrived at a restaurant in the exclusive car that had been waiting outside the airport.
It happened to be noon, so there were a lot of people in the restaurant. The waiter led them to one of the special rooms to isolate them from the crowd.
In the room was a brown-haired man with his greasy hair, he stood up to greet them warmly when they came in. His deep blue eyes blinked at Ji Chen vigorously and he jokingly said something in country F’s native language.
Ji Chen gave Gu Xiyu a meaningful look and replied in fluent F language: “Thank you for your congratulations. I originally wanted him to go back to the hotel to rest, but he was clingy and insisted on following me. See! How much he loves me?”
The uncle named Mike with a furry beard smiled and said, “Ohho! What a cute relationship you guys have? I really envy you. It’s rare for you to come to this romantic place so you guys must have fun!”
Gu Xiyu’s low laugh attracted the attention of the two.
He stretched out his hand to Mike friendly and said in the F language: “It’s nice to meet you. My name is Gu Xiyu and you can call me Gu. Thank you for your suggestion. I will definitely enjoy this journey.”
[You understand the language?]
Gu Xiyu answered his system in a good mood: “I can speak a little.”
[…]
[It’s surprising.]
Ji Chen was also shocked but there was probably no such word as “embarrassment” in his dictionary. Even when he was caught red handed saying those false ”romantic” things, there was no trace of panic on his face.
Ji Chen had a large-scale company branch in country F. His company’s products were also very popular in country F and Mike was one of the shareholders cooperating with his branch. From the content of their conversation, Gu Xiyu could understand that they were talking about making the final confirmation of the new products that will be launched in the next quarter. Jin Ke also held a document in his hand and kept checking with Mike next to him.
Gu Xiyu didn’t know anything about business matters and the food was taking long so he got up to go to the toilet once he saw that they weren’t discussing anything serious.
The door of the room was gently closed and once the sound of footsteps outside the door disappeared, Ji Chen put down the fork in his hand and directly started another topic: “You said that someone from the Ji Group contacted you?”
“Yes. There are so many companies under the Ji family and they were all handed over to a young guy who seemed to have little experience. Many high-level staffs wanted to take this opportunity to make trouble but the young master of the Ji family isn’t so stupid. I heard that he has already suppressed the less troublesome staffs under him. The Ji family’s company in Country F has many problems going on and he urgently needs a partner who can help him stabilize the situation and re-arrange those high-level staffs.”
“He contacted my father but he didn’t know that you had done a favor to our family and we have a close cooperative relationship in private. After all, he is in a company that is in competition with your Fengming, so I thought it was necessary to let you know their company’s situations in country F.”
Ji Chen nodded slightly: “My little nephew….. he really is someone who is in constant competition with me.”
“He wants to take care of the Ji family’s business and get rid of other people’s doubts, but the business of a century-old family is not something anyone can handle.”
When Gu Xiyu was passing a certain room on the way to the bathroom, the door of that room slightly opened, accidentally letting him see Fu Nian sitting in the corner of the room. He was holding the red wine glass in his hand and shaking it slightly, facing the men and women in formal wear at the table. His lips slightly opened and he had said to them, his aura completely different from what he had seen before.
Gu Xiyu didn’t know if he had recognized the wrong person but the silhouette of one of the people in the room looked familiar.
Gu Xiyu was washing his hands thinking about this when the bathroom door was suddenly pushed open from outside.
“So I was right, you are really here.”
He raised his head and looked at the person behind him through the mirror. He had a dazed look in his eyes, as if he was surprised by the appearance of the coming person: “Fu Nian?”
Fu Nian’s eyes flickered: “It’s a coincidence. I just saw you passing by, so I came over to confirm it. Why are you here?”
Gu Xiyu’s tone was natural: “Ji Chen said that his schedule for this week is a bit loose. So, he brought me here to relax as our honeymoon.”
“How about you? How come you are in country F?”
Fu Nian shrugged: “I’m here to represent my father in a meeting with some of his business partners. I actually don’t like to do such things.”
“It sounds really difficult.” Gu Xiyu said as he left the bathroom with him.
Fu Nian put his hands in his pockets. He looked at him with a smile, and said: “It’s been years since I last saw you, but I think you have really changed.”
Gu Xiyu asked him: “How was I before?”
Fu Nian thought for a while and replied: “You were more impulsive and irritable. You had no patience but your heart was very fragile. You really needed the spiritual support and encouragement from others.”
“You are more calm and confident now.” After a few seconds of pause, Fu Nian added with a smile, “And you have become more attractive.”
——-
When Gu Xiyu returned to Ji Chen, he and Mike were already chatting about a different topic. When the waiter saw him come back, he immediately went to the kitchen to serve his meal.
Ji Chen asked him: “Why have you been there for so long?”
“I met a friend.”
He remembered the person who he had thought was familiar. It was the man who had come to meet Ji Chen that day but hadn’t been able to, Lan Yue, the president of Liyang Group.
Gu Xiyu saw the question in Ji Chen’s eyes, so he did not hide it from him: “It’s Fu Nian.”
But he didn’t mention seeing Lan Yue and Fu Nian together.
After a brief silence, Ji Chen chuckled.
“Heh…I see.”
The waiter put the plate full of steak in front of him and Gu Xiyu calmly cut off a piece of meat. He skewed it on the fork and brought it to Ji Chen who was obviously a little angry.
Ji Chen, who was caught off guard by this sudden care, opened his mouth slightly and took a bite of meat. After that, Gu Xiyu quietly began to enjoy his food and ignored him.
The chef in the kitchen might not have seasoned Ji Chen’s plate of meat with sauce, because he felt that the piece of meat Gu Xiyu had given him was more delicious than what he had just eaten.
Mike took a sip of the wine in his glass. He watched them like a proud father and smiled without saying a word. Jin Ke lowered his head professionally and read the documents, pretending that he hadn’t seen anything.
Gu Xiyu’s coaxing attitude was really perfunctory. Only a fool like Ji Chen would be happy by this kind of coaxing.
Just when Ji Chen was feeling great from receiving his dear husband’s “care”, but at the same time feeling that Gu Xiyu’s care wasn’t enough, an automatic notification popped up on the system panel that he and Gu Xiyu shared.
[The target’s risk value is -1. The target’s current risk value is 45.]
Ji Chen: “…”
Tsk, there was definitely a problem with the evaluation procedure of this damn system. How could his mood get better from just eating a piece of meat. Of course, if he could eat someone… someone’s meat then….
It was already afternoon when they separated from Mr. Mike. It was winter and the sky was completely dark when they arrived at the hotel, fatigued.
“I still have things to do tomorrow and the day after. Then I’ll be free after the company’s meeting the day after tomorrow. If you don’t want to be involved in these business things, I will ask Jin Ke to take you to some nearby vacation spots.” Ji Chen took out his VIP card and put it on the hotel counter. At the same time, the hand of another person beside him did the same action as him.
Ji Chen and that person subconsciously looked to their side, and both of them were shocked to see familiar faces.
Ji Chen and Ji Zixuan probably did not expect that they would meet in the same hotel abroad.
“Xi Yu?” Before Ji Zixuan could speak, the girl standing next to him asked in surprise.
It was Cheng Qianqian.
To be honest, Gu Xiyu was a little bit shocked.
Unexpectedly, in the time when he hadn’t contacted Ji Zixuan and Cheng Qianqian, the two of them had already gotten together.
Unlike the two on the side who had a bit of a cold atmosphere, Gu Xiyu and Cheng Qianqian chatted happily. He liked the heroine’s down-to-earth and generous personality.
“I learned later that you had such a bad experience at the Four Seasons Hotel. Fortunately, you had Mr. Ji by your side.” Cheng Qianqian heard about that incident and was even more depressed than him. “But the level of service in that hotel was indeed lacking. I felt dizzy after having their drinks that day and very sleepy. Fortunately, I met Mr. Lei’s daughter Lina. She saw that I was in a bad condition in the corridor, amd she kindly sent me back to the room.”
“The most annoying thing was that they accidentally gave me the room card to a room that was already occupied, which caused a big …” This matter might have had an embarrassing part as Cheng Qianqian looked at Ji Zixuan uncomfortably. She glanced there and stopped talking about the topic, “Let’s not talk about these things. Why are you here?”
Gu Xiyu explained to Cheng Qianqian a little bit and asked, “What about you? Why are you here with Mr. Ji?”
Cheng Qianqian smiled cutely: “Mr. Lei has recently cooperated with the Ji family’s company. So he had asked me to do an internship at Ji Group for a few months to learn something.”
So they were on this business trip together.
Now that the male and female protagonists met as scheduled, there should be no major problems with the plot line for the time being.
The chat between Gu Xiyu and Cheng Qianqian did not last long. They quickly registered and took different elevators to different floors.
He and Ji Chen had departed early morning and they were very tired after the long-distance flight. Especially Ji Chen who hadn’t even closed his eyes on the plane, so the first thing they did when they returned to the room was to take a shower and prepare to rest.
The overall layout of the suite the hotel prepared for them was very calming. There were also some small candles that could enhance the erotic atmosphere. Even the lights around the room were ambiguous.
Perhaps because the atmosphere itself was suggesting erotic things, Ji Chen put down his mobile phone after he climbed into bed and said to Gu Xiyu: “Speaking of which, you should know that a couple that has obtained the marriage certificate will do some “important” things on their honeymoon.”
Gu Xiyu stopped arranging the bedding and said hesitantly: “I heard that you had an accident before, not only did you hurt your leg but you also lost “that” ability.”
Ji Chen: “?”
Why didn’t he know about ”that”?
Afterward, Gu Xiyu asked seriously: “Besides, with your current mental state, are you sure you still have the energy to do “that” instead of sleeping?”
“Of course, if he could eat someone… someone’s meat then…”
(｡•̀ᴗ-)✧ Meat you say???