Chapter 491 – Huo Wencheng did not return to the bedroom that night. (1)
He looked up and gritted his teeth. His big brother was clearly the one sitting in the boss's seat.
He would just be kidding himself if he wanted to say that his big brother "just happened to be there" or that it was a "coincidence".
His big brother had returned in such way!
He had announced his existence that nobody could surpass!
"Big Brother..." said Huo Wencheng with difficulty.
Everything that he had done in the past; all the effort that he had put in to appease his mother; and how he had given up all entertainment as a child and focusing only on moving forward, just became meaningless at this very moment!
Even if he never stopped to take a break, he still would not be able to catch up to this man!
Ma Hing, the Manager of Sales who came with them, finally starting to notice that something was a little off.
Quickly, he saw the handsome man at the CEO seat put down the pen in his hand.
Profound, cold look came from his black eyes.
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"There are only competitors here."
Huo Wencheng's face turned from pale to dark instantly.
"You did all this on purpose! Chuchu was able to secure a contract with you when I sent her over!
"And when it was me, no matter how hard I try, I would never meet your standards! You had been toying with me this entire time!
All of a sudden, his feeling of inferiority turned into anger.
Once he had it all figured out, he roared in a suppressed way.
Standing next to him, the look on Gu Wushuang had also turned from shock into stunned. There was even a hint of admiration in there somewhere.
She was smart. Huo Wencheng's words allowed her to piece everything together and understood who was really the man on the top of the food chain.
Her husband, standing next to her, was far inferior to his older brother. Standing in front of him, he didn't even have the ability to fight back!
Gu Wushuang couldn't help but feel a shred of regret now. She took a look at the only outsider presence.
"Manager Ma, I suddenly recall that there is an urgent meeting back in the office. Can you please attend for me?"
Ma Hing acknowledged her immediately. Under this bizarre atmosphere, he couldn't leave soon enough.
"Big Brother Huo, I think there are some misunderstandings here. What say we put all of our misunderstandings and prejudices aside for the time being and focus on our business deal for now? As long as the Gu Corporation can bring you enough profit, it will be worthful for us to have a discussion over our cooperation, right?"
Gu Wushuang had always been good at this.
Whenever it was time to take the softer stance, she would instantly adopt the role of a fragile female.
With that pitiful look on her, one would feel that it was a sinister act if they didn't let her at least finish saying what she was there to say.
Any man with any sort of compassion would never treat her that way.
Huo ChuChu, behind the screen, was about to vomit from Gu Wushuang's speech. She tucked at Gu Shishi's sleeve and gestured with her fingers over her neck. She then leaned into Gu Shishi and said, "Sister-in-law, time to show your face?"
Gu Shishi was sitting comfortably.
They hadn't even exchanged too much talk yet and she had just sat down.
It was too much of a hassle to stand back up right now.
Right when she was hesitating, a cellphone rang in the office.
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Gu Shishi was taken aback a little. She patted her pocket and it was empty.
Her cellphone had fallen onto the couch outside!
She carefully poked her head out from behind the screen and happened to see her man turning and looking at her handsomely.
Gu Shishi narrowed her eyes happily.
"Big Brother Huo, your cellphone..."
The very next second, Gu Wushuang picked up the cellphone before Huo Wencheng could even get to it, and walked toward the desk in a fawning manner.
Huo Wencheng looked even more unhappy.
As a man, having his own woman approached another man, the sense of helplessness, of being trampled all over, and anger all came at him at the same time!
Chapter 492 – Huo Wencheng did not return to the bedroom that night. (2)
As Gu Wushuang walked up with a smile on her, she noticed something was off when she was half way up.
The ringer was too overly feminine. The outside of the phone was plain with nothing on it.
As she had gotten closer, she could see a man's style, full-screen cellphone sitting on the desk.
She only hesitated for half a second when she looked up and saw Huo Sishen's handsome side profile and that he didn't even bother to look at her.
Looking over to where he was looking at, she saw out of the corner behind the screen to one side of the office – half a face that was moist, smooth, and bright and the limpid eyes that were looking at her with a smile.
She could tell who it was instantly even from just a small portion of it!
"Why, thank you."
Gu Shishi reached out her hand at her with a smile.
Gu Wushuang gritted her teeth instantly.
She had picked up the phone from the couch and brought it over in a fawning manner. She had stooped down and adopted a subservient role!
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Gu Shishi was sitting elegantly behind the screen and she was the one standing up!
Gu Shishi had clearly witnessed how she had come to grovel at her husband today!
At that very moment, her cheeks started to burn and her lips looked pale all of a sudden!
Gritting her teeth, every fiber in her body was tense, she was finally able to place the cellphone in Gu Shishi's hand.
That very moment, she felt that her back had been crushed by a heavy weight!
To think that she was so pleased with the Gu's fortune that she had fought for herself just a little while ago. Now all of that turned into nothing but a big joke!
She still lost in the end!
***
After the two of them had walked out like zombies, both having their own separate thoughts in their heads, Gu Shishi saw off Huo ChuChu, who had happily finished eaten her melon, stayed to keep Huo Sishen company as he worked.
She checked the record of her spending from her cellphone and compared that to the recharge of her health in the system. That put her in a good mood.
Huo Sishen took care of some work before he walked over and sat down next to her. Worried that she might get bored, he had his secretary brought over A4 paper and pencil from her a while back.
"She could hold off till tonight at most and wouldn't be able to help herself but to message you."
Gu Shishi doodled on the paper.
Some people always like taking what belong to others.
They could never change their habit of liking to eat other people's food!
Huo Sishen tightened his lips a little. "I don't have to her give her my number."
Gu Shishi rested her chin on her palm. "Then I gather she would come here to look for you every day."
Huo Sishen smiled a little and brushed a strand of her hair back behind her ear and said, "I sensed vinegar."*
"That is not true!"
Gu Shishi pouted but quickly couldn't help herself but to place her hand over her mouth and smiled.
She buried her little smiley face into his chest.
"But when she comes and do all sorts of crazy things, have Sier record them and send to me."
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"......"
Huo Sishen felt his temples throbbing all of a sudden.
His wife wasn't jealous; she just wanted to eat melons.
"I think it will be okay for you to add her onto your WeChat. You know she will get it from Huo Wencheng anyway."
Gu Shishi clumsily leaned onto him and smiled.
"You know, better she comes at you directly from the front than from behind your back~"
Having said that, she put away the color pencil and the smile slowly disappeared from her face.
Could the boss's fate in the book have to do with Gu Wushuang and Huo Wencheng acting behind the scenes?
He had never showed his hands in the book and the two were not worried about him.
Now that they have seen his hands, what would they do?
Rather than avoiding them, it was probably better to leave the door open and see what their intentions were!
Chapter 493 – Huo Wencheng did not return to the bedroom that night. (3)
Enveloped in the grassy scent from the man next to her, Gu Shishi frowned and pondered.
She had never received any sort of hints from the system about the danger lurking. Her speculation had always been that it had to do with Huo Sishen's long-term psychological issue.
Now that he was healthy both physically and psychologically, what was left to worry about was the pushback from those whose profits were harmed when they were backed into a corner!
Gu Shishi made up her mind secretly. On their way back home, she texted Huo ChuChu and had her keep an eye out on Huo Wencheng and Mother Hou and had Huo ChuChu notify her if she spotted anything out of the ordinary.
[Huo ChuChu: Yes, ma'am!]
Her spy had accepted the mission graciously.
***
Sure enough, that very night, Huo Wencheng called up his mother.
Mother Huo thought perhaps he had finally changed his mind or that he was calling to negotiate with her. Lo and behold, he asked her an abrupt question.
"Mom, do you know what Big Brother had been up to these last few years?"
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Mother Huo was taken aback a little.
Of course she didn't.
That was the child that she had abandoned, never cared about, and spent majority of her life trying to forget.
As such, why would she voluntarily make an effort to find out what he had been up to? That would only bring about pain for herself.
Her younger son rarely ever brought up his big brother.
When he brought him up abruptly, it instantly jotted her memory of how the two of them had played together as kids.
She immediately felt an almost unbearable pain in her heart.
Mother Huo closed her eyes tiredly.
"All I know is that he is about to be a father.
"When are you coming home, Wencheng?"
Huo Wencheng was taken aback a little. He clenched his fists in pain and said, "Just give me a little bit more time... ... please."
His original stubbornness was almost all gone.
He had always thought that he was, undoubtedly, the heir of the Huo's fortune. But now, a big doubt had been casted.
Had his mother found out about this big brother's achievement, would she regret about her decision? Would she still hand the Huo empire down to him instead of his brother?
He had been the only reliable son of this family in the past but things seemed to have changed!
Even if his mother was to stand by her own decision, she could still back his sister, whom their big brother had always doted on since she was a child. That way, for certain the Huo family would have their big brother's full backing. They would have connection far greater than what an alliance marriage could bring overnight.
In comparison, he had become the most worthless one in the house now... ... Even though he assisted Wushuang in gaining power over the Gu Corporation, the Gu Corporation, after the last fiasco, was already on its last leg.
Would his mother, who always had the big picture in mind, still choose him as the heir?
Huo Wencheng hung up the phone and never returned to the bedroom that night.
What was more bizarre was that Gu Wushuang was equally quiet that night and never urged him to return to the bedroom like she normally would.
***
When others were having headaches and being jealous, Gu Shishi was happily planning and organizing the next round of prenatal education for her baby.
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She would take turns with the boss. One of them would be responsible for the edification of the child in painting and the other, music, chess, and hide and seek to top.
Ever since the baby started to move inside of Gu Shishi's belly, Huo Sishen had fallen in love with playing hide and seek with the baby.
He would place his hand on Gu Shishi's tummy and the baby would sometimes there would be movement where he had placed his hand and sometimes not. And, occasionally, when the baby was in a particular good mood, there would be movement elsewhere.
Huo Sishen could do it multiple times and day and seemingly never got tired of it.
When the prenatal education time was almost up, Gu Shishi cleaned up her painting supplies, keeping on the paintings that showed improvement for future comparison and tossed away the bad ones.
As usual, she was going to transcribe some poems before crawling into bed but, tonight, she received a stealth call from Huo ChuChu before she was done.
Chapter 494 – In that very moment, a possibility occurred to her! This tsundere of a mensao!
Not wanting the boss to feel sad, Gu Shishi went out to chat on the patio.
After finding out that Huo Wencheng had called the Huo family, Gu Shishi felt bad for Gu Wushuang for a minute.
A rational brain would never give all they have for a relationship.
Neither one of them were someone like that from the very beginning.
It looked like the day that Gu Wushuang would be splitting from Huo Wencheng would not be far away.
Upon hearing that, Gu Shishi decided to have Siyi and Sier to monitor Gu Wushuang closer going forward.
"Okay, that's all I got for now. Goodnight, Sister-in-law!"
Huo ChuChu quickly hung up after she had finished saying what she had to say.
She had been nervous about calling Gu Shishi up in the evenings ever since that real time dog food call. She didn't want to hear anything more inappropriate things.
Gu Shishi smiled bitterly when she heard the dial tone.
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When she returned to the room, certain man had surely returned as well.
He wasn't inside the bedroom.
The sound of water running in the shower could be heard coming from inside the bathroom. The bathroom door was ajar, in a very open and unconcealed manner.
Gu Shishi rolled her eyes. She felt that the boss had truly changed.
He had gone from being a tsundere to a mensao.*
She put down her cellphone and walked over to the bed next to the floor-to-ceiling window.
As she walked past the tidy desk, she paused a little. She was surprised to see that the trashcan was empty.
She was just about to check on the trashcan next to the bed to see if that, too, had been emptied when she heard the bathroom door being opened behind her.
She turned around and saw the steaming man with his hair still wet. Even his black eyes seemed to have been touched by the steam. They no longer looked fierce like they normally did but, instead, gained a hint of homey languidness and... a very mature masculinity feel.
Gu Shishi stretched her neck some and saw that he only had the dark-blue robe on loosely and didn't even bother with tying up the sash in the middle.
Water droplets fell from his hair that was dangling down. They ran down the side of his face, through his Adam's apple, collar bones, and kept on going. A patch of his robe was wet and the skin could be seen vaguely even through the dark-blue fabric.
"Ahem!"
Gu Shishi turned back around and blushed slightly.
It didn't matter how many times she had looked, she still desired for more. She was beyond help!
Her sensitivity toward visual stimuli had turned into a big weakness.
She could be seduced without much effort from his part!
Blushing, Gu Shishi turned her head and tried her best to pull the blanket over herself, wiggled around some and had herself buried inside of it.
"Did someone come and clean the room tonight?"
She brought it up casually in an effort to avert her attention.
Her failed drawings were already gone.
Normally, she would look at the filled trashcan several times before she went to bed and enjoy the fulfillment that derived from it before going to bed.
Practicing to a point where the paintbrushes were worn out and all the xuan paper were gone and the failed work were like a bucket full of badges. It provided it a different kind of joy.
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But, today, she noticed the abnormality as soon as she walked out of the patio. Her painting papers in the trashcan were all gone.
"Mmm," said Huo Sishen casually as he dried his hair with the towel.
And he wrapped his arm around her from behind.
Gu Shishi, "... ..."
Chuchu was right!
Lucky they were already off the phone!
... ...
Flipping over, she buried her head in his warm chest and, smelling the light hint of orange scent coming from him, her brain turned to mush and she snapped out of it all of a sudden.
"Did you use your shower gel?"
It was said that this makes-your-partner-wants-to-take-a-bite-out-of-youshower gel cost over 1,000 yuan each pump. That was almost a day's worth of health for her!
"Aunty Lin said you don't really use it and it will turn if left for too long so she had me tried it out. Otherwise she is just going to change it out," said Huo Sishen with a frown.
As though he felt somewhat resentful toward it.
"Its scent is a bit strong.
"We should just give it to Aunty Lin."
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He was one who was very strict with his personal items.
He would rather trash something rather than giving it to someone else.
Now that he had been "trained", he had some concept of what it meant by being wasteful.
Many things around the house, new or barely used, they would give them away to Aunty Lin or the butler and the others. That way they wouldn't have to spend money to purchase them themselves.
And they could always throw them away if they didn't want them.
As Huo Sishen thought about it some more, he felt that that was a great idea. "Aunty Lin's niece would probably like it."
Gu Shishi had difficulty breathing and turned to give him a look.
She took the towel from him and rubbed his wet hair violently.
"Is Aunty Lin's niece even in grade school yet?"
She could barely bring herself to use this orange scented bath gel precisely because it was so expensive.
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She didn't feel like she was bathing with them; she felt that she was rubbing perfume on herself.
She had bought it before she was pregnant but all she was able to do was to look at it like it was some sort of a treasure every day.
And she was definitely worried about using it after she was pregnant.
Its fragrance was too strong. She worried that it might contain essential oil that might be bad for the baby.
Now that he turned around and wanted to give it away to a grade school kid... she suddenly felt her chest tightened and she had difficulty breathing.
When Huo Sishen looked down, he saw the indescribably painful look on her face.
He chuckled inside and put his fist over his mouth.
"It is expiring soon."
"How could that be?!"
She had spent so much money on it!
"You can't use it right now. Then you will be breastfeeding for 6 months to a year... ..."
She plopped onto the blanket listlessly before he was even done talking.
Okay. He was right. She wouldn't be able to use it again.
"Okay. Give it away then."
She enjoyed the sweet and refreshing scent from the giant orange that was hugging her that night.
Supposedly, this was the fragrance that remained after Huo Sishen had rinsed himself three times.
Even though the package said that it was safe for pregnant women, Huo Sishen still didn't feel safe about it.
He urged Gu Shishi to give the bottle of shower gel away the very next day.
Nevertheless, before giving it away, Gu Shishi, with a guilty conscience, covered up the part of the label that said even-your-spouse-would-want-to-take-a-bite-out-of-you with a sticker.
Huo Sishen had a peculiar look the entire time. There seemed to be a hint of a smile in his black eyes.
"What is it?"
Gu Shishi turned away. Her face reddened even more.
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Huo Sishen rubbed the bun on her head quietly and said not a word.
But he was obviously teasing her.
Gu Shishi gave him a pinch stealthily.
"Thank you, Madam!"
Aunty Lin thanked Gu Shishi profusely with a big, bright smile on her. She knew her stuff and knew how expensive this was.
Gu Shishi quickly waved her hand. "If you don't like it, you can always just sell it."
It would fetch a good price!
Aunty Lin was even happier after Gu Shishi had said that. She turned and was about to walk out of the room and leave the two love birds alone.
Gu Shishi recalled the trashcan yesterday and said to her, "You don't need to come and tidy up the bedroom at night anymore."
Almost nobody else would go inside her bedroom other than Aunty Lin.
Even when it was time to clean, Aunty Lin would not feel comfortable but would come with the cleaning person to make sure everything went smoothly.
Aunty Lin was taken aback visibly. "Someone came in at night?"
Gu Shishi blinked and quickly looked down on her phone.
Huo ChuChu called her at 8:40 PM but rushed to hang up. The call lasted no more than 10 minutes.
Someone must have come into the bedroom between 8:40 ~ 8:50 PM and emptied out the trash can.
Aunty Lin panicked when she heard that. "I didn't leave my bedroom last night. Let me go talk to Siyi and have him check the surveillance video."