SNICKERS! CHUCKLES!
The chef couldn’t help but laugh out loud. Once he realized he did that, he immediately turned around and made his escape!
The butler was more seasoned. He just pretended that he heard nothing after the “daddy” reference.
His look didn’t even change, but he immediately took off in the blink of an eye.
All of a sudden, only Gu Shishi, who had slipped up, and the boss, who was standing on the staircase with his stone-cold face, were the only two left in the living room.
Gu Shishi gulped.
That’s a misunderstanding...
It just rolled off her tongue!
She blamed it on spending too much time in the painting today and the brain damage that it had caused!
Daddy Huo?! What was she thinking?
Oh!
What should she do now?!
Huo Sishen turned and looked at her.
He saw her two slippered feet rubbing back and forth on the floor... her little face beet red, her snow-white chin almost touching her chest. She looked like she wanted to dig a hole in the ground and crawl inside.
There was a slight curve on his lips that even he barely noticed.
“Childish.”
“Inconceivable.”
He criticized her sternly with his deep, low voice.
Gu Shishi nodded like a chicken feeding.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
She was childish! All her fault!
She openly admitted to her own mistake!
Looking at her pitiful look, Huo Sishen was so angry that he busted out laughing.
As she was nodding, her long and smooth hair that was draped down behind her fell in front of her chest.
Her hair was black and shiny like top-grade silk. And the white dress with a round opening that she had on was almost indistinguishable from her skin...
White skin and black hair.
The two extreme colors created a very strong visual.
She looked up carefully and he could see her slightly flustered cheeks and her apricot-like lips that were a pink color all by itself...
Huo Sishen squinted.
Her pure white cotton and linen skirt with its flower buds pattern cutout extended to her knee cap. Her slender and petite calves were exposed. She was wearing pink and fuzzy slippers, and they made her ankles look even more delicate and petite.... They made one want to touch and... play with them...
He turned around abruptly the very next minute.
“No more running around the mansion! Go back inside your room!”
His voice was hoarse already.
He walked quickly up to the second floor and slammed his door shut before she could respond to him.
“......”
Gu Shishi, who was self-reflecting, was dumbfounded.
She looked to her left and then her right.
Wasn’t she just standing inside the living room?
Did she run around the mansion?
The boss was mad at her again? He had such bad temperament.
That temperament. Sheesh. He was even more irritable than her during that time of the month.
Pouting, she looked at the long and narrow box in her hand.
She hasn’t even had a chance to give this to him.
[Beep! Received Huo Sishen’s fondness!]
[Increase of male lead’s fondness! 70% to LV3.]
“Huh?”
Gu Shishi was truly shocked beyond words.
The boss was such a liar!
So the meaner he talked meant the happier he was?
She reached out and rubbed her own hair.
She knew he was a tsundere, but she didn’t know he was that much of a tsundere.
So what he really meant was for her to not stay cooped up in her room and wander out more frequently, particularly in front of him?
Aiya, lucky she had the system’s indication; otherwise she would have totally missed the boss’s true meaning.
“That’s what I meant by I don’t need any ad hoc assignments.”
Gu Shishi flipped through the system records.
The incident just now gained her 20% of experience!
Gu Shishi was on her way back to her room, but now she was going to stay outside happily.
She has made up her mind. She was going to squat in the living room!
Perhaps, when the boss saw her in the living room when he walked out of his room, there would be another increase in his fondness?
And, she could also give him his present then.
She didn’t mind the increase of fondness in succession!
Perhaps, the next time it’d move her straight to LV3!
Happy~
Gu Shishi sat down on the couch and started browsing through Taobao.
Homemade fan mounts were very popular.
She planned on getting some more raw materials. In addition to the folding fan, she could also add circular fan.
Picture: Folding fan
Source: chinadaily.com.cn
Photo: Circular fan
Source: k.sina.com.cn
Silk fan mount plus different types of pendants and fringes. There would be unlimited combinations, very retro and popular among girls.
She had once gotten very into Han dynasty costumes and even made a few silk palace fans for her own collection and entertainment.
“I sure hope the qualities of these on Taobao are decent.”
She looked back and forth and carefully compared the reviews and pictures among several shops before she finally picked a decent one that offered Su’s style fans.
A blank, double-sided silk fan 300 yuan.
That wasn’t cheap, but art was never cheap.
She only felt painful for a little while before she added all sorts of fan mounts into her shopping cart.
Eight-leaf begonia, phoenix crown, flying fairy, crossed begonia, round waist style.... So on and so forth. She couldn’t pick and choose!
“Adults don’t pick and choose!”
She would take them all!
One of each!
Picture: Eight-leaf begonia
Source: qyt.benbang.com
Picture: Phoenix crown
Source: fyjsz.net
Picture: Flying-fairy style
Source: suning.com
Picture: Crossed begonia
Source: Taobao.com
Picture: Round waist
Source: m.91ddcc.com
She picked the fan mounts with double-sided silk to ensure their thickness, so that she would be able paint on both sides. She’d need to be more careful with the ink bleeding through to the other side and it’d take a bit longer to make, but the effect would be amazing. It’d be a sort of a foggy type of classiness.
Delighted by all the options, she was completely absorbed in the joy of shopping. She then happily picked a bunch of pendants to mix and match with the fan mounts.
It didn’t take long for her to blow through 3,000 – 4,000 yuan.
But, she has money now!
Five-digit saving at that! She has nothing to worry about!
After she had purchased a bunch of stuff, her shopping spree had stimulated her creativity and her mind became active all of a sudden and wiped away all her tiredness from earlier.
All sorts of ideas for the fan mounts spun in her mind, making her wish that she could start on them right away.
She couldn’t just do nothing with her ideas. She turned on her cellphone and scribbled down some drafts, so she wouldn’t forget later.
***
When Huo Sishen went back downstairs, he saw Gu Shishi sound asleep on the couch, drooling.
He had no idea what she was dreaming about, but there was a big smile on her face. She was so un-lady-like that it was painful to look at her.
Huo Sishen frowned and turned away his gloomy face. But that very moment, he saw the hem of her skirt riding up from her lying down...
Her skin... pale like snow... sank into the black couch like soft tofu.
His breathing turned heavier uncontrollably.
She... was imprudent!
He walked over to the couch expressionlessly with a gloomy look.
He hesitated for a bit and looked at the door coldly and profoundly before he started picking up the throw pillows on the couch and tossed it over her.
One throw pillow, two throw pillows...
All the throw pillows from the couch next to it had been tossed shortly.
He looked over at her again and studied her for a while. After a little while, he frowned again and walked toward her, still displeased.
His long and slender fingers picked up the haphazardly stacked pillows and placed them properly over her skirt that was lifted upward... covering the very eye-catching area of pale skin.
“Boss, the chauffeur is ready. He’s outside right now....” said Si Yi as he walked over.
But he stopped talking automatically before he reached the couch in the living room.
What was that on the couch?! Why was Miss Gu... buried by throw pillows?! He only looked at it for a second before he sensed the icy-cold gaze of death!
He looked down and stared at the tiled floor immediately, as if there was a flower on there.
“Let’s go!” said Huo Sishen after he took a deep, long breath.
Si Yi felt a chill behind the back of his neck.
It seemed that his boss has lost his temper again?
***
Gu Shishi was very groggy when she woke up. As she sat up groggily and wiped away the drool by the corner of her mouth, she noticed that she was drowned by a sea of throw pillows...
She didn’t remember these being on top of her when she fell asleep?
She blinked.
She checked the time on her cellphone and saw a few missed messages. Just one look and she was wide awake.
[Life-saving Boss: Who said you can sleep in the living room?]
“!!”
Gu Shishi’s eyes were straight.
Life-saving Boss was the alias that she had given the boss.
Ugh... sleeping in the living room had annoyed him?
Gu Shishi innocently stumbled to get up with a throw pillow in her arm. She only fell asleep because she was shopping on Taobao and waited for the boss at the same time.
“Eh?”
She squeezed the throw pillow and suddenly figured it out.
The throw pillows were from the boss?
She looked down on her dress and blushed immediately.
She pulled down her skirt that had rose up from her unsightly posture during her sleep...
“And I still wasn’t able to give him the fan.”
Gu Shishi stood up in resignation and let out a long sigh.
It was almost dinner time. Would the boss be back tonight?
She took a look at the closely-shut door and walked over to the front entrance.
Standing there like a statue that was waiting for her husband to come home, she counted the boss’s shoes. She stood by the door looking down when she realized it was short one pair.
“What’s the matter, Miss Gu?” asked Butler Lin as he walked past the front door, instructing workers on moving things.
Gu Shishi waved her hand.
“Nothing much. Um, I have something for Mr. Huo. But... he left again?”
“Yes, Young Master will not be home for dinner tonight.” Butler Lin knew Huo Sishen’s itinerary very well.
Gu Shishi immediately pursued her lips regretfully.
“Do you need to give something to Young Master right away? Si Er will be heading over to the office to have Young Master sign some documents later today. Would you like him to bring it over with him?”Butler Lin was very good at reading others.
“Si.... Er?” Gu Shishi was stunned.
Butler Li nodded and there was a hint of smile in his eyes. “Yes, you have never met him yet because he was out of town for business last week. Si Er is mainly responsible for outside duties. He’s not at the mansion very often.”
“Oh... he’s brother of Si Yi?”
Gu Shishi felt that their parents were idiots when it came to naming their children.
(T/N: Si Yi & Si Er – “Yi” = one and “Er” = two.)
Back then, her master had made fun of her for giving her paintings random names. But compared to their names, she felt that she has been doing a pretty good job.
“Yes, they are twins. Miss, why don’t you hand it over to me? I will bring it to Si Er right away.”
Si Er, the name.... sounded so silly...
Gu Shishi genuinely felt bad for him. She was going to tell him that there was no rush and she could give it to Huo Sishen anytime.
But she stopped herself before she said that out loud. It wouldn’t be bad to level up sooner!
Plus, the fan would look displayed at work or in an office.
The painting conveyed sturdiness and the ability to think out of the box!
It would be too overly rigid for the house and would not be conducive in relaxing the boss.
But it was just the kind of masculinity, strength, and can-do attitude needed for a workplace!
“Oh, okay. Thank you so much for your trouble.”
Gu Shishi quickly handed the box over to Butler Lin.
***
As such, Boss Huo, who had to work overtime over the weekend, received a gift from home.
Si Yi and Si Er, standing to one side, gave him very odd looks.
They felt like single dogs being shoved dog food, looking both envious and stuffed.
(T/N: Dog food – for some odd reasons, used to refer to couples showing off their lovey-doveyness in Chinese webnovel.)
These two live under the same roof, but they have to have messengers delivering their gifts for each other back and forth...
Nauseating! So nauseating! Who would have thought that their usually cold and distant boss would do all these things when the time was right?
“If you two keep looking at them like that, you won’t need to report to work anymore starting tomorrow.” Wooden box in hand, Huo Sishen scanned over the siblings coldly.
Si Yi and Si Er, “......!”
Now they couldn’t even look?! What happened to their boss?!
Huo Sishen squinted at them, and the two simultaneously looked down at the ground.
Soon, his cellphone vibrated.
The two brothers exchanged a look and stretched their necks as much as they could.
That must be a text from Miss Gu. The two have very good eyesight.
One quick glance and, sure enough, they saw Miss Gu’s very unique profile picture – small-people-who-begged-for-death-by-red-packets.JPG.
[Have You Received Red Packets Today: Return for the scented oils (sticking tongue out)~]
The two quietly looked up at the ceiling pretending that they hadn’t seen a thing after they had finished reading it.
Huo Sishen, on the other hand, frowned.
He, however, was a little stunned after he had opened up the wooden box.