Gu Chenyan asked very seriously and earnestly, his deep black eyes enveloping Qiao Shu.
Qiao Shu’s joy got stuck.
He blinked.
His eyes showed some confusion.
Gu Chenyan pointed out the issue, “Qiao Shu, we are already married.”
Qiao Shu: “…”
So serious!
Suddenly anxious!
He licked his lips and humbly inquired, “Yes, is there a problem?”
Gu Chenyan, displeased, said, “Your plan just now didn’t include me.”
He seemed a bit aggrieved, “Qiao Shu, where am I?”
Where am I?
Where?
This question echoed in Qiao Shu’s head, causing it to feel like a fireworks display, bursting into colorful and vivid flowers.
Qiao Shu wasn’t anxious anymore.
He wasn’t guilty either.
In fact, he was quite happy.
Unable to control his joy, a broad smile appeared on his face, a truly radiant one.
Gu Chenyan always found Qiao Shu’s smile very attractive, dazzling like a little sun. Even though Qiao Shu’s face was mostly covered by a mask at the moment, the shining eyes that were visible easily captured his attention, making it impossible for him to look away. Previously, just one glimpse of Qiao Shu’s smile could lighten his mood and bring a sense of joy and relaxation.
But now, he felt it was a bit too bright.
Gu Chenyan pursed his lips slightly.
His tone became a bit heavier as he asked, “What are you happy about? Why are you happy?”
Was there anything in his future worth such joy?
Gu Chenyan was not pleased.
Qiao Shu: “…”
Cough
Qiao Shu tried to control the smile on his face, but he realized that this version of Gu Chenyan made it impossible to suppress the laughter.
He even felt like rolling on the spot.
Gu Chenyan—he—
So cute!
Gu Chenyan’s eyelids drooped slightly, and the curve of his lips turned slightly downward.
His unhappiness became evident.
Seeing this, even though Qiao Shu wanted to roll around happily, he quickly explained.
“Because of you.”
Gu Chenyan looked at him.
Qiao Shu smiled, his cheeks blushing a bit. Feeling the warmth on his cheeks, he quietly reached out, hooking his pinky finger with Gu Chenyan’s pinky.
He gave it a little shake.
“Because of you.”
Gu Chenyan lowered his gaze to their linked pinkies, then looked back at Qiao Shu.
Qiao Shu moved a bit closer.
Feeling a bit shy but more joyful, he explained, “That was the plan before you. Now… I want to read books by your side, and travel together with you.”
“I want to be with you…”
Qiao Shu reversed his grip, holding onto Gu Chenyan’s hand, intertwining their fingers.
“I want to hold hands with you.”
The two stood facing each other.
Their hands held intimately.
Qiao Shu felt shy, but his eyes sparkled.
After a few seconds, Gu Chenyan tilted his head and revealed a satisfied smile.
The “marital crisis” had passed, and the two of them chose movie tickets together again. The difference this time was that their hands remained intertwined.
Qiao Shu: “The movie starts in 15 minutes, perfect timing.”
Gu Chenyan: “Mm.”
Qiao Shu took out his phone, opened WeChat to make the payment, and as he exited, his gaze suddenly paused.
There was a red +1 in the contacts.
Qiao Shu clicked on it.
The person who added him was still Xie Yuxi.
Unlike the morning, there was a new note in the message.
【Qiao Shu, what’s going on with you? Did you see the hot search? I know who is behind this. Contact me quickly.】
Qiao Shu’s hand, which was about to click out, paused.
Xie Yuxi knew who was behind this hot search?
He hesitated a bit. When it came to who was behind the recent hot search targeting him, Qiao Shu’s claim of not being curious or concerned was false.
He could ignore the maliciously guided comments on the internet, but he couldn’t ignore those who wanted to harm him.
Gu Chenyan: “What’s wrong?”
Qiao Shu lifted his head from the phone, looking at Gu Chenyan. He thought about Gu Chenyan’s strong possessiveness towards him.
Last time, Gu Chenyan even asked him to directly call Xie Yuxi to announce their intimate relationship as husbands.
So, without hiding anything, Qiao Shu said, “Xie Yuxi added me on WeChat and said he knows who is behind this hot search mischief.”
Gu Chenyan indeed frowned.
Qiao Shu continued, “I want to know.”
Gu Chenyan said, “Assistant Chen and Yanqing are already investigating.”
Qiao Shu was well aware of that.
But it hadn’t been long since they started the investigation, just a short time between buying a gift. With an informant now available, Qiao Shu wanted to know sooner.
So he suggested, “If what Xie Yuxi said is true, we can pay him for the information. It’s like buying it, and it can save Yanqing and Assistant Chen the effort of investigating.”
“How about it?”
Gu Chenyan: “Do you really want to know now?”
Qiao Shu nodded, “Mm.”
Gu Chenyan: “Add him.”
Qiao Shu assured, “I won’t say anything unnecessary to him.”
They found a place to sit around, with Qiao Shu sitting close to Gu Chenyan, and then added Xie Yuxi.
It seemed like Xie Yuxi was waiting for him.
As soon as the request was accepted, a message came from Xie Yuxi.
Xie Yuxi: What are you doing? It took you so long to add me.
Qiao Shu ignored him and asked directly, “Do you know who is behind this?”
Xie Yuxi: I know.
Xie Yuxi: The water army on the hot search is from the studio I co-own with my friend.
Xie Yuxi: (Smirking)
Qiao Shu: …
Xie Yuxi: If you want to know, I can tell you, but you have to pay.
It matched Qiao Shu’s intention.
Xie Yuxi: Originally, as a businessman, I should keep my mouth shut, but since we had a history.
Xie Yuxi: Although you have a husband now, I still want to cherish some old feelings.
…
The day before going to the deep mountains for filming, Qiao Shu was once again seen by Xie Yuxi. Remembering Gu Chenyan’s words, before Xie Yuxi could speak, Qiao Shu directly said, “I have a husband now.”
Xie Yuxi’s expression at that moment seemed a bit blank.
After regaining his senses, just as Qiao Shu expected, he actually said, “Having a husband doesn’t mean you can’t make plans. After all, he’s not here.”
…
Qiao Shu: …
Qiao Shu: Thanks, but we don’t have any past relationship.
Qiao Shu: How much?
Xie Yuxi mentioned an amount.
Qiao Shu found it acceptable and transferred the money directly. Xie Yuxi quickly accepted it.
Xie Yuxi: It’s Zhou Tongtong
Xie Yuxi: Do you want to retaliate against her?
Xie Yuxi: My studio’s water army can take orders. Considering our relationship, I’ll give you a discount, how about a 5% discount? I’m sentimental.
Qiao Shu: …
So, it turned out that Xie Yuxi approached him for business this time.
Gu Chenyan: “Who is Zhou Tongtong?”
Being close together, Qiao Shu didn’t avoid Gu Chenyan while chatting with Xie Yuxi. He even took the initiative to show the conversation to Gu Chenyan. Therefore, Gu Chenyan also saw the mastermind behind the hot search.
“Huh?”
Qiao Shu had a momentary confusion.
But soon he remembered this person he had never met since he came here.
Zhou Tongtong, in the “Breaking Dawn” crew, out of jealousy, conspired to harm Jiang Jiayu by bribing the props team, intending to injure him so he couldn’t continue filming and would have to leave the crew.
The original owner knew about this, but he didn’t say anything, and in the end, he slipped and took the blow meant for Jiang Jiayu.
Then Qiao Shu came.
After explaining the situation between him and Zhou Tongtong to Gu Chenyan, his face was filled with profound confusion. He scratched his head, “Why would Zhou Tongtong target me?”
In theory, Zhou Tongtong was jealous of Jiang Jiayu and should have targeted him, right?
Why did she change her target and go after him, the victim?
Qiao Shu was puzzled.
Gu Chenyan: “Were you hospitalized at that time because of this? Because of her?” He looked at Qiao Shu’s head.
Qiao Shu: “Yes.”
Gu Chenyan: “Where did you get hit?”
Qiao Shu pointed to the back of his head.
Gu Chenyan leaned in, his slender fingers gently parting Qiao Shu’s soft hair, as if afraid of hurting the wound.
After a few seconds, Gu Chenyan’s voice turned heavy, “There’s a scar.”
The injured area had long since healed, and there was no longer any pain, but the traces of the past injury still lingered.
Gu Chenyan lowered his gaze, a hint of displeasure on his face.
Qiao Shu, with his head lowered, was unaware.
Curiously, he asked, “A scar? How big is it?”
He couldn’t see the back of his head himself.
Gu Chenyan replied, “It’s surprisingly…”
“Quite big.”
Qiao Shu: “Huh?”
Surprisingly big? Qiao Shu was puzzled; he hadn’t noticed it even when washing his hair!
And a big scar implied that he might have a bald spot back there!
Ah!
It’s so ugly!
Thinking that Gu Chenyan was still watching, Qiao Shu became anxious. He tilted his head, trying to move his head away so that Gu Chenyan couldn’t see.
Gu Chenyan held him back, saying, “Don’t move.”
Qiao Shu: “…”
Gu Chenyan: “Let me take another look.”
Qiao Shu: “…”
Qiao Shu had no choice.
After a while, Gu Chenyan was still looking. Qiao Shu thought for a moment and asked, “Can you take a picture and show it to me?”
To see just how ugly it was!
Considering that Gu Chenyan had been looking for so long!
Gu Chenyan: “Hmm.”
Meanwhile, Xie Yuxi continued messaging.
Xie Yuxi: How is it?
Xie Yuxi: Where are you?
Xie Yuxi: If you believe in the abilities of our studio’s water army, I can provide more evidence of Zhou Tongtong blackening you if you offer a bit more money.
Xie Yuxi: I also have a paparazzi friend who has evidence against Zhou Tongtong.
Xie Yuxi: I can give you a discounted rate as a gesture of friendship.
Qiao Shu glanced at it, and replied, “Wait a moment.”
Then he exited the chat, opened the camera, and handed the phone to Gu Chenyan.
Gu Chenyan took it, aimed the camera at Qiao Shu’s head, found the right angle, and snapped a photo.
The picture was taken.
He handed the phone back to Qiao Shu.
Qiao Shu took a look: “…”
He couldn’t find the scar.
He looked again carefully, but still couldn’t find it. So, he looked up and asked, “Did you miss the scar?”
Gu Chenyan: “Hmm?”
Qiao Shu: “I didn’t see it.”
Gu Chenyan frowned.
He leaned in.
Then pointed to a spot: “Right here, a pretty big scar.”
Qiao Shu followed his finger to look.
Still couldn’t see it.
However, this time he was clever. He used his fingers to zoom in on the photo and finally saw a hair-thin scar on the fair scalp.
Qiao Shu: “???”
There’s a little?
Pretty big?
Gu Chenyan: “Does it still hurt?”
“Uh.”
Qiao Shu withdrew his confusion and said, “It hasn’t hurt for a long time, I’m fine.”
Gu Chenyan: “Hmm.”
After a while, Gu Chenyan asked, “Did she have any follow-up after leaving the crew?”
Qiao Shu almost didn’t catch on that the topic had returned to Zhou Tongtong.
Qiao Shu: “No.”
“Director Zhu said there were people behind her. It was only possible to settle the matter and let me be more open-minded.”
He said it without much concern: “I’ve almost forgotten about it.”
Indeed, Qiao Shu had almost forgotten about Zhou Tongtong. If it weren’t for this incident, he probably wouldn’t have thought about her in the future.
Gu Chenyan noticed.
He suddenly reached out and pinched Qiao Shu’s chin, lifting Qiao Shu’s head with a somewhat assertive tone, “Qiao Shu, look at me.”
Qiao Shu: “???”
He looked at Gu Chenyan.
Gu Chenyan earnestly said, “Now you also have a backstage.”
“Qiao Shu, I am your backstage.”
Author’s note:
Boss Gu is domineering in protecting his wife.
Thank you to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated me with nutrients from January 18, 2021, to January 19, 2021.
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