Chapter 78: How, How Will You Punish Me?

"Bai Shuruo, you have quite some nerve, actually daring to steal my fish."

She laughed and said, "It was these few fish that jumped into my bucket themselves."

"You're still quibbling." He pulled her over, pressed her against a rock, then pinned her hands down, placing one leg between her two legs.

As his scent washed over her, she suddenly didn't dare move at all.

"I have to punish you," Han Yangting said, leaning toward her.

"H-how will you punish me?" She swallowed nervously.

He began to kiss her, starting from her forehead and moving all the way down; she never dared to move, letting him kiss her.

Not until he released her hands and, without her noticing, slipped his hand under the hem of her clothes and reached a certain place, did she become alert and subconsciously push him away, "Brother Han, no!"

"What if I insist?" He pressed against her more firmly and asked in a low voice.

She didn't dare speak.

Thinking that the two of them were a legal married couple and that such things would happen sooner or later, she simply closed her eyes, yet her body couldn't stop trembling.

Han Yangting looked at her, seeing that she was once again wearing that look of resignation to her fate, so he did not force her; he kissed her gently for a while longer, and only when his breathing had calmed down did he let her go.

"Go back to fishing," he said, then walked ahead first.

Bai Shuruo was stunned for a moment, then followed slowly behind.

She was covered in his scent from head to toe, and she also knew that he must have been uncomfortable being forced to stop.

But since he hadn't forced her, it was her turn to feel guilty instead.

Sitting down to continue fishing, she would glance at him from time to time; he was fishing intently, as if nothing had happened at all.

……

Gu Group.

Bai Shunan had finally found a public relations firm to handle last night's incident properly.

After reporting her work to Gu Yunting, she placed the documents in front of him for him to sign.

Gu Yunting looked very exhausted; he picked up his pen and then put it down, but suddenly pulled her hand and dragged her into his arms.

"President Gu, what are you doing?" Bai Shunan broke free and immediately straightened her skirt, appearing to find him very repulsive.

He gave a bitter smile.

"Bai Shunan, do you also think I'm a fool?" Gu Yunting asked.

Bai Shunan said, "President Gu is not a fool; everything you do is because of love. But since you already have someone you love in your heart, you shouldn't do that to me just now; doing this is unfair to Mo Wanqing."

Gu Yunting gave another bitter smile, then picked up the pen and signed.

Bai Shunan took the documents and was about to leave when her phone and Gu Yunting's phone rang at the same time.

Gu Yunting answered his call in his office, while Bai Shunan answered hers outside.

His call was from his father, and her call was from his mother.

Both calls were about the same thing: asking them to come to the Gu Family for dinner tonight.

As Gu Yunting's Secretary, this was not the first time Bai Shunan had been to the Gu Family for dinner; the Gu parents highly recognized her work ability and had invited her to eat at their home several times. If it weren't for her family's decline in status, making her current status and position unworthy of the Gu Family, the Gu mother would have been willing to play matchmaker for them.

After hanging up the phone, Bai Shunan went back into Gu Yunting's office.

"Your mother asked me to go for dinner tonight."

"My father asked you to come to the house for dinner tonight."

The two said in unison.

……

At five in the afternoon, Bai Shunan got into Gu Yunting's car to return to Gu Jia Bieshu.

Perhaps because Bai Shunan was in the car, Gu Yunting was quite talkative.

While driving, he asked, "Tell me, why did my mother ask you to come to my house for dinner?"

Bai Shunan said, "Because my work is excellent, especially since I resolved the trouble from last night for you; perhaps I'll even get a raise. That 1.2 million annual salary you offer is truly a bit low."

"You're quite full of yourself."

"When it comes to being full of myself, I can't compare to a single finger of President Gu."

"Then what do you think is an appropriate annual salary for you?"

"At least 3 million."

"You're really asking for the moon."

"……"

The two bickered all the way back, which was harmonious enough.

But as soon as they arrived at the Gu Family, Bai Shunan turned back into the serious and professional Secretary Bai.

There weren't many people in the Gu Family; inside this villa, there was no one else besides Gu Yunting's parents.

The Gu father and mother were famously loving; in order to train their son, they had handed the position of company president to him early on and went traveling all over the world, having just returned from Turkey two days ago.

The Gu father was stern and reserved, while the Gu mother was gentle and enthusiastic.

Gu Yunting was like neither of them, being both paranoid and willful, probably because he lacked love growing up; he was the best explanation for the saying, "Parents are true love, the child is an accident."

Although it was called dinner, as soon as Bai Shunan arrived at the Gu Family, she was pulled aside by Mother Gu.

"Secretary Bai, oh no, let's just call you Nannan; I haven't seen you for a while, and you've become more and more beautiful," Mother Gu said, holding Bai Shunan's hand.

Bai Shunan was a bit confused, feeling that the Gu family had some ulterior motive for this dinner invitation.

Mother Gu continued, "Nannan, you have a tall figure, good temperament, good skin, and a good face shape. If you and our Yunting were to become a pair in the future, the children you have would surely be beautiful!"

Hearing Mother Gu say this, Bai Shunan felt even more that their purpose was not simple.

She quickly explained, "Madam Gu, President Gu has a girlfriend; it is impossible for me and him to... have children."

Mother Gu then laughed, "You mean that Mo Wanqing? Sigh, I'll be honest with you today: she is not worthy of our Yunting. We will never let her enter our family; we hope that the two of you will be together."

"Huh?" Bai Shunan was stunned, "Madam Gu, please don't joke; the President and I are only in a superior-subordinate relationship."

Mother Gu laughed, "You can fool others, but you can't fool me. I knew about those little thoughts of yours the first time I met you. You like Yunting, right?"

Bai Shunan: "..."

On the other side, Gu Yunting and Father Gu were sitting face to face.

The father and son had not communicated much since childhood; Father Gu was a strict father, and Gu Yunting had been mischievous since he was small, so he had been beaten quite often.

Among all the successors of wealthy families, he was the one who had been beaten the most.

Talking back to his mother meant a beating, breaking his mother's newly bought lipstick meant a beating, smashing his mother's car window while playing soccer meant a beating... in short, he was beaten every few days.

"Dad, what is it?" Gu Yunting asked.

He also felt that his parents calling him back for a meal had another purpose, likely regarding the matter of Mo Wanqing.

"Do you really like that Mo Wanqing?" Father Gu asked straightforwardly.

"It's alright, I suppose."

" 'Alright' means you don't like her!"

Gu Yunting: "..."

"Dad, you aren't trying to interfere with my freedom of marriage, are you? Wasn't it agreed? I make my own decisions regarding my marriage. From childhood to adulthood, I've listened to you on everything, but I cannot listen to you on who I marry."

"In this matter, you must listen to me," Father Gu said sternly.

"On what grounds?"