Chapter 112: If You Have Needs, Then Just Sleep Together!

Gu Yunci held Meng Shutang for thirty minutes.

To thank him for finding the long-lost star hairpin, Meng Shutang stayed still the entire time.

She didn't like owing people, especially not owing him.

When the man had held her long enough, he slowly released her and reached up to brush her fallen hair behind her ear. "Are you hungry?"

Meng Shutang rearranged her hair with her hand and clipped the hairpin in place. "Not hungry. I need to go."

But when she reached the door, she was called to stop again.

"Tangtang."

Her slender fingertips paused on the doorknob. Meng Shutang turned around. The man stood up and looked at her. "It's nothing."

He just wanted to call her name, as if only by doing so could he feel that they were still together.

Meng Shutang left the CEO's office, took the elevator to the underground parking garage, and was blocked by Bai Cixian the moment she stepped out.

"Where did you two just do it — on the bed or the sofa?"

Saying that, she crossed her arms and sauntered up to her. "In such a short time — that's not Brother Yunci's usual standard. Looks like he doesn't care about you as much as he claims. Just playing around."

Meng Shutang stood facing her. "Didn't you know that the small room next to his office doesn't have a bed at all?"

Bai Cixian froze slightly and slowly lowered her arms.

There was no shame in her eyes from having a lie exposed — only fury at being humiliated. "Meng Shutang, I know your daughter is Brother Yunci's child,

but I hope you keep your mouth shut, or I'll make you regret it for the rest of your life."

Meng Shutang grabbed her by the collar. "Bai Cixian, I've never fought you for Gu Yunci, and I don't even want him.

But I'm warning you — if you dare touch my daughter, I'll make sure your mother never sees you again."

With that, she pushed her aside.

She drove home. While waiting at a red light, she unconsciously turned her head and saw that Gu Yunci's car was also stopped at the line in the opposite lane.

The instant their eyes met, both of them froze.

The small room just now — her still-racing heartbeat and flustered panic, and his restrained yet burning breath — seemed to be swept back by the wind at the intersection.

The world suddenly went so quiet that only heartbeats remained.

She saw that in his eyes, an undercurrent still lingered, not yet faded.

She hastily looked away, and when the light turned green, immediately drove off.

Gu Yunci went in another direction.

Qin Zheng had just called him, saying there was a breakthrough in the investigation into why Meng Shutang left four years ago.

When he arrived at Chengnan Hospital, Qin Zheng handed him a file. "The information after Miss Meng left was deliberately covered up by Bai Cixian and her mother, which led our investigation in the wrong direction all these years.

Today on the subway, a colleague happened to run into an old doctor. The man mentioned something that sounded like it could be about Miss Meng, so he asked a few more questions."

After the divorce, Meng Shutang had gone abroad directly.

But half a month later, she returned to the country, originally planning to abort the child in her womb.

They went to the old doctor's office. The old doctor put on his reading glasses. "But on the operating table, she changed her mind.

I've performed surgeries for so many years, and she's the only one who ever backed out, so I remember it very clearly.

Yes, it was this young woman, surnamed Meng."

In other words, she hadn't been able to bring herself to abort their child.

Then could Xin Xin… be that child?

Qin Zheng looked at the man. "President Gu, would you like to do a paternity test? It's the most authoritative and fastest method."

Gu Yunci certainly knew that.

But if Xin Xin was his and Meng Shutang's child, then he would be even more reluctant to let go.

"I'm not in a hurry. Investigate slowly."

After waiting four years, a little while longer won't matter.

If Xin Xin was Meng Shutang's only child, then naturally she was also his.

After Meng Shutang left, Bai Cixian also departed.

She drove to the Gu residence. Bai Lianyue had called to say Gu Yeheng was back and asked her to come over.

She brought along the finest gift she could offer from home, but when she placed it on the yellow rosewood Eight Immortals table, Gu Yeheng didn't even lift his eyes.

"Cixian, you coming here isn't as simple as just bringing me a gift, is it?"

At those words, Bai Cixian began to weep, tears welling in her eyes. "Uncle Gu, you've heard, haven't you? Brother Yunci demoted me to the Administration Department for Meng Shutang's sake.

It's really the same no matter where I work, but this way I lose many chances to be close to Brother Yunci."

Gu Yeheng sipped his tea, listening absentmindedly.

"Brother Yunci still can't let go of Meng Shutang. Today… I saw them holding each other.

These four years, Meng Shutang hasn't been idle since she left. Not only did she remarry, she even had a child.

Do you think a woman like that could enter the Gu family?"

Gu Yeheng slammed his teacup onto the table. "I got it. You go back first."

Bai Cixian left the Gu residence with a smile.

Gu Yunci had just left the hospital when he received Gu Yeheng's call, saying to let Bai Cixian return to the Cultural Tourism Department — keeping her in the Administration Department was a waste of her talent.

Gu Yunci nodded. "Fine, let her go back."

Gu Yeheng was somewhat surprised. He thought he'd need to talk him around, or that Gu Yunci would negotiate terms with him.

"What trick are you pulling?"

Gu Yunci said, "Chairman Gu, I agreed, and you say I'm pulling a trick?

What, you'd prefer I disagree?"

Gu Yeheng didn't utter a sound, he simply hung up the phone.

Looking at the disconnected phone, the man pursed his lips and smiled faintly.

Bai Cixian returned to the Culture and Tourism Department; given her proud nature she would certainly not let this rest, making more mistakes the more she did, while Qiao Mo stood there staring at her.

Soon it will be revealed whether she was truly pregnant four years ago or merely pretending.

While pondering, Gu Yunci looked up and saw Meng Shutang and Chen Man walking arm-in-arm into the tavern opposite.

He gave a light smile, walked to the car, originally intending to drive away.

But thinking of something, he got out again and walked toward the tavern.

Inside the tavern.

Chen Man questioned Meng Shutang, "Tell me the truth, who gave you that strawberry mark on your neck?"

Meng Shutang held her wine cup, somewhat unwilling to speak; her mind was in turmoil, especially when she thought of that person's name.

"Gu Yunci? Go confront him—his old feelings surge, his love runs wild, he pushes you down and kisses you, you don't allow it.

Failing that, he whines and clings, nestling in the crook of your neck, sucking on you, right?"

Meng Shutang's spirits sank, "Exactly, you're not wrong about any of it."

"Your heart is in turmoil? You don't know what to do next, right?"

"I am troubled, but I know what to do next."

She is no longer the fourteen-year-old girl whose love first blossomed; she has experienced passionate love as well as betrayal and being kicked away.

How could it be that he softens, utters a few regretful words, and you just forgive him?

"If you don't want to reconcile with him, then you have no need to suffer."

Speaking, Chen Man raised her eyebrows teasing her, "Or… you're craving his scent, longing for his body?"

Meng Shutang gripped her wine cup; upon hearing that, her slender fingertips twitched slightly.

Chen Man observed, "Gu Yunci's looks and physique are top-notch among men—broad shoulders, narrow waist; one can tell at a glance he's the type who looks slim in clothes and muscular out of them.

If you have needs, then just sleep with him! Take what you each need, see how clingy he is toward you—if you nod, he'll surely agree."