Chapter 37: The Vinegar King Goes Online (Part 2)

Rather than enduring long-term pain in hopeless longing, it is better to take a decisive and straightforward action.

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Shakespeare

Zhou Xiaoru thought that it was precisely because she took this so-called straightforward action that she brought upon herself so many subsequent troubles.

Had she known that liking Gu Liyan would cause her so much trouble later on, she should have kept everything buried in her stomach from the very beginning!

Instead of taking the initiative to bring her many years of secret love out into the sunlight.

In the end, this secret love was like a vampire exposed to the sun...

In an instant, it turned to ashes!

The only one hurt was her, and in the end, she had to heal herself.

It is just a pity that she realized this truth too late...

Standing at the somewhat dim stairwell, Zhou Xiaoru suddenly realized that several of her major incidents recently had occurred in places just like this.

Previously, at the stairwell of Tengyuan Company, she had been forcibly pinned against the wall once;

At the elevator entrance of the underground parking garage, she had been forcibly kissed once, and also forcibly hugged once...

Now, after going around in a big circle, she had actually ended up at the stairwell of the school gymnasium...

She felt secretly annoyed!

Was she a pig? How could she dare to bring someone to such an accident-prone area again!

Perhaps she was fated to be at odds with places like stairwells!

Hopefully, nothing messy will happen again in a moment...

But then she thought again, weren't they here to resolve personal grievances?

It was possible that some harmful or bloody incident might occur.

At this moment, at the stairwell, there were only the two of them, and neither spoke;

One lowered her head and hunched her chest, picking at her hands, while the other had his hands in his pockets, watching the person opposite him pick at her hands...

The atmosphere was somewhat subtle...

Occasionally, cheers of encouragement came from the hall in front, startling the person picking at her hands, making her hair stand on end! Again and again!

Gu Liyan, with both hands in his pockets, looked at the person whose eyes were darting back and forth with a gentle expression.

A moment later, he took his hands out of his pockets...

This frightened the person who had been secretly observing his movements, causing her to look up and involuntarily step back several paces.

She almost retreated outside the exit...

The man paused in his movement of taking something out, and seeing her reaction, he couldn't help but chuckle.

"What's wrong with you?"

Zhou Xiaoru was seen with wide, panicked eyes, her two hands cupped in front of her chest, like a standing rabbit, her whole body full of wariness.

When she saw what the man slowly took out, she couldn't help but secretly let out a breath.

It was a false alarm!

It scared her to death...

It turned out to be a cigarette and a lighter...

Now, whenever she saw this man's devilish hands make a move, she felt that something bad was about to happen.

Because every time, those devilish hands were reaching directly for her.

Little did she know, her reaction like this gave Gu Liyan the illusion that he was a lecher.

He smiled and broke the silence again, "You have times when you're afraid too?"

Now, every time he saw her, he had the feeling of a newborn calf not fearing the tiger, with a sense of drive all over her.

Zhou Xiaoru huddled to one side and replied stubbornly.

"Who said I was afraid?"

"Is that so? Then why are you dodging?"

"I... I was just afraid your cigarette would burn me..."

At this time, the cigarette in Gu Liyan's hand had already been lit, and the way he smoked was filled with a charming air.

His dark eyes were fixed on the person who kept some distance from him, as if she were ready to run away at any moment.

"Really?"

As he spoke, his feet followed and approached without a sound...

As soon as he made a move, the person on the other side noticed it immediately...

At this, Zhou Xiaoru hugged her arms, jumped out of the doorway, jumped out of the gymnasium, and arrived outside.

She pointed inside at the person who was still moving toward her and said.

"You... don't come over!"

As the words fell, the man had already 'obediently' stopped his steps at the doorway.

Seeing this, Zhou Xiaoru demanded again.

"Just stand there and don't move!"

This made her heart pound again; if this continued, she wouldn't be far from an early death.

The man cooperated and stood there without moving again.

He looked at the darkness outside the back door, fearing that he might scare this girl away again.

In the middle of the night, if she ran off again, it wouldn't be easy to chase her, so he had to compromise.

"Fine, I'll stand here and not move. It's cold outside, come back in..."

Zhou Xiaoru replied without even thinking, "I don't want to!"

As the saying goes, a full belly leads to lust! (Please note, this is a sensitive term.)

She just wanted to blow in the cold wind outside, clear her head, and let herself sober up!

Gu Liyan felt helpless; he didn't know what this girl was afraid of, so he got straight to the point.

"You want to resign?"

"That's right, I've already prepared my resignation letter," a certain Xiaoru replied very crisply.

"I don't agree!" a certain gentleman was also very firm.

Zhou Xiaoru glared at the man who, in the dark night, looked like he had walked right out of a manga.

With a cigarette dangling from his mouth, his black tie hanging loosely at his collar, he was tall, stylish, handsome, and charming.

Yet all these external advantages, in the eyes of a certain Xiaoru, were merely the capital for his scumminess.

She could not be threatened by this kind of person again!

"What does it matter if you don't agree? I'm just an Intern; I don't need to write a resignation letter. I just need to tell the Personnel Department Supervisor and hand over my files. All of this is written very clearly in the company's employee handbook." Don't think she didn't know.

It doesn't matter who says they don't agree now! She wasn't sold to Tengyuan, so why couldn't she resign?

The man curled his handsome lips, his eyes flashing with a shimmering light as he leaned comfortably against the doorway to the side.

Plus, with a cigarette dangling from his mouth...

At this moment, he looked a bit roguish, a bit bad, making one's heart race just looking at him...

Zhou Xiaoru never expected that this guy had this side to him!

She couldn't help but sneer in her heart! Who is he trying to seduce!

Who does he think he is? A pretty boy? Or an idol boy band member who just debuted?

Pfft! I don't care for it at all right now!

But next, a single sentence from a certain gentleman made her think her ears were having problems!

She only heard a certain gentleman say something that, in her view, was directly trampling his own face into the ground.

That face, he just didn't want it anymore!

A certain someone, while still smoking, said half-jokingly.

"I remember before, you really liked looking at handsome guys. How about I transfer you to my floor?"

After hearing this, Zhou Xiaoru almost threw up all the spicy hot pot she had eaten for dinner!

What about the face this person always valued!! How could he be so unable to think straight and just throw it away!

Is this a roundabout way of bragging that he is a handsome guy?! Could he be any more shameless!

My god! When did Gu Liyan degenerate to this point!

What did he experience abroad these past two years!

His integrity is gone, his character is gone, his bottom line is even more gone, and now he doesn't even want this face?

Gu Liyan stared at that look of utter shock and continued to ask with a smile.

"What's wrong? You don't like it?"

Damn him! Of course I don't like it!

Zhou Xiaoru was already cursing in her heart at this moment!

Looking at the smile on that person's face, she felt inexplicably angry.

"What are you always smiling about! And, is your head broken? You can actually say such shameless things?! Gu Liyan, are you sure you aren't sick?"

He should hurry up and see a neurologist; judging by this guy's current symptoms, he must be in the terminal stage of his illness!

Gu Liyan was not angry, however; as if he knew she would have this reaction, he said something else that a certain Xiaoru thought was shameless beyond reason.

"Didn't you even notice that I'm using a beauty trap?"

Damn it!!

Zhou Xiaoru cursed again in her heart! She really couldn't take it anymore! She couldn't hold back!

She took a large step over and went directly in front of the man.

She looked him up and down, carefully, inside and out, over and over again!

She was just short of reaching out to verify if this guy was really the Scum Gu!

Gu Liyan looked down at the person who was examining him and asked amusedly.

"What are you looking at?" This girl is truly becoming more and more interesting.

"Gu Liyan... have you... been stimulated by something recently?"

How could he be shameless to this degree?

And not only is he not ashamed, but he takes pride in it?

Could it be that he was stimulated by something at Su Poyang's place again?!

That shouldn't be; she saw them together as a pair recently, and their relationship seemed very good!

Could it be because of the April Fool's Day proposal?

She tentatively asked again, "Did you and Su Poyang have another fight?"

Otherwise, why would he be out late at night, not only treating Jiang Bufan and the others to dinner, but also running here, sitting behind her, and listening to her and Du Feng eat spicy hot pot?

What kind of behavior is this?

It's simply perverted! The super perverted kind!

But while she was still having a series of wild thoughts in her brain, the tall man standing in front of her, upon hearing the words, 'Did you and Su Poyang have another fight?', had the cigarette in his fingertips crushed with force.

Then, a somewhat bewitching voice rang out in the dark night.

"Zhou Xiaoru?"

"Huh?" The person being called suddenly paused.

"At this moment... why aren't you dodging anymore?"

"Huh?" Zhou Xiaoru let out another "huh," unable to react for a moment to what those words meant.

But what followed next, Gu Liyan's actions directly told her what it meant to have a formidable enemy before you and not be able to lower your guard at will!

The consequence of underestimating the enemy was that she herself had been dragged onto someone's sinister boat!

The handsome Gu stepped down from the doorway's stairs in one stride and, catching the person who hadn't yet recovered her wits, grabbed her by the waist in a single embrace!

Then, with a spin, he pressed her once again against the wall to the side...

At this, both of them melted into the dark night, with only a beam of light from the hallway nearby shining on the ground...

Zhou Xiaoru was so startled by this that her heart felt like it was about to stop!

As expected, this kind of place was somewhere she shouldn't have come! Of all places, why here...

Sigh...

It was too late to regret it now...

At such a close distance, she could clearly smell the faint scent of cigarettes on him!

Her two hands on his chest hurriedly pushed at the person holding her, and she even spoke up.

"Gu! What are you trying to do again?!" Was he addicted to being handsy or something!

Gu Liyan's eyes were shining at this moment; he looked at her quietly and replied.

"You brought me to a place like this... could it be that you weren't hoping I would do something to you..."

Hearing this, Zhou Xiaoru's face burned up instantly! She was currently on the verge of cursing out loud!

"Gu Liyan!! You bastard, don't go too far!!"

I have a temper too! I am not a lamb waiting to be slaughtered!!

The man laughed amusedly, "Where am I bullying you?"

He just couldn't help but want to tease her...

Zhou Xiaoru was now so ashamed and angry that she couldn't pull away the arm wrapped around her waist no matter what.

Both ashamed and anxious, she was on the verge of crying again!

Day after day, what kind of hellish life was this!

This man was simply a devil!

Her nose suddenly stung; she looked up at him and, holding back her tears, said.

"Gu Liyan! How exactly did I offend you? Why do you always refuse to let me go? It wasn't enough that you teamed up with Su Poyang to mess with me yesterday, what kind of act are you trying to put on today..."

It was already hard enough to go to work, why was it so difficult to even resign...

Why was her life left with nothing but difficulty...

The aggrieved woman was so angry she started sobbing,

She had truly been cried to tears by this person time and time again; the experiences of these past few days were simply a capital-letter history of blood and tears!

She had to write it all down and pass it on to her descendants in the future.....