Chapter 58: The One You Begged Me to Accompany You

Seeing Shen Yanhui about to kiss her again, Gu Yan shrank back in fright, her hands pressed against his chest: "Shen Yanhui!"

Her voice was panicked and off-key.

Shen Yanhui's movements paused; looking at her reddened ear tips, he let out a low laugh.

Gu Yan was stunned for two seconds before realizing she had been teased.

She was so angry she wanted to jump off the table, but Shen Yanhui wrapped an arm around her waist and gently carried her down.

Gu Yan glared at him, "You're wicked, scaring me on purpose."

Shen Yanhui chuckled softly and placed her on the office chair: "Will you join me for lunch in a while?"

Gu Yan: "No."

"Really not?"

Gu Yan hummed, acting haughty: "Then beg me."

Shen Yanhui followed her lead, "I beg you, would Mrs. Shen do me the honor?"

Gu Yan's eyelashes trembled, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl up, but she forced them back down: "Then I suppose I'll reluctantly agree."

"Many thanks, Mrs. Shen."

Shen Yanhui glanced at his wristwatch: "I'll need about another hour, want to go to the lounge and sleep for a bit?"

Gu Yan shook her head; she hadn't been up for long.

"No." She got up and trotted over to the sofa by the bed, "I'll be fine right here."

She took out her phone again and waved it at him: "You busy yourself, don't mind me."

Shen Yanhui watched her for a few seconds before walking back behind his desk.

The office grew quiet, with only the sound of him flipping through documents. Gu Yan curled up on the sofa, scrolling through her phone for half an hour, feeling a bit bored, and looked up at him again.

Even the sunlight favored him, illuminating his profile and making him look even more handsome.

She quietly raised her phone and took a picture.

She was staring at the photo, lost in thought, when a message from Lin Wei popped up: 【Miss Gu, where did you run off to? I traveled thousands of miles into the mountains to find you, and you give me the cold shoulder?】

Gu Yan was stunned for a moment and replied: 【Why didn't you say so in advance? I'm not even in the country.】

Lin Wei: 【Not in the country??? Where did you run off to have fun this time?】

Gu Yan turned her head, took a photo of the skyline, and sent it over.

【I'm in Lagos.】

A few seconds later, Lin Wei called her directly.

"Africa? Are you and Mr. Shen in Africa for your honeymoon?" Her voice was full of disbelief.

The words "honeymoon" made Gu Yan pause.

Oh, right...

She hadn't had her honeymoon yet.

After the art exhibition ended, she would have to pick a good place.

"No, Shen Yanhui is on a business trip." She glanced toward the desk and lowered her voice.

"Tsk tsk tsk, he even brings you along on a business trip; are you two conjoined twins?"

Gu Yan admitted she had thought something dirty, her ears heating up, "……Mind your own business."

After saying that, she quickly changed the subject: "What's wrong? You came looking for me so suddenly, is something the matter?"

Lin Wei: "Is that any way to talk? Can't it be that I missed you?"

Gu Yan didn't take the bait: "You were acting strange last time, hurry up and confess."

Lin Wei: "……"

She stammered: "It's nothing really... it's just that I accidentally slept with a younger guy."

Gu Yan: "???"

"Is he an adult?"

Lin Wei gritted her teeth: "Gu Yan! I'm not that criminal!"

Gu Yan: "Oh."

The voice of Lin Wei giving up on herself came from the other end of the phone: "He's an adult! He really is! A junior in college, a sports major!"

"……And then? Do you want to love him and leave him?"

Lin Wei was silent for a few seconds.

"……You actually want to?!"

"He's too clingy……" Lin Wei's voice sounded weak, "He sends eight hundred messages a day, greets me morning, noon, and night, and wants to video call at night... I can't take it, Gu Yan!"

Gu Yan couldn't help but laugh and cry: "Then why didn't you think it through before you slept with him?"

Suddenly, a gaze swept over.

Although Shen Yanhui was working, he had kept a portion of his attention on the young woman the whole time.

Listening to her on the phone, the conversation was getting more and more outrageous.

Sleeping with someone, loving and leaving them—it was all coming out.

What kind of messy topics were they even discussing?

Gu Yan sensed the dangerous gaze, looked up, and found Shen Yanhui watching her.

She pointed at her phone, mouthed "Lin Wei," and lowered her head again, focusing on the call.

"How was I supposed to know that today's younger guys are so pure!" Lin Wei wailed, "He's a first-timer!"

"……You're really something."

Lin Wei sighed: "Stop scolding me, I've already hidden in the mountains, what do you suggest I do?"

"What else can you do? Either explain things clearly to him and part on good terms, or... you could just give in."

"Give in, my foot!" Lin Wei's voice was trembling. "He's only twenty-one! I'm three years older than him!"

"A woman three years older is like holding a golden brick."

"……Gu Yan!"

Gu Yan covered her ears and held the phone a little further away.

"Forget it, I should have known you wouldn't give any good advice." Lin Wei said in a muffled voice, "I'll stay at Xu Yuan's place for now and hide out for a while."

"That's scummy behavior, not recommended." Gu Yan tried to wake her up to reality.

Lin Wei was unmoved, and instead said, "There are still two paintings left for the exhibition, don't you go forgetting about that."

Gu Yan: "Hanging up."

Heartless. She was clearly reminding the other party not to be a deserter, yet she used the paintings to shut her up; she didn't appreciate her good intentions at all.

She was cursing Lin Wei in her heart when Shen Yanhui's voice suddenly sounded above her head: "Who are you planning to love and leave?"

Gu Yan was startled, "Why do you walk without making a sound?"

Shen Yanhui pulled her up, circled her in his arms, and asked again: "Who are you planning to love and leave?"

Gu Yan glared at him: "I'm not, it's Lin Wei, okay!"

Shen Yanhui lowered his head and bit her lip, "You'd better not be."

After biting her, he pecked her lips lightly and continued: "Don't learn those bad habits from your friend."

Gu Yan finally understood.

Big Boss Shen, is he feeling insecure?

She pursed her lips and smiled, feeling a secret thrill in her heart. She finally understood why, in those novels, the domineering CEO likes to see the heroine get jealous.

So, seeing someone who usually remains calm even if a mountain collapses before them reveal a trace of uncertainty for you, feels like this.

It really left her with an endless aftertaste.

She deliberately didn't answer immediately, and asked him back: "Shen Yanhui, don't tell me... you're worried about me being snatched away by someone else?"

Shen Yanhui's eyes deepened; he neither admitted nor denied it.

But this silence was, in itself, the answer.

The secret thrill in Gu Yan's heart swelled into blatant smugness.

She stood on tiptoe, but still felt he was too tall, so she reached out and tugged at his tie to make him lower his head.

"Then let me tell you, if you don't want me to be snatched away by someone else, you have to work twice as hard and treat me better than anyone else does~"