Chapter 14 His Arrival

Recently, it seldom snowed in Wu city but rained a lot. I put my phone by my ear and heard Gu Tingchen gently complaining, "it just rained heavily, and I’m all wet. Aren't you going to let me in?"

After listening carefully, I found a trace of imperceptible grievance in his tone.

I stopped looking at him and asked, "what are you doing here?"

"Shi Sheng, didn't you remember that I'm your boyfriend now?"

It turns out that he still remembered this.

"I thought you regretted." I said. "Because I didn’t contact you these days?"

I made a sound of "hmm" with grievance in my voice.

"Silly girl, didn’t I tell you that I had to deal with the affairs in the company? In the next two months, if there's nothing important in the company, I'll be with you." Gu Tingchen paused, and then said, "even if there is, I will take you with me."

His words almost melted my heart. He even intimately called me silly girl. I always thought that he had regarded me only as a woman who slept with him.

Silly girl……… Speaking of age, I was eight years younger than Gu Tingchen.

I was just about to be 23 years old, but he was already 31 years old.

When I married him, I was only twenty years old. Ji Nuan used to say that he had gotten a great bargain.

"Hmm?"

Perhaps because I had been silent for too long, Gu Tingchen made a sound.

I called him, "Gu Tingchen."

"Yeah?"

"I’ll open the gate for you."

Hanging up, I left the French window and hid the painkillers I kept in the bedroom. Then, I sat in front of the dressing table and put on a delicate makeup, covering up the scars from my falling onto the ground.

Sometimes, I had scratched the scars hard with my fingernails. I was angry at those times, and wanted to remind myself that the scars were the injury he had left on me. Thinking over, I felt that I should not have reminded me at the cost of hurting myself.

I stood up with a sigh, and went downstairs to open the gate.

I opened the gate and stood by it. Gu Tingchen intimately flicked my forehead with his fingers. I was surprised. He smiled lightly and asked: "what took you so long? Are you trying to freeze me into an ice sculpture?"

I lied, "I just went to the bathroom."

Gu Tingchen took a look at me and asked, "have you just put on makeup?"

I subconsciously denied, "no."

He continued to ask: "is this makeup specially for me?"

I was speechless, and answered after a long time: "No."

He took off his coat that had been half wet, and then smiled in a low voice: "As I was downstairs, I saw that you were not wearing lipstick and your face was so pale. But it looks much ruddier now."

As a last resort, I made an excuse, "I'm used to wearing makeup before meeting people."

Gu Tingchen believed it. Then he touched my head, bypassed me into the living room and said, "I have seen you wear makeup every time since I know you. It feels like I have never seen your plain face."

I raised my hand to rubbed my head, and followed him, explaining gently: "I inherited the assets of my family just when I was 14 years old, and became am the chairwoman as well as president, I was too young by then, so I had to wear makeup as a disguise. Until now, I would feel a little uninhabited without a makeup."

Gu Tingchen stopped walking to the couch, and then asked, "you inherited Shi family since 14 years old?"

During the three years of marriage, Gu Tingchen had never tried to know about me. I was not disappointed that he didn’t know about this, and I explained blandly: when I was 14 years old, my parents died in an air crash. My family had no relatives, and the company relied on me. So, I had to quit school to become the president of the company."

Gu Tingchen stood still, and asked after a long time, "what about afterwards? Have you continued to study? "

"No. At first, I didn't know much about business, so I concentrated on learning from the senior employees how to do business, how to be a leader, and how to lead the company to a better future, then I married you at the age of 20. How did I have time to go back to school to continue my studies?" I said with self-mockery: "people in city do not know that the president of Shi family is only a junior high school graduate."

Hearing me, Gu Tingchen suddenly said, "I always thought you were a mature woman when I saw your temperament and makeup, but in fact you were only 20 years old when we married. Now, you are just 23 year old. Girls of this age should be as lively and cheerful, and all they want every day should be expensive cosmetics, beautiful clothes and idols."

I reminded him with a smile, "Gu Sisi is three years older than me."

Gu Tingchen was in a daze: "yes, you're even younger than her."

I was younger than Gu Sisi, and seven years younger than Wen Ruyan.

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Gu Tingchen did not leave on that day, but watched movies in the living room, and I sat next to him quietly playing with my phone. Sometimes, he would ask me some questions, which were about my daily life. At this moment, he casually asked me, "have you ever had a boyfriend before?"

I said honestly, "No."

"Then is there a boy that you have liked before?"

I directly thought of the version of him I met while I was 14.

Did he know that I was the little girl who used to follow him?

He called me little girl that night. Had he recognized me at that time, or had he just been calling me casually?

He had really been incredibly gentle at that night.

Thinking of that night, I smiled gently and said, "well, there is."

Gu Tingchen squinted and asked, "do I know him?"

He suddenly reached out and hugged me into his arms. I was a little unaccustomed. He forcefully pressed me on his chest, and his lips closed to me. His light breath fell on my face.

I had never been so affectionately hugged by him, and couldn't get used to it in a moment.

He gently rub my cheek with his lips: "do I know him? Hmm?"

His question told me that he had not recognized me as the little girl from that year.

Because at that night that year, he had asked me, "little girl, why are you following me all the time?"

I answered him nervously and timidly, "because. I like you."

"Little girl, you're still too young to know what it means to like someone."

I ask him with expectations, "can you wait for me till I grow up?"

He smiled, and didn’t refuse or agree. But after that night, I could not find him again. The students in the next class told me that he was just a volunteer who was teaching just for a few months.

And that night was the last night he stayed in the school.

I happened to have told him that I liked him.

Had I not known about his leaving, I would have thought that he was hiding from me.

But in his eyes, I was just an ordinary student.

There was no need for him to hide from me at all.

Upon the thought that Gu Tingchen did not know that I was the little girl from that year, I felt bitter. I felt that I had been too affectionate as I heard him playing "The street where the wind resides" in the music hall and heard him calling me little girl in the street.

But his image at that night had been exactly the same as the image in my memory.

My eyes turned red and moist, and I lied with self-mockery: "you don't know him. He was a man I liked while I was young. At that time, I was so young that he didn't believe me even when I said I liked him."

Gu Tingchen's kiss suddenly fell on my lips, and his palm reached into my dress. I gently responded to him. I had forgotten about the second condition. However, he stopped at a critical moment to hug me in my arms, and then he breathed gently.

"How about now? Am I the one you love?"