Su Huai hurriedly turned her head aside, widened her eyes, and looked at him with vigilance, "What do you want?"
"You tell me." Gu Beixian pinched her delicate chin casually, saying nonchalantly, "Certainly not to discuss advanced calculus problems with you."
Su Huai's finger pressed against his chin, preventing him from approaching her mouth, and said earnestly, "You mentioned divorce before."
"Today at the hospital, you said you wouldn't divorce."
"I said that to deliberately anger Chu Suosuo."
His deep and dark eyes gazed at her seriously, "I took it seriously."
Su Huai lowered her eyelashes, "I don't want to do that with you right now."
Gu Beixian raised an eyebrow slightly, "Who was seducing me just now?"
"I didn't. It was, I..." Su Huai suddenly didn't know how to express herself.
In her anxious state, her face turned red again.
Not just her face, but her neck and wrists were also tinged with a shallow layer of pink, like bright begonias falling on white snow.
Elegant with a blend of charm, pure yet tempting, it was irresistible.
Gu Beixian pressed her lips, not allowing her to speak again. He used his thumb to gently rub her soft lips, "You are quite enticing now."
Enticing?
Su Huai was taken aback for a moment, not expecting to match up with such a seductive word.
She took a step back, her watery eyes looking at him, "Can you leave first?"
Gu Beixian flicked away her hanging strands of hair with his fingers, tucked them behind her ears, and said gently, "Let's leave together."
Without waiting for Su Huai's answer, he bent down, lifted her wet from the water, turned on the shower to rinse off the foam on her body, wrapped her in a large bath towel, and carried her into the bedroom like holding a child.
Placing her on the bed, he carefully moved her injured hand to the top.
He leaned over, lightly biting her chin, and started kissing along her collarbone, very delicately.
Su Huai couldn't resist his teasing physically, but mentally, she resisted.
She used her uninjured hand to push him away.
But his strength was too great. Her limited strength couldn't resist him, instead adding to his interest...
Later on.
Su Huai breathed in small gasps and said, "Aren't you into debauchery? Why did you touch someone like me?"
Gu Beixian didn't know what she was being awkward about, pinched her waist, and casually said, "You were quite wild just now, I liked it a lot." His tone carried a hint of sensuality.
Su Huai didn't believe men's flirtatious words in bed.
She raised her head, looking at his beautiful jawline, thinking, "Men are indeed a mysterious species; they can love one person without hindrance from sleeping with another."
Women couldn't do that. If the heart doesn't love, the body cannot accept.
Gu Beixian's hand slid down her back, holding her waist, rubbing his chin against her hair, and said, "My mom's birthday is at the end of the month. You haven't been working lately, come and join the celebration in the evening. It'll be lively, and you're too quiet."
Innocent words, but suggestive.
A ripple stirred in Su Huai's heart. She asked, "Too quiet, does that mean I'm boring?"
Gu Beixian thought for a moment, "No, you're interesting. The seduction just now, I can laugh about it for a year."
"I'll hit you." Su Huai lightly pounded his chest.
Gu Beixian smiled, holding her hand, "What I mean is, you're so young, you should be full of vitality, being too repressed is not good for your body and mind."
"Okay, I'll go buy a birthday gift for my mom tomorrow. What would be a good choice?"
"Anything, get her a bag, she likes bags."
"Okay."
The two lay quietly for more than ten minutes.
Gu Beixian picked up her injured hand and examined it carefully, asking, "Did you touch your hand just now?"
"No."
"How about your legs, do they ache?"
Su Huai moved her legs and said, "A little."
"I'll massage them for you."
He lifted the blanket, took one of her legs, and gently massaged it, moving from the calf to the thigh with skillful fingers.
Su Huai was extremely sensitive to his touch. After just a few strokes, her face turned red, heartbeat quickened, and her body gradually warmed up.
She and he registered their marriage at first sight. In the initial two years, his legs couldn't stand, and his temper was quite volatile.
Despite a handsome face, he remained gloomy most of the time, making it challenging to cultivate affection. During that period, her predominant thoughts were of repaying him.
True love blossomed in the past year for her, still in the stage of passionate romance. Unfortunately, his abrupt "separation" forcefully severed that connection.
She felt a bit sorrowful, and tears unconsciously veiled her eyes.
Gu Beixian, unaware of her feelings, looked at her damp eyes, recalling her serious attempt to flirt with him earlier. His interest sparked again as he said, "Negatives make positives. If your legs are sore, another round will ease the discomfort."
Su Huai always found his reasoning quite twisted.
However, he didn't give her time for careful consideration; he pressed on...
The phone suddenly rang.
However, at times like these, men were not in the mood to answer calls.
With one hand holding Su Huai's soft waist, the other reached the bedside table, casually swiping the phone screen to silence the ringing.
He thought he had ended the call, but he unintentionally answered it.
On the other end of the phone, Chu Suosuo listened intently, hearing faint, charming cries.
The voice was so alluring that it sent shivers down one's spine.
A sense of obstruction built up inside her, akin to being forcefully stabbed by a cactus, causing a stinging pain.
She gritted her teeth and listened for a while, hung up in frustration, threw the phone on the sofa, and angrily said to Hua Qirou, "Mom, I want to kill Su Huai."
Hua Qirou stared at her left hand in a cast, then touched her own nose, saying with resentment, "I want to kill her too."
"Has that person called Huang Que provided any information?"
"Found out. She was sold to a remote mountainous area in the northwest. It's a poverty-stricken place with harsh conditions, no phone signal, and no electricity. She'll be forced to bear many children. If she tries to escape, her legs will be broken, and she'll be tortured insane. She won't be able to leave that place in her entire life."
Chu Suosuo nodded, a hint of gloom in her eyes. "I want to sell Su Huai to that place too. Can you contact that human trafficker?"
Hua Qirou suddenly became agitated, "No! You mustn't act recklessly!"
Chu Suosuo clenched her teeth, "But I saw her being intimate with Beixian ge, and it irritates me!"
"That girl surnamed Su, once her hand was injured, two days later, your hand was smashed into a comminuted fracture. The man who smashed your hand explicitly warned you not to mess with Su Huai, or your fate will be even worse than hers. Before catching that man, don't touch Su Huai. Remember?"
Chu Suosuo impatiently furrowed her brow, "Who is that man after all? It's been so many days, why hasn't he been caught?"
"That man is very cunning. The police sent out a squad, searched for over ten days, but couldn't find him. There's only a blurry photo of his back; they can't even issue a wanted order. Your dad and your brother also sent people to look for him, but there's been no result."
Chu Suosuo rubbed her throbbing temples, impatiently saying, "Have they checked Su Huai's call records?"
"Checked. There are few people in her call records, and no suspicious individuals were found. Judging by Su Huai's appearance, she probably doesn't even know who he is."
Chu Suosuo sneered, "According to you, is that man silently guarding her from behind?"
"Most likely. No idea what he's after." Hua Qirou disdainfully pursed her lips.
Chu Suosuo scoffed, "A rural bumpkin like him has a surprisingly loyal lapdog. Is the man blind? What does he see in Su Huai besides an average face and the ability to restore ancient paintings? She's nothing but a wooden block."
The girl she described as a wooden block, Su Huai, had been thoroughly tossed around by Gu Beixian tonight.
Tired and boneless, she lay in his arms, soon drifting into a deep sleep.
Gu Beixian got up and took a shower.
Returning, he lay beside her, his palm supporting his chin, gazing at her peacefully delicate face for a while.
He lowered his head, gently kissed her forehead, and whispered, "If you call me Ah Yao ge in your dreams again tonight, I'll truly get angry."