The two of them sat quietly on the sofa in the living room.
The sky outside the floor-to-ceiling window was getting darker and darker, and the wind was getting louder and louder. The withered leaves fell to the ground, and then were blown away by the wind, dancing in the air. It was just like his emotions, up and down.
It wasn't that Huo Shaoheng wasn't worried.
The estate dispute, which he thought was a sure win, suddenly had a twist. It seemed like Gu Yanran still had a lot of cards up her sleeve. He didn't know if Nianzhi could handle it.
He looked down and wanted to say something, but Gu Nianzhi had already fallen asleep in his arms.
Her breathing was calm and light, and her long eyelashes didn't move, covering the dark circles under her eyes.
Huo Shaoheng carefully studied her sleeping face and discovered that she must have been very tired recently. Her face was so pale it was almost translucent, and the color of her cheeks was very, very light, like a touch of cherry blossoms in April.
Her lips were very healthy, but upon closer inspection, she must have applied lipstick.
Huo Shaoheng frowned and picked up a tissue from the coffee table. He wiped her lips very gently to remove the lipstick.
There were only a few coral red marks left on the tissue.
Then, he held her neck with one hand and wrapped the other around her knees, lifting her up horizontally.
Opening the bedroom door, he saw that the bed had been changed.
Huo Shaoheng's mind flashed back to the day when the two of them had fought on the bed and actually collapsed the bed. He couldn't help but smile.
He placed Gu Nianzhi on the bed and covered her with a thin blanket. Huo Shaoheng also lifted the blanket and sat down.
He didn't sleep. Instead, he sat on the bed and took out his phone to check work emails and the progress of all parties at the same time.
Time passed, and the bedroom was very quiet.
The windows were very soundproof, and the thick gold velvet curtains had a insulation layer to block out light and completely cover the large window that was half the height of the wall.
…
Gu Nianzhi hadn't had such a relaxing sleep in a long time.
It seemed like ever since returning from Germany, her sleep had been terrible.
Therefore, she adjusted her schedule and was used to staying up late at night to write papers and do homework. She tried to find time to sleep during the day.
However, she sometimes had classes and other things to do during the day, so she couldn't sleep as well as she could at night.
As time went on, her fatigue began to show.
However, she was not in a hurry. She knew that her experience in Germany had caused a relapse of the trauma that had yet to recover from many years ago. She slowly adjusted her mentality and increased her ability to withstand pressure.
This time, she didn't have Huo Shaoheng to soothe her sensitive and fragile nerves, so she could only reduce her anxiety and uneasiness by sleeping less.
Although her method was stupid, it still worked. She could feel that she had gradually broken away from the panic and uneasiness she felt every day when she closed her eyes. She felt more and more sleepy, unlike when she first came back, when she could open her eyes all night and be in a strange state of excitement.
Today's sleep was the most solid and deep one she had ever had since she came back.
She opened her eyes and vaguely saw a tall figure sitting next to her. She didn't feel flustered. She stuck out her tongue and licked her dry lips. "En."
Huo Shaoheng looked at her. "You're awake?" He pulled up the blanket for her and patted her back. Then, he continued to look at his phone, using only one hand to tap lightly on it.
Gu Nianzhi actually hadn't woken up yet. She instinctively looked at Huo Shaoheng and subconsciously felt that he was the only person who could help her sleep peacefully.
Although Huo Shaoheng was looking at his phone, he was constantly looking at Gu Nianzhi from the corner of his eye.
He couldn't concentrate at all when she stared at him like that.
Huo Shaoheng finally sighed and put the phone down. He lifted her up from the blanket and laid her on his lap. He lowered his head and began kissing her lips. At the same time, he reached his hand under her clothes.
Gu Nianzhi gradually woke up and also felt Huo Shaoheng's increasingly passionate kiss. She didn't resist, but she wondered why men had to touch when they kissed …
Had he touched her when he kissed her before?
She tried her best to recall but couldn't remember anything. She only remembered that when he kissed her, she was so dizzy that she couldn't even remember her last name. Her mind was like a pile of paste, and she couldn't remember anything. She had no impression of what he had done.
But now that he was kissing her, she could still distract herself from thinking about his actions while she was intoxicated …
This was progress, right?
Huo Shaoheng sensed that Gu Nianzhi wasn't paying attention, so he squeezed her hard before letting her go.
When he moved his lips away, Gu Nianzhi was already panting.
"… If you don't pay attention, I'm going to punish you." Huo Shaoheng lowered his head to touch her forehead. "How long has it been since you last slept?"
"I have slept …" Gu Nianzhi laughed. Her little mouth seemed to be smeared with honey to trick Huo Shaoheng. "But I sleep especially well next to you. Huo Shao, you're like my sleeping pills. Just a small amount is enough. If you take too much, you'll get into trouble. Just take it occasionally. "
Huo Shaoheng tapped her lips with his finger. "You've grown up. You know how to use flowery words to trick me."
"When did I?" Gu Nianzhi wrinkled her nose. The tip of her nose touched Huo Shaoheng's finger. It was warm and smooth.
"Not yet?" Huo Shaoheng symbolically patted her butt a few times. "You said I'm your sleeping pill. Are you complimenting me or insulting me?"
"How would I dare to insult you?" Gu Nianzhi pushed Huo Shaoheng away and got off the bed. "You're the boss. I can't wait to serve you."
"Really? Then are you going to serve me today? " Huo Shaoheng was a bit reluctant to part with the warmth between them. He reached out and pulled her back to lie on the blanket.
His fingers were already circling her waist.
Gu Nianzhi looked at his gradually darkening eyes and looked away uncomfortably. She wanted to resist, but her whole body was very stiff. She didn't know how to respond.
Huo Shaoheng looked at her for a while and withdrew his hand. He didn't continue. He kissed the side of her face. "I was just teasing you. Look at how scared you are."
Gu Nianzhi snorted. She definitely wouldn't admit that she was relieved. She still stubbornly said, "Scared? Ha, come on. Who's afraid of who?! "
"Really?" Huo Shaoheng immediately pressed her down on the bed.
Gu Nianzhi immediately admitted defeat. She desperately turned her head away and refused to let him kiss her again. She kept begging for mercy. "Fine, fine, fine! I'm afraid of you. I'm afraid of you, okay? "
"Don't say this kind of thing to men in the future." Huo Shaoheng pulled her up from the bed. "You only have this little guts, and you still want to provoke me. You're lucky you met me. If it were any other man, they would have eaten you up."
Gu Nianzhi was rebellious. She habitually wanted to say, "Eat me up …"
But as soon as the word "you" came out, she knew it was inappropriate. She finally stopped in time before the word "eat" left her mouth.
Huo Shaoheng looked at her with a smile. He moved closer and lowered his voice. "You what? Why did you stop? "
"You're a good person. You're such a good person. How could you bear to eat me up? Isn't that right, Major General Huo? "She reached out to hug Huo Shaoheng's neck. Her voice involuntarily became a little delicate.
Her bright eyes were like autumn water. She was like a fairy that could suck people's souls.
Huo Shaoheng's heart was racing. He thought that the little fairy was growing into a big fairy. It was indeed getting harder to fool …
When he wanted to do something, Gu Nianzhi quickly pushed him away and got up to wash up in the bathroom.
When she came out, Huo Shaoheng had already calmed down. He stood in front of the large mirror and adjusted the buttons on his military uniform. He asked her without looking back, "I'll take you back to school?"
"I rode my bike here. I can go back myself." Gu Nianzhi refused without thinking. "Wait for me to leave before you leave."
Since she wanted to avoid arousing suspicion, she should avoid it completely.
Huo Shaoheng nodded and didn't say anything else.
As long as she didn't resist him, it was a good start.
Like a good hunter, he had enough patience to wait for his prey to fall into his arms again.
…
Gu Nianzhi rode her bike alone and left the house in the Hepingli District.
When she returned to the dormitory, she raised her wrist to look at her watch. It was already past four in the afternoon. It would be dinner in an hour.
She parked her bike in the shed in front of the building and returned to her dormitory.
That night, after she finished her homework, she began to reorganize her court defense strategy.
It was indeed as Huo Shaoheng had said. Gu Yanran suddenly acted like she was enlightened this time. She must have had an expert behind her.
However, unlike Huo Shaoheng, Gu Nianzhi didn't want to know who this "expert" was at all.
She didn't care who he was. She would beat him up without hesitation.
She hated people who hid behind people's backs and played dirty tricks.
If they had the ability, then they could come out and fight with her openly. If they had the ability, then they could directly become Gu Yanran's defense lawyer. Let's see how she would beat them up in court!
They only dared to hide behind people's backs and let the brainless Gu Yanran fight for them. If they had the ability, would they really do such a thing?
Wouldn't that be degrading?
Gu Nianzhi looked down on her enemy strategically. Then she would have to pay attention to her enemy tactically.
She carefully recalled everything Huo Shaoheng had said about Gu Yanran and Ye Xuan. She also took out the inventory of the Gu assets that Ye Xuan had given her and studied it carefully. She wondered how Gu Yanran would make an issue out of it.
Also, why would Gu Yanran reveal Gu Xiangwen's lawyer's address in public? What was she trying to achieve?
Was the lawyer's address real or fake?
Was it to trick Ye Xuan, or was it to lure the tiger away from the mountain?
However, no matter how she considered it, Gu Nianzhi felt that Gu Yanran and the "expert" behind her were overthinking.
Ye Xuan had never thought about appearing in court to be Gu Nianzhi's witness. Gu Nianzhi had never thought about Ye Xuan appearing in court to be her witness.
The two of them had met because of Gu Xiangwen, but they didn't know each other well.
Ye Xuan handing over the inventory of the Gu assets was already a betrayal to Gu Yanran. Why would he appear in court to be a witness?
As for Gu Nianzhi, even if Ye Xuan volunteered to be a witness, she wouldn't consider it.
In short, in court, if one couldn't find a witness they could trust, then they would rather have no witness.
That was because the lethality of a witness suddenly betraying her was too great. Gu Nianzhi didn't want to bear the consequences.
She wrote down her thoughts one by one and saved them in an encrypted folder on her computer. Then she sent an email to the court that was handling her case and asked when the next hearing would be.
Her intuition told her that this matter couldn't be dragged on for too long. Otherwise, Gu Yanran would continue to play dirty tricks and gradually destroy the evidence.
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