"Morning exercise." Gu Wan didn't turn around and just said that.
Only then did Gong Mohan realize that Gu Wan wasn't wearing sky-high heels, but a pair of light running shoes.
Her clothes were also sporty, and even her hair was deliberately tied up into a high braid, making her look youthful and sunny.
Gong Mohan touched his beard. He suddenly felt that Gu Wan was still young, and he seemed to be too lifeless.
It was a little boring. It seemed that fitness was necessary. No wonder he wasn't as charming as those flowers and plants outside.
There was no other way. This was probably what it was like to like someone.
He was a little self-abased. Even as excellent as Gong Mohan, he often felt that he wasn't good enough and inferior to others because he liked Gu Wan.
But there was nothing he could do about it. It didn't exist.
On the other side, Gu Wan had just gone out for a jog.
She heard her phone ring. She took it out and answered the call without seeing who it was. "Hello."
Gu Wan greeted the person on the phone out of habit. It was a professional habit left over from her time as a sex guidance counselor.
"Gu Wan, it's me." Yoon Li-chen was helpless with such an opening.
However, the person on the other side was Gu Wan. She was always more patient with the person she liked.
"It's you. What's the matter? Do you want to ask me out? Not today. "
Gu Wan rejected Yoon Li-chen first. Before she said it, she had already rejected him.
After all, Gu Wan was a woman of her word. When she forced Gong Mohan to make a choice, she had already said that either she continued to pretend to be naughty, or Gong Mohan would let Mo Xuerong leave.
Now that Mo Xuerong had left, Gu Wan would definitely keep her promise.
Anyway, Gu Wan didn't like Yoon Li-chen in the first place. She hung out with him these days just because Mo Xuerong made Gu Wan feel uncomfortable. And Gu Wan happened to provoke Gong Mohan, and Yoon Li-chen just asked her out.
Everything was so coincidental.
Coincidences might still exist now, but Gu Wan obviously didn't want to continue this coincidence.
"No, Gu Wan, I have something to ask you. Can you answer me?" Yin Li's deep tone had a rare hint of seriousness. It was unlike his usual tone, which was always filled with a smile when he spoke.
In fact, Yoon Li-chen had planned to ask Gu Wan out for a talk, but since Gu Wan said so, Yoon Li-chen had nothing to say.
"You go first." Gu Wan frowned subconsciously.
She had an intuition that the next question Yoon Li-chen might not be simple.
Therefore, Gu Wan was cautious and didn't say yes to Yoon Li-chen directly.
"Okay." Yoon Li-chen didn't dwell on whether Gu Wan had said yes or not. Anyway, whether Gu Wan had said yes or not, he would ask anyway.
"Okay." Gu Wan nodded and stopped by the roadside.
"Please, don't lie to me." Yoon Li-chen added worriedly and asked, "Is your marriage with Gong Mohan just a deal?"
"…" Hearing that, Gu Wan's beautiful eyes widened in surprise. She couldn't believe her ears.
Because Gu Wan didn't say anything, and Yoon Li-chen held his breath and waited for Gu Wan's answer, the phone suddenly became silent.
For a long time.
Then Gu Wan asked, "Who told you?"
Her voice was a little trembling. Logically speaking, not many people knew that she and Gong Mohan got married because of a deal.
How did Yoon Li-chen know something that even Gu Xiaotian didn't know?
Feng Tetsuyuki?
When this name came to Gu Wan's mind, she immediately erased it. It was impossible. Feng Tetsuyuki treated her like an elder brother.
He couldn't have done such a thing. Moreover, Gu Wan knew Feng Tetsuyuki's character very well.
Feng Tetsuyuki looked easy-going, approachable, and easy to talk to. In fact, Feng Tetsuyuki was the kind of person who was warm on the outside but cold on the inside.
He also never liked to gossip or speak ill of others.
Besides, if it was about Gu Wan, Feng Tetsuyuki wouldn't talk nonsense.
It had been so many years. If Feng Tetsuyuki really wanted to hurt Gu Wan, Gu Wan would have been dead by now.
But if it wasn't Feng Tetsuyuki, who else could it be? Gu Wan couldn't think of anyone else.
Who knew about this? It couldn't be Gong Mohan himself, could it?
Gu Wan thought he might be crazy.
How could Gong Mohan reveal his own secret?
"Yes …" Yoon Li-chen almost told Gu Wan everything. But in the end, he thought of something and didn't mention Gu Yanran.
The point was that he didn't know what Gu Yanran's name was. He only knew that she was Gu Wan's younger sister. That was all.
He didn't know anything else.
So, Yoon Li-chen changed the topic. "That's not important. Gu Wan, tell me, did you and Gong Mohan get together because of the deal?"
Yoon Li-chen swallowed silently. It seemed that the answer was very important to Yoon Li-chen.
"Yin Lichen, have you heard that something happened to me back then? Gong Mohan and I had reached an agreement, but …"
Gu Wan obviously didn't want to lie to Yoon Li-chen. After all, Gu Wan had always been honest with her friends.
However, she was afraid that Yoon Li-chen would misunderstand if she admitted it directly. So, Gu Wan wanted to tell Yoon Li-chen as much as possible in detail without touching her and Gong Mohan's privacy.
However …/p
What Yoon Li-chen wanted to know was obviously not the details of "because", "therefore", "although", "but" and so on. He just wanted to know whether it was "yes" or "no".
So, when Yoon Li-chen heard Gu Wan said "reached an agreement", he couldn't hold back.
Sure enough … Gu Yanran didn't lie to him. When he accidentally got the news from Gu Yanran, he couldn't believe it.
After all, it was a huge secret. How could he, Yin Lichen, know about it so easily?
But Yoon Li-chen still had some hope.
After all, if Gu Wan and Yoon Li-chen got together because of the deal, it meant that Yoon Li-chen still had a chance.
Just because of this, Yoon Li-chen chose to ask Gu Wan herself today to confirm the news.
"Well, Gu Wan, since you and Gong Mohan got together because of the deal, can you give me a chance to compete fairly?"
Yoon Li-chen said what he had been thinking all day after he got the news.
"What?"
Gu Wan was a little confused. Obviously, she didn't understand what Yoon Li-chen said.
Although Gu Wan knew that Yoon Li-chen probably liked her, she used Yoon Li-chen to provoke Gong Mohan recently, so Gu Wan definitely felt guilty.
But Gu Wan also knew that Yoon Li-chen didn't like her that much. It was just a good impression at most.
Gu Wan really didn't expect that Yoon Li-chen would say such a thing. She was a little surprised and asked subconsciously, "What?"
Gu Wan's "what" was similar to Gong Mohan's "what".
Usually, when Gong Mohan asked "what", he wanted to see if the other person had the courage to say it again.
When Gu Wan said something to Yoon Li-chen, she hoped that Yoon Li-chen would say "Nothing".
It wasn't that they didn't hear it clearly, but they just wanted to get some feedback from each other.
Unexpectedly, after hearing Gu Wan's words, Yoon Li-chen covered his face with his hand and coughed slightly. "Ahem."
Gu Wan frowned, waiting for Yoon Li-chen's answer.
"I mean, Gu Wan, can you give me a chance to love you?"
This time, Yoon Li-chen's words were rarely straightforward. It was probably because he couldn't see Gu Wan's face on the phone. Without the pressure of face-to-face, he became a little bolder.
"…" Gu Wan once again felt the pressure from Yoon Li-chen. Gu Wan didn't expect that Yoon Li-chen would suddenly say the word "love". It was a little heavy.
It was also a little strange. In Gu Wan's mind, it seemed that no one had ever said the word "love" to her.
Whether it was Gong Mingrui, who had been with her since they were young, or Gong Mohan, who later got together because of interests, needs, or helplessness, or Yoon Li-chen, who had no place to put his heart …
None of them had ever said the word "love" to Gu Wan. Gu Wan seemed to be casual, but in fact, she was a very traditional and realistic person.
She was different from other women. Gu Wan didn't believe in love casually.
But Yoon Li-chen didn't say it at the beginning. Now he suddenly said the word "love" to Gu Wan, which made Gu Wan feel a little abrupt.
Gu Wan suddenly had a feeling of confusion. She looked at the vast world and didn't know where she was. She even didn't know who she was.
Because of Yoon Li-chen's words, Gu Wan fell into an inexplicable panic.
Maybe it was because Gu Wan lacked love. However, when someone suddenly appeared and told Gu Wan "I love you", it made Gu Wan want to turn around and run away.
Gu Wan didn't know what was going on in her mind and what was the reason.
"What's wrong?" Yoon Li-chen didn't hear Gu Wan's voice from the other end of the phone. He seemed to feel something was wrong and hurriedly asked Gu Wan what was wrong.
However, this sentence was like a stone falling into the water and couldn't be found anymore. There was no response.
Gu Wan looked around. When she ran in the morning, she didn't look at the route and just ran casually.
Later, she received a call from Yoon Li-chen and was distracted again. So now Gu Wan didn't know where she was at all.
The neighborhood near Gong Mohan's villa was not familiar to Gu Wan.
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