Ye Qichen felt the softness and heat covering his lips, and his mind instantly exploded!
He quickly held Gu Yan's shoulders and pushed her away, "Gu Yan, do you know what you're doing?"
Gu Yan looked at him with hazy eyes, "I know! I just like you, and I don't regret it!"
Ye Qichen looked at her, and the last shred of self-control in his mind instantly disintegrated. He didn't know who made the first move, but things spiraled out of control…
—
Gu En was in his room, unusually quiet as he sat down to do his homework. The screen of his phone, placed beside him, kept lighting up, indicating new WeChat messages.
He didn't need to open it to know who it was from.
Because he currently only had three people on WeChat: his mother, Uncle Ye, and Duoduo.
After finishing the last math problem, whether it was correct or not, he didn't know, but he had finished it. He then leisurely picked up his phone and opened WeChat.
Duoduo: [What's the situation now?]
Duoduo: [Did my uncle leave?] Da Feng Novel Network
Duoduo: [Gu En, where are you?]
Duoduo: [Where are you?]
Duoduo: [Meow meow?]
Duoduo: [If you don't reply, I'm going to call the police!]
Duoduo: [Wuwu, are you there? If you are, make a sound~]
Gu En: [Squeak.]
As soon as Gu En replied, Duoduo's video call immediately came through.
"What are you doing?" As soon as the video was connected, Duoduo's delicate face filled the screen. Fortunately, she was good-looking, otherwise, it would have been a bit scary.
"I'm doing homework in my room," Gu En replied truthfully.
"Didn't I ask you to keep an eye on those two? Why are you back in your room doing homework? What's the situation outside now?" Duoduo asked anxiously.
Gu En listened carefully. Although the house was old, the soundproofing was decent. "I don't hear anything."
Duoduo became even more anxious, "Then sneak out and take a look?"
Gu En didn't understand why she was so agitated, but he did as she said. He stood up, opened the door, and glanced outside. He didn't see anyone in the living room. He heard the sound of water from the bathroom, so his mother was probably taking a shower.
Without thinking further, he closed the door. "Your uncle has already left."
Duoduo finally breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this. "It's good that he left."
She hoped Aunt Gu wouldn't be too upset tonight. Uncle had only taken a sip of the milk tea, so there probably wouldn't be a big reaction. Tonight was a safe Christmas Eve.
…
The next morning.
Gu Yan was woken up by her alarm. As soon as she moved, her whole body ached as if she had been run over by a truck.
She reached out to touch the spot beside her. The space was already cold. The man was long gone from the room, as if he had never been there.
If it weren't for the soreness all over her body and the messy bedding proving what happened last night, she would have suspected she had just had a steamy dream.
She sat up, and the blanket slid down, revealing her bare body. Thinking about what happened last night, her heart couldn't help but race.
Last night, she had taken advantage of the drug's effects and couldn't help but confess her feelings to Ye Qichen again.
The thought of their intimate contact made her so shy that she couldn't help but bite the corner of the blanket. Ye Qichen was willing to touch her, which meant he hadn't rejected her this time?
The thought of this possibility made the little deer in Gu Yan's heart start to flutter. She even couldn't help but fantasize about their life together afterward.
It wasn't until the turned-off alarm rang again that she suddenly came to her senses. Enduring the soreness all over her body, she got up, got dressed, went to buy groceries to make breakfast for her son and lunch for both of them, and bought emergency contraception at a pharmacy along the way.
On the subway to work, Gu Yan opened the project proposal left by Ye Qichen.
It was less of a project proposal and more of a partnership agreement.
Ye Qichen would invest, and she would open an accounting firm. They would split it 70-30, with Ye Qichen taking 70% and her taking 30%.
The profit-sharing ratio made her have to admire Ye Qichen's thoughtfulness and understanding of her.
She wasn't investing any money, so whether it was 50-50 or 40-60, she would have felt embarrassed to accept. The 30-70 split was a well-balanced measure that made her heart flutter.
An accounting firm would never go out of style. Although the competition in Beijing was fierce, the prospects were still very good. If she quit all her jobs now and devoted herself to opening an accounting firm, her life might be more constrained in the early stages.
But if she endured it and got the accounting firm running smoothly as soon as possible, things would improve. She wouldn't have to spend her time doing manual labor to earn money like she did now.
Gu Yan quickly made a decision in her heart: resign and take a gamble.
She put the agreement back in her bag, took out her phone, opened WeChat, and sent a reply to Ye Qichen.
[I've thought about it, we can do the accounting firm.]
Ye Qichen replied when she arrived at the company. It was a simple "Okay."
This made Gu Yan even more determined to tender her resignation today.
She clocked in and finished the urgent tasks of the morning first, along with some errands that her colleagues had deliberately pushed onto her.
She was busy all morning. During the lunch break, she finally had some free time. She heated her food, ate it, and prepared to revise the resignation letter she had written last time and send it to her supervisor.
"Oh, Gu Yan, you've found a wealthy patron and are planning to resign and go solo, haven't you?" At this moment, her colleague Jiang Qian suddenly said loudly.
Gu Yan was startled. She turned around and saw the agreement that Ye Qichen had given her. She didn't know when it had gotten into her hands.
"Give it back to me," she said with a frown.
Jiang Qian refused. She flipped through the contract and said in front of all the colleagues in the office, "The other party is investing the full amount, with a 70-30 profit split. Not bad. Which of our big clients did you hook up with? You've got some ambition, wanting to open your own accounting firm as a mere errand accountant."
"Give it back to me!" Gu Yan went to snatch it, but Jiang Qian deliberately didn't give it to her.
As they struggled, Gu Yan's shirt collar was torn open, revealing a hickey on her collarbone.
Seeing this, Jiang Qian became even more excited. "Oh, you really found a wealthy patron, didn't you? Look at this hickey, you must have worked hard."
With her words, the colleagues' gazes towards Gu Yan began to change.
Everyone in the office knew that Gu Yan was a single mother. They never expected that the person who seemed so low-key and willing to be ordered around would do something like this.
Someone started to tease, "Gu Yan, don't forget us when you get rich."
"Yeah, we're colleagues after all. You'll have to take care of us more in the future."
"Whether you take care of us or not, we won't say. Just don't secretly poach our clients."
"Then everyone needs to keep a close eye on their client resources, or you won't even know when they're stolen."
"…"
Just then, the supervisor came out to get some water and overheard their conversation. His face darkened as he said, "Gu Yan, come to my office!"
Gu Yan knew something was wrong. She hadn't resigned yet, and being caught planning to go solo was subtly different from going solo after resigning. It would be easy to mistakenly believe she had used company resources for personal matters.