CHAPTER 175: CHAPTER 161: IS THERE A STRANGE MAN OUTSIDE?

Shen Yanchen let out a cold laugh: "You can choose to become a famous dance star, or you can blindly ruin your own future."

Liang Zixuan smiled and shook her head: "What’s dancing? Compared to you, nothing else matters."

Shen Yanchen locked the door and turned away: "The choice is in your hands, don’t blame me for not giving you a chance."

"Why do this, Yanchen? You’d be happy with me too."

Shen Yanchen walked away, Liang Zixuan stood there, her expression twisted.

Is it that only by destroying Gu Qimiao he’ll turn his attention to her?

The time was still early, not yet eight o’clock. Gu Qimiao and Shen Yanchen had not had breakfast, and since Shen Yanchen’s hand was injured, naturally He Ye was the driver to take them back.

First, they arrived at Gu Qimiao’s home, she thanked them and got out of the car.

He Ye saw that Shen Yanchen’s gaze was fixed on the departing Gu Qimiao, feeling too embarrassed to drive away.

When Gu Qimiao was out of sight, He Ye turned to Shen Yanchen, asking if they could leave.

Shen Yanchen was silent for two seconds, then said to him: "Get out of the car."

"Eh? Why?"

"Buy a house here, and keep an eye on her twenty-four hours a day. Make sure nothing happens to her."

He Ye smelled something fishy at once, his expression turned serious: "Brother Chen, did something happen?"

Shen Yanchen just pointed his chin outside and said, "Get down, starting from today."

"You have to tell me a bit of the story at least, otherwise I won’t know who to guard against. Am I supposed to just follow Little Miaomiao like a stalker every day?"

Then He Ye seemed to have a sudden flash of insight, and exclaimed, "Oh~ like a detective solving a case: Is it the woman who drugged you? Last night when I went to your room, I saw her passed out at your door. Was it her who drugged you?"

Shen Yanchen raised an eyebrow and did not deny it.

"Brother Chen, you’re worried she might harm Little Miaomiao?"

"Then why aren’t you down yet?"

He Ye frowned and said, "But for just a woman, is it worth all this trouble? If she didn’t have a good figure, we could take care of her in some deserted place and be done with it."

Shen Yanchen glanced at him coldly: "Do you think you’re smarter than me? That your methods are better?"

He Ye immediately laughed obsequiously: "I wouldn’t dare think so! How could I compare to you, Brother Chen?"

Shen Yanchen opened the back door and got out of the car, He Ye sensibly followed suit and assured, "Don’t worry, Brother Chen! Leave Little Miaomiao to me, there won’t be any issues!"

Shen Yanchen ignored him, bent down, and got back into the car. He Ye chuckled and asked, "Brother Chen, how about the pay?"

"Depends on your performance."

"Such an important task, protecting Little Miaomiao, don’t you think you should at least double my salary?"

Shen Yanchen closed the car door and lowered the window to look at He Ye.

He Ye thought he had something to add, staring at him, but Shen Yanchen said: "Try calling her Little Miaomiao again?"

He Ye clicked his tongue, "So stingy? I just like calling her Little Miaomiao, Little Miaomiao, Little Miaomiao..."

"Each time you call her that, I’ll deduct a thousand. Think about it with your pickup money."

He Ye immediately gave in: "Brother Chen, don’t be so unfair! I won’t call her that anymore! From now on, I won’t call her that!"

Shen Yanchen closed the car window and sped off, leaving He Ye standing in his dust.

When Gu Qimiao entered the house, Mo Ming was sitting on the couch in the living room, his expression like a husband waiting for a wife who didn’t come home all night, full of scrutiny and annoyance.

Normally, he would have gone to the shop by this hour.

Gu Qimiao looked at him, squinted, smiled, changed her shoes, and walked over to sit by the couch, "Have you had breakfast yet?"

Mo Ming glared at her coldly, not answering.

Gu Qimiao had anticipated his reaction last night and knew that confronting him directly would be unwise, he needed to be coaxed, sometimes he was more like a child.

"If you haven’t eaten, should I cook some eggs for you?" Her expression was obedient like a little maid awaiting orders.

Mo Ming grabbed her and pulled her half over his body, her back facing him, and her head pressed against his chest. He gripped her jaw and said coldly, "Learning to stay out all night now? Hm?"

Gu Qimiao put her hand on his and gently pried his fingers, explaining, "The birthday party went too late."

"You seem to have made quite a few friends recently, today it’s this friend’s birthday, tomorrow it’s another’s, you’ve been quite busy, huh?"

"I promise it won’t happen again, no matter how late, I’ll come home."

Mo Ming pulled her up and into his lap, circling his arms around her waist, bringing his head close to her ear and asking, "Got a wild man outside?"

"Of course not!" Gu Qimiao hurriedly denied, "I’m not like you..."

"Me? What about me?" Mo Ming tightened his grip, flipping Gu Qimiao onto the couch, his gaze landing on the ambiguous marks on her neck, directly asking, "Were you with Shen Yanchen?"

Gu Qimiao turned her gaze away, weakly replied, "...No."

He stared at her lips, slightly swollen, there was no guessing what had happened. He pressed his thumb hard on her mouth, and in his anger, the words that came out were harsh: "Then were you out selling yourself?"

Using his hand to lift her hair, then pulling down the neckline of her T-shirt, seeing the scattered red marks, his face looked worse than ever: "Do you know how cheap you look right now?"

Gu Qimiao quickly clutched at her neckline, stunned by his crude words.

"Even if he can’t give you any promises, you still shamelessly sleep with him?"

"I didn’t, we didn’t do anything..."

He stared at the "love bites" on her neck, sneering: "Then tell me, what are these?"

Gu Qimiao covered them with her hand, not having noticed them. She didn’t expect him to be so sensitive to these things.

"Is it that anyone can have you, huh?"

Gu Qimiao widened her eyes in disbelief, looking at him, then he lowered his head...

She quickly turned her head away, pushing his head with her hand: "Mo Mingge!"

"He can do it, why can’t I?"

Gu Qimiao frowned and pushed him away: "Don’t bring your womanizing behavior from outside into the house!"

"What’s the difference between you and those women outside now?"

Gu Qimiao was suddenly stunned, her eyes slightly reddened. Why doesn’t he believe her, why does he have to say such hurtful words?

"In his mind, you’re just a foolish woman who can be played with and won’t require him to take responsibility!" Gu Moming grabbed her collar, lifting her up, then angrily threw her back down.

Gu Qimiao, with reddened eyes, sat up, looking at him, feeling angry at his words: "That’s my business."

Hearing that, Gu Mo Ming turned around, walking towards the door: "Yeah, your business, I can’t control it, right? If you want to be cheap, go ahead."

He left, slamming the door loudly, and Gu Qimiao felt wronged and started crying.

He was the person closest to her heart, even though she knew he cared about her, he didn’t consider others’ feelings when he spoke, letting his anger get the best of him.

She stood up, looking at the empty room, tears fell heavily, feeling a bit regretful for talking back to him.

Maybe he was right, she was indeed cheap because she thought last night, even if Shen Yanchen wouldn’t take responsibility for her, she was willing to give him everything.

What should she do now? He was really angry, they’ve never fought like this before, he never spoke to her this way.

She originally thought to come back and make things right, and everything would be fine, but she didn’t expect it to turn out like this.

She was planning to set him up on a blind date this afternoon, but now he probably won’t want to deal with her.

Gu Qimiao wiped her tears, went upstairs, and lay in bed, feeling very wronged.

Clearly, he shouldn’t have said such hurtful words, obviously it was his fault...

Crying herself to sleep, when she woke up it was already two in the afternoon, awakened by hunger, after sleeping, her emotions had calmed down a lot, now all she could think about was how to fill her stomach and then go apologize to him.

To apologize to him, she couldn’t reason with him, just take all the blame herself, she understood his temperament well.

She got up, washed her face, changed her clothes, and went to the shop to find him.

"Sister, you’re here?" The staff greeted her warmly.

"Where’s my brother?"

The staff glanced upstairs, then whispered: "The boss is in a bad mood today, don’t know who upset him, you should go check on him."

Gu Qimiao pursed her lips, walking upstairs, knowing it was her who upset him.

Upstairs, there was his rest room, Gu Qimiao knocked no response, so she opened the door and went in, immediately seeing him sitting on the outside balcony, smoking again.

Gu Qimiao hurried over, since she was here to apologize, she didn’t immediately take the cigarette from his hand, sat opposite him, and obediently called out: "Mo Mingge."

Gu Moming clearly didn’t expect her to come, but wasn’t too surprised, glancing at her before looking away.

Gu Qimiao followed his gaze, shifting her position, pitifully saying: "I’m hungry, I haven’t even had lunch yet."

He slowly took a puff, flicking the ash into the ashtray beside him, exhaling the smoke leisurely.

"Brother!" Gu Qimiao sat next to him, calling out again.

"That’s your business, what do you want from me?" He began to put on airs.

Gu Qimiao, hearing this, knowing he was still upset about what she said in the morning, began speaking in a good attitude: "I know I was wrong... I shouldn’t have talked back to you, please don’t be mad anymore, okay?"

Gu Moming clearly didn’t expect her to admit fault so quickly, he had prepared for a few days of cold war.

Still smoking, he didn’t respond to her.

"The weather’s so nice today, why don’t we go out for hot pot?"

"My treat!"

Gu Moming turned to look at her, seeing that she had likely cried at home, her eyes still a bit swollen. He had been sitting there thinking, his words were indeed too harsh.

But thinking about her feelings for Shen Yanchen, his jealousy made him lose his reason.

Extinguishing the almost burnt-out cigarette in the ashtray, he turned to look at her and said: "Promise me, you won’t see him again."