CHAPTER 44: ACCUSATION

Chi Yu actually talked behind her back?!

Gu Yuan was somewhat surprised.

She had heard of many couples who badmouth each other after breaking up. Though Chi Yu was sometimes shameless, Gu Yuan believed he wasn’t the type to speak ill behind someone’s back after a breakup.

Unexpectedly...

"It’s a misunderstanding." Chi Yu looked at Gu Yuan, eyes anxious.

He hadn’t expected the village chief to rat him out, especially when Yuanyuan was still the angriest at him...

But the village chief didn’t think he was tattling, and said, "What misunderstanding? You didn’t even know our Yanyan and you badmouthed her. You young people never own up to your words. Yanyan isn’t even holding it against you, but you really are something."

Chi Yu: "..."

The village chief’s prattle hadn’t stopped, and he went on to Gu Yuan, "Yanyan, this young man’s temper is really not the best, always giving us that sour face, like we owe him 2.58 million."

Chi Yu: "..."

Gu Yuan wasn’t angry, what’s there to be angry about?

No matter what bad things Chi Yu might have said about her, it didn’t affect her at all. In fact, she was quite curious about what kind of bad things Chi Yu could possibly say behind her back. So, Gu Yuan asked the village chief, "What bad things did he say about me?"

"He, oh dear..." The village chief looked as if he was at a loss for words.

This matter had been bothering the village chief for a long time.

Although the young man had brought Huang back, the fact that he badmouthed Yanyan was always in his mind.

The village chief was about to tell Gu Yuan when Chi Yu interrupted him, "Village chief, could you please help me find a change of clothes, thanks."

Interrupted, the village chief looked displeased yet said, "You’re soaked like a drowned rat, feeling cold? Wait here, I’ll find you some clothes."

Chi Yu was drenched from head to toe, lacking that cold and distant demeanor he usually carried.

The village chief, with his kind heart, was worried Chi Yu would catch a cold like this, so he grumbled as he went to find clothes, temporarily putting Chi Yu’s wrongdoing aside.

As soon as the village chief left, Chi Yu anxiously stepped forward and called her, "Yuanyuan."

He wanted to get closer to Gu Yuan, to embrace her, to draw warmth from her, to hold her tightly in his arms...

Just two steps forward, Gu Yuan raised her hand to signal him to stop, "Stay there."

Chi Yu halted in place.

And then he really stood there obediently, not moving an inch.

Gu Yuan furrowed her brow and asked, "How did you end up like this?"

Chi Yu: "..."

It was too embarrassing to say.

He had walked in the rain to get here.

In this rural area, except for the only through-road, the paths leading to every household were dirt trails, uneven and spread out like chicken claws, and he nearly took the wrong path.

Seeing his silence, Gu Yuan asked again, "What brings you here so late?"

As she questioned him, Gu Yuan’s gaze shifted to his rain-drenched hair. His once meticulously styled hair was now in disarray. The rainwater on his face hadn’t dried, making his damp eyelashes appear thicker and the tear mole at the corner of his eye less vivid.

Looking at his clothes, from shoulder to chest they were drenched, only the hem was spared. Mud from the dirt trails clung to his trouser legs and Martin boots...

This disheveled Chi Yu was someone Gu Yuan had never seen before in her life.