LIGHTNOVELONLINE
Chapter 59
Gu Wen was going to stay in the hospital for three days.
Although her body was not very uncomfortable, she got out of bed and walked around, played with her cell phone from time to time. What made her most puzzling was still Gu Wen, this wolfman.
The next morning, Dai Cen came to the ward with a man in a suit. Listening to Gu Wen arranging work, she unintentionally heard a few sentences. The more she listened, the more wrong she felt.
Gu Wen meant...it seemed that he would not go to the company these three days and would stay in the ward to take care of her?
Ha????
She wondered for a moment if the anesthetic had not worn off yet and she was hearing hallucinations. Who is Gu Wen? With so much lucrative work waiting for him to handle, he actually wanted to come and take care of her?
Not to mention that her body was not seriously problematic, just...what's the relationship between Gu Wen and her? When did their relationship become so good that he would give up work to personally come to accompany her?
After Dai Cen and that senior executive left,
she looked at the tall man and couldn't help asking aloud: "Mr. Gu, did you just say that you won't go to the company these three days, uh...stay...come take care of me?" She felt more and more embarrassed as she struggled to get the last few words out.
Even if a cat was now in front of her, speaking human words, she would not be so surprised anymore.
Gu Wen's face was calm and serious. He nodded: "You're sick, so I have to make this a top priority."
What's money worth compared to work, he wasn't actually very interested in the money and power of pure humans. Everything he was doing now was because of his grandmother. The company was what she had spent more than eighty years building up in the human world. That was her last life's work.
His duty was simply to guard it well.
But Shangxi was sick.
Her business was now the most important.
After listening, Shangxi even forgot to manage her facial expressions.
Her eyebrows furrowed and she opened her mouth, feeling strange, "It’s unnecessary! Mr. Gu, it’s unnecessary! Why do you have to?"
She was really shocked and confused, "Just go about your business, really, I don't need you to specifically take time off and stay here to take care of me."
And to put her affairs first?
The owner of the Gu Clan, the person in charge of the Gu Enterprise Corporation, said that he would stay and take care of her. She didn't know what it would feel like to others, but for her, there was not a hint of joy, flattery, or feeling honored.
She only felt resistance, incomprehension, and immense pressure.
Gu Wen didn't expect that after he pushed away work to stay in the ward, Shangxi would react like this. He thought she would politely say thank you now that she was sober, and allow him to stay.
He keenly sensed the change in Shangxi's aura of resistance.
She didn't want him to stay at all.
Not at all!
Gu Wen pressed his lips tightly, his tone lowered a bit: "Then who do you want to take care of you, Rong Wen?"
Shangxi was stunned for a moment: "Ah? What?" Everything was fine, why did it suddenly shift to Rong Wen?
Gu Wen's deep dark eyes stared at her, his throat moving: "Do you want me to leave?"
Shangxi met his gaze. She inexplicably felt that there were too many unfathomable things in those eyes that she didn't understand.
The air around them inexplicably became colder.
She looked away without shaking or nodding her head: "...You just need to pick up Baby Shang from school in the afternoon. You really don't have to take time off for me. Go to work." She wasn't looking at him anymore.
The hint for him to leave was obvious.
Gu Wen stood stiffly in the center of the ward, feeling that he had never been so unwelcome before, and was just abandoned there.
Whether in the purely human world or among the wolfman clan, he was used to being surrounded. Shangxi was the first human to show him attitude several times and give him the cold shoulder.
According to his usual style, he should have coldly laughed and left, but with Shangxi, his usual style was long gone.
He was like a defeated general in front of Shangxi, only humming in response before leaving the ward.
Shangxi's rejection was like a knife, piercing his heart.
He drove himself and soon arrived at the company. His secretary saw him and was stunned for a moment.
"Mr. Gu, why did you come to the company now? I don't have any urgent work here..."
He didn't know why, but this sentence poked somewhere sensitive for Gu Wen. His eyes darkened as he sneered coldly: "So what? Have I even lost my position?"
Forget being unwelcome by Shangxi, there were even people at headquarters "driving" him away.
He couldn't come to the company now?
He couldn't come if there was no urgent work?
Gu Wen clenched his teeth tightly. The lines of his jaw were sharp and his expression was icy as midwinter. The oppressive aura was overwhelming.
The secretary was so frightened that she trembled: "No, no, Mr. Gu, I didn't mean that."
It seemed Gu Wen was really angry. There was even a fierce look in his eyes: "Why did you say I came to the company? Do you think I want to come to this crappy company? She told me to come! Could I not come?"
The secretary felt like she went out today without checking her horoscope.
How could she offend Mr. Gu with just one sentence?
There was no one more unfortunate than her right now.
Gu Wen didn't know how he passed the time until noon. The employees had all gone for their meal break and he got up, subconsciously wanting to go to the hospital. But remembering Shangxi's reaction of rejection that morning, he pressed his lips and sat down again.
Just then, Fu Su called to invite him out for a meal at the Meng Lai Mountain Manor built for wolfmen.
Gu Wen sat at his seat, drinking silently. Fu Su and wolf brother Jiang Bu sat across from him, Qin Ming happened to have business in Qing City and sat to the left. A teenager with a mushroom haircut quietly took the seat on the right— he was the fourth one Shangxi couldn't remember.
He was Gu Wen's aunt's son, Gu Wen's wolf brother.
He lived in the old Gu family mansion.
At this moment, he stared at Gu Wen: "Wolf brother, there are four more days until your birthday."
Today this meal was to discuss his birthday plans.
Fu Su raised his brows: "Gu Wen, how do you want to celebrate? Eating, drinking and having fun at the old mansion, or go offshore? Or participate in a hunting competition on the grasslands?"
Everyone looked towards Gu Wen.
Several empty wine bottles had already been placed at Gu Wen's side. His unusual behavior made Jiang Bu laugh: "Did Gu Wen come across good fortune today? Drinking to celebrate?"
His tone and expression weren't joking or teasing. He truly felt that Gu Wen was drinking because he was in a good mood.
They were all waiting for Gu Wen to make a decision.
Gu Wen silently put down another empty bottle. The alcohol made his long eyes look empty and hollow: "Offshore, I don't know if she gets seasick or not. If we go hunting, she might get scared...Just eat casually at the old mansion. She just had surgery."
He said this all absent-mindedly.
Qin Ming's eyebrows rose slightly in surprise.
There was astonishment in Fu Su's eyes.
The mushroom-haired cousin's eyes widened.
Jiang Bu expressed the most obvious "shock and confusion", staring with eyes wide open. After a long while, he finally found his voice and almost jumped up in excitement: "Holy sh*t! Who is this 'she' you're talking about? Is it White Tail? I heard she came down the mountain, don't tell me she threw herself at you?"
The more Jiang Bu thought about it, the more sense it made to him. He was certain he had guessed right: "What, you like White Tail?"
Gu Wen's empty pitch-black eyes instantly stared at him intensely: "Shut up! You're the one who likes her. I only like Shangxi."
"What?!" Jiang Bu was dumbfounded, his voice cracking.
Qin Ming seemed to not quite understand: "You're only thirty. Have you decided so soon?"
The wolfman lifespan was so long that thirty years old was still very young after all.
He didn't want to find a mate early himself. He still had a lot he wanted to accomplish and wasn't prepared yet. There was no need to decide on a mate prematurely.
The corners of Gu Wen's lips twitched slightly: "If you like someone, why not decide on them?" Any later and Shangxi might run off with someone.