An Encounter at the Cinema

"Creak~~"

Gu Sheng knocked, but when no one answered, he habitually opened the door.

Huang Anqi was sitting alone at the head of the bed. She had just woken up, dark circles under her eyes. She had felt awful last night and tossed and turned until midnight—how could she have slept well?

After hearing the knock, she lazily sat up and prepared to get dressed. She liked to sleep cool, so she usually slept without clothes.

After learning some secrets last night, she had barely slept. She was already sluggish and slow to react in the morning, so when she heard the knock, she failed to respond right away.

"Ah~ Wuwu~~"

The moment Gu Sheng pushed open the door, he and Huang Anqi stared wide-eyed at each other for a while. The still-drowsy beauty finally realized what was happening and instinctively opened her mouth to scream. But as soon as she did, Gu Sheng swooshed into the room, covered her mouth, and restrained her.

"Wuwu~~ Wuwu~~"

Huang Anqi struggled, but she couldn’t break free from Gu Sheng’s hold. Her eyes had already grown moist.

Could she really be this unlucky? Was this man finally going to make a move on her? Had she escaped the wolf’s den only to enter the tiger’s lair? If she had known, she would have run away last night. Then she wouldn’t have been caught by this scumbag who had suddenly turned into a beast this morning and—

That was right. In her eyes, Gu Sheng, who was holding her down, had suddenly become an enraged beast preparing to do something bad to her. As for calling him a scumbag, she knew that he was her little follower Chu Xin’s boyfriend, yet he had slept with another woman yesterday. If that wasn’t being a scumbag, what was?

"Shh!"

After restraining Huang Anqi, Gu Sheng made no further move. He raised one finger to his lips and whispered, "Mei-jie is sleeping! Don’t shout and disturb her. I’ll let go, and you mustn’t scream. I’ll go out, and you can get dressed before coming out. Understand?"

Gu Sheng didn’t want to wake Liu Daimei. Otherwise, there would be no way to explain things. After all, he had already gotten involved with Chu Xin and then slept with Liu Daimei, so his reputation in the young woman’s eyes was average. After that, he had even taken Yue Qiluo as his wife.

Although Liu Daimei hadn’t made a fuss with him, she was definitely unhappy inside. If she now misunderstood him as making a move on Huang Anqi, whom he had only recently met, then he would truly be covered in yellow mud from his crotch to his backside—completely impossible to explain away.

"Wuwu~~"

Huang Anqi couldn’t speak, but after hearing what Gu Sheng said, she relaxed a little. She reluctantly nodded and blinked her pair of limpid eyes.

"Whoosh~"

After receiving her reply, Gu Sheng vanished from the room with a whoosh. He even considerately pulled the door shut behind him. The entire process took less than three seconds. By the time Huang Anqi came to her senses, she was sitting stupidly at the head of the bed, alone in the room.

"This…"

Huang Anqi’s mouth fell wide open as she stared blankly at the door. "Am I really that undesirable?" She felt a little aggrieved. What did this man mean by running away so quickly? Was she that ugly? Her emotions were in turmoil. Besides being relieved that her innocence had been preserved, she also felt indignant.

She was the campus goddess of Hangzhou Third High School! How could she be treated with such disdain? No, she had to get her dignity back and make that guy fall at her feet.

With that thought, Huang Anqi climbed out of bed. Liu Daimei’s suite had three rooms, one for Liu Daimei, one for Chu Xin, and one for Gu Sheng. Naturally, Huang Anqi was staying in Chu Xin’s room. There were plenty of clothes inside. Before leaving, Chu Xin had even borrowed some money from Liu Daimei to buy Huang Anqi new clothes, so Huang Anqi carefully chose an outfit and dressed herself up.

"Creak~"

The door opened. Gu Sheng, who had been sitting restlessly on the living room sofa, looked up. Huang Anqi walked out in a long dress, looking like a Barbie doll. After putting on light makeup, her bearing had improved even more, with a delicate beauty that was captivating. She was still only a high school student—if she grew for a few more years, wouldn’t she be even more mesmerizing?

"Mei-jie is still sleeping. I don’t know how to drive, so we might have to take a taxi later."

Gu Sheng gave her a quick glance before turning his head away. He didn’t want to let Chu Xin down again. As though deliberately looking for a topic, he spoke again after Huang Anqi sat down. "Um, are you hungry? Should we have breakfast here or eat near the school?"

Gu Sheng and Chu Xin had arranged to meet near their school today. They mainly intended to wrap up yesterday’s matter and see whether they had overlooked anything.

"Here, I think! I’ve never eaten at such a fancy hotel before, big brother!"

As Huang Anqi spoke, she sat down opposite Gu Sheng. Her coquettish "big brother" made half of Gu Sheng’s body go weak.

Gu Sheng couldn’t take the stimulation. He hurriedly stood up and walked over to the hotel room’s landline. "I’ll call and have them bring it up."

"Hmph~"

Seeing Gu Sheng’s reaction, Huang Anqi secretly laughed. She found his flustered appearance very amusing.

"Come on, eat!"

When the server brought up breakfast, Gu Sheng braced himself and sat down opposite Huang Anqi. It was an extremely difficult breakfast.

He didn’t know whether the little girl across from him was doing it on purpose. She kept asking him to help with this or that, and in the end, she even had him feed her. Gu Sheng was unwilling in his heart, but his hands moved without the slightest hesitation, taking perfect care of the little girl.

"We’re here~"

Outside Hangzhou Third High School, a taxi came to a stop. Gu Sheng got out with Huang Anqi. The school gates were tightly closed. It was Saturday, so there were hardly any people on campus.

"It’s still early. Shall we find somewhere to sit for a while?"

Gu Sheng took out his phone and checked the time. He and Chu Xin had agreed to meet at eleven-thirty, but it had only just passed nine. There were still more than two hours to go. Such a long wait was difficult to endure.

Although having a pretty girl beside him was nice, sometimes it wasn’t necessarily a good thing. He could look but not touch, walking a tightrope right along the edge of his limits.

"Sure! I know there’s a cinema nearby! Big brother, take me to see a movie!"

Huang Anqi smiled sweetly and clung to Gu Sheng’s arm coquettishly. She had already discovered how much fun this was, so she wasn’t about to let Gu Sheng leave so easily.

"This… all right."

Gu Sheng felt somewhat helpless. He had never watched a movie with Chu Xin, his official girlfriend, nor with Liu Daimei. Yet now he had agreed to go with Huang Anqi. Had he gone crazy? If they found out, wouldn’t he die horribly?

"Let’s go!"

Smiling, Huang Anqi took the hand of the "unwilling" Gu Sheng. The two of them arrived at the cinema like a couple. Huang Anqi queued up to choose tickets while Gu Sheng went to buy popcorn.

"Hey~"

Gu Sheng was concentrating on waiting in line when he suddenly sensed movement behind him. He instinctively shifted aside to dodge, but then remembered that this was the modern world and he couldn’t appear too extraordinary. Thus, he stopped and let the small hand behind him land on his shoulder.

"Hey~ Yaya-jie, what are you doing here?"

Gu Sheng turned around and instinctively shrank back. The person who had hit him was someone he currently didn’t want to see—Le Erya.