Chapter 55: From Now On, You’re Not Allowed to Contact Him
Gu Xinglan tilted his head slightly and looked at him: “Speak.”
Qin Wan: “There are three million in the card you gave me, and another million here. That’s four million in total.”
“Uh, I’ll use this four million to pay back a portion of what I owe you. Do you think that’s okay?”
Gu Xinglan’s expression froze, then he was laughed into anger by these words.
“Qin Wan, I didn’t misjudge you. You really are a talent.” As he spoke, his gaze suddenly darkened.
“Using my money to pay back my debt—what exactly is going on in that head of yours?”
He reached out a finger and poked the boy’s forehead.
Qin Wan didn’t know how to answer and swallowed hard.
Gu Xinglan gave a light snort: “Since you love calculating so much, then this four million will also count as something you owe me. Now it’s eleven million.”
“If you want to return it to me now, I don’t care. In short, the seven million you owe won’t be reduced by a single cent.”
Qin Wan quickly waved his hands: “Uh, then just pretend I didn’t say anything!”
Gu Xinglan looked at his dejected little face—his expression falling because his little scheme failed, his rosy little lips even pouting slightly.
The pleasure of teasing Qin Wan instantly leveled up.
Gu Xinglan smiled.
He reached out to open the drawer of the nightstand and took out a tube of ointment.
“This medicine is said to be very effective at removing scars.”
Qin Wan nodded: “Thank you, Gege.”
As he spoke, he reached out to take it.
Gu Xinglan didn’t hand it over; instead, he unscrewed the cap and squeezed some ointment onto his fingertips.
“I’ll apply it for you.” He said, nodding his chin toward the bed, “Lift the quilt.”
Qin Wan pursed his lips.
He seriously suspected this guy was attempting to use a public task for private gain—taking advantage of the situation.
“I can do it myself…” Qin Wan made a final struggle.
Gu Xinglan’s voice wasn’t loud, but there was no room for negotiation: “I’ll do it.”
Qin Wan’s eyelids lowered, and he could only sluggishly lower the silk quilt covering his body bit by bit.
“Lie down.” Gu Xinglan said, wrapping an arm around his waist and laying him flat on the bed.
Qin Wan’s body tensed up slightly.
“Will it hurt?” he asked.
In fact, relative to whether it would hurt or not, he wanted to ask Gu Xinglan if he would take the opportunity to mess around with his body.
Gu Xinglan’s brow furrowed slightly.
Whether it would hurt or not—he had forgotten to have Tan Feng ask.
“It shouldn’t, right?” he said. “We’ll go bit by bit. If it hurts, I’ll stop immediately, okay?” His voice was very gentle.
Qin Wan nodded: “Mhm.”
Gu Xinglan was unwilling to look directly at those scars.
But at this moment, there was no other way.
He had to personally help heal the injuries he had caused Qin Wan.
Gu Xinglan gently applied the ointment on his fingertip to a wound on the boy’s shoulder blade.
“Does it hurt?” He watched Qin Wan’s expression with extreme care.
Qin Wan shook his head: “It doesn’t hurt. It feels a bit cool, nothing else.”
Gu Xinglan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He squeezed out more ointment and applied some to the scar below the boy’s cheek.
Then came the scars in other places, applied bit by bit.
Then he gently rubbed it to let the medicine penetrate.
It wasn’t until all the whip marks on the body were covered with ointment that Gu Xinglan finally sighed in relief.
This ointment had great permeability; not long after it was applied, it was absorbed through the skin.
Gu Xinglan looked at the person lying obediently beneath him, his gaze extremely soft.
He leaned down and gently kissed the tip of the boy’s nose.
“Alright, get up, wash up, and then go eat breakfast.”
Qin Wan quickly sat up to get dressed.
Gu Xinglan: “Be good today. When I come back tonight, I’ll give you a small surprise.”
As he spoke, he hugged the boy’s waist and kissed his forehead again.
After breakfast, Gu Xinglan went to the company.
Today, he had to settle the arrangements for Zhou Rong’s surgery.
Qin Wan had a phone to use now, so he was in a good mood.
After breakfast, he returned to his room, opened his phone, and checked his contacts.
As he looked, his elegant brows furrowed.
Originally, there weren’t many people in his contact list.
His social circle was narrow; besides a few bosses and colleagues he had met while working, there was only Auntie Rong and his Second Brother, Sheng Siyue.
But now he found that Sheng Siyue’s phone number was actually gone.
At the same time, his WeChat friend had also disappeared.
Sheng Siyue had completely vanished from his phone.
Qin Wan’s heart felt a wave of suffocation.
No need to ask—it was definitely Gu Xinglan’s doing.
That guy was overbearing to an excessive degree.
What right did he have to privately delete things from someone else’s phone?
The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. He tapped on the number Gu Xinglan had forcibly implanted into his contacts and dialed it.
It only rang once before the call was cut off.
However, immediately after, Gu Xinglan’s video call came through.
Qin Wan angrily pressed the answer button.
“Qin Wan, is something wrong?”
Gu Xinglan’s handsome face appeared in the corner of the screen.
Qin Wan’s little face had been full of annoyance.
But seeing Gu Xinglan’s face, which was calm yet inexplicably exuded pressure, his belly full of curses got stuck in his throat.
His lips moved, but he couldn’t say anything.
Gu Xinglan stared at his face.
Reading Qin Wan’s emotions didn’t seem to be difficult.
He knew he was currently angry.
And the reason for that anger—he could guess it too.
“Why aren’t you talking?” Gu Xinglan had a look of leisure on his face, his gaze penetrating the screen, scrutinizing and teasing.
“It seems there’s nothing special, you just simply missed me?”
His deep gaze stared at him without any concealment.
Qin Wan: !
He now had a deeper understanding of the thickness of Gu Xinglan’s skin.
However, Gu Xinglan’s gaze carried an inherent sense of pressure, which made him not dare to give a negative answer.
Qin Wan twitched the corner of his mouth: “I wanted to see if the new phone works well. Of course, I also… missed you…”
Gu Xinglan gave a light chuckle.
“Qin Wan, you promised me you wouldn’t give me fake smiles anymore. What, doing it again?”
Qin Wan: Oh no, he saw through me in a second!
“Saying you miss me is also fake.” Gu Xinglan’s brow arched slightly as his smile faded.
“I’ll give you a chance. Say it again—why are you looking for me?”
“If you lie again, I’ll pick a toy for you from the reflection room tonight.” He threw out a warning in a tone that wasn’t particularly heavy or light.
It made Qin Wan’s heart tighten involuntarily.
Gu Xinglan had always known his pain points.
So, a single sentence could make him throw down his armor and surrender.
Qin Wan’s eyelids lowered, and the corners of his mouth drooped slightly.
“I… I wanted to ask you why you… why you deleted my Second Brother’s contact info…”
Gu Xinglan let out a muffled snort: “You came to interrogate me, yet you dared to say you missed me? Qin Wan, how can you love lying so much?”
Qin Wan secretly glanced at the person on the screen.
“I… it wasn’t on purpose, I was afraid… afraid you’d be angry so…”
“Did you think I wouldn’t be able to tell you were lying?” Gu Xinglan’s gaze darkened slightly.
The corner of his brow twitched imperceptibly: “Heh, though not necessarily. Sometimes, I really am quite easily tricked by you.”
Qin Wan knew he was about to bring up old scores again.
His little face slumped even more.
“Gege, I was wrong. Stop talking about it…” he muttered, looking dejected.
“But, shouldn’t you also not have secretly deleted my contacts?”
Gu Xinglan let out a cold snort: “Secretly? I just forgot to tell you, that’s all. Qin Wan, whatever I want to do to you, I don’t need to do it secretly. What do you say?”
Qin Wan’s small lips were tightly pursed.
He took a deep breath.
His expression turned a bit ugly.
Gu Xinglan stared at his face, feeling a sense of suffocation in his heart.
It seemed that as soon as that Sheng Siyue was mentioned, a friction would break out between them.
This made Gu Xinglan very uncomfortable.
“Qin Wan, from now on, you are not allowed to contact him. Even thinking about it is forbidden. Do you understand?” His voice turned colder.
Qin Wan’s hand, in a place he couldn’t see, clenched into a fist.
After a moment of silence, he compromised.
He nodded, his voice low: “Understood.”
Gu Xinglan knew his obedience was faked.
But he had patience, and he also had confidence that he would make him forget that man bit by bit.
Gu Xinglan’s expression softened slightly.
“Qin Wan, I said if you are good today, I will give you a surprise.”
Qin Wan’s eyes were lowered; he didn’t seem to have much interest: “Mhm.”
At this time, on Gu Xinglan’s phone, Sun Liming’s call came through.
He stared at Qin Wan’s face for another moment before hanging up the call.
—End of Chapter Content—
[Cameo Scene for old fans of “Zhou Yuan”]
The black luxury car drove fast and steadily on the national highway.
In the driver’s seat, Shen Yanzhou held the steering wheel with one hand while turning his head to look at Lin Yuan with a smile.
“Wife, every time you wear a suit, I can’t look away.”
Lin Yuan pursed his lips and smiled.
Today, the two were heading to the neighboring Jiang City to look at a piece of land.
Shen Yanzhou’s Longsheng Group and Lin Yuan’s Wanhao Group were planning to collaborate on a theme park project.
So today, Lin Yuan was wearing a formal suit.
Pure black, made of top-quality material, and tailored to fit him perfectly.
It accentuated his lean and superior physique to perfection.
Lin Yuan leaned closer to Shen Yanzhou and whispered in his ear: “Then in the future, how about I wear a suit in bed?”
Shen Yanzhou’s eyes sparkled: “Wife, you’re getting more and more naughty.”
As he spoke, he reached out and grabbed him by the waist.
“Tell me, who did you learn these bad things from?” His tone carried a hint of deliberate ferocity.
Lin Yuan laughed, his features as beautiful as a painting: “Besides learning from a bad guy like you, who else could it be?”
Shen Yanzhou laughed and kissed his cheek: “Baby is so cute.”
“Husband bought you a new outfit. I’ll show it to you when we get back this afternoon.”
Lin Yuan was curious: “What kind of outfit?”
A mischievous smile appeared on Shen Yanzhou’s lips: “Mhm, an outfit suitable for when you’re cooking in the kitchen.”
Lin Yuan’s face turned red: “Gege, you’re up to no good again!”
Shen Yanzhou laughed rather shamelessly: “Can’t help it, who let my baby be so alluring?”
“Wife, in the future, we’ll wear skirts on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and suits on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.”
Lin Yuan looked shy: “Then… what about Sunday?”
Shen Yanzhou pulled him closer: “On Sunday… we won’t wear anything…”
The tips of Lin Yuan’s ears turned red.
“Drive properly, stop messing around!” he cried out with a bit of a pout.
Shen Yanzhou let out a muffled snort: “Isn’t Husband’s driving good enough?”
Lin Yuan: “…”
He slapped the hand that was holding him: “Bad husband!”
The two joked around for a while before Shen Yanzhou remembered something.
“I heard Yue Ping say you gave the leftover scar ointment to Huiyao’s Gu Xinglan?”
Lin Yuan nodded: “Assistant Yue asked me about it. I figured the other party must have a good relationship with him, so I did him a small favor.”
“Besides, I heard the new head of the Gu family has always been icy and cold, indifferent to others. I don’t know who could make him care so much that he’d ask for medicine everywhere.”
“I figured it must be someone he cares about a lot. So, I took it as doing a good deed and helped him out.”
Shen Yanzhou nodded and cast an admiring look at Lin Yuan.
Ever since his darling took over the position of Wanhao’s CEO, he had been learning while doing, growing rapidly.
He was naturally clever and transparent, with superior mental capacity.
He was also very timely in grasping the trends within their circles.
He was now fully capable of handling things on his own and had become a rising star in the Imperial Capital’s business world.
He was capable, and because he always kept a kind heart, his reputation in the circle was getting better and better.
“Baby is always so kind.” Shen Yanzhou said softly.
Lin Yuan pursed his lips: “They say little President Gu has a ruthless personality. If he’s willing to spend effort and use favors for someone, that person has likely entered his heart.”
“So, it’s necessary to help.”
Shen Yanzhou gently took Lin Yuan’s hand.
His voice grew even softer: “No matter how ruthless someone is, the heavens will always send someone to tame them. Isn’t that right, Baby?”
As he spoke, he slowly caressed Lin Yuan’s small hand.
The scars on it had long since healed.
However, the many storms they had weathered together would be forever etched in his heart.
He placed the small hand over the position of his own heart.
“Wife, I love you!”
Lin Yuan was a bit stunned by the sudden confession. He smiled and leaned his head on the other’s shoulder: “Husband, I love you too!”
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