Forbidden to Flirt and Run 25

Chapter 25

Little Cat Gu?

Xu Qingtang didn’t react at first. After hearing the sentence clearly, she shot up, her eyes fixed on the small booklet Gu Yizhi’s fingers were pressing down on.

Her eyesight was good, and she did indeed see the enlarged and bolded words in the last line of the final page, even with a small red heart.

Xu Qingtang: “…”

Don’t ask. Just assume I’ve already died on the spot.

Watching Gu Yizhi open the drawer under the coffee table and put the small booklet inside, Xu Qingtang gave up the idea of “destroying the evidence.” Gu Yizhi stood up and poured her a glass of water. Just when she thought they were going to discuss how to solve the problem, Gu Yizhi looked at her with a smile.

“I seem to remember Miss Xu saying just now that you hadn’t read the contents of this thing?”

With that smile, what else was there for Xu Qingtang not to understand?

This person had been feigning ignorance just now, pretending to be confused and digging a pit for her to jump into.

Xu Qingtang took a sip of warm water, calmed her emotions, sat back down on the sofa, and said calmly, “Indeed. Some reading materials are just that cringey. Little cats, little dogs, little darlings, it gives me goosebumps just hearing it.”

Then, she looked at Gu Yizhi with an exaggerated expression. “CEO Gu, you didn’t see ‘Little Cat Gu’ and think of yourself, did you? Tsk, tsk, CEO Gu, you should eat fewer walnuts. Your imagination is too rich.”

“Is that so?”

Hearing those two words, Xu Qingtang’s heart skipped a beat. She always felt that Gu Yizhi’s next words would not be good.

She nonchalantly took a sip of water. “That’s right.”

Gu Yizhi opened the drawer, took out the small booklet again, and flipped to the familiar last page. Her red lips parted slightly. “A gift to Xu Qingtang?”

Xu Qingtang almost sprayed out a mouthful of water.

She cried out inwardly: Tang Xiaogui, how many more surprises do you have that I don’t know about…

In this situation, she had no choice but to admit it. Xu Qingtang simply said, “…Alright, so what if I’ve read it? Who doesn’t have a few special kinks? But, that ‘Little Cat Gu’ thing really wasn’t my idea. Maybe… there was a problem during printing.”

Xu Qingtang stood up. Before Gu Yizhi could put the thing away, she snatched it, flipping through it and saying, “Let me see what else was misprinted on here. I have to go and have a good talk with the shopkeeper tomorrow. How did they print this…”

She was afraid there was something else written inside that would make her die of social death in a minute, but… apart from that “Little Cat Gu” line, there was nothing about it being a gift to Xu Qingtang on the last page.

Xu Qingtang immediately realized and threw the small booklet on the coffee table. “You were tricking me?”

Gu Yizhi unhurriedly put the thing away, tucking a loose strand of hair behind her ear. “Then maybe I misread it.”

“Who made me love walnuts so much?”

Xu Qingtang: “…”

She could only respond with a fake smile.

After taking a few deep breaths, Xu Qingtang regained her composure. Remembering the purpose of her trip, she pretended to naturally change the subject. “CEO Gu, let’s cut the small talk. Let’s first discuss how to resolve the matter of the forum post at your company.”

Gu Yizhi tilted her head slightly to look at her. “Why should we talk about that?”

Xu Qingtang: …?

She felt her smile was about to slip. “Didn’t you ask me to come?”

Gu Yizhi gave a particularly beautiful smile. “I think you’ve misunderstood. I just wanted to watch the three o’clock sun with you.”

Xu Qingtang: …

The dead memory has suddenly started to attack me.

Who could have thought that after almost half a month, this person would still remember?

Xu Qingtang stuck to the principle of “if you don’t admit it, it didn’t happen.” “Who asked you to watch the sun with me?”

Gu Yizhi suddenly stood up, took a long stride, and sat down next to Xu Qingtang. The slip dress she was wearing was like the evening glow, flowing on her body, making her look both regal and seductive.

She casually tilted her head. “Oh? Didn’t you?”

Because they were so close, Xu Qingtang could smell the cool perfume on her, and she found it very pleasant.

Xu Qingtang said with a straight face, “Of course not.”

Gu Yizhi had that puzzled look again. “Then why did you call me ‘darling’? And ask me to feel sorry for you and get up at three in the morning to watch the sun with you?”

It was just for the thrill of it at the time…

Who could have thought that after so many days, it would be brought up and repeatedly flogged.

Xu Qingtang picked up the water glass on the table, took another sip, and spouted nonsense with a straight face. “Didn’t I tell you at that time? I misdialed.”

“Is that so?” Gu Yizhi said in realization. “You have another darling?”

What do you mean, another darling?

Xu Qingtang gritted her teeth. “I only have her. What’s with that expression? You don’t believe me?”

Gu Yizhi was very frank. “I don’t.”

Xu Qingtang scooted over, trying to get as far away from this dangerous person as possible, and said, “What’s there not to believe? It’s very normal to have a little lover nowadays. She just likes romance, likes to watch the sun at night.”

Gu Yizhi looked as if she had been enlightened. “I see. Then give her a call.”

Then, she took out her phone from her side pocket, her delicate fingers tapping on the screen. Then, Xu Qingtang heard her own voice echoing in the living room—

“…feel sorry for me, then get up and watch with me… darling, why aren’t you saying anything…”

After listening, Xu Qingtang felt numb from head to toe.

This… this bitchy woman wasn’t just dazed from sleep and didn’t react at that time?

Was she not speaking just so she could record it?

Xu Qingtang reached out to snatch Gu Yizhi’s phone. Gu Yizhi pulled her arm back, and she missed.

The recording had been turned off. Gu Yizhi’s smile was gentle. “Miss Xu should still remember her original words, right? If not, I can play it again for you.”

If she heard it again, Xu Qingtang suspected she would be so embarrassed she would hit the wall.

After a few seconds of silence, Xu Qingtang spoke. “You want to listen in?”

Gu Yizhi said, as if it were a matter of course, “Otherwise, how would I know if this person exists?”

“…” Xu Qingtang started to ramble. “It’s not good to listen to this kind of thing. My little lover is more unrestrained, and the content of our conversations is quite colorful, with no inhibitions. You should know what I mean, right? I don’t mind, I’m just afraid you’ll feel awkward listening.”

Gu Yizhi moved a little closer, her long hair swept to the side of her neck. “It’s fine, I love to listen.”

“No, you look like such a proper person. Why are you so… gossipy, and even listen to this kind of thing?”

Gu Yizhi: “Because I smell like a slut. Isn’t it normal for me to love listening to this?”

Xu Qingtang wanted to slap herself hard.

Why did you have to be so nosy!

Helpless, Xu Qingtang actually started to seriously consider who she should call. Calling anyone else would be a social death situation. What about Tang Gui?

No, no.

Xu Qingtang herself dismissed the idea.

Based on her many years of understanding of her friend, the final result would either be another social death or she would think she had been kidnapped and call the police.

After thinking it over, Xu Qingtang turned to Gu Yizhi, a hint of apology on her porcelain-white face.

She said, “Fine, fine, I’m scared of you. That night, I was just angry and deliberately woke you up. There’s no little lover, and no three o’clock sun. You’re a magnanimous person, don’t hold it against me, okay?”

Being stubborn had no good end. She had learned this painful lesson from Gu Yizhi.

Seeing that she didn’t speak, Xu Qingtang turned to look at her, only to see Gu Yizhi say with some regret, “Why did you admit it so quickly?”

Xu Qingtang: “…”

Silence is golden. For the sake of an unknown lifespan, it’s better to talk to this person less.

But Xu Qingtang quickly remembered something else. She stared at Gu Yizhi’s right hand and said, “That recording is useless to you. It’s just taking up memory. Why don’t you delete it?”

Gu Yizhi: “I use a 512.”

Xu Qingtang: “You just don’t want to delete it?”

Gu Yizhi: “Few people call me in the middle of the night.”

Xu Qingtang: “…”

Gu Yizhi’s voice continued to accuse her of her crimes. “Especially when they clearly want to wake me up so they can go to sleep themselves.”

Xu Qingtang: “…”

Gu Yizhi said resoundingly, “So of course I have to keep it as a memento. I’ll listen to it when I can’t sleep in the future.”

Xu Qingtang couldn’t help but think further. What if someone happened to see her listening to it one day? Would she still have the face to live in this world?

“I’m really sorry about that night. What will it take for you to delete the recording?”

“Watch the sunrise with me.”

Xu Qingtang frowned. “I told you I was bluffing. There’s no sun at three in the morning.”

Gu Yizhi’s lips curled. “Really watch the sunrise.”

Xu Qingtang narrowed her eyes, thought for a few seconds, and felt that this was feasible. She said readily, “Alright. Then the recording…”

“I have great faith in Miss Xu’s character, but I’m a rather cautious person,” Gu Yizhi pursed her lips and smiled gently. “I’ll delete it after we watch the sunrise.”

Xu Qingtang was helpless against her. After a moment’s thought, she asked again, “Then the matter of the post…”

Gu Yizhi said softly, “We’ll talk about it later.”

Xu Qingtang inexplicably felt a little strange, but she didn’t think too much about it at the moment. She finished the water in her glass and said, “Alright then. If there’s nothing else, I’ll be going. By the way, remember to tell me in advance when you want to watch it, preferably on a weekend.”

“Alright.”

With the matter perfectly resolved, Xu Qingtang stood up from the sofa. Perhaps because she had been sitting for too long, her legs were a little numb, and she stumbled into the corner of the coffee table.

Xu Qingtang frowned and looked down. Her leg bone didn’t hurt much, but it seemed she had twisted her ankle again.

She suddenly remembered the Lingji Temple she had gone to with Zhou Jiaran yesterday.

It really wasn’t that effective. She was still very unlucky recently.

Xu Qingtang walked to the entrance, bent down to change her shoes, but just as she squatted a little, a needle-like pain shot through her ankle.

She endured the pain and was about to reach for her shoes when her wrist was suddenly grabbed.

“Your foot hasn’t healed yet?”

Xu Qingtang was helped up by Gu Yizhi. She shook her head and said, “It’s long healed. I just bumped it just now. It’s a small problem.”

Which opera actor didn’t have some aches and pains? Xu Qingtang was used to it long ago.

Gu Yizhi gestured to her own shoulder. “Lean on me.”

Xu Qingtang reached out and asked, “What?”

Just as her hand rested on Gu Yizhi’s shoulder, her waist was suddenly held, and the next second, she was lifted onto the shoe cabinet. Before she could react, Gu Yizhi had already squatted down and picked up her silver high-heeled shoe. “Sit down. I’ll help you put it on.”

How should she put it? This feeling of being fed when eating and being pushed when walking… was quite nice.

Xu Qingtang lowered her head and looked at Gu Yizhi’s hand on her ankle. Her fingers were slender and long, her nails neat and rounded. She secretly compared them. Her fingers were a little longer than her own, but in terms of skin color, she was fairer.

When she was putting on her shoes, she would also use her fingers to press her ankle bone. Her movements were very gentle, as if she was afraid of hurting her. From this angle, Xu Qingtang could see her moist red lips along the straight bridge of Gu Yizhi’s nose. Perhaps it was because of the quiet environment. This Gu Yizhi inexplicably gave her a very gentle and reassuring feeling.

There was no wind in the living room, but Gu Yizhi’s slightly curly hair still swayed gently with her movements. Xu Qingtang watched for a long time and, on a whim, reached out and hooked her hair with her fingertip.

When Gu Yizhi looked up, the pad of her finger was resting on her brow bone.

The touch was warm.

They looked at each other, neither of them speaking. Xu Qingtang felt that not only was the pad of her finger hot, but even her gaze was a little hot. An indescribable ambiguous factor began to flow in the air.

How it started, Xu Qingtang no longer remembered.

She only remembered that Gu Yizhi had slowly stood up, kissed her, and acted on their tacit understanding.

The light switch for the living room was at the entrance. After Gu Yizhi turned it off, the surroundings were suddenly dim. In the darkness, Xu Qingtang propped herself up on Gu Yizhi’s shoulder, her breath a little unsteady. “Wait, let’s agree on one thing first.”

Gu Yizhi’s forehead was pressed against Xu Qingtang’s. “Go on.”

Xu Qingtang said, “I want to be on top later.”

Gu Yizhi chuckled softly. “When have you not been on top?”

“This is different,” Xu Qingtang said. “I want to be on top first.”

It was always Gu Yizhi who started. Xu Qingtang felt her top soul burning fiercely.

“Alright, you call the shots,” Gu Yizhi was very easygoing at this time. Their foreheads were pressed together, their breaths intertwined. “Actually, there’s also a way to start at the same time. Do you want to try?”

This suddenly touched upon Xu Qingtang’s knowledge blind spot. “At the same time?”

Gu Yizhi hummed in agreement. “It’s very in line with your top image.”

At first, Xu Qingtang found it novel, but when they really did it, she was only left with a blushing face.

Summer was supposed to have long days and short nights, but tonight seemed to pass particularly slowly. It started to rain in Lin City in the latter half of the night, a fine rain like a thin mist. When the wind gently lifted a corner of the curtain, Xu Qingtang saw the scene outside through the floor-to-ceiling window, and the hazy figure of the person lying on her shoulder on the glass.

Xu Qingtang felt that her normal sleep schedule was at a great disadvantage in front of Gu Yizhi.

Every time, in the end, her biological clock would make her so sleepy she couldn’t open her eyes. She had no choice but to call for a truce. As if she had remembered something, she pushed Gu Yizhi’s hand and said, “I’m so thirsty. Go and get me a glass of water.”

Gu Yizhi wiped the sweat from her forehead with a wet wipe and hummed in agreement. “Alright.”

Hearing the footsteps recede, Xu Qingtang immediately turned over, got up from the bed, and lifted the blanket to find Gu Yizhi’s phone.

She had accidentally glanced at it just now. Gu Yizhi’s phone had no password lock.

She quickly found the phone, clicked into the voice recorder with a few taps, and before she could do anything, she heard Gu Yizhi’s voice. “So this is called a honey trap. Miss Xu, you are indeed resourceful, a true model of a top.”

Hearing this familiar tone, Xu Qingtang felt a chill run down her back.

She turned around and said seriously, “You know I’m an impatient person. I can’t sleep if this thing isn’t deleted. Don’t worry, don’t worry, I’ll definitely watch the sunrise with you.”

Gu Yizhi walked over with a glass of water, looking helpless, as if she had compromised. “You can delete it.”

After deleting that recording, Xu Qingtang let out a breath, took the glass of water, and returned the phone to her. She took a sip of water and said with satisfaction, “This water is so sweet.”

So sweet that she suddenly didn’t want to watch the sunrise so much anymore.

Gu Yizhi slowly put away her phone. “Anyway, I have a backup.”

Xu Qingtang: …

Just as she was coming up with a plan to wake up early tomorrow and continue deleting, Gu Yizhi set a password lock on her phone in front of her and said with a smile, “Miss Xu can come to me whenever you want to listen. I’m very easygoing.”

What was in front of her? A typical smiling tiger.

Xu Qingtang couldn’t be bothered to talk to her, afraid that she would fall into another one of her designed traps. She put down the water glass and turned over to sleep.

Her powerful biological clock was about to make her fall asleep, but Gu Yizhi clearly didn’t plan on letting her go. She actually… actually made her meow like a little cat!

Xu Qingtang was really helpless against her. She lightly bit Gu Yizhi’s slender knuckles, and the sound she made made her own face burn. But Gu Yizhi was enjoying it.

In the end, even in her dreams, Xu Qingtang was meowing.

In the morning, Xu Qingtang was woken up by a ringing phone. She closed her eyes and fumbled around the headboard, groggily opened her eyes a little, and saw the words on the screen. It was a call from Teacher Qi.

She wanted to call out “Mom,” but the sound that came out of her throat was—

“Meow~”