Forbidden to Flirt and Run 35

Chapter 35

Hearing the footsteps recede outside, Xu Qingtang stood where she was, feeling that it was wrong to speak, but also wrong not to. She could only look at Gu Yizhi, her face full of embarrassment.

Gu Yizhi smiled again and went forward to pinch Xu Qingtang’s cheek. “You’re so smart, Xiao Tang. You even know how to blush.”

Xu Qingtang hadn’t felt it at first, but hearing her say that, she did indeed feel her face burning. She looked up at the ceiling, thinking that since her face was already gone, she might as well be more shameless.

So, she leaned back and said, “Sorry, please enter the command.”

Gu Yizhi took a step forward. “I miss you so much?”

Xu Qingtang wanted her to continue. “Sorry, command error.”

Just as her voice fell, Gu Yizhi pressed her against the door, her hand pushing the door shut, the two of them supported by the thin door panel. Xu Qingtang tilted her head up slightly, her nose brushing against Gu Yizhi’s cheek, their warm breaths intertwining.

Their lips were only a few centimeters apart.

Gu Yizhi’s fingers gently stroked Xu Qingtang’s eyebrows and eyes. After a moment, she let go of her fingers and asked softly, “Are you feeling better?”

Xu Qingtang was still savoring her gentle and ambiguous action. Hearing this, her eyes lit up. “You really came. I thought I was dreaming.”

After sighing, she asked curiously, “Why didn’t you tell me you were here?”

Gu Yizhi glanced at her. “I’m still angry. What’s there to say?”

Xu Qingtang: …

Gu Yizhi was a typical case of a sharp tongue but a soft heart. Xu Qingtang grabbed her wrist and asked, “Are you still angry now?”

Gu Yizhi didn’t answer but said instead, “Miss Xu, you’re so beautiful today.”

How could she not be beautiful? She had specially dressed up before she went out. Xu Qingtang was very satisfied that she would notice the difference in her makeup and clothes, but she only said, “It’s just so-so.”

Gu Yizhi said, “If such a beautiful Miss Xu were to kiss me, then I wouldn’t be angry.”

Xu Qingtang planted a stamp on her face. Just as she was about to move to her lips, Gu Yizhi turned her face to the side, making her miss.

When she looked over with a searching gaze, Gu Yizhi suddenly asked, “Have you thought it through?”

Xu Qingtang nodded.

Gu Yizhi tilted her head slightly and asked, “Will you still ignore me in the future?”

Xu Qingtang shook her head. “No.”

Gu Yizhi asked again, “Will you still not let me see you in the future?”

Xu Qingtang was even quicker. “Absolutely not.”

Gu Yizhi asked again, “If Teacher doesn’t agree in the future, will you still let me go?”

Xu Qingtang was very decisive. “Definitely not.”

Gu Yizhi seemed satisfied, nodded, and then kissed Xu Qingtang on the lips. Xu Qingtang also tilted her head up slightly to respond to her. After a moment, she was slightly out of breath and said, “Good thing, good thing I caught up that day and didn’t let you really leave.”

After hearing this, Gu Yizhi’s lips curled into a very gentle smile. “Do you think anyone can walk two or three hundred meters in half an hour?”

Xu Qingtang said, “Ah.”

Gu Yizhi glanced at her and pinched her cheek again. “What? You don’t seem to believe me.”

Looking at Gu Yizhi’s curved black eyes, the corners of Xu Qingtang’s eyes also tilted up. “No, I’m just a little surprised to know that you’re also reluctant to part with me.”

After all, knowing that she had her in her heart was one thing, but hearing her say it was another. It was a feeling of double happiness.

This was probably the charm of sweet nothings.

Although being all lovey-dovey with Gu Yizhi was very comfortable, there were people coming and going outside. Xu Qingtang still had some reservations. She broke away, walked to a chair and sat down. Gu Yizhi followed behind her and asked, “When did you arrive? Have you booked a hotel?”

Xu Qingtang replied truthfully, “I arrived in the morning. I’ve booked it, and I’ve already put my luggage there.”

“Arrived in the morning…” Gu Yizhi took a bottle of water from the drawer under the table, handed it over, and said with a smile, “Why did you only come to find me now? Miss Xu didn’t go to have dinner with her secret crush again, did she?”

The dead memory began to attack her.

Xu Qingtang took the water, was embarrassed at first, then smiled and said righteously, “Isn’t my secret crush you? Ah~ Gu Yizhi, you’re not jealous of yourself, are you?”

“Hmm~” Gu Yizhi mimicked her and nodded seriously. “Since you have a secret crush on me, then confess. Miss Xu has been coveting me for a long time. I’m sure a 500-word confession is not a problem for you, right?”

Xu Qingtang: …?

Why does this sound so much like a 500-word self-criticism?

“I’ll go and get busy first. You wait for me here. It won’t be long,” Gu Yizhi stood up, looked at Xu Qingtang, and smiled again. “I’ll listen to it when I come back. Don’t forget.”

It sounds even more like a self-criticism…

Xu Qingtang had just thought that Gu Yizhi was gentle and sweet, but now she found that this bitchy woman hadn’t changed at all. She would still dig a pit from time to time, and when she jumped in, she would stand by the pit and smile charmingly.

While waiting in the lounge, Xu Qingtang got really bored, so she took out her phone and searched for confession templates on Baidu. But after flipping through them, she couldn’t find anything she was satisfied with. Then she quickly realized that this was very wrong—there was no sincerity at all, so she immediately exited the browser.

Time quickly passed to evening. The door of the lounge was pushed open. Xu Qingtang looked up, and Gu Yizhi was indeed standing outside the door. “Xu Tangtang, let’s go.”

Tangtang, Miss Xu, Your Highness, Xu Tangtang… Gu Yizhi had called her by many nicknames. Xu Qingtang felt that each one was better than the last. A big smile appeared on her face, and she thought to herself: Gu Yizhi is a real genius at naming.

“Coming, Gu Zhizhi.”

The two of them walked side by side to the first floor of Yuexi Pavilion. Xu Qingtang took out her phone and asked Gu Yizhi, “Where are we going? For dinner? Or are you going back to rest?”

“Are you hungry? If you’re hungry, we can go and eat first.”

Xu Qingtang shook her head.

In the afternoon, Gu Yizhi had bought her afternoon tea, so she wasn’t hungry now.

She asked again, “Where are we going?”

Gu Yizhi: “To see the mountains, to see the sea, to set up a program for AI Xiao Tang where you and I love each other.”

“Ah~” Xu Qingtang was about to faint from Gu Yizhi’s cuteness. She deliberately said with a straight face, “Gu Yizhi, how did it become you confessing to me? You haven’t been coveting me for a long time, have you?”

Gu Yizhi pursed her lips and smiled. “Yes, I have been coveting you for a long time, and now my wish has finally come true.”

Xu Qingtang felt small fireworks going off in her chest. She gently pushed Gu Yizhi’s arm. “CEO Gu, I admit defeat, I admit defeat. I’m completely convinced. Please stop your magic.”

Whether it was cheesy or not, Xu Qingtang really couldn’t compare or stand it.

Xu Qingtang had originally thought that Gu Yizhi was just playing with her, but she didn’t expect that she was actually serious. Their next stop was to go to Mu Mountain in City C to watch the sunset.

So, Xu Qingtang also seriously entered the starting and ending stations on the ride-hailing app. Gu Yizhi’s voice floated over from in front. “What are you doing?”

Xu Qingtang: “Getting a ride.”

Gu Yizhi: “You want to get a ride?”

Xu Qingtang stopped her actions and looked up. “Aren’t all your cars in Lin City? If we don’t get a ride, are we going to walk? I don’t mind, but don’t you have to work tomorrow?”

Gu Yizhi took out the car keys from her bag and gave them to her. “The company has arranged it.”

Xu Qingtang took the car keys and sighed. “As expected of you, CEO Gu.”

Gu Yizhi pinched her cheek. “Teasing me?”

“I wouldn’t dare, I wouldn’t dare,” Xu Qingtang perfectly demonstrated her two-facedness. “It’s my honor to be Gu Zhizhi’s driver.”

“Then the 500-word confession?”

Xu Qingtang was flexible. “I was wrong.”

Gu Yizhi’s gentle smile blossomed. “Do you have any more questions, Xu Tangtang?”

“No, no.”

If Lin City’s South Mountain had the best sunrise, then City C’s Mu Mountain had the best sunset. The deep or shallow evening glow and the clouds collided to create a gentle twilight that soaked the mountain of red maples.

Xu Qingtang and Gu Yizhi climbed to the top of Mu Mountain. Xu Qingtang took several sets of photos, then posted them on her Moments—”Stop the car to love the maple forest at night, the frosty leaves are redder than the flowers of February.” Then the two of them went down the mountain and got back in the car.

This time, it was Gu Yizhi who was driving. Xu Qingtang was replying to the comments on her Moments. Tang Gui was the first to like and comment, and then she poked her in a private message.

Tang Gui: [Did you see Gu Yizhi?]

Xu Qingtang sent an emoji: [Guess.]

Tang Gui: [You’re in the mood to post on your Moments, so you must have seen her.]

Xu Qingtang: [Hehehe.]

Tang Gui: […Be normal.]

Tang Gui: [Is this the sour smell of love?]

Xu Qingtang was immediately attracted by the two words “love” that Tang Gui had sent. Love… She sized up Gu Yizhi, pursed her lips, and typed on the keyboard: [We’re not in love. Don’t talk nonsense.]

Tang Gui: [Huh? You’re not together yet?]

Tang Gui: [Are you two turtles?]

Xu Qingtang: [?]

Tang Gui: [You’re so good at holding it in.]

Xu Qingtang: […]

They had just kissed and hugged, and looked very intimate, but in reality… it seemed no different from before. Gu Yizhi hadn’t admitted anything, and she was too embarrassed to bring it up.

Xu Qingtang didn’t know what she was struggling with. In fact… in fact, even if there was no formal confession, no formal start to a relationship, it was fine, right?

People really shouldn’t overthink things. Once you overthink, the good mood from just now is like a passing cloud, dissipating in an instant. Xu Qingtang threw her phone aside, her gaze turning to the window. The scene flying past was the seaside. They had already left the city and were driving on a coastal highway.

Xu Qingtang had opened a crack just now, and the sea breeze with a moist scent blew in, very comfortable on her face.

She glanced out the window again and asked, “Where are we going?”

Gu Yizhi smiled. “To help Xu Tangtang fulfill her dream.”

Xu Qingtang was puzzled. “Me? Dream?”

The car stopped in a very open place, at the junction of the sand and the highway. The sea in the distance was receding, revealing sharp and pointed reefs. In the car, Gu Yizhi nodded. “Don’t you remember what you said to me?”

Xu Qingtang: “What?”

Gu Yizhi said softly, “Sunrise, sunset, and Gu Yizhi.”

Fuck.

Xu Qingtang’s face instantly turned red. It was hard to imagine how she could have said that back then. Of course, she really wanted to…

Gu Yizhi grabbed her wrist, gently pulled her closer, and then leaned close to her ear, her voice gentle. “Tangtang, come.”

Xu Qingtang felt she was about to die. “Wait, wait a minute… what if someone sees? Why don’t we…”

Her concerns were cut off by Gu Yizhi. “The car has one-way film.”

Meaning, you could see outside from the inside, but you couldn’t see inside from the outside.

Xu Qingtang was relieved, but not completely.

It was precisely because she could see everything outside so clearly that it felt so exciting. Even though she knew she wouldn’t be seen, she still had the worry of being discovered.

The sound of the waves crashing against the shore was a powerful roar. At first, Xu Qingtang could clearly hear the rhythm of the waves rising and falling, but in the end, all she could hear was Gu Yizhi’s voice.

After a long time, after they were both satisfied, Xu Qingtang rested her head on Gu Yizhi’s shoulder, hugged her from behind, and rubbed her nose against her hair. Her nose was full of a faint fragrance, and she hummed, “Gu Zhizhi, you smell so good. I’m so tired. I’ll take a nap first…”

Xu Qingtang’s eyelids drooped, her vision began to blur, and she vaguely saw Gu Yizhi turn back and kiss her on the forehead. “Go to sleep.”

Xu Qingtang was woken up by a phone ringing.

Yes, one ring.

It was probably a post-traumatic stress disorder from Teacher Qi’s marriage pressure. Now, whenever Xu Qingtang heard a phone ring, no matter whose it was, she would be scared. She subconsciously grabbed it, then put it to her ear, still as if in a dream. “Mom… don’t worry, I’ve found a partner…”

“Who is this?”

The unfamiliar female voice on the phone made Xu Qingtang tremble all over. She sat up and found that the car was on its way back. She looked down and saw the word “Aunt” on the screen.

The phone was obviously Gu Yizhi’s.

Xu Qingtang was stunned for a moment. The feeling of shame made her unable to help but hang up. A few seconds later, she regained her senses, knew she was in the wrong, and handed the phone to Gu Yizhi. “Um… I think I hung up on your aunt’s voice message.”

Gu Yizhi: “It’s fine. Are you still sleepy?”

It was probably because she had been so tense recently, and last night, because she was going to find Gu Yizhi, she had been so excited and nervous that she had gone to bed very late. In addition to the strenuous exercise, Xu Qingtang couldn’t hold on and had fallen asleep.

Xu Qingtang yawned. “It’s alright.” She turned her head to look outside. “Hmm? I have to say, you have so much energy.”

Gu Yizhi explained, “The one-way film isn’t good at night. You were in the car, and I didn’t want to drive at night.”

On the way back, there was traffic. Xu Qingtang started to play with her phone again. Remembering the heart-pounding seaside play just now, and then seeing the Moments post she had sent, she actually felt it was quite… quite vivid.

When the traffic was at a standstill, the familiar WeChat voice message sounded again. Xu Qingtang guessed it was probably Gu Yizhi’s aunt. Remembering her foolish behavior just now, she only dared to stare outside. “You answer, you answer.”

Gu Yizhi answered the phone. “What’s wrong?”

Gu Yizhi’s aunt’s voice sounded very gentle. “Yizhi, are you outside? Who was the girl who was talking just now? What partner?”

“Her…” Gu Yizhi looked in Xu Qingtang’s direction and could only see her side profile, which looked even more beautiful in the intertwined light of the streetlights and twilight. “She’s my girlfriend.”

Ahhhhhh!

Gu Yizhi said she was her girlfriend!

In the car window, Xu Qingtang saw the corners of her lips curl up into an arc that she couldn’t suppress. Her heart felt as if it had been filled with just-starting-to-melt honey, so sweet that she really, really wanted to laugh out loud.

Just now, she had been worrying for nothing. She hadn’t expected Gu Yizhi to think this way.

Xu Qingtang still felt unbearably excited.

Since she can’t speak, she can at least act, right?

Xu Qingtang put her thoughts into action, turned around, and kissed Gu Yizhi on the cheek. She didn’t think it was enough, so she added another stamp.

It was a very intimate and sweet thing for a young couple to kiss.

That’s what Xu Qingtang thought.

Until—

When she turned around, she saw in the screen of Gu Yizhi’s phone, besides her and Gu Yizhi, her aunt’s gentle, loving, and surprised face…