Chapter 211: Chapter 211: To Put It Simply, It’s Jealousy
Tang Yuxiu said she is his only woman.
The only one!
The way he looks at her now is so focused and serious, and the words he speaks seem to have a kind of magic that makes her fall into it.
For Gu Yan, the most enchanting love words in the world are nothing more than Tang Yuxiu’s words at this moment.
The originally angry and restless heart gradually calms down after hearing his words, not knowing what to say for the moment.
"Could you say it again?" she asked cautiously.
However, Young Master Tang became shy, yet still displayed a proud look, "Woman, don’t push your luck, I only say these things once, you won’t have the chance to hear it again."
Upon hearing this, Gu Yan felt restless and uncomfortable, jumping from the bed to pounce on him, accusing, "Tang Yuxiu, you’re deliberately bullying me!"
Tang Yuxiu hurriedly reached out to hold her, "I didn’t do anything."
Gu Yan wasn’t satisfied, "Are you going to say it or not?"
"Say what?"
Inside, Gu Yan was all sorrowful, "And you say you’re not bullying me!"
"I really didn’t!" Tang Yuxiu emphasized, he was currently hugging her without applying force, nor hurting her, he truly wasn’t bullying her with a clear conscience.
Gu Yan looked at him mournfully, "Boss, I hate you."
Tang Yuxiu was even more baffled, how did it end up with her hating him again!
"Love and hate are mutual, you hating me proves you love me."
"You’re shameless," Gu Yan retorted.
"My face is much more good-looking than yours."
Gu Yan rolled her eyes at him, "Can you stop being narcissistic at some point?"
Tang Yuxiu slightly smiled with his lips curled, "That’s the truth, alright, do you still want to throw a tantrum now?"
Gu Yan muttered, "It sounds like I’m really making a fuss over nothing."
"Didn’t you?" Tang Yuxiu asked in return.
Gu Yan angrily punched his shoulder with her fist, glaring at him, and said overbearingly, "Even if I did, you should say I didn’t!"
"What kind of logic is that?"
"It’s the logic I said." Gu Yan lifted her chin, put her hands around his neck, straightened her back, and said very proudly, "As a man, you should prioritize your girlfriend’s mood, whatever the girlfriend says is right, even if she’s wrong, you can’t refute it, even more so, you can’t criticize her!"
"Girlfriend?" Tang Yuxiu deliberately emphasized these three words.
Gu Yan frowned and widened her eyes, "Are you trying to say we’re not in that kind of relationship?!"
That look in her eyes seemed like as long as Tang Yuxiu showed the slightest sign of saying "we’re not", she’d annihilate him.
Tang Yuxiu immediately nodded, "Yes, that’s right, we are in that kind of relationship."
Young Master Tang secretly wiped his brow in his heart, how come having a girlfriend is so troublesome?
Being ready to get angry with just a wrong word, feeling so mentally exhausted.
Gu Yan nodded in satisfaction and kissed him on the side of his face, "Sleep."
Gu Yan released him and was about to lie down, but was quickly pressed beneath by Young Master Tang, Gu Yan blinked, looking at him innocently.
Young Master Tang’s lips slightly curled, his long fingers caressing her face back and forth, "Is this an invitation for me to do something?"
Gu Yan felt helpless, "Boss, can you stop wildly guessing other’s thoughts, you always guess wrong."
"Is that so?"
"Absolutely, I just want to sleep, nothing else."
Young Master Tang slightly raised his eyebrows, "I never said I wanted to do anything else, either."
Gu Yan, "..." Damn it, she got caught in the loop.
Young Master Tang rolled off of her, embraced her in his arms, "Alright, I won’t tease you, just sleep peacefully."
Gu Yan softly hmmed, wrapped her hands around his waist, and the two snuggled together to sleep.
The next day, You Shuyang brought breakfast and lunch as usual, but after Tang Yuxiu and Gu Yan finished breakfast, they headed out together.
"Miss Gu, shouldn’t you rest for another day?" You Shuyang asked, looking at the still faint red marks on her face.
"It’s okay, taking too much time off isn’t good, I should go to work," Gu Yan said as she opened the passenger side door of Tang Yuxiu’s car and sat inside.
You Shuyang didn’t know what to say, was Young Master Tang really that heartless, insisting Gu Yan goes to work while still injured?
This kind of capitalistic bloodsucker is very likely to exist.
Wouldn’t his bought lunch be wasted?
You Shuyang sighed, got into his own car.
The two cars drove out one after another, during which Gu Yan asked Tang Yuxiu to get out and buy her a mask.
Tang Yuxiu snorted coldly, thinking such a task would be beneath him, so he directly called You Shuyang, asking him to stop and buy it.
You Shuyang felt overwhelmingly sad inside!
Even for such trivial matters, does Tang Yuxiu have no hands or feet?
As an assistant, and an all-around one at that, he took pride in his work, but why was he always being asked to do petty tasks?
Clearly, it’s a case of talent being wasted on mundane matters, yet he couldn’t disobey the boss’s orders.
Being Tang Yuxiu’s assistant was truly suffocating.
You Shuyang bought masks, and Gu Yan smiled and thanked him cheerfully. In his heart, You Shuyang thought, Miss Gu is indeed adorable.
Tang Yuxiu said nothing, stepped on the gas, and the car drove past him.
If he could, he’d really want to resign! You Shuyang felt deeply aggrieved.
At the company, Gu Yan put on the mask, took the elevator from the parking lot upstairs, while Tang Yuxiu took his exclusive elevator.
Once they arrived at the entertainment department and got to the office, everyone else was already there and seemed a bit surprised to see her.
"Gu Yan? Didn’t you take three days off? Why are you back after just one day?" Wang Qi walked over, surprised.
Gu Yan smiled, "I felt like there was nothing much going on, so I canceled the leave early."
In her heart, however, she thought, so Tang Yuxiu arranged for three days off for her, he must really want her to have a good rest.
"Oh, why are you wearing a mask?"
"It’s nothing, just a cold, don’t want to infect you guys."
"If you’re not feeling well, take a couple more days to rest, why rush back to work when you already have leave?"
"I missed the sound of the piano," Gu Yan looked up and said.
Wang Qi was left speechless...
"Alright, if you feel unwell, just say so, there’s no rush for the assessment, we can talk about it when you recover."
"Okay, I got it."
"Hmph, the assessment’s being postponed again and again, I don’t know if it’s on purpose or intentional," a mocking voice came from the other side.
Wang Qi and Gu Yan turned their heads and looked over, seeing Lin Fei sitting at her desk, giving Gu Yan a disdainful glance.
"What do you mean?" Wang Qi asked unceremoniously.
"If you’re incompetent, don’t try to put on a brave face, just admit your lack of ability and cancel the assessment. Constantly asking for leave to delay it, it’s really disgraceful."
Wang Qi crossed her arms, "Do you think Gu Yan took leave just to avoid the assessment?"
"Isn’t it obvious?"
"Tch," Wang Qi was speechless, "Who in their right mind would purposely injure or make themselves sick to delay an insignificant assessment? You too, if you’re jealous just admit it, why be sarcastic and falsely accuse others?"
"Wang Qi, I never said that about you, why confront me like this!" Lin Fei glared at her, clearly upset.
Maybe because Wang Qi’s words hit the nail on the head.
She prided herself on her abilities, it was her hard-earned skills that allowed her to get into the Tang Family, while others like Gu Yan seemed to drop in from nowhere, without having to do anything, and she envied others for being able to leap over the years of effort she had put in to reach her position.
In front of Gu Yan, she felt her years of effort were wasted and laughable. Some people can easily replace her.
She was unwilling and scared.
"I also want to know, what did Gu Yan do to provoke you, that you always pick on her?"
Wang Qi asked, and Gu Yan looked over curiously too, she really wanted to know.
She didn’t seem unpleasant, appeared quite approachable, but ever since she arrived, Lin Fei had been constantly picking on her, seizing every opportunity to make snide remarks, it was truly baffling.
It made her wonder more than once if she was inherently unlikeable.
Lin Fei angrily stared at Wang Qi, then turned to Gu Yan, her eyes not friendly.
Gu Yan felt utterly helpless.
"I disdain people without ability."
"How much do you know about her, how can you be sure she lacks ability?" Wang Qi asked calmly.
Lin Fei was speechless, she really didn’t know. During this time, Gu Yan had been practicing in the piano room, and by avoiding her, Lin Fei hadn’t heard her play, assuming she must be untalented, just someone more interested in climbing the corporate ladder.
Wang Qi watched her reaction, sneering, "You judge people without knowing them, denying their abilities. To put it bluntly, you’re jealous. Jealous that Gu Yan, brought in by You Shuyang, didn’t have to go through rigorous selection like you did, before finally sitting here. You’re upset why others gain so easily what you worked so hard for."
"But Lin Fei, that’s not what you should be thinking about, you need to work harder to prove yourself. Show those leveraging background and connections to succeed that you, who have nothing, can outperform them with your abilities. Only then can you legitimately look down on others. Otherwise, their background is a powerful asset you lack, so you need to have an even stronger asset."
Gu Yan listened intently, nodding repeatedly, but she didn’t speak, afraid her words might spoil the atmosphere and provoke even more dissatisfaction from Lin Fei.
Lin Fei was deeply stunned by Wang Qi’s words, recognizing they were painfully accurate, and it was something she never considered.
She only envied others’ strengths and advantages, lamenting her own background and emptiness, without ever thinking to surpass others in her own areas of strength.
In self-pity, narrow-minded.
Lin Fei fell silent, seemingly lost in her own world of thoughts.
Meanwhile, Wang Qi felt relieved, with no one intentionally mocking her, she breathed a sigh of relief.