Chapter 161: Chapter 161 Do You Like Gu Yan
"Is our situation the same as yours? There’s simply no comparison. She’s not someone important."
After saying this, Tang Yuxiu inexplicably felt a bit uneasy. Is Gu Yan really not someone important?
Xiang Linghao looked at him with disdain, "Young Master Tang, I’m waiting for the day you slap yourself in the face."
"You won’t wait for that day."
Gu Yan, who was coming down the stairs, inadvertently heard the conversation between Tang Yuxiu and Xiang Linghao, and her heart suddenly twisted.
The right hand that was already struggling to hold the IV drip suddenly lost all its strength, causing the IV drip to slip from her hand.
The sudden shattering sound made the three men in the living room look over simultaneously.
Gu Yan was a bit dazed and took a hasty step back, but the liquid still splashed onto her shoes and pants.
Tang Yuxiu immediately got up and walked over quickly, grabbing her arms first and foremost, scanning her up and down, concerned about whether she was injured.
Gu Yan looked at his tightly knit brows, and the pulling pain in her heart was so obvious.
He just said so calmly that she was not someone important, so how could he now show such concern for her?
She slightly stepped back, pulling her arms out of his hands, and answered softly, "I’m fine."
Tang Yuxiu looked at his empty hands and suddenly felt something empty in his heart, a cold wind blew through, making him very uncomfortable.
In the living room, You Shuyang and Xiang Linghao exchanged a glance and tacitly got up to break the awkward atmosphere between the two.
"Miss Gu, come over, I’ll put the IV back on." Xiang Linghao said.
While You Shuyang went to the kitchen to get a broom to clean up the broken pieces of the IV.
Gu Yan pulled out the needle from her hand on her own, tossing it onto the ground, and walked past Tang Yuxiu towards the living room.
Tang Yuxiu slightly furrowed his brows, feeling more and more uncomfortable inside.
Xiang Linghao silently cleaned the blood seeping from the needle hole on Gu Yan’s hand, then picked another vein and reinserted the needle.
After it was done, Xiang Linghao let You Shuyang hold it, and asked Gu Yan, "Miss Gu, did you come down for something?"
"Yes." Gu Yan reached out her right hand, "I was supposed to remove the bandage and change the medicine by tomorrow, but since you’re here today, you might as well help me with it, so I won’t have to bother tomorrow."
Gu Yan originally planned this. It was convenient that Xiang Linghao was here today, so she wouldn’t have to make an extra trip tomorrow.
Before she recovered, she didn’t plan to go see Gu’s father; otherwise, if Gu’s father saw her haggard appearance and injured hand, who knows how heartbroken he would be.
"That’s easy, I brought the medicine for your hand injury." Xiang Linghao, just in case, brought the medicine along.
Xiang Linghao then helped her remove the bandage from her hand.
A big area between the back of her hand and her fingers was still bruised but obviously much improved from before.
Xiang Linghao applied the medicine while asking, "Does it hurt?"
"Much better than before, it doesn’t hurt much even when I move it."
"It’s recovering well, applying the medicine for a few more days will heal it." Normally, a stomp wouldn’t be so severe, but Tang Yuxiu’s stomp was so harsh that it was lucky her bones weren’t broken.
"Thank you."
"No need to be polite, it’s my duty." Who made you Tang Yuxiu’s woman, so I must work hard without complaint.
Moreover, she even knew that person, and their relationship seemed good.
However, right now, what he was most concerned about was that something seemed to have happened between these two people.
Tang Yuxiu said Gu Yan was not someone important, and Gu Yan happened to hear it, what a coincidence.
Heh, he’d really love to see Tang Yuxiu being tortured by Gu Yan, and even if he couldn’t see it, hearing about it would be fine too.
There’s plenty of time, he wasn’t in a hurry at all.
Xiang Linghao finished applying the medicine for Gu Yan, then she got up and took the IV from You Shuyang’s hand, "Thank you, I’ll take it back upstairs myself."
You Shuyang passed it to her, and Gu Yan smiled at them, then headed upstairs, not giving even a glance to Tang Yuxiu from beginning to end.
Tang Yuxiu frowned deeply, what did this mean? She was completely ignoring him!
Xiang Linghao was no longer in a downcast mood, cheerfully crossing his legs with his hands resting on the back of the sofa, raising an eyebrow at Tang Yuxiu.
"Young Master Tang, brought it on yourself, didn’t you?"
"What do you mean?" Tang Yuxiu asked unhappily.
You Shuyang held back a schadenfreude smile, cleared his throat, and answered him, "Young Master, Miss Gu heard what you said."
"What did I say?"
"Of course, the part where you said she’s not important at all." Xiang Linghao eagerly jumped into the conversation, making it clear to him.
"So what?"
Xiang Linghao gave him a sideways glance, "Are you stupid? You said a girl doesn’t matter at all, and she heard it. Let’s assume the girl likes you; wouldn’t hearing that break her heart?"
"She likes me?" Tang Yuxiu repeated, focusing on that point.
Xiang Linghao sighed, speaking earnestly, "Big brother, I’m talking hypothetically! Do you understand hypothetical? It doesn’t necessarily mean it’s true. Even if the girl doesn’t like you, hearing such words will still make her uncomfortable."
"Liking makes her uncomfortable, and not liking also makes her uncomfortable, so is it liking or not liking?" Tang Yuxiu showed a bit of impatience between his brows.
Xiang Linghao felt a bit bitter inside; why did he suddenly find Young Master Tang so stupid? Why hadn’t he noticed before!
You Shuyang, showing great tact, didn’t interrupt their conversation, enjoying the drama quietly on the side.
"Why do you care if the girl likes you or not? The key is whether you like the girl."
If you like the other person, even if they don’t like you, you can still make a move to pursue them.
If you don’t like the other person, even if they like you, so what? You can still pretend you don’t know and live your own life.
Does he like Gu Yan?
Tang Yuxiu frowned deeply. He never quite understood matters of love and naturally had never thought about this question.
Now that Xiang Linghao suddenly brought it up, asking if he liked Gu Yan, with his past demeanor, he would have undoubtedly answered without hesitation that he wouldn’t like her.
But now, he couldn’t blurt it out, feeling a trace of hesitation in his heart.
Like her? How could that be? She was just a mistress he bought for a million.
If he doesn’t like her...
Suddenly thinking back to these days spent with Gu Yan, the way he behaved with her was completely different from when he was with others.
So how could this be explained?
"So, have you figured it out?"
Xiang Linghao’s words snapped Tang Yuxiu out of his thoughts, and he immediately shook his head, "I won’t like her, let’s not bring this up again."
Xiang Linghao looked at him suspiciously, "Are you sure?"
"I’m sure!" Tang Yuxiu said definitively.
Xiang Linghao and You Shuyang exchanged a glance, seeing the words "I don’t believe it" in each other’s eyes!
"Alright, in that case, I won’t ask anymore, but I suppose Miss Gu is in a bad mood now, Young Master Tang, you’d better not provoke her."
"Why should I consider her mood? Why should I avoid provoking her?" Young Master Tang was displeased. He was used to others watching his expressions to act; how could he now have to watch others’ expressions to act?
"I’m saying this for your own good. A woman in a bad mood is terrifying, and I’m afraid you won’t be able to handle it."
Upon hearing this, Tang Yuxiu sneered contemptuously, "Is there anything I can’t handle? That would be you."
Young Master Tang took the opportunity to tease Xiang Linghao.
At this slight provocation, Xiang Linghao immediately thought of someone, and his high spirits were slapped down.
"Those are all past matters. Stop right there."
"Whether those things are really in the past, I wouldn’t know." Tang Yuxiu disdainfully remarked.
Xiang Linghao glanced at him resentfully, "Why do I feel sometimes you’re an emotional fool, yet other times you seem to understand everything?"
"I do know everything." Tang Yuxiu said narcissistically.
Xiang Linghao really didn’t want to see that punchable face anymore, so he simply turned away and lay back on the sofa, closing his eyes to continue wallowing in his melancholy.
Tang Yuxiu glanced at him, then turned to You Shuyang. Instantly, alarm bells went off in You Shuyang’s heart.
Doctor Xiang had fallen, and was Young Master Tang now going to shift his target to attack him?
"Young Master, do you have any instructions?" You Shuyang asked thoughtfully and proactively.
"Find out who locked Gu Yan in the music room."
"Alright, Young Master." You Shuyang nodded forcefully.
"What do we do when we find out?" he asked again.
Tang Yuxiu slightly narrowed his eyes, a chill passing through them, and said coldly, "Double the payback for how they treated Gu Yan!"
You Shuyang felt a chill run through him, fleeting yet serious, and he nodded earnestly, "Alright, Young Master, we’ll find out by tomorrow."
Tang Yuxiu, legs crossed, thought of Gu Yan’s fearful and hopeless look in the dark music room and couldn’t help but want to beat up the person who locked her in there and throw them in the open sea to feed the fish.
Xiang Linghao opened his eyes, looking at Tang Yuxiu in this cold state.
Is he really sure that Gu Yan isn’t important to him at all?
This really doesn’t seem the case; he’s never been like this even when something happened to one of their brothers.
Unknowingly, Young Master Tang had become someone who forgets friends for lust without even realizing it.
Sigh, with such low emotional intelligence, he’ll never get a girlfriend.
Xiang Linghao didn’t intend to teach him how to recognize his true inner feelings, letting this guy stab him whenever he was unhappy. He had his temper and could retaliate.
Thinking this, he peacefully closed his eyes again, a certain someone’s figure flashing through his mind, sinking his heart bit by bit.
Though being in the same city, they hadn’t seen each other for so many years.
Does she still remember him, does she still hold a grudge against him?
Xiang Linghao felt downcast.
Gu Yan went back upstairs, hung the drip bottle on the stand, lifted the quilt, and lay down, turning to face the floor-to-ceiling window.
Outside, tree shadows swayed, the night sky was dotted with stars, tranquil and beautiful.
But her mood was anything but beautiful.
"She’s not that important."
She’s not important.
This was the second time she heard Tang Yuxiu utter this sentence.