NOVEL NEXT Chapter 9
Fu Yanhe dared to say it, but he didn’t dare act on it.
Gu Wenning shook his head in his heart and frowned slightly, thinking that if the Fu family insisted on fulfilling the engagement, he would probably not be able to refuse the marriage and would have to live with a person who had extremely strange and out-of-the-box thinking. Just thinking about it made him feel like a chicken and a dog living together.
But upon careful consideration, it didn’t seem entirely unacceptable. At least Mr. Fu was sincere, and there weren’t so many twists and turns in dealing with him—less conspiracy and calculation so far. Time was limited, and he only the man on the surface.
However, it was also possible that he was pretending to be something he wasn’t, doing one thing in front of others and something else behind their backs. But even if he was just pretending, why did it matter? Compared to the Fu Group, his net worth was a bit underwhelming. Even if he wasn’t the one getting married, Gu Mingyan, the successor of the Gu family, was far behind compared to Mr. Fu. If Mr. Fu tried his best to pretend in front of him and got nothing, that was one thing. But if this was a hobby of his, what kind of bad taste this man had?
Still, Gu Wenning subconsciously didn’t want to think too deeply about the possibility of Fu Yanhe’s acting. Those eyes, as bright as stars, flashed through his mind from time to time. The sincerity in them was truly hard to doubt.
“Honey, don’t be shy. Sooner or later, we had to be honest with each other. Check the goods now. If…”
Fu Yanhe was about to say that he would return the goods if he was not satisfied with the inspection, but as soon as the words came to his lips, his mind came online, and he suddenly realized something.
He couldn’t say “return the product” because the product belonged to him. If his wife returned it to the sample room, he wouldn’t be able to cry.
With a burst of excitement, Fu Yanhe smoothly changed his words, “I guarantee that my wife will be satisfied with the inspection. If he is not satisfied, he can give his opinions. While there is still time, I can quickly improve the performance.”
Gu Wenning was not stupid. He guessed something. The corners of his lips curved slightly. The moment Fu Yanhe looked over, he returned to an indifferent expression. His voice was cold and emotionless as he said, “I can’t return the goods? That’s not how you buy a thing now. There has to be a guarantee for bad product. Is Mr. Fu going to impose an overlord clause?”
Fu Yanhe took a breath, his eyes drooping, and said in disbelief, “Return the goods? Wife, how can you think so? How can your thirty-seven-degree mouth say such cold words?”
“Honey, don’t have wishful thinking. My Fu’s business is not that easy to run, especially for mine. Once sold, it cannot be returned or exchanged. Once purchased, it cannot be returned or exchanged. It will be held for life, with free maintenance, quality leveraging, and high durability.”
A domineering clause was a domineering clause. As long as he could lock his wife in, it didn’t matter if he used shameless methods. Could he get a wife by being reserved? As long as he had his wife, shame was nothing.
In his previous life, Fu Yanhe knew very well that if he wanted to be cold to his wife, he couldn’t pretend or act like one. Pretending to be reserved and coquettish didn’t work. Maybe it was possible for others to pretend, but it didn’t work for him. The specific problem needed to be analysed in detail and could not be generalized. If he kept his distance and halt his approach, there would be no follow-up with his wife.
It was obviously a serious tone, but when Gu Wenning listened, he always felt an inexplicable and subtle sense of shame, as if he was forced to listen to some dirty talk that wasn’t so dirty.
Gu Wenning turned his head and looked out the car window to hide his unnatural expression.
Little did he know, Fu Yanhe was thinking hard at that moment about how to prove his ability to his wife. Proving himself from the heart to the body, from the inside out, was a difficult problem.
After much deliberation, Fu Yanhe thought that given time, the only way to prove it would be to have his wife come to inspect the goods in person. He couldn’t find someone to prove it or self-certify it to his wife.
Self-certification?
Self-certification.
Self-certify!
It didn’t seem impossible.
Fu Yanhe’s eyes brightened slightly, as if he had some realization.
Forty minutes later, the car slowly stopped at the gate of the community.
Before the car started driving, Gu Wenning reported an address.
Because he had interacted with Gu Mingxu when his mind was unclear, Fu Yanhe knew the location of the Gu family villa. When he heard the address given by Gu Wenning, Fu Yanhe’s heart skipped a beat, and he had a bad guess.
The outside world only knew that Gu Mingxu was the young master of the Gu family, but they didn’t know that his wife was the real young master of the Gu family. Gu Mingxu was just a dove occupying a magpie’s nest, a plum standing for a peach, a grass chicken flying on a branch with golden wings, and there were people who couldn’t tell the difference between the real and the fake.
If the Gu family was serious and paid more attention to his wife, they wouldn’t let the outside world only know about Gu Mingxu but not his wife.
Fu Yanhe could almost conclude that the relationship between his wife and the Gu family was not that good, and they were probably strangers to each other.
The community looked a bit old. Fu Yanhe sent people to the door of the stairs and found that it was still an old-fashioned residential building without an elevator. He immediately frowned, and his tightly knitted brows seemed to be able to trap a fly.
His first reaction was no; how could he let his wife live in such a shabby place?
He lived in a large apartment of several hundred square meters, but it felt inappropriate for his wife to reside in such a small place.
Before Fu Yanhe could speak, Gu Wenning spoke first.
“That’s it, Mr. Fu.”
Normally, someone should have been invited to sit for a while and offered a cup of tea or something, but firstly, Gu Wenning was not in good spirits, and his brain was a little groggy; he truly couldn’t summon the energy to entertain guests. Secondly, he felt that Fu Yanhe was not an ordinary person and should not be treated as one. After letting him enter the room, Gu Wenning worried he might say something astonishing or act in an unexpected way, causing some kind of trouble. To put it simply, he was worried that inviting the Buddha would be easy, but sending them away would be difficult. So, he decided not to keep Fu Yanhe out.
“Honey, why don’t you live with me? My place is spacious, the room is big, there’s an elevator, and you won’t have to walk up the stairs,” Fu Yanhe extended the invitation sincerely.
It was easy to imagine that Gu Wenning would, of course, be impossible to convince. Who would agree to live with someone he had just met? But they were indeed engaged, which meant living together would equate to cohabitation. Gu Wenning didn’t think he was too old-fashioned. He was a conservative person, but he wasn’t open enough to live together as soon as they met. Even in a blind date scenario, that kind of progress was too fast for him.
Of course, since Fu Yanhe had proposed getting the marriage certificate as soon as they met in Qinglan Restaurant, and since he was also counting the time, racing against the clock to get the marriage certificate before the Civil Affairs Bureau closed, Gu Wenning had already experienced a shock. So now, when he heard Fu Yanhe propose living together, he was not surprised at all. He merely felt it was quite consistent with what Fu Yanhe would say.
Fu Yanhe wanted to continue talking, but he keenly noticed that his wife’s face had turned colder and seemed to reflect a bad mood, so he decided to stop.
However, he still insisted on escorting him to the door.
In order to confirm his wife’s safety and know his specific address, he felt he was killing two birds with one stone. Fu Yanhe gave himself a thumbs up in his heart and praised himself.
It wasn’t a few steps away; it was on the second floor, not the fourth or fifth floor, otherwise they would have had to walk a lot longer.
It wasn’t until Gu Wenning took out the key and opened the door that Fu Yanhe handed him a bag of medicine and warned, “Take the medicine in the blue box three times a day, two pills at a time, and the medicine in the red box just once a day…”