Jiang Lihao noticed Gu Sisi looking strange. He had no idea what wild thoughts she was having. What if she guessed something private about Huo Cheng? Would it affect their future relationship as husband and wife?
Unfortunately, Gu Sisi had already delved into Huo Cheng's privacy.
"Did Huo Cheng have surgery in your hospital?" she finally asked. Fortunately, she didn't directly mention the circumcision.
Jiang Lihao quickly shook his head. "No, no, no. He's never been to my hospital. Our families are acquainted, so we've met a few times."
"Is your family also in business?"
"Yes."
"That's quite impressive!" Gu Sisi wasn't stupid. To be a business partner of Huo Cheng, one must be quite remarkable.
"Your family is so well - off, and you're a doctor. Why are you out on a blind date?"
Jiang Lihao remained calm. "Their situation has nothing to do with me." The "they" here obviously referred to his own family.
He was clearly a man with a story.
Gu Sisi was about to ask more when a cold voice came from behind. "What are you chatting about? Sounds so lively!"
Huo Cheng had appeared out of nowhere, his eyes seething with suppressed anger. In just a blink of an eye, this woman had sneaked out for a blind date behind his back. Was she itching for a beating?
If he hadn't happened to pass by, he didn't know how many more "surprises" she was hiding from him.
Gu Sisi suddenly felt like a young wife caught in an affair. She lowered her head, too afraid to meet his eyes.
Huo Cheng glared at her and then turned to Jiang Lihao. "Young Master Jiang, what brings you the leisure to come for coffee today?"
Jiang Lihao coughed. "Well... it's a long story."
"Make it short!" Huo Cheng's face was as dark as thunder.
"Uh, I just remembered that there's a triplet - pregnant woman having surgery in the hospital today. I have to go now. Excuse me!"
The more he said, the more mistakes he might make. All Jiang Lihao wanted to do now was to escape.
When only the two of them were left, Huo Cheng said nothing but kept turning up the air - conditioning. Gu Sisi felt even more embarrassed. "Well, I also have something to do. I'll leave first!"
"Sit down!"
Huo Cheng suddenly spoke, and Gu Sisi was so startled that she plopped back into her chair.
She hadn't really intended to succeed in the blind date. She just wanted to go through the motions. But she never expected to be caught red - handed by Huo Cheng. Now, even if she had a good reason, she couldn't explain herself.
She blinked her eyes and tried to make small talk. "Why are you here?"
"I should be asking you that!" His words made her shrink back.
Gu Sisi was in a panic. She was desperately hoping that some god would come to her rescue and make this guy, who seemed to be an air - conditioner on legs, leave quickly.
Ding - ling - ling!
The phone rang. Huo Cheng answered it, his face growing more and more solemn. He threw out a sentence. "Go home immediately. I'll settle the score with you tonight!"
Huo Cheng left in a hurry. Gu Sisi finally let out a sigh of relief, feeling like she had come back to life.
Huo Cheng said he'd settle the score tonight. Would he hold her accountable for breaching the contract and make her pay?
After some thought, just to be safe, she decided to stay at her parents' house for the night.
In the evening, Huo Cheng returned home. "Where's Gu Sisi?"
"The young mistress went back to her parents' house early this morning."
Huo Cheng closed his eyes, feeling that he was really too busy and dizzy. That coffee shop was quite close to her home. How could he not have thought of it?
"I see." After having a few bites of dinner casually, Huo Cheng went into his study and started to get busy with work.
The next day, without Gu Sisi around, Huo Cheng didn't even have the mood to have breakfast. He drove directly to her company to find her.
"Mr. Huo, Gu Sisi has asked for leave." The department head answered nervously.
"How many days?"
"Half... half a month!"
Huo Cheng's suppressed anger finally got out of control. "Who gave her the right to take a half - month leave at will?"
A chill swept over, and the department head shivered. "She... she took her annual leave in advance!"
Hearing this, Huo Cheng was so angry that his nose almost crooked.
Actually, Gu Sisi had no choice. She was afraid that Huo Cheng would cause trouble for her, so she could only hide for as long as possible and used up her annual leave in advance.
Huo Cheng was about to drive to Gu's house to find her when his phone rang. It was Jiang Lihao.
"Huo Cheng, I heard your fiancée has run away?"
"Get lost!"
"You're always so irritable. It's not good."
"Get lost!"
"I'm not joking with you. I have something serious to talk to you about today."
"Get lost!"
Jiang Lihao: "..." Did he eat gunpowder?
In the coffee shop, Huo Cheng was impatient. "Speak quickly if you have something to say!"
"Your relationship is just on paper?" Jiang Lihao suddenly changed his serious demeanor. He took off his glasses, revealing his peach - blossom eyes and smiling wickedly.
If Gu Sisi saw him like this, she would surely be shocked.
"Don't ask what you shouldn't." There was a dangerous glint in Huo Cheng's eyes.
"I'm doing this for your own good. I'm here to give you a hand."
"Help me, so you went on a blind date with my fiancée?"
"Um...," Jiang Lihao explained seriously. "It was really an accident. I only found out she was your fiancée after we met."
Huo Cheng was too lazy to dig deeper into this issue. He was full of anger. "So? What's your idea?"
Jiang Lihao got excited. "Chase her! A paper relationship doesn't count. What if she falls in love with someone else one day?"
"Strangle her." Huo Cheng gritted out these three words.
Jiang Lihao was speechless. His brother was highly intelligent, but his emotional intelligence was erratic. Especially when it came to love, he seemed to be at a fetal - education level.
"You've never been in love. You're an old - fashioned innocent virgin. This is a tough problem..." Jiang Lihao was trying to come up with a solution for him when he seemed to say something that annoyed Huo Cheng.
"Get lost!"
Huo Cheng coldly left this sentence and walked away.
After meeting Jiang Lihao, Huo Cheng temporarily gave up the idea of going to Gu's house to find her. Maybe he should change his approach and lure her back first.
As for the idea of falling in love that Jiang Lihao mentioned, just thinking about it gave him a headache.
*
"Sisi?" Mother Gu knocked on the door a few times with a fruit plate in her hand and then pushed the door open.
"What's up, Mom?" Gu Sisi sat up from the bed, messily running her hands through her disheveled hair to show her face.
She had spent most of the days in bed since she didn't go to work. She looked slovenly.
"Do you even have the nerve to ask me what's up?" Mother Gu said with a straight face. "Tell me, how's it going with the guy Aunt Qiong introduced to you?"
Gu Sisi looked half - asleep. Her mind went blank for a few seconds before she finally remembered.
Jiang Lihao?
She rolled her eyes for a while and replied casually. "I think he's a nice guy. We just haven't been in touch much recently."
"Why not?"
"Maybe he doesn't like me." Gu Sisi shrugged and picked up a fruit from the plate and stuffed it into her mouth to hide her uneasiness.
"Do you even have the nerve to eat?" Mother Gu glared at her with disgust. "Uncle Chen's daughter just had her second child, and Uncle Zhang's son got married last year. You're the only one who's so disappointing."