"Jian You!" Yu Hekun was quickly tangled up in the quilt until only his head was free. Jian Youyou was still sitting astride the quilt, looking down at him with a beaming smile.
"Stop messing around," Yu Hekun said, his breath somewhat ragged.
Jian Youyou leaned down, bringing her face close to Yu Hekun's. Yu Hekun lifted his leg and nudged her lower back through the quilt with his knee. "I'll really take action," he threatened.
Jian Youyou was undaunted. "Then go ahead. What are you going to do to me?"
Her nose touched his, bringing them so close they were almost pressed together. Defeated by her shamelessness, Yu Hekun gave one last strong struggle, flipped over, and turned the tables, pinning Jian Youyou beneath him. The quilt happened to cover her as well. With a few twists of his wrist, the tie binding his hands came loose. Glaring at Jian Youyou, he unwound the tie from his wrist and demanded, "Where did you learn all this?"
Lying there with a smile, Jian Youyou watched as Yu Hekun didn't even settle his full weight on her, instead supporting himself on his knees planted on either side of her body.
"I didn't learn it anywhere. I just wanted to tie you up," Jian Youyou said. "Wanted to tether you to my bed, so you couldn't leave."
Yu Hekun couldn't stand hearing things like that. His lips moved slightly, the flush that had risen to his face never fading. He touched his burning ear, shot Jian Youyou a glare, then rolled off the bed. With one hand holding his belt and the other picking up his jacket from where it hung by the bed, he said, "Go to sleep."
Jian Youyou didn't plan to cause any more trouble. However, as Yu Hekun bent to pick up his jacket, he also picked up a book—the very one Jian Youyou had summoned and kept by her pillow every day to study.
Its title was "The White Moonlight of the Fateful, Devilishly Handsome CEO."
Holding the rather substantial book, Yu Hekun glanced at the title on the cover and was thoroughly thunderstruck. Looking up, he met Jian Youyou's horrified gaze and couldn't help but laugh. "Is this what you're reading?" he asked, actually making as if to open it.
Jian Youyou sat up and pounced like a tiger, lunging at Yu Hekun to snatch the book away. She clutched it to her chest like a miser guarding her chest of gold.
"Read something normal," Yu Hekun said, holding his suit jacket and adjusting his belt. "It's because you read this kind of stuff every day that you dress so strangely. My study has many books, quite a variety. If you like reading, you can go find something anytime."
Jian Youyou looked at him warily, giving a stiff nod. "I know. You... you should go now!"
Yu Hekun thought she was embarrassed by the shameless title on the cover. He looked at her with an amused smile for a moment, then, as if moved by some inexplicable impulse, leaned down and kissed her forehead, which was still slightly damp from their earlier tussle.
"Sleep early."
Yu Hekun said it in a gentle tone he had never used before.
Jian Youyou stuffed the book under the blanket behind her, hummed in acknowledgment, and smiled too, saying, "You sleep early too, Brother Kun."
Yu Hekun left the room, his clothes and hair disheveled. After closing the door to Jian Youyou's room, he stood in the hallway, draped his jacket over his shoulder, and reached down to adjust his belt—this was already the second belt of his she had managed to ruin.
He wouldn't be buying from that brand anymore.
As he fiddled with it, he walked towards his own room, only to look up and bump into Yu Mingzhong, who was watching from his own doorway.
Yu Mingzhong had witnessed with his own eyes his dear younger brother emerging from that woman's room. This man, who was usually meticulous to a fault, without a single wrinkle on his clothes, now had his shirt half untucked and half stuffed into his trousers. The tie in his hand looked like a dehydrated piece of seaweed. And the act of adjusting his belt after coming out of a woman's room made Yu Mingzhong narrow his eyes behind his glasses.
No wonder he refused to believe what they said and was reluctant to ditch her. So he's gotten a taste and can't let go.
Yu Mingzhong was actually quite surprised. He knew how principled and chaste his brother was. To think he'd actually gotten serious with this woman...
He couldn't help but recall how she had looked when he first arrived—dressed like that, trying to seduce his brother but mistaking him for Yu Hekun.
At first glance, she did bear a slight resemblance to Huo Jiaoyue. And she was so clingy. It seemed Zhan Cheng was right; she was a little seductress. His foolish younger brother, who had never even experienced a normal romantic relationship, being bewitched by a little seductress seemed all too plausible.
As these thoughts ran through Yu Mingzhong's mind, he had already averted his gaze from Yu Hekun, who stood awkwardly in the hallway, and closed his door as if nothing had happened.
Yu Hekun also realized Yu Mingzhong had misunderstood something, but it was hard to explain. Moreover, after standing there for a moment, he remembered he was still angry with Yu Mingzhong and felt even more disinclined to offer an explanation.
He returned to his room, washed up, took the medicine the doctor had prescribed, and soon fell asleep. Indeed, these past few days of illness and anxiety had drained too much of his energy. Rest was paramount for recovery, and he drifted off quickly.
However, compared to Yu Hekun, neither Yu Mingzhong nor Jian Youyou, sharing the same villa, found it so easy to sleep. Yu Mingzhong was pondering how to help his brother deal with this little vixen. He had always known Yu Hekun couldn't forget Huo Jiaoyue, but their family had never held much goodwill towards the Huo family. A marriage alliance offered no benefits, and Huo Jiaoyue was too proud and ambitious. If she were to be with his brother, they wouldn't be well-matched; Yu Hekun wouldn't be able to handle her and would be led by the nose.
Still, Huo Jiaoyue was, after all, a young lady from a family of deep heritage, sufficiently accomplished in her own right. If it meant clearing this little thing from Yu Hekun's side, Yu Mingzhong wouldn't mind giving things a push to help his brother's dream come true.
After all, back when he himself had just begun to have some ambiguous feelings for Huo Jiaoyue and learned his brother liked her, he had quickly distanced himself. They hadn't been in contact all these years.
Yu Mingzhong opened the window, facing the dense darkness of the night, lit a cigarette, and exhaled softly. To think at his age, he still had to make a special trip to worry about his brother's love life.
When will Xiao Kun truly grow up? Yu Mingzhong gently blew out a puff of smoke, his beautiful peach-blossom eyes narrowing slightly behind his glasses.
As for Jian Youyou, whom Yu Mingzhong had decisively labeled a little vixen, she was hugging her book in fearful relief. It was so close, so very close—Yu Hekun had almost seen the contents of the book. She wouldn't dare leave it by the bedside so casually anymore.
After Yu Hekun left, Jian Youyou opened the book and glanced inside. On the title page, a skull emoji had appeared, along with a faint, damp stain. With unspoken understanding, Jian Youyou didn't ask if the stain was from it being scared witless. In any case, she stopped holding it and, silently chanting "put away" in her mind, stored the book.
The plot could not be revealed to anyone within the world of the novel. The consequences were unthinkable—at best, a deviation from the main storyline; at worst, the collapse of the entire world. Jian Youyou, frightened, frantically patted her own thumping heart and took a long time to fall asleep.
However, the next morning, when Jian Youyou woke up, washed, and went downstairs, she saw Yu Hekun sitting on the sofa. A laptop rested on his knees, an IV drip was attached to his hand, and he was speaking seriously into the computer, seemingly in a video conference.
Jian Youyou lightened her footsteps, absolutely determined not to disturb Yu Hekun while he was working. She moved around the house like a little mouse, tiptoeing quietly, even eating as softly as possible to avoid making noise.
Today, Yu Mingzhong went to the company in his stead. While Yu Hekun verbally resisted the idea, in his heart, he actually felt quite at ease with Yu Mingzhong handling things. The video conference was forwarded to him by Yu Mingzhong. He didn't speak much, just watched as Yu Mingzhong dealt with company matters for him.
Yu Hekun had already noticed when Jian Youyou came downstairs. She had become aware that he was working and even her footsteps had grown silent, yet Yu Hekun couldn't help but keep glancing in her direction.
She's actually quite considerate, Yu Hekun couldn't help but think. Although she can be quite a handful sometimes, as long as she has his attention, she becomes very well-behaved. It's like raising an affectionate cat that might shred your blanket, but will quietly curl up and sleep on your lap as soon as you reach out to pet her.
Even now, Yu Hekun still couldn't quite figure out what she truly meant to him. But he could at least confirm that he didn't dislike her closeness, didn't mind her liveliness, and even rather enjoyed this feeling of being carefully, cautiously liked by her.
Yu Hekun had actually thought more than once that he might never meet another girl like Jian You, who liked him so much she could even disregard her own life.
For the first time during a company meeting, Yu Hekun's mind wandered. His eyes were completely filled with the image of Jian Youyou sitting quietly at the table eating, his self-indulgent sentimentality rising a notch. Meanwhile, Jian Youyou, sitting at the table, was thinking that before tonight's plot point, she might as well go out and score some freebies.
Yu Mingzhong also noticed Yu Hekun's distraction. Through the floor-to-ceiling window behind his brother, he could see that Yu Hekun's gaze was fixed precisely on the dining table, where that troublesome little enchantress from last night was seated.
His younger brother had always been extremely focused on work. This was the first time Yu Mingzhong had seen Yu Hekun stare blankly at a woman—not even Huo Jiaoyue had elicited such a reaction. Yu Mingzhong instantly felt the urgent need to find a way to deal with this troublesome creature.
After Jian Youyou finished eating, Yu Hekun's video conference also ended. Jian Youyou smiled and sidled up to him, puckering her lips to plant a loud kiss on his cheek. Yu Hekun, dressed in loungewear and sitting on the sofa, complained, "You're so gross," but didn't pull away. Instead, he turned his head to look at Jian Youyou, a hint of a smile in his eyes.
Jian Youyou asked him, "Don't you need to go to the company today?"
"Hmm," Yu Hekun said, "My brother went."
Jian Youyou knew that in this novel's world, the Yu family didn't have brothers tearing each other apart over the inheritance. The Yu family's empire was simply too vast, its reach across industries too broad for any one person to manage alone. Besides, Yu Hekun's older brother Yu Mingzhong's main domain was overseas.
This was something Jian You had flipped to in the latter part of the plot last night. She had also looked up some information about Yu Mingzhong's personality, concluding that he was an old fox even more troublesome than the single-minded Zhan Cheng. This time, she didn't need Yu Hekun to remind her; she would steer clear of this old fox herself.
"So you can spend the whole day with me today," Jian Youyou said, while thinking to herself, 'Great, my plan to secretly use his card for cash while he's not paying attention is ruined.'
However, Yu Hekun shook his head. "I need to go to the company after my IV drip. My brother is just helping me out temporarily," Yu Hekun said. "Be a good girl and stay home. In a few days, there's a project requiring an out-of-town site visit. I'll take you along to play."
As he spoke, he reached out and ruffled Jian Youyou's hair.
After doing it, he himself was a bit stunned. The gesture had come too naturally. The two of them were almost pressed together. Yu Hekun had never been this physically close with anyone before, yet now it felt completely comfortable.
How strange.
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