Substitute Bride: The Gentle Husband of the Evil Girl is Crazy and Wild

Chapter 284 Talking to Gu Fei about Modern Things

Gu Fei went to cook a bowl of hangover soup. Seeing him coming in with the bowl, she raised her tied hands from her quilt.

Seeing her movements, he placed the bowl on the bedside table and immediately untied it.

The moment he let go, Li Xiaoyu gritted his teeth and slammed his head into his chest.

"Asshole, tie me up."

Her collision did not hurt Gu Fei at all, but it caused the quilt to fall off. Looking at the beautiful scenery, his eyes were dim.

A meaningful remark escaped from his thin lips: "You still have the energy to hit someone. It seems that before we talk about business, we can continue what we were doing just now."

Thinking of his behavior at that time, Li Xiaoyu, who thought she was quite thick-skinned, couldn't help but blush.

He pulled the quilt up and moved sideways to get the bowl of hangover-relief soup.

Before drinking it, she snorted at Gu Fei fiercely: "Just wait, we are not done yet."

Gu Fei raised her lips slightly: "I'll wait."

After she finished drinking, he took the empty bowl from her hand, took out a handkerchief, put it close to the corner of her lips, rubbed and wiped it gently, and said in a gentle tone: "Tell me, why do you want to go to logistics."

Xiao Wang didn't tell Luo Feng about what happened in the military camp. It was only when the letter came into his hands that he discovered the problem from the words between the lines.

Maybe Old Lu was worried about something, so he only said that Li Xiaoyu and Xiao Wang were firemen in the military camp.

He did not mention the logistics. If Li Guangchang had not let the cat out of the bag and had not pressed him, he would still have been kept in the dark about the matter.

After drinking the soup, I leaned back and relaxed for a while.

Li Xiaoyu's mind became much clearer. He stared at the man sitting beside the bed with his hazy eyes, his lips pursed into a straight line.

I glanced at my wrist and saw there were no marks left on it.

He said, "If you want to go, go ahead."

As soon as the words came out, Gu Fei's eyes darkened, staring at her, his back tense, his mood low and stern, his voice was also like this: "You are a person who cherishes your life, the battlefield is a dangerous place, how could you possibly want to go."

If she didn't want to say it, then he would say it for her.

"Ma'am, I've said before that I don't need your pity, and I don't need your pity now."

As soon as I heard these two words, I knew this guy was about to start again.

She blinked her eyelashes, grabbed his right hand like a piece of hair, patted the back of his hand gently, and said in a steady voice with a bit of helplessness: "I was afraid that you would think too much, so I didn't want to talk about this."

She placed the man's bony right hand in her palm and gently stroked each knuckle.

The tone was lowered a notch, slightly softer: "You are a person with self-respect. I never felt sorry for you before, and I will never feel sorry for you now or in the future."

Gu Fei lowered his eyes and glanced at her movements.

The soft fingertips were like freshly starched paper, so soft that they seemed boneless, leaving only warmth.

"Then, little fish, this isn't something worth keeping from me all this time."

Only after she opened her heart to each other completely did Gu Fei realize that even the slightest concealment from her partner would cause her pain in her heart.

Hearing his low and gentle voice, Li Xiaoyu puffed up his cheeks and let out a breath.

She didn't look at Gu Fei's face, but lowered her head to fiddle with his right hand. Unforgettable scenes of the battlefield emerged in her mind. She said calmly, "I used to think your world was dangerous, but it's actually many times more dangerous than I thought."

"One of the reasons I didn't want to tell you is that I was afraid you would think I was pitying you, and another reason is that I decided to come and see your world myself."

"I don't want you to feel guilty about what I saw."

She raised a finger and looked at the scar on it, frowning slightly.

"Just like you never deliberately talk about your injuries to make me feel bad or pity, I don't want to tell you those cruel things to make you feel guilty or distressed."

Her voice was very calm. After spending a long time with her, Gu Fei knew that the more she cared, the calmer her tone would be.

Having said that, Gu Fei moved her thin lips and asked the question that had been weighing on her mind.

"Xiao Yu, I want to know why you are still willing to love a despicable person like me after what happened."

His voice was low and soft, like the wind.

It doesn't feel heavy, but it carries a bit of tension.

Li Xiaoyu knew that what he said was a lie, and he also knew the reason why he asked this question, which was that he felt insecure deep down.

Now that we have come to this, let’s just make it clear in one go before getting married.

Turning his right hand over, she lowered her head in the light of the room and used her index finger to stroke the lines on the man's palm inch by inch. The intertwined lines of different depths and shallows were like their mental journey along the way.

Gu Fei glanced at her drooping brows, and his palms felt numb under her touch.

He pressed the corners of his mouth, with a barely perceptible panic in his eyes.

The fiery red candlelight swayed in the wind, and at the same time carried Li Xiaoyu's smiling words into Gu Fei's ears, he heard her say.

"When the company was first established, I followed my boss. She was very capable and a woman, so I respected her and regarded her as a close friend."

Afraid that he didn't understand the meaning of some words, she explained them to Gu Fei.

Then he continued: "If the company wants to develop, working overtime on projects is the norm." For a project, it is common to work overtime until the early morning or even all night.

"As my abilities improve, I will also lead team members to work on projects. After my grandmother passed away, my grandfather lived alone in his hometown. I wanted to bring him to live in the city where I work, but he said he didn't want to put too much pressure on me and refused."

"I would occasionally take a night bus back home when I was on a business trip just to see him. I would feel relieved when I saw that he was doing well."

A long time ago, Gu Fei guessed that she was not the original owner.

So there was nothing to hide. "My parents didn't have a good relationship. They divorced very early. I grew up with my grandparents. Although I didn't have the love of my parents, my grandparents loved me very much."

She gently pressed his palm and took a deep breath. The more she spoke, the more it felt like a fishbone was stuck in her throat.

"You can treat patients. I don't know if you have ever encountered a situation like this, where an elderly person who is in good condition suddenly becomes ill."

"We took on a very strict and urgent project. The client even asked us to hand in our cell phones and to pass on personal matters to our supervisor. If the project was done well, my supervisor would be promoted and I would be promoted too."

"She had something going on at home during those days, so she entrusted the project to me. My grandfather was suddenly hospitalized at the time, and she called me on my mobile phone. She was worried that it would affect the progress of the project, so she didn't tell me."

"Then the call came to my other boss, who asked Party A to pass the message to me."

"My grandfather had passed away by then."

Having said that, Li Xiaoyu didn't cry. She looked up at Gu Fei, saw the heartache in his eyes, and forced a smile on her lips.

"At that moment, something seemed to collapse in my heart."

"I used to be very brave and fearless, but from that time on, I became afraid. Before, even if I couldn't handle something, I would first think of a solution. But after that incident, when I encountered something I couldn't handle, I would think of retreating and escaping."

Gu Fei put his left hand on her face and smoothed her frown.

At this moment, he finally understood why she was determined to break up even though she clearly had feelings for him at that time.