Gu Yue snapped back to her senses, her hands grabbing Kong Mingan's shoulders. She pushed him back slightly with a bit of force, allowing their eyes to meet. Her purple eyes stared fixedly at him, her pupils trembling slightly. "You... what did you say?!"
"I said," Kong Mingan remained calm, even sounding a bit helpless, "Qiu'er arrived a few days ago. Everything we did... she probably saw it all."
Gu Yue froze instantly. After a brief pause, a rare look of anxiety appeared on her usually cold face. Her hands gripped his shoulders tightly as she hurriedly asked, "When did this happen?! Why didn't you tell me sooner?!"
"The morning of the second day after we returned. As for why I didn't tell you..."
He paused, seemingly recalling the scene seriously, before stating the facts. "I had just noticed it and wanted to tell you, but then you threw yourself at me, kissing and biting. You blocked my mouth directly and didn't give me a chance to speak at all."
Who was kissing and biting you!
Gu Yue was speechless, her face flushing red. She tried to recall based on his description, but the fragments flashing through her mind were all of her actively clinging to him over the past few days, even occasionally trying to take the lead only to be quickly suppressed...
Damn it...
It seems... that really was the case?
Gu Yue's eyes flickered with a hint of inexplicable guilt, but she quickly regained her composure. Supporting her still-aching body, she tried to climb out of bed. However, just as she was halfway up, Kong Mingan reached out and easily pulled her back, pressing her down into his embrace. "Mm..."
"
Gu Yue let out a muffled groan as she fell back into his arms. She immediately frowned at him. "What do you want now?!"
Kong Mingan reached out and tapped her head, his tone helpless. "I should be asking what you want. Calm down, don't be so anxious."
"How can I be calm?!"
Gu Yue couldn't help but speak up, her eyes indeed filled with a bit of helplessness. It was one thing for her to be bullied so ruthlessly by this guy these past few days... after all, she had been quite immersed in it. But having it seen by Qiu'er made her feel like her world had turned gray and her heart was stifled. Her image as the so-called 'Lord Sister' in Qiu'er's heart was probably completely shattered, turned into some strange image of someone who only knew how to entangle herself with this guy, right?
Gu Yue pursed her lips slightly, her eyes downcast. Her long eyelashes trembled, and combined with her slightly red eyes from being bullied earlier, she inexplicably carried a sense of humiliation.
Kong Mingan looked at Gu Yue's expression, which seemed as if she were about to cry, and was momentarily speechless. He sighed and held her tighter, his voice softening slightly. "Actually, you don't need to worry too much."
Gu Yue looked up slightly, her purple eyes still misty from the previous 'bullying,' gazing at him expectantly. "Why?"
"Because Qiu'er probably won't have much of a reaction..." Kong Mingan explained while gently stroking the Dragon scales on her back, smoothing her fur... or rather, her scales, his tone gentle. "...Qiu'er likely already thought we were like this. This time, it just went from a suspicion to seeing it with her own eyes."
Gu Yue blinked, somewhat confused. "Already thought so?"
"Yes." Kong Mingan nodded and reminded her, "Remember the first time, after you signed the contract with me, when you came out of the Laboratory looking disheveled and happened to run into Qiu'er?"
Gu Yue's body stiffened. She naturally remembered that dark history, and very clearly at that.
"At that time, Qiu'er probably already misunderstood that something had happened between us," Kong Mingan continued. "And it was likely because of that misunderstanding that Qiu'er later approached me on her own initiative, proposing to sign a contract with me."
Gu Yue's eyes paused for a moment as her thoughts were naturally guided and connected by Kong Mingan's words. Her voice then became stiff. "In other words, Qiu'er only signed the contract with you because she misunderstood that you and I had already..."
"You could understand it that way." Kong Mingan nodded.
Gu Yue's gaze became dazed again. So, the cause of everything was her own negligence that time, forgetting to tidy her appearance before running out? This entire series of chain reactions... was all her own fault?
Gu Yue began to doubt herself. Kong Mingan pinched the Dragon King Young Miss's tail, pulling her thoughts back. "After that time, we spent many more occasions alone together for long periods. Especially during the development of the 'ling shu clone,' when we stayed in the Laboratory for an entire month without ever leaving. What do you think Qiu'er thought we were doing in there?"
Gu Yue was silent. Even though she really wanted to explain to Qiu'er that she and this guy were innocent back then... a man and a woman staying together for a month, especially when she was wearing those strange clothes...
Even she wouldn't believe they were innocent if she said it out loud!
"With Qiu'er's sharp intuition and her focus on you, she probably had many similar misunderstandings long ago.
"However, despite so many misunderstandings, Qiu'er never mentioned it to anyone, nor did she directly question you. This shows that while she cares, she is also silently accepting it. Or rather, it's precisely because she knew that she tried to intervene in her own way, coming up with the idea of signing a contract with me. In any case, she won't easily tell anyone, so you can rest assured."
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Hearing this, Gu Yue's heart settled slightly, and her body relaxed a bit, but she soon frowned again. "Then what should we do now? We can't just act like nothing happened, can we?"
Kong Mingan said calmly, "Let's just leave it like this for now. Qiu'er will most likely approach me alone to ask. We'll deal with it then."
Gu Yue was puzzled. "Why would she look for you and not me?"
Kong Mingan glanced at her, his tone a bit subtle. "Probably because the few times Qiu'er tried to seek answers from you before, you didn't give her any. You either brushed her off or directly used your authority as her Lord to tell her not to ask. If she asks you, she'll feel she won't get the truth, but if she asks me..."
Kong Mingan paused. "Although I won't tell her either, she'll feel she can get some clues and answers from me through indirect questioning. Previously, regarding the general contents of our contract, she deduced it herself from some of my reactions and words."
Gu Yue was speechless, unable to find any words to refute him for a moment. After all, what this guy said was the truth. She was silent for a while, a flash of complexity in her purple eyes, before she finally couldn't help but ask, "If Qiu'er really comes to find you, how will you treat her?"
Kong Mingan said directly, "The same as before, according to the contract."
"Then what if..." Gu Yue bit her lower lip, her voice lowering, carrying a hint of difficult-to-express conflict, "What if Qiu'er is very proactive? Or even... more proactive? Could you really hold back?"
Kong Mingan looked at Gu Yue. "Then what do you want?"
Gu Yue's eyes lowered, and she said, somewhat throwing caution to the wind, "I only hope that you'll be gentler with Qiu'er when the time comes."
(End of Chapter)
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