Chapter 95: If There Had Been No Rebirth (Extra 3)
Only a small portion of the food covering the table had been eaten.
Gu Qinian glanced at the untouched dishes, and his face immediately darkened. The temperature in the office seemed to drop along with it.
Jiang Yiwen stood to one side and shivered on the spot.
Out of the corner of his eye, he looked at the young man, who was rubbing his hands together and getting ready to open the cake box, frantically signaling to him with his eyes.
—Stop worrying about the cake!
—Hurry up and look at President Gu!
Jiang Yiwen was practically on the verge of shouting.
In all his years working here, he had never seen President Gu personally buy food for anyone.
In fact, Gu Qinian usually got by very carelessly even with his own meals. Once he got into work mode, he often forgot both food and sleep, as if he had no intention of living very long…
Today, for the first time ever, he had ordered a whole table full of dishes, yet the young man only nibbled two or three bites like a kitten before already thinking about the cake.
Their President Gu’s expression instantly turned unpleasant.
And yet the young man’s eyes were full of cake. He did not even look at President Gu once, completely unaware of the danger.
In his heart, Jiang Yiwen silently lit a candle for the young man.
Afraid of being caught in the president’s anger, he planned to quietly slip away.
And right at that moment, their President Gu finally spoke.
“You’re only eating that little?”
Gu Qinian’s voice was cold as ice, so cold that Jiang Yiwen’s leg trembled as he tried to sneak off.
But the young man seemed not to notice at all and said with complete confidence, “I’m saving room for cake.”
Gu Qinian’s gaze swept over the young man’s slender frame, and his tone turned stern. “Either come over here and eat properly right now, or there won’t be any cake from now on.”
Gu Tang protested, “I can’t eat anymore. If I eat all of that, I’ll get fat!”
As he spoke, he lifted his shirt and showed the man his little stomach.
Because the young man had his back to him, Jiang Yiwen could not tell whether he had actually gained weight or not.
But seeing their President Gu’s expression instantly soften, he had to give the young man credit—
Impressive. Truly impressive!
He had worried for nothing.
The young man had already completely taken their boss in hand, playing him like clay between his fingers!
“Look, I’ve already gained weight.”
Gu Tang tugged at the too-long hem of the shirt and muttered under his breath.
His pale, flat little stomach was completely exposed in front of the man.
The man’s hand pressed against it.
Because the other man’s body temperature ran low, the coolness of his palm made Gu Tang shiver slightly, but he did not dodge, letting the other inspect his body.
The skin beneath his hand was fine and taut, and that slim waist had not the slightest trace of extra flesh. It was narrow enough to circle with one hand.
It was just incredibly soft to the touch.
Gu Qinian had never touched anything so soft before, and could not help squeezing it a few times. “Not fat. You just don’t exercise enough, and your muscle layer is too thin.”
“You’ll be fine if you work out more in the future.”
President Gu’s words sounded perfectly proper and upright, but his hand stayed inside Gu Tang’s shirt the whole time, unwilling to come back out.
Gu Tang grabbed his strong forearm. “Will you work out with me?”
Watching from the side, Jiang Yiwen sucked in a sharp breath.
Too good, too good!
What kind of little temptress was this?!
While Jiang Yiwen was silently complaining in his head, he also secretly observed his boss’s expression, only to discover in shock—
their President Gu had actually smiled!!!
Jiang Yiwen rubbed his eyes in disbelief.
Gu Qinian lowered his eyes to look at the young man and curled his lips. “Fine. Just don’t cry when the time comes.”
Jiang Yiwen: Help, is this really something I’m allowed to hear?!
Assistant Jiang was beginning to regret not leaving right after delivering the food and instead waiting around, thinking he might help tidy up once his boss finished eating.
Now it seemed he was the one who most deserved to be cleared out.
Jiang Yiwen felt like an enormous light bulb.
The kind that neither knew how to leave nor stay…
As Gu Qinian spoke, he pinched the young man’s little stomach again and said teasingly, “Training will hurt a lot. Can you really endure it?”
Gu Tang let out a tiny “hmph.” “Who’s afraid of you?”
When he asked Young Master Gu to exercise with him, the other always talked to him in the same improper way.
Even though he still had not been awakened, he was absolutely consistent in the way he teased him…
Gu Tang wondered why Boss Gu still was not taking his hand off his stomach. The moment he raised his eyes, he met a pair of dark, unfathomable eyes.
That look was far too familiar to him.
At once his back stiffened, and he pushed the man’s hand away. “No more touching!”
His face red, he tugged his shirt back down and turned around to go eat his cake.
As expected of the same person.
Even if he was only a fragment of a soul, Boss Gu and Young Master Gu were exactly alike when it came to getting turned on anytime, anywhere.
The warm, soft feeling vanished from his palm.
Gu Qinian rubbed his fingers together in regret.
Still, he did not force the young man to eat any more. Instead, he sat down and swept through all the food the other had left behind.
Jiang Yiwen was completely dumbfounded.
Their noble, aloof, cleanliness-obsessed, finicky boss was actually eating someone else’s leftovers?!
Gu Qinian ate with obvious enjoyment.
His manner of eating was elegant without losing efficiency.
In no time, he finished everything the young man had not been able to eat.
Gu Tang, on the other hand, ate very slowly.
By the time Gu Qinian had finished his meal, Gu Tang had only eaten half of his little piece of cake.
“You finished everything already?”
Gu Tang scooped the strawberry off the cake and held it up to the man’s mouth. “Want a bite?”
This time Jiang Yiwen could not hold it in and blurted out, “President Gu doesn’t eat sweets!”
And he definitely would not share a spoon with someone else!
However, the very next second, Assistant Jiang heard an invisible smack—
the sound of himself getting slapped in the face.
Their boss not only opened his mouth and ate it, but even licked his lips while looking at the young man.
The young man asked him, “Is it good?”
Their normally unsmiling boss curled his lips. “Not bad.”
The young man smiled and fed him another spoonful.
Numbly, Jiang Yiwen gathered up the bowls and plates, then slowly backed out of the president’s office with a blank expression.
Their boss had definitely been possessed…
When he went to the stairwell to throw out the trash, Jiang Yiwen ran into the old man responsible for cleaning the area around the president’s office.
The old man looked to be in a terrible mood. The moment he saw him, he stormed over angrily.
“Assistant Jiang! I want to report something!”
The old man grabbed him and began tattling, “Yesterday! A kid joined our sanitation and logistics department. He volunteered to work overtime cleaning the president’s office, and I thought he was a good child!”
“But then he took the spare office key and still hasn’t returned it!”
“And this morning he didn’t even show up for work!”
“Do you think he might be a spy from a rival company?”
An old man was still an old man.
In certain areas, his instincts were extremely sharp.
Jiang Yiwen reassured him, “He didn’t fail to show up. He just never left all night.”
The old man froze. “That hardworking?!”
“Tell me about it.”
Jiang Yiwen handed the spare key back to him. “He asked me to return this for him. Gu Tang won’t be in sanitation and logistics anymore. He got transferred.”
The old man took the key and asked curiously, “Transferred where?”
Jiang Yiwen sighed. “The president’s personal life assistant.”
The old man slapped his thigh and instantly changed his tune. “That’s what I thought! That child looked fair and refined—destined for great things!”
Jiang Yiwen thought to himself: more than that.
At this rate, before long, he might even become the president’s wife.
Inside the president’s office lounge.
Gu Tang had eaten and drunk his fill and was leaning back on the sofa, rubbing his stomach to help digestion.
But as he rubbed, he suddenly felt that something was off.
How strange…
Boss Gu did not know his tastes, so how had he known to order him strawberry cake?
Once could be called a coincidence.
But the problem was that there had been strawberry cake both yesterday at noon and today!
Exactly what strange memory had Young Master Gu engraved into his mind?
Even a fragment of his soul knew to order him strawberry cake…
“Drink some tea. It’ll help digestion.”
Just as he was thinking about it,
Boss Gu brought over a cup of warm tea and placed it by his hand.
For a moment, Gu Tang could not tell which of them was supposed to be the assistant.
Feeling a little embarrassed, he said shyly, “Next time I’ll make tea for you…”
As he spoke, he shifted his body to the side, making room for the man to sit.
Gu Qinian sat down beside the young man.
This time, he warmed his hands first before slipping them beneath the hem of the young man’s shirt and rubbing his stomach to help him digest. “It doesn’t matter. If you don’t feel like moving, then just rest.”
The man’s palms were warm, and the pressure was neither too light nor too heavy. It felt extremely comfortable.
Gu Tang was rubbed so comfortably that he narrowed his eyes, and his face grew redder and redder.
If it were Young Master Gu, he would not be polite at all.
But when facing Boss Gu, he still felt a little restrained.
Although he knew it was the same person, he was still not quite used to it.
At that moment, Gu Tang felt like some little temptress seducing a powerful boss—one who had come behind her husband’s back, no less—and the sense of guilty shame was rather overwhelming.
Wah, it would be nice if Nian Nian woke up soon…
With the system gone and no new instructions, Gu Tang could only rely on his own instincts to find a way to wake him up.
Because it was his appearance that had changed Young Master Gu’s life path and altered the plot, perhaps if the other remembered him, he would come to his senses.
The strawberry cake was the breakthrough point!
From that, it was clear that Young Master Gu had tucked him away in his subconscious.
If he slowly drew that subconscious out, maybe the other would remember him!
Gu Tang deliberately leaned a little closer to the man. “Qinian, shall we chat?”
The young man’s body was soft, and as soon as he leaned close, a sweet scent came with him.
Gu Qinian’s nose twitched slightly, and he turned his head to look at him.
He did not speak, but that meant he had agreed.
Lowering his lashes, Gu Tang asked as if speaking to himself, “Why are you so good to me?”
The hand rubbing his stomach never stopped, and the motions remained very gentle.
But the words that came from Boss Gu’s mouth were ice-cold. “You’re my person. I can do whatever I want with you.”
Gu Tang: “…”
“I advise you to speak properly.”
Young Master Gu had always been tsundere since childhood. Saying no when he meant yes—when that trait spread onto Boss Gu, it became—
hard outside, soft inside.
Well, soft also worked.
But Gu Tang felt that acting fierce was more effective than acting spoiled.
Poor Boss Gu did not get to see the little cutie acting sweet. Instead, he got scolded and could only purse his lips in grievance. “You’re my assistant. Shouldn’t I treat you well?”
Gu Tang tilted his face up. “I’m only your life assistant. Yiwen is still your special assistant, but I’ve never seen you treat him this well.”
“Yiwen?”
Gu Qinian’s brows drew tightly together.
The young man called him “Qinian” and called his special assistant “Yiwen.”
In the young man’s eyes, what difference was there between him and Jiang Yiwen?
He would fire Jiang Yiwen this afternoon!
Gu Tang immediately noticed something wrong with the man’s expression and quickly grabbed the hand rubbing his stomach. “I’m not close to Assistant Jiang. I just called him that casually. Don’t overthink it.”
Then he added another line. “Of course you’re the most important one.”
“Hmph.” Gu Qinian let out a cold snort and continued rubbing the young man’s little stomach.
At the same time, he removed Jiang Yiwen from the list of people to be fired.
Once he had confirmed that Assistant Jiang’s job was safe, Gu Tang continued the topic from before. “And besides, we’ve only known each other for one day…”
As he spoke, he carefully watched the man’s expression.
In his heart, he kept chanting: Remember, remember…
However, Boss Gu only pressed his lips together and said unhappily, “So what? Do you care that much about how long you’ve known someone?”
Gu Qinian was so jealous he could barely stand it.
That bastard called Nian Nian must have known the little one for a very long time.
The little one was always unconsciously comparing him to that wild man.
Gu Tang had no idea what Boss Gu was thinking. He shook the other’s arm. “Don’t you think it’s strange? You’re cold to everyone else, so why are you so good to me when we just met? Could there be some other reason?”
Gu Qinian had just swallowed a stomach full of jealousy.
And now the young man was also saying he was a cold person.
His mood worsened even more, and he asked unpleasantly, “What reason?”
Gu Tang gave him a hint. “For example… could it be that I feel very familiar to you?”
Gu Qinian turned and looked directly at the young man with his deep black eyes.
The young man had round amber eyes that curved into two adorable little crescents when he smiled. There were two tiny dimples on his cheeks, and his berry-red lips tempted him at every moment.
If he had ever met someone this perfectly to his taste before, how could he possibly have forgotten?
He was sure he had never seen him before.
Which brought him to the question—
Who was the person the little one said felt familiar…?
That wild man whom he lovingly called “Nian Nian”?!!!
Boss Gu, who had never been in love before, suddenly felt as though a whole bottle of mixed flavors had overturned inside him. Sour, sweet, bitter, spicy—all of it surged up at once, making his temples pound and his head ache.
His eyes turned from black to red as he stared fixedly at the young man before him.
Without blinking once.
As if the moment he blinked, the young man would run away.
The air in the room suddenly turned cold.
Gu Tang shivered out of nowhere. Seeing that the other’s expression had turned bad, he asked with concern, “Qinian, are you okay?”
“Why is your face so pale?”
Before he could react, his chin was gripped.
And he was given a rough kiss.
The man sucked fiercely on his lips, seizing his oxygen. The moisture in his mouth was plundered by the other, and even that seemed not enough as he sucked on his tongue, not letting him escape.
The softest part of his lip was bitten once.
The hand that had been gently rubbing his stomach moments ago was now groping wildly inside his clothes.
Only when Gu Tang shuddered violently and let out an indescribable little sound through the gap in his lips
did the man finally let him go slightly.
Their lips parted with a shameful wet pop, a strand of silver saliva stretching between them.
Gu Tang’s cheeks were flushed red, and his watery eyes looked at the man. “What was that for?”
So fierce…
It wasn’t like he wouldn’t let him kiss him.
Gu Qinian’s big hand still cupped his mouth. “You’re only allowed to look at me.”
The two lips he had pinched into a pout moved slightly. “But I am looking at you…”
“You’re not allowed to think about anyone else!”
Gu Qinian shouted in a dark, dangerous tone.
Gu Tang: “???”
Before he could even figure out who the “anyone else” was supposed to be, the man tilted his head and kissed his neck again.
Rather than a kiss,
it would be more accurate to call it gnawing.
The delicate skin of his neck was caught between the man’s teeth, lifted, held in his mouth, and slowly ground against.
This was what Gu Tang feared most.
He was ticklish to begin with, and his neck was the most sensitive place of all.
He was kissed until his legs kicked wildly, and if he did not bite his fingers, all kinds of embarrassing sounds would spill from his mouth.
But Boss Gu was even stronger than Young Master Gu.
He lifted him into his arms and held him there, one large hand locked around his waist.
Gu Tang could not move at all, and could only sit obediently across the man’s lap. His entire body weight was supported by Boss Gu, both his legs hanging helplessly with only the tips of his toes barely able to touch the floor.
After only a single day, simple kisses were already no longer enough for Gu Qinian.
He wanted more from the young man.
After kissing his neck, he bit down on the young man’s small, round Adam’s apple.
The young man was wearing his shirt, which hung very loosely on him.
At a moment like this, that only made things more convenient for him.
He kissed his way further inside while still muttering, “You’re not allowed to think about anyone else, not allowed…”
Gu Tang’s breathing turned ragged. If not for the other’s hand supporting his lower back, he would have fallen right off Boss Gu at any moment.
Boss Gu seemed to know everything instinctively. Every step he took was exactly the same as Young Master Gu’s.
The only difference was that his force was stronger.
Looking down at the head burrowing about beneath his shirt, Gu Tang could only tilt his neck back helplessly to make it easier for the other to gnaw on him.
After all…
even if his mind was not clear,
Young Master Gu’s body instincts still remembered him.
It was just that Boss Gu truly had no experience.
Gu Tang had not expected that even in such an intense state, he would still manage to keep his pants on.
Well, not completely keep them on…
The moment they heard the sharp rrrip of fabric tearing,
Boss Gu realized he was in the middle of ripping someone else’s pants apart.
He immediately came back to his senses, set the young man down on the sofa, then turned and rushed into the bathroom to take a cold shower.
Watching the man’s hurried retreating figure,
Gu Tang suddenly remembered Young Master Gu from the past.
Back then, they would often be sleeping perfectly well together, only for Young Master Gu to suddenly jump up and rush into the bathroom.
He had been both innocent and very silly.
If Young Master Gu had just told him back then,
at the very least he could have kissed him…
The kind of idle CEOs who never seemed to do anything but lounge around in dramas did not exist.
Boss Gu was very busy.
After a brief lunch break, he went straight back to work.
Thinking of how even after the cold shower the other still had not fully calmed down, Gu Tang felt his face grow hot.
He hesitated, wondering whether he should just help him out.
Wouldn’t it be miserable staying hard like that all the time?
So he deliberately went to take a look at the space under Boss Gu’s desk, wondering whether it was big enough for him to crouch underneath.
Only to find that the desk panel was transparent.
Whatever happened beneath the desk, anyone who came in would be able to see it.
Gu Tang: Never mind.
Gu Qinian merely saw the young man come out, circle around once, look at his desk, then frown and return to the lounge.
When his gaze landed on the red marks on the young man’s neck that he himself had kissed there,
Boss Gu was extremely satisfied.
Those looked much tastier than the strawberries on the cake.
Then he glanced down at the desk that had made the young man frown. After thinking about it, Boss Gu called Jiang Yiwen and told him to replace the desk.
Even though he did not know why the young man had frowned,
if the little one did not like it, then he would just change it.
In the lounge, Gu Tang hugged a tablet and watched dramas all afternoon, while Boss Gu worked outside the whole time.
It was impossible to tell who was working for whom.
As the sky outside darkened, Gu Qinian opened the lounge door. “Ready to go?”
Gu Tang had grown sleepy from watching dramas and rubbed his eyes. “Work’s over?”
“You’re not off work.”
Leaning against the doorway, Gu Qinian admired the beautiful lines of the young man sprawled across the bed. “You have to come back to my place with me.”
Gu Tang: “?”
“A close personal life assistant obviously goes wherever I go.”
As he spoke, the man walked over and picked him up. “I don’t sleep at the company every night. Tonight I’m taking you back with me.”
Gu Tang was lifted as easily as a doll, and his little face instantly turned red. “I can walk by myself.”
“You don’t have any shoes.”
Boss Gu supported his backside and held him steady while forcing him to face reality.
That was true…
After crossing over, the only property Gu Tang owned—his clothes from yesterday—had all been dirtied after a full day of cleaning and had been sent off to be washed, including his shoes.
That was why all day he had only been able to wear Boss Gu’s shirt and underwear.
The outer pants were too long and kept tripping him, so he had given up.
Gu Tang curled in his two bare, smooth legs. “I can’t go out like this…”
“We’ll use my private passage and go straight to the car. No one will see.”
Boss Gu offered him a solution.
Gu Tang rejected it on the spot. “No.”
Gu Qinian: “Tch.”
A few minutes later, Assistant Jiang, who had just gotten off work, received a life-threatening series of calls from his boss.
“Bring over a few sets of clothes based on Gu Tang’s size.”
His boss said it simply enough.
But this was a deadly mission!
Based on Gu Tang’s size…
Did he dare?
Buy the wrong ones and he would get scolded. Buy the right ones and wouldn’t he just be killed off?!
Assistant Jiang very wisely bought loose casual clothes in one-size-fits-all, pure white, with two decorative little wings on the back. They did not show off his figure, but when the young man put them on, he looked both cute and lively.
Like a little angel.
Standing before the mirror, Gu Tang looked himself over and said happily, “I really like this one. Thank you, Assistant Jiang!”
Jiang Yiwen: “…”
What happened?
Earlier the young man had still been calling him “Yiwen,” so why had he now turned back into “Assistant Jiang”?
Gu Tang turned around and added another compliment. “You have great taste!”
Jiang Yiwen’s mood immediately improved, and he grinned. “My little sister has even better taste. She’s a designer.”
“I know.”
The young man’s eyes curved as he smiled warmly.
Jiang Yiwen thought this little angel outfit suited Gu Tang perfectly. Those tiny wings looked as though they might actually start flapping any second.
Just as he was about to praise him some more, he heard their boss say coldly,
“You can leave now.”
Jiang Yiwen: “…”
Using the donkey and then killing it once the mill work is done! Crossing the river and then tearing down the bridge!
Their boss was this fierce—one day the little angel really would fly away!
Assistant Jiang went off work grumbling and cursing.
Meanwhile, life assistant Gu Tang still had to continue on duty.
Boss Gu personally opened the car door for him and let him sit in the front passenger seat. After getting in, he even fastened his seat belt for him.
Gu Tang picked at the seat belt with his fingers and muttered softly, “You do every little step exactly the same as Nian Nian, so why can’t you remember?”
Gu Qinian did not hear him clearly, but suspected the young man was thinking about that “Nian Nian” again.
Gu Qinian: “…”
One day, he would grind that wild man’s bones to dust!
Gu Tang was very curious about Boss Gu’s residence.
If Young Master Gu had grown up alone without him, what kind of house would he live in?
Then he watched as Boss Gu’s car drove farther and farther into the outskirts, until more than an hour later, it entered a silent villa district.
Even the temperature there was several degrees colder than outside.
Although it was a modern residence, it felt utterly lifeless.
Inside, there were only three colors: black, white, and gray. The style was minimalist and emotionally cold.
The moment Gu Tang stepped inside, he shivered.
So cold…
This was the first time Gu Qinian had ever brought someone back here.
He had never thought much of it before, but now that he saw Gu Tang standing inside the house, he suddenly felt that the place had finally gained a hint of warmth.
The little one was the only pleasing thing in the entire house.
Even though the little angel outfit the young man wore was also white, it looked far softer and lovelier than all the cold, hard whites around the house.
The little angel wings swayed as he turned around. “What do you need me to do?”
“Find a room and sleep.”
Gu Qinian had nothing much in his life that required a personal assistant’s care. He had no intention of making things hard for his little angel. He only wanted him to rest properly.
But Gu Tang asked without thinking, “Aren’t we sleeping together?”
They had never slept in separate rooms after getting married!
“You…”
Boss Gu’s heart started pounding. “…want to sleep with me?”
