Chapter 44: Don’t Leave Me Alone
After glancing at Gu Zhiren a few times, Mu Yi directly reached out. But just as she was about to touch his hand, she suddenly paused and changed direction, grabbing his sleeve cuff instead and lifting his hand that way.
“Why did you suddenly push me?”
She frowned slightly and looked up at him in confusion.
“Are you hungry? Just order whatever you want.”
Instead of directly answering her question, Gu Zhiren signaled for Mu Yi to let go with his eyes. Then he adjusted his posture and elegantly fixed the sleeve she had just grabbed.
“Mm, you said it, so I won’t hold back!”
Mu Yi did not continue asking about it. Instead, she copied Gu Zhiren and mercilessly wiped the hand that had touched his sleeve against her own clothes.
“Boss, I want three extra sausages, two fried eggs, and four chicken strips.”
She turned and pointed at the food on the stall while raising the matching number of fingers. Her sweet voice carried a cheerful smile.
“And this, this one, that one too... please give me one of each! Also, please add some chili. Just a little spicier than medium spicy is enough~ thank you.”
Gu Zhiren looked at her strangely, carefully watching every little movement and expression she made. Soon, a huge box filled to the top with fried noodles was prepared.
“You ordered this much. Can you even finish it by yourself?”
Gu Zhiren still could not help making a comment, looking at the giant box of noodles with slight disbelief.
“Don’t worry. I know wasting food is bad. I won’t waste it. If I can’t finish it in one meal, I can eat it as a midnight snack. If I still can’t finish it, I can save it for breakfast tomorrow.”
Mu Yi walked side by side with Gu Zhiren through the crowd on the stone-paved road.
“This sausage looks super delicious! Ahh—”
As if she was purposely eating for him to hear, the sounds she made while eating were especially loud.
Chomp chomp, chomp chomp.
For a moment, Gu Zhiren even felt as if many tiny Mu Yis were carrying food boxes and circling around his head while making endless chomp chomp sounds.
He rolled his eyes speechlessly, helplessness showing in his gaze as he glanced at Mu Yi.
Her cheeks puffed out while chewing, and every few bites, her small tongue would peek out to lick her lips.
The girl narrowed her long eyes happily, her whole face filled with satisfaction.
As Gu Zhiren watched her, his eyes lowered slightly, and his lips moved faintly.
For some reason, he suddenly felt his mouth go dry. Without thinking, he lightly licked his lips while quickly looking away, quietly sighing in his heart.
“Ah... oh no, the pinwheel’s about to fall! Gu Zhiren, quick quick quick—”
Hearing that, Gu Zhiren immediately looked over without wasting time. He stretched out his left arm and caught the pinwheel just before it fell.
The pinwheel in his hand was still spinning, and the chewing sounds beside him finally stopped for a moment. He stayed silent for a while before raising his eyes to look at Mu Yi, who had frozen in place with wide eyes.
Her mouth was still full of food, making her cheeks puff out slightly.
It unconsciously reminded people of a small animal.
“...By the way, I have something to deal with later, so I need to return to Ganlan City. If anything happens while you stay here alone, you can call me.”
Gu Zhiren tightened his grip on the pinwheel.
He planned to have his assistant Xiao Xi come tomorrow afternoon to bring Mu Yi back to Ganlan City.
But before he could finish speaking, Mu Yi’s brows suddenly tightened. She quickly chewed and swallowed the food in her mouth.
“Don’t leave me here alone. If we’re going back, then let’s go back together.”
“……”
Gu Zhiren narrowed his eyes slightly and adjusted his posture. Facing Mu Yi directly, he lowered his gaze to look at her, a strange emotion moving quietly in his eyes.
“Aren’t you supposed to be supervising me? Could you at least be a little more serious about your job, hmm?”
Mu Yi also turned to face him directly. Tilting her head slightly, she put on a very serious expression.
Hearing that, Gu Zhiren could not help laughing softly and nodded.
“Alright.”
Her answer had completely surprised him.
After walking a little farther…
Once she confirmed that the public restroom was close by, Mu Yi glanced sideways at Gu Zhiren a few times before awkwardly coughing softly.
“Um, I want to go to the restroom. Can you help hold this for me?”
“Mm.”
Gu Zhiren nodded in agreement.
“Oh, and if you want to eat some, you can. After all, you paid for it.”
After saying that, Mu Yi handed the food box to Gu Zhiren and quickly ran toward the public restroom.
………………………
Inside the public restroom.
Mu Yi looked back and forth between the men’s restroom and the women’s restroom, hesitating for a moment.
In the end, she decided to flip a coin!
At the same time…
Inside the men’s restroom, two thugs wearing sunglasses were waiting for a rich target they could heavily extort.
Because of the anniversary celebration, many tourists from other places had gathered in the sightseeing village, including quite a few foreigners. The two men planned to take this chance to make a big score!
Actually, they were not asking for much. Just tens of thousands of yuan would be enough. Anyway, for rich people, that amount was only the price of one meal.
Surely they would pay generously, right?
Mu Yi still did not know what was happening inside the men’s restroom. She successfully found a one-yuan coin, tossed it high into the air, and watched it fall.
Smack!
“Heads means men’s restroom, tails means women’s restroom...”
She muttered softly, closed her eyes, and took a deep breath.
Her left hand slowly moved away from the coin. The white-haired girl held her breath and slowly opened one eye with difficulty.
Eh?
Tails...
Mu Yi opened both eyes fully, took another deep breath, nodded to herself, and directly walked toward the men’s restroom.
Of course, she was not ignoring the coin result. She had planned to do the opposite from the start.
Thinking about her current appearance, Mu Yi first carefully peeked inside from outside the restroom entrance.
Seeing nobody in the hallway, she immediately straightened her chest and walked in.
Then she rushed into a stall at lightning speed. With quick and practiced movements, she took out the sanitary pad and threw it into the trash can before finally letting out a sigh of relief. Calmly, she flushed the toilet as cover.
Done!
After pushing open the stall door, Mu Yi walked to the sink and casually washed her hands.
But before she finished washing, two men suddenly appeared in the mirror behind her.
They smiled dangerously while walking toward her. One held a small knife, while the other carried a wooden stick.
Mu Yi instantly sucked in a cold breath, and her hands froze.
In that instant, countless plots from dirty novels and adult comics that perfectly matched the current situation flashed through her mind.
A strong feeling of fear suddenly rose deep inside her.
She really was afraid, but within a single second, she already knew what she should do.
Clenching her pale little fist tightly, Mu Yi gathered her courage and turned around to face them. Her eyes curved into crescents, and an awkward, forced smile appeared on her pretty face.
Naturally lowering her voice to sound more masculine, she said,
“Good afternoon, big brothers~”
“Heh heh...”
The man holding the wooden stick stopped in front of Mu Yi and tapped the sink behind her with the stick.
It was clearly a warning not to make any sudden moves.
Mu Yi kept smiling.