Chapter 88: Really Craving It
At that moment, it almost looked like two cat ears had popped up on top of the white-haired girl’s head.
They seemed to sway excitedly with happiness.
“Huh?”
Mu Yi’s crimson eyes instantly sparkled.
“You brought the kitten with you? Where is it? Where’s the kitty?”
Like she was searching for her own kind, she looked left and right, completely forgetting the topic from earlier.
Gu Zhiren quietly watched Mu Yi, his gaze slowly deepening. But instead of teasing her on purpose, he simply turned around and opened the passenger-side car door.
Inside, the little white kitten was curled up on a warm blanket, sleeping soundly.
Before he could even pick up the cat, Mu Yi excitedly ran over.
“Wow~ what a cute little kitty!”
Mu Yi changed her mind.
If the “luggage” was this kitten, then helping move some things was not a problem at all.
Thinking that, she gently stroked the kitten’s head with one hand and smiled with narrowed eyes.
In Gu Zhiren’s eyes, the scene of Mu Yi and the white kitten together looked like two cats affectionately cuddling against each other. It was so cute that words could not describe it.
How could Mu Yi be this adorable?
He suddenly really wanted to pat her head too. The feeling must be amazing.
But...
He felt that if he tried, she would immediately smack his hand away, glare at him strangely, and puff up both cheeks like a blowfish.
Which only made him want to do it even more.
Gu Zhiren could not help rubbing his hands together, yet his eyes could not leave Mu Yi’s smiling face.
“Um... since I already brought the kitten here for you, can’t you at least help me move some things?”
“Hm?”
Seeing Mu Yi look over at him, Gu Zhiren straightened his back a little. The hands he had been rubbing instantly separated and naturally slipped back into his pockets in an elegant way.
“Fine, fine, I’ll help you!”
Mu Yi did not think too deeply about it.
Honestly, she really could not completely ignore him. Earlier, she only wanted to see whether, in Gu Zhiren’s eyes, it was more important for her to help him move things or to focus on writing her novel properly.
In the end, she was defeated by a single kitty!
But then again, it was a kitty after all.
“Thank you, Brother Mu~ I actually have quite a lot of stuff. You can just help carry the lighter things.”
Gu Zhiren nodded.
“Huh? Who are you looking down on? Does your Brother Mu really need that kind of special treatment?”
Hearing that, Gu Zhiren could not help laughing. Suddenly, he did not know what to say about her anymore.
………………
After a busy round of moving.
Everything from the car had finally been carried into the apartment next to Mu Yi’s room. Now it only needed to be organized.
“Mmm...”
Mu Yi sat tiredly on top of a cardboard box. She rubbed her empty stomach and pouted.
She really had said she did not need help.
But she never expected him to truly be so merciless, refusing to help until she gave in first. Her arms and legs felt terribly sore, and she was starving too. She did not even want to move anymore.
“Hungry?”
Gu Zhiren walked out from the inner room while patting the dust off his hands.
“Yeah!”
Mu Yi nodded. Then she suddenly remembered something, her eyes lighting up. She pulled out her phone and said,
“There’s a newly opened fried noodle shop recently. Their fried noodles are super delicious! Let’s eat that for lunch. Want me to order one for you too? We can hit the discount minimum together.”
“Takeout?”
Gu Zhiren curled his lips in dislike and shook his head.
“Forget it. Takeout food usually has too much oil and isn’t very hygienic...”
Before he could finish speaking, Mu Yi looked up at him and blinked her clear eyes.
“Then don’t eat it. I’ll eat two portions by myself! Hmph~”
Gu Zhiren silently said nothing.
………………
Mu Yi was still praying that the delivery driver would take a longer route this time.
But what she did not expect was that the driver accepted the order almost instantly. The food was delivered very quickly, taking less than half the usual time.
“Delivery!”
The door was knocked loudly again and again. Mu Yi answered and was about to get up to open the door.
“Sit down. I’ll do it.”
Without wasting any time, Gu Zhiren walked over and turned the doorknob.
As soon as the door opened, they saw a young man dressed in yellow delivery clothes standing outside with a takeout bag in his hand. The brim of his yellow cap covered half his face, and he looked rather nervous.
The young man slowly raised his head.
The moment their eyes met, his gaze seemed to avoid Gu Zhiren’s for an instant.
“Thanks for your hard work.”
Gu Zhiren noticed the other man’s reaction and knew it was not his imagination, but he did not think too much about it. A polite smile appeared on his handsome face.
“Ah, no problem, no problem!”
The young man lowered his head, handed over the takeout bag, then immediately turned around and hurried down the stairs.
From the look of his back, he clearly seemed anxious.
Gu Zhiren paid attention to it for a short moment, but in the end, he simply closed the door and carried the takeout bag over to Mu Yi, who now had the little cat sitting on her lap.
The takeout bag was opened.
The white kitten was craving the food.
Mu Yi was craving the food too.
Gu Zhiren was also craving something.
Only, what he wanted was a little different from what the two of them wanted.
While they were about to start eating, on the other side, the delivery driver had already run downstairs.
He first carefully looked around, lowered the brim of his cap, fixed his clothes, then got onto the motorcycle parked outside the building and left the neighborhood.
Not long after driving away, he made a phone call.
“Hello?”
Jiang Heng’s voice came from the other end of the call.
“Mr. Jiang, the thing you asked me to do has been completed. But there was a small unexpected problem. That Gu Zhiren... Gu Zhiren was there too!”
The young man sounded nervous.
After all, this was not an ordinary delivery.
Following Jiang Heng’s instructions, he had secretly added drugs into the food that could make people fall unconscious. Luckily, Gu Zhiren did not seem to notice anything strange.
Otherwise, there was no way he could have escaped so easily.
Still, Gu Zhiren had already seen his face...
“Really? Well done~”
Jiang Heng actually sounded quite pleased.
Hearing that, the young man nervously swallowed and secretly cursed him as a madman.
The two did not continue chatting for long. Jiang Heng hung up the phone, stepped backward, and leaned against a storage cabinet. He glanced sideways at the goldfish swimming in the fish tank nearby.
The glass of the fish tank reflected the smile on the man’s face.
The smile looked mocking, and as time passed, it slowly became somewhat twisted and frightening.
Thinking back to that night…
Just as he had guessed, Gu Zhiren really had kept Mu Yi at his place. And the next morning, he had even personally escorted her back to her apartment.
Jiang Heng was very satisfied with this result.
There was nothing disappointing about it.
In fact, this was exactly the outcome he wanted, because it proved Mu Yi’s value even more. He had successfully found Gu Zhiren’s weakness.
He just wondered, if Mu Yi and Gu Zhiren’s family were both in danger at the same time, which side would Gu Zhiren choose to save first?
“If Gu Zhiren eats it too, things will become even more interesting...”
Jiang Heng let out a cold laugh.
He reached one hand into the fish tank and casually grabbed a goldfish. After staring at it coldly for a moment, he mercilessly tightened his grip.
Just like that, the goldfish’s life ended instantly.
Jiang Heng sneered.
He casually threw the dead fish into the trash can, wiped his hand with a tissue, then calmly opened the room door and walked out of the villa.