Chapter 313 - Feeling Too guilty…

“Me?” I was so scared that my heart almost popped out of my chest, “humming songs in the middle of the night? Are you pulling my legs?”

“Maybe…” Dong Xiaoye stared into my eyes and smiled. All my hair stood on end. “You were sleepwalking.”

“Haha, you are very funny, I have seen many things since I was a child, but I have never seen a sleepwalker.” Simply admitting it would only deepen Dong Xiaoye’s suspicion. I was not that stupid. Denying at this time could prove that I was innocent even more. After all, how would a sleepwalker know that he was sleepwalking?

I wanted to create an illusion, that was, my sleepwalking was not a common occurrence. What happened last night was a very rare occurrence.

“Really?…”

I could see that Dong Xiaoye still didn’t believe it. Even after leaving the bathroom last night, she still kept secretly following me. Even after I lay back on the bed, she watched me from the door for nearly an hour and made sure that I was ‘really’ sleeping before she closed the door and left. However, she still couldn’t let it go.

Indeed, what else could be more important to women? How could they just let go of someone who saw their naked bodies easily. I wouldn’t mind confessing yesterday’s misunderstanding to Dong Xiaoye if she would simply just beat me or scold me that I was worse than a animal. After all, I really didn’t do it on purpose. It was really just an accident.

However, the reason why I chose not to was that I didn’t want this incident to leave a shadow in Dong Xiaoye’s heart. I was afraid that the shadow would make me lose her, this friend, or prevent us from getting along as naturally as before.

For a woman who had never had a relationship before, having her naked body seen by a man and seeing a man sleepwalking when she was naked were two completely different feelings. The former may become her future psychological burden, and the latter would only become an amusing experience that she would occasionally think of.

My life seemed to be full of contradictory choices. It seemed that all the questions I faced had only two terrible answers, and no matter how I chose, it would still end up badly. Therefore, I would rather keep what happened in my heart as a secret. This was simply a selfish decision.

Chu Yuan finally came out of the kitchen with bowls and chopsticks, “Elder Brother, Elder Sister Xiaoye, what are you doing?” She was confused that Dong Xiaoye and I were only staring at each other and not talking.

“Oh, nothing,” Dong Xiaoye blushed. She glanced at me sideways and smiled, “I was just about to ask you, there was a power outage in the middle of the night last night, did you know anything about it?”

“A power outage?” Dongfang, who was following Chu Yuan, scratched her head embarrassedly, “when I opened my eyes it was already the morning. I didn’t even know when you and Elder Brother Nan came back last night. Hehe.”

Chu Yuan nervously poured a bowl of soy milk and gave it to me. Then she said embarrassedly, “Me too. When I woke up and found that I was sleeping in my brother’s room, I was really shocked. I thought he went to sleep in my ro-, I mean, I thought he was sleeping on the sofa in the living room.”

“Liar, Yuan Yuan, you must have suspected that Elder Brother Nan and I or Sister Xiaoye were sleeping in your room, right?” Dongfang smirked and said to me, “Elder Brother Nan, you probably don’t know, I was woken up by Yuan Yuan…”

“Ah!” Chu Yuan screamed and quickly stuffed a fried dough stick into Dongfang’s mouth. Then she hurriedly explained, “when I found out that you were gone, I thought you were still angry with me. So I wanted to wake up Dongfang so we can find you together with her…”

“Yes, yes,” Dongfang chewed the fried dough stick, and smiled perfunctorily, “if you say that’s the reason, then that is the reason. You jealous little sister…”

“I’m not jealous, you are jealous!”

Seeing the two girls frolicking, Dong Xiaoye smiled, but I was a little puzzled. ‘So there was a power outage last night… But why did Dong Xiaoye suddenly want to mention this? Is she trying to explain to me why she didn’t turn on the light in the bathroom…’

‘Damnit, I feel so guilty…’

…

Yesterday, Liusu noticed that the way I walked was still a little strange. She knew that my wound still hurt, so she originally wanted to come over to spend the weekend to take care of me. But she was dragged to the rental car shop by Shu Tong to see the car.

Shu Tong’s parents hadn’t decided when to come to Bei Tian City. Shu Tong was afraid that her parents would not give her enough time to prepare, so she planned to rent the car a few days in advance this weekend so that I, a person who did not often drive, would have time to get familiar with the rented car. In terms of why she wanted to drag Liusu to go with her. It was because she didn’t know how to drive a car.

We were not sure if Zhen Nuo really suspected that I had hidden Dongfang Lianren in my flat, and if she would arrange someone to follow me downstairs, but to be on the safe side, Chu Yuan still followed me to the hospital for check-up. This was also Dongfang Lianren’s idea. She was worried that after Zhen Nuo found out that I was out, she would come to my flat to talk to Chu Yuan. And if Chu Yuan went out, there would be no reason for her to visit my flat.

I had already gotten used to how mature and thoughtful Dongfang, this little brat, could be when it came to considering some certain issues, so I was not surprised, but Dong Xiaoye was surprised.

The doctor told me that the pain in my wound was not entirely caused by the lack of rest. The main reason was still that my diet was unreasonable, which caused some inflammation in the wound…

Chu Yuan almost punched me on the spot when she heard this. She had been preparing supper every day according to the doctor’s instructions, but because she wasn’t at home at noon, I always ate some random stuff. Moreover, there were quite many meal invitations recently, so I didn’t pay attention to the doctor’s instructions.

Under Chu Yuan’s supervision, I spent almost two days in bed on the weekend until I received another call from Guo Xiang. Li Xinghui, the chairman of Blue City Group, had already booked a room at the most authentic French restaurant in Bei Tian City, and he wanted to invite Guo Xiang and me to dinner again.

Even if there was no possibility of cooperation, it was still better to make a friend than to create an enemy. This was the rule of survival in the business world, especially for two companies like Heng Xiang and Blue City Group, which existed in the same field but one was stronger than the other. Guo Xiang couldn’t decline Li Xinghui’s invitation, unless he didn’t want to do business in the same field anymore.

And Guo Xiang’s plea made me unable to refuse it. After all, I didn’t want to put him in a difficult position. Moreover, I also wanted to ask a favour from him. To be precise, there was something I wanted to ask Liu Xingyu…

Chu Yuan had long wanted to ask Xingyu about the minx, Xiao Yike. When she heard that Xingyu would also go with Guo Xiang, she also got into Dong Xiaoye’s car with me in the name of supervising me, lest I would not listen to the doctor’s instructions again.

Was I a kid to her?

……

Chu Yuan and I felt very embarrassed when we arrived at the so-called most authentic French restaurant in Bei Tian City. It was actually the place where we made Liu Xiaosheng spend a lot of money last time…

I didn’t expect that this small restaurant with an inconspicuous facade was really so famous in the upper class of Bei Tian City.

When I saw Li Xinghui, my first impression was… Reputation this kind of thing could not be taken seriously sometimes. He was short and had darker skin. Even if he was wearing the tailor-made Italian suit and a shiny diamond watch, he still gave people a feeling of an old ruffian. No one would believe that this old man with a wretched look was the famous chairman of the Blue City Group in the real estate industry…

If it weren’t for Guo Xiang, I would’ve already picked up a plate of premium Abalone and stuffed it into the mouth of this wretched old man after I discovered that he was drooling while gawking at Dong Xiaoye and my little sister. Looking at the elegant Zhang Lingfang next to him, I deeply understood the true meaning of “all the good girls had been ruined by the ugly men.”

Zhang Lingfang sat directly opposite me at a table that was not wide but long. Her black strapless and low-cut evening dress made me feel like sitting on pins and needles, not daring to look at her directly. Her round and full bosom seemed like they would break the restraints of her dress at any time. The upper part of them was almost exposed in the air, and the deep cleavage was a very stimulating sight to my virgin eyes.

She who wore her hair in a bun had a slender snowy neck and an oval face. Her eyes were not big, but they were very bright. More importantly, her skin was very fine and smooth. It would only make people question if this woman was really thirty-five years old.

“Mr. Chu, I’d like to make a toast to you,” Zhang Lingfang gracefully raised the wine glass with a smile and said with a sweet voice, “‘Instead of regretting for the rest of my life that I was manly enough at the beginning, it’s better for me to die like a man!’ Every time I think about how brave you were when you were pointed by a gun, I would not be able to stop my heart from beating rapidly, I couldn’t even sleep at night. Hehe, you are the most courageous man I have ever seen in my life.”