100 Days Of Escaping My Wedding-Chapter 472: Good Night

Gu Hangshen: "..."

Xiaoqiao: "Husband, good night!"

Gu Hangshen: "..."

Even after she had gone that far in speaking, he still remained utterly silent.

Xiaoqiao sighed in her heart; truly, Rome wasn’t built in a day, and she couldn’t rush things.

Speaking of which, Xiaoqiao didn’t know the extent of Gu Hangshen’s injuries. He definitely wouldn’t want to admit it; she had to find an opportunity to check on him...

As Xiaoqiao was pondering this, the man who suffered from an apparent facial paralysis and a speech impediment wrapped his arms around her from behind, resting his chin on her shoulder, looking both sulky and helpless. It was so cute that she almost burst into laughter.

At four o’clock, the alarm Xiaoqiao had set on her phone went off.

She stretched a hand out from under the covers and fumbled around on the bedside table. The phone was merely a few centimeters away from her hand, yet she couldn’t seem to find it, and finally, she simply gave up, drawing her head back under the covers to continue sleeping.

The phone rang for a bit before it automatically stopped.

Gu Hangshen looked at the small figure with half her face buried in the pillow by his side, his expression somewhat conflicted. Was he really going to wake his wife up to go and get married to someone else?

After five minutes, the alarm began to ring again, and this time Xiaoqiao buried her entire face into the pillow.

The relentless ringing of the alarm was matched only by her determination to burrow deeper, until she finally curled up in the area of his lower abdomen, creating a mess with her nightgown. The warm breath from her breaths brushed against his skin as she restlessly shifted around.

It seemed that whenever Xiaoqiao was with Gu Hangshen, she reverted to her state from seven years ago, losing all her guile and craftiness to naiveté and foolishness.

And he adored her in this dazed state because with him by her side, she didn’t need to be so smart, she didn’t need so many schemes; she could simply live freely.

With him around, any troubles she dazedly stumbled into were his to resolve, any mistakes she carelessly made were his to shoulder. At most, he would scold her a few words, but just a pout from her, and all would dissipate like smoke.

Gu Hangshen sighed softly, wondering when she would outgrow this foolish habit of ’burying her head in the sand.’ He reached out, lifted her up from under the covers, and placed her on his chest, "Xiaoqiao, wake up!"

She groggily opened a sliver of her eyes, looking up at the man before her. Her gaze fell on the burnt side of his face, and her heart suddenly clenched, jolting her awake.

Gu Hangshen felt a sudden pang in his heart when he saw that momentary glance. Her eyes didn’t look like those of a blind person, almost making him believe that the fleeting look of distress was because she had seen his face.

But by the time he thought to probe further, she had already rubbed her eyes and sat up, straddling his waist with her long legs, leaving no trace behind.

Yawning, she sat blankly for a while, then flopped down again onto his chest, murmuring, "Still want to sleep..."

She had slept for only a little more than three hours the previous night, but as the bride, she had to get up early for makeup.

At this moment, she managed only three words before feeling an intense dryness and itchiness in her throat, an uncomfortable sensation that made it painful to speak, as if she were tearing at her mucous membranes, and it seemed that even breathing wasn’t easy anymore.

These familiar symptoms were clearly the precursor to a cold...

Perhaps because she had been pushing herself too hard, as soon as she relaxed, her immune system went on strike, and the virus seized the opportunity to invade.

It used to be the same when she was in school; she often fell ill after the tension of a major exam had subsided.

Gu Hangshen also noticed the hoarseness in her voice. Touching her forehead, he was relieved there was no fever. freёnovelkiss.com

"Do you have a cold?"

She had been obediently staying in his arms all through the previous night. How could she have caught a chill?