Jilted by Day, Cuddled At Night-Chapter 50 Big Straight Guys Will Have No Wives!
This made it hard for Su Wan to refuse.
She silently slid off the bed, but after a long search, she couldn’t find her shoes.
Oh right, she had taken off her high heels on the spacecraft.
So, had Gu Jue carried her from the spacecraft to his bedroom?
Even though she had already made the "exclusive medicine" for him, Su Wan’s ears still felt slightly warm, probably because this kind of sober ambiguity was even more tickling to the heart.
Since she couldn’t find her shoes, she decided to stop looking!
Finally, Su Wan left Gu Jue’s bedroom quickly, barefoot.
Gu Jue watched her retreating figure, his lips moved, but eventually he said nothing.
Meanwhile, Su Wan went back to the room next door, changed out of her evening gown, and took a shower.
She put on a very comfortable set of beige loungewear and, wearing slippers, she then went down to the kitchen.
The kitchen had everything one could need, and the fridge was filled with fresh ingredients.
But it was too late now and, although she was very hungry, Su Wan didn’t plan to cook too much.
Actually, if it were up to her, she would have been fine with just boiling some noodle with green vegetables and egg, but who would have thought that after merely being polite, the Commander himself would readily agree.
So, she couldn’t be too perfunctory with this late-night meal.
Moreover, before the Su Family, Gu Jue had mentioned that he had eaten meals prepared by Su Wan.
She couldn’t let him down and not prepare a scrumptious meal in light of his past defense of her cooking!
Su Wan chose a thicker porridge as the main dish but prepared two types.
One was savory preserved egg and lean meat porridge, and the other was sweet red bean and coix seed porridge. She also steamed a small pot of mixed-grain Huafu cake.
There was also greasy double-cooked pork, accompanied by red and green peppers. The light taste of dried shrimp with oil vegetables, minced meat with long beans, and a cold, tangy dish of cucumber and wood ear mushrooms.
It wasn’t lavish, but for a late-night snack, it was quite a spread.
When the food was almost ready, Su Wan had White Tiger go call Gu Jue down.
Meanwhile, she efficiently worked with the household robot to clean and tidy up the kitchen.
While Su Wan was still busy in the kitchen, Gu Jue had already come downstairs. He walked over to the table indifferently, took out his photon computer, and snapped several photos of the dishes on the table.
By the time Su Wan was done and came out of the kitchen, Gu Jue had calmly put his photon computer away.
Su Wan, who hadn’t seen his little action, said with a light smile, "Thank you for showing up for me today, the opening ceremony was very successful, and I’m very happy. But it’s too late now, and it wasn’t appropriate to make too many dishes. Do you think these are okay?"
For a lavish late-night snack like this, it was already very extravagant.
But Su Wan knew, after all, he was Commander Gu, and there wasn’t anything good he hadn’t eaten before.
He might really not think much of it.
However, looking at the table full of home-cooked dishes, a touch of tenderness passed through Gu Jue’s usually detached and cool eyes.
He said, "They are fine."
"Let’s eat, then!" Su Wan was genuinely famished; she had consumed a lot of energy that day and missed dinner. She had tasted a bit while cooking, but it was far from enough.
So she ate heartily with joy, and Gu Jue, watching her eat like a little hamster, had his lips slightly curved upwards. He then sent the photos he’d taken earlier.
And he added a message.
Gu Jue: Late-night snack.
Gu Zilan was already in bed, but he woke up thirsty in the middle of the night and asked the robot to bring a glass of warm water.
It was then that he received the message from his dear uncle.
Typically, sending messages at this time meant something urgent had come up.
The last time Gu Jue messaged him at such an hour, it was about the discovery of the mutated Insect Clan at the edge of interstellar space.
So Gu Zilan perked up immediately and hurriedly opened the message from his uncle. What struck his eye was a table full of dishes, complete with color, fragrance, and flavor, both meat and vegetables perfectly paired, still steaming hot.
Then there were the two extra characters attached by Gu Jue.
Supper.
Gu Zilan: "..."
Feeling a complex mix of sadness and indignation, he wanted to get angry but couldn’t, mainly because he didn’t dare to, and even felt a bit like laughing through his tears after a while.
Before Gu Zilan could say anything, his stomach started to growl.
It even woke up Queen Luo Manya, who was sleeping beside him.
Luo Manya rubbed her eyes and said in a daze, "Zilan, what’s wrong with you? Didn’t you eat enough for dinner? Should I get Aiwei to bring some nutritional liquid?"
Remembering the tasteless nutritional liquid, Gu Zilan remained silent for three seconds and then showed his wife the message he received.
Couples share fortunes together, and hunger... together they endure.
Luo Manya: "..."
The gentle Queen Luo Manya, after a few seconds of silence, said, "Let’s have the chef make a few dishes. I didn’t eat much for dinner, actually."
Luo Manya had eaten a lot of delicious food at the Su Family restaurant at noon and felt like she overate, so she didn’t eat much for dinner.
She wasn’t very hungry to begin with, but it was all her husband’s fault...
Su Wan on her end had no idea that because of the table of food she made, the emperor and queen had gotten up in the middle of the night to have the chefs cook them a meal.
After drinking a bowl of warm red bean porridge, she finally felt a bit better.
Su Wan looked up to see the Commander, eating seriously across from her without a word, and she ventured, "Ajue, if I asked you to help me investigate someone’s crimes, would that be against your principles?"
Su Wan had wanted to ask about this for a long time but wasn’t very familiar with Gu Jue yet... Even though she had made his exclusive medicine twice, the two of them were still practically strangers.
Especially since Commander Gu always had a cold expression, Su Wan never dared to ask him for too much.
But the atmosphere tonight was just right, and it seemed like the Commander was quite satisfied with the meal she cooked, right?
So that’s why Su Wan brought it up.
"Are you asking about Du Weiwei?"
Su Wan was stunned.
Meanwhile, the White Tiger flapping around couldn’t help but cover its mechanical arm over its electronic eye.
My lord, by being this direct, aren’t you letting the lady know you’ve investigated her?!
Be tactful! Tactful, I say!
Being such a straightforward man, you’ll end up without a wife!
What could have been a great opportunity to show off in front of your wife, and you just blew it!
The White Tiger was so weary it almost didn’t want to fly anymore.
It released its mechanical arm and cautiously looked at Su Wan to see if she was angry.
Su Wan wasn’t angry, though. After being stunned for a few seconds, she directly asked, "You looked into me?"
That must be because he had looked into her, which is why he paid attention to Du Weiwei. Otherwise, a big shot like Gu Jue wouldn’t care about someone who had been locked up over a decade ago.
Gu Jue, with a tight face, nodded his head.
He clenched the silver spoon in his hand and quietly looked at Su Wan, and within a few seconds, Su Wan understood.
Being investigated wasn’t pleasant.
But if she put herself in his shoes, if she were the one who had been married off out of the blue, she would use every means to investigate the other person’s ancestry too!
So Su Wan didn’t dwell on it and spoke openly, "Yes, that’s her. She was my dad’s first love and also Su Man’s biological mother. Su Man has been acting too lively lately, and I suspect it has something to do with her birth mother, Du Weiwei. Of course, Du Weiwei was sentenced to thirty years before, so theoretically, even if she could be paroled early, she shouldn’t be out yet."
