Rekindled Hearts: The Tycoon's Reluctant Love-Chapter 233 - 232 He Didnt Return All Last Night
Chapter 233: Chapter 232: He Didn’t Return All Last Night
Chapter 233 -232: He Didn’t Return All Last Night
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She shifted slightly, and the cat bell anklet on her ankle chimed with a crisp, pleasing sound.
In the quiet air, it was as if the delicate notes came from afar.
Gu Siting looked down at the mischievous white foot resting on his shoulder, his body stiffening for a moment.
He grasped the woman’s ankle and lifted his head to look at her.
She lounged lazily against the windowsill, her coldly beautiful face adorned with a seductive, captivating smile, her eyes shimmering like ripples on water.
Gu Siting’s Adam’s apple bobbed.
He stood up, intending to pull her into his embrace.
But the woman rolled aside smoothly, then jumped to the floor.
Her slender body ran ahead.
As she moved, the sound of the cat bell anklet became more hurried and frequent.
Gu Siting licked his back teeth with his tongue.
He understood that the woman was deliberately enticing him.
With a few quick strides, he caught up with her.
From behind, he wrapped his arms around her waist and lifted her off her feet.
“Husband, you mustn’t use your left hand too forcefully…”
“Only now you remember my left hand shouldn’t be forceful?” His eyes held danger, “Too late.”
Before she could say anything more, he pressed her onto the bed.
And then, her red lips were sealed by his.
Ming Yao’s legs were still at the edge of the bed, the cat bell anklet hanging on her thin ankle brushed against the man’s black trousers, emitting a clear sound.
Ming Yao’s arms encircled the man’s neck, breathing in his unique, intoxicating scent of cold fir, and she responded to his kiss enthusiastically.
However, just as the room temperature was slowly rising, a knock sounded at the door.
“Fourth Master, are you there?” It was the voice of Wen Qing, the old servant by Old Madam Gu’s side.
Ming Yao, recalling how she was caught by Old Madam Gu twice today, suddenly snapped back to reality.
She pushed against the man’s shoulders, “Grandma must be looking for you for something important.”
The man’s face darkened a shade with the disturbance at such a moment.
Knock-knock-knock—
The knocks sounded again.
Ming Yao shot the man a look, “You better answer quickly!”
Gu Siting got up from Ming Yao with a dark expression, but as he prepared to open the door, she hastily pulled him back.
She straightened his hair and smoothed out the wrinkles on his shirt, “Go on!”
The man bent down and kissed her forehead, “Wait for me tonight when I return.”
“Sure.”
Gu Siting walked to the door and opened it.
Ming Yao glanced toward the door; Wen Qing was saying something to Gu Siting, after which Gu Siting hurried away.
Clutching the man’s jacket that had been discarded in the room, Ming Yao breathed in his unique scent, a faint smile curving her lips.
This damned man, he was really getting good at this.
Ming Yao swung the leg that wore the cat bell anklet by the bed, the crisp and pleasing sound lifting the corners of her mouth higher and higher.
After waiting in the room for nearly two hours, as it was approaching eleven, the damned man still hadn’t returned.
Her mobile phone vibrated once.
[Mrs. Gu, Old Madam is feeling under the weather. I’ll be in her room with her tonight, you should go to sleep early.]
Ming Yao lay on the bed and started to text him back.
[Which part of Grandma is uncomfortable, should I go see her?]
She was about to send the message, but thinking back on all the odd things with Old Madam Gu from the day, Ming Yao deleted the message.
She simply replied: [Okay.]
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The next day.
When Ming Yao awoke, she discovered that outside everything was covered in a snowy white blanket. She ran to the window and let out a gasp.
When she woke up, it had started to snow!
Ming Yao took out her phone and snapped a picture of the beautiful snowfall.
Just as she was about to post it to her Moments, a new email popped up on her phone.
Ming Yao opened the email.
It was an invitation to an engagement ceremony.
[Yao, I’ve thought long and hard and have decided to send you an invitation. We haven’t been in touch for over half a year, and during this time, I’ve come to understand some things. One must always look forward, not dwell on the past.
I’ve accepted my family’s arrangement and plan to hold an engagement ceremony with him before the New Year. You once said that if I ever got engaged, I must tell you.
You’re far away overseas, and I know you don’t have the time to come, nor do I wish for you to travel such a long distance, which is why I waited until today to send you the invitation.
At the time, I will send you pictures of the engagement ceremony. I am about to harvest happiness, what about you? Do you and your Senior Brother have any good news yet?]
The email was from Wen Yuci.
Ming Yao glanced at the engagement address on the invitation, which was actually in the capital city.
Could Yuci be from the capital city?
Speaking of Wen Yuci, Ming Yao had known her for over four years. Except for when they first met, they hadn’t seen each other for many years.
The two had always corresponded by email.
Wen Yuci belonged to the category of classical beauties—fair and delicate, with exquisite features and a refined presence marked by a cold and serene bookish charm.
Ming Yao couldn’t believe that such a noble lady dared to go to the most dangerous place in the world back then.
She nearly died under artillery fire.
Ming Yao and people from the Tang Sect saved her.
Later, she found out that she had gone looking for her lost lover.
After her recovery, she left Ming Yao’s side, but two days later, she returned, looking utterly devastated.
She told her that the man she loved would never return to her side again!
That day, the sky poured buckets of rain.
Ming Yao just felt that Yuci’s tears were even bigger than the raindrops.
Afterward, she returned to her homeland.
Ming Yao only knew that she was from Country C but didn’t know which city she lived in.
Now that it was in the capital, she was definitely going to attend her engagement ceremony.
Ming Yao didn’t reply to Wen Yuci’s email and instead decided to give her a surprise on the day of the engagement.
After washing up, Ming Yao changed her clothes and planned to inform Gu Siting, then go shopping for Yuci’s engagement gift.
Stepping out of the courtyard, Ming Yao intended to pay Old Madam Gu a visit.
But before she could get far, she overheard several servants whispering.
“The old madam vomited blood last night, and the Fourth Master and Miss Shi took care of her all night.”
“Miss Shi was so busy taking care of everything, anyone who didn’t know any better would think she was the Fourth Master’s wife!”
“The Fourth Young Madam slept in her room last night and didn’t even come to see the old madam once, what an ungrateful wretch!”
“With so many incidents at yesterday’s ancestor worship, the old madam came back and vomited blood. Such a thing has never happened before. Do you think the Fourth Young Madam has caused the old madam’s ill fortune?”
“Miss Shi comes from a scholarly family and looks every bit the refined young lady. But that Fourth Young Madam, no matter how you look at her, seems like a vixen.”
“You’re absolutely right! I heard that yesterday at the ancestor worship, she was flirting with the Fourth Master, totally oblivious to the occasion, showing no manners at all.”
Ming Yao walked over, a hint of a smile playing at the corners of her mouth, “Talking behind someone’s back, is that the kind of manners you have?”
Seeing Ming Yao approaching, the servants scattered like birds and beasts.
Ming Yao brushed the thin layer of snowflakes off her shoulders, her red lips slightly pursed, a touch of coldness appearing between her delicate brows and eyes.
She had been at the Fang Residence in the capital city for just one day, yet the servants dared to gossip about her in private?
Someone must have put them up to it, right?
Who could it be?
And Grandma Gu, she vomited blood?
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Her husband and Shi Yuan took care of her all night?
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