Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

What exactly went wrong with Chapter 195?

Gu Juncheng had spent half his life being serious and rigid, and he really didn't know that a woman could be so mischievous and alluring.

Lin Qingping even asked him if he liked it...

What was he going to say?

He showed it through his actions...

Gu Juncheng told her not to regret it. Whether Lin Qingping regretted it or not is another matter, but anyway, there were countless marks on Gu Juncheng's body from her scratches and bites.

Finally, she lay limply in the blankets, completely exhausted.

Gu Juncheng pointed to the marks on his body and showed them to her, "Is this how you make amends? I feel like I'm the one who got hurt."

This sentence had a strange 1990s feel to it. Lin Qingping smiled when she heard it, and reluctantly raised her hand to touch the marks on his body. "I marked them. They're mine. When others see them, they'll know you're taken."

Gu Juncheng slapped her hand away, "Who else can see this?"

"I was just saying that..." Lin Qingping rolled into his arms and hugged his waist.

It's summer, and it's a bit hot.

She is sensitive to both heat and cold. Winter is fine because there are heating pipes, but in summer, since there is no air conditioning, she has to run a fan all night. However, if the fan is blowing directly on her, she will feel cold.

This is perfect. With the fan on, holding him is both comfortable and warm.

“Gu Juncheng…” Lin Qingping felt as if she were sleeping on a cloud, soft and comfortable, her whole body floating. “You said I was wrong before, where was I wrong?”

It would have been better if they hadn't brought it up, because now Gu Juncheng is going to make her stand at attention again.

"Speak properly!" Lin Qingping hugged him tightly and wouldn't let go.

"Lin Qingping," he said in a very serious tone, "I've discovered that you have a particularly bad habit."

"What?" Lin Qingping raised her misty eyes. "Not reserved at all? But I was very reserved before you took a shower..."

Gu Juncheng was amused by her again. He cupped her face in his hands, wanting to press down hard, but in the end he squeezed gently instead. "Squeeze all that messy, risqué stuff of yours out of me!"

"Then, what exactly did you say?" Lin Qingping's lips were pursed by his, and her words became unclear.

"Lin Qingping." In the darkness, he looked at her, his eyes shining. "Have you noticed that you never tell me anything on your own initiative? When you encounter difficulties, you'd rather ask others for help than tell me? What's wrong with you? Am I so untrustworthy to you?"

"When have I ever asked others for help but not you?" Lin Qingping felt wronged.

"Okay, let's go through everything today, clearly listing everything from one to four." Gu Juncheng was clearly preparing for a long meeting! "Last time your shop was short of ingredients, did you tell me? Go find the guy who sells beef!"

Lin Qingping chuckled, "They run a steakhouse, not a beef shop!"

"Stop interrupting! Is there a difference?"

The difference is huge...

Lin Qingping was too lazy to argue with him about this, so she explained to him properly, "I didn't contact him, really, I didn't contact him on my own initiative. At that time, raw materials were really scarce, and we needed them urgently. The shop was about to go under. He found out about it himself. His shop is right across from ours, so he couldn't hide anything from me. I didn't know you had connections. You spent a lot of time in the military in isolation, and I thought you didn't have any dealings with these businesses. I thought that telling you wouldn't help me, and it would only make you worry, so..."

"Really?" Gu Juncheng interrupted her. "And what about this time? This time it's such a big deal, the criminal gang is even coming to the store to collect debts, and you didn't tell me? Last night I asked you if you had something to tell me, and you said no."

"Well..." Lin Qingping racked her brains for a reason, "Because it was my family that caused this trouble, it has nothing to do with you, ah—"

She gasped softly before she could finish speaking, because Gu Juncheng pinched her butt hard.

"It has nothing to do with me?" Gu Juncheng's words were filled with anger. "Who am I to you? You think you have nothing to do with me? Do you think you can deal with those gangsters on your own? Do you think they're like businessmen who can talk to you nicely?"

"I... I can call the police... This is a society governed by law. There's a police station near our school. If they dare to cause trouble, I'll just call the police..."

“They cut off one of Lin Jiagui’s fingers,” he said heavily.

Lin Qingping: ...

“I could have stopped it, but I didn’t.” He stroked her long hair, which was scattered all over the pillow. “Will you blame me?”

Lin Qingping shook her head.

“As long as he’s still alive…” Gu Juncheng said, “I’m afraid you’ll think I’m heartless.”

“No,” Lin Qingping said. “That’s what he should pay.”

In her past life, her younger brother Lin Jiagui was in the same situation. He was pressured by creditors to the point of desperation. At that time, her business was in trouble and she really couldn't afford to pay off his debts. Her mother pressured her every day, so she had no choice but to go out and borrow from others.

Borrowing money isn't that easy.

As a single woman, she encountered countless cold stares when she went out to borrow money, but that wasn't the worst part. The worst part was when a middle-aged man with a beer belly threw a wad of cash on the table and demanded that she sleep with him, with a price tag clearly stated for each time...

That was her most humiliating moment.

She escaped from the private room, bursting into tears as she thought about the loneliness and hardship she had endured along the way. But no one sympathized with her. When she returned home, her mother beat her severely, grabbed her hair, and berated her with the most offensive language, saying she was useless and had caused Lin Jiagui to lose a finger.

At that moment, she longed to hug someone and tell them about her hardships, she longed for someone to hold her and comfort her, even if it was just to say, "Lin Qingping, you've worked so hard"...

No, there is no such person.

By then, Gu Juncheng was long gone, Ermei herself was in dire straits, and Zhiyuan... Zhiyuan was in prison.

Oh, right, later, on visiting days, she went to see Zhiyuan in prison.

For some reason, during her lowest point, she thought about visiting Zhiyuan.

Zhiyuan looked at her from behind bars and said, "Auntie, you seem to have lost weight."

She really walked a very, very long way all by herself...

All I could say was, "Auntie, you've lost weight."

Only one person noticed that she had lost weight...

At that moment, she burst into tears outside the iron bars.

Through his teary eyes, Zhiyuan said, "Auntie, don't cry. I will try my best to get my sentence reduced and wait for me to come out."

She didn't know what Zhiyuan meant by waiting for him to get out. Was it to stay with her? To support her? Or to open a shop with her?

Later, Zhiyuan was released after her sentence was reduced. However, by then, she had made a comeback and her business was growing bigger and bigger. After visiting her once, Zhiyuan disappeared from her life. They would only meet occasionally and he would visit her again occasionally. He did not accompany her, support her, or help her struggle.

She only thought of this question when she was on her deathbed in her previous life. She didn't know why, why Zhiyuan later became distant from her...

"What are you thinking about?" Gu Juncheng asked her.

"I...miss Zhiyuan." Her eyes were glistening with tears.

Gu Juncheng: ...

She had a feeling that Gu Juncheng was about to lose his temper again...