Chapter 1126: Uncle Qingcheng, Help Me Take a Look
Gu Qingcheng retracted his gaze from the door, then heard someone knock on the door. “Dong dong dong—”
Gu Qingcheng’s heart pounded thrice as well. “Dong dong dong—”
“Uncle Qingcheng… are you asleep yet?”
The young lady’s delicate voice was so pleasant-sounding it made one’s fingertips turn numb. Gu Qingcheng cleared his throat and responded, then got up to open the door.
The young lady even brought along her pillow this time. She looked up at him eagerly and revealed a smile. “Uncle Qingcheng… I’m here to share the bed again today!”
“Liuli… I need to work at night. With you here, I might disturb your rest! It’s not convenient for me to work either. You’re a big girl now, plus you’ve been here for two days, so you should be familiar…”
At this moment, Yun Liuli raised a finger. “The last time, Uncle Qingcheng. I’m not familiar with your home yet. If you don’t sleep with me, I can’t get to sleep! Please…”
The young lady looked pitiful.
Gu Qingcheng’s heart softened again, and he abandoned his principles…
He gripped the door handle tightly and said to Yun Liuli, “You’re not allowed to put your leg over me tonight!”
“Did that disturb your sleep, Uncle Qingcheng?” Yun Liuli asked.
Gu Qingcheng recalled the dreams he had the past two nights and nodded. “Mm!”
“Alright then, I’ll be good and sleep on one side tonight…” The young lady thought for a bit, then added, “Then… can I hug your arm, Uncle Qingcheng?”
Gu Qingcheng was speechless.
“I’ll just hug your arm!” Yun Liuli’s gaze was pleading.
Gu Qingcheng nodded again, abandoning his principles. “Okay…”
The young lady got onto Gu Qingcheng’s bed as she had wanted. She unb.u.t.toned her pajamas as if there wasn’t anyone next to her, just like yesterday. Gu Qingcheng couldn’t bear to berate her, so he turned around…
But through the mirror, he could still vaguely see Yun Liuli’s wonderful figure, and he was unable to control where his eyes were looking.
Gu Qingcheng closed his eyes and quietly scolded himself, then went to sit at his desk while holding back his heavy breathing, staring intently at the computer screen.
He did that until the young lady’s sweet voice rang out. “Uncle Qingcheng, when are you going to be done with your work and sleep?”
Gu Qingcheng looked in Yun Liuli’s direction and saw that she had wrapped herself with the blanket and was revealing her head and looking in his direction.
“Still a while more to go…”
“How long is a while?”
Yun Liuli perfectly acted out the curious manner of a child.
Gu Qingcheng stared at the young lady’s large and watery eyes and replied, “Perhaps an hour more. If you’re tired, you can sleep first!”
Hearing this, the young lady sat up straight and wrapped herself with a blanket, revealing a hand as she started playing Tetris on her phone. “Then, I’ll wait for Uncle Qingcheng and sleep together!”
Seeing the way Yun Liuli was addicted to her phone, Gu Qingcheng frowned. He recalled Auntie Li’s reminders that Yun Liuli would hurt her eyes by playing with her phone too much, so he said, “Stop playing with your phone. It’s already so late, quickly sleep!”
“It’s already so late, and you’re still working, Uncle Qingcheng!” The young lady disagreed. “They say children learn from their parents. I’m learning from Uncle Qingcheng!”
She even knew how to argue…
“I’m working, while you’re playing a game. Is that the same?”
“I’m a child, while you’re an adult. Me playing games is the same as you working. We’re both staring at screens!”
Gu Qingcheng never realized that Yun Liuli had such a sharp tongue.
Gu Qingcheng closed his laptop and got up, turning off the lamp. “Sleep!”
Seeing Gu Qingcheng walk towards the bed, Yun Liuli quickly locked her phone screen, then sweetly s.h.i.+fted inwards and lifted the blankets. She patted on the mattress and said, “Uncle Qingcheng, come over quickly! I’m tired already!”
Gu Qingcheng sighed and got into the bed. Just like last night, he slept as close to the side as he could.
With his arm hugged by Yun Liuli, Gu Qingcheng felt uncomfortable sleeping. Within a mere few minutes, he felt the bones in half of his body stiffen.
The young lady tightly embraced Gu Qingcheng’s arm. Gu Qingcheng’s little finger was pressed against the young lady’s curled up thigh, not daring to move an inch.
It was 2 am. Listening to the young lady’s gentle breathing, Gu Qingcheng didn’t dare fall asleep…
He feared that should he fall asleep, he would have the same dream again and would overstep the boundaries.
In the faint moonlight coming in through the curtains, Gu Qingcheng gazed at Yun Liuli as she slept. Her neck-length black hair was stuck at the corner of her lips… Gu Qingcheng couldn’t resist reaching out to help her remove that strand of hair from her face, but his thumb accidentally touched Yun Liuli’s soft lips, grazing them indistinctly.
He suddenly recalled the sensation of his finger inside this little mouth. Gu Qingcheng held his breath and turned his head away, his mind all jumbled up.
If this were to continue, Gu Qingcheng was afraid he might lose control of himself.
“Uncle Qingcheng…” Yun Liuli’s sleepy voice could be heard. Her brows were furrowed, and she looked like she was upset. “It hurts so badly here!”
Gu Qingcheng’s brow twitched. Before he could say anything, the young lady held Gu Qingcheng’s large hand and placed it upon her heart.
Gu Qingcheng froze. He wanted to retract his hand, but he couldn’t summon the energy.
The young lady placed her pet.i.te hand over the back of his hand and cried out in a squeamish manner, “Uncle Qingcheng… hurts!”
It was the right side, not the left. That meant it wasn’t the heart!
Gu Qingcheng quickly got up and turned on the lights. Yun Liuli gazed at Gu Qingcheng tearfully. “Uncle Qingcheng, help me take a look…”
Gu Qingcheng clenched his teeth. “I’ll get Auntie Li to come down!”
Gu Qingcheng quickly fled the scene after saying that.
When Auntie Li came down, she saw Yun Liuli sleeping in Gu Qingcheng’s room. Looking at the pillows… it seemed like the two of them had slept in the same bed. Auntie Li’s heart couldn’t help but pound.
Didn’t they say… this Yun Liuli was Mr. Gu’s adopted daughter? Why were the two of them sleeping in the same bed!
Although Yun Liuli had lost her memory and was currently a “seven-year-old”… the two of them were grown adults!
Auntie Li thought about this matter and felt a little worried. It wasn’t that she was nosy, but she really had to tell Lin Nuan about this. If she truly was his adopted daughter, then it was indeed rather…
Before Auntie Li was done checking up on Yun Liuli, the family doctor, who was woken up in the middle of the night, had arrived!
After the checkup, the family doctor said that she had already touched the spot… There wasn’t a tumor or anything on Yun Liuli’s breast. It was perhaps growing pains. That, or it could be the thickening of her mammary gland, just not to the point of eccyclomastoma. But to have complete peace of mind, they ought to have a detailed checkup at the hospital.
Gu Qingcheng nodded.
After this fiasco, Yun Liuli started to feel hungry…
She hadn’t expected Gu Qingcheng to have such a great reaction, to actually call the family doctor over!
She had thought that so long as she made a proactive move, she would be able to take Gu Qingcheng down!
After all, he did show some response to her!
Auntie Li cooked Yun Liuli and Gu Qingcheng a simple and small bowl of soup noodles.