Su Hua quickly turned her head away, her eyes wide with caution. "What are you trying to do?"

"What do you think?" Gu Beixian pinched her delicate chin, speaking nonchalantly, "Certainly not discussing calculus problems with you."

Su Hua pressed her fingers against his chin, keeping him from getting closer to her mouth, and said earnestly, "You said you wanted a divorce."

"Today in the hospital, you also said you didn't want to leave anymore."

"That was just to annoy Chu Suosuo."

His deep, dark eyes gazed at her intently, "I took it seriously."

Su Hua lowered her lashes, "I don't want to do this with you right now."

Gu Beixian raised an eyebrow slightly, "Who was the one seducing me just now?"

"I wasn't, I just... I..." Su Hua suddenly didn't know how to express herself.

In her panic, her face flushed again.

Not just her face, but her neck and wrists too were tinged with a faint blush, like begonias blooming on white snow.

A mix of innocence and allure, pure yet tempting, irresistible.

Gu Beixian pressed his lips to hers, forbidding her to speak, his thumb gently caressing her soft lips, "You're quite enticing right now."

Enticing?

Su Hua was momentarily dazed, not expecting to be associated with such a seductive word.

She backed away, her large, watery eyes looking at him, "Could you step out first, please?"

Gu Beixian brushed aside her hanging hair, tucking it behind her ear, and said warmly, "Let's go out together."

Without waiting for her response, he lifted her from the water, dripping wet, turned on the shower to rinse off the foam, wrapped her in a large towel, and carried her into the bedroom like a child.

He placed her on the bed, carefully positioning her injured hand above her head.

He leaned over her, gently biting her chin, then started kissing along her collarbone, meticulously.

Su Hua's body couldn't resist his teasing, but her heart was resistant.

She tried to push him away with her uninjured hand.

But he was too strong, and her feeble resistance only added to his excitement...

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Afterward.

Su Hua panted softly, "Don't you like promiscuous women? Why touch someone like me?"

Gu Beixian, not understanding her petulance, pinched her waist and said casually, "You were quite wild just now, I liked it a lot." His tone teasingly suggestive.

Su Hua didn't believe the sweet nothings men whispered in bed.

She looked up at his handsome jawline, thinking: Men are indeed a curious species, able to love one person while not hesitating to sleep with another.

Women can't do that; if their heart doesn't love, their body can't accept.

Gu Beixian's hand slid down her back, encircling her waist, his chin rubbing against her hair, "My mother's birthday is at the end of the month. You're not working these days, come over in the evening to liven things up, you're too quiet."

The speaker was unintentional, but the listener took it to heart.

A ripple stirred in Su Hua's heart, "Being too quiet is boring, isn't it?"

Gu Beixian thought for a moment, "No, you're quite interesting. That act of seducing me earlier could make me laugh for a year."

"I'll hit you." Su Hua playfully punched his chest.

Gu Beixian laughed, holding her hand, "What I mean is, you're so young, you should be full of vitality, being too repressed isn't good for your health."

"Okay, I'll go buy a birthday gift for mom tomorrow. What should I give her?"

"Anything, a bag maybe, she likes bags."

"Mhm."

The two lay quietly for over ten minutes.

Gu Beixian picked up her injured hand to check it carefully, asking, "Did I hurt your hand just now?"

"No."

"What about your legs, do they feel sore?"

Su Hua moved her legs, "Sore."

"Let me massage them for you."

He lifted the blanket, picked up one of her legs, and began to massage gently, starting with the calf and moving up to the thigh, his technique quite skilled.

Su Hua was extremely sensitive to his touch, and after only a few rubs, her face flushed, her breathing quickened, and her body began to heat up.

She and he had registered their marriage upon their first meeting. For the first two years, he couldn't stand on his legs and was in a bad mood.

Even a handsome face, if always gloomy, is hard to love. Back then, she was more driven by gratitude.

She truly fell in love over the past year. To her, it was still the honeymoon phase, sadly interrupted by his blunt "let's separate."

She felt a bit sad, her eyes unwittingly misting over.

Gu Beixian, unaware of her thoughts, looking at her moist eyes, was reminded of her earnest seduction earlier and felt his interest piqued again, "Two negatives make a positive. If your legs are sore, doing it again will make them feel better."

Su Hua always felt his logic was skewed.

But he didn't give her time to think it over, pressing down on her again...

Suddenly, the phone rang.

But a man in such a moment has no mood to answer calls.

With one hand holding Su Hua's soft waist, the other reached for the nightstand, his fingers carelessly swiped the phone, and the ringing stopped abruptly.

He thought he had hung up, but he had accidentally answered the call.

On the other end, Chu Suosuo, with ears perked up, heard a series of delicate moans coming from the phone.

The voice was so enticing it made one's scalp tingle.

She felt so frustrated, as if someone had stuffed a cactus down her throat, prickling painfully.

She listened with gritted teeth for a while, then angrily hung up, throwing the phone onto the sofa, and huffed to Hua Qirou, "Mom, I want to kill Su Hua."

Hua Qirou stared at her splinted left hand, then touched her own nose, saying bitterly, "I want to kill her too."

"Any news from that woman named Huang Que?"

"I found out, she was sold to a poor ravine in the northwest. It's a place of destitution and fierce customs, with no cell signal or electricity. She'll be forced to have many children, and if she tries to escape, her legs will be broken, she'll be driven mad, and she'll never leave there for the rest of her life."

Chu Suosuo nodded, a sinister glint in her eyes, "I want to sell Su Hua to that place too, can you contact that trafficker?"

Hua Qirou suddenly became agitated, "No! Don't act rashly!"

Chu Suosuo clenched her teeth, "But seeing her and Brother Beixian being intimate drives me mad!"

"That Su girl gets a hand injury, and a few days later your hand is smashed into a comminuted fracture. The man who smashed your hand was blatantly warning you not to mess with Su Hua, or you'll end up worse than her. Don't touch Su Hua until we find that man, got it?"

Chu Suosuo frowned irritably, "Who is that man? It's been so long, why hasn't he been caught?"

"He's very cunning. The police sent a team to search for him night and day for over ten days, but found nothing. There's only a blurry photo of his back, not even enough for a warrant. Your father and brother have also been looking, to no avail."

Chu Suosuo rubbed her throbbing temples, impatiently saying, "Have you checked Su Hua's call records?"

"We did. There aren't many people in her call history, no suspicious contacts. It seems Su Hua doesn't know who it is either."

Chu Suosuo scoffed, "From what you're saying, is that man silently protecting her from behind?"

"Seems like it, no idea what he's after." Hua Qirou said with disdain, pursing her lips.

Chu Suosuo mocked, "A country bumpkin like her has such a loyal simp. Is that man blind? What does he see in Su Hua? Apart from a decent face and some skill in restoring ancient paintings, what else does she have? She's as dull as a block of wood."

The "block of wood" Su Hua she referred to had been thoroughly exhausted by Gu Beixian that night.

Lying in his arms, boneless from fatigue, she soon fell into a deep sleep.

Gu Beixian got up to shower.

Returning, he lay down beside her, propping his chin on his palm, staring at her peaceful, delicate face for a long while.

He leaned down to gently kiss her forehead, whispering, "If you call out for your Brother Ah-Yao in your dreams again tonight, I'll really get angry."