The CEO is domineering, the devil Boss is addicted to pampering

Chapter 1323 Yun Rui Enchen: Greedy for Your Initiative

Gu Yunxi was stunned by his yelling, and the tears stuck in her eyes were forgotten.

She had never seen Qi Ruixiang like this before - the man who was always in control and even frowned with measured steps, now had turbulent waves in his eyes, red bloodshot like spider webs covering the whites of his eyes, and when his Adam's apple rolled, the bulging blue veins on his neck could be seen.

He turned and walked to the window, his shoulders still shaking slightly as he turned his back to her.

The neon lights outside the window shone through the glass, casting flickering spots of light on him, as if splitting his shadow into countless pieces.

"When do you think I knew? I know you so well..." His voice trailed off, with an almost fragile honesty, "You thought you hid it well? You pretended to be drunk and leaned in my arms, but you kept looking for opportunities to peek at me. I saw it all."

Gu Yunxi's breathing suddenly stopped. It turned out that he knew everything, and had known it since so long ago.

"Then why did you..."

Why didn't he expose her? Why did he bend down to pick up the glass when she deliberately broke it, why did he run all over the city to buy stomach medicine when she pretended to have a stomachache, and why did he respond more passionately than she did when she kissed him under the influence of alcohol?

"Why?" Qi Ruixiang turned around abruptly, the pain in his eyes almost overflowing, "Because I'm greedy."

This word was like a stone, hitting Gu Yunxi's heart hard.

"I crave you wearing my shirt to the kitchen in the middle of the night to get some water, your hair messy and sticking to your neck; I crave you deliberately adding two extra sugars to my coffee, and secretly laughing when I frown; I crave you for being so scheming against me, yet you still subconsciously snuggle into my arms on a thundering night..."

His voice became lower and lower, as if he was confessing to himself.

"Gu Yunxi, what I'm greedy for is that you're willing to put in the effort to act in front of me. Even if it's fake, even if you'll turn around and check my background, at least at those moments, you only have eyes for me."

Gu Yunxi's lips moved, but no sound came out. She had never imagined that Qi Ruixiang's "cooperation" could conceal such a humble intention.

"Do you think I'm willing to guess every day which of your words are true? Do you think I'm willing to watch you and Yang Xiaotang secretly contacting each other, feeling like I'm being scratched by a cat?"

He took two steps forward, his tall figure carrying a strong sense of oppression, but he stopped when he was one step away from her.

"But if I don't act with you, will you stay by my side? Will you come over to me, smile at me, and say those soft sweet words in my arms?"

He raised his hand, his fingertips almost touching her cheek, but he pulled it back at the last moment, clenching it into a fist and pressing it against his side. His knuckles were white, as if he was trying hard to suppress something.

"That day in the restaurant, you deliberately said in front of everyone that we had a fight, just to see if I would panic. I panicked because I was afraid you would really leave." There was a bitter smile in his voice, "You thought I didn't see that you were testing me? But I still went along with what you said, because I was afraid that if I refuted you, you would not even want to go through with this fake play."

"And last night..." He paused, his Adam's apple rolled violently, his eyes dark as a deep pool, "When you sat on my legs and came over with an apple in your mouth, I knew you were up to something again... But you had already regarded me as a villain and sentenced me without even asking questions..."

"I didn't think of you as a bad person..." Her voice was tearful and as thin as a mosquito's.

"But that's what you think!" Qi Ruixiang interrupted her, his eyes reddening. "You asked Yang Xiaotang to investigate me. You suspected that Lin Xu's death was related to me! Gu Yunxi, in your heart, who am I?"

This sentence was like an ice-hardened dagger, accurately piercing through all of Gu Yunxi's disguises.

She opened her mouth, but her throat felt like it was clogged with hot cotton, and no sound came out. The moonlight outside the window had been obscured by dark clouds, and the ward had gone dark in an instant. Only the sound of their rapid breathing, colliding in the empty space, echoed with fragments.

Qi Ruixiang's chest heaved violently, and the red bloodshot in his eyes spread like a spider web. He stared at Gu Yunxi's pale face, as if trying to dig out an answer from her pupils.

But she just lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes casting heavy shadows under her eyes, and her fingertips dug deep into her palms, leaving crescent-shaped blood marks.

"Speak." His voice was as hoarse as rusty iron, with a hint of desperate urging, "Tell me, what am I to you?"

Gu Yunxi raised her head suddenly, tears finally bursting out, scaldingly falling on the quilt: "I don't know!"

Her voice was filled with tears of despair.

"I get scared when I see the bloodstains that Lin Xu left in the lab, I panic when I see the encrypted files of the 'Nightingale Project', and I tremble when I see you and Gu Yunqian standing together! Qi Ruixiang, I'm terrified. I can only grab a little information and keep investigating. I..."

She didn't get to finish her words because Qi Ruixiang suddenly turned around, grabbed his suit jacket draped over the back of the chair, and strode towards the door.

When his hand touched the door handle, he paused for half a second, but did not turn around. He just said in an almost icy tone: "Take good care of it."

The moment the door was closed, Gu Yunxi heard the sound of her heart breaking. She curled up on the hospital bed like an abandoned cub, letting her tears soak the pillow.

The smell of disinfectant penetrated her nostrils, bringing a sharp sting, reminding her of the cedar scent that Qi Ruixiang left on the side of her neck - that was the only warmth she could grasp in countless terrifying nights.

In the following days, Qi Ruixiang never showed up again...

The day I was discharged from the hospital, the sun was so bright that it was blinding.

Every time she came to the hospital, Qi Ruixiang would park his car under the old locust tree and wait for her by the car door, with snacks in his suit pocket.

But today, it was empty.

There was only the rustling of leaves in the wind, like a long elegy...

Gu Yunxi took a deep breath, took out the key and inserted it into the lock. As she turned the key, she was still hoping to see that familiar figure when she opened the door and smell his usual cedar perfume.

But the moment the door opened, a biting coldness hit me in the face.

The sofa in the living room had a new cover, a light gray color she had never seen before, replacing the off-white color that Qi Ruixiang had personally selected before - he said, "This color is stain-resistant, and you always like to spill coffee on it."

The crystal vase on the coffee table was gone. He had brought it back from a business trip to the Netherlands. It always contained fresh white roses because he remembered her mentioning that "white roses are like snow and look clean."

Gu Yunxi's heart felt like it was being tightly gripped by an invisible hand, and the pain was so severe that she could hardly breathe.

She stumbled into the bedroom. The half of the closet that belonged to Qi Ruixiang was now empty, with only the hooks swaying gently in the breeze.

Gu Yunxi walked to the study and ran his fingers over the bookshelf - half of the books here used to be Qi Ruixiang's, ranging from financial theory to science fiction. He always said, "You have to read more of these, otherwise you won't know when you've been cheated."

But now, all traces of him had been erased, leaving only her own professional books, neatly arranged like a row of cold tombstones...