The Crazy Villain Wants Me to Love Her - Chapter 21
Chapter 21: She and She are the Wives
“Didn’t sleep well last night.”
Jiang Chilou was slightly startled, asking hesitantly: “It wasn’t me who woke you up, was it?”
Gu Wan didn’t answer immediately, only looking steadily at the speaker for a while.
Her gaze was calm, and as she stared fixedly, Jiang Chilou felt a vague sense of unease rise in her heart.
“Was it really me?” She moved her lips, just about to apologize when she suddenly heard Gu Wan speak: “No.”
Jiang Chilou: …
The worry she held suddenly dropped, and she let out a long sigh of relief.
As long as it wasn’t her.
Jiang Chilou relaxed, then felt at ease to ask: “Then what was it?”
“Insomnia?”
Gu Wan smiled: “Something like that.”
Huating Pavilion.
When Jiang Chilou followed Gu Wan into the private room, Gu Shuyao was already waiting inside.
Seeing them enter, Gu Shuyao quickly stood up to greet them: “Cousin Gu, Cousin-in-law.”
Gu Wan gently nodded, pulled out a chair, and sat down: “Have a seat first.”
Jiang Chilou sat next to Gu Wan.
Gu Shuyao sat across from the two of them, then pressed the small golden bell on the table, speaking in the direction of the bell: “The dishes can be served now.”
“Very well, please wait a moment.” A female voice slowly came from the bell.
While waiting for the dishes, Gu Shuyao handed a thick stack of documents she had prepared earlier to Gu Wan: “Cousin Gu, these are the documents you asked me for again a few days ago.”
Gu Wan took the documents and opened them. Jiang Chilou was sitting close to her and vaguely saw things written in the documents like “Business Plan,” “Assets, Liabilities, and Profit,” “Cash Flow Statement”…
Just a glance made her feel dizzy, and she didn’t want to look anymore. In contrast, Gu Wan was reading through them slowly, deliberately, and meticulously.
When she flipped to the final appendix, Jiang Chilou inadvertently glimpsed a familiar IP name: “An Old-School Xuanhuan Cultivation Novel”.
Seeing these words, she couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment. After recovering, she unconsciously leaned closer to Gu Wan. Just as Gu Wan was about to turn the page, Jiang Chilou couldn’t help but raise her hand and press down on the hand about to flip.
“Wait.”
The soft touch on the back of her hand involuntarily made Gu Wan stop the action of turning the page.
She tilted her head: “What is it?”
Jiang Chilou’s shoulder leaned against Gu Wan’s, and she pointed to the familiar line of text, her voice brimming with excitement: “This! This is the novel I was reading non-stop last night and this morning! I didn’t expect the author to have sold the copyright.”
And sold it to Gu Shuyao’s company.
Gu Wan observed the sheer delight in her words and actions, and couldn’t help but ask: “You really like this novel?”
Jiang Chilou curved her eyes: “Yes, it’s super good-looking! If you don’t believe me, ask Shuyao.”
“Right?” Jiang Chilou said, naturally turning to look at Gu Shuyao.
Gu Shuyao didn’t overthink it for the moment. Hearing Jiang Chilou’s question, she naturally replied: “It is indeed quite good-looking.”
“I originally spent the money to buy the copyright because I liked this book so much.”
“It’s just a shame…” Gu Shuyao’s words stopped right there when she suddenly heard a cool voice pronounce her own name.
“Shuyao?” Gu Wan’s eyes narrowed. She looked at Jiang Chilou, pronouncing the name the other person had called with a strange tone.
“Uh…” Jiang Chilou froze under Gu Wan’s inexplicable stare and couldn’t help but say: “What’s wrong?”
Gu Wan closed the documents in her hand, briefly glanced coolly at Gu Shuyao across the table, then shifted her gaze back to Jiang Chilou: “Since when did Lulu become so familiar with Gu Shuyao?”
They had only met twice, yet she could already call the other person’s name so intimately. But for herself, she was always called by her full name.
Except for the occasional whim to call her ‘wife’ a few times, when Jiang Chilou called her name, it was always “Gu Wan, Gu Wan.”
Yet, she and she were the ones who were wives.