The Moon Shines on Me (GL) - Chapter 33

It was the weekend, and they didn’t have to go to the office.

After breakfast, Shen Yuan suddenly received a message from her roommate, Fu Yao.

【Yuan Yuan, I’m planning to meet a net friend, but I’m new to Jinghai, don’t know many people. Could you come with me?】

Fu Yao was a full-time author who rarely left the house. Most of her friends were met online. She was very socially anxious and didn’t dare to meet a net friend alone, so she had to drag Shen Yuan along.

Shen Yuan didn’t reply immediately. Instead, she looked up at Gu Shiwei, who was sitting across from her.

Noticing her gaze, Gu Shiwei asked, “What’s wrong?”

“I want to go back to my rental apartment,” Shen Yuan said.

Gu Shiwei’s hands, which were clearing the dishes, paused. “Why the sudden trip back?”

“To terminate the lease and have a meal with my roommate.”

Hearing the words “terminate the lease,” the expression on Gu Shiwei’s face relaxed. “When are you coming home? I’ll pick you up.”

“No need, I’ll come back right after dinner. It’s close, I can take a taxi myself.”

“…Alright.”

Shen Yuan quickly changed her clothes and left Yun Jin Bie Yuan. She first returned to the rental apartment to pack her luggage. At eleven o’clock, she left with Fu Yao.

Fu Yao had arranged to meet her net friend at a restaurant. When they arrived, someone was already in the private room. Fu Yao asked Shen Yuan to go in first while she rushed to the restroom for an emergency touch-up.

After Shen Yuan pushed open the door and stepped inside, she was surprised to see two familiar figures.

Her eyebrow lifted, and she paused for a moment.

“Holy cow, Shen Yuan?? Why are you here?” Lin Qinghuan poked Gu Shiwei’s arm, shocked, gesturing for her to look back.

Two seconds later, Gu Shiwei composed her expression of surprise and pulled Shen Yuan down to sit next to her.

Lin Qinghuan sat stiffly, feeling like she’d been struck by lightning. She vaguely sensed a murderous aura emanating from the side.

She was there to meet her net friend, her crush. But she never expected the person she’d been chatting warmly with online to be the quiet and reserved Shen Yuan in real life???

And Shen Yuan had come to meet her behind Gu Shiwei’s back?

And she’d been caught red-handed by Gu Shiwei.

Most importantly, she had somehow, by a twist of fate, poached Gu Shiwei’s girlfriend?

Just as Lin Qinghuan wished she could scream to the heavens, the private room door was pushed open again. A beautiful young woman, dressed in a delicate skirt and looking very put-together, about twenty-three or twenty-four years old, walked in.

“Sorry, I’m late,” Fu Yao said awkwardly, clutching her skirt.

Lin Qinghuan looked at Shen Yuan, then turned to look at Fu Yao. After a long moment, she finally realized the situation. She pointed at Fu Yao and asked, stunned, “You’re ‘Ten Thousand Words Daily’?”

Fu Yao nodded.

Lin Qinghuan quietly pushed the poached wall corner back into place.

She let out a long sigh, took a big gulp of hot tea, and felt a wave of relief from having narrowly escaped disaster.

After Fu Yao sat down, Lin Qinghuan finally sorted out the relationship between the four people after a few words of explanation.

It turned out that Fu Yao was the net friend she had a crush on, and Shen Yuan and Gu Shiwei were their respective “support.”

What a coincidence.

Lin Qinghuan felt relieved. She was gradually immersed in the joy of what she had lost being found again.

The meal was unusually harmonious. After eating, Lin Qinghuan suggested going to the movies. Fu Yao originally wanted to drag Shen Yuan along, but when she saw Shen Yuan and Gu Shiwei’s tightly clasped hands, Fu Yao closed her mouth.

She and Lin Qinghuan, the two single people, shouldn’t disturb the young couple.

Later, Fu Yao left with Lin Qinghuan. Gu Shiwei and Shen Yuan returned to the rental apartment to collect the packed luggage and took it back to Yun Jin Bie Yuan.

From this day on, they officially began living together.

Life and work gradually returned to normal. Shen Yuan became busy. She had quite a few commissions, so her overtime hours increased.

Gu Shiwei was also busy recently, often coming home late, sometimes still on the phone after work. When she made calls, she intentionally or unintentionally avoided Shen Yuan, acting mysterious.

One day, Shen Yuan came out of the bedroom after taking a shower and found Gu Shiwei on the phone by the floor-to-ceiling window again. She quietly walked over, sat cross-legged on the sofa, and started spacing out.

Gu Shiwei caught sight of her, quickly gave a few instructions, hung up the phone, and sat down next to her.

“Yuan Yuan, are you hungry?”

Shen Yuan shook her head, leaning forward slightly and burying her face in Gu Shiwei’s arms.

Sensing Shen Yuan’s low mood, Gu Shiwei’s heart skipped a beat. She held Shen Yuan’s shoulders and gently pulled her out of her embrace.

“What’s wrong? Are you not feeling well?”

Shen Yuan didn’t speak. She pursed her lips, tilted her head up, and leaned in.

The moment their lips touched, fireworks seemed to explode in Gu Shiwei’s mind. She wrapped her arm around Shen Yuan’s shoulder, and they stumbled onto the sofa together.

Gu Shiwei’s tongue felt soft and slick. Shen Yuan, fresh out of the shower, was enveloped in heavy steam, and her face was flushed from the hot water.

Looking at her lover so close, Gu Shiwei’s heart melted into a puddle. Her movements on her mouth were exceptionally gentle.

Shen Yuan was unusually proactive today, trying her best to open her mouth and cooperate with Gu Shiwei’s deep kiss. Her tongue lightly swept Gu Shiwei’s mouth, occasionally being gently rubbed along.

Shen Yuan swallowed a few times, but it didn’t relieve the dryness in her throat.

Her fingers tightly clutched Gu Shiwei’s shirt. Just as Gu Shiwei was about to pull away, she used force to pull her back down.

She mimicked Gu Shiwei’s actions, awkwardly searching her lips and teeth, managing to steal a bit of fluid to soothe her inner restlessness.

After a long kiss, Shen Yuan finally let go, panting.

Gu Shiwei lowered her head, cupped Shen Yuan’s chin, and used her thumb to wipe away a glistening trace from the corner of her mouth.

Lying on the sofa, Shen Yuan’s eyes were misty. She lazily reached out to hug Gu Shiwei’s waist, but in a daze, felt something hard poke her hand. She subconsciously reached into the pocket of Gu Shiwei’s trench coat. The next second, her fingertips touched something firm and square.

“What is this…?” She pulled a square box from Gu Shiwei’s pocket.

Gu Shiwei: “…”

Shen Yuan took a closer look and was suddenly stunned. Clutching the box, she felt it was suddenly hot to the touch.

Gu Shiwei sighed, resignedly saying, “That’s a ring. I was going to use it to propose to you in a few days.”

Shen Yuan’s face quickly turned red. “So, you’ve been so busy recently because you were preparing for the proposal?”

Gu Shiwei nodded. “Yes, I wanted to surprise you.”

Unexpectedly, this happened. Shen Yuan lowered her gaze and said apologetically, “But I ruined your carefully prepared surprise.”

“You didn’t ruin it. It was meant for you anyway; the time just moved up.”

Gu Shiwei opened the ring box and knelt before Shen Yuan, sincerely saying, “Shen Yuan, will you marry me?”

Of course, Shen Yuan was willing.

She nodded, solemnly saying, “I will. I will, no matter when.”

“It’s just that I didn’t prepare your ring in advance, so I’ll have to make it up to you next time.”

“Okay.”

A week later, Gu Shiwei also received a ring from Shen Yuan at their engagement party.

Their wedding preparations had begun the day Gu Shiwei took Shen Yuan back to the old mansion. The date was set for October 1st.

Time flew by. The artwork Shen Yuan had drawn was finally listed in the “Sword Arts of the Jianghu” game store. However, this artwork’s style was so different from her previous work that it wasn’t until it hit the trending topics that people realized the style… it looked so much like S.Y., who had been a huge hit three years ago.

Another case of plagiarism?

Fortunately, it didn’t take long for the official team of “Sword Arts of the Jianghu” to clarify that Shen Yuan was the same person as S.Y., who had been falsely accused three years ago. There was no plagiarism.

After the previous incident involving Mu Rui, although S.Y. was successfully cleared, her social media accounts remained silent. Netizens thought S.Y. had retired, but they didn’t expect her to join Zhaoyang and make a comeback with a sensational, hit fashion line.

This fashion line was a massive success. Zhaoyang made a fortune and attracted many new players. In contrast, Riyue (The Moon), already weakened by giving away too much in their commercial battle, suffered a major blow from S.Y.’s comeback.

Although Riyue’s official Weibo was still putting up a tough front, their declining revenue was a harsh teacher. Before long, the board of directors of the Mingyue Group couldn’t sit still and jointly sent others to take over the subsidiary Riyue.

Riyue was in deep trouble and couldn’t afford to bother Zhaoyang anymore, so the entire Zhaoyang company suddenly had a lot of free time.

“Honestly, it feels a bit weird. With no one from the rival company starting drama on Weibo lately, I’ve got nothing to watch for fun.”

“Yuan Yuan, why did you suddenly change your style? Aren’t you good at the ink wash style?”

“What did you give me? An invitation?”

When Lu Qingwan opened the gilded invitation card, her mouth dropped into an O shape.

“I didn’t change my style; that was my original style,” Shen Yuan said, pointing to the heavy invitation card in Lu Qingwan’s hand. “Also, this is the wedding invitation for Gu Shiwei and me. The location is in Australia, a bit far. If you want to come, you can—”

Before Shen Yuan could finish, Lu Qingwan interrupted decisively: “I’m definitely going!”

Hesitating for even a second would be disrespectful to the wedding!

After Shen Yuan left, Lu Qingwan took a deep breath and carefully read the small print at the bottom of the invitation:

Includes round-trip first-class air tickets and five-star accommodation, includes all spending for a seven-day National Day holiday tour, includes…

As expected of President Gu, her generosity was staggering.

Besides Lu Qingwan, Shen Yuan also invited Assistant Chen and Bai Yu. She didn’t have many friends, and she still had many invitations left over. Gu Shiwei was afraid that too many people would make Shen Yuan uncomfortable, so she didn’t organize a massive event, only inviting close relatives and well-acquainted classmates. Apart from that, no business partners were notified.

However, even so, the total number of guests still amounted to several dozen.

On October 1st, the weather was clear. The wedding was chosen to be held near the university where Gu Shiwei had studied abroad. Ms. Gu Qingfeng directly bought an entire estate to host the wedding.

Although she had long known that the Gu family was wealthy, Shen Yuan was still shocked when she truly witnessed Ms. Gu Qingfeng’s extravagant scale.

She had never seen such a grand wedding, even when she was still the young lady of the Shen family.

“This is a major life event; we can’t be careless,” Ms. Gu had told them.