The Whole Internet is Shipping Me with My Ex-Boyfriend

Chapter 606 - 2: Chi Yu, Let’s Have Our Wedding

Gu Yuan’s voice suddenly sounded by his ear without warning, making Chi Yu’s hand holding the spoon tremble. The brown sugar water in the spoon spilled out. He turned his eyes and met Gu Yuan’s delicately smiling face, but his own expression stayed blank. "What is it?""Nothing, I just came over to take a look and happened to see what you were cooking." Gu Yuan shook her head, her gaze dropping to the pot in front of him. The brown sugar water was already about to boil, and it actually looked pretty decent.

She leaned in a bit closer, craning her neck to look. "Brown sugar water?"

He didn’t say anything.

Gu Yuan: "Is it for me?"

This time he did answer, but his tone and his words still sounded annoyingly prickly. "Your face was so pale. Mum is getting old and her eyesight isn’t great, she might not notice. Since I saw it, lending a hand is no big deal. It’ll be ready in a bit."

His tone might sound prickly, but his whole heart was wrapped around her.

Looking at his tense profile, cold and expressionless, Gu Yuan’s heart stirred. She rose on tiptoe and looped her arms around his shoulders, planting a kiss on his cheek. "Thanks, that’s really sweet of you."

She kissed him and left.

By the time Chi Yu reacted and turned his head, there was no trace of Gu Yuan in the kitchen.

He lifted his hand to touch the spot she had just kissed, his heart thudding wildly like it had come down with some illness.

His face had gone dark!

Where hadn’t she kissed before?

She’d even kissed the most secret places, but compared to all that, this light kiss on his cheek made his heart flutter even more, turning him into some bashful teenage boy.

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Gu Yuan went back to the bedroom and waited for a while.

She hadn’t waited long when Mum came in, knocking on the door and carrying a steaming cup of brown sugar water on a tray. Seeing it was Mum, Gu Yuan glanced behind her but didn’t see Chi Yu’s figure. She stepped forward to take the brown sugar water from Mum and asked, "Where’s Chi Yu?"

Mum said, "Mr. Chi told me to bring it up once he’d finished. He went to coax the little princess to sleep."

With the rim of the cup close to her nose, Gu Yuan took a small sniff. It was still that familiar smell.

Only Chi Yu knew how to make it.

Quan Jin didn’t, so during the time he’d lost his memory, some cooking skills—things he used to do for Gu Yuan—were things Quan Jin didn’t know how to do.

But the one and only Chi Yu could.

"Are the cookies all baked?" Gu Yuan asked.

Mum nodded. "Mm, almost." Speaking of the cookies, Mum looked puzzled. "I don’t know how Mr. Chi suddenly got such a craving for my cookies. He even said mine are the best, praised me so much that I had to bake them for him even late at night."

In Mum’s impression, before this, Mr. Chi had never praised her cooking like that.

And she hadn’t been very fond of this Mr. Chi either, after he’d neglected Miss Gu for so many years. But this time, now that he was back, Mum kept feeling that Mr. Chi seemed much more approachable than before.

In the past, Mr. Chi would eat the cookies if they were there, but never said they were particularly tasty.

But this time, she’d heard that Mr. Chi had been seriously ill, and after he came back from the hospital, he’d been listless and seemed to have no appetite. Mum had also noticed at dinner that Mr. Chi barely ate anything.

After dinner, Mr. Chi suddenly came to find her, saying he wanted to eat her cookies. Mum agreed to his request on the spot without a second thought, rolled up her sleeves and went to bake, and baked a lot, enough to make sure he’d had his fill.

Mum heard Miss Gu say, "He actually really likes your cookies. He did before, and he still does now."

Before, huh, it hasn’t even been that long, has it?

In Mum’s memory, Mr. Chi hadn’t eaten her cookies that many times.

But hearing Miss Gu say so, Mum tucked the words away in her heart, feeling extra comforted. "Once he finishes these, I’ll bake more next time."

Gu Yuan smiled. "Okay." Then added, "The brown sugar water is still a bit hot, you don’t need to come back to collect the cup later. After you finish baking the cookies, go to bed early.",

"All right, Miss Gu, you rest early too. I’ll go downstairs now."

"Mm."

After seeing Mum out, Gu Yuan casually closed the door.

That tsundere man’s awkward sulkiness would probably last for two days, but she couldn’t delay dealing with Sheng Yi’s matter. She figured Chi Yu wouldn’t come looking for her tonight anyway, so she might as well go look for him.

The cup in her hand was insulated. She brought the rim to her lips and took a small sip. It was still a bit too hot, so she had to put the brown sugar water down and decided to drink it when she came back.

She opened the door just as the man outside was about to come in. The door swung open, and the two of them froze face-to-face, four eyes meeting. The silence lasted more than ten seconds before Chi Yu finally spoke first, asking her, "Did you drink the brown sugar water?"

Gu Yuan: "Not yet."

Chi Yu’s gaze dropped to her lower abdomen, lingering for a few seconds. He frowned and said to her, "If you’re still feeling really bad, drink the brown sugar water sooner."