lcionline Chapter 1420 Yunrui's Sincere Intentions: He Actually Said About a Marriage Alliance
Chapter 1420 Yunrui's Sincere Intentions: He Actually Said About a Marriage Alliance
Gu Yunqian sat behind the mahogany desk in the study, his knuckles gripping a thin report tightly, the edges of the paper wrinkled from his grip.
The sky outside the window was already dark. Only a desk lamp was on, but the warm yellow light could not dispel the gloom between his brows. Instead, it made the fatigue and anxiety in his eyes even clearer.
The report included several photos: Gu Yunxi and Cangying standing side by side in front of the old-fashioned noodle shop, and a surveillance screenshot of the two walking into the biological research institute together. In the photo, the younger sister had a neat high ponytail, and her profile showed a gentleness he hadn't seen in a long time. The man next to her was wearing a navy blue jacket and stood tall and straight like a pine tree. Their shadows overlapped under the streetlights, revealing an unspoken understanding.
He tossed the report onto the table, leaned back in his leather chair, and pressed his temples hard with both hands. The drama at home had just subsided, and the mess with Qi Ruixiang was still not completely cleaned up. He thought that Gu Yunxi, having experienced life and death, would become calm and cautious, but he never expected that she would become so close to an undercover police officer in the blink of an eye.
Undercover police officer—these four words were like a thorn, piercing his heart with pain. He knew all too well what this profession meant: endless danger, the possibility of being swept into a dark vortex at any moment. And the Gu family was currently going through a turbulent time; the company had suffered a severe blow due to the Shen Chengyu incident and could not withstand the slightest storm.
Her thoughts drifted back to the past. Gu Yunxi's relationship with the man surnamed Zhao, and then her crush on Qi Ruixiang; later, she entered the scientific research field, and became entangled with the ambitious Lin Xu, almost ruining her own future and the reputation of the Gu family;
I recently had a near-death experience in the Golden Triangle...
"Why can't she just give me a break?" Gu Yunqian opened his eyes, his eyes bloodshot. He picked up his phone from the table, his finger hovering over the dial button. He hesitated for a few seconds, then finally put it down—it was too complicated to explain over the phone. He needed to talk to her in person, to make her fully understand how dangerous it was to get close to Cangying.
He got up and left the study, walking heavily towards Gu Yunxi's bedroom, each step feeling like he was stepping on his own taut nerves.
Gu Yunxi was sitting in front of the dressing table removing her hair tie, her high ponytail loose, her long black hair falling over her shoulders. Just as her fingertips touched the ends of her hair, she heard a knock on the door. Before she could respond, Gu Yunqian pushed the door open and walked in, his face as gloomy as if it were about to rain.
Her heart skipped a beat, and she subconsciously closed the lab notebook on the table—it contained details of her discussion with Cangying about Lin Xu.
"Brother, what brings you here?" Gu Yunxi's voice sounded a little unnatural. She stood up, trying to block the dressing table behind her. "It's so late, is something the matter?"
Gu Yunqian didn't answer. He walked straight up to her, threw the report on the dressing table, and scattered photos all over the floor. "What's wrong?" he sneered, his tone full of suppressed anger. "I want to ask you, Gu Yunxi, what are you trying to do now, going out for noodles with Cangying and taking him to your lab?"
Gu Yunxi's gaze fell on the photos, her pupils suddenly contracting. She crouched down to pick them up, her fingertips touching the cold photographic paper, a chill running from her feet to the top of her head. The photos were very clear, even capturing the moment she and Cangying locked eyes in the noodle shop.
She looked up abruptly at Gu Yunqian, her eyes filled with shock and disbelief: "You sent someone to follow me?"
"If I don't follow you, am I supposed to wait for you to push yourself into the fire again?" Gu Yunqian's voice suddenly rose as he pointed at the photos, his chest heaving violently. "Haven't you learned your lesson from Qi Ruixiang? Haven't you suffered enough at Shen Chengyu's hands? Are you only satisfied when you're involved with these dangerous people?"
"A dangerous person?" Gu Yunxi seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world. She stood up abruptly, and because she moved too quickly, her knee hit the dressing table with a dull thud, but she didn't even notice. "How come you feel like anyone who gets close to me is not a good person?"
"Because he's an undercover cop!" Gu Yunqian's voice trembled slightly, barely perceptible, from anger. "Do you know what this profession means? You'll not only ruin him, you'll ruin yourself! The drama at home has just ended, can't you just stay put and cause trouble?"
"So you've been spying on me?" Gu Yunxi's emotions finally exploded. She grabbed a comb from the dressing table and smashed it on the ground. The plastic comb hit the floor and broke in two. "Gu Yunqian, I'm your sister, not your prisoner! I have my own judgment and my own social freedom!"
"Gu Yunxi, don't think I can't see through what you're thinking!"
"What am I thinking?" Gu Yunxi's eyes reddened, not from grievance, but from anger. "I'm thinking about what kind of brother I have! In your eyes, I'll always be that little girl who only causes trouble and gets deceived by men! I've been through life and death, I know who can be trusted and who should be stayed away from! You don't trust me, and instead send people to monitor me, what do you take me for?"
Her voice grew louder and louder, her whole body trembling with emotion. Her long black hair was disheveled from the violent movements, obscuring her face and revealing only a pair of eyes filled with rage.
She remembered how Cangying looked at the data attentively in the laboratory; she remembered how he thoughtfully put less chili in her noodles; she remembered how firm he was when he said, "This is my responsibility"—in Gu Yunqian's eyes, all of these became evidence of "not doing his job properly" and "causing trouble".
Gu Yunqian was speechless, choked by her words. Looking at his sister, who was like a cat with its fur standing on end, his anger intensified.
"Fine, fine, you have your own judgment." Gu Yunqian laughed angrily, his laughter full of coldness. "If you really want to be in a relationship, I'll arrange a marriage for you right now. The Li family in the west of the city has been contacting me recently. Young Master Li is a good person, and his family is powerful. If you marry into the family, the crisis of the Gu family company can be resolved immediately, and all the troubles will disappear. Isn't that great?"
"A marriage alliance?" Gu Yunxi seemed to have all her strength drained away. She looked at Gu Yunqian in disbelief, her body swaying. "What did you say?"
"I said, if you want to date, I'll send you to an arranged marriage." Gu Yunqian repeated each word slowly and deliberately. He knew how hurtful those words were, but anger clouded his judgment. He just wanted her to understand the disaster her "willful" behavior would bring to the Gu family. "Do you think you can do your research peacefully now because of what? It's because the Gu family is protecting you! Now that the Gu family is in trouble, shouldn't you, as a daughter of the Gu family, do something to help?"
Gu Yunxi's eyes turned completely red, and tears finally streamed down her face. It wasn't from fear or resentment, but from heartbreak.
The man in front of her was her brother who had protected her since childhood and would feel heartbroken for half a day if she got hurt even a little; but now... he easily said that he would send her to a marriage alliance.