Chapter 74: The Four Lovers

  I vividly remember when I was eighteen years old, there was an exceptionally outstanding boy who pursued me, causing a sensation throughout the school. The boy's family background was not bad, and I almost agreed to be with him.

  At the age of eighteen, I was a carefree and innocent girl in the prime of my youth. The girls around me had all started to have boyfriends, and I would occasionally feel envious, thinking that it wouldn't be bad to have someone by my side who treated me well.

  After knowing this, Gu Liuyu just patted my head and said that I'm starting to grow up and will eventually have my own life. Shen Bijun said that I'm not promising, being eighteen years old and only now having someone chasing after me, she also said that when she was eleven or twelve years old, there were handsome boys running after her all over the streets.

  Xu Luo Kai said that youth is for being crazy, if you don't have a romance when you're young, then later on when you want to find this feeling again, it's gone forever.

  At that time, I didn't know what love was. I didn't like the boy, but it wasn't to the point of disliking him, and he looked quite pleasant, so after some thought, I agreed.

  Before I could even react, Gu Chen suddenly appeared. I don't know what happened at the time, but some classmates who saw it told me with a lingering fear: "Gu Qing, your brother is too fierce." I only learned through fragmented words that Gu Chen had beaten up the guy who was pursuing me to the point of hospitalization.

  "At that time your brother was particularly terrifying, his eyes could kill people, he didn't say a word and just took action, it was a big deal."

  After that, I went to the hospital to visit that boy. He was lying in the hospital half dead and half alive, and I always felt a bit exaggerated. Although Gu Chen had already accepted the underworld at that time and emerged as a new star, in my eyes he was just a little kid, and I just treated it as a joke. After apologizing to that boy and rejecting his pursuit, I became lost again.

  Just like this, my hard-won love was ruthlessly strangled by an unfeeling fate.

  Then came the college entrance examination, and I just treated it as a small episode. I didn't even ask Gu Chen why he did that, but from then on, the way Gu Chen looked at me changed obviously.

  "Daydreaming again?" Gu Chen pulled my hair with a dissatisfied expression, using a lot of force, it hurt so much that I gritted my teeth.

  "What are you doing?" I hurriedly tried to rescue my trampled hair from under Gu Chen's paws. Gu Chen narrowed his eyes, with no intention of letting go, and instead looked at me for a while before saying: "Your hair has grown longer."

  When I first came to the Gu's house, I had neat and tidy short hair. Shen Bieru always hoped that I would grow my hair long, saying it would make me look more like a lady. However, because I was too lazy to bother with it, I always kept my hair short. Now that Gu Chen mentions it, I realize that at some point I started growing out my hair and now it's this length.

  "Of course, I'm a girl, isn't it normal for girls to have long hair?" I gazed at my hair being grasped in Gu Chen's hand with a pained expression, but deep down I knew that if he didn't intend to let go, there was no way I could snatch it back.

  He glanced at me, finally letting go of my hair, and said with a hint of a smile: "Do you know you're a girl now? Or is it that you've found someone you like and started paying attention to these things?"

  I took a step back and tidied up my disheveled hair, flustered and retorting: "No way! I already said that was just a rumor, you know how boring campus life is now, the girls are all so gossipy they can't wait to stir up something. I don't know what you heard, but none of it's true!"

  I always had mixed feelings about what happened when I was eighteen, but Gu Chen did seem like the kind of person who could do something like that.

  "Really?" He raised an eyebrow and smiled, with a flicker of inexplicable emotion in his eyes.

  What I fear most is Gu Chen's tone of voice, it's hard to tell whether he's happy or sad. If he really gets angry, I'm not afraid at all.

  Because of this, he always makes me unable to guess what he is thinking.

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