UOE – Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-One
Gu Jing left Wang Shao Huang’s company in high spirits.
Suddenly Gu Jing’s phone stopped working. She remembered she had her phone in her pants pocket during the lake incident, and she realised her phone broke because of water damage.
Gu Jing returned to the studio and she received a phone call from a real estate agent. The real estate agent gave her good news, the landlord of an affordable apartment in a good neighbourhood she wanted to live in finally signed her lease contract and it became available to move in immediately.
Gu Jing scribbled her new address on a note for Peng Cheng Gui. Gu Jing hummed, packed her suitcases and she moved to her new apartment.
Gu Jing arrived at her new apartment, it was almost spacious as Zhen Lang’s apartment except it only had one bedroom.
Gu Jing walked into her new bedroom and she saw a giant bed.
Gu Jing’s dream came true. She leased a place with a giant bed. In the old and cramped apartment she leased the bed was tiny and she used to roll off the tiny bed many times each night.
Gu Jing unpacked and she walked to a nearby supermarket. At the supermarket she bought a carton of beer and junk food.
Gu Jing carried her beer and junk food home. The sweat on her clothes made her uncomfortable. She took off her clothes in the bathroom and she turned on the shower faucet.
Gu Jing hummed in the shower but she heard someone rang the doorbell. She thought it was Peng Cheng Gui. She turned off the shower faucet. She grabbed a towel and she wrapped it around her head.
‘I’m coming,’ Gu Jing said.
Gu Jing grabbed a shirt she unpacked and put in the bathroom. She put it on, but it wasn’t her shirt. The shirt belonged to Zhen Lang. She didn’t understand why Zhen Lang’s clothes were in her suitcases.
Gu Jing put aside her surprise, she rushed to the front door and another surprise waited for her behind the front door.
The jinx held suitcases in his hands. Immediately Gu Jing closed the front door. But Zhen Lang had quick reflexes, he held the door opened wide enough for him to walk into her home.
In the morning Gu Jing did feel guilty she wrongly accused Zhen Lang of selling her photo, because she realised Wang Shao Huang stole her photo and it had nothing to do with Zhen Lang. But she reasoned it was still Zhen Lang the jinx’s fault, because Wang Shao Huang wouldn’t target her if she wasn’t associated with the jinx.
‘What are you doing here?’ Gu Jing asked.
Zhen Lang looked at his wet shirt that barely covered Gu Jing’s bottom, his eyes travelled down her bare legs and he smiled. ‘Someone destroyed my apartment. I came here for compensation.’
‘It wasn’t me,’ Gu Jing denied.
Zhen Lang rubbed his shirt on Gu Jing’s body. ‘Then why did you steal my clothes?’
‘I… I didn’t steal it,’ Gu Jing said.
Zhen Lang laughed. ‘The evidence is on your body.’ He closed the front door. ‘I think there are a lot of things between us that we need to sort out slowly together.’
‘We don’t have anything…’ Gu Jing said. She looked away from Zhen Lang’s intense eyes. ‘You… you go outside. I need to buy groceries.’
Zhen Lang took a step closer to Gu Jing and he frowned. ‘Where are your slippers?’
‘My-’ Gu Jing said.
Zhen Lang spotted two pairs of Gu Jing’s slippers near the sofa. He took three steps to the sofa. He put down his suitcases on the floor. Then he took off his shoes and he wore one pair of her slippers.
Gu Jing puffed her cheeks. On the inside she cursed Zhen Lang – ‘Hey, aren’t you scared your big feet will tear my slippers?’
Zhen Lang took out a jacket from one of his suitcases. He took three steps to Gu Jing and he passed his jacket to her. ‘Put this on.’
Gu Jing stared at her slippers on Zhen Lang’s big feet so she didn’t notice anything else.
Zhen Lang lifted Gu Jing and he carried her toward the sofa.
Gu Jing gasped and she wrapped her arms around Zhen Lang’s neck. ‘What are you doing?’
‘I’m taking you to your slippers,’ Zhen Lang said.
Zhen Lang put Gu Jing on the sofa. He squatted and he picked up her other pair of slippers.
Gu Jing moved to a corner of the sofa and she covered her wet chest with Zhen Lang’s jacket.