The hairdryer’s sound was low and did not interfere with his reading, so Yue Linze let her continue. After a while, Tao Yu’s gaze began to blur, and her hand movements slowed down.
These past few days, because Yue Linze was uncooperative, doing rehabilitation with him had been exhausting. At this time, she would usually be lying in bed resting, but today she had come to the Yue family’s old mansion.
She silently yawned, her fingers occasionally touching his hair.
Yue Linze stared blankly at a page of the book, not having turned the page for a long time. The woman’s fingers were warm, softly pressing on his scalp. It was originally a somewhat comfortable thing, but as she pressed more slowly, a somewhat ambiguous atmosphere began to emerge.
Since she had said those crazy words, she no longer seemed to hide her intentions. From the TV earlier to drying his hair now, every action carried a hint of suggestion.
He expressionlessly put down the book, wanting to see just how bold this woman could be.
Tao Yu saw him put down the book and immediately became more alert. Seeing his hair was almost dry, she quickly turned off the hairdryer: “It’s done, Mr. Yue…”
Yue Linze glanced at her without speaking. Tao Yu was somewhat confused by his look. She had originally wanted to say that if there was nothing else, she would go sleep on the sofa, but because of this glance, she felt Yue Linze did not want to hear that.
She thought for a moment and took the initiative to chat: “Mr. Yue, are you still in a bad mood?”
Seeing that Yue Linze had no intention of responding, Tao Yu was not discouraged: “Are you still unhappy about Old Master Gu’s plan to relocate the grave?”
“Fishing for information?” Yue Linze coldly looked at her.
…This man’s intuition was first-rate, regardless of his character. Of course, she was fishing for information; otherwise, how would she know what to do to comfort him?
Tao Yu smiled: “Is it that no matter what I say, Mr. Yue thinks I have ulterior motives?”
Yue Linze sneered but said nothing.
His expression was enough to convey his meaning. Tao Yu’s smile remained unchanged: “Since that’s the case, I won’t say more. However, I want to reiterate that apart from having ulterior motives towards you personally, Mr. Yue, I don’t care about anything else. I hope you can resolve your misunderstanding about me as soon as possible.”
She elegantly turned and walked towards the sofa, making a face as she turned her head. While making the face, she didn’t notice that the decorative item to her left was very shiny and completely reflected her expression, allowing Yue Linze to see it clearly.
“Mr. Yue, I’ll sleep on the sofa tonight. Rest assured, before you accept my ulterior motives, I won’t do anything to you,” Tao Yu said after lying on the sofa and closing her eyes.
A look of disdain flashed in Yue Linze’s eyes. He casually picked up his pajamas, turned off the light, and lay down before saying softly: “Do you want to know how I plan to deal with Gu Yansheng?”
“I just want to make Mr. Yue happy,” Tao Yu’s lips curved slightly in the darkness. “I’m not interested in anything else. The reason I asked is just to find a way to make you happy.”
In the dark, where no one could see anyone, the sensitivity of hearing was infinitely amplified. After she said this, Yue Linze surprisingly heard a rare sincerity.
As if her life would have value only if he could be happy. Yue Linze scoffed and slowly closed his eyes.
Yue Linze had thought that with an extra person’s breathing in the room, he would have trouble sleeping, but in fact, he fell asleep not long after closing his eyes.
Tao Yuzi carefully listened to Yue Linze’s movements, and only turned over and went to sleep at ease after confirming he was asleep. The sofa here was large and comfortable, with just the right softness and firmness, and she was very satisfied lying on it. If she could also have the chance to sleep until she naturally woke up, it would be even more perfect.
Unfortunately, heaven would not grant her wish.
Early the next morning, while she was still deeply immersed in sleep, the room door suddenly made a loud noise, startling Tao Yuzi into sitting up instantly, reflexively looking towards the bed: “Mr. Yue?!”
“What is it?” Yue Linze, who had already changed his clothes and was sitting in a chair reading a book, said coldly.
Tao Yuzi calmed down and was about to speak when an angry voice from outside came: “Yue Linze, open the door! We must make this clear today! What right do you have to move A’yun’s grave to the Yue family ancestral garden? You unfilial son, open the door!”
Then came the persuasive voices of Zhou Yanran and Yue Linying, creating quite a commotion. Tao Yuzi came to her senses and tentatively looked at Yue Linze: “Mr. Yue?” Yue Linze was indeed decisive, having moved his mother’s grave overnight, no wonder Gu Shengsheng was furious.
“Open the door,” he said indifferently.
Tao Yuzi immediately responded, casually twisting her long hair and walking over to open the door. Gu Shengsheng rushed in, almost knocking over Tao Yuzi who was opening the door.
Yue Linze’s eyebrow twitched, and only after she sheepishly walked to his side did he coldly look at Gu Shengsheng: “Speak.”
“You… you unfilial son! Betraying your own family, what gave you the courage to move your mother’s grave? Aren’t you afraid she’ll be angered to death underground?”
Gu Shengsheng was trembling with anger. Yesterday, he thought Yue Linze’s “let’s discuss it later” meant he was intimidated, but who knew this young man would move the grave back to the Yue family overnight, showing no sign of being threatened.
“Dad, please talk to Linze nicely. I believe Linze doesn’t mean it that way,” Yue Linying advised from the side.
“How can someone already dead be angered to death,” Yue Linze said with an indifferent and cold expression, “Besides, she was originally a Yue family member. Naturally, she should be buried in the Yue family cemetery. If he hadn’t been powerless to resist back then, his mother’s grave wouldn’t have been placed in the Gu family’s land.”
Gu Shengsheng heard this and became furious: “Nonsense! She was my woman, of course she should be buried in the Gu family!”
As soon as his words fell, Yue Linze actually laughed, causing everyone present to freeze, sensing a huge threat in his laughter.
Except for Tao Yuzi.
This man was already good-looking, and when he smiled, he was simply enchanting.
“Mr. Gu seems to have forgotten that you are also a Yue family member,” Yue Linze stopped laughing, his surrounding pressure immediately increasing, his expression full of disdain, as if he had never regarded these people in his eyes, “When you die, you should also be buried in the Yue family’s land. A wife follows her husband…”
“Mr. Yue!”
Before Yue Linze could finish speaking, Gu Shengsheng picked up a cup and threw it, Tao Yuzi exclaimed and instinctively blocked Yue Linze.
“Bang!”
The cup hit her body and fell to the ground, the splashing glass fragments grazing her ear, cutting a bloody wound on her right earlobe.
The entire world fell silent.
Thinking about this, he suddenly calmed down, but his hand was already raised, awkwardly frozen in mid-air. Fortunately, Yue Linying understood him well and immediately rushed over to support him: “Dad, don’t get impulsive. Talk to Linze calmly, shall we go out first?”
So he was half-pushed and half-persuaded out, and the bedroom became much quieter. The housekeeper breathed a sigh of relief, saw the blood on Tao Yu’s ear, and hurriedly said: “Dr. Tao, please sit down, I’ll call a doctor.”
Tao Yu took out her phone to check the wound, glanced at it and laughed: “No stitches needed, could you bring me the first aid kit, sir?”
