nucmednet Chapter 101 Whether you jump into a fire pit or off a cliff, it's none of your business.
Chapter 101 Whether you jump into a fire pit or off a cliff, it's none of your business.
The man's face showed embarrassment.
Without even saying goodbye, he turned and left.
Gu Lin's lips curled into an undisguised smile of triumph.
Ye Tang's pretty face instantly darkened.
She grabbed the Chanel bag beside her and, disregarding her image, threw it at Gu Lin.
"Are you crazy? What nonsense are you spouting?"
She lowered her voice, her face flushed with anger.
Gu Lin neither dodged nor flinched, letting the not-so-heavy bag hit his arm, and instead smiled even more calmly.
He even leisurely straightened his cufflinks, which had been hit by the bag.
Like an elegant person in a superior position.
"I'm just trying to help you filter out the unsuitable options because you're too caught up in the situation," he said, raising an eyebrow and seemingly oblivious to the danger. "As for what I specifically said... just ignore the details."
"You're 'screening' for me? Who do you think you are? Have you no shame? Who asked you to meddle in my business!" Ye Tang was furious and hit him twice more with her bag, this time with more force. "Whether my taste is good or bad, or who I choose, is none of your business! Gu Lin, I think you're a lunatic! You're just here to cause trouble!"
Ye Tang's voice finally drew curious glances from those around her.
Gu Lin remained calm, looking down at the flustered Ye Tang in front of him.
Her angry expression was much more vivid and pleasing to the eye than her fake smile at that strange man earlier.
"How can it be alright?" He suddenly took a half step forward, his voice lowered, carrying a meaning only the two of them could understand, "We've known each other for so many years, how could I just stand by and watch you jump into the fire?"
Ye Tang's eyes widened, and her fingers tightened around the bag strap. "Whether I jump into a fire pit or off a cliff is none of your business."
Ye Tang is gone.
The sound of high heels clicking on the marble floor conveyed anger.
Sheng Tingwang nudged Gu Lin with his elbow and gestured towards the door with his lip: "What are you standing there for? Hurry up and chase after them."
"Look at her, after all these years, she still has this temper that gets flared up at the slightest provocation." Gu Lin complained, but his feet had already moved forward uncontrollably. "I was clearly trying to be kind, but she took it all for granted... Hey, Ye Tang! Ye Tang, wait a minute!"
Gu Lin chased after her out of the banquet hall and happened to see Ye Tang opening the car door.
He strode forward, opened the car door, and jumped into the passenger seat.
"Can't you change your temper?" Gu Lin turned to the side, trying to reason with him. "I was trying to help you identify a scumbag, and not only did you not appreciate it, you even hit me... Hitting me is one thing, but do you have to get so angry? You...
He suddenly stopped mid-sentence.
Ye Tang's eyes were red-rimmed, and tears welled up in them, which she desperately tried to hold back.
Stubborn, yet aggrieved.
Oh shit.
He actually felt sorry for her, seeing her on the verge of tears.
The subsequent righteous preaching suddenly became bland and tasteless.
"Alright, alright," Gu Lin's voice softened unconsciously. "If you don't appreciate it, then don't, I don't care. I just think... that guy was too fake, putting on such a respectable act. That watch on his wrist was probably a high-quality fake, and the ticket probably cost him half a year's salary. I'm just worried that you... might be mistaken and get ripped off."
"Get out of the car," Ye Tang said coldly.
Gu Lin not only didn't move, but instead pulled over and fastened the seatbelt.
"I took a taxi here today," he adjusted his posture, found a more comfortable angle to nestle in the seat, and began to lie through his teeth, "This place is remote, it's hard to get a taxi. Please, be a good person and give me a ride."
"We're not going that way," Ye Tang refused.
"That's fine then," Gu Lin closed his eyes, his voice filled with resignation. "I'll give you a ride. Hurry up and drive, I stayed up all night last night and I'm exhausted."
Gu Lin was arrogant.
But when they get thick-skinned, they're truly invincible.
In the end, Ye Tang still couldn't get him out of the car.
Gu Lin seemed to be really asleep; the car was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Ye Tang didn't know where Gu Lin lived.
I asked him about it halfway through.
He didn't say a word.
Ye Tang thought that after going home to take a shower and change her clothes, she still had to go to work.
He then drove the car back to his residential area.
Also weird.
Gu Lin woke up as soon as the car stopped in the parking space.
"Are you home?"
"We're at my house now, you should go back quickly."
Ye Tang's anger subsided by half.
After locking her car, she walked quickly toward the elevator.
Gu Lin slowly followed her, and just as the elevator doors were about to close, he squeezed himself inside.
Ye Tang glared at him irritably. "What are you doing up here? I want to go home. You're not welcome in my home."
"My house is being renovated, so I'm coming over to your place to sleep for a while. You wouldn't refuse an old friend who just helped you spot a jerk, would you? You're so kind."
Gu Lin spoke in a sarcastic tone.
Ye Tang glanced at him speechlessly, then looked away.
The elevator is going up.
Suddenly, the light above my head flickered.
Immediately following this was a clicking sound coming from inside the elevator car.
Ye Tang quickly pressed all the elevator floor buttons.
"Slap,"
All the lights in the elevator went out.
The elevator also stopped.
The darkness and cramped space brought unprecedented tension and panic.
"Ah..." Ye Tang covered her head and squatted down.
No one answered the emergency call button in the elevator.
Gu Lin hurriedly took out his phone to call for help, but there was no signal.
"It's okay, don't be afraid." Gu Lin hugged Ye Tang, holding up his phone in his left hand, hoping for a faint signal so he could call for emergency help.
"Gu Lin, will we die?"
She wasn't afraid of death.
She felt that it wasn't time for her to die yet.
"I haven't lived enough yet."
Ye Tang cried, as fragile as a little rabbit.
Gu Lin turned on the flashlight on his phone, raised his hand to wipe away Ye Tang's tears, and said, "The elevator must have been stuck somewhere due to a lack of timely maintenance. Once someone finds it, they will send someone to rescue us. We won't die."
"What if you die?" she asked, looking at him with tears in her eyes.
Gu Lin frowned: "Are you trying to say your last words?"
"Gu Lin, given the situation, can you please stop saying such discouraging things?"
"Okay, okay, okay, I won't say anything, I was wrong." He and Ye Tang had encountered elevator problems before.
That's the elevator in the school library.
Just like now, the lights are off, and the elevator is creaking, which inevitably reminds one of scenes from movies.
They'll either die this way or that way.
Ye Tang was even more timid back then than she is now.
She was crying so hard she could barely breathe, and kept saying she didn't want to die.
When the rescue team arrived, they discovered that their elevator had actually come to a safe stop on the first floor.
It's funny.
"You're still laughing? Gu Lin, your heartless attitude is exactly the same as it was ten years ago. It's really annoying."
Gu Lin was still smiling.
The way she gets angry is just as adorable as it was ten years ago.
Oops.
He actually used "cute" to describe Ye Tang.
He really doesn't learn his lesson.
"Aren't you being overly sensitive? The elevator's design now makes it impossible for it to plummet from the thirtieth floor to the first. Can't you just relax and wait for someone to rescue us?"