Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu

A few hours later.

Yating accompanied Gu Rong as the latter now rested to sleep. Duan Ren was kicked out of the hospital and peace returned. Gu Rong was extremely fatigued after the cascade of conflicting feelings of retelling the complicated past.

As he adjusted the duvet around his chest, Yating lightly smiled.

"Why are you smiling? Tell me too, tell me too," Chyou whispered from his side.

Surprised, he turned. "Hey."

"Hey back. How about you rest a bit too? I will look after him."

He replied softly. "I am fine. Let me be here for him. I have…hardly done anything for him in these years…"

Chyou fumed and hit his shoulder. "You are self-deprecating again. Didn't Uncle tell you not to think like that? You might have some apprehensions but he doesn't. You are his favorite son after all," she giggled.

Yating cleared his throat.

"He always nagged me to join for meals with him. But I never bothered because I felt salty of all the restrictions he imposed on me…I have been a terrible son," his shoulders dropped.

Chyou grabbed his face and forced it forward with an infuriated countenance.

"Uncle doesn't need your self-loathing right now. Now is the time when all the misunderstandings between you two have been resolved. You should be celebrating it with him and not looking back at the past. What's done is done. Look ahead and think of what you want to do. Isn't that what you have taught me?"

Yating half-heard her words because he could only concentrate on the too little of a distance that was now between their faces. A gulp passed down his throat because at that proximity, he could clearly enjoy the beauty of her eyelashes and her black twinkling orbs. Her pink lips were too enticing to ignore and his eyes traced the curve of the side of her neck.

Okay this is bad…

"I-I understand…"

Chyou frowned. "I don't think you really understand. You seem lost somewhere."

He glanced at her lips and back at her while hoarsely saying, "I am paying full attention I pr-promise…"

Chyou pushed his face and squinted her eyes. "Really?"

Please God, end this torture…

"Yes."

"You won't think of useless self-deprecating things anymore?"

Yating had difficulty breathing. At that distance, he was afraid if he moved on his own accord, then he would definitely end up brushing against her lips. The mere thought itself was enough to make his face feel hot.

Chyou felt his forehead with the back of her palm. "Why do you feel hot?" She gasped. "Are you having a fever? I knew it! I thought you looked pale."

Trust me this is not the sickly fever you think it is, Yating didn't have the liberty to even cry.

"No, no, Chyou. I am not feverish. This is just…" her beautiful but worried irises made his heart thump harder.

Beyond that point, he didn't know how to explain himself but to his relief, Chyou's phone vibrated with a call. They saw that it was Jun's call and she said, "I will head outside to talk to him. You stay here," she glared at him. "I will be back to scold you."

She harrumphed and quickly left the ward to attend the call.

Yating slowly exhaled his held up breath and collapsed back on the chair. From behind him, he heard somebody's soft chuckling which erupted into a full blown laughter.

Yating looked back, dumbfounded. "I thought you were asleep."

Gu Rong wiped the tears that came due to laughing too much. "How can I sleep and miss this golden opportunity? I am a businessman."

"What are you even talking about?"

He then stopped laughing and as a one-eighty degree change of expression, his gaze was filled with a deadly glare. "You should have gone ahead and kissed her, you idiot!"

"..."

The level of speechlessness Yating felt at this moment was off the charts. "What the hell Dad!?"

"What did I say wrong? Did you look at your blushing face? It was all too clear what kind of thoughts were going on in your mind. Why didn't you just go ahead and do it? Isn't it high time now that something changes between you and Chyou?"

He sneered again. "I could clearly see your impure thoughts. Pervert."

"Dad!"

He shrugged. "What is wrong with it? I was shameless like that too in my younger days. You got it from me."

"You are at it again! She is my fr-"

"Cut the friendship crap or I will dump you into the ocean!" Gu Rong gritted his teeth. "I mean it's good that you started off as friends and got to know each other but even a blind person will be able to tell you now that things aren't the same between you two anymore."

His brows twitched hard.

"Tell me the truth of what you feel for Chyou now. Do you still see her as a friend or love her as a woman?"

Yating choked. "It's nothing like that!"

"I swear if I was healthy, I would have beaten you like hell! Your eyes, your expressions scream what it is in your heart but why won't your lips confess it? What is so wrong? She has broken up with that Chong guy too now!"

"Cheng Yin."

"Whatever. The point is that she is single so you should take this chance and make your place in her heart before some other man claims it! Do you want to regret that because of your idiocy, you will lose out on spending your life with such a lovely woman and see some yet another buffoon take her away?"

"..."

"I want the next buffoon to take her heart to be you!"

"..." Exclusive content from m,v lem|p,yr

He called me a buffoon too...

"And here you were talking about taking charge of Gu Corps. Don't even think that I will hand over the CEO's seat to you until I see Chyou as my daughter-in-law!"

"..."

Gu Rong breathed in and out and called down. "I want my son to be happy and I know your happiness is in Chyou's. You cannot be on the sidelines anymore. Charge ahead and sweep her off her feet you idiot."