CHAPTER 367: CHAPTER 223: HE TEACHES HER ABOUT HUMAN ANATOMY

Bei Ran should have expected it, she would meet Ji Su and Gu Yucheng, after all, this couple are the second young master and the young madam of the Gu Family.

Ji Su also saw Bei Ran, as gentle as always, and gently nodded to Bei Ran.

Bei Ran greeted them generously: "Mr. Gu, Mrs. Gu!"

The greeting between the two women was very casual.

When Gu Qingchen and Gu Yucheng met, neither of them spoke.

Gu Yucheng was naturally dissatisfied with Gu Qingchen suddenly coming back after more than a decade abroad to inherit the Gu Group!

He had been toiling in the company for so many years, and what was the result? Merely a pawn for making money!

Gu Qingchen’s brows lifted heroically, then he said to Bei Ran, "In the future, when you see them, you don’t need to greet them!"

"Yes!" Bei Ran obediently responded to him.

Then, Gu Qingchen arrogantly pulled her into the main house.

Gu Yucheng’s face was ashen, Ji Su glanced at him, then softly lowered her eyes.

In the dining hall, Gu Bohan was already seated in the main seat, Gu Qingchen and Gu Yucheng were sitting opposite each other, on either side of Gu Bohan.

Bei Ran sat next to Gu Qingchen, Ji Su sat next to Gu Yucheng.

Gu Yaowan had gone to her grandmother’s house and hadn’t come back, and the big and little fish hadn’t been brought back by Gu Bohan, so there were only the five of them at the dining table.

Gu Bohan raised his glass: "Everyone is here today, let’s have dinner together! Cheers!"

As he spoke, Gu Yucheng and Ji Su raised their glasses.

Gu Qingchen obviously was not going to drink, he doesn’t drink, same as Bei Ran.

"Qingchen..." Aware his eldest son wouldn’t want to give him face, Gu Bohan still hoped the family could get along well since he had called him back.

"I don’t want to drink!" Gu Qingchen outright refused.

Gu Bohan didn’t press further: "Then... let’s eat!"

"I don’t have an appetite either!" Gu Qingchen looked at the table full of dishes, unapologetically saying.

Gu Bohan spoke sternly, "Must you talk to me like this?"

Gu Qingchen stood up: "Since the children are not here, there’s no need for us to continue sitting here and eat."

As Gu Qingchen stood up, Bei Ran naturally followed him like a shadow.

Gu Qingchen reached out his hand to her, then firmly held her small hand, and walked outside.

Gu Yucheng and Ji Su, holding their glasses, faced this awkward atmosphere, seemingly accustomed to it.

However, Gu Bohan picked up and threw away the wine glass in his hand, the fragrant red wine completely spilling on the ground.

"You all may leave!" Gu Bohan said to his second son.

Gu Yucheng and Ji Su also left, leaving Gu Bohan sitting alone at the dining table, his mood especially sour.

Gu Qingchen and Bei Ran returned to their villa, and on the way, they met the butler Zhang Yuan, she said: "Butler Zhang, we need some kitchen supplies here, I will cook dinner for Qingchen tonight."

"No problem!" said Zhang Yuan, "I’ll handle it right away!"

So, while Gu Qingchen was in the upstairs study, Bei Ran was busy in the kitchen. Watching her face lit with a happy smile, deeply engrossed in cooking dinner, Zhang Yuan couldn’t help but say, "Miss Bei, you and the lady have some similarities..."

"Ah..." Bei Ran playfully stuck out her tongue, "So our young master is not her biological child? If I look like the lady, could it be a dramatic sibling scenario?"

Zhang Yuan broke into a cold sweat... "Miss Bei..."

"Just kidding!" said Bei Ran, "Qingchen is unhappy, and I can’t help much, but experts have said that eating some favorite foods can make one feel better."

Zhang Yuan, having served the Gu Family for decades, could naturally see, Bei Ran was surely Gu Qingchen’s source of joy; perhaps the eldest young master cared so much!

"Thank you, Miss Bei..." Zhang Yuan said, bowing to Bei Ran.

Bei Ran quickly sidestepped and exclaimed, "Oh no, Butler Zhang, you shouldn’t do this, I can’t accept such respect..."

"You can accept it," Zhang Yuan immediately replied and bowed again, "I am very happy that the young master has such a loving woman by his side!"

"Alright, alright!" Bei Ran quickly said: "Stop bowing, my food isn’t even cooked yet. How about you tell me some childhood stories about Qingchen instead?"

Zhang Yuan immediately replied: "Oh, when the young master was a child, he was very mischievous; he took crayons and climbed up a high ladder, drawing on an entire wall... The lady was so happy, saying that the young master inherited his talent for drawing from him..."

As Zhang Yuan reminisced, becoming fully absorbed in the old stories and getting quite animated, "But the young master’s intelligence was even more extraordinary. At the age of three, he started doing business with his kindergarten classmates. The old master found out and has since believed that his business talent was even greater... Therefore, both the old master and the lady felt that a child who both paints and manages a business would indeed have a hard life, so they prepared to have another child, but..."

But before he could finish this twist in the tale, Zhang Yuan did not go on.

Bei Ran guessed that it must have been because of Gu Yucheng’s birth, which disrupted all these plans.

"Wow, it smells so good..." Bei Ran sighed, "Butler Zhang, I can smell the soup, and it’s really fragrant. Would you like to join me for it?"

"No need, Miss Bei, you should go and call the young master down for dinner!" said Zhang Yuan, "I’ll be leaving too. If you need anything, just call me."

"Okay!" Bei Ran then bounced up the stairs.

She gently knocked on the door of the study and heard Gu Qingchen telling her, "Come in!"

Bei Ran entered and approached him, "Should I bring the food up here to the study, or shall we go downstairs?"

Gu Qingchen was not looking at the company’s documents, but instead was sitting in his chair, lost in his thoughts.

"Downstairs!" Gu Qingchen got up, "I’m really hungry now! I so feel like dealing with that old man with one strike!"

Bei Ran looked at him, "The sin of patricide is too great, let me do it instead!"

Gu Qingchen was naturally just venting his frustration with empty threats.

Bei Ran knew this well, but she was so endearing that even if it were to kill or set a fire, she would embrace it sweetly for him.

Gu Qingchen rarely smiled: "You don’t understand human anatomy, I would precisely cut him open slice by slice, so let me handle it!"

Bei Ran also laughed, "Why don’t you teach me when you’re free? Maybe, with my talent, I could be a Doctor!"

"Hmm..." Gu Qingchen nodded very seriously, his expression almost resembling that of when he’s lecturing, "You first finish five years at Medical University, then another five years as an intern. Let me calculate, you’re 28 this year, in ten years you’ll be 38, Doctor Bei, it’s going to take a lot of effort to train you... And to graduate you, what are you going to use to thank me?"

Bei Ran pinched him, "Professor Gu, don’t you know it’s impolite to randomly mention a lady’s age? And you even dare to say it outright?"

Gu Qingchen looked at her, sizing her up and down, "Are you sure there’s anything about you I don’t know?"

After saying that, he cheerfully went downstairs to eat.

No matter how many unhappy things there are in life, being with Bei Ran always naturally transformed worries into happiness.

Bei Ran followed, clinging to him as they went downstairs together: "So if I really wanted to learn, what would you want in thanks?"

"Unofficial rules for you!" Gu Qingchen laughed out loud.

"Actually, I’m quite looking forward to it!" Bei Ran laughed as well, "Hmm... I’m really looking forward to you imposing those unofficial rules on me..."

Gu Qingchen walked down with his long strides, but the corners of his lips were uplifted in a smile.

Bei Ran clung to him like a koala, happily saying, "Let me think, let me phrase this, how would you impose those rules on me?"

At that moment, Gu Qingchen lifted her up like a little koala, seating her on the handrail as they descended the stairs, while gazing intently at her, "Of course, first I’d teach you every structure of the human body, I would strip you... down to a little piggy..."

At this, his fingertips teased her chin, looking at her pretty face which involuntarily blushed. His fingers trailed slowly down, gliding past her elegant, swan-like neck, then to the edges of her pure white dress...

Gu Qingchen admired her current look, "Then, I’ll use my hands as knives, bit by bit telling you, what is what..."

Bei Ran hit his shoulders with her hands, her pretty face blushing shyly, even her trembling eyelashes were tinged with a coquettish hue.

"It still depends on how high this student’s comprehension is?" Gu Qingchen whispered softly, turning his face with a wicked allure, the tendrils of his breath wrapping around her snowy neck.

Bei Ran was utterly enchanted: "What if it’s not high?"

"Not high? Then the rules will be more frequent..." As Gu Qingchen curved his lips into a smile, he leaned down and kissed her snowy neck...

Seeing that his mood had improved a lot, Bei Ran softly said, "It looks like my talent for medicine definitely isn’t high, but maybe my talent for business is quite good!"