Heads-up! The CEO's Wife is a Hidden Big Boss! novel Chapter 1098

Chapter 1098: I’m Going to Woo Lu Guixin (Lu Guixin Part 22)

Editor: Atlas Studios

"A hearse?" Zhou Fu slowly repeated. "Lu Guixin, you addressed me as your future boyfriend when you were wooing me, but now that you’re angry, you’re asking me to go die?"

"Why not?" Lu Guixin blandly answered. "It’s not like you’re the only guy in the world."

Zhou Fu narrowed his eyes and stared at her calm and indifferent face before smirking a couple of seconds later. "I’m not the only guy, huh? You get to whatever you want, and that includes Tan Ying waiting on you when you eat, him opening the car door for you, and him going to a hotel with you."

She said she understood and that she’d keep her distance from Tan Ying when I asked her to be careful and not cause trouble for herself. How is this keeping her distance? Zhou Fu glared at her. "Why did you get into the car and hotel on your own? You should’ve gotten Tan Ying to carry you in. He shouldn’t tire his princess, no?"

When Lu Guixin heard that, she lifted her head to look at him. She broke into a chuckle after that, her eyes forming crescents. All of a sudden, she went back into her obedient persona. With her aloofness faded, she became so gentle and docile that it seemed unreal. She asked him softly, "Do you mind it a lot?"

Zhou Fu didn’t say anything, but his expression was dark.

"But..." Lu Guixin slowly continued. "What does it have to do with you?"

"What does it have to do with me?" Zhou Fu gritted. "Lu Guixin, weren’t you the one who said you wanted to woo me? Doesn’t that concern me, then?"

"This is what you said to me." Lu Guixin smiled. "There’s nothing between us."

Zhou Fu had initially suspected that she was angry because of something he had said, but he was certain of it now. However, just as he was about to explain, she tilted her head and said, "You only mean something when I’m interested in you."

Zhou Fu’s eyes dimmed as he gazed at her, and the words that came to his lips disappeared. His voice was low and deep as he asked, "So you weren’t being serious when you approached me and wooed me? Was it a game to you? So it was just an act the entire time?"

"Does that matter?" Lu Guixin nonchalantly asked.

Zhou Fu quietly waited for her answer.

The silence stretched as they stared at each other.

"Yes." Lu Guixin nodded and perfunctorily answered, "It was a game as well as an act. Are you satisfied now? If you are, then move aside."

The words felt like a blow to Zhou Fu. His breathing stopped as he looked into her cold eyes furiously. He kept his temper in check as he slowly said, "No. I don’t believe it, either. Lu Guixin, I’m not so free to act and play with you."

Lu Guixin took her hands out of her pockets and straightened her legs as she met his gaze with irritation. "Get out of the way."

"I’m serious about you," said Zhou Fu stiffly while feeling angry and complicated. I wasn’t the one who pestered her. She was the one who kept appearing in front of me. She made me—someone who didn’t care about the future—start planning it.

Zhou Fu took a deep breath, and he seemed calmer when he spoke again, albeit his tone was still a bit harsh. "Can’t you stop and think about what happened in the morning?"

"Think, my *ss!"

As soon as she said that, a fist came flying toward Zhou Fu’s face. He swiftly blocked it with his hand. After nearly getting kicked by her, he dared not to underestimate her and, thus, used his full force to grab her wrist.

Lu Guixin tried to remove her hand, but she couldn’t break free in one go because his grip on her was too strong. Hence, she swung her left arm towards his neck.

Unfortunately, she was stopped once again just as her fist was about to reach his neck. The next second, she was spun around with her arms crossed in front of her chest. Her back bumped into Zhou Fu’s chest, sticking closely to it. She could feel his body heat even through the clothes, and she was trapped in his embrace.

She reacted immediately and kicked her leg up towards his head.

While hugging her, Zhou Fu turned around and took a step back to reflect her attack.

Lu Guixin’s vision blurred. The next second, she was trapped in between the metal door and Zhou Fu. She struggled to break free, but his grip remained tight on her, and his hands wouldn’t budge. She frowned and turned to glare at him.

"My mother died when I was nine," said Zhou Fu all of a sudden in a deep and complicated voice. Even though he hid his emotions, it was like a thick black mist that wouldn’t go away, and it felt suffocating.

Lu Guixin stopped struggling, her long dark eyelashes fluttering slightly. She opened her lips as if she wanted to apologize, but she decided against saying anything in the end.

It was quiet and tense, and all that could be heard were the sounds of their breaths. After a while, Lu Guixin could feel his chest heave behind her.

Zhou Fu’s attitude softened as he calmed down. "Things were so chaotic online, and it was only a matter of time before the entire school knew about it. If you run around, you’ll hear a lot of nasty things. There are more people who want to see you become the butt of the joke than people who use their brains."

Although he could delete the posts and comments on the school forum, he couldn’t stop people from gossiping. He was explaining what he said back then: ’There’s nothing between us, so why did you come all the way to give me an explanation?’ He had said that partly out of pique and because he didn’t want her to run around. He didn’t like seeing her together with Tan Ying, but whatever happened with Tan Ying had nothing to do with him, and she was all he cared about.

"I knew that there was nothing between you and Tan Ying," Zhou Fu continued. "So there wasn’t a need for you to explain things to me."

He started explaining the things he said from the moment she acted differently around him. "You were acting oddly when you beat Xia Cheng up. There were many people secretly taking videos of you from the classrooms. If the public put pressure on the school, the school would take the matter seriously, and you’d be given a severe punishment. Given how advanced the internet is nowadays, even the smallest matters are magnified infinitely. You’ll still have to attend school, so you won’t be able to avoid criticism and gossip."

Zhou Fu paused for a few seconds before saying with much difficulty, "I was worried about you. I was worried this whole thign would blow up."

The last sentence was spoken rather stiffly—he wasn’t good at saying such things.

He could handle all sorts of consequences. They could transfer to another school if she didn’t want to stay in Ming City High School, but it couldn’t be because she was expelled for beating a student up and was being cyber-bullied.

"Was my explanation clear enough?" Zhou Fu asked carefully as he looked into her eyes with bated breath. This was the first time he had spoken so much all at once. Having been alone for such a long time, he had almost forgotten how to express his emotions. All he knew how to do was numbly move forward. It was only after meeting Lu Guixin that he had his emotional ups and downs.

"Are you done speaking?" Lu Guixin remained calm as ever. "Let me go if you are."

From her indifferent expression, it seemed that whatever he did was useless.

"If you’re still mad at me after hearing my explanation, you can hit me until you’re appeased."

"I’m not interested." She wriggled her wrists. "Let go."

"Then what about the wish you wanted me to fulfill?" Zhou Fu pressed on as he looked at the side of her face. "I saw what you wrote in that letter. You don’t have to get into the top three hundred. I can fulfill your wish right now."

Lu Guixin inclined her head and looked at her wrists, which Zhou Fu was gripping tightly. Her gaze lingered on his long and slender hands for a few seconds before looking up. Her bright eyes stared into his as she said blandly, "Zhou Fu, I won’t take back what I’ve thrown away. There’s no point in a forced relationship. I don’t want it anymore."

"I picked it up," Zhou Fu blurted. Then, in an almost interrogative tone, he asked, "If there’s no point in a forced relationship, then why did you still woo me?"

Just then, a vibration sound could be heard in the quiet office. It was Lu Guixin’s phone.

The tense atmosphere between them broke.

A few seconds later, Zhou Fu released her and turned sideways with his body still blocking the door. His gaze was fixed on her all the while.

Lu Guixin could feel the strong stare coming from him, but she ignored it and massaged her wrists.

Zhou Fu frowned when he noticed the startling red marks around her fair and slender wrists that were left behind from his strong grip.

Lu Guixin, however, nonchalantly took out her phone from her pocket.

While staring at her wrists, Zhou Fu noticed the caller ID on her phone. The call was from Ms. Xi, and there was one teacher with the surname Xi who was teaching the Year Ones.

Lu Guixin answered the call. "Yes, Ms. Xi?"

Xi Yan’s gentle voice was heard over the line. "Guixin, if you’ve decided to go back to your parents’ side, you don’t have to take part in the monthly exams this time. Go take a few days off to adjust your mood. I’ll contact your parents to do the transfer procedures for you."

The call wasn’t particularly loud, but Zhou Fu managed to hear everything Xi Yan said as he’d undergone training on hearing before and was rather standing rather close to Lu Guixin. His throat immediately tightened as he stared at Lu Guixin in panic. She’s leaving?

"Take some time to think about it," added Xi Yan.

Lu Guixin kept mum for a couple of seconds before softly saying, "Got it, Ms. Xi. Is there anything else you want to say?"

"That’s all," Xi Yan answered. "Go back to your dorm and take a nap if you’re tired. If you don’t want to attend the afternoon classes, I’ll sign a leave slip for you."

"Okay. Thank you, Ms. Xi."

The moment Lu Guixin ended the call, she felt Zhou Fu pulling her arm to make her face him.

"Are you transferring to another school?" Zhou Fu asked through gritted teeth.

When Lu Guixin looked up, she found herself meeting Zhou Fu’s slightly reddish eyes. From the way he stared at her, it was clear that he was panicking—about to lose control.

She calmly responded, "What does it have to do with you?"

Zhou Fu’s emotions instantly turned to hostility as he calmed down all of a sudden.

Lu Guixin couldn’t tell whether it was the calm before the storm or after.

"What does it have to do with me?" Zhou Fu repeated her question while narrowing his eyes. He let out a throaty laugh, though it was hard to tell if it was out of happiness or anger. The next second, he suddenly lifted his hand and cupped her jaw, forcing her to lift her head and move it closer to his as he lowered his head.

Lu Guixin was caught off guard. All she saw was a dark shadow overhead and his features magnifying in front of her.

The faint minty cigarette scent got closer to her, and she felt a pair of scorching lips pressing harshly against hers.

Her mind drew a blank the moment their lips touched. She forgot to breathe, and her heart felt like it was about to jump out of her chest. Her body was on fire as he pried open her teeth and shoved his tongue into her mouth, sucking and nibbling her tongue.

When Lu Guixin came back to her senses, she frowned and bit down on his tongue. A sweet metallic scent instantly filled their mouths.

Zhou Fu hissed in pain. He could see the fury in her eyes, but he ignored it and kissed her even harder. He felt her push him away.

Slap!

His head turned to the side from the impact of the slap, and blood instantly oozed out from his torn lips.

"Are you out of your mind?! Lu Guixin coldly asked.

Zhou Fu tilted his head and looked at her while pushing his tongue against the inner side of his cheek. The smirk made his poker face look wicked and sinister.

He raised his hand and wiped the corners of his lips with his thumb. When he saw the blood on it, his throat bobbed, and he looked up to see Lu Guixin’s face.

Lu Guixin’s lips were really red as if they were stained with blood, and they made her beautiful face look even more alluring. Her clear eyes were filled with hostility at the moment as she glared at him.

"Is there something between us?"

Lu Guixin pursed his lips. She didn’t answer his question.

"Lu Guixin, you were the one who messed with me first, but now you want to leave?" Zhou Fu stared at her and laughed. "Dream on."

Lu Guixin didn’t say anything.

"You want to transfer to another school? Sure." He nodded and pointed outside. "All the schools are fighting to take me in. I’ll transfer to whichever school you’re transferring to. My name isn’t Zhou Fu if I can’t settle this score."

Lu Guixin clenched her fist and was just about to take action, but she heard someone pressing the keypad to the office just then.

The door was opened from the outside the next second, and Zhou Fu’s finger landed on Tian Rong’s forehead.

Tian Rong gripped the door handle out of shock as he stopped at the doorway. His jaw dropped when he noticed the two people inside the office. He didn’t know why they were in there. His eyes bulged when he suddenly noticed the blood on Zhou Fu’s lips. "What the?! You—" 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Expressionless, Lu Guixin retracted her gaze, turned around, and walked out of the office while exuding a hostile aura.

Tian Rong scrambled to make way for her.

"Lu Guixin, I dare you to transfer to another school." Zhou Fu’s voice floated over.

Lu Guixin ignored him and wiped her lips with the back of her hand as she stormed out of the office.

Tian Rong watched Lu Guixin’s cold figure disappear into the distance before carefully sneaking a glance at Zhou Fu and asking hesitantly, "Did you get slapped by Guixin?"

Zhou Fu licked the corners of his lips and nonchalantly said, "No. I used my face to hit her hand."

Tian Rong was speechless. That mouth of yours. No wonder Guixin slapped you. But then again, she sure is bold! I can’t believe she dared to do that!

Zhou Fu took out his phone and called a restaurant to order a few dishes. It just so happened that he received a message after ending the call. While responding to the message, he said to Tian Rong, "Get your sis to collect the takeout later and give it to Lu Guixin."

Tian Rong couldn’t believe it. He’s buying lunch for Lu Guixin even after getting slapped by her?!

When Zhou Fu didn’t receive a response from him, he looked up and saw Tian Rong’s wide-eyed expression. He frowned and gave him a kick.

Tian Rong’s knees buckled for a moment, and he immediately snapped out of it. "...O-Okay. I’ll let my sis know."

"Thanks." Zhou Fu put his phone away and moved to leave.

"Wait..." Tian Rong hurriedly stopped him and looked at him with a complicated look. "Um... Should we do something about your face before you go out?" Rumors are going to spread if the students and teachers see his face.

Zhou Fu turned around and walked to the mirror in the office. The mark on his cheek wasn’t obvious if one wasn’t paying close attention to it. His lips, however, were torn and still bleeding, so he looked like he had been slapped in the face.

He frowned in pain as he rubbed a corner of his lips with his knuckle. She’s quite strong for her size, huh?

Tian Rong lifted his chin as he passed him a plaster. "Why don’t you use it for the time being?"

Zhou Fu took the plaster from him, tore the packaging, and pasted it at the corner of his lips to hide the wound. With just one plaster, his aloof expression now appeared slightly sinister and hostile as well.

Having never seen such an expression on Zhou Fu before, Tian Rong was in awe. "What the..." Why does it seem like... he looks more handsome now...?

...

Right next to the staff building was the parking area.

As soon as Zhou Fu left the building, he saw Xia Cheng being escorted to the police car by the police officers, but he nonchalantly walked back to his academic building.

"Zhou Fu," Xia Cheng called his name all of a sudden.

Zhou Fu didn’t stop, though, and just continued walking at his pace.

"Thanks for helping me earlier," said Xia Cheng in a weak and trembling voice.

Zhou Fu slowly stopped and turned around. Although there was no expression on his face, he exuded an unapproachable aloofness. His voice was devoid of warmth as he said, "You’re thanking me for helping you?"

Xia Cheng, who was wearing a mask, nodded, her eyes moist and red. "My injuries would’ve been way worse if you hadn’t pulled Lu Guixin away. Thank you."

Zhou Fu suddenly understood why Lu Guixin had flown into such a huge rage. He looked at Xia Cheng and said slowly and clearly, "The reason I pulled her away was because I didn’t want the matter to be blown up as that would affect her. I didn’t want her to dirty her hands because of you."

When Xia Cheng heard that, her mind drew a blank, and all her delusional fantasies were instantly shattered. She stared at him in disbelief as a tear fell from her eye. Her exposing of Lu Guixin ended up with her getting cyber-bullied, and she nearly fell apart when she saw all the nasty comments about her. Still, she managed to endure it all because she thought that Zhou Fu was on her side. Now, he’s telling me that he did all that for Lu Guixin’s sake?

"What did I do to give you the impression that I’d help you, someone who paid people off to spread false rumors and gather netizens to bully a schoolmate on the internet?" Zhou Fu’s eyes gleamed coldly at that.

A hint of disgust flashed across the two female officers’ eyes when they heard that.

Xia Cheng was shaking even more. Every word Zhou Fu said was akin to a knife slashing at her ego. She felt so humiliated to the point of shame. Her legs nearly buckled under her weight, and she only managed to support herself upright by embedding her nails into her palms.

After saying his piece, Zhou Fu turned around and continued walking toward the academic building.

The two female officers glanced at Xia Cheng, who seemed to have lost her soul. One of them urged her in an indifferent tone, "Get in the car."

The officer’s voice pulled Xia Cheng back to reality. She glared at Zhou Fu and yelled madly at him, "Lu Guixin can’t be any decent girl!"

Zhou Fu’s expression darkened. He stopped and spun around on his feet, looking hostile.

Xia Cheng, who seemed to be going all out, said, "Yeah, it was my mistake this time. But who’s to know whether she’s done the deed with Tan Ying before?"

Zhou Fu smirked, his tone sarcastic. "Who are you to compare with her?"

Indignant, Xia Cheng bit her lips and retorted, "I’m better than her. I’m pretty, and my results are way better than Lu Guixin’s. She’s the one who can’t be compared with me!"

"I care everything about her." Zhou Fu smirked, his tone icy as he said, "But whatever happen to you is none of my business."

After saying that, he turned around to leave without so much of a head turn. But before he walked away, he paused and turned sideways slightly with a hand in his pocket. "Oh, and I don’t want to hear you mention Lu Guixin’s name again. It sounds awful coming from you."

He had no expression on his face, and his tone was light and airy as he said that. However, the plaster on his face made his aggressive-looking features all the more menacing. Thus, Xia Cheng’s face paled when she heard that. She was also filled with embarrassment.

Zhou Fu pointed a finger at her. "Mark my words."

Although he didn’t sound threatening, his words made Xia Cheng tremble in fear all the same.

...

In each grade’s academic building, there were many people standing on the balconies of each floor watching Xia Cheng be taken away in the police car.

The details of the entire incident were reported on the internet, and a video of Tan Xicheng’s response was put up on the national TV station’s official Weibo page.

The elderly man had a kind and peaceful appearance. The background showed a bookshelf and calligraphy paintings that exuded a scholarly aura that somehow made people calm down.

Sitting behind a desk with his hands placed on the table, Tan Xicheng slowly said, "In a generation that partial information can be taken out of context, I hope that the younger ones will learn to understand the entirety of a matter and its truth before making a judgement. A moment of impulse can lead one to be misled by others and lose their composure and judgement."

That video was shared by many major media outlets, and the comment section was flooded with apologies toward Lu Guixin.

With the truth out now, the buzz soon died down. All information about Lu Guixin was quietly deleted from the internet, and only God knew how many people were involved in taking down her information.

...

Meanwhile, in Ming City High School.

By noon, nearly the entire school population had found out that Xia Cheng had landed herself in the police station for trying to make use of public opinion to pressure the school into expelling Lu Guixin. It caused quite a commotion on the school forum, and similarly, many people expressed their apologies to Lu Guixin.

Students were gathered in groups as they made their way around the campus.

"I didn’t expect Xia Cheng to be so good at doing such dirty deeds. She usually had such a good image," said a girl in disgust.

"Don’t even mention her! It’ll just ruin our mood!" said another girl who was hugging the other girl’s arm.

When a student got into trouble, it was the school that suffered the worst damage to reputation. People would instinctively associate Ming City High School with this scandal, so the students naturally found it disgraceful as well. Everyone was quite angry, so there was a lot of criticism towards Xia Cheng.

Tian Lu heard a lot of people scolding Xia Cheng on her way back to the classroom after collecting the takeout, and she secretly thought that the latter deserved it.

There weren’t many people in the classroom at the moment. As Lu Guixin was currently sleeping with her head on the table and her earphones on, Tian Lu didn’t wake her up when she got back to her seat.

However, the slender figure who was sprawled on the table suddenly sat straight up and stared at the food on the desk. Moved, Lu Guixin looked at Tian Lu and gushed, "You’re so kind, Tian Lu. You bought such expensive food to cheer me up."

Before Tian Lu could say anything, Lu Guixin opened the paper bag, which contained quite a few expensive dishes—sushi, spicy seafood, lobster patty, and soup.

Tian Lu was initially quite worried that Lu Guixin wouldn’t have much of an appetite and had planned to persuade her to eat a few mouthfuls if she refused to eat. Hence, she was a bit taken aback to see her seemingly unaffected by the earlier incident and with such a good appetite.

Lu Guixin took a bite of the lobster patty before ripping the receipt off the paper bag to take a look at the price. When she saw that the food cost more than two thousand yuan in total, she said, "This is too expensive. I’ll transfer you the money."

As she said that, she took out her phone with her other hand.

Tian Lu, who snapped right out of it just then, hurriedly said, "No need, no need. I wasn’t the one who bought the food."

Lu Guixin froze and narrowed her eyes slightly, only to hear Tian Lu secretly whispering in her ear, "It was Zhou Fu who bought it."

As soon as she said that, Lu Guixin tossed her chopsticks into the food container and put all the food back into the paper bag before getting up and tossing it into the trash bin at the back of the classroom. She then returned to her seat, shoved her earphones into her ears, and went back to sleep on the table.

The speed at which Lu Guixin’s mood changed rendered Tian Lu speechless. She didn’t even dare to ask the former anything as she took her phone to text her brother.

...

When Tian Rong received the message, he went out of the classroom with his phone and passed it to Zhou Fu, who was leaning over the railing while smoking.

While holding a cigarette between two fingers, Zhou Fu looked at the phone screen.

[Foe: Bro, she took a bite, but she dumped the rest of the food as soon as she heard that it was from Zhou Fu.]

When Tian Rong saw Zhou Fu keeping quiet, he hesitated whether he should ask his questions or not, and he couldn’t resist asking them in the end. "Zhou Fu, what’s going on between you and the campus belle? How come the two of you suddenly become... so close?" There weren’t any signs before.

Zhou Fu looked at him with an expressionless face and said, "I’m going to woo her."

Ow, that hurts! The pain nearly made him jump.

That made Tian Rong all the more surprised. In that instant, he managed to connect the dots of the earlier incidents, from Zhou Fu speaking up for Lu Guixin, buying breakfast, to the basketball match. Everyone’s saying that it’s impossible for them to be together, but they’ve been flirting with each other since a long time ago.

Tian Lu lowered her head and drank her water. She couldn’t believe that Zhou Fu was capable of saying such mushy things. Damn it. This is unbelievable...

Tian Lu thanked her as she looked at Zhou Fu with a complicated gaze. How are his languages considered bad? Looks like geniuses and ordinary people really aren’t on the same level...

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