Together Forever

Chapter 20.2

Blessing in the Simple Things

Aside from that peaceful day on the second day of the new lunar year, the entire honeymoon vacation became their law firm's "trip for overtime."

Gu Pingsheng was a very easygoing person. Since this was supposed to be a honeymoon vacation, their bedroom was quite a bit larger than the rest of the people who had reserved their rooms last minute. In order to facilitate the work of so many people together, their room ended up unofficially becoming an office.

In the beginning, his colleagues had been very hesitant and apologetic about the arrangement, but after three days, they had gotten to know Tong Yan and discovered that she was an even more easygoing person. Not only did she offer up the room to them, she even acted as their assistant, free of charge.

However, the subtle interactions and exchanges between the two of them truly brought about all sorts of envy.

Eventually, even his secretary, who had graduated not long ago, started to grow jealous and declared several times that she could not take it anymore and that she absolutely needed to marry herself off before the end of the year ...

Sometimes, when they did not need her assistance, Tong Yan would "get outta there" of her own accord and head over to the hotel's private beach to sunbathe.

In this top honeymoon destination, couples could be found everywhere.

She sat beneath a large sun umbrella and, with her bare feet, played with the delicate sand.

Gently blowing out a breath, Tong Yan lay back on the beach chair.

It was seriously hot. Was he feeling very uncomfortable there in the room?

She ultimately could not shake the worry and secretly sent him a message: What's your heart rate?

Very soon, his reply arrived: 97. Within the range of normal. TK

She felt slightly reassured with that. You working around the clock and not sleeping and resting like this really makes my heart ache.

If today I choose to live an easy and comfortable life, in the future, Mrs. Gu may be the one faced with working around the clock without rest. By that time, I'm afraid what I would feel would be more than just heartache. TK

She could not think of how to respond to him, but he had sent another message with his instructions: If a lifeguard is not nearby, don't go in the ocean yourself. TK

Lying on her back on the beach lounge chair, she typed slowly on her keyboard: Mm. I'll just lie down and read. Won't go in the ocean.

She sat in this way on the beach until dusk. Hugging the books that she had brought from the room, she strolled leisurely back in the direction she had come. There was a hotel-run event on the beach today, and men and women alike were all stepping out from the lobby. Only a scattered few were heading in the opposite direction.

She walked up in front of a row of elevator doors and tapped the up button.

The doors suddenly opened, and as before, a large number of people stepped out. To her surprise, Gu Pingsheng was also in the crowd. The two of them caught sight of one another at the same time, and retreating back two steps, she stood against the wall to wait for him.

"Just one second earlier, I was thinking whether you had finished up yet, and the next second, I saw you. Would you say that was like our minds were in sync?"

For once, he did not banter back with her. Taking the magazines from her hands, he informed her, "I've changed our plane tickets. We're taking a late flight back to Beijing tonight."