I Married Female Lead's Crush Chapter 33

After Si Ting waited on Gu Zifu to rest, holding the clothes he wore today and going to blow out the candle on the way out, he suddenly heard, "Get out."

Si Ting stopped his action and replied, "Seventh Lord, please have a good rest." he then quickly left the room.

The room has become desolated and cold.

Gu Zify was lying lazily on the bed and his hands were playing with the two stuffed tigers, the stitches were wrong and the workmanship was not exquisite. Even the material was very common. 

No wonder it's so ugly. 

After playing with the stuffed tigers for a while, he muttered under his breath, "Tks, it's not fun, so boring."

Finally got tired of them, he dropped them down, narrowed his eyes looking very bored out of his mind. Glancing around the room, and his eyes finally landed on the empty table in front of the window. 

His fox-like eyes narrowed slightly, he remembered there was something there before, oh, that's right, it seemed to have been taken away by a certain someone next door. 

Alas, this is not very good. The things that entered into his room are his, there is no reason to take it back.

Sure enough, the little girl is unreasonable. 

Thinking about it, Gu Zifu got up, put on his shoes and left the room. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Si Ting passing by carrying a wooden plank almost half of the man's height.

He was also stunned seeing Gu Zifu. As he was about to open his mouth, Gu Zifu put the index finger on his mouth signalling him to be quiet.

Si Ting immediately understood and nodded. Then carried the wood and walked to the backyard.

Gu Zifu pushed open the door of the room next door and walked in. He saw the little girl sleeping soundly on the bed, with her white feet exposed and her head buried in the quilt only revealed half of her small face. The delicate small face, it would be so soft and comfortable to touch.

Gu Zifu felt a little itchy again.

Taking a big step, he lifted the quilt, went into it, and took the little girl into his arms with satisfaction.

Um, so soft.

It wasn't long before the person in his arms frantically struggled to get up. Gu Zifu frowned and held her waist tightly with one of his hands and covered her mouth with another hand, and said in a fierce tone, "Sleep."

Su Qing trembled slightly. 

With such a tone, don't even need to think she already knows who it is.

She whimpered twice and nodded. Her fingers are cold maybe came from the panic just now, poked on Gu Zifu's hand hinting him to release his claw.

Gu Zifu was not so happy about this but still let go.  The little girl shrank her head and flexed herself from his embrace, leaving a far distance between them and looked at him angrily, "Seventh Lord, your room is over there."

She was slightly annoyed that Gu Zifu easily climbed into her quilt just like this and on the other hand also upset with herself slept so soundly and didn't notice someone approaching. 

How careless of her!

In the darkness, Gu Zifu stared at her for a while, and then flicked his fingers, there seemed to be something flying out of his fingertips and the candle in the room suddenly lit up.

Su Qing raised her hand to cover up the light. 

Gu Zifu sat up, with his long legs seeming to take only two steps and had already reached her. Leisurely looked at her and nodded slightly.

Su Qing blinked puzzledly, "Seventh Lord?"

"Shunagqiao seemed to have said young maiden's quilt shouldn't be enter casually."

"……" Su Qing clenched on her clothes and looked at him nervously.

Not to mention the quilt, even the room should not be entered easily. 

Of course, she could only complain about this in her heart.

Gu Zifu raised his hand, pointed at her and asked, "How long have you slept in my room?"

Su Qing thought for a bit and answered in a low voice, "…..a month, a little more than a month…."

Gu Zifu continued, "You have been sleeping in my room for this long, I just came to sleep here for one night, it's already a loss for me. What do you feel wronged for?"

Su Qing froze.

It seemed to sound reasonable, but Su Qing knew this man was deliberately teasing her again. She looked up and saw Gu Zifu was staring at his fingertips with his head down, and his messy long black hair covered the sides of his cheeks looking somewhat pitiful. 

What he said was right. In this era, a woman wore a wedding dress and sat in a sedan chair and entered the groom's house, it meant she's officially married. When she thought about her life after entering the Gu Family, Gu Zifu didn't do any excessive act to her, but instead helped her a few times. Just letting him sleep one night wouldn't be a problem. If she refuses, it seems like she's being unreasonable.

Thinking like this, Su Qing nodded reluctantly, "Fine, let me go get an extra quilt for the Seventh Lord."

"Come here."

Su Qing looked at him, followed Gu Zifu's eyes' direction and glanced at it in confusion.

"You forgot to wear the shoes." He said with a smile.

Su Qing felt her cheeks were hot, stretched out her hands to touch her face, walked over to the bed with her head hanging low, quickly put on the shoes and ran out of the room.

Extremely careful with her movement, tried not to make noise. Fortunately, there was no one in the courtyard at this time. Su Qing let out a sign of relief. But as soon as she looked up, she saw Si Ting was dragging something and walking toward her. Su Qing secretly scolded Gu Zifu in her mind, and didn't care to listen to what Si Ting said, quickly ran back into the room with the quilt in her arms.

Si Ting scratched his head, wondering, "What are these two people in the middle of the night?" He still couldn't figure it out after thinking about it for a long time, so he gave up, shook his head, dragged the wooden board and threw it to the side of the back courtyard.

It's a piece of cake for him to kill people, but doing delicate work such as making a swing is not suitable for him. Forget it, he'd just rather spend some money tomorrow to hire a carpenter.

Inside the room, Su Qing carefully laid out the quilt. Gu Zifu will sleep inside, and she will be outside. She doesn't like to sleep inside. It always gives her an uneasy feeling, afraid that if something happens, she would not have enough time to escape.

At this moment, Gu Zifu was sitting at a table, and his eyes fell on the neatly arranged wooden dolls on the small table by the window. He stared at them for a moment and said, "You shouldn't have scratched her hand, the most vulnerable spot of the person is the eyes."

Su Qing paused and did not understand what he was referring to. After thinking about it for a moment, she finally understood it. It has already been a few days past, why is this person still mentioned about it? But she still answered him firmly, "Seventh Lord, I didn't think of killing her."

"Didn't think?" Gu Zifu laughed strangely, "You didn't think of, or didn't dare?"

Su Qing didn't answer him, she bent over and tugged the four corners of the quilt making sure the cold air can't get it, but once she turned around, Gu Zifu was standing behind her silently. She subconsciously stepped back, but forgot that there was no room to retreat, staggered under her feet and her buttocks directly sat on the bed. As she was about to get up, Gu Zifu suddenly bent down and reached out his hand to hold her shoulder. The distance between the two were very close, Su Qing could see her panicked self from the reflection of his eyes.

"Seventh Lord….."

His cold fingers seemed to have sucked up all her strength, rubbing gently at the area where Su Yingruo burned hot tea last time.

"No one told you that the Seventh Lord of Gu Family likes to hold a grudge. If anyone dared to treat me like that, the end of that person would surely be a bone painting fan." Gu Zifu's expression was very cold and his slightly put force of his fingers pressing on her skin caused that area became red instantly. Feeling hurt, Su Qing wanted to push him away, but her wrist was grabbed by him instead, pulling her even more closer to him.

Gu Zifu looked at her panic-stricken eyes making his mood felt somewhat better. The corner of his mouth curved up and said faintly, "What to hide? I'm teaching you how to defend yourself. Today, that silly kid didn't even get this kind of special treatment."

Su Qing dissed him inwardly: No, you should rather go ravage that silly kid instead.I'm timid, I can't handle the fright. 

Maybe Gu Zifu could see through what she was thinking, he let go of her hand and poke on her dimple instead, then said with a playful smile, "Qing Qing, don't be afraid of the Seventh Lord. I have never seen you look frightened like this when facing those ugly women."

Upon hearing him, Su Qing's face turned bright red in an instant. It seemed that the deepest part in her heart had been brought out and laid naked in the broad daylight. 

Feeling annoyed by this feeling, she pushed Gu Zifu away with all her strength, turned around with her head down as she rubbed on her fingers. After a long while, she spoke with a sulking voice, "Seventh Lord, you clearly knew it, and still like to make me look like a clown became a joke to everybody for no reason."

Gu Zifu was not annoyed from being pushed away. His slender fingers trailed along her sleek hair and then twisted it around his finger. His eyes were full of radiant, "Oh, I didn't make fun of you." He said.

Su Qing turned her head around, but her action was too aggressive and forgot that his finger still wrapped with her hair causing a strong pull from her scalp, she yelped out in pain and stared angrily at him. With misty water in her eyes, it looked like she was crying. Looking like a poor little thing who was bullied.

Gu Zifu froze, loosening the hair in his finger, and squeezed on her face, "What's wrong?"

"Seventh Lord made fun of me."

"No."

"I saw you laughed just now."

"Well, I couldn't hold it back for a moment and let you see it. Next time it won't happen again."

"…….."

Seventh Lord, this person is really…. Really…….

Su Qing stared at him in a daze for a long while, as her brain was completely blank. When she came back to her mind and met with his mischievous smiling eyes, her face became hotter. 

After giving him a fierce glance, rubbed her nose, and sucked back the tears in the corner of her eyes, she kicked off her shoes, lifted up the quilt and went inside. Who would have thought Gu Zifu copied her expression and followed her exact movement, opened the quilt and hugged the warm and soft body in there.

Su Qing's face flushed red, feeling anxious and angry. Her little hand was going to pinch his claw, "Seventh Lord, your quilt is over there."

Gu Zifu found it amusing, he placed his chin on her shoulder. Staring at the small ear in front of his eyes, licked his teeth and directly nibbled at her ear.

Hmm, so soft. 

The moist heat caused Su Qing to shiver. Although she knew that Gu Zifu wouldn't be perverted to the point of eating her, yet thought of the last time he bit her neck and bruised had lasted for several days, she subconsciously raised her head trying to shoved him away. But her fingertips happened to slightly touch Gu Zifu's face.

With his sharp-eyes, Gu Zifu quickly grabbed her white delicate wrist and pulled it next to his mouth, he chuckled lightly and took a big bite on it. 

The feeling of teeth stabbing into the skin caused Su Qing to tremble all over instantly. She struggled trying to get up, but her shoulder was pressed back by a big hand. 

"Seventh Lord, how could you bite everything!" Su Qing struggled, unwilling to comply with him. 

Hearing that, Gu Zifu snorted softly, released his mouth and looked at the red teeth marks on the white wrist. There was a flash of indescribable expression in his eyes, like the beast staring at its prey. He reached out and rubbed lightly on the tooth marks.

"Well, it looks pretty good."

"You…." Su Qing's turned red almost dropped out blood, as she buried her face deeply under the quilt, and didn't want to look at him. 

Gu Zifu suddenly loosened her wrist and shoved her to the bed instead. He smiled with interest, "Aiya, Qing Qing can't pretend any longer.

Su Qing removed the quilt, with messy hair scattered on her face, she bit her lower lip for a moment and said, "I didn't pretend in front of the Seventh Lord, at least…..at least…."

At least, she's afraid of him, is real.

Gu Zifu stared at her appearance being too shy to speak out, after a long while he burst into laughter, lifted up the quilt and went back to the bed. He lay down lazily and said, "That's right, no one in the capital is afraid of me. Afraid of bone painting fans, afraid of skin lanterns, afraid of everything. Tsk, really boring."

After saying, there was no movement behind her. At first, Su Qing thought this person must be playing a trick with her again, she blew cold air on her wrist that was bitten just now as the burning sensation on her face gradually calmed down.

After waiting for a long while, Su Qing didn't hear him saying anything, a bad feeling came in her heart. 

Seventh Lord, won't be really angry, right?

With that thought in mind, Su Qing turned slowly with a sense of unease, but she was Gu Zifu's back facing against her and the quilt covered most of his head.

"Seventh…." She uttered half of her word, but suddenly pursed her lips realizing that she didn't know what to say next.

Forget it, it's better not to ask.

Obviously, she was the one who was bullied tonight. Thinking of it, the sour bubbles in her heart rushed up, making Su Qing feel even more aggravated. For a whole night, she couldn't close her eyes and have good sleep. 

After a long night of having no sleep, the first light of next day shone through the window, leaving a swallowed trace on the ground. Su Qing breathed a sigh of relief, sat up carefully from the bed and hesitated to look at Gu Zifu. She saw him still sleeping in the same position from last night.  

Wouldn't it be uncomfortable sleeping like this?

Forget it, the Seventh Lord's mind is not something she can guess.

Because she didn't have enough sleep last night, Su Qing woke up with a headache. She sat up, rubbed her between eyebrows for a bit, before putting on her shoes and outer coat and quietly pushed open the door and went outside.

Shuangqiao was passing by the courtyard with a tray in her hand, and greeted her when she saw Su Qing come out, but she was shocked once she looked up and saw a big black line underneath Su Qing's eyes. She put the tray aside and looked at Su Qing's face carefully and asked in worry, "It seemed like Madam didn't sleep well last night. Later, I'll ask Chuntao to bring over the warm water and towel  to put on your puffy eyes, and then apply some medicine, I believe it will be better in the next day."

Su Qing nodded looking haggard. 

"The Seventh Lord is still sleeping?" Shuangqiao asked.

"Um."

Shuangqiao giggled, "No need to pay attention. The Seventh Lord likes to sleep until noon time. First let me take Madam to wash up and change new clothes."

"Okay, I have troubled Shuangqiao." Su Qing nodded weakly and followed Shuangqiao.

When Chuntao came over and saw Su Qing's puffy eyes she didn't say anything but once she saw the tooth marks on her wrist, the big dark bruised on the snowy white wrist looking very scary, she couldn't hold back her tears, the big teardrops dripped on Su Qing's wrist.

"Your Highness…. Your Highness…. The Seventh Lord is too bullying."

Su Qing didn't make any sound, reached out to wipe the tears on Chuntao's face and said in a low voice, "Don't cry, seeing you cry also makes me want to cry."

Chuntao tried to hold back her tears but the more she tried the more it fell down. After a long while it finally stopped, she lowered her head and gently applied the cream on Su Qing's wrist. 

Shuangqiao was busy preparing breakfast in the kitchen and Si Ting was in the South Yard instructing the people to build the swing, so no one had paid attention to this pair of master and servant.

Su Qing carefully looked outside, then closed the door and windows before turning back and said to Chuntao, "Last time when I was in the palace, Official Tang gave me back the banknotes that I left with him before. In order not to arouse other's suspicions, I didn't tell you about this."

"Official Tang?" Chuntao exclaimed in a low voice.

"Um." Su Qing nodded, "This marriage was bestowed by the Imperial Father, so even if the Seventh Lord agrees, it still wouldn't be easy for us to divorce. Thus, I'm thinking about using this money to do business outside. It can be considered as a way out for the future."

Chuntao was stunned by her words, wiped her tears with her sleeve and asked hesitantly, "But the capital is so big, we also don't have connection with those big businessmen, what is Your Highness going to do?"

"Open a restaurant."

"A restaurant?"

Su Qing saw Chuntao's confused expression making her mood feel somewhat much better. She pinched her cheek and said, "Um, a restaurant. Last time, when we went to the East Street, there was a restaurant on the northeast corner with a deserted business. I asked people there, they said the food there tasted really good, it was just that the boss was not honest, like to cheat on customers. I don't have the ability to start from scratch. Let's pick this already established restaurant first. By the way, Chuntao, do you know how to write?"

Chuntao nodded hesitantly, "I only know a few words."

"It's good that you know." Su Qing arched her eyebrows, "You help me write a letter to Official Tang and send it to his resident. Asking him to help about the restaurant."

"But Official Tang and Jian Zhi Palace have never had any connection with one another, will he help us?"

Su Qing nodded, "Yes, he'll help us."

Since the original body was willing to give all her precious jewelry to this Official Tang, it proved that this person is trustworthy. If the worst comes to the worst, she just tried it as a bet, her reputation out there is not really good anyway, it doesn't matter if it's any worse.

The worst maybe life is more difficult than now.

Chuntao nodded, and was about to ask her something else, someone suddenly knocked on the door, scaring the two of them. There was Shuangqiao's voice, "Madam, the Seventh Lord has woken up, he asked for you."

When she heard this, the first thing that came into Su Qing's mind was a scene where he bit her ear last night, still feeling itchy there, she crooked her head, rubbing her ear with her shoulder. By the time she realized what she was doing, her face flushed red instantly.

Doesn't he like to sleep until noon?

"Your Highness….." Chuntao looked at her worriedly.

Su Qing didn't want to go but she didn't want Chuntao to be overly worried. She patted Chuntao's hand and said, "I'll come back as soon as I can." Then she got up and left with Shuangqiao.

The moment she entered the room, she saw Gu Zifu was sitting cross-legged on the bed, next to him there were stuffed tigers she gave him last time and several woodcarving dolls.

Su Qing stood there for a while and thought to herself: Didn't he say that tigers looked ungly?

"Come here."

Su Qing responded 'oh', walked over and saw Gu Zifu pinched a tail of the tiger, shook it before her and said in disgust, "Its ear fell off."

Hearing him said this, Su Qing finally noticed that one of the tiger's ears fell off. She looked at the thread and cotton that came out, it seemed like it was pulled out by someone.

Su Qing took it and said hesitantly, "I'll go ask Chuntao and Shuangqiao to see if they can fix it. If not, I'll go buy another one."

"No, I only one this one."

"Then I'll ask them now." Su Qing was startled by his cold voice, lowered her head and immediately ran out of the room with a stuffed tiger in her hand. By the time she came back again, she saw Gu Zifu was still sitting in the same position, but only replaced by the woodcarving doll in his hand.

The doll  has a round head and big eyes, wearing a small undergarment covering her chest and abdomen.

It somewhat reminded Su Qing of the scene from last night. She clenched on the corner of her dress and found it awkward to ask, "….Seventh Lord, are you still angry?"

"Angry? Why should I be angry?"

He paused for a moment, "I'm not angry, I only bear grudges in heart."

"……" Su Qing was even more worried.

She lowered her head and murmured softly under her breath, "But I really didn't mean anything else yesterday…."

Uh?

Gu Zifu's hearing is very good. When he heard her, his lips curved into a haf-smile, he flicked his fingers and the wood carving dolls suspended in the middle of the air fall on the bed, colliding with other dolls and making a crisp sound.

Su Qing looked up in stunned silence.

"Seventh Lord?"

"Come here." Gu Zifu hooked his finger.

Su Qing was reluctant to walk over, "Does the Seventh Lord need anything?"

With the smiling expression in his eyes, it seemed like he's in a good mood without a trace of anger from last night. He picked up a wood carving doll and threw it into Su Qing's arms and said, "Seeing that you are obedient today, I can let you ask me a question."

"Ah?" Su Qing looked at him confused and didn't know what trick he was up to again. But thinking of this person's temperament, she shook her head firmly, "No, Seventh Lord must take me as a joke again."

"Come on, maybe there will be an unexpected surprise." Gu Zifu said with a smile on his face.

Surprise? Shock more like it.

But she didn't dare to ask, what if this person is upset again?

With uneasy feeling, Su Qing pinched her own fingertip, felt her heart tremble but wanted to sound him out, "Seventh Lord, how old are you this year?"

"Uh?" Gu Zifu taken aback.

"…..are you….are you….in your thirties….."

Su Qing gritted her teeth, she finally asked the biggest doubt in her heart.

Before she could finish her sentence, a few dolls rolled over to her feet. As soon as she looked up, she saw Gu Zifu's malicious expression looking at her and said with gritting teeth, "Thirty or so? Ha, your Seventh Lord tomorrow will celebrate his eighty birthday! And the day after tomorrow, he will rise to heaven."

Su Qing: "……."

At that moment, Shuangqiao, who just finished setting up the breakfast table happened to walk in, "…….."

Chapter end