Cinderella Innocent and Boss Charming - Chapter 203

Chapter 203 He Wouldn’t Miss Her If He Was Drunk
Gu Nianbin was prepared for everything, but he didn’t expect Du Xiaoxian to leave. She had clearly done something wrong yet she didn’t think so and didn’t take the initiative to admit her mistake. Instead, she actually left! How dare she!

He thought that losing his temper was enough for Du Xiaoxian to reflect upon herself, so he waited patiently. He didn’t expect this kind of news to come.

When the apartment manager called him, he was in a meeting. His phone was turned silent and didn’t receive the call in time. When he returned to his office after the meeting, he picked up his phone and glanced at the screen to see the missed call. He thought that someone was looking for trouble with Du Xiaoxian again, so he immediately called back. He didn’t expect the apartment manager to tell him that Du Xiaoxian had left with a bag on her back.

Before he could think about anything, he immediately drove back. The moment he pushed open the door, he was still in a trance as if he had seen such a scene before.

It was quiet in the room. There was Du Xiaoxian’s phone and the bank card on the dining table, which was indeed a familiar scene. Last time, she had left without saying goodbye just like this. He had worked hard to find her. In that small hotel, Du Xiaoxian had sworn that she would never leave him and would always be with him. How long had it just been? She had actually left again. Gu Shanshan made her easily betray her oath. Gu Nianbin really didn’t know what he was in her heart.

Last time, she left a piece of paper saying that she would leave, but this time, she didn’t want to leave a single message for him.

Gu Nianbin picked up the phone and suddenly, he threw it on the ground fiercely. With a bang, the phone rolled on the ground twice. Apart from the shell falling off, and there was a crack on the screen, there was no other damage. Gu Nianbin was still angry and kicked it away. The phone was kicked so hard that it hit the wall and fell down again. The battery came off, and the screen finally shattered, scattering pieces all over the ground.

Gu Nianbin sat on the sofa and buried his face in his palms. Du Xiaoxian broke his heart by saying that she wanted to leave him, and then she rubbed salt into his wounds by leaving. He didn’t expect that she would really leave. He was sitting here now, but he still couldn’t believe it. Did she leave because of Gu Shanshan and because of what she said? Then their relationship was so fragile, unable to withstand even the slightest bit of wind and rain, how could they join hands to advance and retreat and meet challenges together?

At the end of the story, she still didn’t believe him, didn’t believe that he could solve everything, and didn’t believe that he could protect her!

Gu Nianbin lit a cigarette and smoked a little fiercely. The smoke got choked into his trachea and caused him to cough violently. The loud coughing noises sounded scary in the quiet room, as if he was going to cough out all his organs. After a while, Gu Nianbin stood up and wiped his face with the napkin on the tea table. The cigarette was put on the crystal ashtray, which now had been accumulating half an inch of ash. He stared blankly at it and did not reach for it. He watched as the ash was overwhelmed by its own weight and finally fell down gently. It was still an intact small part of ash in the ashtray, like a pencil stub Du Xiaoxian used to paint.

He stood up and slowly went upstairs. Even though he knew that it was impossible, he was still hoping. Perhaps he was mistaken? Maybe Du Xiaoxian was sleeping upstairs?

He walked very slowly, step by step, almost without a sound. He swept his gaze across his feet and suddenly found that he had not changed his shoes. He was wearing a pair of leather shoes with the soles of imitation ox-tendon. He turned around and saw that there were no dirty marks on the stairs. After hesitating for a moment, he continued to walk forward and finally arrived at the door. As long as he lightly pushed, he would know if Du Xiaoxian was still there or not.

The door was tightly shut, and the golden door handle glowed faintly in the darkness. Gu Nianbin stopped at the door, then slowly pushed it open. The room was tidied up. The bed was flat and everything was in its proper position. He walked straight to the cloakroom. There was a wall full of Du Xiaoxian’s clothes there. He looked for a long time and didn’t see what she had taken with her. He had bought her a lot of clothes. Du Xiaoxian loved clothes very much and always said that she would wear each one of them until it was worn off. But how could such clothes be worn off? That’s why many of the price brands on these clothes hadn’t been removed.

He was only responsible for buying and would never force her to wear anything. She could wear whatever she wanted to wear as long as she was glad. Looking carefully from top to bottom, he found that her clothes were all before his eyes as if not a single one of them was missing. But he knew that Du Xiaoxian must have taken some of the clothes. This time when they moved houses, the workers had lost the clothes that Du Xiaoxian had brought with her in the first place, so she must have taken a few of these clothes with her. It should only be a few. Because she had only taken a few, he could not tell.

He went to check the suitcase and backpack again. Just as he had guessed, Du Xiaoxian took away her favorite military-green backpack. It was bought when he took Du Xiaoxian to the mall in S City. She liked the backpack at first glance and happily carried it on her back. She looked in front of the mirror again and again and asked if she looked very handsome. Looking at her cheerful appearance, he naturally echoed with her. Such a clear memory was now only bitterness when he recalled it.

Gu Nianbin sat in the cloakroom for a while. Then he went back to the room and lifted open the blanket to lie down. The curtains were closed, so the room was very dark. Only the glass vase on the table was glowing with cold light. Gu Nianbin stared at it for a long time. He did not understand why Du Xiaoxian liked to look at it so much. It was just a craft vase, but she could concentrate on it for a long time. Sometimes, she did not even seem to hear him speak.

Gu Nianbin looked at it for a long time, but he didn’t see anything unusual. His eyelids became heavy, and he finally fell asleep.

He slept soundly. The phone rang for a long time before he woke up. When he opened his eyes, he was a little confused. He didn’t know why he was sleeping at home. In just a moment, however, he remembered it all and that Du Xiaoxian had already left.

It was Zhou Ting who called and asked if the afternoon meeting would be held as usual.

He looked at the time. It was almost time to go to work. It must be because Zhou Ting saw that he hadn’t gone to work yet, she called to ask in advance. He told Zhou Ting that the meeting would be held as usual, but an hour later.

He sat up and wanted to smoke a cigarette. He dug into his pocket and remembered that he had left the cigarette case downstairs. There were no cigarettes in the room. He never smoked in the room because he didn’t want Du Xiaoxian to have passive smoking.

He went downstairs to the kitchen to get himself something to eat. The kitchen was also tidied up very cleanly. The light and shadows on the marble table could be seen clearly. The kitchen ventilator was spotless. The stainless steel water tap was shiny. The rags were neatly hung there. He knew at first glance that Du Xiaoxian had done all this. Before she left, she had carefully cleaned the entire room.

Gu Nianbin frowned. What was she trying to tell him?

He opened the refrigerator and carefully examined it. There was a corner missing from the beef—he saw that there was a cut on it. And there seemed to be one egg missing, because he remembered that the box had been filled up with eggs. Now, there was an empty space. Apart from that, there was nothing else. He bought everything in the fridge and he was also the one who cooked with these ingredients, so he could remember them clearly. He opened the storage cabinet again. It was originally very messy inside. He would casually throw the things he bought into it, but now it had also been tidied up. The bags of flour were neatly lined up. He could not tell if there were any missing items.

Gu Nianbin thought that she must have cooked noodles with the beef and egg. At this moment, he was actually somewhat gratified. Du Xiaoxian should have been very sad before she left, but she at least ate something.

Gu Nianbin cooked himself a bowl of beef noodles. He sat at the dining table alone and ate slowly. He imagined Du Xiaoxian eating noodles alone. He didn’t know if she was crying while eating. Du Xiaoxian was lachrymose. The slightest bit of grievance would make her eyes turn red. He thought that she must be crying.

Perhaps it was because he had slept well for the night that Gu Nianbin walked out of the apartment door with a very calm mood.

He was busy all afternoon. He presided over the meeting and signed a thick stack of papers. In fact, he had even signed some of the orders that usual would need three to five more days. He was more serious and careful than ever. If he found any mistakes in the data, he would personally call the head of the department to check with them. In the past, such work was always assigned to Zhou Ting.

When it was time to get off work, he hadn’t finished his work. Zhou Ting peeped through the crack at the door a few times, seemingly wanting to say something. He inadvertently saw that, so when Zhou Ting appeared at the door again, he told her to get off work.

Zhou Ting said okay and gently packed her things. When she left, she turned around and looked at Gu Nianbin’s door doubtfully. The boss was a little abnormal in the afternoon. He looked very calm, but it was as if he had built an invisible wall that separated him from the whole world. She felt very depressed when she went in to deliver things several times. She knew that it must be related to Du Xiaoxian. After all, the boss was staying at a hotel. It seemed that they had a very fierce quarrel this time. She thought for a moment and took out her phone to call Du Xiaoxian. Yet the notification tone from the receiver was saying that the phone had been turned off. Zhou Ting was stunned for a moment and felt that something was wrong.

No matter how much work he had to deal with, it would still come the moment when he finished them all. When night fell, Gu Nianbin finally put down the signature pen in his hand, leaned back in his chair, and rubbed between his eyebrows tiredly. As soon as his brain stopped working, Du Xiaoxian’s face appeared in his mind. She opened the pair of her red eyes and looked at him pitifully.

He could only open his eyes, but Du Xiaoxian was still there. Wherever he looked, that face was there, and he couldn’t drive it away.

He sighed, picked up his coat and went out. After he came downstairs, Little Ding was dutifully standing beside the car and opened the car door for him. But Gu Nianbin said, “I’ll drive by myself. Come and pick me up at the hotel tomorrow.” After saying that, he got into the car and drove it away with a step on the accelerator.

He went to the bar street. He had been here twice with Shao Boqing, and he wasn’t very familiar with it. He parked his car by the side of the road and walked into a random bar. It was still early and there weren’t any guests inside. Seeing that someone was coming in, the waiter quickly greeted him. Gu Nianbin picked a corner seat and ordered a bottle of imported wine, drinking alone. When the waiter heard the name of the wine Gu Nianbin ordered, he knew that he was an honored guest and wanted to be more attentive. But Gu Nianbin had already waved his hand to signal him to leave.

He wanted to get drunk. He wouldn’t miss her if he was drunk.

Cup after cup, he drank quickly and hastily. The spicy alcohol burned his esophagus and flowed into his empty stomach. It was actually very uncomfortable, but there was nothing he could do. This was better than missing her, and it was better than feeling heartbroken.

People always say that the sad ones will get drunk easily. Gu Nianbin felt that this was not right at all. He didn’t get drunk even after drinking one bottle of wine, so he waved his hand and asked for another bottle. The waiter noticed that he was drinking alone and was afraid that something might happen, so he tried to comfort him. But he was asked to leave as soon as he opened his mouth.

Gu Nianbin sneered repeatedly. He wished he could get drunk, but why was he so sober? Why couldn’t he stop thinking about her?

In a trance, he felt that someone sat down beside him. He thought it was the waiter, but when he looked carefully, it was not. It was a woman. Was it Du Xiaoxian? He narrowed his eyes but couldn’t see clearly. No, it wasn’t Du Xiaoxian. Du Xiaoxian didn’t smell fragrant like this. Then who was it? Who was it?