Chapter 26: Take Home

Ji Su, inwardly ashamed and panicked, saw Gu Zhao stopping his hand and immediately tried to retract his leg.

In the next second, the large, hot hand took hold of his calf's belly and pressed the long leg back dead center.

Gu Zhao opened his mouth, his voice low and husky: "What are you hiding from?"

"I ......" Ji Su was burned and shivered, and discussed with him in a small voice, "Can I wear it by myself?"

Gu Zhao's eyes lowered, his grip on his calf couldn't help but tighten, the sexy veins on the back of his hand instantly bulging.

Ji Su whimpered in pain, "Ah!"

Gu Zhao rolled the knot in his throat, and finally released his hand with restraint.

He dropped the leg with the sock on it and rose to turn his back, closing his eyes to calm his breathing.

Completely oblivious to his strange behavior, Ji Su put on the remaining leggings as fast as she could in her life, and stood up, "I'm done."

Gu Zhao turned back, his gaze falling on his thighs wrapped in leggings, the color in his dark eyes growing darker and darker.

Ji Su stared at her toes and asked softly, "Is this okay?"

Gu Zhao didn't say anything, his eyesight traveling upstream very, very slowly.

Like a cold, slimy snake, it wrapped itself tightly around those beautiful legs, loop after loop.

Ji Su plucked up her courage and raised her eyes to look directly at the other person, "Do you think it's weird to see me in a dress?"

Aside from having fairly long legs, he had short hair, a flat chest, and was an average boy any way you looked at it.

There's no straight guy that likes to see mediocre guys in dresses, right?

Gu Zhao's eyes rested on his face, and he gave an implied hum.

Ji Su added: "Did it completely break Mengmeng's good image in your heart?"

Gu Zhao's eyes narrowed slightly, and he faintly returned, "It's not quite what I expected."

"Great." Ji Su was visibly relieved, and her fingers couldn't help but tug at the hem of her skirt again, "So can I take off my skirt now?"

Gu Zhao: "No."

"Huh?" Ji Su was confused for a moment, "Why?"

"You haven't restored, those pictures you sent me." Gu Zhao clasped his arms in front of him, "The only way I can completely connect you guys is if I see the same pose as in the pictures."

He couldn't have sounded more serious, like he was discussing some serious academic research or standing up in court to present some important evidence.

Ji Su's mind drifted back to that time he sent G a picture of him lying on his side, even his ass was almost exposed.

The other guy also sent him a voice to tell him not to wave ......

Zhao Gu stared at the red tips of his ears, "What are you thinking?"

Ji Su snapped back, "I don't think it should be necessary to go this far ......"

Gu Zhao moves in front of him, "I think it's necessary."

Ji Su was forced to keep stepping back and falling back to sit on the edge of the bed.

Gu Zhao looked at him with downcast eyes, his nice voice like a demon's whisper, "Want me to pose for you?"

"No!" Ji Su bites her lower lip and compromises, "I, I'll do it myself ......"

Gu Zhao stops walking, "Uh-huh."

Ji Su looked hesitant, "You're not going to take pictures, are you?"

Would Gu Zhao have taken a full body shot of him with his face exposed and then threatened him with the photo?

Gu Zhao coldly said, "In your heart, I am such a person?"

Ji Su Where dare you admit: "No, I'm just asking ......"

"I am not legally blind." The corners of Gu Zhao's lips rose slightly, revealing a sarcastic arc, "Threatening someone with private photos is something I can't do."

Ji Su apologizes, "I'm sorry, I really didn't mean it ......"

He was sitting on the bed in his sailor uniform, his black hair slightly disheveled, a pitiful expression on his pretty face, his red lips opening and closing as if he was begging the other party not to do anything too much to him, but instead, it was easier to want to treat him roughly.

Gu Zhao clenched his back teeth, the veins on the side of his forehead bulging as he tried his best to hold down the sadistic desire that had risen abruptly within him.

Just as Ji Su was about to lie down, there was a sudden knock on the door, followed by a series of questions, "Gu? Are you in the dormitory? Why did you lock the door?"

Ji Su shuddered in fear and instinctively cowered inside the bed, "What, what should we do?"

Gu Zhao calmed down, "Go to the bathroom and change first."

Ji Su reacted and immediately got up and ran towards the bathroom, tripping in his haste.

"Slow down." Gu Zhao ignored the increasingly urgent knocking on the door and waited for him to close the bathroom door before turning toward the door.

As soon as he opened the door, Wang Mingzhe's big face came up, "Brother Gu, why are you locking the door alone in the dormitory?"

Gu Zhao said expressionlessly, "Didn't I tell you to come back later?"

"This ......" Wang Mingzhe lifted his hand and nodded his wristwatch, "It's almost eight o'clock, isn't that late enough?"

Zhou Yang explains, "Old Wang's foot is just right, he can't exercise strenuously, he can only sit there and watch me play basketball, he can't sit still."

Gu Zhao said nothing more and turned to head inside.

Wang Mingzhe followed into the dormitory, mumbling, "I'll go to the bathroom first, I'm suffocating."

"Wait." Gu Zhao stopped him with a raised hand, "There's someone inside."

Wang Mingzhe wondered, "Who is it? Aren't we the only three people in our dormitory?"

As soon as the words left his mouth, the bathroom door opened and Ji Su walked out.

"Ji Su?" Wang Mingzhe was instantly surprised, "Why did you come to our dormitory?"

Ji Su returned stiffly, "I came to borrow the restroom."

"No?" Wang Mingzhe stared wide-eyed, "I remember that the dormitories of your Architecture Department and our Law Department are far away from each other, why did you come to us to borrow the bathroom?"

Gu Zhao: "No?"

Wang Mingzhe hurriedly said, "OK, OK, OK, why not!"

"That ......" Ji Su walks over to the table and picks up her book bag, "I'll go back to the dorm first."

Zhou Yang asked to stay, "We're here now, let's sit for a while."

Ji Su politely declined, "It's quite late and I have to draw my homework when I get back."

Gu Zhao said, "I'll walk you."

Ji Su wanted to refuse, but when she met those dark and deep eyes, she silently nodded again, "Yes, please."

The two walked out of the dormitory door, one after the other, and headed for the stairway.

There are quite a few boys with bare shoulders on the hallway, who can't help staring at Ji Su once they see him, only to be quickly averted by Gu Zhao's cold glance.

Walking out the front door of the law boys' dormitory, Ji Su stopped in her tracks, "I can get back on my own."

Gu Zhao led the way down the steps, "Take you back to your dormitory."

Ji Su had no choice but to follow and continue on his way.

After a few steps, Gu Zhao asks coldly, "Is it true that you said you learned to play the piano in elementary school?"

Ji Su nodded slightly, "This is true."

Gu Zhao looks sideways, "So how come you're studying architecture now?"

"When I was a kid, I took piano lessons because ......" Ji Su paused, "because there was nothing else to do, it was kind of a pass time, not even close to being a professional."

Gu Zhao quipped, "You play the piano very well."

"It's just that one song, after all, I've played it many, many times since I was a kid." Ji Su curved her lips slightly, "It's quite a coincidence too, it just so happens that you like that song too."

Gu Zhao was silent, and the two didn't talk again for the rest of the way, only the two shadows intersecting and separating from time to time.

After about ten minutes, Ji Su stopped walking, "I'm here."

Gu Zhao also stopped and suddenly raised a hand.

Ji Su reflexively ducked back and his eyes closed.

Gu Zhao's hand paused in mid-air, "You think I'm going to hit you?"

"No, how could I think that ......" Ji Su opened her eyes and softly denied, "It's just an instinctive human reaction, nothing more."

The long, dense eyelashes fluttered uneasily, casting a shadow across the lids that tickled the tips of his heart.

Gu Zhao's upraised hand fell, turning out the collar of the white shirt he was wearing and straightening it meticulously.

Ji Su stood still, his spine visibly stiff.

"Okay." Gu Zhao withdrew his hand, "Go on up."

"Good night." Ji Su, as if he had been granted some sort of amnesty, said that and walked quickly toward the dormitory entrance.

Gu Zhao stood in place and watched that lean and upright back disappear from sight as he turned to leave.

*

Ji Su went back to the dormitory, closed the door and leaned against the door panel, his heart still pounding in his chest.

"Susu, you're back!" Qiao Jin rolled over and jumped down from the bed, "I messaged you and you didn't answer any of my messages, I was so worried!"

"It's okay." Ji Su lifted her face, "I didn't look at my cell phone and made you worry."

Qiao Jin looked him up and down, "Whether I'm worried or not is secondary, the main thing is that Gu Zhao didn't do anything to you, right?"

Ji Su's cheeks warmed slightly as she remembered the scene that had just happened in the dormitory, "It's nothing ......"

"No, there must be something!" Qiao Jin urged, "Come on tell me, what did he make you do?"

Ji Su's voice was getting smaller, "He asked me to put on my sailor suit for him."

"Crap!" Qiao Jin exclaimed, "Is that so exciting?"

Ji Su: "......"

Qiao Jin's tone was complex: "This Gu Da schoolboy really knows how to enjoy himself, Mengmeng's photos are not fun to look at, but he still wants to see the real thing, right?"

"It's not like that, Xiao Qiao." Ji Su helped Gu Zhao explain, "He was trying to get rid of his thoughts of Mengmeng once and for all by seeing what I looked like in a dress."

Qiao Jin didn't understand: "What do you mean?"

"In Gu Zhao's mind, Mengmeng's unexposed upper body and face must be beautiful." Ji Su seriously analyzed, "But he'll be disillusioned when he sees me in a sailor suit."

Qiao Jin tactically leans back, "Are you sure?"

Ji Su nods, "Yes."

Qiao Jin looked puzzled, "He told you that himself?"

Ji Su thought back, "Something like that."

"OK." Qiao Jin said half-heartedly, "So maybe it's because ...... Gu Zhao's homophobia is worse?"

Unless one was a severe homophobe, he didn't believe that anyone would be disillusioned by the sight of Susu's women's clothing.

That put the thin waist that pair of long legs, that shy and seductive look, obviously even he a small iron blood zero can not help but want to raw pounce on it ......

"All in all, Gu Zhao isn't as scary as we thought." Ji Su straightened up and headed for the table.

Qiao Jin bristled, "Wasn't this a result of what Zhou Yang said earlier?"

"Zhou Yang even said Gu Zhao was a good man." Ji Su sighed softly, "I'm the one who hurt a good person."

"Aiya Susu, don't think so much." Qiao Jin hugged his arm and shook it, "I see that School Mistress Gu Da is still in good shape, and aren't you already trying to remedy the situation?"

"Got it." Ji Su smiled, "Then pray with me that Gu Zhao can forgive me soon."

Qiao Jin affirmed, "Yes, who would really want to be mad at Susu baby!"

Ji Su drew back her arm, "Okay, you go play."

A few moments later, he pulled his cell phone out of his pocket and opened WeChat to send a message to Gu Zhao.

Ji Su: [Have you arrived at the dormitory yet?]

Gu Zhao: [Just arrived.]

Ji Su: [Uh-huh that's good.]

Ji Su: [Get an early night, good night.]

Gu Zhao: [Why don't you post a love package?]

Ji Su: "......"

He thought briefly and tried to send a message asking.

Ji Su : [Are you ...... trying to get me to add you back using Mengmeng's number?]

Gu Zhao: [No.]

Ji Su is a bit chagrined, known Mengmeng is a big liar, add back Gu Zhao is not to rub salt in his wounds?

Ji Su: [I'm sorry.]

Gu Zhao: [I told you not to keep apologizing.]

Ji Su bit her lip and was about to reply when a new message popped up in the dialog box.

Gu Zhao: [The person who wore the dress I gave you that day, is that the schoolmate who was cheated?]

Ji Su's heart skipped a beat, once again surprised by his opponent's sharp intuition.

Ji Su: [Yes ......]

Ji Su : [But everything has nothing to do with schoolmates, it's all my fault.]

Gu Zhao: [What is your relationship with her?]

Ji Su: [The relationship between a senior and a junior.]

Gu Zhao: [Do you like her?]

Ji Su: [How can that be?]

Ji Su : [I went to the same high school as my older sister, and she took care of me, so I tried to help her, but I didn't realize it would turn out to be a mistake ......]

Gu Zhao: [Uh-huh.]

Ji Su was a little confused as to what he meant, when another new message popped up.

Gu Zhao: [Have her organize all the relevant information about that man into a document and send it to you, and you send it to me.]

Ji Su was dumbfounded for a few seconds and quickly responded.

Ji Su: [Are you going to help me find Zha Nan?]

Gu Zhao: [The person who made me take the blame, do you think I'll let him off easily?]

Ji Su shivered as a cold feeling rose suddenly at his back.

Maybe Zhou Yang is right, the person who offended Gu Zhao, even if he digs up the ground three feet, he will find out the person, there is revenge, there is injustice.

In this way, Gu Zhao should be considered merciful to himself ...... right?

Ji Su : [Okay, I understand.]

Ji Su: [I'll contact my older sister right away.]

Gu Zhao: [This is not your fault alone, and you don't need to pay for other people's mistakes].

Ji Su held her cell phone in her hand and could hardly believe her eyes.

Gu Zhao, has he forgiven him?

Gu Zhao: [However, you are the one who cheated on my feelings, so you are still responsible for me.]

The emotion that welled up in Ji Su's heart suddenly dissipated.

Ji Su: [Yeah, I know.]

*

Ji Su didn't know what Gu Zhao had used, but two days later, he received Zha Nan's personal information.

The information is very detailed, name, age, height, weight, ID number and contact information, which school, which major, which class, and even specific to the door number of Zha Nan's home.

Ji Su said thank you and turned her hand to send Zha Nan's information to her schoolmate.

As for what the schoolmate was going to do with it later, he didn't want to interfere anymore.

Gu Zhao sat across from him, "Just saying thank you?"

Ji Su was slightly stunned, "What?"

Gu Zhao rephrased the question, "How would you like to thank me?"

Ji Su asked softly in return, "How would you like me to thank you?"

He almost forgot that Gu Zhao's style was to never do good for nothing.

"Owe it first." Gu Zhao's words changed, "You haven't completed your last mission."

"Last time what-" Ji Su realized in the middle of her sentence, her ears heating up, "Isn't that thing in the past ...... "

"Who said the past?" Gu Zhao's dark, sunken eyes stared at him, "Did I say the past?"

Ji Su pursed her lips and stopped talking.

"I dreamed of Mengmeng last night." Gu Zhao used that low, magnetic voice and said unhurriedly, "In the dream, he called me senior and elder brother one after another--"

Ji Su gritted his teeth and agreed, "Okay, when is convenient for you?"

Looks like Gu Zhao still hasn't gotten out of Mengmeng's shadow, and he's going to have to take a strong dose of his own medicine.

Gu Zhao: "Tonight."

"Tonight?" Ji Su hesitated, "There's no one else in your dorm tonight?"

Gu Zhao's tone was calm: "Go to my house."

"Huh?" Ji Su's eyes widened slightly, "To your house?"

"What?" Gu Zhao's jaw lifted slightly, "Or do you want to go to a hotel?"

Ji Su: "......"

Can he choose neither?

Gu Zhao explains a rare extra, "I have a house near the school, and I'm the only one who lives there."

Unfortunately, that didn't comfort Ji Su, and being alone with the other person seemed a little more frightening.

Gu Zhao stood up, "Let's go."

Ji Su got up resignedly and followed him out the door.

Gu Zhao got a car and parked it in front of the school.

Ji Su was about to pull open the backseat door, but hesitated and got into the passenger seat.

While he didn't want to sit next to Gu Zhao, it was kind of rude to treat someone like a chauffeur.

It was the first time he'd seen Gu Zhao drive, his long, strong fingers on the steering wheel, his posture careless, but the car driving fast and steady.

It didn't take long for the car to drive into an upscale neighborhood and right into the underground garage.

The two got out of the car and took the elevator up.

Gu Zhao stood in the doorway and entered six digits, "The password is my birthday."

Ji Su wasn't even paying attention, and casually replied, "Oh."

Gu Zhao gave him a sideways glance, "Repeat."

Ji Su: "......"

After being forced to memorize the code to the front door of Gu Zhao's house, Ji Su officially steps inside.

Being an architecture student, he subconsciously surveyed the layout and decoration of the house.

The house is spacious, with a four-room, two-bathroom layout. The basic color of the décor is black and grey, and all the furniture is in the same cool tones; the overall style is cold, hard and somber, much like the feeling Gu Zhao gives.

Ji Su couldn't help but ask, "Did you decorate this house yourself?"

"Yes." Gu Zhao answered, "What goes through me, goes through me."

Ji Su nodded and changed into her slippers and walked into the living room when she suddenly remembered an important question, "Wait, I didn't bring my dress."

"No need." Gu Zhao walked past him, "I'm ready."

Ji Su: "......"

Was this man so sure that he would come to the house with him?

Gu Zhao walks into the open kitchen, "What do you want for dinner?"

"It's fine, I'm not hungry." Ji Su wanted to make it quick, "Why don't ...... I just finish the mission first."

Gu Zhao stares back, "What's the rush?"

Ji Su didn't know what to say back, so she just smiled.

"Good." Gu Zhao turned on his heel and headed for the bedroom, "Come here."

Ji Su took a deep breath and stepped away to follow.

Gu Zhao stood still in front of the bedroom door, unscrewed it and pushed it open.

Ji Su raised her eyes to the bedroom and froze again when she was caught off guard.

In the center of the bedroom sits an oversized, luxurious king-sized bed, which is spread out with an assortment of dresses.

Ji Su opened his mouth and lost his voice a little for a moment.

These dresses look quite familiar, as if they are exactly the same as the ones he received earlier ......

"The dresses I bought for you - for Mengmeng - were all hand-picked by me, one by one." Gu Zhao's eyes were dark and his tone was cold, "Since you gave them to someone else, I had to pick them again."

Ji Su unconsciously took a step backward, but his back rested against a large, burning hand that held him steady.

Gu Zhao coldly said, "Trying to run again?"

"No ......" Ji Su's throat was dry and he couldn't speak very well, "Too, too much ......"

"More what?" Gu Zhao gave a laugh, "It's not like I'm asking you to wear them all."

A flicker of hope flared in Ji Su's heart, "Then can I choose which one to wear myself?"

Gu Zhao said with great compassion, "Yes."

Ji Su breathed a small sigh of relief and stepped away from his heavy feet toward the bed, picking out a long dress, "Will this one do?"

Gu Zhao commented, "Has Mengmeng ever worn a long skirt?"

Ji Su : "No ......"

Gu Zhao: "Repick."

Ji Su closed her eyes and grabbed one from the bed, "Will this one do?"

Gu Zhao's line of sight fell on the red halter dress, and the color of his eyes darkened a few more points, "Yes."

Ji Su unfolded the skirt and saw the style of the dress, and her mind was blown.