"I'll come back. I am married to Lukas. "Katharina is used to being a strong woman, so when she speaks, whether intentionally or not, with a sense of arrogance and strength.

"Katharina, since you're here, it's just right, you can take this back by the way-" Bai Yiru stopped Katharina before she walked out, and took out an invitation from the bedside table, "I'm having a wedding anniversary party with Lukas, don't forget to come and play early." ”

"Let me send a blessing or a curse?" Katharina reversed, took the invitation that Bai Yiru handed her, opened it and looked at the date on it, and asked with the corners of her eyes hanging up.

Bai Yiru frowned, and his hatred for Katharina became more and more numerous.

Gu Dongning put his arm around Bai Yiru's shoulders, gently stroked her smooth hair with his fingers, took out his mobile phone calmly, dialed the number, and said lightly: "Jason, I want to become the largest shareholder of your family business, what do you think?" ”

Jason was stunned for a moment on the other end of the phone, and then realized that Gu Dongning's tone didn't seem like a joke, so he became nervous.

He held the phone, walked to the corner where no one was, and deliberately lowered his voice, "Lukas, as far as I know, you never do anything to your friends. ”

"Yes. But there are special cases. If you have any doubts, ask your sister. I called, just to tell you that I was going to do it. Gu Dongning's eyes stared at the plate of broccoli on the small table, his eyes narrowed slightly, his slender fingers pinched the mobile phone, and put it to his ear casually, his voice was clear.

"Lukas, is my sister looking for you again? She said she wanted to marry you? Jason suddenly remembered that Katharina could offend Gu Dongning, and the only thing was to get married. I listened to other people's nonsense, and I told my sister in passing, so she thought you were divorced. Well, Lukas, for the sake of our friend for so long, give me some time and let me persuade my sister. ”

"Are you sure you can make it?"

"Hmm. My dad hasn't completely taken a back seat, don't you know this best? Jason moved out of his father, and although Katharina was now handling the affairs of their family, and the power was handed over to her, there was still no departure from their father's constraints.

"Jason, you know I'm impatient, especially when it comes to my wife and children."

"I know you're sincere to your sister-in-law. I've already sent someone to pick up my sister. ”

Gu Dongning listened, didn't say anything, and hung up the phone directly.

Jason listened to the busy sound on the phone, and slowly put away the phone, in fact, he didn't have a score in his heart, after all, Katharina was going to get married this time, and it wasn't that she figured it out to get married, she was also for ......

In the ward, Gu Dongning finished the call, and his cold gaze fell on Katharina's face, but he didn't say anything.

"You're going to do it? We'll see. Katharina pretended not to care about anything, and after saying that, she looked up proudly, pinched the invitation and left.

When she left the ward, she stood in the hallway, leaning against the wall and taking a deep breath, her face was ugly.

Katharina's face was ugly, not because Gu Qixi and Gu Jiayi called her aunt and aunt, saying that she was old, but because she began to worry about whether her plan was really wrong, not only would it not solve the problem, but it would also lead to bigger new problems.

"Miss, are you alright?" The secretary walked over, stretched out his hand to help Katharina, and asked with concern, "The young master sent someone to pick you up, and he is already on the way, do you want to wait?" ”

"I'm fine. Tell the young master not to come, I'll go back by myself. Katharina shook her head, withdrew her hand holding on to the wall, and returned to her previous appearance - she was a woman born with a domineering spirit in her bones, and even if she didn't deliberately show pride and no one in her eyes, she would reveal nobility and disdain in her gestures.

"Okay, miss, I'll inform the people over there of the young master." The secretary walked beside Katharina and quickly handled the boss's orders.

Katharina stood at the elevator door and waited for the elevator to come up, and by the way, she straightened her clothes against the elevator wall, smoothed her short ear-length hair, and her bob made her look capable and mature, a complete strong woman.

There was a "bang", and the elevator door opened.

Katharina looked at the people in the elevator and raised her eyebrows, not surprised at all.

She was silent, standing there, waiting for the other to come out.

"Katharina, you're looking for Lukas again?" Eric pulled Katharina into the elevator with an angry look on his face and pressed the button to close the door.

"Miss-Mr. Eric, our miss is going back......" The secretary said anxiously when he saw the elevator door slowly closing.

Eric grabbed Katharina's wrist and didn't let go, ignoring what her secretary was shouting.

Katharina's brows furrowed, her face was very displeased, and she said to her secretary before the elevator door closed tightly, "Leave me alone, I'll be back later." ”

The elevator began to descend with a palpable sense of falling.

"Let go." Katharina stared at Eric's face for a moment, then at his wrist, and her voice was hard, without the tenderness of a woman.

"It's not that you don't get married for the sake of your career, but you're coming to Lukas for the second time, why?" Eric grabbed Katharina's hand and said stubbornly.

"Something to do with you? Who do you think you are? Katharina gritted her teeth and kicked Eric in the calf, pulling her hand back.

"What do you say?" Eric asked rhetorically.

Katharina did not answer, and remained silent.

The elevator was so quiet that the breathing of both of them could be heard clearly.

Two people, one is arrogant, the other is stubborn, one is like a strict elder, and the other is like a stubborn child.

Elevator to the basement parking lot, Katharina carried her bag, walked out first, and walked straight to her car.

"Katharina, we need to talk." Eric chased after Katharina and blocked her way.

"We don't have much to talk about. Eric, in fact, to put it nicely, we know each other, to put it mildly, you are a passerby to me. Do you think I'm idle enough to chat with passers-by? Katharina was blocked and had no way out, so she had to stand still.

"Get in the car." Enraged, Eric stretched out his arms and legs, and in the blink of an eye, hooked Katharina into his arms and dragged her into her car.

"Let me go." Katharina looked at the door locked by Eric and was really angry, so her voice was raised several degrees.

"Stay honest." Eric got into the car from the other side, looked at Katharina, who couldn't move freely, kicked the accelerator to the end, and drove out of the garage frantically. When he hooked her down just now, he pinched her numb tendons in several places, making her feel painful and numb, and she couldn't do anything at all.

"Eric, you're so mean." Katharina glared, the only weapons she could use to counter Eric now were a mouth and an eye.

"Compared to you, it's far worse. If you want to call me despicable, I'm afraid I have to worship you as a teacher. Eric held the steering wheel with both hands, the speed of the car was already the fastest, the green tendons on his forehead jumped, and every time he met Katharina, he couldn't control his feelings.

"Humph!" Katharina's face was full of sarcasm, and she glanced contemptuously past Eric and looked out the window.

Eric parked the car in the underground garage of the Eisen Group, but did not get out of the car, but turned around and looked at Katharina.

He didn't plan to get out of the car, and he didn't plan to let the woman in front of him get out of the car.

Katharina knew that as long as Eric didn't want to let her go, she wouldn't be able to go, so she simply leaned back in the leather chair calmly, waiting for the other party to say what she had said hundreds of times, and then let herself go.

"Why do you want to marry Lukas? Why can it only be him? Eric clenched his fists, his knuckles white.

As if she hadn't heard, Katharina didn't speak, didn't answer.

"Why, exactly? Sue me for the reason! What Eric hated the most was Katharina's habit of asking him without opening her mouth, which completely ignored him and made him feel congested.

Katharina took out her phone and looked at the time, put it in her bag again, brushed the oblique bangs in front of her, and still didn't speak.

"Speak!" Eric was finally furious and slammed his fist on the steering wheel, causing a screeching sound from the horn.

Katharina finally turned her eyes to look at Eric, but she looked at him with the eyes of monkeys as if she were watching the entertainers on the roadside stalls, and saw that he had a sinking seizure, and had nothing to do with her.

Eric's heart felt more and more congested, and he couldn't drain it smoothly when he couldn't discharge it, and he was uncomfortable all over.

"Katharina—" He watched as her eyes softened, and her tone was no longer agitated, as if pleading, "marry me, and we'll get married." ”

"Shh Katharina hooked the corners of her mouth and laughed mockingly, "Is there anything else you can say besides this?" Can't we talk about the elegance of business? Falling in love can't make you and me money. ”

"No, you can't. I just want to say: marry me, katharina, marry me, I want to marry you. Eric persisted in proposing words that he didn't know he had said hundreds of times in front of Katharina.

"Why? Why should I marry you? Katharina looked at Eric as if she had seen a madman.

"Don't you want to get married? It just so happens that I've always wanted to marry you. Isn't it nice that you love me? ”

"I want to get married, but it's not you who I want to marry. I'm going to marry Lukas, and I can only be Lukas. Do you think if you want to marry, I will marry? Hmph, don't waste any more effort, I won't marry you until I die. Katharina had a faint smile on her lips, but it was one of disdain.

"Katharina, you know I love you! I love you, so I want to marry you—"

"If you love me, I have to marry? It's funny! Katharina interrupted Eric, unwilling to listen to his nonsense, anyway, all his confessions were classified as nonsense by her. There are so many people who love me, don't I have to marry them? ”

"You ......" Eric slammed the steering wheel again, he couldn't understand how he had fallen in love with this unreasonable, unfeminine woman in the first place.

"The keys. I'm getting out of the car. Katharina had fully recovered her movements, she stretched out her hand to Eric to ask for the key, she knew best, at this moment Eric was hit by her again, and it was a blow that could not bear too much, so she asked for the key, and he would give it, and if she wanted to leave, he would agree.

"Let's go." Eric pulled out the key and placed it heavily in Katharina's palm, taking a deep breath and a deep breath.

A qiē is under the control of Katharina.

But these controls are based on Eric's love for her, if he didn't love her too much, he would definitely use force, not hesitating to hurt her, and he wouldn't let her press him so much, hit him, and not take him in his eyes.

"Fuck, it's all because Lao Tzu really loves you!" Eric looked at the back of Katherine, who got out of the car and walked away decisively, and pressed the horn desperately, and the ugly noise after another echoed in the garage for a long time.

Katherine took a taxi back home, and Jason was eating mango in the living room, and the orchid fingers were particularly exaggerated.

"Didn't you go to a friend's party? Coming back so early? She didn't like her brother's orchid finger, but she couldn't change it, so she could only deliberately ignore it.

"Lukas' phone calls to me, do you think I can still have fun with my friends?" Jason gave Katherine a white look, "I said there was no other way to go?" Do you have to marry Lukas? Eric isn't bad, isn't he? ”

"If you mention Eric again, I'll throw it out for you, so that you will never see your boyfriend!" Katherine's threatening eyes fell on Jason for two seconds, and she felt that the orchid finger was really an eyesore, and turned her head angrily.

"Then you can't think of anything else?" Jason's biggest fear is that others will object to him being with his boyfriend, so he quickly changes the subject and doesn't mention Eric anymore.

"What do you think?" When Katherine talked about her marriage to Lukas, she couldn't help but feel anxious again, poured herself a glass of water, and drank several sips without feeling the burning relief.

"There's always more ways than difficulties, right? Let's think about it again to see if there is any other way, if Lukas is provoked by you, only we will suffer, where can we take advantage. ”

Jason reminded Katherine not to be too aggressive, judging from his understanding of Gu Dongning, today's phone call, if it wasn't for my sister touching the other party's bottom line, people would never have called her. And if people can call him to inform him, it is already for the sake of friendship, otherwise the eldest young master of the Hoffman family will definitely do it directly, and he will definitely not come to tell him what he is going to do.

"Take care of yourself. I'm not against you having some friends with abnormal orientations, that's the limit. Katherine was anxious and didn't want to listen to Jason's ',' so she took her bag and went upstairs.

Jason pouted, shook his head, and began to eat mangoes again, sighing as he sighed, "Ouch, I don't know if I can eat fresh mangoes that were specially flown back in the future, I have to eat more while I still have them." ”

"Jason!" Katherine, who had reached the middle of the stairs, suddenly stopped, turned around and called Jason's name sternly, "You're not a child anymore!" Speak in moderation! ”

"Got it. Got it. Jason angrily threw the mango in his hand, stood up, twisted the water snake's waist and left.

Katharina held her forehead, closed her eyes, and took a few deep breaths before she went upstairs, she also knew that she had provoked Lukas, and all the qiē had been ruined, but if she didn't take the risk of trying, she didn't have to face those.

It was past midnight, and the stars in the sky and the lights on the ground twinkled and shimmered, intertwining at the end of the traffic, making it impossible to distinguish where was heaven and where was earth.

Ning Xiuji's car was slowly moving forward in a neon light, and there was still a lot of traffic on the streets at night, although it was not crowded, but it was not unimpeded.

The car turned onto a small road and stopped in the open space outside Tong Xiaoxin's house, he got out of the car and took the key to open the door and enter the house.

The room was pitch black, and Tong Xiaoxin was already asleep.

Ning Xiuji turned on a small lamp, took off his coat and threw it on the sofa, pushed the bedroom door open a little, looked at the person wrapped in the quilt, slept soundly, and then went to the bathroom to take a shower with peace of mind.

So many things happened during the day, Tong Xiaoxin disappeared again, some people said that she went to the doctor's office, but he went to ask the doctor, and the doctor said that he did not see her.

He was very worried about her, but fortunately, the phone call came through, and she said that she had gone home, so he went to the company to work overtime with peace of mind.

During this time, the company was relatively busy, and he had less time to accompany Tong Xiaoxin, so he finally found time to see the villa today, but it turned out to be such a thing again.

He knew she wasn't happy, and he could understand.

The water under the shower sprays down and hits the skin, which is very comfortable and makes people feel a lot more relaxed.

The fatigue of the whole day was washed away a lot, Ning Xiuji reached out and turned off the shower, took a towel and wiped the water droplets on his body casually, wrapped a bath towel, and went to the bedroom while wiping his hair.

There was still no light in the bedroom, Ning Xiuji stood by the window, looking at the outline on the sheet, the corners of her mouth hooked, it was great that she could fall asleep, at first he was worried that she would be sad and couldn't sleep.

Reaching out to turn on the bedside lamp on his side, he put down the towel that wiped his hair, sat beside her, leaned against the head of the bed, and quietly watched her sleeping face.

Her breathing was even, her back to him, her side face was soft in the light, a pink ear was playfully exposed in the middle of her broken hair, the ornament on the ear had been removed, leaving only the barely visible hole, half of her neck was exposed outside the quilt, down her neck, the edge of her pajamas, her erect spine......

He reached out and gently stroked her neck, then reached into the collar of his pajamas and touched her back, the familiar temperature and sensation made his heart itch and awaken his inner desire.

"Xiaoxin......" He leaned over, kissed her ear, and called her softly, but he didn't see her react.

"Xiaoxin." He shook her shoulder again, and his other hand was already restlessly digging into the covers, following the lines he was already familiar with.

Tong Xiaoxin, who had been pretending to be asleep, finally couldn't pretend anymore, she didn't open her eyes, and said, "Xiu Ji, go to sleep." It's not early. ”

"Xiaoxin, I miss you very much." Ning Xiuji is having difficulty enduring, and he is uncomfortable in a certain place, and he just wants to find a place to put it.

"We'll talk about it in two days." Tong Xiaoxin still had her eyes closed, her heart was very confused, and she didn't know how to open her eyes to face Ning Xiuji.

"Got a period?" Ning Xiuji asked, but after calculating the time, it didn't seem to have arrived yet.

"Nope. It's just that I don't want to. Tong Xiaoxin said, pushing away Ning Xiuji's hand on her body and shrinking into the quilt.

"Just once, you see I'm having a hard time." Ning Xiuji pestered Tong Xiaoxin as if pleading.

"Xiu Ji, let's sleep." Tong Xiaoxin said, and even buried her head in the quilt.

"Just once, I promise to solve it in a short time, okay?" Ning Xiuji's hand got into the quilt again, touched her shoulder, and then went down, but the movement suddenly stopped, and the voice shouted in panic, "Xiaoxin!" ”

Tong Xiaoxin had no choice but to lift the quilt, sat up with some effort, frowned, and looked at Ning Xiuji with complicated eyes.

"I had a broken arm and was in a cast, which was inconvenient. It's not that I don't want to, it's that I can't help it. Xiu Ji, I'm sorry......" she began to cry as she spoke.

"Xiaoxin, when did this happen? Was it when my mom pushed you away? Ning Xiuji stroked Tong Xiaoxin's cheek distressedly, with a painful look in her eyes.

Tong Xiaoxin hesitated, but nodded.

"Why didn't you say it earlier? I went to the hospital at that time, why didn't you say anything? In case of a delay in treatment, have you thought about the consequences? When Ning Xiuji blamed himself, he was a little angry at Tong Xiaoxin's pretending to be strong.