Transmigrated into Substitute Bride ‘Fu Lang’

Chapter 38.1

穿成替嫁夫郎 by 雩玖

Chapter 38.1: 争宠

[Compete for Favor]

Returning to the bleak and desolate gate of the Gu Mansion, Chen Xing glanced at the sky, gauging that the time was not too late, and that he should be able to make it in time for Gu Lang’s mealtime. He had been worried about what Gu Lang and Xueqiu would eat for lunch since before he left the house, but now that he was finally back, he was relieved.

Chen Xing took a deep breath and slowly pushed open the gate of the Gu Mansion, the courtyard was unexpectedly empty. He greeted Qiu Jiu and asked him to push the wheelbarrow to the kitchen and put it there, soon afterwards he went to the dining hall, where he thought Gu Lang should be right now.

Thinking it like this, Chen Xing’s steps also sped up at some point. When he arrived at the main dining hall, after seeing the situation inside clearly, he snorted out a laugh.

Only to see the spacious living room, Gu Lang is sitting on the dining table, unhurriedly eating the porridge that he left behind in the morning, and not far away from Xueqiu who buried his head in eating his cat food. But he didn’t know whether it was because the distance between one person and one cat was too far, or the aura was too entirely different, it was as if there was a clear line between the two of them, as if they were in two places that didn’t intersect with each other.

At the same time when Chen Xing came in, Gu Lang raised his head and looked in his direction accurately. After seeing clearly who was coming, a shallow smile appeared on his face, and he said in a warm voice: “You’re back?”

Chen Xing walked in with big steps, swept a glance at the top of the table that was not being much moved, expecting Gu Lang should have just eaten not long ago. There is still time, so he can fry up two more dishes and eat it together. He thought like this, then he also said it directly.

Gu Lang did not have the slightest objection to Chen Xing’s opinion, and directly nodded after listening to his words, “Hn, it just so happens that I’m not very hungry either, I’ll wait for you guys so we could eat together.”

After saying that, Gu Lang put down the chopsticks in his hands and placed his hands on his knees, sitting in a well-behaved manner, looking at Chen Xing with expectation in his eyes.

Chen Xing looked at Gu Lang’s appearance, and suddenly he felt that he was a bit cute. On weekdays, Gu Lang was like a golden cat, although he would not deliberately defy you, he would always exude an aura of ‘all of you are mortals, stay away from me’, and now it was that pretty little cat that put away its sharp claws, and looked at you with a well-behaved while tilting its head, its whole body was exudes an aura of meekness.

Fingers grasping for half a day, Chen Xing finally restrained the urge to go over and rub his head, he felt that if he really went over and rubbed it, it was expected that what would greet him would not be Gu Lang’s kind gaze, but a death ray.

“What’s wrong with you?” Gu Lang looked at Chen Xing’s constantly changing face, as well as the gaze that gave him a bit of goosebumps, and always felt that Chen Xing was now thinking about matters that he could not let him know.

Chen Xing averted his eyes and somehow felt guilty as he said without a trace, “Nothing, I was just a bit lost in thought.”

After saying that, Chen Xing wanted to leave to go to the kitchen to cook the vegetables, but in the end, he heard a thin cat’s cry of ‘meow’. He turned his head to look at Xueqiu which was still some distance away from it. He then watched it look at himself with those big blue eyes, which still hid a few inexplicable grievances.

Chen Xing looked at the appearance of the cat, his heart was going to melt, thinking that Xueqiu must have felt aggrieved since this morning because the cat did not see him. He opened his hands, walked forward and wanted to hug it. The result was that he heard a slight cough sound.

Chen Xing subconsciously turned his head, only to see that Gu Lang was covering his mouth, as if those coughs had just come from his mouth. Coughing on this hot day, no matter what he saw, it was not right. He also went over to hug Xueqiu without considering anything, several steps before he walked in front of Gu Lang. He was deeply concerned as he asked: “What is wrong with you? Where do you feel uncomfortable? Do you want to invite a doctor to take a look at it?”

After Gu Lang swept a glance at the sad meowing kitten beside him. He refocused his eyes on Chen Xing’s worried face, and his lips hooked up in a faint arc, “It’s not a problem,it was only a gust of wind. Didn’t you say you were going to cook the meal? Hurry up and go, after you finish eating, you can also rest for a while.”

“Ah, good, what you said is right. You wait here for a while, I’ll soon have the meal ready and come over.”

After saying that, Chen Xing quickly left in a hurry.

Only after Chen Xing’s back disappeared around the corner and could no longer be seen did Gu Lang slowly retract his gaze that was looking there, and landed his sight on the kitten not far away, saying softly, “Don’t stick to him all the time.”

The kitten, which had just been very high and mighty, now panting with anger, had its hairs explode (standing) in the next second, and while looking at him warily, it retreated behind a pillar and hid, sneaking glances at him every now and then, and only after realizing that he didn’t have the intention to go over there did the standing hairs on its body, smooth again.

Gu Lang looked at its terrified appearance, raised an eyebrow, withdrew his line of sight, and snorted a pfft laugh softly.

Chen Xing said that he cooked very fast, and in less than an hour’s work; he returned with Qiu Jiu with three dishes and one soup totalling four types of dishes; only when he saw that Gu Lang was still sitting there peacefully, without any expression of impatience appearing on his face, did he let out a long breath and said with a smile, “The meal is ready, let’s eat!”

There were only three of them in the Gu Residence so naturally, there was no such thing as a rule of not talking while eating so mealtimes were also usually the time for them to communicate. Only usually it was Chen Xing who was talking, Gu Lang responding with a couple of sentences from time to time, and Qiu Jiu just listening in silence.