Chapter 55 A Woman

Shen Qianshan, who had a drowsy look, saw Gu Qiang standing at the door with a white robe. The long hair covered her shoulders casually. With no expression on her face, she looked like an ice sculpture and even her eyes were icy.

On the ground before the room, the girl was in a faint from fear. Shen Qianshan went over, lifted her up, and pressed her philtrum. Finally, she came round just like a fish returning to the water.

Gu Qiang stood there with a cold face. After coming round, that woman saw Shen Qianshan and burst into tears, “Brother Qianshan, why did you give my room to another woman? She almost scared me to death.”

She pretended to wipe tears with her hand and then turned around to glare at Gu Qiang. The girl was pretty and elegant, but she looked fragile.

Maybe a girl couldn’t help being fragile before the man she loves. Gu Qiang looked the girl into her eyes. Gu Qiang’s eyes were cool and calm because she had a clear conscience. When their eyes met, the girl withdrew her eyes at once. She thought Gu Qiang’s eyes unexplainably scary as if the boundless universe were hidden in her eyes. It was the first time for the woman to see a girl with such deep eyes.

As soon as meeting Gu Qiang’s eyes, the girl thought she was not an ordinary woman. She leaned against the door. Her nightrobe set her figure off to advantage, and she was even the envy of women.

Any woman would have fancies if Gu Qiang slept on the same bed.

Shen Qianshan turned around to tell Jin Ye, “Take Miss Sun away.”

Then Shen Qianshan rose and walked to Gu Qiang. Miss Sun grabbed a corner of his clothes and implored with misty eyes as if there were tears, “Brother Qianshan, can you allow me to sleep in my previous room? The present one is small and dark. I am scared to sleep there alone.”

Shen Qianshan turned around and responded coldly, “Ask a servant girl to stay with you.”

Then he asked Gu Qiang whose face remained expressionless, “Are you startled?”

Looking up at Shen Qianshan’s eyes, Gu Qiang gave a faint smile and answered, “Your Highness, don’t you see who is startled?”

Shen Qianshan smiled. The girl was always like this. The colder she looked, the more interesting she was in Shen Qianshan’s eyes. He smoothed Gu Qiang’s hair on the forehead back her ear and beamed, “If you are not scared, why is your hair so messy?”

Gu Qiang didn’t realize she was discomposed until now, so she lowered her head to adjust her clothes at once. Then she turned around to look at Miss Sun, who was staring at them in surprise as if she didn’t believe what she saw. Tears remained at the corners of her eyes, which were filled with resentment.

Miss Sun was much older than Gu Qiang, but in front of Shen Qianshan, she behaved like a little girl as delicate as the dew on petals in the morning, which would melt at a sight.

Gu Qiang stopped Shen Qianshan’s hand and said in an icy tone, “I will return for sleep. This room is for Miss Sun now.”

Gu Qiang didn’t care where she slept. She would rather find a place for sleep than deal with a jealous woman here. If she was not energetic enough, she might screw up when treating the Empress Dowager the next day.

Miss Sun was about to be taken away by Jin Ye. Hearing what Gu Qiang said, she freed herself from Jin Ye’s grip. When she walked past Gu Qiang, she turned around for a look.

Gu Qiang looked stunningly beautiful. With no expression on her face, she looked mature beyond her age. What mattered a lot to Miss Sun seemed to mean nothing to Gu Qiang.

Perhaps it proved whether a girl loved a man or not.

Gu Qiang entered the room and took away what belonged to her. When she did it, Miss Sun rushed in and lied on the bed while turning around to look at her complacently. She seemed to be showing off.

Gu Qiang was ready to go out. But when she noticed Miss Sun’s expression, she was irritated and said, “Now that it’s your room, the Ninth Duke shouldn’t have let me sleep here. But unfortunately, he did. It is unreasonable and embarrassing to leave at midnight. You force me to move away. Is it because there is treasure in the room?”

Then Gu Qiang went out. Of course, Shen Qianshan heard what she said at the door. He smiled and asked, “Qiang, are you not satisfied with my treat?”

Gu Qiang looked surly. He was clear about whether his treat was good or not. She answered, “I just want to find a place for sleep. Your Highness, you don’t have to do this. In my opinion, the Xiaoyao Mountain is so huge that there should be a room for me to sleep, right? How about this one?”

While saying, Gu Qiang pointed to the room next door and walked in smilingly. Unable to control his expression at that moment, Jin Ye seemed to be devastated. He whispered to Shen Qianshan, “Your Highness, this room…”

“She wants to live there, then just let her go. Anyway, it’s her choice. No matter what happens, leave her alone.” Shen Qianshan seemed to be angry. When he said that, his face was icy, and no emotion could be seen on it.

Gu Qiang closed the door. She heard what Shen Qianshan said, but she didn’t care. She lied on the bed with her clothes put nearby neatly. The Xiaoyao Mountain was so unusual. Now that rooms couldn’t accommodate people, what was the use of them? Were they only used to make the Xiaoyao Mountain look spectacular?

Absurd. Gu Qiang was resigned. In the eyes of outsiders, the Xiaoyao Mountain was nothing but a secret garden for Shen Qianshan to spend summer days, but in her eyes, it seemed to have a big secret.

Gu Qiang had a hard life, and it was reasonable to be involved in what mattered to her, but she felt it unnecessary to find out a secret which had nothing to do with her, no matter how tempting it was.

At midnight, Gu Qiang felt hot as if a kind of air were flowing around. She opened her eyes in a daze and saw a person standing under the curtain. With long hair hanging down, the person was staring at her silently, and it was impossible to tell the person to be a man or a woman.

Gu Qiang was in a cold sweat immediately. She got up slowly, but she felt she had no strength at all, so she asked quietly, “Who are you?”

Gu Qiang received no response. She was sweating heavily. Having experienced some unexplainable things, she believed she could stand more than ordinary people, but she was still nervous at the moment.

Didn’t the person hear her? Therefore, she asked again, “Who are you? What do you want to do?”

Gu Qiang asked loudly on purpose to make the person respond, but it didn’t work.

Shen Qianshan was standing outside the window. Hearing the voice in the room, he sighed heavily. Jin Ye still looked worried and said, “Your Highness, please take Miss Gu away. As you know, this room is always like this. If Miss Gu is sick from fear, you will be dead regretful, won’t you?”

Shen Qianshan glowered at Jin Ye. Did he need to be reminded? The room was weird all the time. People who slept inside it could always dream of someone standing by the bed. But after waking up, they were not sure if it was real and thought it was just a dream. However, the long dream was tormenting, and they didn’t know when to wake up or how to face the person in the dream.

In the past, Shen Qianshan and Jin Ye didn’t believe the room would be so magical as to disturb sleep, so they had a try. It turned out that they both had such a dream. Finally, everyone tried to find out the reason privately, and Shen Qianshan kept the room vacant. The story was weird because nothing else happened in the room except the nightmare.

When Gu Qiang proposed to sleep in the room, actually Shen Qianshan was reluctant. He didn’t hope that she had a nightmare and then doubted the truth of the world. However, he was irritated by her look and attitude.

Shen Qianshan looked awful and couldn’t help swinging the door open. Inside the room, Gu Qiang had red cheeks and was short of breath on the bed. He went to her and could see her suffering a nightmare. In fact, no one was standing by the window.

In the dream, Gu Qiang was confronting that person. It was embarrassing. That person remained still, neither walking nor moving and without any expression or sound. Under such a circumstance, she couldn’t help saying, “I want…”

Before she was done, she felt a cold body approaching her, but it didn’t exist. The body seemed to be out of her consciousness. When her hot body touched the cold one, it became cool at once, and the coolness made her comfortable. She couldn’t help hooking her hands around that neck and asked, “Who are you?”

The question was not changed, but she was not so calm as before. Instead, she sounded affectionate.

Her voice was so sweet that Shen Qianshan’s heart was melt. He looked at her in his arms with the moonlight. Her pretty face seemed to be shining.