Rebirth of an Idle Noblewoman

Chapter 261: I Want To Sleep With You Tonight

Shu Chen studied Gu Xiqiao from top to bottom, her eyes seemingly burning as she scrutinized the girl in front of her. Gu Xiqiao fidgeted nervously, not knowing where to place her arms and legs, but Shu Chen ignored her fidgeting, and then she suddenly stepped forward to enveloped her in a bear hug.

In the past, the woman wouldn’t have done this, as it differed too much from her usual temperament.

But today, it was different! The more she looked at Gu Xiqiao, the more satisfied she felt in her heart. Not only was she beautiful, she had also saved her once before. The girl was pleasing no matter what angle you looked at her!

Gu Xiqiao was stiff in her arms, mainly because apart from Tang Yanling, there were so few women who would give her hugs that were filled with such warmth.

There was a faint perfume smell coming from Shu Chen’s body, it wasn’t that strong, it was the kind that was more of an aftertaste. Her face was painted with delicate makeup, graceful features that were kind and it washed away the chill that was in her deep eyes.

She never noticed this previously, but now that she was looking closer, Shu Chen’s eyes were very similar to that of Jiang Shuxuan’s. If she squinted and looked closer, with just a little bit heavier pressure, her eyes would be exactly the same as the man.

Then tension in Gu Xiqiao vanished instantly at the thoughts, and she greeted softly, “Aunt Shu.”

Shu Chen felt her heart melt at the soft voice, and she almost wanted to tell Gu Xiqiao to call her ‘mom’ instead, but it didn’t seem right to do so on their first proper meeting. She cleared her throat. “Qiao Qiao, I’m sure you’re hungry. Just wait, there’s a dish that’s my signature dish and it’s already steaming. I’ll go and see if it’s done!”

She rushed off to the kitchen after saying that, going to prepare dinner with Mrs. Zhang.

Jiang Shuxuan stood next to Gu Xiqiao, and he felt as though a stone had lifted from his heart. WIth Shu Chen’s previous attitude, he had been slightly fearful that his mother wouldn’t like Gu Xiqiao. Although in his mind, who wouldn’t like her? Either way, he still couldn’t help the doubts and anxiety that he felt.

“Brother Jiang.” Gu Xiqiao gritted her teeth, glaring at the man. How could he not give her a single word of warning at all?!

Really, she was almost frightened to death!

Jiang Shuxuan rubbed her head gently. “What are you afraid of? My beautiful wife has always wanted to meet her husband’s mother anyway.”

‘What? Are you trying to be cute? Do you think you’re cute? Exactly like Xixi, you’re looking for a beating, aren’t you?!’

Gu Xiqiao didn’t feel like talking to Jiang Shuxuan at the moment, and she brushed his hand away. She turned around and walked towards Baili Bin and the others, who had already started back up their card games during the entire scene. Baili Bin was currently leaning on the sofa, watching Tang Qinghong’s cards.

“How is Aunt Shu?” Baili Bin’s lips curved up, looking at Gu Xiqiao with a gentle expression.

“At least I wasn’t scared to death.” Gu Xiqiao glanced at the direction of the kitchen, then whispered to Baili Bin. “Big Brother Baili, did you already know about it?”

Although she had posed it as a question, she was positive that he already knew. No wonder he had acted so weirdly when she was leading Aunt Shu around the compound the other day.

Baili Bin was calm as he answered, “Of course.” He glanced at Uncle Tai, and the older man immediately brought a box over.

“These are some things that Grandfather has picked for you.” Baili Bin leaned over to open the box, revealing treasures inside. “Grandfather found a full set of ancient jade. Take a look and see if you like it?”

Gu Xiqiao bent down to look, reaching out to stroke the smooth surface of the jade stones. She was shocked when her fingers touched it, feeling the spiritual fluctuations coming from it. These were no ordinary jade stones, and people in the ancient martial arts world would definitely be fighting over these treasures if they were able to. She couldn’t believe that Baili Qu would give an entire set of it to her.

“It’s too much, a waste to give it to me.” The Baili family had been delivering a lot of gifts intermittently, it almost looked like the entire stock of the Baili family’s treasures had been given to her, from the looks of it.

“It’s not,” Baili Bin replied lightly. These things were suited for her use, it wasn’t easy for the Baili family to be able to regain their footing and even find a tremendous treasure such as her. If he could, he’d bring everything that the Baili family had for her to use. A waste? What was that? “If there is anything missing, or if you need anything else in the future, just let me know.”

When Yao Jiamu saw this, he immediately tossed down the cards in his hand. He had also brought some things with him this time, it was some items that Boss Bai had collected for Gu Xiqiao from England. It was obviously not as rare as the items that Baili Bin gave her, but they were comparable.

Anyway, they’ve all developed a habit of getting things that looked interesting or expensive, no matter what it was, in order to give to Gu Xiqiao when they could.

“Ah, so it seemed that the set of jade stones was taken in by you.” Yao Jiamu saw the jade stones in her hands that she was playing with, and laughed. “No wonder the auction house refused to tell me anything when I inquired about it that time.”

The one who had bought it was the Baili family, one of the big families in the ancient martial arts world. No wonder the people at the auction house didn’t dare to say anything about them to him.

Yao Jiamu smiled when he thought about it. The things had ended up in Gu Xiqiao’s hands in the end, and that was what mattered the most. It didn’t matter who was the one who gave it to her in the end.

When Shu Chen came out from the kitchen, it was to the scene of Baili Bin and Yao Jiamu handing a good load of things to Gu Xiqiao. The items were so expensive and valuable that even she was shocked to see it here. Handing the plate in her hands to the butler, she took out her own gift for the girl.

Fortunately, the gifts she brought today were no less comparable to what Baili Bin had brought. Shu Chen thought to herself that once she returned to the house, she would go through the Jiang family treasures again to see what she could find.

Gu Xiqiao found herself once again piled with gifts till she couldn’t hold them all.

The values of the gifts were precious, and she was overwhelmed to the point that her legs felt like they couldn’t support her.

After dinner, Gu Xiqiao didn’t leave, but got down to business instead. The people present all knew each other, and Gu Xiqiao wasn’t avoiding them now, handling the matters all together.

Zhu Yuan started off first, handing a folder to her that he had brought along. “Our labs are full, and we’ve conducted our studies on the human brains. There are a lot of renowned doctors that have come to the capital, do you want to meet them?”

Jiji was sitting next to Gu Xiqiao, playing games on a computer. Hearing his words, it couldn’t help but raise its head and said, “You want Beauty Qiao to go over there and smash their buttons?”

Zhu Yuan: “…” He… had no comeback for that one.

“I’ll go.” Gu Xiqiao’s eyes narrowed. “Senior Zhu, I hope you remember the purpose and objectives that the lab was made for in the first place.”

Zhu Yuan’s lips twitched at her words, and he wanted to laugh at that. However, he couldn’t, because he held earnest respect towards this girl in front of him.

This was the person who had published her research results to all the doctors without omitting any part of it, and even took the time to explain any doubts or questions that had risen from everyone. If Zhu Yuan hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he would probably still be in denial of it all. There really was such a person in this world, that did things without expecting anything in return.

Zhu Yuan took the file and moved slowly to the other side of the room, beginning to plan the development of the laboratory in his mind. The things that he had once been impatient about were now turning out to be quite handy. As expected, he was becoming used to being ordered around by Gu Xiqiao. He gave a sigh at the thought.

Yu Ning took the chance while Luo Wenlang was talking to Gu Xiqiao to squeeze himself into the discussion. “Boss Gu, we should sit down and have an in-depth discussion about the development of the virtual world.”

“In a few days.” Gu Xiqiao spared Yu Ning a glance, then turned back to Luo Wenlang. Luo Wenlang had brought a bunch of documents with him, and she was flipping through them one by one at a fast speed.

There were also matters about Yao Jiamu’s training grounds, and Gu Xiqiao thought that an on-site survey would be better.

And so after that, the others got down and started up their card game again. Jiang Shuxuan had been dragged into it by Baili Bin, and the former ended up with his face full of sticky notes on it as punishment.

Gu Xiqiao took less than an hour to deal with the mess regarding the labs and Nine Heavens, then she reached out to take the cards from Jiang Shuxuan’s hands.

Half an hour later, Yao Jiamu, Wu Hongwen, and Yin Shaoyuan were the ones sporting sticky notes all over their faces.

“…” How did you do that?! The three of them had clearly banded together, swapping cards where needed, but she still managed to win them despite all the effort they put in?

Gu Xiqiao merely spared them a glance. Hmph, who asked you to bully others!

Jiang Shuxuan smiled at them without a word.

Shu Chen had finished posting Moments from her WeChat, and when she raised her head, she saw Gu Xiqiao flipping through some files. It looked like she was dealing with some important matters. She had a lazy expression on her face, and looked like she wasn’t really paying attention, but the man sitting beside her was holding a pen and taking down the things that she was saying with rapt attention.

“What is Qiao Qiao doing? Who is that man? And why do I feel that Zhu Yuan respects her more than Divine Doctor Rong?” Shu Chen was stunned to see such.

Butler Jiang stood beside her, his eyes on Gu Xiqiao. After a long while, he finally let out a long sigh. “Madam, Miss Gu really isn’t some random person.”

After saying that, he handed his phone to Shu Chen, and her eyes widened more if that was possible at what she saw.

The butler had watched as Shu Chen browsed through Gu Xiqiao’s Weibo, and so he did his own research in the meantime, and the results were shocking.

This year’s national ranker, genius painter, the founder of the medical laboratory that every top international doctor yearned to enter, Nine Heavens, the most promising newcomer in performing arts that could even compare to Li Yu, adding on her ancient martial arts level… taking any one of the mentioned talents was enough to make an ordinary person proud.

Unexpectedly, all these talents and titles were on one single person, and Shu Chen couldn’t help but stare at Gu Xiqiao’s face once again. The child’s expression was still indifferent, but her face was beautiful, delicate, and lazy. The only thing you couldn’t see on her face was arrogance.

It was no wonder all these people had so much faith and respect for her.

Shu Chen left out a breath, she was still a little dazed from all the information.

Butler Jiang took a call, and then he said to her in a low voice, “Madam, I just heard that Jiang Tong has stopped by the Elders’ Association.”

When the elders were mentioned, Shu Chen first thought of the group of them who had been pissed off by Gu Xiqiao, and had been chanting scriptures for days after, and her heart was extremely calm. She could already guess what Jiang Tong had in mind when she went to the Elders’ Association. “I’m sure she’s informing them about Shuxuan’s relationship with a regular person, right? No matter, let her talk.”

If Gu XIqiao really was a regular person, she might have been moved to head back to deal with the elders, but now… If the elders saw that the person beside Jiang Shuxuan was Gu Xiqiao, their hearts would probably shrivel up and die! Oh, what fun it was to think about that happening.

She couldn’t wait for her daughter-in-law to head into the ancient martial arts world and start poking at everyone there!

“As expected, Jiang Tong is just full of drama.” Shu Chen said lightly, a cold glint flickering in her deep eyes.

She raised her head again, meeting Gu Xiqiao’s gaze coincidentally, and the coldness in her eyes melted away into warmth.

“Let’s go back a while tomorrow, to collect some things from the treasure house.” No wonder Baili Bin and the others sent whatever things that they found to be good here, having seen the way her eyes had lit up at the sight of the gifts. If it were her, she too would treat her like a treasured baby!

The group of people only left when it was almost midnight.

After Gu Xiqiao had taken a shower, she sat in front of her computer, typing away with both hands.

Jiji, who was sitting next to her, opened its mouth suddenly. “Beauty Qiao, there’s someone searching for your information again. I’ve blocked it already, and I can promise you they found nothing.”

“Who is it?” Gu Xiqiao raised an eyebrow.

“Let me see…” Jiji raised its hand, a transparent panel appearing in front of it. “It’s the secretary of the Chu Enterprise Group.”

Sliding its hand over the panel, the information on Secretary Chu Ziheng appeared.

“It’s this person.” Just as it appeared, Gu Xiqiao had just finished the string of codes that she was typing, and a picture of a person appeared on her screen. Jiji glanced over, and nodded. “Yeap, that’s him!”

“That’s weird.” Gu Xiqiao turned the picture of Chu Ziheng over, the picture showing a poetic and passionate side of the person. She squinted at the picture as she tapped a finger to her lips. “I feel that the person I saw tonight differs from this picture slightly.”

“Isn’t it the same person?” Jiji put a more recent picture of Chu Ziheng on display. “Then what about this one?”

“I don’t know…” Gu Xiqiao wanted to say something more, but then someone knocked on her door three times.

She tapped a random key on the keyboard, and the information on screen vanished instantly. She got up to open the door, finding Shu Chen’s gentle and warm face greeting her. “Qiao Qiao, I want to sleep with you tonight!”

Jiang Shuxuan, who was holding a book and just came out from the study: “…”