Song Ning checked her watch. It was already past eight.
Who would come over this late?
Anyone coming at this hour had to have something important to discuss.
Rather than asking someone else to answer the gate, she left the living room first.
The courtyard gate opened again, revealing another travel-weary figure outside.
Before Song Ning could speak, he stepped forward and pulled her tightly into his arms.
Song Ning struggled, but couldn't break free.
Gu Zheng's voice sounded beside her ear. "Don't move! Let me hold you for a while! Just a little while! I've missed you so much!"
Song Ning blushed and hurriedly tried to stop him. "Don't! There are other people in the courtyard!"
"I don't care! I'm not letting go even if there are! Besides, I'm not planning to leave tonight! I'm staying in my own special room!" Gu Zheng's voice was tender, with a shameless edge.
Was she imagining things?
Song Ning felt that the courtyard, so lively a moment ago, seemed to have fallen silent.
She shoved Gu Zheng away without another thought and looked back.
A whole cluster of heads immediately ducked out of sight at the kitchen door, the living room door, and the bedroom doors.
Gu Zheng realized something was wrong too.
He had rushed straight to Song Ning's courtyard as soon as he returned.
All he had wanted was to take her into his arms at the first possible moment.
To hold her tight!
To ease the ache of missing her!
He knew that besides Song Wang, the Meilan Sisters and Zheng Chang'an were staying in the courtyard.
But everyone had been busy with their own affairs lately, and it was so late that they should all have gone to bed.
Yet now, something seemed wrong!
Very wrong!
What was