Chapter 28: Gu Ye, I Don’t Dare to Sleep Alone

“Gu Ye, did you catch the cockroach?” Jiang Yue asked, peeking through the crack in the door.

“Didn’t see it!”

“Then what should we do!” The moment Jiang Yue thought about how she had just caught a cockroach with her bare hands, she felt even more uncomfortable all over.

“It probably hid somewhere. I’ll bring back some powder tomorrow.” Gu Ye said helplessly. Cockroaches were such resilient creatures—once they hid, it was truly hard to find them.

Jiang Yue saw Gu Ye coming out of her room and instinctively glanced toward the area below his waist. But the crucial part was conveniently blocked by the hem of his shirt, and she saw nothing.

Gu Ye had a sharp sense for people’s gaze, and his face immediately darkened. “Jiang Yue!”

“Yeah?” Jiang Yue looked up nonchalantly, asking with an innocent face: “Why are you calling me?”

Gu Ye: “…”

If Gu Ye didn’t have absolute faith in his own judgment, he might have believed that Jiang Yue really hadn’t done anything.

Jiang Yue saw that Gu Ye was heading back to his room with a dark expression and quickly grabbed his sleeve, looking at him pitifully. “Gu Ye, I don’t dare to go back to my room to sleep!”

Gu Ye’s handsome face froze, and he forced himself to stay patient. “Cockroaches don’t bite people.”

“But they’re so disgusting!”

“Then what do you want?”

“I’ll sleep with you!” Jiang Yue’s eyes darted around as she blurted it out.

“No!” Gu Ye refused flatly without a second of hesitation.

“Why not?” Jiang Yue pouted slightly. Her question was a bit of a test to see what Gu Ye really thought.

In the book, the post-marriage life between the Original Owner and Gu Ye was glossed over. But still, they had lived together for nearly a year. It was unbelievable that a legally married couple had never slept together—not even once!

What puzzled Jiang Yue even more was that even if on their wedding night the Original Owner refused to sleep with Gu Ye, Gu Ye was still a vigorous young man. Could he really have resisted all this time?

Could it be… that Gu Ye was incapable?

But judging by Gu Ye’s strong and muscular body, he didn’t look like someone who was incapable at all.

So there could only be one truth—the author of this book didn’t allow Gu Ye to do anything until he met the female lead!

Gu Ye ignored Jiang Yue and turned to leave. His decisive posture made it seem as if he was afraid that if he stayed even a second longer, Jiang Yue would cling to him.

Before Jiang Yue could even make sense of her thoughts, she suddenly caught sight of a few black shapes scurrying across the corner of the wall from the corner of her eye. Her scalp tingled instantly, and she screamed: “Gu Ye!”

Gu Ye turned back and saw Jiang Yue pointing at the corner of the wall, her little face pale. “Cockroaches!”

And there was more than one!

“Gu Ye, don’t step on them! Do you have insecticide? Spray them with insecticide! No insecticide? Then use hot water! Scald them with hot water! Whatever you do, don’t squash them! Their bellies are full of eggs!”

Jiang Yue broke out in goosebumps as she frantically warned Gu Ye not to step on the cockroaches. Otherwise, within a month, the place would be crawling with them.

Gu Ye had initially planned to stomp them, but after hearing Jiang Yue’s words, he picked up the kettle and poured hot water toward the corner instead.

“Are they dead?” Jiang Yue crouched on a stool, looking at him eagerly.

“They’re not moving! Should be dead!” Gu Ye brought over a broom and dustpan and swept the scattered cockroaches out from the corner.

When Gu Ye came back after dumping the dead cockroaches, he saw Jiang Yue squatting pitifully at the door of his room, looking up at him with pleading eyes.

“Gu Ye…”

Gu Ye paused. In the dim light, his tall figure cast a shadow over Jiang Yue, making her appear even smaller and more pitiful in comparison.

“Come in.” Gu Ye finally agreed, though his face still looked like he was reluctantly putting up with her.

Jiang Yue happily got to her feet and followed Gu Ye into his bedroom.

Although Jiang Yue hadn’t actually planned to do anything with Gu Ye, his physique and face were so completely her type. Otherwise, when he had saved her from the water that day, she wouldn’t have gotten so flustered and ended up kissing him.

Where in real life could she find such a top-tier handsome guy?

From head to toe, there wasn’t a single thing about Gu Ye she didn’t like. Even in the outdated clothes of this era, nothing could hide his striking features and aura—not to mention the perfect body and muscles beneath those clothes.

From the back, Gu Ye looked incredibly tall. Broad shoulders, a wide back, a trim waist, and long legs below—such a flawless physique. Even if he had a sharp tongue and cold eyes for her, Jiang Yue just couldn’t bring herself to dislike him.

Who told her to transmigrate into a book and end up as this brainless original wife? If the Original Owner had even been slightly more decent, Gu Ye wouldn’t have hated her so much.

“You’ll sleep on Ningning’s bed.”

Just as Jiang Yue was lost in her thoughts, Gu Ye pointed to the small bed by the wall and said.

The layout of Gu Ye’s room was the same as Jiang Yue’s, with two single beds and a curtain dividing the space.

Ningning’s bed was near the window, covered with a pink floral cotton sheet. Jiang Yue sat down on it and was just about to ask Gu Ye if he had a larger pillow when—swish—the curtain in front of her was suddenly pulled shut.

“Gu Ye!”

“Shut up!”

With a snap, the light went out. A rustling sound followed, and through the curtain, Jiang Yue could vaguely make out Gu Ye’s tall figure—he was changing clothes.

Jiang Yue couldn’t help but pout. Just how much of a virgin was Gu Ye, that he had to turn off the lights before changing? Was he really that afraid of her seeing him?

“Gu Ye!” Jiang Yue called again when she heard the creaking of the bed—it sounded like Gu Ye had lain down.

“Mm.” This time, Gu Ye didn’t tell her to shut up, but his tone still wasn’t very friendly.

But after waiting for a while, Jiang Yue didn’t say anything more.

Lying on Ningning’s bed, Jiang Yue could feel Gu Ye’s presence from just behind the curtain. It was intense and powerful, like a heat radiating toward her.

When she had first met him, that presence had felt overwhelmingly aggressive. But after spending a few days together, Jiang Yue found herself feeling safe when she was near Gu Ye.

Jiang Yue really liked the scent on Gu Ye’s body—a refreshing mix of cedar and bamboo—it was intoxicating, enough to make her heart flutter.

Ironically, Pei Xueyun, Jiang Yue’s so-called “best friend.” had never liked Gu Ye’s rugged, masculine type. Yet in this melodramatic, dog-blood novel she wrote where she cast herself as the Female Lead, she had described the Male Lead as someone who fit Jiang Yue’s preferences perfectly.

Jiang Yue remembered once telling Pei Xueyun all about her ideal partner—and Gu Ye ticked off every single box.

Just yesterday, when Jiang Yue came in to clean the room, she noticed how tidy Gu Ye was. There were no smelly socks or shoes lying around, everything was fresh and clean. The quilt was folded into perfect squares, the bedsheet didn’t have a single wrinkle, and not even a speck of dust could be found on the desk.

Thinking about Pei Xueyun made Jiang Yue frown. According to the plot, the Female Lead and Gu Ye had a flash marriage through a matchmaking setup just one month after the original wife jumped into the river and went missing.

Although the novel was marketed under the “spoiling the wife” tag, the main plot was really about the Female Lead building her empire—starting businesses, making money, and becoming a multi-billionaire.

Only, Jiang Yue wasn’t sure whether it was because Pei Xueyun, as a third-rate, flop writer, wasn’t good at writing romance, or if it was for some other reason—but after the flash marriage, the Male Lead basically turned into a background character. He only showed up when the Female Lead needed something, usually by phone, since the two of them were rarely together after marriage.

The Female Lead was all about her career, and even had a bit of a harem-building tendency, always surrounded by handsome men.

They didn’t even have children. According to the Female Lead, Ningning was her real daughter. She said she didn’t want her love for Ningning to be diluted by having a child of her own.

As the Male Lead’s political career soared and the Female Lead’s business empire expanded, the novel spared no words in praising her. And every time she was praised, the original wife was dragged out just to be stepped on again.

More than once, it brought up the same line: “I wonder if Jiang Yue, who had become nothing more than a fool’s breeding machine, ever regretted betraying Gu Ye…”

After recalling all this, Jiang Yue’s gaze darkened. She strongly suspected that Pei Xueyun had created the perfect Male Lead—someone who matched Jiang Yue’s preferences exactly—on purpose, just to disgust her. It was all so Pei Xueyun could live out her dream of being the adored Female Lead in her own ridiculous dog-blood fantasy.