No Bounds for the CEO’s Spoiling

The door of the study was left half-open, with dim light coming out from the inside. As Qin Muxuan then pushed the door open confusedly, she saw Gu Zijin lying on the sofa. He seemed to have fallen asleep, with his face still looking extremely handsome.

Qin Muxuan then went back to her room. When she returned to the study, she walked toward Gu Zijin with a quilt in her arms and then covered him with the quilt gingerly. Gu Zijin opened his eyes right away with a scary look in his eyes. Qin Muxuan shrank her hand and said,

“I only wanted to cover you with the quilt.”

As the alert look in his eyes gradually faded away, he sat up with his palm against his forehead, saying,

“Did I fall asleep?”

“Yeah, you seemed to have slept for quite a while.”

Gu Zijin took a look at the time and stood up,

“Why did you wake up? It’s two in the morning.”

“Well, I want to have a cup of water downstairs.”

“I’ll accompany you.”

Gu Zijin put the quilt back to the bedroom and then came out again. Qin Muxuan, mouth twitched, thought to herself, ‘It’s not like I’m a little kid. When do I ever need someone’s company to pour a cup of water?’

However, since Gu Zijin was always the unreasonable one who did whatever he wanted, Qin Muxuan found it meaningless to argue with him. So she agreed to let Gu Zijin accompany her.

“How’s everything going with your drawing?”

“Great. The customer already accepted my design. After I meet the customer in person and hand in my resume tomorrow, I’ll be able to start receiving orders.”

“Good luck.”

Gu Zijin shook the glass filled with water as if he was tasting a glass of fine wine. Hearing him wishing her good luck, Qin Muxuan couldn’t help lifting the corner of her mouth,

“Thank you.”

The next day, Gu Zijin sent Qin Muxuan by himself. Qin Muxuan held her resume in her arms tightly on the way and inhaled slightly when the car stopped in front of the company. She was still a bit nervous.

She had been hired by Qixing Group because of Gu Zijin before, while now she could only rely on herself. She couldn’t help feeling ill at ease because she wasn’t sure if the employer of this company would still be eager to employ her after realizing that she hadn’t even finished her college study.

“You are nervous?”

After Gu Zijin noticed that she kept inhaling and exhaling, he reached out his hand and turned her head toward him. Then before Qin Muxuan realized what had happened with dazed eyes, he already kissed on her lips.

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Qin Muxuan totally blushed. He just made her more nervous! Gu Zijin, however, didn’t feel he had done anything wrong and only compressed his lips tenderly and said,

“All right, see you.”

“…”

Qin Muxuan got off the car and walked into the company. The person who interviewed her was a good-looking man. However, at the first glance of him, Qin Muxuan knew this man was not easy to deal with. Qin Muxuan couldn’t help but bite her lips when seeing this man’s sharp and cold eyes. Although he wasn’t as domineering as Gu Zijin, she still got flustered.

“Miss Qin, is that right?”

Hearing that polite voice, Qin Muxuan sat down and returned a polite smile,

“Yes, here is my resume. I believe you have already known certain things about me through the drawings I have sent here…”

The man, fingers crossed in an arc, interrupted her,

“I have confidence in the person introduced by Professor He. I just have one question. Miss Qin, you are a very outstanding person, but why didn’t you have a college diploma?”

“Something happened in my family at that time, so I had to drop out of school. But I have been learning by myself ever since I stopped going to college. I’ve also been taught by Professor He for a period of time.”

“So that is what it is.”

The man smiled and said,

“Our firm doesn’t value one’s education background that much. We value the staff’s ability more. Miss Qin, welcome to this firm. My name is Qin Ran.”

Qin Ran reached out his hand to her friendly. After they shook hands with each other, Qin Muxuan said thanks to him and couldn’t help but smile.

After she got out of the company, Qin Muxuan let out a sigh of relief. Gu Zijin had been waiting for her by the road the whole time. In the sunlight, his profile looked so dreamy as if he was a prince in the fairyland. ‘I need to be more outstanding to be able to deserve him…’

Thinking of that, Qin Muxuan walked toward him at a fast pace.

After she got into the car, Gu Zijin glanced at her and said,

“There is a dinner party in the Gu Group tonight. I might be home late.”

“All right.”

After that, it occurred to Gu Zijin that Qin Xiaobai mentioned the approach of Qin Muxuan’s birthday. Then he tapped on the steering wheel lightly and said,

“What do you like?”

Qin Muxuan got confused about his question. After a long time, she said in a trance,

“I like to work.”

Gu Zijin could only ask with his mouth twitched,

“Other than that?”

“Xiaobai.”

Hearing that, Gu Zijin compressed his lips and thought, ‘You love your job and Xiaobai, so where is my place in your heart?’ Anyway, he had meant to ask what kind of object she liked but Qin Muxuan wasn’t on the same page with him all along.

As Gu Zijin started the engine, he exhaled heavily and said,

“I mean, what kind of things do you like?”

“I can’t say, well… Perhaps the books about design.”

Qin Muxuan gave an answer reluctantly. She couldn’t figure out why Gu Zijin suddenly asked her that. Five years ago, she liked flowers, handbags or perfume. However, after five years of living in a slum, she had no interest in those things already. Thus she didn’t know what other things she liked.

The sky gradually turned dark.

Qin Muxuan offered to help Nanny Chen cook dinner. Nanny Chen who had worked for the Gu Family for years was already very skillful at cooking. On the contrary, though Qin Muxuan had tried to learn cooking for Xiaobai over the past five years, she still couldn’t make delicious dishes because no one had ever taught her how to cook. After all, when she suddenly became a mother, she was still a lady who had never done any household chores.

Nevertheless, Xiaobai was quite sensible and always flattered Qin Muxuan’s cooking skill. Now that she was free, she decided to seize this chance to learn to cook.

Nanny Chen smiled and said,

“Miss Qin, you have to add cooking wine and salt on the fish to remove the fishy flavor before you put it into the pot.”

Qin Muxuan pulled out the fish from the pot right away, making the oil splashing everywhere. Then she apologized,

“Sorry.”

“It doesn’t matter. If you want to cook the fish, I can teach you step by step.”

“Thanks, Nanny Chen.”

Qin Muxuan looked at Nanny Chen gratefully, which made the latter a bit bashful and also have a better feeling toward Qin Muxuan. Yan Yuxiao had also visited the Gu’s house very often before, but that girl had never stepped into the kitchen. Every time Yan Yuxiao was there, she only stayed with Elderly Lady Gu and played up to the latter the whole time. Moreover, Yan Yuxiao would show a look of disgust right away when seeing a single stain on her clothes.

Therefore, after comparing the two girls, Nanny Chen gradually sensed the difference between them.

It took Qin Muxuan a whole afternoon to learn how to cook a fish. Although her dish didn’t look so nice, the smell and the taste were quite remarkable.

When Qin Xiaobai got back, he saw Qin Muxuan in the kitchen right away. Then he ran toward her, his eyes sparkling,

“Dabai, I’m hungry. I want to eat now.”

“Go wash your hands first. Then you can eat.”

“Fine.”

Qin Xiaobai took off his backpack and ran upstairs to wash his hands immediately.