Chapter 139: Is This Even Watchable?

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The moment the female lead left, the atmosphere instantly turned awkward.

Xie Jinchuan looked at the delighted Guanyin and felt deeply uncomfortable.

This girl—how could she be clinging to someone else’s arms?

“Guanyin, come here.”

Guanyin?

For some reason, the moment Gu Qingming heard that name, he immediately thought of the Guanyin wood from yesterday’s auction.

Almost subconsciously, he glanced at the little girl in his arms. Seeing the pale-green princess dress she wore, his eyes flickered.

He really must have been insane to think that this little girl was the Guanyin wood.

“Daddy, this big brother is different.”

Daddy was a good person. If she put it this way, he should understand, right?

When Xie Jinchuan heard this, the way he looked at Gu Qingming immediately changed.

He stood up and sat down beside Gu Qingming.

“What is Mr. Xie planning to do?”

Seeing Xie Jinchuan suddenly move closer and size him up from head to toe, Gu Qingming widened his eyes warily.

“Give me your hand.”

The man looked so serious that anyone who did not know better might have thought he was about to propose.

Gu Qingming shuddered and shifted two steps away, looking at Xie Jinchuan with growing suspicion.

“What are you doing?! This is the company. If you dare hit me, you’ll be in serious trouble!”

He sounded rather nervous.

A trace of impatience flashed through Xie Jinchuan’s eyes. He could not be bothered to waste any more words on him. The two of them had never gotten along anyway, so he simply reached out, seized Gu Qingming by the wrist, and yanked him toward himself.

Screech!

The sound of the sofa scraping across the floor was particularly grating, drawing everyone’s attention.

When they saw the scene before them, everyone froze for a moment, then grew inexplicably excited.

Xie Jinchuan wore a cold expression. The hand gripping Gu Qingming’s wrist was raised high, while his other hand rested against the small of Gu Qingming’s back. The pose was truly open to interpretation...

“Xie Jinchuan!”

Gu Qingming felt utterly humiliated by the position and immediately fought back, throwing a punch straight at the man.

Xie Jinchuan had been about to check whether there was a mark on Gu Qingming’s lower back. Caught off guard, he took the punch squarely, then quickly rose and stepped back.

“I only wanted to confirm something.”

He frowned as he looked at the furious Gu Qingming, clearly puzzled.

“What exactly did you want to confirm that required you to strip off my clothes?!”

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He spoke through clenched teeth. He had noticed the movement of the man’s fingers earlier, which was precisely why he was so angry.

“I merely wanted to see whether there was a mark on your lower back.”

Xie Jinchuan spoke in an utterly indifferent tone, evidently unaware of how abnormal his actions had appeared.

The two of them were like a comet colliding with Earth—once they started, there was no stopping them.

As a result, after only a few words, they had begun fighting.

Xie Jinchuan was anxious to confirm the matter, partly because he wanted Shen Qingli to recover as soon as possible. Naturally, his methods had therefore become rather forceful.

In the office, Shen Qingli was handling the latest contracts and a series of clauses when Dong Yang hurried in.

“President Shen, you’d better come and see this. Those two are fighting!”

Shen Qingli was stunned. “Fighting? Who’s fighting whom?”

“President Xie and Mr. Gu!”

Shen Qingli immediately stood up, helplessness filling her eyes. How had those two managed to start fighting?

“Quick, let’s go take a look!”

She hurried toward the reception room, only to find a group of young women gathered outside the door, their faces brimming with the excitement of avid slash-romance fans.

Hmm?

What had happened?

Shen Qingli asked, puzzled, “What’s going on?”

At once, the young women parted to make way for her.

“President Shen, well...”

Seeing their hesitant expressions, Shen Qingli raised an eyebrow and immediately pushed through the crowd to look inside.

The moment she saw what was happening, she stopped at the doorway.

Gu Qingming’s clothes were disheveled, and he was pinned beneath Xie Jinchuan, who wore a frown as he restrained him.

Was this really something she was allowed to see?!

Especially with Gu Qingming’s face flushed red with fury and his teeth clenched in anger, the sight was truly...

“Ahem, ahem, ahem.”

Only after confirming that Green Green Coriander had captured the entire scene on camera did Shen Qingli clear her throat several times.

“You two... what exactly are you doing?”

Her teasing gaze brought the two men back to their senses. After glancing at their own position, they immediately got up and separated.

“You two certainly didn’t hold back.”

Looking at the swelling and bruises on their faces, Shen Qingli clicked her tongue twice.

The two men glared at each other, then turned their heads away. They looked exactly like children who had just gotten into a fight.

“Now, tell me. What happened?”

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After sending everyone outside away, Shen Qingli sat between them and looked at the two men seated on either side of her.

“Sister, he tried to take off my clothes. You can’t keep associating with someone like him!”

Gu Qingming looked aggrieved and pitiful.

Xie Jinchuan drew a deep breath. “I only wanted to confirm whether there was a mark on his lower back.”

A mark?

Shen Qingli looked at him in confusion. The next moment, a man’s voice sounded in her mind.

“The mark of the Deer Spirit Clan. Guanyin is extremely dependent on him, so I suspect his identity may not be ordinary. No matter how many times members of the Deer Spirit Clan are reincarnated, as long as they are guided by spiritual energy, a green deer-head mark will appear on their lower backs.”

Upon hearing the reason, Shen Qingli understood.

Thinking carefully, it seemed that every time the power of the Deer Spirit had appeared within her body, she had encountered Gu Qingming.

“Qingming, I’d like to confirm it too. Would that be all right?”

When Gu Qingming heard Shen Qingli say this as well, he frowned.

“Why do you need to confirm it?”

She froze for a moment, her mind racing as she invented a story about searching for her younger brother. And the elder brother searching for him was none other than Xie Jinchuan.

“I am indeed an orphan, but there’s no mark on my lower back.”

Gu Qingming frowned as he spoke. Seeing that the two of them still insisted on verifying it, he turned around and lifted his shirt.

Xie Jinchuan glanced at Shen Qingli and nodded.

Shen Qingli moved her fingers, and a thin wisp of green spiritual energy drifted toward Gu Qingming’s lower back.

But after the two of them waited for a long while, no mark appeared. Xie Jinchuan found it rather strange.

“How can there be nothing?”

He spoke in a low voice.

Gu Qingming frowned. “Is that not enough?”

Shen Qingli gathered another stream of spiritual energy between her fingers. It was slightly larger than the previous one, and once again it shot toward the man’s lower back.

Yet still, nothing happened.

“Looks like we were searching in the wrong direction. Neither of you needs to dwell on what happened just now. It was merely a misunderstanding. We had some hope, after all...”

With a sigh, Shen Qingli patted Gu Qingming on the shoulder.

Neither of them noticed that, the instant the man lowered his shirt, a deer head faintly emerged on his lower back—then vanished in the blink of an eye.

“How could I possibly be this guy’s younger brother?!”

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