Chapter 20: Chapter 20: You Have A Wife
Editor: virtual group
Guo Xiang watched the man walk away. She pulled on the strap of her backpack and walked to the ticket office with the snakeskin bag.
She was going to buy a ticket to transfer to Taiqing City, the largest oil field base in the country.
She finally got the ticket after waiting in line for a long time. It was a night bus. She had to wait for a day. It would be a waste of time to spend the whole day here waiting for the bus. She might as well walk around Shen City.
In her previous life, she had never been to this city. Although the current Shen City was not as prosperous, it was still on a different level from the small counties in southern Hunan.
Guo Xiang inquired about the location of the storage lockers and spent fifty cents to deposit the snakeskin bag. Otherwise, it would be too tiring to carry such a heavy thing around.
When she reached the entrance of the station, she suddenly heard a noisy crowd in front of her. she didn't know what had happened.
Guo Xiang squeezed over curiously.
It was quite a surprise. The man who sat beside her was standing in the middle of the crowd, looking slightly embarrassed and uncomfortable.
A woman dressed seductively next to him pulled at the corner of his shirt while crying, "everyone, please help me. This man is a pervert. He touched me just now..." after saying that, she wanted to grab his hand.
"I didn't!" Gu Zhennan stepped back to avoid the woman's hand. He raised his hands to prevent the woman from touching him. His face was dark and embarrassed.
"If it wasn't you, who else could it be? You were behind me just now," the woman was aggressive.
"I really can't tell. This person is so handsome. Why would he do such a thing?"
"You really can't judge a book by its cover..."
"You can't judge a book by its cover..." the onlookers discussed animatedly.
"Aren't you going to admit it?" The woman wanted to pull Gu Zhennan's arm again, but he was angry.
"Don't touch me!"
"Now you're pretending to be upright? You were enjoying yourself so much just now!" The woman pulled Gu Zhennan. "Come, let's go to the police station. Don't even think about running away!"
Guo Xiang frowned slightly. Although they hadn't been together for long, she knew he wasn't that kind of person. He even used a book to create a barrier between them when she fell asleep beside him. How could a man like him be a pervert? She did not believe it at all.
She looked at the woman again. Her eyes were rolling, and she did not seem like a decent person. She even inadvertently gave a small man behind the man a look.
The small man understood and quietly approached Gu Zhennan.
Since Gu Zhennan did not want to make contact with the woman, he raised his hands high and placed the luggage on the ground. The small man bent down and was about to take the luggage away.
Guo Xiang immediately realized that these two people were together. They have set a trap in order to steal Gu Zhennan's luggage.
She took a step forward and pretended to rush over casually. She knocked the short man down and stood between him and the man. The short man glared at her, but he did not dare to go over to take the luggage anymore.
"Darling, there you are," Guo Xiang jumped over and pretended to hold Gu Zhennan's hand intimately. She looked at him with a smile.
Gu Zhennan's heart jumped and he looked at her in a daze.
"Aren't you surprised? I came to pick you up. It took me so long to find you," Guo Xiang giggled and hugged Gu Zhennan's arm tightly. "What are you doing here?"
She looked at the enchanting woman and frowned. "Who are you? Why are you pulling my husband's clothes?"
"Husband?" The woman was stunned.
"Yes, he's my man! He is my husband and I'm his wife," Guo Xiang smiled and leaned her head on Gu Zhennan's arm, she frowned and looked at the woman again. "Why are you still pulling my husband's clothes? If you don't let go, I'll get angry!"
As she said that, she slapped the woman's hand away and saved Gu Zhennan.
"Miss, you should be more careful. Your man touched this lady over here. Did you not know about it?" Someone said from the side.
"Yeah, she's been crying here for a long time. Alas, it's really terrible!"
"It's better for you to leave him," someone shook his head.
"What? My husband being a pervert? Is this a joke?" Guo Xiang deliberately sized up the woman. "Is she prettier than me, or is she fairer than me? Younger than me? I don't think so. Her figure isn't as good as mine. My husband isn't blind."
"Uh..." everyone was speechless. Yes, his wife was much more beautiful than that woman. Why would he touch her?
"You..." the woman was embarrassed and annoyed. "Who knows what he's into? Maybe that's what he likes. The flowers at home don't have the fragrance of wildflowers."
"Oh, so you're a wildflower?" Guo Xiang sneered. "I'm sure he would rather find a better wildflower. Who do you think you are? Look, my husband didn't touch her at all. She's the one who was all over him. This woman is really shameless!" Guo Xiang scolded.
"Yeah, I haven't seen this man make a single move all this time. But this woman..."
"Yeah, she hasn't stopped."
"Could it be that we were wrong? We took the woman's words because she was crying."
"Then why did she do that? Doesn't she want her reputation anymore?"
"You're slandering me!" The woman was getting anxious. "He isn't doing anything right now, but he did grope me! You just didn't see it."
"You sure?" Guo Xiang sneered.
"I'm certain!" The woman insisted.
"Really?"Guo Xiang's face darkened. She punched the woman straight in the eyes. "Now you're not."
"H-How dare you hit me?!" The woman's face turned pale immediately and she burst into tears, "Everyone, please! This man was groping me, and his wife hit me. There is no justice! Everyone, please help me. Help me hold them down and send them to the police station!"
"Everyone, don't be fooled!" Guo Xiang shouted and stood in front of Gu Zhennan. "This is a trap. I saw it just now. This woman was working with someone else to steal my husband's things. I saw her wink at that man."
"That man..." Guo Xiang glanced at the crowd and saw the little guy hiding behind. She pointed at him, "It's him. They are working together. I bumped into him when he was trying to steal my husband's luggage. Catch him, everyone. They are thieves!"
The little guy wanted to see if he had a chance to make a move, but he was immediately exposed. He was shocked and quickly retreated into the crowd.
The woman was also shocked. She did not expect to be exposed. She retreated step by step and ran away.
"Catch her! Don't let her escape!" Guo Xiang shouted.
Everyone was dumbfounded, "why did she run away?"
"Did we really misjudge him?"
"She's really a liar?"
"Thank God his wife trusted him. Otherwise we would've wronged an innocent person."
"She might even end up divorcing him."
"Sigh, a woman's tears are too deceitful..."
When everyone had dispersed, Gu Zhennan was still looking at Guo Xiang in a daze. He had never thought that there would be a woman standing in front of him to protect him one day.
And she called him husband just now?
He had gone to the south on a business trip and knew that people in the south called their lovers "darling". How... How did she have the guts to call him that?
His heart was beating like a drum. His ears were red and his tongue was stiff. He could not speak.
"What's wrong? Have you lost your mind?" Guo Xiang reached out and waved her hand in front of Gu Zhennan's eyes. Her smile was extremely bright. "Hurry up and take your luggage. Someone will snatch it away later!"
Gu Zhennan grabbed her hand, just to let go of her quickly as if he was scalded, "you... thank you!"
"It was nothing!" Guo Xiang smiled. "It just did it to get out of the situation. Don't mind me, I'm not trying to take advantage of you!"
"I..." Gu Zhennan was tongue-tied. He wanted to say that he didn't mind it at all, but he couldn't say it out loud.
He had a wife!
"You're such a big man, how can you stand there and let others bully you? You could have pushed that woman away easily. You could take on two people without a sweat," Guo Xiang looked at Gu Zhennan curiously.
"We... We have this rule where you cannot harm the general public. Plus, she was a woman. I don't hit women..." Gu Zhennan lowered his eyes.
"Then you'll rather be at a loss?" Guo Xiang smiled. This person was quite principled, but he didn't know how to be flexible and was a bit rigid.
Forget it, they met by chance. She shouldn't care this much.
"Okay, if there's nothing else, I'll leave first," Guo Xiang smiled, then turned around and left.
"You..." Gu Zhennan wanted to ask for her name, but he could not bring himself to. There was no point asking. He already had a wife.
Guo Xiang waved her hand without turning around, "See you never!"
Yes, they would definitely not see each other again in the future. It was useless to say more.
See you never? Gu Zhennan felt as if something was tugging at his heart. He felt stifled.
He stared blankly at his own hand, and it seemed to still have her scent on it.
He looked back again, and the woman's back view had already disappeared into the crowd.
He silently bent down to pick up his luggage and looked at his own elbow. Just now, her hand was still there.
He felt a sense of loss in his heart.
He closed his eyes and stood up straight.
Don't think about what you shouldn't, you have a wife!
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