Quick Transmigration: The Sweetheart Everyone Loves Is Stuck in Romantic Chaos Every Day - Chapter 177

The moment she heard there were pastries, Ruan Tang’s eyes lit up with anticipation.

“Yes, yes! Tomorrow I’ll have Atong go pick them up!”

“No need to wait until tomorrow.”

Ruan Tang tilted her head.

“Today? But it’s pouring so hard right now…”

“I’m downstairs at your place.”

Ruan Tang jumped in surprise and instinctively glanced toward the window.

A typhoon was approaching, and it was coming down in sheets.

The pounding of the torrential rain against the glass alone was enough to tell how fierce the storm was.

She hurried to the window, yanked back the curtains, and stood on tiptoe to look down.

Sure enough, there was a tall, straight figure standing in the shadows below.

Though he held an umbrella, in this kind of storm it barely made any difference.

Who knew how long he had already been waiting downstairs…

What if she hadn’t checked her phone? Would he have kept waiting anyway?

At that moment, Gu Leng seemed to sense her gaze. He tilted his umbrella upward and looked up toward her window.

Through the curtain of rain, his handsome, cold-featured face carried an expression of staggering gentleness.

His call came through.

“Tangtang, it’s been so long. I’ve missed you so much.”

The phone carried the sound of rain in the background, yet his voice cut through it—low, magnetic, steady, sinking straight into her ears.

It made her face flush, her heart beating unevenly under his gaze.

She whispered, “Wait for me, I’ll come down right now!”

But Gu Leng quickly stopped her.

“No. The rain’s too heavy. Don’t come out. Just have your brother bring it down.”

Ruan Tang’s eyes grew misty with worry.

“Idiot! Why didn’t you just knock on the door…”

A flush of color crept over his pale features.

“I missed you too much. I just wanted to see you. But I was afraid of disturbing you… so I kept waiting here.”

His eyes flickered, embarrassed, yet unwilling to look away from her.

“Now that I’ve seen you, I’ll finally be able to sleep tonight.”

He had just returned from training camp, hadn’t even dropped his luggage at home yet, and rushed straight here—just to see her for one fleeting moment.

Ruan Tang froze for a second.

Then, with surprising firmness in her soft, sticky-sweet voice, she said:

“Wait—I’m coming down now!”

Gu Leng was startled. “Don’t, the rain’s too heavy, you’ll catch cold—”

But before he could finish, she had already hung up and was racing down the stairs.

…

In the living room, Wei Quan was halfheartedly playing a game with Ruan Tong, his attention fixed on Ruan Tang’s room.

When he suddenly saw her fling open the door and dash downstairs in her nightdress, his expression darkened.

He had never seen her so anxious before.

His phone dropped from his hand as he immediately followed after her.

Ruan Tong was focused on the game when a sudden gust of wind brushed past, carrying with it the faintest trace of perfume.

Then Wei Quan was gone too.

He blinked at the empty room.

“What the hell? What happened? Wei Quan, are you seriously ditching the match? Don’t AFK on me, damn it!!!”

Meanwhile, Ruan Tang couldn’t even be bothered to find an umbrella. She threw the door open and ran straight into the rain.

Gu Leng stood in the shadows, wearing a loose denim jacket, umbrella in hand. His tall frame was like a silent tree rooted in the night.

The moment he saw her rushing toward him, his expression shifted with urgency. He stepped forward quickly.

“Why didn’t you bring an umbrella? What if you catch a cold!”

“Gu Leng!”

She flung herself into his arms.

Gu Leng froze, overwhelmed, then gingerly wrapped his arms around her.

His heartbeat went wild.

Her sweet scent filled his nose, and her soft body pressed against him left him stiff and uncertain where to place his hands.

Finally, his face flushing, he rested them carefully at her waist.

“Tangtang…”

“Where have you been these past few days?”

She burrowed against him, rubbing her cheek against his chest, stoking the restless fire in him until it nearly burned out of control.

His voice went hoarse, his embrace tightening.

“I’m sorry. I was suddenly sent to a closed training camp. They confiscated our phones. I couldn’t contact you.”

He paused, searching her face with complicated, hopeful eyes.

“Did you miss me?”

Ruan Tang froze, guilty.

Not only had she not missed him—she had nearly forgotten he even existed.

But to maintain her role as a master flirt, she turned on the charm. Her peach blossom eyes shimmered as she looked up at him and smiled sweetly.

“Of course I did!”

Gu Leng’s heart surged with joy.

So this was what people meant when they said absence made the heart grow fonder.

Looking into those sparkling eyes, he felt an impulse to lower his head and kiss her.

But before he could, a hand yanked Ruan Tang out of his arms.

Wei Quan’s face was pale and cold, like a vampire in the night.

He drew her into his embrace instead, holding an umbrella over her to shield her completely from the rain.

His gaze, sharp and hostile, was aimed squarely at Gu Leng.

But his words were directed at Ruan Tang.

“Sister, you can’t be so close with other people. It gives the wrong kind of men the wrong kind of ideas.”

Gu Leng’s aura dropped to freezing.

His gaze clashed with Wei Quan’s, ice against fire.

“Tangtang wants to be close to me. What does that have to do with you?”

“My sister is just innocent. Don’t twist it into something it’s not. Don’t flatter yourself.”

“And who the hell are you? Just my little brother’s classmate. What gives you the right to meddle here?”

“Tch.” Wei Quan’s face twisted at the jab.

“And what are you? Just some blind date she happened to run into.”

“At least she likes me!”

“Nonsense. She likes me!”

Both turned in unison to look at the girl caught between them.

“Sister, do you like me more, or him?”

Ruan · Heartbreaker · Tang smiled radiantly.

“I like both of you!”

The two of them: “…”

Their hearts shattered into pieces.

They both knew Ruan Tang’s feelings were simple, the “like” she spoke of no more than the fondness between friends.

But that didn’t dull the sting.

They wanted more. They wanted to own her, to have her affection all to themselves.

Gu Leng quickly masked his disappointment and tilted his umbrella closer to shield her.

“The rain’s too heavy. Don’t get sick. Let’s go inside first.”

But Wei Quan shoved his own umbrella forward, knocking Gu Leng’s aside.

“I’ll take my sister in. You can leave now, old man.”

A vein throbbed on Gu Leng’s temple.

Old man? He had only just graduated college!

If Tangtang weren’t here, he would have beaten this brat bloody already.

Just a few years younger and he thought he could act like a child forever?

Ruan Tang’s gaze flickered as she suddenly thought of something. Her peach blossom eyes shimmered as she looked at Gu Leng.

“It’s raining so hard, and you’ve still got your suitcase… why don’t you stay at my place tonight?”

Wei Quan’s face changed. “Sister, how could you—!”

But Gu Leng cut him off, smiling at her.

“Alright. I was just worrying about where I’d spend the night.”

In truth, he had been driven here by his family’s driver, who was still dutifully waiting at the nearby intersection to take him home.

But most likely, he’d be waiting in vain tonight.