624 The Secret About the Past 242 (2/2)

Then why on earth did she sneak in?!

He naturally would not have known that Xiao Chi had only said that casually as an excuse.

”Honey?”

”Umm.” Tuoba Gucheng recovered from his trance and reached out to hug her. ”Go to sleep earlier.”

Lin Shishi lay in his arms and closed her eyes.

Tuoba Gucheng, on the other hand, simply could not fall asleep.

His whole head was full of problems he was bugged with.

These problems needed answers desperately.

He had gone to find her address stated on the photocopied document of her background information. When he realized that it was fake, he was beyond disappointed.

Never would he have expected that things would change by night. It was really true that every cloud has a silver lining.

Nobody would have known that, at that moment when he heard her voice, his heart was bursting with happiness.

It was a most magnificent scene of flowers blossoming inside his heart, and he even felt the atmosphere turning warmer than ever.

Even though Tuoba Gucheng never revealed the reason why he was so bothered about her, the answer in his heart was a constant reminder to him.

Before he had gotten married, he had already fallen for her.

No, more specifically, even before he had a child or gotten married, he had fallen deeply for her in a short period of time.

Since he was young, he did not dare to fall for someone easily. It was only when it really happened did he finally understand that some things were beyond one's control.

Moreover, it was something like love.

Something that was, by itself, uncontrollable.

He could not remember when he had started caring for her, or how many times he had waited for her to go out when she was late.

Come to think of it, he was being selfish.

He had only wanted to use her identity as a bodyguard to keep her by his side. He was even fine with the way they got along with each other now and did not think of anything else, not even the original face she had.

With his wife completely asleep beside him, Tuoba Gucheng gazed at her face, his eyes filled with guilt toward her.

Their marriage was only due to political reasons. He did not love her, and he could only play his role well as her husband and their child's father. As for other things, it was not within his ability to do it.

With the room dimly lit, the night was as quiet as ever.

Tuoba Gucheng reached out and took Lin Shishi's phone from the table.

He accessed her call records and noted down An Xiaoning's phone number.

After looking at her phone number, Tuoba Gucheng saved it into his own phone.

All the electronic devices in the Autumn Palace were tapped.

Not even his siblings' and his were spared.

He had two phones. One that everyone knew about, and a secret one that no one knew of.

He used the former phone to contact his parents, siblings, and the people in the Autumn Palace.

As for the secret phone, it was equipped with an advanced anti-surveillance system and was purely for private use.

Even for his wife, Lin Shishi, he only provided the phone number that everyone knew of.

Compared to his discreet ways, Tuoba Danxue used only one phone in the Autumn Palace.

Her relationship with Jiang Feng, which ended before anything could happen, was to her, not a big deal.

Tuoba Hancheng, meanwhile, had a secret phone just like Tuoba Gucheng did.

His reason for not revealing the private phone number to his family was because he was afraid it would get tapped as well if his mother found out. Moreover, at the present moment, his secret phone was unlocked by his fingerprint. The system also prevented one from resetting this fingerprint function, so only his most trusted underlings had this number. As for women, An Xiaoning was the first one.

He used this private phone number to send An Xiaoning a text message. There was only one line in the text: ”This is my personal phone number, take note of it. —Tuoba Gucheng”