Xu Weilai stared at Gu Yu and a look of surprise flashed across her eyes.
As he seemed to be in poor health yesterday, Xu Weilai had expected him to rest at home today and yet he still turned up at the office.
Unlike yesterday, he no longer appeared sickly and his handsome face was expressionless like how he usually was. There was a dark, gloomy look in his eyes and his eyes seemed to linger on her for a fleeting moment when he glanced towards her.
It seemed like Gu Yu, too, never expected to bump into her in the elevator. Nonetheless, he seemed unbothered by their coincidental encounter and merely stood by the side after he pressed the button for the car park in the basement.
The elevator door gradually closed.
Leaning against the corner of the elevator, Xu Weilai began to inspect Gu Yu’s face from the corner of her eye. Based on his appearances, she really couldn’t tell if anything was wrong with his health. However, she had seen how ghastly pale he was yesterday and couldn’t help but wonder if had applied makeup to conceal his sickly appearance.
She subconsciously squinted her eyes to take a closer look at him but she couldn’t spot any noticeable trace of makeup on his face.
Just when she was still observing him, Gu Yu suddenly let out a light cough. Xu Weilai instantly snapped back to reality and was sharp enough to notice the slight frown on his face before he quickly restrained and controlled his expression.
She could tell that there was something wrong with his health for no matter how well he could cover up his pale complexion, it would be difficult to suppress a cough.
Xu Weilai bit her lip before she eventually asked, “Gu Yu…are you alright? Yesterday…”
However, before she could finish her sentence, Gu Yu cut her off icily, “I’m fine.”
It was obvious that he had no intention to continue with the subject.
Xu Weilai shut up tactfully when she noticed this for she knew that he would never answer her even if she asked and if he was able to return to work today, it would also prove that his condition was still temporarily under control.
She heaved out a sigh of relief.
The atmosphere fell silent as the elevator moved down the stories, for neither Xu Weilai nor Gu Yu had anything else to say. Xu Weilai quickly fished out her cellphone and tapped into a ride-hailing app to get herself a cab, but all of a sudden, the elevator shook.
Xu Weilai was stunned and felt sure that she must have imagined it, but in the next instant, the elevator shook violently again.
“What’s wrong?”
Xu Weilai couldn’t help but look towards Gu Yu, who was quicker to react to the situation. His brows knitted into a frown as he replied coldly, “The elevator seems to have malfunctioned.”
He instantly reached over and pressed the button for the elevator door to open, but the elevator door did not budge. He then pressed the button for every single floor swiftly before he punched the emergency call button.
The call went through and buzzed for a long time but perhaps because most employees have already knocked off from work, no one in the elevator control room picked up the call.
After the elevator shook twice, it stopped and the screen stopped indicating the change in stories. The elevator door was also stuck and both Gu Yu and Xu Weilai had no idea what would happen next.
Afraid that the elevator would suddenly plunge down, Gu Yu turned to look at Xu Weilai before he ordered, “Just stand there, hold on to the handrail tightly and bend your knees. Don’t move.”
Xu Weilai nodded before she, too, urged, “Got it. You should stand in the corner too.”
Gu Yu then took out his cellphone and called to explain the situation to Assistant Lin, who promised to rush back to the company right away.
Xu Weilai felt more at ease when she heard this, for they would be in a precarious situation if the elevator continued to malfunction and nobody was aware that they were trapped inside.
Soon, Xu Weilai noticed that Gu Yu was still not standing at the corner of the elevator and she couldn’t help but reach over and tugged him.
Gu Yu glanced at her from the corner of his eyes and, instead of showing her a cold face or shaking her hand off, allowed her to pull him over to the other corner of the elevator.