The Scheming Ex-Husband's Courtship
Chapter 149: 521 I Love You Guys

Chapter 149: Chapter 149: 521 I Love You Guys

Gu Qili made a phone call to Reynolds, which to her surprise, he answered quickly. Sensing the purpose of her call, Reynolds responded with great enthusiasm, "I’ll send a car to pick you up right away."

It turned out to be Reynolds himself who drove to the hotel. As he lowered the car window, his striking face appeared and immediately drew several gazes of attention.

Although they had just met, Reynolds’s personality was indeed likable, and a person of his caliber couldn’t possibly be a dangerous character, so there was naturally no need to worry about personal safety.

Gu Qili felt really embarrassed about imposing on him, but for the sake of her father’s vineyard, she still braced herself and got in the car.

They had only met twice, yet he was willing to take her to visit such a prestigious vineyard, which made Gu Qili harbor doubts.

"Afraid I might be a bad guy?" He seemed to read her mind, raising his eyebrows with a hint of amusement.

Gu Qili immediately waved her hands: "That’s not what I meant." She really hadn’t thought that way; he didn’t look like a bad person at all.

"So you think I’m excessively enthusiastic?"

She smiled, neither confirming nor denying.

Reynolds drove skillfully, eyes on the road, and said, "You look a bit like my grandmother. She met your grandmother in that vineyard. To be honest, you all look alike, don’t you?"

Having finished, he laughed at his own words.

Gu Qili also laughed; indeed,

"I just feel that meeting you is a kind of fate. I’m not a bad person, nor do I have any ulterior motives—I simply want to make a friend, that’s all."

At this moment, the car entered a field, and Reynolds rolled down the convertible’s top, letting the breeze from the fields waft inside along with the scent of earth and vegetation.

Gu Qili fluttered her nose a few times and asked curiously, "What’s this smell?"

Reynolds glanced at her, his eyes curving into an arc of puzzlement: "Can’t you tell?"

Gu Qili shook her head.

By now, the car had driven into a vast sea of grapevines. The lush green color was overwhelming, almost stretching to the horizon.

It wasn’t grape harvest season yet, and the vines hadn’t even borne their green fruits, but the botanical fragrance that Gu Qili smelled came from these very grapevines.

She had seen many grapevines in her father’s vineyard, but the scale was worlds apart from this one; this was truly a sea belonging to grapes.

Whenever Reynolds smelled this scent, it was like an adrenaline shot for him, and he spoke with great excitement, "This is the scent of grapevines. I’ve been smelling it since I was a child. No matter the grape variety, I can tell its name and age just by smelling it."

Gu Qili said in amazement, "You can even tell the age of the trees?"

In response to her admiring gaze, Reynolds slowed down the car and eventually stopped at a corner of the vineyard and opened the car door.

Gu Qili got out of the car and saw several workers in work clothes, holding tools and laboring in the vineyard beneath the intense sun, with sweat drenching their backs.

Reynolds looked at those people and said, "I started doing this job when I was twelve years old, and did it for ten years."

Ever since entering this place, Gu Qili had been continuously amazed. Such a dashing and handsome man, who seemed out of this world, had actually done hard labor for ten years; she couldn’t reconcile the two images.

"Don’t believe it? Want me to swing the hoe a couple of times for you to see?" Reynolds made a hoe-swinging gesture, exaggeratedly wiping sweat from his brow: "Sort of like this."

Gu Qili laughed, remarking, "Why did you choose to do such rough work?"

"To manage a vineyard well, you have to start with the most basic tasks. Whether it’s vine care, grape picking and selection, or the final winemaking, all these I need to experience personally. It’s like doing business, you have to understand your product completely to be able to sell it, isn’t that the right idea?" He squinted his eyes, playfully teasing, "Ms. Preacher."

He still remembered the incident where she lectured him. Gu Qili felt as if there was nowhere to hide her embarrassment, as she had been impulsive then without realising she was trying to teach an expert.

"Haha, I like your straightforward nature. You say what you think." Reynolds didn’t seem to mind as he watched the vast sea of grapes in front of him, his eyes filled with longing, "What you’re seeing is just the tip of the iceberg. This estate is bigger than you can imagine."

He looked down at Gu Qili who had been pensive since earlier, "I hope your vineyard will also see such a day."

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