Lin Yishan hurriedly threw down the kitchen tool in her hand and ran out of her ho.
By the ti she reached the parking garage on the second basent level, all she saw was Su Yixia squatting on the ground, drenched as if she had been soaked in soup. Lin Yishan’s face changed drastically as she ran towards her.
"What, what on earth happened?" Lin Yishan asked in astonishnt.
Shivering with her shoulders hugged, though Su Yixia’s face was ashen, her expression was vicious. She gritted her teeth and said, "It must be him—"
"What must be him?" Lin Yishan was confused.
Su Yixia lifted her head and aid at her, "All this, it was his doing!"
Lin Yishan suddenly felt as if she woke up and turned her head, as if she could see a luxury car driving away from the underground parking lot of her ho.
Su Yixia stood up.
Lin Yishan grew anxious, reached out to pull her, and said, "There must be so misunderstanding here?"
To that, Su Yixia turned her head and sneered, "What? Do you think I would just give up on him? No!"
Lin Yishan’s pupils contracted.
"He will be mine, and no one—should think of taking him away—"
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Gu Nuan was chopping onions on the kitchen counter.
The sting of the onions made her eyes uncomfortable.
She didn’t expect that man to actually like eating such things as onions.
Because her vision was blurred, her knife accidentally slipped and nicked the tip of her finger, instantly leaving a trace of blood.
"So careless—"
An exasperated voice suddenly ca from behind her, and imdiately, that hand grabbed her injured finger.
Before Gu Nuan could react, he had taken her fingertip into his mouth.
At that mont, her fingertip felt sothing wriggling, licking, sending a current through her entire body.
She thus exclaid in a low voice, "What are you doing, let go—"
"I’m stopping the bleeding."
The little boy justified his actions as entirely honorable.
"A bandaid would do. Isn’t this disgusting?"
"But that’s how they do it on TV."
The person sucked on her finger while speaking with conviction.
Gu Nuan managed to pull free with effort and said, "Do you think you’re a vampire?! Then you don’t need dinner tonight!"
His wife’s threat hit the mark and he dared not make more trouble.
Instead, he stretched his neck to watch her cook.
The delicious aroma was tantalizing.
Xiao Yebai inhaled deeply, absorbing the fragrance of the food as well as her scent.
Gu Nuan could see the drooling, eagerly awaiting look of a hungry hound dog in his eyes, and she scolded him, "Go set the table, the food is almost ready."
"My wife has worked hard."
Gu Nuan watched him flash a bright, toothy smile her way and suddenly felt a tingle on her scalp.
Indeed.
He suddenly produced a camcorder in his hand and proudly showed it to her like a child claiming credit, "This is my gift to my wife, a reward for cooking for these past few days."
It definitely wasn’t a gift of a camcorder.
Gu Nuan said calmly, "Let’s watch it after dinner."
"Sure," he agreed readily. "I’ll connect it to the TV, and we can enjoy it after we eat."
Gu Nuan said nothing.
After finishing cooking, the two of them ate dinner.
Life seed to flow day by day like this. Gu Nuan suddenly realized that she was getting used to living with this man.
As Gu Nuan’s mother had said, wasn’t marriage all about slogging through the daily grind?
Gu Nuan slightly furrowed her brows.
She had not forgotten that her marriage to this man was just a contractual agreent.
After dinner, he didn’t rush to wash dishes; he was eager to pull her in front of the TV.
Before long, Su Yixia’s face appeared on the screen.
Xiao Yebai had been watching the woman sitting next to him the whole ti, noting her expressions. To his surprise, she was calr than he had imagined, almost expressionless.
"My wife is so smart. You must have already figured out what’s going on, haven’t you?" Xiao Yebai picked up the remote and pressed pause, freezing the image as Lin Yishan rushed downstairs as if to rescue Su Yixia, who had beco a drenched chicken.
Gu Nuan glanced sideways at his face and said, "You can tell now why you married , right?"
Xiao Yebai just smiled lightly at this.
This man, as if he had many faces.
At one mont he was like a little boy, and the next, he was inscrutable like he was now.
Gu Nuan’s heartbeat seed to skip a beat or two all of a sudden.
Was she actually with the most fearso crocodile in the world?
After the laughter stopped, he leaned in close to her face, his eyes intently staring into hers as he said, "I like you, I really like you. You are very intelligent. You’re the only woman who can make these people jump with frustration, so why wouldn’t I marry you?"
"Who is she to you?" Gu Nuan asked.
"She’s my third sister’s daughter. To be exact, the daughter of my third sister’s husband’s forr wife, but that doesn’t change the fact, as you well know—" he said slowly.
Money!
It didn’t change that money-grubbing heart!
"They want to control my marriage, so they arrange for to et won like her. Do you think I would accept that?"
"Of course you wouldn’t, Mr. Xiao. Because you too are exceedingly smart. I believe you’re smarter than all of them."
At that, he burst out laughing, while his palm gently caressed her hair.
That touch was so tender it was as if it carried affection. In response, Gu Nuan froze in place.
Then, as if it was the most natural thing to do, he leaned in gently and bit her slightly parted lips.
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