Shen Shuyue had made sure not to leave any sensitive areas exposed.
Only her long, slender legs were showing.
Deep down, Qiu Chengyue couldn’t control the surge of excitement that swept through him.
First, he felt hot all over. Then his throat became dry. After that, even his cheeks and neck began to heat up.
It was as though he had been possessed. His entire body seemed to be acting on its own.
Before he had slept with Shen Shuyue, she would often wander around the house in short sleep shorts, and he had never reacted this strongly.
So why, after sleeping with her just once, did his entire body suddenly seem to be no longer under his control?
Qiu Chengyue forcibly tore his gaze away and walked back to his room like a stiff-legged zombie.
How could Shen Shuyue possibly know that her actions had such a huge effect on Qiu Chengyue?
Seeing him move so stiffly, she simply found it baffling.
A while later, Qiu Chengyue’s voice came from inside his room.
“From now on, please dress appropriately when you’re at home.”
Shen Shuyue: “?”
What did he mean?
What was she supposed to be wearing? What had she done?
She lowered her legs, turned toward Qiu Chengyue’s room, and raised her voice.
“Appropriately? What did I do?”
“Was I walking around completely naked or something?”
Inside the room, Qiu Chengyue remained silent.
Shen Shuyue lost interest in lounging around on the sofa.
She went into her room, grabbed her pajamas, and headed into the bathroom to take a shower.
She washed her hair, too.
Her hair was very long. When left loose, it fell all the way down to her waist.
It took her more than forty minutes to shower and wash her hair before she finally came out of the bathroom.
Qiu Chengyue had already been waiting outside.
The moment he saw her come out, for some reason, his eyes quickly darted away.
This time, Shen Shuyue noticed his reaction.
“What exactly is wrong with you?”
“Why do you keep avoiding me? You’re acting weird all day long.”
“From now on, don’t wear short clothes at home.”
Don’t pretend to be all innocent.
Qiu Chengyue’s face darkened. After a long pause, he finally said, “Go look in the mirror yourself.”
With that, Qiu Chengyue grabbed his clothes and went into the bathroom.
Shen Shuyue went into her room and stood in front of the vanity mirror.
When she saw the two little outlines showing through her pajamas, she felt slightly embarrassed.
She had never had the habit of wearing a bra after taking a shower at night.
She had simply put on her pajamas. Was it really possible for there to be no outline at all?
Shen Shuyue rarely felt embarrassed, but even so, the feeling only lasted for a moment.
Not long afterward, someone knocked on her bedroom door.
The door wasn’t closed, so when she turned around, she saw Qiu Chengyue standing at the entrance.
“Can you put away the clothes you changed out of?”
There was anger in his voice, along with a faint, barely noticeable trace of embarrassment.
Shen Shuyue thought of something, raised an eyebrow, and smiled.
“What? Is there something wrong with putting my clothes in the basin?”
“That basin was bought by me.”
The muscles on Qiu Chengyue’s face twitched repeatedly.
Just when Shen Shuyue thought he was about to lose his temper, he suddenly walked over and pulled her toward the bathroom.
There was a basin in the bathroom, filled with the clothes Shen Shuyue had changed out of.
But those clothes weren’t the point.
The point was that her underwear was sitting right on top.
The moment Qiu Chengyue stepped into the bathroom and saw the clothes, every hair on his body seemed to stand on end.
Even his scalp tingled.
If his self-control hadn’t been strong enough, he probably would’ve—
In any case, Qiu Chengyue absolutely refused to touch Shen Shuyue’s clothes.
“Can’t you put those clothes away properly?”
His tone clearly lacked some confidence now.
Shen Shuyue smiled sweetly.
Oh, she certainly couldn’t tell him that she had deliberately left them there for him to see.
The last time she had slept with him, the experience had been very good.
She wanted to do it again.
But that kind of underhanded trick could only work once.
If she tried it a second time, Qiu Chengyue wouldn’t fall for it.
Shen Shuyue didn’t think she was being shameless.
If they were going to talk about shamelessness, Qiu Chengyue was the truly shameless one.
He had married her, yet he still insisted on sleeping in separate rooms.
Wasn’t that basically looking down on her?
Wasn’t she beautiful enough? Wasn’t her figure good enough?
They lived under the same roof, yet he acted as though she didn’t exist.
If she continued putting up with him, then she’d simply be too timid.
“What’s wrong with the way they’re placed?” she asked innocently, looking at Qiu Chengyue.
Qiu Chengyue: “…”
He visibly took a deep breath.
Shen Shuyue smiled sweetly. “The clothes aren’t going to fall out.”
Qiu Chengyue: “…”
Shen Shuyue thought for a moment, then moved a little closer to him. With a flirtatious smile, she said, “I have a suggestion. Do you want to hear it?”
Qiu Chengyue could feel her breath brushing against his neck.
Goosebumps immediately rose all over his body.
Yet his expression remained serious and composed.
“Are you listening or not?” Shen Shuyue asked.
She looked just like a seductive fox, staring straight at Qiu Chengyue without the slightest hint of shyness.
They weren’t divorced yet. This man was still her husband.
She could sleep with him a hundred times, and it would still be perfectly legal.
“Say it.”
Qiu Chengyue’s breathing grew heavier.
His gaze once again fell uncontrollably toward the clothes in the basin.
Those clothes… were extremely distracting.
“I’ll cook for you, and you do the laundry. How about it?”
Shen Shuyue really wasn’t afraid of pushing her luck.
She kept testing Qiu Chengyue’s limits again and again.
Qiu Chengyue: “!”
He turned his head and looked at Shen Shuyue.
Their eyes met.
There was an unmistakable hint of ambiguity hanging between them.
Shen Shuyue completely ignored the tension and continued, “Besides, you don’t know how to cook.”
“If I don’t cook for you, you’ll have nothing but noodles to eat.”
“And you don’t have time to go out to eat, while I do.”
Qiu Chengyue: “Don’t even think about it.”
Shen Shuyue: “Fine. From now on, if I cook, you don’t get to eat.”
With that, Shen Shuyue’s mind suddenly turned, and she headed back into her room.
Qiu Chengyue: “…”
Wasn’t she going to take the clothes out of the bathroom?
Was she seriously going to leave them there?
Qiu Chengyue stared at the two little cups of her bra, and his eyes reddened slightly.
After a long while, he finally picked up the basin and carefully carried it outside.
There was no way he was going to wash his face while staring at those two cups—
Qiu Chengyue ended up taking an unusually long shower this time.
Shen Shuyue had spent more than forty minutes bathing, while he spent more than thirty.
Shen Shuyue was busy drying her hair and didn’t pay attention to how long he took.
Her hair was so long that it wasn’t easy to dry. She sat in front of the newly purchased electric fan and let it blow on her hair for more than twenty minutes. Finally, it was almost dry.
Just as she stepped out of her room, Shen Shuyue saw Qiu Chengyue carrying the electric fan from the living room toward his room.
She stared at him.
“What are you doing with my electric fan?”
She had bought that fan herself. It had cost her more than a hundred yuan.
Qiu Chengyue had only given her a little over sixty yuan today, eaten the food she cooked, and now he wanted to take her electric fan too?
What was she supposed to use while sitting in the living room?
“Shen Shuyue, we’re husband and wife, not enemies.”
“Everything in this house belongs to me too.”
Qiu Chengyue was clearly reaching the end of his patience.
Lately, whenever he used anything, Shen Shuyue would make a fuss about it.
He had bought things for the household too.
The pots, bowls, and utensils, for example, as well as the sofa, wardrobe, and bed.
Shen Shuyue glanced at him.
“So you do know we’re husband and wife?”
Then she gave him a sly, mischievous smile.
“If we’re husband and wife, then which room are we sleeping in tonight?”