A sense of guilt suddenly welled up inside her.
Chi Yang wrapped herself tightly in the blanket like a burrito, still stubbornly staring at him—if not for the slight trembling of her eyelashes. “It must have been you who pulled me over!”
Xie Youci: “…”
He leisurely sat up, the blanket slipping down. His navy-blue satin pajamas had a slightly loose collar, and the front was clearly wrinkled from being rumpled.
Chi Yang tightened her blanket roll even more warily.
She kept her eyes fixed on him.
Then she saw Xie Youci slowly avert his gaze and let out a noncommittal, mocking laugh.
Chi Yang was already feeling a bit guilty, and Xie Youci’s laugh made her scalp tingle. “What are you laughing at?”
“Nothing,” Xie Youci replied in a casual tone.
But Chi Yang couldn’t stand this kind of torment. “No, you’re definitely laughing at me.”
“Then what am I laughing at you for?” He tilted his head to look at her.
Chi Yang: “…”
Her cheeks flushed with frustration as she continued to argue. “You’re laughing at me for sleeping so soundly last night that I didn’t even notice you pulling me over to take advantage of me.”
After a long silence,
Chi Yang couldn’t help but ask again, “Right?”
Another mocking laugh was her only response.
Chi Yang: “…”
She was so annoyed she wanted to kick the blanket, but she couldn’t figure out why she had ended up on his side of the bed.
Had she actively snuggled over?
How was that possible!
It must have been that Xie dog taking advantage of her, pulling her over while she was asleep and then turning the tables on her.
“I can’t be bothered with you,” Chi Yang refused to engage further.
She threw off the blanket and dashed into the bathroom, lifting her pajamas to sniff them as she ran. They were completely infused with the scent of Xie Youci’s shower gel from the night before.
How long had he held her?
She was practically marinated in his scent!
“Click—”
Xie Youci only heard the sound of the bathroom door locking.
He arrogantly lifted his chin to glance in that direction, then also got out of bed, unwilling to dwell on it.
Considering how much she liked him.
…
Chi Yang and Xie Youci had breakfast at home.
Afterward, using the excuse of gallery business, they bid farewell to the elders of the Su and Xie families and left Mingyue Bay with Xie Youci.
Inside the Bugatti La Voiture Noire,
Xie Youci rested his wrist on the steering wheel and casually glanced at her. “Where to? Back to the marital home?”
Chi Yang was busy rummaging through her bag.
Amidst her flurry of activity, she reluctantly spared a moment to respond. “Why go back to the marital home? No.”
Xie Youci raised an eyebrow in surprise.
He steered the car out of Mingyue Bay with one hand, then glanced at her once the road was smooth. “Not going back? Mrs. Xie was practically throwing herself into my arms last night. What’s with the coyness now?”
Chi Yang: ?
She stopped searching for her lipstick and looked up at him.
Then she heard Xie Youci ask a question that felt like a bolt from the blue: “Don’t you want to sleep with me?”
“Xie Youci,” Chi Yang stared at him for a long moment.
Then, while pulling out her lipstick from her bag, she said sarcastically, “You’re so innocent.”
Xie Youci lazily glanced at her out of the corner of his eye.
Chi Yang straightened her posture, reached out to pull down the passenger-side sun visor, and began applying her lipstick in the car’s vanity mirror. “You couldn’t possibly think—”
She admired herself a little smugly in the mirror. “That after sharing a bed for one night, I’d fall for you, could you?”
Xie Youci: …?
Just then, they hit a red light. He stepped on the brake, and once the car came to a complete stop, he slowly turned to look at her.
Not in love?Didn’t she actively burrow into his arms last night, hugging him and clinging to him, even calling out for her mother?
“What’s wrong?”
Chi Yang twisted the lipstick back into its tube, looking at him strangely. “Did I do something last night that made you misunderstand?”
Xie Youci: “…”
Fine.
Great.
It seems she’s not planning to take responsibility again.
Xie Youci pursed his lips tightly and averted his gaze, the previously unrestrained and spirited energy completely gone. His narrow eyes were dark and deep, practically spelling out the word “annoyed” on his face.
Chi Yang stared at him for a long time as well.
To be honest, she was feeling a bit uneasy too. After all, she had lived alone in Italy before, and only slept with her grandmother when she was very young.
She wasn’t too sure about her sleeping habits and genuinely didn’t know what had happened last night that made her roll into Xie Youci’s arms. In any case, it was unlikely that he had pulled her in—
Though she said that.
She also knew she was talking nonsense.
Fortunately, in the end, Xie Youci clenched his jaw and turned his face away, saying coldly, “No.”
Chi Yang’s hanging heart instantly settled.
But Xie Youci gripped the steering wheel tightly, the veins on the back of his hand bulging. He almost wished he could throw Chi Yang out of the car right now.
Heartless woman!
…
In the end, Chi Yang still returned to her small villa.
But Xie Youci couldn’t go back to the Xie family.
Since getting the marriage certificate, there had been informants in the several residences under his name who regularly reported back to the family, observing whether he had truly moved into the marital home with Chi Yang after marriage.
So he could only return alone to Xizi Bay.
Facing the “double happiness” character pasted on the window, Xie Youci couldn’t sleep night after night, spending each day pondering just one thing—
Does Chi Yang fucking like me or not?
Damn it.