Two weeks later, on a Friday evening, before going to sleep, Susu said to Xin Che, "Chen Ming asked to meet me. I plan to go to his place to pack up everything I left there."
Xin Che replied, "You don't need to meet him at his place, do you? Just have him find a moving company to pack and send the things over."
"You don't believe me?"
"I believe you, I just don't believe him."
As the two of them were chatting, Xin Che's mobile phone rang. Susu looked down, and the screen still displayed what it had six months ago—"Wife."
Xin Che quickly explained, "I'm sorry, I forgot to change it. I'll answer it now, and we can both listen to what she has to say."
He answered the call and put it on speakerphone. A sweet voice came from the phone, belonging to Ji Xiaoran: "Husband, I've had too much to drink, can you come pick me up?"
Susu reached out and turned off the speakerphone, then got up and left the room. A moment later, Xin Che chased after her, "Why don't you come with me to pick her up? It's so late, and she's drunk. Don't let anything happen to her. She doesn't have many friends in Beijing. After we meet, I'll make it clear to her—tell her not to contact me anymore."
Susu replied, "You go by yourself."
Xin Che seized the opportunity and said, "Then you stay home and wait for me to come back and coax you. I'll be back soon."
It was past three in the morning when Xin Che arrived home. He quietly washed up and then got into bed. His chest pressed against Susu's back, and he reached out to embrace her waist. He thought Susu was fast asleep, but to his surprise, as soon as his hand landed on her, she pushed it away. He whispered in her ear, "If you act like this, I get more excited." With that, he boldly moved his hand to her chest.
Susu pushed him away again, "Don't touch me."
Xin Che ignored her, continuing to rub her, and playfully argued, "You're my girlfriend, and I haven't done anything to betray you, so why can't I touch you?"
Susu broke free, turned on the bedside lamp, and faced him, her voice still soft, "Where did you go for so long?"
Xin Che explained, "She gave me the address, but when I got there, she wouldn't answer her phone. I looked for her for a long time. When I finally found her, she made me stay with her friends for a while. After I took her home, she didn't want me to leave... But I swear, I didn't do anything."
He pulled Susu into his embrace and murmured, "Do you want to check the goods?"
Susu didn't dwell on it anymore, "Let's sleep early, you must be tired too."
"No, I have to let you check today." As he spoke, his hand reached out to unbutton her clothes.
Seeing the tenderness in his eyes, Susu no longer refused him. The two of them indulged in each other's bodies with great pleasure, allowing their love to quietly spread through their passionate touches.
The next morning when he woke up, Xin Che glanced at his mobile phone. There were many missed calls and a pile of messages—all urging him to check Ji Xiaoran's Moments.
He nervously clicked it open and saw that shortly after he left her place, she had posted on Moments: "Ten years of feelings were precisely bottom-fished by someone in risk control. Hilarious, the industry really values strategy."
He walked out of the bedroom and, with a wry smile, handed his mobile phone to Susu, who was in the kitchen, "You believe me now, right? Nothing happened last night."
Susu glanced at it and asked, "How do you plan to deal with this?"
"Ignore her, let her make a fuss." He paused, then added, "Can I ask you a question? Besides me and Chen Ming, have you slept with anyone else?"
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