Sheng Qiao quickly replied: 【Girl, are you sure? Did you ask him directly? Did he tell you himself?】
Ye Xixi scratched her fluffy hair: 【No, I was too embarrassed to ask.】
Sheng Qiao: !!!
【Pfft, girl, you’re not just imagining things, are you?】
【He hasn’t said anything, and you’re already speculating like this? I think you’re being paranoid.】
Ye Xixi bit her lip. She wasn’t being paranoid—she really saw that scandalous news last year!
Otherwise, she wouldn’t have doubted Lu Peishen.
【I saw their photos and videos together.】
Photos? Sheng Qiao pondered: 【Are you really sure he has a girl he likes?】
Ye Xixi rested her chin in her hand: 【Probably.】
Anyway, for some reason, Lu Peishen didn’t end up marrying that Miss Liu.
【But he’s really super good to me. I’m so conflicted right now, feeling like I’ve stolen something from that girl.】
Sheng Qiao was confused by Ye Xixi’s reasoning. Stolen what?
Didn’t that man willingly marry Xixi?
【Xixi, don’t think like that. He’s the one who proposed this marriage, right? We’re the legitimate wife here, understand? Don’t overthink it.】
【At worst, we can take the money and run after a divorce.】
Seeing the words “take the money and run,” Ye Xixi couldn’t help but laugh. That was her best friend for you—always knowing how to cheer her up.
Ye Xixi chuckled: 【Okay, enough of that. Actually, I shouldn’t be greedy. He’s given me so much already.】
She really needed to stop overthinking things.
Lu Peishen was good to her probably because she was pregnant and due to Grandma’s demands, right?
She just needed to focus on playing her role as his wife well.
After sorting out her thoughts, Ye Xixi wanted to chat with Sheng Qiao a bit more.
Suddenly, the bathroom door swung open with a clatter. Startled, Ye Xixi turned around quickly and saw the man emerging with bare arms, wearing only sleep pants.
His physique under the light resembled a sculpted muse statue—perfectly proportioned with firm muscles.
Having rarely seen a man’s body before, Ye Xixi instinctively blushed and quickly closed the chat window.
Her hands nervously gripped the blankets as she stared tensely at Lu Peishen, who was walking over with a white towel.
“Uncle Lu, are you going to sleep?”
Lu Peishen smiled at the corners of his lips: “What do you think?”
Huh? What did that mean?
Ye Xixi didn’t understand.
After a pause, she thought he meant he was ready to sleep.
She immediately said obediently, “Uncle Lu, shall we sleep then?”
Lu Peishen chuckled. Xixi was indeed innocent and hadn’t caught his hint: “Could you help me wipe off the sweat, Xixi?”
Huh?
Oh no, it was this.
Ye Xixi’s heart nearly leaped out of her chest again.
After staring blankly for a few seconds, she quickly crawled out from under the covers, slowly moved to the edge of the bed, and took the towel from Lu Peishen’s hand.
Blushing, she wiped the sweat from his abs and chest.
While wiping, she was too shy to look at his incredibly perfect physique, keeping her eyes downcast.
Her soft, pale fingers clutched the towel.
After wiping back and forth for a while, when there were no more droplets left,
Her heart still trembling, she tightly gripped the towel.
“All done.”
“Thank you.” Lu Peishen had done it on purpose— he just wanted his wife to gradually become familiar with his body.
“It’s getting late, shall we rest early?” Lu Peishen took the towel she was clutching tightly and said in a soft, husky voice.
As he spoke, he deliberately moved a little closer to her.
The refreshing, pleasant scent from his breath washed over her in waves.
The warmth and tingling sensation nearly overwhelmed Ye Xixi.
Afraid she might lose control and impulsively hug him, Ye Xixi quickly nodded and turned to burrow swiftly under the covers.
Lu Peishen placed the damp towel aside.
He pulled back the blanket and got into bed.
The man’s scorching body drew near, hot like a winter heater.
Ye Xixi didn’t dare move at all.
As she lay stiffly on her side, Lu Peishen actively reached out and gently patted her back, asking, “Sleeping so rigidly? Is the bed uncomfortable?”
Ye Xixi turned her face and suddenly met Lu Peishen’s deeply captivating dark eyes.
Immediately flustered and blushing, she shook her head in denial, “No, not at all.”
“Maybe I’m just not used to… having someone beside me.”
After she spoke, Lu Peishen seemed to understand, letting out a soft “oh” before curling his lips into a smile, “Is that so? Then… after we go back, should we stop sleeping in separate rooms???”
Huh???
No more separate rooms?
Help, what’s going on with Uncle Lu?
Why is he teasing her step by step like this?
Ye Xixi was afraid he might be overacting.
“I… I’m just not used to it,” Ye Xixi bit her lip, thought for a moment, and cautiously declined.
She was afraid that if she slept in the same bed with Lu Peishen every day, by the time his white moonlight returned, she would be head over heels in love, while he went back to his white moonlight—if that happened, she would truly cry herself to death.
So, she needed to break the habit and desire of sleeping with him now.
Lu Peishen seemed to have anticipated her refusal. He didn’t get angry, his gaze still soft, “Alright, I won’t force you. But Xixi, we are husband and wife; sharing a bed is inevitable.”
“Shall I give you some time to adjust?”
Ye Xixi nodded.
Perhaps she wouldn’t even have to wait until they shared a bed before Miss Liu returned?
She only hoped that by then, Uncle Lu wouldn’t bully her and the baby in her womb.
After saying this, Lu Peishen was very gentlemanly—he didn’t hug or touch her but simply lay steadily beside her.
The room’s lights soon went out.
Ye Xixi, smelling the intense mix of the man’s hormones and sandalwood scent beside her, found it hard to fall asleep.
Not daring to move recklessly, she closed her eyes tightly and began silently counting sheep.
After counting to a hundred,
Ye Xixi finally fell asleep.
But Lu Peishen hadn’t slept at all; he was waiting for Ye Xixi to fall asleep. After a while, confirming the girl beside him was truly asleep, he slowly got up, just as before, took off his T-shirt and pants, and transformed into a handsome adult silver-blue wolf.
He lay down beside Ye Xixi, wrapping his long wolf tail affectionately around her slender calves, his wolf claws gently holding her shoulders, and began slowly licking the hypertrophic scar on her face.
He licked for a full half-hour, until the scar had faded considerably, before stopping the treatment.
Then, he released his beautiful, mature wolf tail.
His eyes deep and intense, he gazed tenderly at the peacefully sleeping girl for a long while before lowering his furry head to clingily nuzzle against Ye Xixi, his voice low and mellow: “Xixi, my baby wife.”
It was wonderful—he had finally married the little girl he adored.
*
She slept soundly through the night without any dreams.
When Ye Xixi woke up in bed, Lu Peishen was already gone.
She turned on her side and stretched.
Rubbing her sleepy eyes, she sat up.
Recalling how she had slept in the same bed with Lu Peishen last night—even though they hadn’t done anything—Ye Xixi felt a warm current gently flowing in her heart.
Especially when Lu Peishen’s devastatingly handsome face was sleeping so close to her.
Ye Xixi blushed.
Oh no, no, she was getting infatuated again.
She mustn’t let herself swoon.
Ye Xixi quickly pinched the tip of her ear, then got out of bed to wash her face.
However, while washing her face and looking in the mirror, she noticed that her dull hypertrophic scar seemed to have shrunk slightly compared to yesterday???
Was it really that magical?
Afraid she might be hallucinating, Ye Xixi quickly touched the ugly scar on her face.
It really did seem to have shrunk by about the length of a fingernail compared to yesterday???
The ointment Uncle Lu had given her seemed truly effective.
Ye Xixi hurriedly took out the tube of ointment and applied it to her face again. After finishing, she tried to put it back in her makeup bag but accidentally dropped it.
She quickly bent down to pick it up.
But as she leaned over, she suddenly realized that her belly had grown a full size larger than yesterday.
Startled, Ye Xixi immediately reached out and touched her swollen abdomen.
It really was bigger.
As if she were three months along.
But the checkup had shown only one month!
Was it growing too fast?