After holding each other like this for a while, Ye Xixi suddenly realized she had overstepped boundaries and quickly blushed, hurriedly loosening her arms.
She looked shyly at the handsome, charming, and mature Lu Peishen.
“Uncle Lu, I’m sorry.”
Lu Peishen didn’t mind her hugging him at all; in fact, he wished she would hug him more often: “It’s fine.”
After a pause, he cleared his throat lightly and said, “Now, you don’t have to worry about your aunt controlling you anymore.”
“From now on, just live happily here with me.”
Live happily… Ye Xixi was stunned. Her face had only been slightly flushed before, but now even the tips of her white ears turned red.
Uncle Lu really knew how to sweet-talk.
Although she didn’t know how long Uncle Lu and she would be married?
But for now.
Uncle Lu was truly very good to her.
“Uncle Lu, you too.” Ye Xixi rubbed her reddened ear tips and replied warmly.
She had already made up her mind.
She would work hard to earn money and buy lots of things for Uncle Lu.
To repay his kindness.
Lu Peishen loved seeing Ye Xixi smile the most, and he would make sure she stayed happy every day from now on: “Mm.”
“Also, I’ve already taken care of your school matters.”
Hearing that she could return to university, Ye Xixi’s beautiful, sparkling eyes widened in surprise: “Uncle Lu, really?”
“You’ll let me go back to college?”
Lu Peishen didn’t understand why she thought he wouldn’t allow her to study, so he said very seriously, “Xixi, I won’t interfere with your freedom.”
“Whether it’s studying or living your life, you are an independent individual.”
“Understand?”
“Moreover, I know you… worked very hard to get into university, right? You probably don’t want to give up easily?” Loving someone doesn’t mean controlling them selfishly.
It means giving them greater freedom.
Lu Peishen didn’t want to keep the young girl caged like a canary; she probably wouldn’t like that either.
Ye Xixi nodded. She really hadn’t expected Lu Peishen to understand her so well???
She had indeed put in a lot of effort to get into one of the top three media universities in the country.
If it weren’t for her aunt trying to sell her off.
She wouldn’t have suddenly skipped school for over a month like this.
Ahhh, she really wanted to thank Uncle Lu!
Ye Xixi looked at Lu Peishen and almost hugged him again out of gratitude, but reason made her restrain herself.
No, she had already taken advantage of Uncle Lu just now.
She couldn’t do it again.
“Uncle Lu, I’ll study hard and repay you in the future.” Ye Xixi quickly raised her hand cutely and made a serious promise to Lu Peishen.
“When the time comes, I’ll earn lots of money for Uncle Lu and my grandmother.”
Lu Peishen smiled at the corner of his lips: “Xixi, I’ll be waiting then.”
Ye Xixi: “Absolutely.”
The two chatted by the sofa for a while about school matters. Aunt Fang came out of the kitchen carrying a freshly prepared bowl of sweet bird’s nest porridge: “Young Madam, come have some bird’s nest porridge. It’s just been cooked and is very fragrant and soft.”
As she spoke, Aunt Fang placed the bird’s nest porridge on the expensive glass coffee table.
Ye Xixi was actually already quite full from eating fruit.
But seeing how thoughtfully Aunt Fang had prepared the fragrant, soft porridge for her.
Ye Xixi couldn’t refuse.
She was about to sit back down on the fluffy carpet by the coffee table to drink the bird’s nest porridge.
Lu Peishen suddenly reached out and gently held Ye Xixi’s slender wrist, his voice warm and magnetic: “Xixi, don’t sit on the floor. Come sit up here.”
As he spoke, he pulled the young girl to sit beside him.
Earlier when she was eating fruit, he had wanted to draw her to his side.
On one hand, he feared she might not be willing, and on the other, she was enjoying her food so much.
So he didn’t disturb her.
But now was different.
He wanted to feed her the porridge.
He wanted to take good care of his little wife.
Subsequently, Lu Peishen really picked up the bowl of bird’s nest porridge and personally fed it to Ye Xixi.
This… such a doting manner.
Aunt Fang, who was nearby, couldn’t help but smile like a fond aunt and tactfully retreated to the kitchen first.
Their aloof, single President Lu had finally learned to cherish his wife.
After Aunt Fang left, Ye Xixi initially felt embarrassed to be fed by Lu Peishen, but he insisted, saying that he was now the legal father of the baby in her womb.
He had to fulfill his responsibilities.
Ye Xixi couldn’t refuse, so she obediently sat beside him, blushing, letting him feed her.
After feeding her most of the bowl, Ye Xixi was truly full.
Lu Peishen set down the bowl and said, “Xixi, let me take you to see your bedroom.”
Hearing about her own bedroom,
Ye Xixi instinctively thought they would be sleeping together.
Her face immediately flushed as she said, “Uncle Lu, are we… living together?”
Lu Peishen certainly wished they were, his gaze deepening, his thin lips speaking softly, “Do you want to live with me?”
Ye Xixi bit her lip, her heart pounding.
She did want to.
But she didn’t dare.
Clearing her throat twice, she could only say against her true feelings, “I… don’t want to.”
Don’t want to?
Lu Peishen understood, feeling a slight disappointment in his heart, but this small setback didn’t hinder his affection.
The young girl was already married to him.
In the future, he would have plenty of time to make her fall in love with him and then share a bed with him.
“It’s alright, I’ve prepared a separate bedroom for you,” Lu Peishen said, striding forward on his long, straight legs.
Ye Xixi hurriedly followed in her soft slippers.
The two walked one after the other to the second floor.
Lu Peishen pushed open a luxurious south-facing room adjacent to the master bedroom and said, “Xixi, this is for you to live in.”
Ye Xixi glanced into the bedroom; the decor was somewhat overly luxurious, not looking like… a secondary bedroom?
It seemed like the style Lu Peishen would prefer.
Elegant and understated.
“Ah? Uncle Lu, what about you?” Ye Xixi asked quickly after her inspection.
“I’ll be right next door to you,” Lu Peishen looked at the young girl, his eyes profound. “If you need anything at night, just call out for me.”
He would be able to hear her from next door.
Ye Xixi nodded, “Okay.”
After the bedroom tour, Lu Peishen’s phone happened to ring. He pulled it from his pants pocket and went to the hallway to answer it.
Ye Xixi sat on the bed in the bedroom.
The bed was very soft and carried a faint scent of sandalwood, which was the same fragrance as Lu Peishen’s.
It smelled wonderful and felt incredibly secure.
Ye Xixi bent over, grabbed the pillow from the bed, and hugged it to her chest. In the future… she would finally have such a warm home.
No more having to watch her aunt’s expressions or being treated like a servant by her.
Uncle Lu… was truly her great blessing.
As Ye Xixi softly hugged the pillow, touched by her emotions, Lu Peishen finished his phone call, and his assistant Shao Bai came upstairs with a new phone.
Seeing the man in the second-floor hallway, Shao Bai quickly approached, “President Lu, I’ve bought the young madam’s phone.
It’s the latest HW model.”
Lu Peishen acknowledged, took the phone, unlocked the screen, and quickly entered his own number and name.
His wife’s phone must have him as the first contact.
After saving the number, Lu Peishen strode into the bedroom and handed the new phone to Ye Xixi.
From now on, he could contact his wife anytime.
Night fell, and Lu Peishen went to his study to work.
After dinner, Ye Xixi returned to her bedroom to rest, feeling tired from having just returned from under the bridge earlier that day.
Lying on the soft downy bed, she was surrounded by Lu Peishen’s cool, elegant scent.
The fragrance nearly kept Ye Xixi awake.
Tossing and turning several times, she found herself unable to sleep. Too embarrassed to disturb Lu Peishen in his study, she sat up and started playing with her phone.
The phone was the latest model released this month.
All the apps ran incredibly smoothly and were a pleasure to use.
As Ye Xixi swiped her finger across the screen, she couldn’t help feeling grateful to Uncle Lu again.
He was such a warm-hearted man.
He had prepared everything for her.
Knowing that she had been hiding and that her phone had surely been confiscated by her aunt, he had quietly bought her a new one.
If she hadn’t known that he married her only because the old lady was pressuring him to settle down, she would have fallen for him completely.
Unfortunately, Uncle Lu probably didn’t like her.
Holding her phone, Ye Xixi sighed softly. After sighing, she glanced toward the bedroom door and lightly tapped her own head.
Uncle Lu had given her such a wonderful environment and life.
She shouldn’t be too greedy.
After tapping her head, Ye Xixi opened her contacts, entered her best friend Sheng Qiao’s number, and sent her a text: “Qiaoqiao, it’s Ye Xixi. This is my new number.”
“I’ll be back at school tomorrow.”
A second after sending, ding—
Sheng Qiao excitedly replied: “Oh my god! Xixi, baby, is it really you?”
“Are you okay? Where have you been hiding all this time? Did that evil aunt of yours let you go?”
Sheng Qiao knew that Ye Xixi had been hiding from her aunt and had taken leave from school.
During this time, she had been worried that Ye Xixi might never return to school.
Sniffle*, thank goodness, thank goodness—Xixi was coming back.
Ye Xixi rubbed her nose: “Yeah, I met a benefactor. I’ll tell you all about it tomorrow at school.”
Sheng Qiao: “A benefactor? What do you mean?”
Ye Xixi smiled unconsciously: “I’ll explain everything tomorrow. I’m going to sleep now. Good night.”
Sheng Qiao was still confused: “Alright, as long as you’re okay.”
“Talk tomorrow.”
Ye Xixi put down her phone and snuggled back under the covers. This time, sleep came quickly.
Before long, she was fast asleep.