Chapter 340 - Old Acquaintance (1/2)

Chu Lui looked at the watch on his wrist. It was getting late. He opened his cell phone to several missed calls from the same person. This was his private number which, other than that person, only a few others knew.

”Let's go.” He picked up his coat and stood up, walking outside. He did not want to go back, but he was obliged to. He had not forgotten he still had a responsibility at home, his wife.

When was it that to him, Li Manni had become a responsibility? All he wanted now was for her to have a baby soon. This way, perhaps he could relax a little and not feel so pressured.

To think that he, Chu Lui, would one day become a tool for childbirth. Such mockery.

Du Jingtang rested his chin on his hand, his eyes contemplating. It seemed that his cousin had changed. He was more silent than before as if he was exhausted. He looked as Chu Lui habitually rubbed in the middle of his forehead while wearing his coat.

Chu Lui drove and drove, but the car stopped in front of the hospital. He looked blankly at the hospital entrance, but he just pressed his lips together thinly in the end and drove off again. There was no point anymore.

He reached home, and Li Manni took his briefcase from him considerately. Chu Lui stood and looked at his perfect wife, feeling like something was missing all of a sudden.

Their days passed like this. There was not much passion. He still spoilt her and gave her whatever she wanted. She wanted a child, and so he would give her a child. Everything seemed like it was his responsibility.

Night fell. In a room with a gentle atmosphere and when all sound gradually stopped, Chu Lui rolled down from Li Manni's body. Li Manni leaned into his embrace in satisfaction. ”Lui, do you think we'll have a baby this time?” She placed a hand on the small of her tummy. They should be having one. They've already tried so hard to make one, and so there's no reason for them not to have one.

”Probably.” Chu Lui's arms wrapped around Li Manni's bare white shoulders, but his eyes were slightly dark. Their sexual nights were always like this. His body was not satisfied, much less his heart. He always felt like he was missing too much, too less of what he wanted the most. He undoubtedly had it in the past, he really did.

Yet now, it was lost.

As for a child, he wanted one, too. As long as he had a child, these negative feelings of his might come to an end soon.

”Sleep.” Chu Lui held Li Manni in his arms and closed his eyes, until a long time later when the woman was long asleep, he was still wide awake.

He lowered his head and looked at the woman's beautiful features under the dim bedside lamp, but he saw another face instead. It was a face that contained happiness being held in his arms, but he had cruelly destroyed it.

He shook his head. He had thought about the woman again. She was not worth it, never ever.