Chapter 3 (1/2)

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Xia Feng didn’t know what was going on in Yu Dong’s mind and was simply embarrassed. Although the other party was his wife, they’ve only known each other for a total of 2 days. They were barely strangers, yet this girl acted so familiar towards him, showing her underwear unabashedly, she was truly something else!

Xia Feng left to change into more comfortable clothes, and when he came back to the living room, he saw Yu Dong looking through the things he bought.

“Scarves, watches,” Yu Dong rummaged through the bags. “There’s also some nutrient supplements, are these for me to bring tomorrow?”

Seeing Yu Dong take the initiative to raise this matter, Xia Feng didn’t bother to open his mouth and just nodded.

“The silk scarf is OK, but look at the quality. This watch is at least 40,000 to 50,000 yuan. How can a poor graduate like me afford this?” Yu Dong picked up the box and said, “When your mom sees this she’ll think how dare this shameless goblin spend my son’s money to buy me gifts?”

(T/N: MTL gave me leprechaun as an option, and I had to hold myself back from putting that there)

“…..” Xia Feng sighed and retorted “My mom won’t say that.”

“You don’t know women!” Yu Dong, a person with a woman’s mind, had an expression that said ‘you don’t understand!’

“But didn’t you say what’s mine is yours? you were very clear about that.” Xia Feng said to Yu Dong, suddenly remembering their conversation this morning.

“Although I’m very pleased that you acknowledge that,” Yu Dong said with a comforting expression on her face, “This and that are two different things. It’s necessary to pay attention to etiquette, especially to the other party, and to at least have the impression that one would be willing to spend money for each other.”

“How do you, a freshly graduated student, know of such strange things?” Xia Fend had no words.

“It’s not strange, just an everyday, worldly situation. You engineering guys…” Yu Dong shook her head and said, “You all have high IQ yet such low EQ. I guess you still don’t know why An An abandoned you.”

“You know An An?” Suddenly hearing his ex-girlfriend’s name, Xia Feng was stunned.

“Didn’t you accidentally spill it yourself this morning.”

Xia Feng really didn’t want to talk about his ex-girlfriend with Yu Dong, so he stopped talking.

“Still concerned about this? If you want to talk about it, I’ll help you analyze, analyze.” Yu Dong sat on the sofa and boasted, “There aren’t many wives like me who are willing to talk to their husbands about their ex-girlfriends.”

“Your previous relationship wasn’t cleanly resolved before you married me either!” Xia Feng reminds Yu Dong, alluding to the fact she too was abandoned by her ex-boyfriend just yesterday.

“I know!” Yu Dong looked calm.

Xia Feng saw that she didn’t evade the topic and became interested. He usually didn’t like digging through other people’s private circumstances, but how did he meet a girl like this? He couldn’t help but continue: “Then let’s talk.”

“Well then let me tell you about your advantages. Remember that I asked you a question before I proposed marriage yesterday?” Yu Dong asked.

Xia Feng thought for a moment and with a furrowed brow asked: “Because I have a house?”

“That’s one of them. Also, you have plenty more advantages.” Yu Dong began to count her fingers. “You’re tall, by the looks of it around 175 cm. Education-wise you don’t have a masters but you studied medicine, and you’re on your way to becoming a doctor in a few years. Your looks just barely pass my attractiveness requirements, but you’ve got a good temperament. You’re a gentleman. You’re older, but that isn’t enough to turn me off.

(T/N based on his age I’m only guessing that he’s only in his residency?? or is the author just like naw he’s a genius genius)

The more Xia Feng listened to her, the darker his face became: “According to all that, more than half of our hospital is eligible!”

Yu Dong shook her head in disapproval and insisted: “None of them are you. I only like you!”

Unexpectedly he was confessed to. Xia Feng’s face became red again, and he decided that now might be the time to retreat.

“We’ll go see my parents at 10 a.m. tomorrow.”

Yu Dong saw Xia Feng escape and couldn’t help but cover her smiling mouth. She never thought that this great person’s face was so thin ten years ago, ah.

(T/N: having a thick face is called being shameless so having a thin face is the opposite.)

Next Day

One of the great benefits of summer in addition to the warm weather was that almost every summer morning would be beautiful.

Yu Dong pulled back the curtains to let the sunlight come through the windowsill. Hugging her legs while comfortably sitting on the windowpane, she couldn’t help but think that the greenery of this apartment complex was very good.

There were areas of lush greenery all over the front of the complex. Downstairs there was a colorful garden. Many elderly people were doing morning exercises with their grandchildren. She could see the Huangpu River in the distance, with many people jogging alongside it this morning.

While Yu Dong went to the bathroom to wash her face, Xia Feng who went on an early morning run came back and happened to bring breakfast with him.

“Have you woken up? Come over and have breakfast!” Xia Feng said while settling the plastic on the table. “You can eat first; I’m going to take a shower.”

When Xia Feng finished his shower and came back, she had already eaten a bun, a fritter and had greasy hands as she drank the soy milk.

Xia Feng’s cleanliness gave him a compulsive urge and with a frown said, “Why didn’t you use some cutlery?”

“There are paper bags; why would I need to use cutlery when I’d just have to wash them after?”

If he went to the kitchen now to bring back a plate would he look pretentious?

Yu Dong had no knowledge of his inner conflicts. After eating the last bun, she threw out the plastic bag and soy milk cup into the trash can and with a clap of her hands said: “I’m going to change clothes, go ahead and eat slowly.”

Xia Feng nodded, and when Yu Dong left the room, figuring that she shouldn’t return in a while, silently went into the kitchen to grab some cutlery. After eating quickly, he washed off the dishes.

Yu Dong didn’t bring many clothes with her when she eloped. After sorting out her jeans and short skirts, she was left with two skirts, a floral skirt and a knee-length white skirt.

Yu Dong then, at last, decided on the white one, as it looked pure and made her well-behaved, something the elders should like.

After getting dressed, she started on her makeup. Looking at the mirror, Yu Dong once again lamented that young people had such good skin. There was almost no need to put on foundation, but to make her face look natural and bright, she wiped a little BB cream with sunscreen. Then she swept her eyebrows and put on a bit of eyeliner finally finishing with a light-colored lipstick.

Around this time Xia Feng knocked on her door: “Well?”