32 Still Being Stubborn (2/2)
”Why aren't you back? Waiting for you to eat.”
”I'm eating outside now.”
An Xiaoning restrained herself from probing, ”Come back earlier, be safe.”
After saying these words, she charmingly ended the call.
She did not think he would eat alone outside at this time. A clean freak like him seldom ate outside. He was most likely with that woman again. That jerk! As her husband, was he acting like how a morally upright husband should?
An Xiaoning did not eat much for dinner. Seeing that there were many leftovers, Auntie Chen persuaded her, ”Young Mistress, you should eat more. You're too skinny now. I prepared these especially for you.”
”Yes, okay.” She didn't want to waste the food, so she ate a bit more before she gave up.
Laying on the couch, she rested for a while before heading upstairs to remove her makeup.
When she finished her shower and came out of the bathroom, Jin Qingyan, who had not come back when she went into the bathroom, was lying boldly on the bed with a book in hand, his posture exceptionally attractive.
Jin Qingyan looked up at her. ”Stunned?”
She wiped her hair as she walked, asking casually, ”I saw you on the streets today — you were with another woman all day. What does that make me?”
Jin Qingyan thought she really saw him, so he answered, ”Rui'er can't go back to her own home now, so I sent her somewhere else.”
Although An Xiaoning knew he was with Chi Rui'er, hearing him say those words made her unable to calm down. ”She can't go back home? But she has her boyfriend. What has it got to do with you?”
”They broke up.”
An Xiaoning threw the towel aside, used her hands to support herself, then laughed, ”They broke up, your chance is here.”
Jin Qingyan sat up straight and stared at her, asking, ”What are you trying to say?”
”I'm trying to say that I thought marrying you was a right thing to do. Now that I think about it, it was something terrible I did.”
”You regret it?”
An Xiaoning breathed out, ”There's no such thing as 'regret' in my dictionary.”
”Oh really?” he retorted. ”Then I'll have to see if your dictionary is a real one.”
As he finished, he put on his shoes and went into the bathroom to shower.
An Xiaoning took off all her clothes and wormed into the covers, feeling especially comfortable.
The moment he finished his shower and opened the covers, his hands froze. He asked while frowning, ”Sleeping naked?”
”I'll practice the habit of sleeping naked in the future. It's good for the body.”
Jin Qingyan suddenly laughed and was shaking before her eyes. His voice was exceptionally pleasant, ”If you want it, then just say so. Why find such excuses?”
”No, I'm not.”
”Still being stubborn.” He took off his robe and went into the covers.
An Xiaoning turned around. ”I'm sleeping, don't provoke me.”
”Your words don't count.” Right after he said that, Jin Qingyan hugged her from behind, restraining her body so tightly that she could not move at all.
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For the next couple of days, An Xiaoning went out early and returned home late. She was living a rather peaceful marital life with Jin Qingyan.
She would wonder sometimes if her life would be like this every day in the future. If it was, she felt it would not be too bad.
Time flew to the tenth month of the lunar calendar, and the weather grew colder.
In a blink of an eye, An Xiaoning had spent over twenty days on-set already. She had also grown even closer to Mei Yangyang. Realizing that there was only a little time left for her to experience life on-set, An Xiaoning was in high spirits. After all, she did not have to live like that anymore.
But the thought of not being able to see Mei Yangyang every day made her feel slightly uncomfortable. After work that day, as Mei Yangyang and she waited at the bus stop, a car horn started honking a few times. An Xiaoning looked ahead — not far away was Gu Beicheng, whom she had not seen in a long time.