“Pfft.” Chu Xiaoxiao was drinking water when a mouthful of water spurted straight out, choking and coughing.
I smoothed Chu Xiaoxiao’s back and said, “Ignore him, this fool doesn’t know when he’ll get the hang of it.”
Cai Xiaobing was still confused and got up from the sofa, “Captain, what’s wrong with me? You told me to be enlightened, you should teach me.”
“Enlighten yourself.”
“No, Captain! Where are you going?”
“To bed, you sleep on the couch.”
Without saying a word, I wrapped my arms around Chu Xiaoxiao and hijacked the bedroom. After closing the door, I pressed Chu Xiaoxiao against the door, she had long been eager to do so, rubbing her lips against mine once and for all, not minding the blood stains on me at all.
“Let’s just bully Cai like this, shall we?”
I looked at Chu Xiaoxiao’s flaming red lips and laughed, “You have time for other men at this time?”
“Hehehe, you’re right, I wasn’t exactly a good traditional sister-in-law in the first place.”
The two of us rolled into a ball, and now I especially cherished every time I was with her, always feeling that after this village there would be no such place, and God knows when Chu Huaien would lock her back up again.
After we were done, I hugged Chu Xiaoxiao, kissed her forehead and asked, “Guess who I met today?”
Chu Xiaoxiao stared at me for a moment and asked, “Would you be mad if I guessed it was my ex-boyfriend?”
My heart thumped and I grabbed her hand and asked, “You have an ex-boyfriend, why didn’t you ever tell me about it?”
She laughed and rolled into a ball, “I knew you were a good tease.”
“You’re skinny again.” I grabbed her by the waist and scooped her back up, “I ran into Li Ge. He’s still got it in for you, he brought the police to stop me today, luckily Fox was there and had the papers to relieve me, otherwise I wouldn’t be back now.”
After hearing me out, Chu Xiaoxiao took her nose to my body and sniffed around, I asked her what she was sniffing.
She raised her little face and leaned on my body, “I ask where the vinegar spirit came from, why is it so sour, Li Ge and I never had anything, this flying jealousy you have to eat ah.”
I said, “It’s not that I’m jealous, I just didn’t expect him to be so persistent. Who wants their wife to be watched by another man.”
“I don’t think he’s staring at me, he’s staring at you. He just hates you, and no matter what you do, he’s going to make an enemy of you.”
I couldn’t help but laugh, but Chu Xiaoxiao was right, but was I that hated? I’m not sure if I’m that hated, but it was Chen Yu Zhou and now it’s Li Ge, are these rich kids that hated me that much?
I don’t like Li Ge when I was a kid, and I don’t like him now.”
“I’m really curious, if you don’t see Li Ge, how come you see me?”
It’s not that I have an inferiority complex, in either condition, Li Ge is more in line with a woman’s choice. Second generation official, rich, white face, not badly built, and had studied abroad, compared to me being a rich kid with no real power, a lot of money but no real control over Junran, definitely not a white face, and just a high school graduate who was a soldier.
Chu Xiaoxiao cupped my chin and narrowed her fox-like eyes as she asked, “Do you want to hear the truth or do you want to hear me compliment you?”
I just asked casually, but when she said that, I was suddenly eager to know the truth.
“The truth, of course. Why exactly do you like me?”
“You shouldn’t think of women so superficially, we don’t just look at the outside either. Besides, you’re no worse looking than Li Ge. You men think Li Ge is good in every way, but that’s just your fantasy. Women look for someone based on one thing only, their feelings. I didn’t decide not to choose him after comparing him to you. If I did, I would have to compare all the men in the world before I could choose one to fall in love with, and I would have to be 80 years old before I could fall in love? Don’t be silly, I only like you because I think you’re attractive. If I knew that, I would have found a good-looking man and cultivated it myself ten years ago. And don’t think that Li Ge is pestering me because he likes me so much, he’s just unconvinced. Just like Lin Fang, who still can’t get enough of you, do you think I should be angry? Why would I be.”
I was speechless for a moment, not expecting her to say that, and held her tightly in my arms. I felt lucky enough that if I lost her, I might never find a beautiful woman so blind in my life that would even look at me. I felt both lucky and terrified that one day Chu Xiaoxiao would come to her senses and realise that I was not as good as she thought. If she leaves me, then I will be the luckiest person in the world and become the biggest idiot in the world.
Chu Xiaoxiao smiled: “How come you are so easy to coax, you are so moved by two or three words.”
I said in a dumb voice, “Bullsh*t, I’m not.”
I woke up early the next morning to a phone call from the old man. I was too tired from last night to wake up for a while in the morning, and when I picked up the phone, I had a stomach full of anger.
“Old man, I retired a long time ago, can you call me after ten o’clock later?”
“Brat, I’m hanging up then, I’ll let you know after ten o’clock regarding the appointment of the public-security chief of Tong City.”
I was instantly awake, I rolled over and sat up from the bed, my back was hurting from tossing and turning all night last night, I held my back and shouted, “Wait, wait, wait.”
“Brat, let’s talk after ten.”
I cursed in my heart that the old man was really good at conditioning people, but my face was smiling in a friendly way and I said, “Chief, don’t get angry, what’s going on?”
“Tsk, you’ve been back in the city for so long, but you haven’t grown much, but your cheek is getting thicker and thicker. It looks like your daughter-in-law is a capable person, so arrange for us to meet sometime. I’ve always treated you like a son, so I can have a taste of fatherhood too.”
“If you say you want to meet, of course I’ll arrange it right away, but first tell me, how is the appointment of the director really going? If you can’t put someone on who we can trust, at least arrange for someone from outside the province who has nothing to do with any faction in the city.”
“I’d like that, rather than you on.”
“What? You’re kidding.”
