Drunk on Marriage, Billionaire's Overindulgent Love-Chapter 822 - 319: Heartbroken Fairytale: No Matter How Vast the World, I Can’t Escape You (Part 5)_4
Song Jingyuan saw the two off at the door and gently reminded her son, "Drive slowly. When you’re free on the weekend, bring Xiao Chu home for a meal."
Lu Huai’an nodded in response, "Okay, Mom. Take care of yourself, we’ll come back to see you when we have time."
No matter what his status is now, or what his character is like at his core, he always puts away all his indifference and coldness in front of Song Jingyuan.
Whatever his mother says, he always agrees to it.
Once they drove out of the neighborhood, Lin Chu, beaming, turned her head to look at him and seemed to ask with a dilemma, "What should we do? Starting today, we’ll be living in a world of two. When you come home, you’ll only see me."
Things would never develop as she imagined.
Next to her, Lu Huai’an answered her like this, "The maid is already waiting outside the apartment."
Maid??
What do we need a maid for?
The expression on Lin Chu’s face, which she had deliberately put on, couldn’t hold anymore.
She glared at him angrily, "I can cook too, you know. I should be able to handle simple things like laundry. Cleaning the house might be a bit tiring, but it doesn’t need to be done every day. We can just hire a part-time cleaner on the weekend to help out. Why hire a maid? Isn’t it good, just you and me?"
Lu Huai’an drove, having no time to bother with the girl’s little emotions.
Given his character, a sarcastic laugh would solve all her problems, but he said something like this instead, "You married into the Lu Family, not to suffer."
Lin Zongjun only had one daughter; she was raised in the palm of his hand. There’s no way Lin Zongjun would let her do chores like laundry and cooking herself.
Lin Chu had never heard such kind words from Lu Huai’an before.
A sweet sensation spread to her taste buds, and she couldn’t help but smile. She was already of a flamboyant and dazzling beauty, and her smile could make everything else fade away.
"Since you know you should care for your wife, why do you always bully me?"
Lu Huai’an glanced sideways at her, his gaze inscrutable, "Tell me, how do I bully you?"
Just a few short words carried a hint of danger.
Lin Chu was very tempted to give an example, like how each time in bed he bullied her to the extreme. The only exception might have been on his birthday when he secretly returned from abroad. He was relatively gentle in his approach, but it didn’t last long before his true nature surfaced.
When she woke up in the morning, she couldn’t help but wonder if she’d been domestically abused.
Winter was fine; wearing clothes could cover those ambiguous marks, but summer wasn’t so forgiving, and he showed no intention of restraint. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚
Since marrying him, the thing she bought the most was concealer.
The man who claimed he felt nothing for her—every time he was like a wild beast gone mad, she couldn’t handle it at all.
She wanted to say it but didn’t have the courage.
Because she knew, if she said it, although he wouldn’t react on the spot, he would definitely find a chance to show her what ’bullying’ really means.
For instance, one day she accidentally ran into Jiang Yichen. She saved his phone number, and when she got home, he found out. At the time, he didn’t react, but the next day, she was so exhausted she lay in bed all day.
Then again, another day, she had another encounter with Jiang Yichen. There was the matter of a necklace she hadn’t thanked him for personally, so she invited him to a meal.
In the end, it was the same as the last time.
She’d experienced this kind of situation many times before; she didn’t want to try again.
So she wisely changed her tune, "I’m just saying it casually, don’t take it seriously."
Lu Huai’an reached out a hand to push the girl’s fluffy head to the side, warning her with a blank expression, "I’m driving, don’t come over and distract me."
Lin Chu sulkily pouted, "...Oh."
If she wasn’t going to distract him, she could at least entertain herself.
As soon as she opened the game she had downloaded on her phone, a call came in; it was Jiang Yichen.
Lin Chu froze for a moment, then instinctively glanced at the man beside her. From this angle, his cold, resolute facial lines were clearly defined.
The road was congested and difficult to navigate, and he seemed slightly impatient, having no extra energy to spare on her.
The phone buzzed as long as she was in a daze, until Lu Huai’an, frowning, cast a sidelong glance at her, "Hang up if you’re not answering. If you are, just be quick."
He had no intention of prying into the girl’s privacy, so his peripheral vision never glanced at her phone screen which was still lit up.
Only then did Lin Chu come to her senses, her cheeks flushing slightly.
She’d seen that face for so many years, but still, she could get infatuated like this. How embarrassing.
Without thinking any further, she answered the call, "Hello?"
"Xiao Chu, are you busy?"
Jiang Yichen’s deep, magnetic voice came through the airwaves to her ears.
Lin Chu barely thought about it, answering off the cuff, "No, I’m free."
She was still lingering in the embarrassment of her recent mindless infatuation, her cheeks’ pinkness not yet faded, as she sat nestled into the corner formed by the car door and seat, absentmindedly running her fingers through her long, seaweed-like hair.
Seeming to need something to do, she could then shift her attention away.
This scene, seen from Lu Huai’an’s eyes, took on a different shape.
His sharply defined features didn’t show the slightest hint of emotion, only his deep black eyes darkened a shade.
Whose call was this? In just a few seconds, she was blushing with shyness.
The hand gripping the steering wheel tightened as they passed through the most congested part of the road. After making a turn, his driving speed increased.
The street view outside the window rapidly sped by, but Lin Chu didn’t notice.
"Well, that’s good. I’m leaving An City tomorrow, not sure when I’ll be back next time. Thought I’d invite you for a meal before I leave. Are you available?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Chu’s scattered thoughts immediately snapped back to her brain.
Though she couldn’t count the times she’d met Jiang Yichen during his stay in An City on the fingers of one hand, they’d known each other too long, and every time Jiang Yichen appeared before her, it was to help her.
Never overtly, but he played the role of the black knight from fairy tales.
Her best friend Ji Wanxia was still abroad, and now another old acquaintance was leaving An City, which left her feeling a bit reluctant.
"But I’m still in the car now. Is evening okay?"
On the other end of the call, Jiang Yichen curved his lips into a playful smile, "You can choose the time and place, as long as it’s before I board. Even if you want to have a meal on the moon, it’s possible."
If it were other women, they might think too much upon hearing this.
But Lin Chu felt deep down that a man as mature as Jiang Yichen wouldn’t be interested in a little girl like her. His occasional jokes were the gentle indulgence of an elder brother to his young sister, without any other implications.
So she didn’t take it seriously at all.
"Then I’ll contact you later."
"Okay, fine."
After the call ended, Lin Chu waited about ten minutes before hesitantly glancing at the man in the driver’s seat, her inner world extremely conflicted.
Brother Jiang is leaving tomorrow; he specifically called to say he wanted to have a meal with her, and she couldn’t refuse, could she?
But how should she tell him, ahhhhhh!
If she lied, it would definitely be exposed on the spot; that wouldn’t do.
So... should she just straightforwardly tell him that she’s having dinner with Jiang Yichen tonight?
