Sweet Wife Arrives: Mr. CEO, Please Pamper Me-Chapter 870 - 706: Love Is Crossing Mountains and Rivers, Love Is a Lifelong Obsession [53]
Their eyes met, and both of them froze for a moment.
Feng Chengyue didn’t notice, but after just one night, Mai Manxiang looked so haggard.
It was clearly quite a pretty face, after all, in the surrounding villages, she was considered the village beauty. With a little grooming, she could easily be above average in the city. But with disheveled hair, lips that turned purplish white from the cold night, and those dried tear grooves...
Mai Manxiang, carrying the breakfast she bought, saw Feng Chengyue’s appearance and felt a tremor in her heart.
Too beautiful, with skin that was bright and translucent, a graceful and slender figure, not to mention those lips that seemed to have gone through something last night, now so full and red that it was glaring...
Locking eyes for a moment, it was ultimately Mai Manxiang who lowered her head first.
"Cheng Yue... Sister Yue, I bought you breakfast."
The soy milk and fried dough sticks in her hand were something Feng Chengyue couldn’t really accept, given the practice of carrying food in plastic bags...
But looking at Mai Manxiang at that moment, she couldn’t bring herself to say anything, so she just said, "Thank you," and took it.
...
Sitting back at the dining table, Feng Chengyue nibbled on the soy milk and fried dough sticks.
Gazing at the daydreaming Mai Manxiang, lost in her thoughts, Feng Chengyue paused and softly asked, "Have you figured it out now?"
Mai Manxiang smiled bitterly, as desolate as a small plant battered early by wind and rain in the mountains, "What difference does it make if I have or haven’t? Don’t you all disagree..."
At this point, Feng Chengyue truly couldn’t accept it. Love couldn’t possibly be a matter for three people, right?
Even though internally she couldn’t agree, Feng Chengyue chose to remain silent, not wanting to add to Mai Manxiang’s distress.
Mai Manxiang’s voice was so hollow, and after speaking, she continued to gaze outside... Her bearing...
Feng Chengyue felt something was amiss, but she truly couldn’t bring herself to comfort Mai Manxiang, so she quickly finished her breakfast and went upstairs to wake up Qiu Mingyan.
The movement was natural, but when Mai Manxiang followed her with her eyes, they were filled with intense envy and desolation.
After trembling for a couple of seconds, tears that had clearly dried up started flowing again.
So desolate, so heartbroken.
Thinking that she was already twenty-five, and girls her age already had children who were seven or eight years old, her tears began to flow even more intensely.
Brother Mingyan...
Thinking of these three words, she buried her head in her knees, crying until there was nothing left.
In the following days, Mai Manxiang stayed at the clinic.
Considering her excessively sorrowful state, neither Qiu Mingyan nor Feng Chengyue could bring themselves to ask her to leave.
In addition, since she occasionally helped out with cleaning the clinic and wasn’t actually foolish, Feng Chengyue, at Qiu Mingyan’s suggestion, occasionally taught Mai Manxiang some basic nursing knowledge.
Mai Manxiang might need a job, and if she could learn quickly, in a remote place like Dragon’s Mouth where medical personnel requirements weren’t too high, a self-taught nurse could suffice.
Moreover, if she was willing, Qiu Mingyan’s idea was — let her have this clinic in which they invested several hundred thousand.
How much he could do for the Mai Family, Qiu Mingyan didn’t know, but having been indebted to Mai Manxiang’s affection for so many years, giving her a clinic worth several hundred thousand, allowing her to marry well in the county, was the least he could consider for her.
Except in the deep of night...
After hardly being "satisfied," Qiu Mingyan’s voice, full of wry humor, rose, "Ah, when Feng Chengjin was watching in the mountains, we couldn’t make a sound. Now that Feng Chengjin is finally gone, she arrived, and we still can’t make a sound. How much longer do I have to hold back?"
In an instant, Feng Chengyue’s face turned as red as wine, laughing so hard she trembled, she said, trying not to laugh, "You’re picky even when you have something to eat. In those two years we lived together with such good circumstances and opportunities, I delivered myself to you every time, and you didn’t want it. What was I supposed to do?"
Thinking back to their beautiful two-story apartment in Rong City, the excellent soundproof glass, the deserted environment with just him and Yu Yu...
Qiu Mingyan let out a long sigh, infinitely regretful.
"I was foolish back then, don’t mention it, don’t mention it."
Feng Chengyue laughed even harder.
Watching that enticing demeanor, Qiu Mingyan’s Adam’s apple bobbed, his interest rekindled for a second round, as he lowered his eyes and captured her, saying, "Once more."
Feng Chengyue felt a flutter in her heart, wanting it too, but thinking of the noise that Mai Manxiang might hear, she said, "Keep it down, Mai Manxiang is here."
Hearing this, Qiu Mingyan felt even more stifled for a moment and murmured from his throat, "Trying to make a daughter feels like defusing a landmine."...
...
And so the nights passed one by one.
In the room next door, Mai Manxiang couldn’t hear any noise, but knowing she was placed so far away in such a room, she didn’t need to guess what they were doing at night.
With empty eyes, she stared outside the window, leaning against the white wall, she was left with nothing but desolation.
Because such an arrangement was more cruel than hearing any noise. Hearing something, she would at least know when it ended.
Without hearing anything — would they be loving each other all night long?
Mai Manxiang’s large tears rolled down one by one.
And by daytime, as the clinic was more or less sorted, the parents of the Qiu family, Qiu Mingxin, and Qiu Mingjun were gradually leaving the mountains, collecting their folded sheets and covers, even as Qiu Mingyan helplessly said, "Just leave them, buy new ones somewhere else."
Gui Lanzhi shook her head, "You two use new ones, your father and I have always been like this, we’d be reluctant to throw them away, we’ll just use these."
Qiu Mingyan reluctantly helped to pack up with a smile.
Mai Manxiang just watched them prepare to leave, heart trembling, eyes empty, despairing... but she didn’t react and turned away, sitting in a different spot, zoning out.
Finally, on the last day before Qiu Mingyan’s departure.
It was September, and the mountains had begun to get chilly as autumn set in.
Late at night, Qiu Mingyan handed everything over at the clinic to Mai Manxiang, and when Mai Manxiang’s cousin Mai Manshan came to pick her up, he also gave the property deed and other papers to Mai Manshan.
Mai Manshan’s emotions were still somewhat repressed and excited, because his father Mai Shixiong’s behavior towards Feng Chengyue was so bad not long ago that they thought Feng Chengyue would never forgive the Mai family. Yet such an act...
Qiu Mingyan smiled and gave Mai Manshan’s shoulder a pat, chatting casually about other things.
But no one noticed that the lowered gaze of Mai Manxiang at that moment shimmered with barely restrained tremors...
