Accidentally provoking the spring tide

Chapter 103. So that's why Madam is so impatient.
Cheng Xiaoting nodded upon hearing this.

"Oh, so it's your wife."

After a while.

The man turned his head stiffly, his tone uncertain: "What...what did you just say?"

"You, wife??!!"

His expression was as if he had seen a ghost.

Lu Lishen, however, looked completely at ease, his hands clasped together, and he even lazily lifted his eyelids to look at him: "My wife, is there a problem?"

This is a huge problem!!!

Cheng Xiaoting's Adam's apple bobbed as she spoke with difficulty, "The 'madam' you're talking about is a woman, a living person, not a two-dimensional character or code. No, are you really not being abstract?"

Lu Lishen looked at him with his eyes half-closed, his expression somewhat disgusted.

It's as if it's saying, "Aren't you the one who does abstract art?"
Cheng Xiaoting took a deep breath and raised her hand to rub her chest.

"Wait, wait, let me catch my breath—you, Lu Lishen, my cousin who has never been close to women since childhood and has never had any interest in them, have acquired a wife in the short two months I've been abroad. Am I right?"

Lu Lishen leaned back, his shirt buttoned tightly inside his suit, but the fabric at his chest was stretched open by the movement, revealing slight wrinkles in the middle. Coupled with his infuriatingly handsome face, he exuded an aura of asceticism.

At that moment, he raised an eyebrow slightly, let out a soft "hmm" from his throat, and his hormones were surging.

Cheng Xiaoting couldn't help but swallow.

Although the truth was hard to believe, he inexplicably believed it by looking at the man.

This kind of sexual tension can only come from a man who's done *that*!
Cheng Xiaoting's gossip gene was instantly ignited: "What's your sister-in-law's name? What does she look like? Is she still a student like you?"

When did you two start dating? When do you plan to get married?

Lu Lishen raised one leg, his long, straight suit trousers outlining his silhouette, his tone casual.

"Look at my WeChat Moments."

While taking out her phone, Cheng Xiaoting muttered to herself, "Having a girlfriend really makes a difference. People who haven't posted on WeChat Moments in ages are now posting."

He had just clicked into the other person's Moments when Lu Lishen's voice rang in his ears at the same moment.

"Just to correct you, she's not my girlfriend."

The first thing you see is a bright red marriage certificate.

Cheng Xiaoting was speechless.

"You, you, you, you actually got married?!"

He only stopped checking WeChat Moments during the time he was abroad.

The world is changing so fast?

"Wait a minute."

He zoomed in on the girl's photo in the nine-square grid, his gaze suddenly fixed on it.

"This girl looks so familiar..."

A few seconds later, Cheng Xiaoting looked up in astonishment: "Isn't this the eldest daughter of the Jiang family?! You married her?!"

Cheng Xiaoting is exactly three years older than Lu Lishen, and she and Jiang Jixu were in the same class.

We were classmates in both junior high and high school.

They just never spoke face-to-face.

"I almost didn't recognize her because she changed her hairstyle."

Cheng Xiaoting looked at the girl in the photo.

He remembered that when he was in school, there were quite a few rumors about Jiang Jixu.

One is her tomboyish appearance, which often leads to ridicule for being neither male nor female; another is that she always follows Ji Yanci around, and everyone knows that she has a crush on him; the last is her outstanding academic performance on the grade leaderboard.

However, compared to the latter, the first two were the topics that students were more concerned about at the time.

Both No. 1 Middle School and its affiliated junior high school divide students into classes based on their grades. Cheng Xiaoting's grades were average, so she was not in the same class as Ji Yanci and Jiang Jixu.

But you'll always run into each other when you're in the same school.

Cheng Xiaoting's deepest impression of Jiang Jixu was from a Monday morning assembly, where the school routinely gave a speech under the national flag.

That time it just so happened that it was Jiang Jixu's class's turn.

He stood below the playground and saw a student with a buzz cut walk onto the stage in the distance, but the next second, a clear and soft female voice came from the loudspeaker.

He was so shocked he almost bit his tongue, until a boy in the next line whispered, "Look, that's Jiang Jixu."

"Is it that androgynous guy in class one?"

"It's her."

"Pfft, how could she possibly go on stage looking like that?" "I heard she's always following Ji Yanci around. Do you think anyone would like her? Anyone who's interested in her must be blind."

"Who says it's not~"

The sarcastic and mocking conversation between the two made Cheng Xiaoting uncomfortable, but it also aroused her curiosity about the "Jiang Jixu" they were talking about.

Teenage girls are often somewhat concerned with their appearance. Within the limits of school rules, it's common for them to secretly alter their trouser hems, wear pretty hair clips, or even secretly apply lipstick.

How could any girl cut her hair like that?

As their class was leaving after the morning assembly and passing the podium, he happened to see a slender figure coming down the stairs.

She has short hair, but her features are very delicate.

Her cheeks were slightly flushed, perhaps because she had rushed down the stairs.

The sound gently brushed past my ears, just as pleasant as the sound coming from the radio.

"Excuse me, could you please let me pass?"

Cheng Xiaoting subconsciously turned her body to the side and watched the girl squeeze through the crowd and finally reach the handsome young man's side, looking up at him with a smile.

His lips opened and closed, as if he were saying something.

He instinctively looked at the boy.

It is a poem by Ji Yan.

Another prodigy in Class One.

The boy was tall and handsome, standing out in the crowded throng. He had one hand in his pocket and listened to the short-haired girl talking with a nonchalant expression, seemingly not paying much attention to her.

But Cheng Xiaoting could see it clearly.

Ji Yanci shielded Jiang Jixu from the crowd that was pushing past several times.

They seem indifferent, but they actually care a lot.

Later, he often heard news about the two of them.

They thought they would be together after graduating from high school, but Ji Yanci went abroad.

Cheng Xiaoting attended university in another province, so she gradually lost touch with Jiang Jixu.

He never imagined that when he heard about the girl again, she would become his sister-in-law.

Cheng Xiaoting looked at Jiang Jixu's sweet smile in the photo, a complicated look flashing in her eyes, and then looked up and said in a joking tone.

"She had a lot of boys chasing after her when she was in school, so you have to be nice to her."

Lu Lishen glanced at him.

"Ok, I know."

Cheng Xiaoting shrugged: "Alright, I just came back from abroad to check on you. I'm leaving now that I've seen you."

Before the man left the office, Lu Lishen called out to him.

"Ji Xu and I will treat you to dinner another day."

Cheng Xiaoting paused.

When he turned around, a smile played on his lips.

"Okay, then I need to prepare a gift for our meeting."

"I'm leaving."

He raised his hand and waved.

Lu Lishen looked down at the girl on his phone's screen saver, a slight smile playing on his lips.

My fingertips slid up gently, dialing that number I knew by heart.

After a few busy tones, the call was connected.

The girl's porcelain-white, warm voice came through the receiver.

"Hey, Lu Lishen."

His eyes were half-closed as he heard her call his name. His gaze softened instantly, and a slight smile played on his lips as he spoke slowly and deliberately:

"I really like the leaf carvings that Madam made."

"Also, I saw it on Weibo."

"So, my wife is so eager to let others know that we are married."

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