Yonghe Road

Chapter 34 Jealousy
He did have something to say to her, but he didn't say it standing at the hotel entrance. She said it was too late and that they should go to her room to talk. This made Zhong Ziqi hesitate. What was in this woman's head? She knew it was too late, but she still wanted him to go to her room to talk.

"We are all adults, who are you pretending for?" Xie Anmin said, pulling Zhong Ziqi's hand without saying anything and walked into the hotel lobby.

From the hotel entrance, through the lobby, under the watchful eye of the bartender, to the elevator—it was only a short distance, less than a minute, but Zhong Ziqi's face was already red. He didn't know how he got into the elevator, or how he got to Xie Anmin's room. When he came to his senses, he was already standing in Xie Anmin's room, even holding Xie Anmin's hand tightly.

"You can let go now." Xie Anmin reminded him with a smile.

He then let go of her hand awkwardly, his own hand already stiff and numb.

"You look so unfamiliar, as if you have never been in love. I don't know who was bold enough to ask for An Hongdou's WeChat in the street. Every time you go on a date with An Hongdou, aren't you very happy when you are so affectionate with her?" Xie Anmin actually didn't like his sour look and thought it was petty, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he couldn't help but become sarcastic in front of Zhong Ziqi.

"You and the dentist are very happy too."

Unexpectedly, Zhong Ziqi actually responded sharply. Xie Anmin seemed to have discovered some new world, and he was secretly delighted and proud: "Haha, don't tell me you are jealous."

Was he jealous? He clearly didn't like this woman; he liked An Hongdou! An Hongdou! An Hongdou! But at this moment, even though An Hongdou's name floated through his mind, it couldn't stir a single ripple. His heart could even be described as calm and still.

Seeing Zhong Ziqi's guilty and speechless look, Xie Anmin felt very refreshed. She walked forward, approached Zhong Ziqi's face, and revealed the evil look and smile that only witches have. She said, "I was right? It's okay, this is called retribution. When you and An Hongdou were being affectionate, did you ever consider my feelings? Every time you kissed and kissed An Hongdou, I felt the same way you did at that moment. Can you understand how jealous I feel?"

"What do you mean by jealous? Xie Anmin, what do you mean? Explain yourself clearly."

Zhong Ziqi still has the silly and cute look of a stupid beauty. She is beautiful but has no soul. But what is the use of a soul when she already has such a beautiful face?

Xie Anmin looked up at Zhong Ziqi and couldn't help cursing, "Zhong Ziqi, you're so annoying. Why are you so tall? If you don't hold on to me, my neck is going to break..."

Zhong Ziqi received Xie Anmin's instruction and hurriedly reached out to support Xie Anmin's neck. Xie Anmin yelled again: "Hold my waist, I can't stand steadily..."

Xie Anmin's body was already shaking, but fortunately Zhong Ziqi supported her waist in time before she fell, and supported the back of her head with his other hand. Although he was in a panic, he finally held Xie Anmin steadily in his arms.

Such a close distance was almost intimate. They could hear each other's heartbeats and feel each other's warm breaths. Coupled with the perfect amount of light in the hotel room, the atmosphere at the moment was ambiguous...

The next morning, Lin Yingying went to Zhong Ziqi's room to call him for breakfast and found the bedding on his bed neatly folded. Lin Yingying reached out and touched it, but it didn't have any human body temperature. She couldn't help but feel a little strange. She went downstairs to the kitchen and went to Huifang to say, "Ziqi seems not to have come back all night."

Huifang smiled and said, "How is that possible? Except when he was boarding at school, Ziqi has never spent the night outside."

Lin Yingying looked at her mother-in-law's cheerful expression and muttered, "How can it be the same? The past is the past, and the present is the present. Ziqi has grown up and is already an adult..." "Yes, if our family wasn't so poor, Ziqi would have been able to get married a long time ago, right? It's all my fault for being useless. I let Ziwang marry you, so I can't afford to find a wife for Ziqi."

Huifang had forgotten that it wasn't actually her, the mother-in-law, who paid for the betrothal gift to Zhong Ziwang. But what she said still made Lin Yingying feel uncomfortable. However, even if Lin Yingying felt uncomfortable, she wouldn't express her dissatisfaction in front of Huifang.

The relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in China is always so delicate. It is rare to find a relationship as close as that between mother and daughter. Most of the time, they are dissatisfied with each other. Even if the two people are good women when they look at each other alone, they begin to dislike each other because of the same man and living under the same roof.

For Lin Yingying, Huifang, her mother-in-law, is the best. She works hard and takes care of all the housework at home. She also cares about her pregnant body and takes good care of her during her pregnancy. She is many times better than her parents-in-law. However, she still offends Lin Yingying with words from time to time, making her feel uncomfortable.

Lin Yingying was a good girl. She knew Huifang hadn't meant to offend her when she said those words, and that she might be overthinking it, but she couldn't help but overthink it. This family was in debt because they married her as a daughter-in-law. She was the sinner of this family.

This feeling made Lin Yingying very unhappy. She felt depressed even sitting at the same table with Huifang to eat breakfast. Fortunately, Zhong Ziqi came back.

"Your sister-in-law said you didn't sleep at home last night." Huifang was serving porridge to Zhong Ziqi while betraying Lin Yingying. Lin Yingying looked embarrassed. Before Zhong Ziqi could speak, she compromised and said, "That's not true. Don't listen to your mother's nonsense. You must have just gotten up early and left home. How could you not come back all night? If not at home, where else can you sleep? Do you have another home in Baile Village?"

Zhong Ziqi also showed an embarrassed look on his face, but Lin Yingying had covered up the topic, allowing him to escape Huifang's questioning.

After breakfast, while Huifang was out, Zhong Ziqi handed Lin Yingying a book with the name "Xie Anmin" written on the cover.

Xie Anmin gave it to Zhong Ziqi when he left the hotel that morning. Zhong Ziqi had originally wanted to buy a few of Xie Anmin's books online like Shao Feng had, but he didn't have the spare money, and Xie Anmin didn't want him to buy them either. How could a man who wrote IOUs to others still spend lavishly on things other than necessities?
For Zhong Ziqi, Xie Anmin's books were not necessities compared to the daily necessities of life.

You don’t have to buy the book, but you must read it.

So Xie Anmin simply gave Zhong Ziqi a few of his own books, but he didn't realize that for a simple-minded athlete like Zhong Ziqi, reading books was just as difficult as buying them. Buying books was expensive, but reading them was a brain-burner. From childhood to adulthood, Zhong Ziqi's head ached whenever he read. But for Xie Anmin, Zhong Ziqi had to read. The next time Shao Feng gave Xie Anmin a talk and shared his thoughts after reading, Zhong Ziqi couldn't lose.

Xie Anmin didn't want Zhong Ziqi to lose. After this night, how could Zhong Ziqi lose to Shao Feng? Zhong Ziqi was no longer just Zhong Ziqi, but Xie Anmin's man.

Xie Anmin's man cannot be bad, he must be excellent, which makes things difficult for Zhong Ziqi.

However, Zhong Ziqi had a good idea. He asked his sister-in-law Lin Yingying to help share the burden.

"Reading is good for my nephew's prenatal education." Zhong Ziqi said to Lin Yingying with a smile.

(End of this chapter)