Wife, please behave yourself.

Chapter 58 Sending You Home
Ever since I met Ning Mengyao.

The other person either looked worried or exhausted.

This was the first time Liu Changcun had ever seen someone like this, smiling and looking so happy.

I looked away and stared at the keys on the table.

He grabbed it and thanked him.

"Anyway, thank you for your hard work."

"I thought you weren't coming today..."

"If my lunchbox hadn't been still at the bookstore, I probably wouldn't have come."

Responding to the other party, Liu Changcun turned to leave.

After taking only a few steps, he turned back to look at the other person.

"You should close the shop first, and wait for me later."

"Ok?"

She responded with a puzzled look, but before Ning Mengyao could understand what he meant, the bookstore owner's figure had already disappeared from her sight.

Watching the glass door, which had been pushed open, slowly close.

Ning Mengyao, who remained in the store, was completely bewildered.

About three minutes.

Liu Changcun, carrying a lunchbox, closed the roller shutter door that he had just opened outside the bookstore.

After confirming that it was really locked, he turned around to look at the waiting figure.

He approached the other person and began to ask questions.

"I'll take you home. It's too late, and it's not safe on the road."

It wasn't until the bookstore owner's voice came that Ning Mengyao, who had been puzzled, understood why he had asked her to wait.

He was taken aback at first, but then quickly waved his hands after realizing what was happening.

It looked exactly like someone who was flattered.

"No, no, I can just go back by myself."

"Are you kidding me? Aren't you afraid of being followed by hooligans on your way home this late?"

"..."

Ning Mengyao's residence is not in a bustling area, but there are indeed occasional groups of people with nothing to do.

She felt somewhat scared every time she went home from get off work in the evening.

But Ning Mengyao felt very uncomfortable having to be escorted home by the other party, a privilege she had never received before.

Even when she was working two jobs, Li Mingche never picked her up from get off work.

Thinking of this, a fake smile reappeared.

Ning Mengyao thought for a moment and then politely declined.

“I can go back by myself. Nothing has happened in all this time.”

"..."

"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"

Listening to this standard pre-accident statement, Liu Changcun, who was a screenwriter in his previous life, had written too many similar plots.

Whenever a character in a play says something similar, the next scene will be when it comes true.

If what happened just now was merely polite conversation...

After Ning Mengyao finished speaking, Liu Changcun had no choice but to take her home.

If something really happens to the other person on their way home, he'll have to go to the police station to give a statement tomorrow.

With the idea of ​​minimizing trouble in mind, Liu Changcun spoke up.

"Let me take you back. I drove here, it won't take long."

"car?"

Ning Mengyao blinked and looked around.

I saw vehicles parked on the side of the road.

"Did you buy a car?"

"It's more convenient to have a car from the station since we often have to travel back and forth between the two places."

During the day, actors audition at the station, and once all are selected, the next step is preparation.

As they were parting, director Rupert Hoogewerf noticed that Liu Changcun was about to take a taxi home.

We might as well lend him the station's car.

Liu Changcun did not refuse, since he would indeed need to visit the film set frequently in the future.

Having a car is always more convenient than taking a taxi.

As an ordinary employee of the flower shop, Ning Mengyao was a little dizzy after hearing the other party's answer.

The two were not close friends. Now, when she heard Liu Changcun say that it was a car from the station, she could understand every word, but when they were put together, she was completely confused.

"Don't you own a bookstore...?"

"Part-time, like when you used to work at the supermarket."

"Oh, you must be having a tough time."

After being put in a different way, Ning Mengyao finally understood a little.

She had already refused Liu Changcun's offer to take her home not long ago.

If I were to refuse now, it would seem like I was offending the other party.

Ning Mengyao does know a thing or two about how to conduct herself in society.

"In that case... I'll have to trouble you this time."

"boarding."

Unlock the vehicle, and Liu Changcun approached the car first.

He opened the driver's side door and got in.

The cars at the station are all manual transmission.

Although I haven't driven it for a while, it's still passable.

Ning Mengyao also got into the passenger seat.

For her, who mostly walks and occasionally takes the bus, this was the first time she had ever ridden in a private car.

Leaning carefully back in her seat, she glanced sideways at Liu Changcun as he placed the lunchbox on the back seat, then turned the key to start the car. Seeing him pull out his seatbelt and buckle it in, she realized her own seatbelt wasn't fastened.

He raised his hand and fumbled for the seatbelt beside him.

After grabbing it, I tried to pull it, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't budge it.

"This, this..."

"its stuck?"

Just as he was about to release the handbrake, the woman's voice reached Liu Changcun's ears.

He glanced at her, watching Ning Mengyao pull on the seatbelt.

"Put it back a little, then pull it a little harder."

"Um... no."

Following the man's instructions, Ning Mengyao still couldn't pull the seatbelt out despite her attempt.

She glanced nervously at the driver's seat, feeling too ashamed to utter a word, realizing she couldn't even manage this simple task.

"I'll do it, you lean back a bit."

"it is good……"

After unbuckled his own seatbelt, Liu Changcun leaned towards the passenger seat.

He reached out and grabbed the passenger seatbelt, easily pulling it off the strap that Ning Mengyao had been struggling to pull off.

The buckle is fastened, and I sit back in my seat.

He glanced sideways at the woman beside him.

The image shows the child nervously turning their head to the side, their two fists protecting the protruding area in front of them.

"It's already in place."

"Thanks……"

She exhaled, and only dared to breathe again after holding her breath until the man's voice came.

Looking apologetically to the side, she muttered to herself, having never been in a car with a man before.

"Am I really useless...?"

The handbrake is on, and the action of preparing to release it is paused.

A few seconds later, the handbrake was released again.

Turn the steering wheel and drive away.

"You're a bit too insecure. It's just that you can't pull out your seatbelt. What does that have to do with whether you're useful or not?"

"Don't you think a woman like that is stupid...?"

"I didn't think so before, but now that you've asked me, I do."

"..."

The bookstore owner always seems to give some unexpected answers.

If it were when she had just met him, she would definitely think that the man in front of her was a strange guy.

However, after the incident where he was drunk last time and was taken home and settled by the other party.

Ning Mengyao, on the contrary, found it very interesting to communicate with the other party.

Although there's always a feeling that the other person is talking back to me.

But the other party responded to every word she said.

I have never been perfunctory with myself.

"Mr. Liu...you are such a gentle person..."

"what?"

Liu Changcun, who was shifting gears with the clutch engaged, responded in surprise.

He clearly didn't understand why the other person would suddenly say such a thing.

Look ahead of the vehicle to make sure there are no pedestrians on the road at night.

He then glanced sideways at the woman in the passenger seat.

The expression on his face also changed.

"You said I'm a gentle person? You're not kidding, are you?"

"Although they can be sarcastic at times... they are kind at heart, which is something I've observed in my daily life."

"Then you still don't understand me. I'm notoriously ruthless."

"Still being stubborn...that's something we just observed."

"..."

Ning Mengyao had a smile on her face; she seemed to have learned to joke around too.

When Liu Changcun heard this summary, he felt that the other man really should go to an optician's to get a pair of glasses.

After all, the look in her eyes goes beyond just a simple problem.

"I feel like you're the kind of person who might say it's a hassle, but will still help out when the time comes..."

"Hehe, this is getting more and more outrageous."

Anyway... that's the feeling I get from you.

Liu Changcun gripped the steering wheel tighter and tighter, disagreeing with the summary given to him by the other party.

In his own eyes, Liu Changcun was a typical selfish person.

He only shows normal concern to those he cares about; the life or death of strangers is none of his business.

If he hadn't been worried about Ning Mengyao's safety going home so late, he wouldn't have bothered to personally escort her home.

How could someone like him be a gentle, kind, and easy-going person?
"besides……"

"Stop talking, which way should we go?"

Hearing the voice beside him again, Liu Changcun did not let the other person continue to talk nonsense this time.

The car was approaching the intersection.

Interrupting the woman's speech, Liu Changcun spoke in a cold voice.

Which way should I turn to get to your house?

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