After contracting to have a child, the icy female CEO became addicted.

Today is Valentine's Day, February 14th. Weather: Heavy snow turning into blizzard.

This is the first snowfall in Beijing in recent years after the start of spring.

After being locked down for more than a week, Chen Jingyu, who finally got a day off, rushed downstairs to find Jiang Ran as if she were escaping.

As the elevator doors opened, Chen Jingyu rushed into the living room, only to find her brother busy in the kitchen in the dining room at the corner of the living room.

In the center of the dining table, a candlestick was lit, its flame flickering and its shadow elongated as she rushed towards it in the gust of wind.

There were clanging sounds coming from the kitchen. Seeing her brother's back in the distance, Chen Jingyu felt as if she had found her pillar of support. Without the slightest hesitation, she rushed over!

"elder brother!"

She opened the kitchen door and saw her brother holding a pot lid and Xia Yunxi standing in front of the cutting board chopping vegetables with a cleaver.

"Jingyu is here?"

Jiang Ran was taken aback, noticing Chen Jingyu's haggard yet vibrant appearance, and then smiled, "What? Aren't you having extra lessons today?"

"Hey! You're one to talk! Brother, come out with me for a second!"

Chen Jingyu, panting heavily, quickly stepped forward, grabbed Jiang Ran's arm, and pulled him outside.

"Don't be in such a hurry, my sister Yunxi is cooking..."

As soon as Jiang Ran finished speaking, Xia Yunxi's voice rang out: "It's alright, I can handle things in the kitchen by myself. You two siblings can go sit at the dining table and wait!"

She smiled and took the pot lid from Jiang Ran's hand.

Jiang Ran hadn't seen her cousin for a long time and wondered how her studies were going.

Hearing this, Jiang Ran didn't refuse and nodded, saying, "Okay, let's go first. I'll order takeout what you want to drink later."

"You don't need anything. I made a lot of juice in the fridge. You guys can go outside and wait!"

Xia Yunxi smiled, wiped her hands on her apron, and then pushed Jiang Ran outside.

Pulled along by his cousin on one hand and chased away by Xia Yunxi on the other, Jiang Ran sighed and said, "Okay, then we'll wait for you outside. Don't make too much, we can't finish it."

"Uh-huh!"

The kitchen door was pulled shut, and Jiang Ran was dragged to the dining table by Chen Jingyu. Only then did she speak, "What's the matter? Why are you in such a hurry?"

As if seeing a savior, Chen Jingyu's face immediately fell. She rubbed her hands together and pleaded, "Brother, please, could you talk to my sister-in-law and let me go back to school...?"

Hearing this, Jiang Ran almost burst out laughing. "Why do you suddenly want to go back to school? Didn't you hate going to school the most?"

"..."

After a moment of silence, Chen Jingyu's face scrunched up, still with a pleading expression: "Actually, I feel that school is pretty good now..."

"Oh, so you think school's great now? What, aren't you comfortable living in this big villa? Plus, delicious food and drinks are delivered upstairs every day. You can order whatever you want. Life's so comfortable!"

Jiang Ran couldn't help but make a sarcastic remark. He really didn't know how Wen Ling educated her cousin. It had only been a few days, and her cousin, who had been complaining about not wanting to go to school, actually wanted to go back to school.

The sun must have risen in the west!

"Ahhh! Brother!"

Chen Jingyu couldn't hold back anymore and started crying. "Please, just tell my sister-in-law to let me go back to school, okay? I really don't want to stay here anymore..."

As she spoke, she used both hands to grab Jiang Ran's arm and began to shake it from side to side.

It was rare to see her usually quiet little cousin acting so coquettishly, so Jiang Ran sighed, "That might be a bit difficult."

"Why?! Couldn't you have just told your sister-in-law?"

Chen Jingyu paused, momentarily stunned!

"Clatter!"

The kitchen door opened, and Xia Yunxi, holding a plate, smiled at Chen Jingyu and answered the question for Jiang Ran: "Miss Wen doesn't live here right now, so your brother can't talk to her about this for the time being."

"You don't live here?!"

Chen Jingyu exclaimed in surprise, instinctively looking at Jiang Ran, "Brother, you and sister-in-law are arguing again?!"

Every sentence he uttered mentioned "sister-in-law," which made Xia Yunxi feel uncomfortable.

But she didn't say much, only answering for Jiang Ran: "Miss Wen moved out because of some business, and your brother only found out today."

"ah?!"

Chen Jingyu blinked, looking shocked, and said, "Brother, why didn't you tell me? When did sister-in-law move out?! It's not because I'm living here that you two...?"

"It's none of your business!"

Jiang Ran cut Chen Jingyu off immediately, saying, "Sit down and eat first. Since you chose to study here for a month, you have to stick to it no matter what. You chose this path, you have to finish it, even if you have to crawl!"

He didn't say anything more, but quickly stepped forward to help Xia Yunxi put all the plates on the table.

Staring at the table laden with delicious food, the candlestick in the center, and the bottle of red wine beside it, Chen Jingyu's mind was in a frenzy...

"No, brother, sister-in-law isn't home, so why did you have Sister Yunxi prepare a candlelight dinner?"

Her question left the two of them speechless!

In fact, Jiang Ran also wanted to ask this question when he first came back. This is his and Wen Ling's marital home. Although they live separately, they are not divorced yet. Why are he and Xia Yunxi having this kind of candlelight dinner in their home?

But when he opened the door to the villa's living room and saw Xia Yunxi's smiling face and her rushing off to the kitchen to busy herself, he temporarily put aside his question.

Unexpectedly, it was Chen Jingyu who came down and saw this scene before asking the question first.

Faced with her cousin who was still in high school, Jiang Ran didn't know how to explain this to Chen Jingyu.

After all, there's a saying that bad influences can lead to bad behavior in children. He felt that marital infidelity... while there were reasons for it, such values ​​were still problematic when applied to Chen Jingyu.

Xia Yunxi seemed to have been prepared for this, and said proactively, "I saw a candlestick over there, and since Jiang Ran was coming back for dinner tonight, I just brought it over."

She no longer referred to Jiang Ran as "Mr. Jiang" in her speech; she openly called him by his name.

Having never been served by a maid before, Chen Jingyu didn't understand anything. After being cleared up, she happily ran to Jiang Ran's side and sat down next to him at the dining table.

"Sure, I can't go out on Valentine's Day anyway, so I'll have a meal with you, brother, as a way to commemorate my eighteenth birthday!"

As Chen Jingyu spoke, she looked at Xia Yunxi and said politely, "Sister Yunxi, please sit down and eat too. My sister-in-law isn't here today, and my brother and I don't stand on ceremony..."