After his blunder in the handsome guy's comment section was exposed.

Why?

Lin Xuechun lowered her eyelashes, staring at the sandwich on the table with a bite taken out of it, her fingertips curling slightly under the table: "Because...because you're too curly."

She whispered what she had been holding in her heart.

Xi Chenzhou was taken aback, not quite understanding how this sentence had anything to do with moving out.

He stood up, the chair scraping the floor with a short thud. He walked around to her side and sat down, draping his arm over the back of her chair. Leaning forward, his domineering presence enveloped her, his dark eyes fixed on her small face.

"Honey, what does it mean if I'm too curly?"

"It means exactly what it says."

Lin Xuechun dared not look into his eyes; her eyelashes drooped, casting a trembling shadow on her cheekbone.

"Every night after I go to sleep, you're still studying, and in the morning before I'm even awake, you're up writing code. Compared to you, I'm so lazy and lazy. Being around you makes me feel a lot of pressure."

Xi Chenzhou clearly failed to understand her logic; in fact, the reason was completely unexpected.

When he heard her say she was moving out, a lot of possible reasons flashed through his mind—was there something he hadn't done well enough, did she not like the environment here, or did he say something wrong at the party yesterday?

But none of them are like this.

Does he put pressure on her?

His Adam's apple bobbed, and his fingers, resting on the back of the chair, tightened slightly.

"I'm sorry, honey. From now on, I'll sleep with you when you sleep. Please don't move out, okay? I'll think you want to break up with me."

"You understood correctly," Lin Xuechun said, looking down and picking at her fingers. After a few seconds of hesitation, she mustered her courage and said, "When I said I wanted to move back to the dorm, it was because I wanted us to calm down."

"What do you mean, wife?" Xi Chenzhou's expression changed instantly, his gaze dark and intense as he stared intently at her.

Lin Xuechun took a soft breath and explained, "Taking a nap is your daily routine, and you don't think there's anything wrong with it. But I'm not like that. You've seen it yourself; when I don't have classes, I sleep until I naturally wake up, and after finishing my homework, I won't open my textbook again, much less actively search for related literature. If there weren't final exams, I would completely forget what was taught in that subject."

"I'm such a terrible student, so unmotivated. I could have continued like this without a care in the world, but you keep pushing me. You're even studying while I'm trying to sleep. How can I close my eyes in peace with this? I feel like even sleeping is a form of decadence."

Before she could finish saying "Wife," Xi Chenzhou grabbed her wrist and pulled her towards him, making her sit sideways on his lap. He wrapped his arms around her waist and tightened his grip, his voice tense, "Don't break up, wife, don't break up."

"Let go first," Lin Xuechun squirmed in his arms, trying to sit back in her chair, "Let me finish what I have to say."

Xi Chenzhou wouldn't let go, his arms tightening around her, his handsome profile pressed against her chest, his voice muffled: "I don't want to hear it, wife. I won't break up with you, I won't agree, don't even think about it."

"We were perfectly fine, you even said you were happy last night, only I could feel..."

Why do we have to break up as soon as I wake up in the morning?

She didn't speak, and he tightened his arms around her, his fingers curling tightly around her waist, as if afraid she would disappear from his embrace at any moment.

"Why, wife?"

His voice came from her chest, muffled and strained: "Is there something I did wrong? Tell me, and I'll change."

Lin Xuechun's heart skipped a beat, as if she had been suddenly submerged in acidic water. Her fingers slowly clenched into a fist, her nails digging shallow marks into her palms. She slowly raised her eyes, looked at him, and asked in return:

"Xi Chenzhou, what do you like about me?"

Without waiting for his reply, she continued.

"Zhou Kai's fiancée can talk to him about business, and she can also play golf with him. They're from the same world, they're on the same wavelength. But I'm just an ordinary girl, not very ambitious, I don't have any plans for the future, I like eating, drinking, and having fun, and I'm content as long as my studies are passable."

She sniffed and continued softly, "We're in the honeymoon phase, so of course you think everything about me is great, and it's fine for me to be a bit of a slacker. But with you being so fickle, you'll become more and more outstanding, and you'll attract more and more people who are on the same wavelength as you, including many beautiful girls. Then you'll realize..."

She paused here. Although it was just a hypothetical scenario and hadn't happened yet, the mere thought of it already caused a dull ache in her heart, her eyes involuntarily reddened, and her voice became aggrieved:

"You'll think... I'm completely unattractive. You'll definitely regret it then, regret getting tied to me so early on, so... let's calm down now and figure out if we're truly the life partner we want."

After saying that, she turned her head away, biting her red lips tightly with her pearly teeth, stubbornly refusing to let her tears fall.

At this moment, Xi Chenzhou finally understood where the sorrow in her eyes yesterday came from.

Silly wife, I didn't know you had so many things on your mind.

He held her tightly, his eyes brimming with tenderness. "Wife, you are the best. Whether it's your appearance, your intelligence, wisdom, shyness, sensitivity, clinginess... everything about you, as long as you are the way you are, is what I love. No one can replace you."

"If I have any regrets in the future, it will definitely be that I didn't meet you sooner and missed out on so many years of your life."

"Look at my wife."

Xi Chenzhou raised a hand, gently pinched Lin Xuechun's chin, turned her head back, and then placed his large palm on her cheek, his fingertips brushing against the wet red at the corner of her eyes.

"If I want to discuss projects or find people to play golf with, I can ask Wei Ziheng and his friends. There's no need to turn my wife into one of my brothers. Maybe some people like that, but I prefer my partner to be free to be herself."

"I work so hard because I want to give you the best life possible and bring our envisioned robot to life as soon as possible. I never thought it would put pressure on you. I'm sorry, honey. I'll spend more time with you from now on, okay? You sleep, I'll sleep too. Let's not break up, okay? Please don't break up."

He took her hand and pressed it against his heart. His strong heartbeat traveled through the fabric to her palm, and the tears in Lin Xuechun's eyes finally broke free and fell, one by one, onto the back of his hand.

The scalding tears burned the back of his hand.

Xi Chenzhou's heart involuntarily contracted, a dull ache spreading through him.

He pulled her closer, tilted his head back to kiss away the tear that clung to her chin, and whispered soothingly, "Don't cry, honey. I love you, I love you so much... You don't want us to separate, do you?"

Lin Xuechun bit her lip and remained silent, tears streaming down her face, her shoulders heaving.

Xi Chenzhou was heartbroken.

"Silly wife, don't overthink it. I don't need a compatible partner at all. If you don't believe me, go ask Wei Ziheng and the others. Who talks to their wife about business? Men just want to..."

He whispered something in her ear.

Lin Xuechun was so embarrassed that she raised her hand and slapped him.

Nonsense. You big bad guy!

Still having the strength to hit him, Xi Chenzhou shamelessly threatened, "Wife, if you bring up moving out and breaking up again, I'll set up a tent downstairs in your dorm tomorrow and wait for you under your window every day."

Lin Xuechun was both laughing and crying at his words, and managed to squeeze out a sentence with a heavy nasal tone: "...You're sick."

"Yes, you're sick. Only you can cure it."

Xi Chenzhou lowered his head and sealed her lips with his thin lips.