It's hard to quit, but it's the perfect marriage!

Zhou Yinghuai was asking whether to eat first or drink soup first, but Zhu Xi's answer was, "Wouldn't it be better if you slept in the second bedroom?"

"It seems you want to talk first."

Zhou Yinghuai put his arm around her shoulder, turned her around, and headed straight for the restaurant.

"I'm tough, I can handle sleeping in the second bedroom. You're tired from work, I can't let it affect your sleep."

"By the way, don't think your mother is superstitious. Since it involves you and me, it's better to believe it's true."

Zhou Yinghuai jokingly went to serve the soup, not noticing the dejection and fear on Zhu Xi's face.

Life is hard and superstitious.

Better to believe it exists.

The arguments of the past replayed themselves one after another, Zhu Xi's fingertips turned white, and her eyes suddenly stung with tears.

The men coming and going, and the familiar aroma of food, forcefully pulled her back to reality.

Zhu Xi looked at the home-style stir-fries on the table, all of which were her favorite dishes.

"The shrimp are peeled, eat up."

After Zhou Yinghuai finished speaking, he went back into the kitchen and said, "Once you move in, I'll have the housekeeper from the old house come and take care of you."

Zhu Xi looked at the tall man in the kitchen and his indulgent and kind expression, and felt even more bitter.

Just now, as she stepped out of the elevator, she saw a corner of a car key sticking out.

She knew she was being willful; if she hadn't turned back here, this man, whom she had barely met, would have gone to Yilong Residence to find her.

Zhu Xi lowered her eyes and twisted her fingers.

It seems that the debt owed to Zhou Yinghuai can't be repaid in a short time.

The magnetic field in the second bedroom is bad, affecting his sleep, so he wants to go sleep there.

This man, with his good character, excellent upbringing, and considerate patience, always makes her feel guilty and touched.

Aside from her brother and Huo Xi, there was no one else in the world who treated her so sincerely.

Zhu Xi was deeply moved by what she saw and felt she could not repay it.

Behind her back, Zhou Yinghuai did even more.

He arrived at Huanxisha early in the morning and personally cooked several dishes.

In fact, ever since he left the hospital that night, Zhou Yinghuai had been reflecting on his actions.

He sensed Zhu Xi's deliberate distancing and inner turmoil.

Even analyzing the problem from her perspective.

Finally, Zhou Lingyi's disdain for his old-fashioned ways made him understand everything.

Before Lan Qi went abroad to chase after his wife, he even made a special phone call to him to taunt him.

The phone call went like this.

The airport has notified passengers that check-in is in progress for flights to Hawaii.

Lan Qi watched as a flight attendant pushed his suitcase containing a cashmere scarf away in the VIP waiting area.

He took a sip of coffee. "Ah Huai, that's not how you pursue someone."

Zhou Yinghuai sneered, "Someone like you, who specializes in abducting his childhood friends' sisters. A beast should be mute and never speak human language again."

Lan Qi didn't take it to heart. "Zhu Xi looks like the kind of girl who is very sensible. Her brother-in-law is a girl who studies medicine. She is steady and ruthless."

"You fart too much, it makes your balls hurt! Your shoulder is better now, you can hold your phone for so long."

Blue Flag: "..."

"Zhou Yinghuai, how much do you want your own sister to have a long and happy sex life!"

Zhou Yinghuai scoffed, "With Lingyi's personality and wealth, she can have any kind of man she wants. Her sexual happiness is none of your business."

Lan Qi scoffed, then adopted the air of a married man with experience, and lectured his brother-in-law.

"Zhu Xi is probably cursing you in her heart: 'Zhou Yinghuai, you troublesome little vixen, you keep coming to the hospital to see me because you want my body, don't you?'"

Zhou Yinghuai frowned.

Just as they were about to board, Lan Qi delivered her killer move: "Furthermore, Ah Huai, you even acted like a saint under the moonlit flowers. What is Zhu Xi supposed to think of her rich, handsome, and old arranged marriage husband whom she picked up cheaply?"

The call was abruptly cut off.

Lan Qi turned off her phone in front of the flight attendant.

After finishing, he took out another phone and sent it to Sheng Xiali.

Blue Flag: [Schedule an appointment with a specialist for Ah Huai!]

Completely bewildered in the sweltering summer heat.

In the sweltering summer: [Doesn't he have a wife who's a doctor?]

Lanqi: [Urology, Zhu Xi can't treat the other end of the head, even if he opens the top one.]

In the sweltering summer: [Holy crap.]

Blue Flag: [Find an expert who can keep their mouth shut!]

Then, he sent it to Zhou Lingyi.

Lanqi: [Wife, I was wrong. This old servant will kneel down and serve you all night, okay?]

Zhou Yinghuai understood everything almost instantly.

This includes his budding affection for Zhu Xi and his obsession with not letting go.

He rarely showed any domineering desire to possess anything.

因为祝禧，他甚至懂了蓝旗宁可让他狠揍三天，也得娶令仪的执念。

At that moment, Zhou Yinghuai's hands trembled slightly, and his deep eyes were filled with tension.

Then he realized that his affection for Zhu Xi would push her further away.

After all, his wife, Mrs. Zhou, had vowed to become the dean.

After all, Dean Zhou's ex-boyfriend is still in the medical affairs department.

My thoughts wandered.

Zhu Xi washed her hands while Zhou Yinghuai watched her.

He was pushed back to the dining table.

Then I smelled the aroma of hot soup.

"Congratulations." Zhou Yinghuai sat down naturally. "I hope you can find a sense of belonging in this home. After all, we'll be living under the same roof from now on."

He emphasized that he would try his best to suppress his desire to get close to her in the future.

Suppress her shouting and speak to her in your usual tone.

The two dined together many times, maintaining a serious distance at times, and joking around during their time together.

They even hugged and kissed.

But the issue of belonging was never discussed.

Zhu Xi frowned slightly, somewhat confused about Zhou Yinghuai now, and even unable to understand what he was saying.

She held a soup spoon in her hand, her eyes downcast. "What if I can't find it?"

Zhou Yinghuai: "Then let's move."

"What?"

"I'll move to your Yilong Residence," he answered her question, and in the instant she looked up in surprise, he took her hand.

Zhou Yinghuai's palms are large and warm.

Holding Zhu Xi's valuables firmly in my grasp, I can always find a sense of belonging.

Because you are here now.

Zhu Xi silently broke free and retied her loose hair bun.

When he looked at Zhou Yinghuai again, the same joking smile he had when they first met reappeared on his face. "I can't let you suffer like this. I'll invite you to Yilongju sometime. It's too small to accommodate someone as great as you."

She raised an eyebrow, picked up her chopsticks, and asked, "Can we eat?"

Zhou Yinghuai's barely concealed disappointment quickly subsided, and he said, "Eat."

Zhu Xi thanked him with a smile.

The sunlight outside the window was scorching hot, and even the cicadas in the trees fell silent.

The rounded corners of the dining table, unlike a desk in a dormitory, don't allow two people to sit side by side.

In Huanxi Sha, two people, each with their own thoughts, parted ways in a corner.

Zhou Yinghuai suppressed the surging affection in his heart, unwilling to scare her away.

Zhu Xi suppressed her inner sorrow and pondered how to repay his kindness.

The first meal in the bridal chamber was quietly prepared, accompanied by the unseen shadows of the trees.

After the meal, the dishes are handed over to the dishwasher.

Zhu Xi yawned as he finished eating and drinking.

Seeing that she had no intention of staying, Zhou Yinghuai offered to take her home.

Zhu Xi: "I didn't say I was inviting you to visit my little temple today."

Zhou Yinghuai's brows relaxed. "I'll leave after I drop you off downstairs."

Zhu Xi gave an "oh" and felt that the man in front of her was too good to her, far exceeding what she could bear.

That stubborn streak deep in his bones started acting up again.

She deliberately contradicted Zhou Yinghuai, saying, "Fine, I'll sleep here."

Zhou Yinghuai smiled helplessly and pointed towards the master bedroom, "Go ahead."

"I want to sleep in the second bedroom," she said stubbornly. "The master bedroom is too nice."

This time, Zhou Yinghuai wouldn't listen to her. "The magnetic field in the second bedroom will make it hard for you to sleep."

Zhu Xi didn't want to lie to him: "Zhou Yinghuai, do you know why my parents divorced?"

"When I was six years old, a blind fortune teller came to the entrance of the hospital's staff quarters to beg for food in the winter."

She looked into his eyes, her usually relaxed voice filled with barely suppressed sorrow.

"The snow was heavy, a thick layer fell on that person. I gave him the roasted sweet potato that my mother had bought for me, which I hadn't been able to eat all the way here."

"Then the blind man looked me over, took the sweet potato, and said I had a tough fate, that I had weak family ties, and that I would bring bad luck to whoever was close to me!"

Zhu Xi's voice choked with emotion.

"The following spring, my brother broke his arm while trying to protect me from falling from the tree."

"The following summer, my dad went out to perform surgery and caused a major medical accident. He lost his promotion to department head and then went into a long period of silence."

"My mom." Mentioning He Mianxin, she lowered her head. "After that snow, she never smiled at me again."