Five years without pregnancy means you're too weak; I remarried a powerful man and had triplets

The living room fell silent for a moment.

Tan Gui's chopsticks fell onto the table with a "clatter".

Pei Jin looked at Tan Gui, then at Shen Haozhi, her mouth agape in an "O" shape: "Holy crap..."

Lu Zichuan sat beside him, eating quietly the whole time. When he heard this, he only raised his eyes slightly, a knowing smile flashing in his eyes.

He picked up a piece of green vegetable with his chopsticks and put it in Shen Zhiyi's bowl, saying casually, "Let's eat, the food is getting cold."

Shen Zhiyi took the chopsticks and raised an eyebrow at her brother: "Brother, I'll give you time to confess. You'd better tell me before I find out anything."

After she finished speaking, she sat back down in her seat and started eating, as if to say, "That's enough for today."

But Shen Haozhi knew that his sister always kept her word.

He glanced at Tan Yi secretly.

She was looking down, her ears were so red they looked like they were about to bleed, and she was poking around in her bowl with her chopsticks, but she hadn't eaten a single bite.

Shen Haozhi gently touched her knee under the table.

Tan Gui didn't dodge, but she also didn't look at him.

He breathed a sigh of relief. At least, she wasn't angry.

"Let's eat," he said softly, his voice carrying a tenderness that only the two of them could understand.

The large dining table, which could seat seven or eight people, was now fully occupied. There was stir-fried beef with cilantro, boiled sliced ​​pork, stewed chicken with mushrooms, steamed sea bass, spicy stir-fried squid, and stir-fried seasonal vegetables, with a pot of winter melon, barley, and old duck soup simmering in the middle.

The steaming dishes looked incredibly appetizing, and their aroma filled the dining room.

"Zhizhi, did you make all these dishes?"

Shen Haozhi couldn't help but ask a question, then picked up a piece of stir-fried beef with cilantro and put it in his mouth. Smooth and tender, the seasoning was just right, and the sauce, which coated the beef's freshness, melted on his tongue. It was in no way inferior to that of a chef in a restaurant.

He was still somewhat resentful about his sister's questioning at the dinner table, feeling that she hadn't given him, her older brother, any face in front of Lu Zichuan and Pei Jin.

But at this moment, looking at this table full of delicious-looking dishes, an indescribable feeling of bitterness suddenly welled up from the bottom of my heart.

Back then, he watched Shen Zhiyi and Xu Zhesheng go abroad after getting their marriage certificate. At that time, Shen Zhiyi was a girl who never lifted a finger. At home, she was never asked to cook or even carry a bowl.

In just a few years, his sister has managed to cook such a decent meal all by herself.

Just how much grievance and suffering did she endure from Xu Zhesheng?

Shen Haozhi gritted his teeth, gripped his chopsticks tightly, and cursed Xu Zhesheng in his mind.

If he ever runs into that bastard again, he'll beat him so badly that even his own mother wouldn't recognize him!

"No," Shen Zhiyi waved her hand. Although she originally wanted to cook herself, Lu Zichuan's arrival completely changed her mind. "Most of the cooking was done by President Lu. I was just helping out."

She was telling the truth.

Tan Gui added at the right moment, "But Zhizhi's skills are not bad either. Brother Haozhi, you don't know, Zhizhi has learned so many things over the years, she can even sew clothes!"

As Shen Haozhi listened, he almost broke the chopsticks he was already gripping tightly.

Just then, he picked up a duck leg and, without thinking, gave it to Shen Zhiyi: "Zhiyi, you've suffered all these years. It's all my fault for not coming back sooner, otherwise I would have definitely made you divorce that beast Xu Zhesheng long ago!"

Upon hearing this, Shen Zhiyi immediately understood that Shen Haozhi was feeling sorry for her.

She smiled and joked to herself, "It's not too late to come back now. Maybe I wouldn't have wanted to leave you before!"

She paused, her gaze sweeping over Shen Haozhi's face, before her tone suddenly turned serious: "But now that my problem is solved, brother, you should bring your girlfriend to meet me as soon as possible. That's all I want right now."

Mentioning this, Shen Haozhi, who had just been expressing his feelings, suddenly buried his head and began to eat seriously.

He didn't utter a sound.

Under the table, Tan Gui gently scratched his thigh, and his ears turned red. He quietly reached out and slapped her hand.

He gestured to her with his eyes: "Don't move!"

Tan Gui's eyes crinkled, and she couldn't suppress the smile on her lips.

Shen Zhiyi didn't notice these little actions between the two, but Lu Zichuan, sitting opposite her, noticed them keenly.

He raised an eyebrow slightly, but said nothing. He even put a piece of beef on Shen Zhiyi's plate, silently diverting her attention: "Eat more."

His voice was deep, and sitting next to her, she could almost feel the heat emanating from him.

Shen Zhiyi shifted awkwardly to the side and whispered, "Thank you."

Pei Jin was originally focused on eating his meal, his forehead was still aching, and he was relying on the food to keep warm. But now, as he watched Shen Haozhi and Tan Gui exchanging glances under the table, and felt Lu Zichuan's tender care for Shen Zhiyi, he suddenly felt that the food in his mouth was no longer delicious.

He felt the pain in his forehead travel along his nerves to his brain. Damn it, he gave up the chance to drive around in a luxury car with a pretty girl today, just to come here and be fed dog food?

angry!

I'm so angry!

He angrily got up, picked up the last piece of squid from the plate, put it into his bowl, and tore it apart as if it were a person at the table. Just you wait, you're all paired up, but sooner or later someone will feel sorry for me!

After dinner, since there was an automatic dishwasher in the house, Shen Zhiyi only needed to clean up the leftovers on the plates before everyone else threw the dishes and chopsticks into the dishwasher.

Afterwards, everyone sat together and chatted casually. At eight o'clock in the evening, Tan Gui started to yawn.

She waved her hand: "Zhizhi, I can't go on anymore, I'm going home to sleep."

As soon as she spoke, the others also began to get up and prepare to leave.

Shen Zhi noticed that they had all drunk alcohol and their faces were a little flushed, which made her uneasy.

"Yingying, can you go back? Why don't you stay here and go back tomorrow?"

Tan Gui pointed at Lu Zichuan: "What are you afraid of? Isn't President Lu here?"

Pei Jin smiled and said, "Yes, Assistant Wang should already be waiting downstairs. He can take us back together."

"Alright then." Shen Zhiyi nodded and escorted them to the garage, where Assistant Wang was already waiting.

Upon seeing Shen Zhiyi, Assistant Wang smiled and nodded at her.

Shen Zhiyi nodded. Lu Zichuan's car could easily accommodate the few of them. "Then, Mr. Lu, would you please take my brother back with you?"

Lu Zichuan nodded lightly, which naturally didn't require Shen Zhiyi to say anything.

After watching them leave, Shen Zhiyi went upstairs.

Inside the car, Assistant Wang sat in the driver's seat, while Pei Jin, having already wisely hailed a taxi and slipped away.

Lu Zichuan sat in the passenger seat, while Shen Haozhi and Tan You sat in the back.

Although the two were seated on opposite sides of the road, with a distance of more than half a seat between them, the undeniable ambiguous atmosphere between them could not be hidden from Lu Zichuan, who was sitting in the front row.

He slowly turned his head, glanced at the back seat in the rearview mirror, a faint smile playing on his lips, and asked casually, "Brother, should I take you back to your own home, or to Tan Gui's?"