Pampered by the Toughest Man After Divorce
Chapter 1450 - 1272 Xiao’ai, Dabao, Xiaobei

Chapter 1450: Chapter 1272 Xiao’ai, Dabao, Xiaobei

She poured the wine and drank two glasses in succession, her cheeks turning red. I looked at her with pity.

"Xiao’ai, have a drink!" Xia Dabao poured a glass of wine for Long Aixi, who took a sip.

Xia Dabao didn’t care whether Long Aixi drank or not. She drank more and more and talked more and more: "When Xiaobei left Peach Blossom Village, he asked me to wait for him for two or three years, saying he would definitely come back to marry me. I told him that I wouldn’t wait, that if I met the right person in the meantime, I would marry him. I thought that in these two or three years I wouldn’t meet someone I liked more, and if he really came back, then I’d marry him, but... I, Xia Dabao, am saying this now, even if he comes back then and begs me, I won’t marry him!"

Long Aixi watched Xia Dabao, who was quite drunk, and wanted to persuade her not to drink so much, but soon after, Xia Dabao poured herself a large glass.

After finishing that large glass, her eyes gradually became blurry, and she stopped talking, simply leaning on the table and slowly falling asleep.

Long Aixi called out a couple of times: "Dabao? Dabao?"

There was no response.

Long Aixi put down her glass and then carried Xia back to bed.

Xia Dabao was truly drunk by then, lying still, her cheeks very red. Long Aixi went out to call the maid to bring in a basin of hot water, wiped Xia’s face, and then instructed the maid to take good care of her, and to notify her next door if anything happened.

Before leaving, Long Aixi took another look at Xia Dabao.

She was sleeping soundly, as peaceful as a baby. He couldn’t resist the urge to bend down and kiss her, but just as he lowered his head and smelled the faint fragrance on her, he dismissed the thought.

He had promised not to kiss her anymore.

Long Aixi tucked her in, turned around, went out, and finally closed the door.

But inside the room, Xia Dabao opened her eyes.

She was indeed intoxicated, her body soft and limp, but her mind was still clear. She knew what Long Aixi had just done for her—the face wiping, the hand cleaning, all of which touched her deeply.

It was only that final kiss.

If he had truly kissed her, she might not have pushed him away.

She might not have resisted even if he went further.

But he had walked away instead.

Xia Dabao turned over, thinking this was also quite good. They would just continue to get along this way, leaving everything else to time.

...

In the morning, Long Aixi thought of waking Xia Dabao to have breakfast.

She had been so drunk last night she would probably sleep very late, right?

But when he went to her room, he found she was already up, dressed anew, looking very spirited. When Long Aixi came in, Xia Dabao even smiled at him.

"Xiao’ai, good morning," Xia Dabao was wearing the clothes Lu Jianxi had bought for her, a goose yellow dress with a small bun on top adorned with a pearl hairpin that Long Aixi had given her.

Long Aixi walked slowly in, then smiled at Xia Dabao: "Dabao, did you sleep well last night?"

"Very well, I slept through till dawn without a single dream," Xia Dabao said with a smile. She had put on a little makeup, especially around her eyes with light eyeshadow, and her eyebrows delicately drawn. The maid at her uncle’s mansion was very skilled at applying makeup, dressing Xia Dabao up quite nobly, even more so than the Pang family’s young miss, Pang Yanyan, whom they had met the other day.

Similarly, it also concealed her fatigue.

The two went to the front hall to have breakfast with her aunt and the others.

During this time, Long Aixi kept an eye on Xia Dabao’s reactions. Seeing she was no different than usual, even making jokes with her aunt, which greatly amused her, and when her aunt became happy, she had people bring more things for Xia Dabao. Xia Dabao initially refused, but eventually, she gracefully accepted them.