Sweet slice-of-life love story: Wife, Let's love again
Chapter 343 - 336: Unworldly

Chapter 343: Chapter 336: Unworldly

"My wife knows I hate the heat and doesn’t want me to stay up late because it’s bad for my health, so every day she lets me go to bed first to sleep, and when the blanket is warm, she comes over with her icy hands and feet to help cool me down."

"Before we sleep, she makes sure I don’t lie down for too long and get fat, which isn’t good for my health either, so she asks me to massage her shoulders and rub her legs, so I get a bit of exercise and sleep better."

"She also worries I’ll oversleep and be late for work in the morning, so she kicks me awake at seven o’clock to make formula for our son."

"My wife is so good to me, I can really feel it, she loves me a lot."

Xiao Yu closed his notebook, turned his head to glance at the dusty fishing rod in the corner, and let out a deep sigh.

A single step taken wrong can be regretted for a lifetime, ah.

Why didn’t I control myself back then?!

"Beep, beep..."

The bell tinkled, and with a slap, Xiao Yu stood up from his chair, wandered over to the bedside to touch here and look there, making sure there was no wet diaper before breaking into a big, big smile.

"Hey!"

The same almost-thirty-year-old him, with his chin sporting a short beard that appeared neatly trimmed, suddenly had a more mature air about him.

Leaning over, he rubbed his stubble against his son’s face, making the little one giggle, then Xiao Yu picked him up and carried him out of the bedroom.

"Is dinner ready? I’m starving!"

"It’s almost done, feed the baby first."

Zhou Nan wiped her forehead with her sleeve in the kitchen and kept busy waving the spatula around.

After giving birth, she hadn’t returned to her original figure, her waist circumference had fattened up a whole size, yet the places that should have gotten bigger only grew a tiny bit, which quite disheartened her.

Luckily, it hadn’t affected feeding her son.

She served the cooked dishes, took off her apron, and by that time Xiao Yu had already sat down at the table, placing the child in the baby chair, supporting the milk bottle with his hand as he fed him.

"The company’s profits are getting worse; I’m thinking of changing jobs in a couple of months, what do you think?" Zhou Nan held a bowl and picked some food with her chopsticks, asking while she ate.

"Sure, I’ve been telling you to change jobs, but you insisted on staying there."

Xiao Yu had no objections to her changing jobs. Zhou Nan was still at the company they’d met at. When he left to jump ship, he’d tried to persuade Zhou Nan to switch jobs with him, but she had only just started not long before and didn’t have anywhere better to go, so she refused and had stayed there ever since.

"It wouldn’t have looked good to leave right after maternity leave... Now I can, so I’ll think about it, see if I can find a better one."

"You can also quit and be a full-time housewife at home; it’s not like I can’t afford to support you..."

"No way, I need to work, I didn’t spend all those years studying just to stay at home watching the kid and doing the cooking and laundry for you."

Zhou Nan certainly didn’t want to be a stay-at-home mom. It would be best to take half of her own earnings and hire a nanny. She needed her own life, not to stay at home all day worrying about household expenditures; it would be a waste of a person.

The pet cat in the living room’s cage meowed twice; Xiao Yu stood up to refill its cat food, then sat back down. The little rascal quietly sat in the baby chair sucking on his bottle, simple dishes and a soup on the table, and the television hanging on the wall in the background continued to broadcast voices, the host and guest engaging in lively conversation.

"I’ll refer you internally first, see if you can join the company I’m working at now... Send me your resume another day."

"Okay."

They finished a very ordinary dinner, the baby started to doze off again, Zhou Nan lulled him to sleep, came back into the living room, took off her shoes, and snuggled up on the sofa with Xiao Yu to watch TV.

During a commercial break, Xiao Yu, checking on his son in the feeding chair, scoffed at the TV advertisement.

"You can tell it’s fake, no woman’s like that."

"..."

Zhou Nan looked down at herself then let her gaze drift away, "Don’t say that sort of thing in the future."

"Huh?"

"If someone hears you, it’ll seem like you haven’t seen the world."

"..."

After holding back for a while, Xiao Yu mumbled, "Actually... small has its own advantages."

"What’s good about that?"

"...Saves on fabric."

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When Sun Wen arrived at Xu Wei’s place carrying a black bag, she was reclining on the large sofa in the middle of the living room, draped in a sheer nightgown, sipping wine from a glass.

This woman wasn’t a drunk, she rarely got intoxicated, she was just purely bored.

If she weren’t bored, she wouldn’t be calling him over so often.

Sun Wen placed the black bag next to her and said, "Here’s a hundred thousand."

"Keeping me?" Xu Wei asked with a smile.

"Paying back a debt." Sun Wen pursed his lips and didn’t find the joke amusing.

He plonked down beside her, poured himself a glass of red wine, and drank half of it in gulps like it was beer, then let out a breath and said, "There’s another hundred thousand, I’ll probably have to wait until the end of the year..."

"No rush, just use it as you need."

Xu Wei rubbed her foot against Sun Wen’s leg, "Why not buy a car first?"

"Renting is pretty good." Sun Wen casually grabbed her foot, held it gently in his hand, "I’ll consider other things once I’ve paid you back."

"You’re in such a hurry to break ties with me?"

"No... I can’t keep owing you money indefinitely."

Sun Wen chuckled, turning his head towards the bag of money, "I’m returning it now while I have money, otherwise, if I run out of money and can’t repay, I might end up being a dog."

"Not a dog, a pet."

"That sounds even worse."

"So what do you think sounds better?"

"If possible, I’d like to be a person."

"Keep it up."

"Thank you."

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Around New Year’s Day, He Fang organized a family health check-up—The young couple was planning for a baby, and brought Qin’s Mom along for a comprehensive examination.

Of course, the results showed no issues; all three of them were very healthy, which allowed He Fang to breathe a sigh of relief, fully preparing herself for the arrival of April.

Now, close to April, the day for sowing was approaching day by day, and she had to make the utmost effort to adjust her mood.

"Don’t move about!"

"Didn’t you say these days we could..."

"The process is going to start in a few days, hold back."

"..."

Qin Guanglin, unsatisfied, felt pretty gloomy, could only get some relief with his hands, grumbling things like ’Don’t you dare ask me later’, ’I must reject you firmly’, as he put on his clothes and left the bedroom for the study.

He’d bought a pile of books on pregnancy and childbirth knowledge, and a big pack of pregnancy tests stockpiled at home, now he was always poring over the books, striving to make a hundred percent preparation for his daughter’s birth.

Outside the window the moon shone brightly and the stars were sparse, the sheer moonlight spilled down. Looking down from high above, Luo City was dotted with dense points of light. Some residences were brightly lit, others had long turned off their lights and gone to sleep, and everyone followed their own tracks, methodically living their lives.

Qin Guanglin, wearing his clothes, grew tired of reading and stood by the window, pulling open a slit in the curtain, gazing out through the glass window at the moon, his face showing contemplation.

He was but a mortal, yet he strove against fate for his daughter’s life, for his own life; the thought always seemed a bit magical.

The moonlight also fell on Sun Wen’s face as he sat shirtless on the balcony, a cigarette pinched between his fingers, gazing up at the bright moon above, his expression neither sad nor joyful, wondering who knows what.

In the living room behind him, Xu Wei was already fast asleep; she never fussed about where she slept—Having a big house meant she could be wilful, and when the couch in the living room was spread out, it was even larger than most people’s beds.

Xiao Yu, rubbing his eyes as he got up in the night, tiptoed over to his son’s crib to peep in, carefully not waking him, then with a smile returned to his own big bed, scooping up Zhou Nan and pecking her indiscriminately on the lips, which caused her to roll over in her sleep, clinging to him tightly like holding a big teddy bear, even hooking her legs over him, locking him tightly in place.

Xiao Yu wriggled out an arm, pulling the thin quilt that had been kicked aside over the two of them, glanced at Zhou Nan in the moonlight streaming through the window, and with his only free hand, he brushed a strand of hair sticking to her mouth to the side before closing his eyes to continue the pleasant dream he’d been having.

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