Accidentally provoking the spring tide

Chapter 119. They've all trained him like a dog.

"Hold it like this?"

"Yes, stay still, don't move."

The studio's chandelier cast a soft glow, gently enveloping the man.

Lu Lishen held a piece of Xuan paper between his fingertips.

The length of the paper was just enough to cover his upper body.

Only his handsome, flawless face and incredibly long legs were visible.

Lu Lishen looked at the girl walking towards him, his gaze falling on the calligraphy brush she was holding, and he raised an eyebrow slightly.

As if to say——

[Is this what you meant by trying something wilder?]

Jiang Jixu gently lifted the man's chin, using a commanding tone to mask her inner unease.

"Don't move."

As soon as she finished speaking, she stuck the already wet brush onto the rice paper.

In an instant, the water stains spread, soaking the entire area.

The man looked down at her, a slight smile playing on his lips, his eyes seemingly carrying a hint of provocation.

It's as if to say, "That's it?"
Jiang Jixu narrowed his eyes slightly and pressed his wrist down.

The slightly damp Xuan paper was pressed down by the brush and landed precisely on the skin.

Circling around, teasing, gently sketching.

The man's eyelashes trembled slightly, his eyes reddened, and his fingers, gripping the corner of the Xuan paper, tightened involuntarily.

The girl merely lifted her eyelids, tapped his wrist with the pen in the back of her hand, and said with a hint of amusement, "Don't wrinkle the paper, or it will affect the painting."

Lu Lishen: "..."

He knew perfectly well that this was just an excuse for the girl to tease him.

This piece of Xuan paper might be thrown away after this, but just thinking about the scene described by Jiang Jixu would give him an uncontrollable sense of pleasure.

He could only resist the urge to clutch the paper.

But the person in front of him was becoming increasingly outrageous.

The girl sketched him on rice paper, as if trying to understand him completely.

He'd chime in every now and then.

"Lu Lishen, you can't stand this anymore, can you?"

"Hmm, how does it feel here?"

"Lu Lishen, why are you shaking?"

The man was so angry he laughed.

He snatched the Xuan paper away, grabbed the girl who was trying to run away, lowered his head and bit her soft lips, his voice filled with uncontrollable ferocity: "Why am I trembling?"

"Sister, you've practically turned me into a dog, and you still don't know why I'm trembling?"

Jiang Jixu took advantage of the brief moment between kisses to defend himself.

"Well, you were the one who said you wanted to try something wilder, so don't blame me..."

"Okay..." The man's lips retreated slightly, "I don't blame you, but you can't be the only one having fun, right?"

He held her hand, his Adam's apple bobbing, his voice a sexy husky.

"Sister, please help me."

Jiang Jixu's long eyelashes trembled slightly.

Although it wasn't the first time I'd faced this situation, it was the first time I'd done something like this while fully conscious.

She bit her lip, her voice trembling with a hint of tears.

“Lu Lishen… I don’t know how.”

The man kissed the corner of her eye: "It's okay, I'll teach you."

The night was long.

Jiang Jixu tried to blink away the tears that welled up in her eyes from her emotions, and uttered a sentence in fits and starts.

"Lu...can..."

Lu Lishen stopped what he was doing, his voice hoarse: "No, we don't have any of those at home."

Although he did try to seduce her, he never actually thought he would succeed.

I used it all up the night I bought it last time.

He hadn't had time to prepare anything new.

The girl seemed to want to say something more, but the man didn't give her a chance to speak.

The pace quickened.

The easel in the art studio was knocked over.

Paint-stained handprints fell onto the skin.

Jiang Jixu's pupils became unfocused.

In the end, all I could do was stare at his pale palm, as if a rushing stream of water was flowing through it.

……

afterwards.

Lu Lishen helped her clean up, then carried Jiang Jixu back to her room.

Looking at the girl's gentle and serene sleeping face, the man's eyes deepened.

After a while, he looked away, picked up the blanket next to him, and tucked it in.

Before leaving, Lu Lishen caught a glimpse of the shirt she was draped over the back of the chair.

He pursed his lips and silently took the clothes back.

After venting.

The man stood in the misty bathroom, carefully scrubbing the girl's clothes, his slender fingers covered in white foam.

It carries a hidden allure.
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As dawn broke, the first rays of sunlight shone into the courtyard.

In the bathroom, Jiang Jixu looked at the red marks on his crotch and immediately raised his hand to cover his face.

Help! What happened to her last night?

How could you play so wildly?

She felt perfectly fine when she woke up in the morning, which must have been because Lu Lishen had cleaned her up.

The thought of that man doing those things with that aloof face made Jiang Jixu feel like her heart was about to explode.

"It's too chaotic..."

The girl murmured softly as she wiped the water off her body, her face as red as a boiled shrimp.

After taking a shower and getting ready to change, Jiang Jixu realized that the clothes she had draped over the back of the chair were gone.

"Strange, it was clearly placed here."

The girl frowned and searched around elsewhere, but still couldn't find it, so she had to go to the wardrobe and change into a different outfit.

He wore a brown vest over a dark green plaid shirt, paired with a wool midi skirt and a light camel beret, exuding an artistic vibe.

After changing her clothes, she took out her phone to check the notes she had sent out the night before.

Page views have hit a new high, and the backend messages are practically exploding.

Jiang Jixu glanced at the comments and saw that they were all praising the new model's looks, and some people even sent her private messages asking for the model's Sweet Potato account.

Just as she was marveling at how visually driven humans are, she suddenly came across a peculiar reply under the comment praising the model's good looks and asking for his contact information—

[I'm married, so it's inconvenient for me to say anything.]

The IP address below indicates that it is located in Beijing.

Jiang Jixu's brow twitched slightly, and he clicked on the other person's homepage as if possessed.

Their ID is "Expectation".

Surprisingly, he's also a blogger with tens of thousands of followers.

The profile on the homepage contains only a very simple sentence.

"I married her."

The background image on the homepage features a ring placed in the palm of a hand.

Jiang Jixu stared at the familiar ring for a moment, stunned.

Then, in a panic, I zoomed in on the background image.

The same.

The girl stared blankly at the ring on her ring finger.

Then, trembling, I clicked on the first pinned note.

Today, while shopping with Ms. Song, I suddenly saw this ring in the store.

I felt it suited her perfectly at first glance.

So I begged the shop owner to let me stay for a while. Ms. Song glanced at me but didn't ask any more questions. She just picked out a few more pieces of jewelry to show the shop owner that we had the financial means.

To be honest, I'm always grateful for Ms. Song's "laziness" at times like this, as it makes me feel less awkward (although I don't think there's anything shameful about it).
To save money, I started participating in competitions.

Actually, I wasn't really interested at first, since my teacher taught me to be humble, but I really wanted to buy that ring, so I had to apologize to the other students who participated in the competition. Seeing this, Jiang Jixu couldn't help but laugh.

It's easy to tell from his language what an arrogant young man Lu Lishen was back then, quite different from the aloof and unattainable figure she knows now, or the one others describe.

She found it somewhat amusing and continued looking ahead with a smirk.

"...I made the most of my time, and only after participating in many competitions did I realize that some organizers were quite stingy, not even offering any prize money."

I removed all the competitions from the shortlist because the prize money wasn't good enough, but my homeroom teacher seemed to have misunderstood something and started sending me messages about various competitions frequently.

Okay, in the end I kept the ones with bonuses.

--Updated April 19--

I just casually posted something, but I didn't expect so many people to pay attention. I saw many people asking me why I would take the prize money from competitions when my family is well-off... I don't really know, it's just a feeling in my heart.

Just like buying flowers to give to someone you like, the happiest moment might not be the moment you give the flowers, but the process of going to see them with the flowers in your arms.

For me, buying this ring entirely on my own and having my family give me the money have completely different meanings.

I hope that one day I can personally give her the ring.

Jiang Jixu looked at the gleaming ring on her finger, and her nose felt a little sore.

I still remember the casual tone in which Lu Lishen handed her the ring at the Civil Affairs Bureau that day.

He told her, "This isn't good enough."

But the ring he said was "not good enough" was something he had worked countless times to get back then.

She pursed her lips, took a deep breath, and continued reading.

[Updated May 20]

My last bonus arrived today, and during my lunch break, I went and bought the ring.

The boss was very kind and actually held the item for me for over a month.

To be honest, the moment I received the ring, I had a strong urge to give it to her.

But no.

I saw her on my way back to school.

She was with that boy.

They seem to have come to buy milk tea.

I walked past her.

Deep down, I hoped she would notice me, say hello, and say, "Hi, what a coincidence, what are you doing here?"

I might find an excuse to give her the ring.

But she didn't look at me.

She was smiling happily, with only one person in her eyes.

I'm so jealous.

It rained in the afternoon.

I didn't bring an umbrella, and I got soaked to the bone when I got home.

Actually, I had thought about this the moment I saw the ring: I might never have the chance to give it to someone in my life.

But I'm still greedy. What if a windfall falls from the sky and hits me?
Looking back, I guess I was just a little unlucky.

"Tick-tock-"

A large water droplet hit the phone screen, and Jiang Jixu realized that she was crying.

She raised her hand in a daze and wiped away the tears on her cheeks.

It was cool and slightly astringent.

In fact, ever since Jiang Jixu overheard Song Mingzhen and Lu Lishen's conversation yesterday, he had had a vague suspicion.

Lu Lishen may have liked her for a long time.

But she never thought of it.

This "long time" can actually be traced back to my student days.

The date on the note is several years ago.

She was already in college, while Lu Lishen was only in high school at that time.

Judging from the contents of the notes, it seems that he noticed her even earlier than that.

Jiang Jixu dared not think any further. Just as she was about to look at other notes, there was a sudden knock on the door.

"are you awake?"

The gentle male voice that rang out instantly pulled her back to reality from her memories.

But the girl's eyes still stung, and she tried her best to keep her voice steady: "Yeah, I just woke up."

It's unclear whether he noticed anything amiss, but the man did pause before speaking.

"Breakfast is ready."

"Okay, I'll be right down."

After replying, Jiang Jixu switched to a secondary account to follow the other party, and only after composing himself did he hurriedly go downstairs.
-
In the restaurant.

Lu Lishen was wearing a pink Hello Kitty apron with lace trim around his waist and holding two glasses of juice in his hands, giving off a "good husband and father" vibe.

Jiang Jixu was somewhat dazed by what he saw.

She pursed her lips and hurried downstairs in her fluffy slippers.

"I've picked out a few things you like to eat, have a taste—"

Lu Lishen paused for a moment, then looked down at the girl who was hugging him from behind, his usually cold and aloof expression softening and relaxing.

"what happened?"

Jiang Jixu buried his head in his broad back, his voice a little muffled.

"It's nothing, I just wanted to hug you."

The man paused, placed the juice on the table, and then stood quietly in place, following the girl's movements.

Jiang Jixu felt her emotions had calmed down a bit, so she looked up and said in a relaxed tone, "Why are you still wearing this apron?"

Lu Lishen looked down.

"Any questions?"

He thought it was fine, but it was a bit tight and made him feel uncomfortable.

Jiang Jixu felt the abdominal muscles under his palm, looking completely nonchalant.

"nothing."

She let go of him and casually pulled out the chair next to her: "By the way, when you took me back to my room yesterday, did you see the white shirt draped over my chair? I couldn't find it when I woke up this morning."

The man beside him stiffened slightly.

A few seconds later, he coughed lightly and said, "I washed it."

"Did you wash it?"

Jiang Jixu was somewhat surprised.

"Hmm." Lu Lishen picked up the juice beside him, lowering his eyes to avoid her gaze. "I washed it when I saw it yesterday."

The girl's brow twitched slightly, sensing that the man's reaction was a bit strange, but she didn't think much of it and nodded: "Then I'll collect it when it's dry."

Lu Lishen glanced at her, seemingly lost in thought, and hesitated to speak.
-
After breakfast, the two went out.

Two cars passed each other in front of the villa area.

Jiang Jixu frowned slightly as he looked at the car reflected in the rearview mirror.

Lu Lishen noticed her reaction: "What's wrong?"

The girl shook her head: "It's nothing."

She must have misread it.

How did Lin Feng's car end up here?

Meanwhile, in another car.

Lin Feng, sitting in the driver's seat, said, "Brother Ci, this is the last neighborhood Bai Xiaoxiao visited on her whereabouts list."

He glanced at the person sitting next to him: "But is it really a good time for us to come here?"

Following the gathering at the Ji family mansion last night, the board of directors issued an announcement early this morning, declaring the removal of Ji Yanci from his position as president.

The company must be in complete chaos right now. Lin Feng never expected that even at this point, Ji Yanci would still be able to focus his attention on Jiang Jixu.

The man in the passenger seat remained calm.

"You and I both know what that internet project the old man was talking about is like. Do you really think you can negotiate a cooperation with those incompetent guys like Ji Yanting?"

"Let them run wild for a while."

"I'll step in when the contract negotiations fall through, and then Grandpa will know who is more useful to the Ji family."

Lin Feng stole a glance at him in the rearview mirror, but ultimately didn't say the words, "What if you also didn't reach an agreement on the contract?"

The vehicle eventually stopped in front of a villa.

"Is this right here?"

Ji Yanci got out of the car, looked at the gate in front of him, and pressed the doorbell.

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