Wife, please behave yourself.

Chapter 185 You'll handle this yourself.

An Zhaoran simply couldn't pretend nothing had happened.

In addition, she is naturally impatient, and although she tried to appear more magnanimous, she ultimately couldn't do it after trying all the way.

While waiting for Liu Changcun's answer, An Zhaoran's gaze remained fixed on the man's face.

Looking at Liu Changcun's still calm expression, it was as if the things that upset her had no effect on him at all.

Upon hearing the question, Liu Changcun paused for a few seconds, and only after seeing An Zhaoran's less-than-pleasant expression did he smile and ask.

"You want to go see it too?"

"..."

"It's no big deal. Just tell me if you want to see it. It's just a matter of buying a ticket."

"..."

"You don't also think it's hard to buy tickets for this play, do you? There are no tickets that can't be bought for any performance, so don't worry."

His several replies, however, never addressed the point that An Zhaoran cared about.

Looking at Liu Changcun's serious expression in front of her, An Zhaoran couldn't tell if he was genuinely unaware or just pretending not to know.

She had made it perfectly clear, so how could men in love be so oblivious?

An unnamed fire was burning fiercely in her heart, and at this moment An Zhaoran was extremely angry.

The speed of his movements increased, and his previously steady breathing became more pronounced as his emotions rose.

Liu Changcun still had a smile on his face, but the smile that used to be pleasing to the eye now made An Zhaoran angrier the more she looked at it.

His clenched right fist could no longer be controlled, and he raised it to smash it down on Liu Changcun's arm.

However, this time Liu Changcun did not let her slap him.

He caught his opponent with a backhand.

"Trying to launch a sneak attack again?"

"Who told you to always make me angry!"

"What made you angry?"

"Clearly, you're already in a relationship, yet you still accepted the play tickets from your senior!"

"This is great stuff! It's touring the country for over ten shows, don't you want to see it?"

"In no mood!"

The answer was straightforward and the pronunciation was very clear.

An Zhaoran was expressing her opinion when she looked at Liu Changcun in front of her, pursing her lips and suppressing her grievances.

Only then did Liu Changcun become serious. Seeing that An Zhaoran in front of him had taken it seriously, he hurriedly let go of her hand and then handed over the ticket he had been holding.

"Alright, alright, I won't tease you anymore. Look at how wronged you look."

"..."

With her eyes blinking, An Zhaoran was utterly puzzled by the man's act of handing her the theater tickets, as she was feeling aggrieved.

He lowered his eyes to look at the ticket handed to him, and at the same time, he heard the other person's voice in his ear.

"She meant well, senior. In that situation, do you think I could refuse?"

"Why not...?"

In An Zhaoran's view, refusing was just a matter of moving her lips, which she didn't find difficult.

"You know perfectly well what she feels for you..."

Before she could finish speaking, An Zhaoran realized that there was no point in saying anything more now.

However, her sudden stop only emboldened Liu Changcun.

Seeing An Zhaoran's displeased expression, he continued speaking as if he already knew the answer.

"What did my senior do to me?"

"It's not like you don't know."

"Of course I don't know. If I knew, would I need to ask you?"

"You really don't know?"

Looking at Liu Changcun nodding and seeing the serious expression on his face.

An Zhaoran felt it was absurd; it was something that anyone with eyes could see, yet Liu Changcun in front of her hadn't noticed at all.

Considering that Liu Changcun had not only been married before, but also had a child who was already of age, his sensitivity to emotions was even less than that of this novice in love.

"Your senior likes you!"

He couldn't control his excitement, but Liu Changcun didn't show any strong reaction when he heard this.

Instead, he nodded in a pretentious manner, as if he had just learned that.

"Oh, I see. No wonder my senior was so nice to me, buying me clothes and giving me tickets."

"How can you be so slow?"

"There's nothing I can do. If I had said I already knew, how would I have seen you get jealous?"

"..."

It wasn't until Liu Changcun said those words that An Zhaoran, who had been sighing just a second ago, suddenly realized what was happening.

She blinked frequently, looking at the man who had said those words.

The doubt in her eyes gradually dissipated, and An Zhaoran immediately realized that Liu Changcun had brought her in. When she saw the ticket handed to her by the other party, she stared at it blankly for a long time.

He spoke after a long while.

"You knew all along..."

"I'm not blind."

After a pause, Liu Changcun added.

"No one in this world will be kind to you for no reason. It's either because they have something to gain from you or, as you said, they are."

Liu Changcun was not oblivious to feelings; he had already sensed the unusual emotions in his relationship with his senior.

However, he can choose to respond to some emotions, while others he can only maintain the status quo.

Sometimes... speaking plainly can only cause otherwise normal interpersonal relationships to fall apart.

"It's precisely because I knew that I accepted this play ticket."

"..."

The man's words only deepened An Zhaoran's confusion. Her gaze towards Liu Changcun was filled with bewilderment as she watched him hand her the ticket, his hand waving slightly in front of her eyes. "If I hadn't accepted this ticket, how could you have the nerve to announce it yourself?"

"I don't know what you mean..."

"Take it, you can go see the show on Saturday."

An Zhaoran's eyes widened uncontrollably; she clearly hadn't expected to hear such words from Liu Changcun.

She stood there stunned for a moment, unable to come to her senses. After what seemed like an eternity, she slowly raised her hand, which had been hanging limply to her side, and took the play ticket that had been handed to her earlier.

Her gaze fell on the play ticket, looking at the words on it. After a few seconds, she slowly raised her eyes and looked back at the man in front of her.

Looking at Liu Changcun's smiling face.

"I'm going to...a performance? With my senior?"

"You're the kind of person who tends to overthink things. You should tell her yourself on Saturday."

Liu Changcun said softly, looking at An Zhaoran who had already taken the ticket.

He knew this very well. If he hadn't accepted the play ticket, An Zhaoran would have been happy at the time, but would have been conflicted afterwards.

During the time he spent with her, Liu Changcun had come to understand her temperament and personality to some extent.

Although An Zhaoran doesn't explicitly express anything on the surface, she can't help but reveal her unusual emotions on her face when she encounters a problem.

To put it bluntly, people like her are simple-minded and straightforward, but they are also extremely prone to getting caught up in internal conflicts.

It's rare to encounter a situation where people treat each other as friends.

Once the relationship becomes closer, she will fall into endless entanglement.

Simply put, Ahn So-ran is the type of person who easily lacks a sense of security.

It was precisely because Liu Changcun realized this that he did not refuse when his senior invited him to watch the play alone.

Although he could personally inform Wen Yunwei that he and An Zhaoran had established a relationship, there would be drawbacks to doing so.

Even if she gets through the theater experience smoothly, she might still feel conflicted about similar incidents in the future.

Solving problems cannot be limited to dealing with what is happening in the present moment.

Liu Changcun chose to accept his senior's invitation because he needed to consider the long-term future.

From the very beginning, he never intended to actually go and watch it.

"You'll feel more at ease if you handle it yourself."

Liu Changcun's words reached An Zhaoran's ears, and her originally gloomy mood immediately eased.

She looked at the man in front of her, noticing his ambiguous smile.

The play ticket in her hand was very light, but at that moment it felt surprisingly heavy.

The pent-up frustration that had been buried deep in his heart dissipated after hearing Liu Changcun's words.

No matter how much An Zhaoran thought about it, she never imagined that the other party would mean this.

"you really……"

She didn't finish her sentence.

However, when An Zhaoran looked at Liu Changcun in front of her, her eyes could no longer see anything other than men.

At this moment, she only had eyes for him, and it was because of his actions that she, who had been silently enduring, experienced what it meant to feel at ease.

An Zhaoran took a small step forward.

She approached Liu Changcun, raised the hand holding the ticket, and wrapped it around the man's neck. With just a little force, she made him lower his head, who had always maintained a proud and upright posture.

Without warning, she stood on tiptoe, closed her eyes tightly, and her eyelashes trembled slightly.

He turned his face to the side.

In the darkness of night, next to the cars parked in the residential area.

Their intertwined figures were bathed in moonlight for a long time.

For a long time... there was no sign of them separating.

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Wen Yunwei stayed downstairs for an unknown amount of time until her emotions calmed down before returning home.

As she gently closed the open security door behind her and changed her shoes, Wen Yunwei occasionally called out to the inside of the house.

When her daughter appeared before her eyes, the scene she had witnessed not long ago resurfaced in her mind.

During the time she was downstairs, Shen Ruzhi had already taken a shower when she got home.

She was washing her face after changing into her pajamas when she saw her mother, who had changed her shoes, enter the living room. She immediately asked anxiously.

"Mom, do you have that in your room?"

"Ok?"

Arriving beside her child, Wen Yunwei, already perplexed, was even more surprised upon hearing her daughter's words.

I thought about it for a long time, but I still couldn't figure out what my daughter was talking about.

Before she could react, Shen Ruzhi's voice reached her ears again.

Looking at her daughter, she couldn't find the words to describe it and could only hint at it through gestures.

Shen Ruzhi raised both hands and used her index fingers to point back and forth at the area under her eyes.

"It's the thing you stick here that's supposed to get rid of eye bags... I forgot what it's called."

Shen Ruzhi looked extremely anxious at this moment. She had never paid attention to skincare before, and even when her mother, Wen Yunwei, bought her some skincare products, she rarely chose to use them.

Each time, it was Wen Yunwei who reminded her from behind before she would remember to try it out.

After all, Shen Ruzhi is still very young. At the age of fourteen, she is in the prime of her life, and her delicate and superior skin will be full of elasticity even without deliberate skincare.

Wen Yunwei looked at Shen Ruzhi in front of her, her gaze falling on the part of the child's fingers touching.

When I noticed the barely noticeable dark circles under my daughter's eyes...

Even though Shen Ruzhi didn't explain at the moment, Wen Yunwei now understood why her daughter, who used to be indifferent to this matter, had suddenly become so concerned.

Thinking about the two people I saw downstairs at my apartment building when I drove home.

Watching Liu Songyan and his daughter gradually approach each other.

The current Wen Yunwei.

It was the most confusing time for her since becoming a mother.

(End of this chapter)