Take her as my wife

Jiang Ni didn't necessarily want to meddle in this matter. She could tell that neither side was a "good person," and it was probably a conflict between thugs fighting over territory or something.

She didn't even call 120 (emergency services), didn't say a word to Tan Wen, and just turned and left.

Hu Jiaguang walked over to Tan Wen and saw him staring intently at the beautiful woman's back without blinking. He understood immediately: "Brother Wen, why don't you ask for her contact information? Staring at her won't do any good."

Tan Wen looked away: "Let's go, you've talked too much."

He did want to ask for her contact information, but she had just seen him fight and he was covered in blood, so she definitely wouldn't give it to him.

While having dinner and drinks with Brother Hong and a few bosses that evening, Tan Wen was absent-minded. He guessed that the girl he met that day must be from out of town. Ning County has strong sunlight, and it's hard to find someone with such fair and delicate skin as her.

...Should we look for her?

He hesitated.

This was the first time he had felt an urge to get close to a woman, but judging from her clothes and appearance, she was a few years older than him.

Whether she is single, whether she can accept a relationship with a younger man, and when she will leave Ning County—these are questions that Tan Wen has no way of answering for the time being.

"Tan Wen, what are you thinking about? Come have a drink with Brother Li." Brother Hong called out to him, bringing him back to his senses.

After drinking for a while, Tan Wen received a message on his phone. He casually unlocked his phone and saw a photo sent to him by He Xiaoling.

The photo is clearly taken from a candid angle, but that doesn't stop the person in the photo from being as beautiful as a flower.

It made his old, poorly decorated house look much more upscale.

—It was the pretty lady in the light purple dress that he met at the alley entrance today.

However, before he could even feel happy, he saw a message from He Xiaoling.

[Mom]: Xiao Zong, look at the future sister-in-law your brother found for you, isn't she very pretty? In the future, we should go to a big city and find a girl like her to be our wife.

sister in law?

Hold.

Tan cursed inwardly, wanting to clear the message He Xiaoling sent, but his fingers uncontrollably tapped the photo and saved it to his album—then, as if escaping something, he simply turned off his phone.

In the latter half of the meal, Hu Jiaguang noticed that he was in a bad mood and had lost his sense of proportion when drinking. He mixed baijiu and beer, got everyone on the table drunk, and he himself got drunk too.

Hu Jiaguang helped him out of the restaurant. Tan Wen leaned against a telephone pole by the roadside and vomited. After Hu Jiaguang put him in the back seat of a taxi, he muttered to himself, "...Sister-in-law..."

This term left Hu Jiaguang completely bewildered: "?"

He thought he had misheard, so he reassured him, "Dumplings, right? Ask me, I'll have Xiao Rong cook you some dumplings right away, you can eat them when you get back."

When Hu Jiarong received his brother's call, he immediately went to the kitchen and made forty dumplings, and even thoughtfully prepared a dipping sauce, just to show his respect to his brother.

As a result, Tan Wen got so drunk that he fell asleep immediately. Hu Jiaguang had some trouble getting him into bed, wiped his face with a towel, took off his shoes, and let him sleep.

To avoid wasting food, the two brothers squatted by the small tea table and each ate twenty dumplings.

Hu Jiarong asked curiously, "What's wrong? You always know how to handle drinking, what's bothering you?"

"Oh, I don't know. This afternoon, when I was fighting with someone, I met a pretty girl. It seems like I fell in love with her at first sight, but I didn't ask her for her contact information."

"A cycad in bloom!" Hu Jiarong exclaimed, even more excited. "Wouldn't it be as beautiful as a celestial being?"

Hu Jiaguang was a clueless, straight-laced man. He stuffed a dumpling into his mouth and mumbled, "I've never seen a celestial being, but she is indeed beautiful. If you ask me how beautiful she is, I can't describe it."

After getting drunk to drown his sorrows over love, Tan Wen sobered up the next day and his emotions were in good shape.

He knew he couldn't force what wasn't his, so he took a shower at Hu's house, took a taxi home, and calmly faced the messed-up situation of "his first love becoming his sister-in-law."

The psychological work had been done very well, but unexpectedly, just as I took out my keys to open the door, the door was opened from the inside first.

The moment Tan saw her face, his heart started pounding wildly—all his psychological preparation had been for nothing.

Jiang Ni was also surprised to see him: "Who are you looking for?"

"I'm going home," Tan Wen pointed behind her and explained, "This is my home, and Tan Yan... is my brother."

Jiang Ni knew that Tan Yan had an older sister and a younger brother who was still in school, and she also saw the key in Tan Wen's hand, so she did not doubt his words.

She stepped aside to let him pass, and just then Tan Yan also walked to the door.

"Nini, let me introduce you. This is my brother, Tan Wen." He winked at Tan Wen, "Xiao Zong, call her sister."

Tan Wen gave him face, or rather, gave Jiang Ni face, and obediently greeted her, "Hello, sister."

Jiang Ni nodded in response: "Hello, I'm Jiang Ni. Ni as in neon."

Before Tan Wen could reply, Tan Yan interjected, "Nini, the movie should be starting soon. Shall we go first, and you can talk later?"

They left together. Before closing the door, Tan Wen heard Tan Yan telling Jiang Ni, "My brother associates with shady people in society every day. He has a bad temper. You should avoid contact with him."

The footsteps were almost inaudible, and he couldn't hear Jiang Ni's reply.

However, he didn't make a good first impression on her, and with Tan Yan's "deliberate reminder," she would most likely avoid him like the plague.

No one was home. Tan Wen looked around and found that Jiang Ni's room was the same room Tan Mei used to sleep in. Later, Tan Mei got married and bought a house, and that room became empty.

Even though Jiang Ni had only slept in that room for one night, Tan Wen felt as if he could smell the fragrance even while standing at the door.

The scent on her was completely different from the perfumes he had smelled in karaoke bars and karaoke rooms.

He couldn't explain the difference, he only knew that he took a few deep breaths and then, like a pervert... had a reaction.

At that time, he was still young, and this was the first time he had experienced such an uncontrollable and abnormal reaction in his body.

He frowned and hurried back to his bedroom.

To be honest, Tan had always thought he was sexually frigid.

When he was a teenager, He Xiaoling thought he knew nothing and took him to have an affair with that man openly.

The man was from out of town, tall and handsome, and he was entangled with more than just He Xiaoling, a married woman.

When Tan was in the third grade of elementary school, her husband died in an accident.

He Xiaoling settled down and started living with Tan Jianming again. Tan Jianming was honest and devoted to He Xiaoling, accepting the extramarital affair and his adopted son without holding it against her.

But these things were a thorn in Tan Wen's side.

As he grew older, the thorn became deeper and deeper.

During his middle school years, while other boys watched porn and read erotic novels, he was dragged to watch them with them. After watching, he not only didn't react, but also felt extremely disgusted.

He's grown up to be so old, and he's barely ever been self-sufficient.

He once thought he had no physical desires.

He abhorred physical desires.

But now, in the bathroom, he closed his eyes, relying solely on the lingering fragrance and the face he imagined in his mind.

For the first time, he truly experienced something unprecedented.

High C.