Hunt her

Shen Yi sensed her hesitation, and he didn't want to guess what she was thinking: "Do you have other ideas? You can tell me, don't worry about me minding."

Shen Yi always had a magical ability to quickly understand what she was thinking and then cleverly guide her to take a step forward.

Yan Xu told him the truth: "I don't want you to go back to Kuncheng because of me. What if we argue someday and you say you wouldn't have come back if it weren't for me... What am I supposed to do then?"

She habitually thinks of the worst-case scenario.

Because the consequences of some things will become boomerangs that pierce her.

Shen Yi pondered for a moment, then said seriously, "No."

Yan Xu felt uncertain: "What if... people change."

She believes in Shen Yi now, but that doesn't mean she believes in Shen Yi after many years of getting to know each other.

Shen Yi calmed his voice and patiently soothed her doubts: "I won't argue with you. Apart from the normal banter between husband and wife, I won't really argue with you."

"Why?" In Yan Xu's view on marriage and love, couples are bound to quarrel, because that's how her parents were.

Shen Yi: "I don't know. Maybe it's because my dad often suffers in silence and can't bear to say a harsh word to my mom."

He often told me: "When the father is loving, the mother is at peace; when the mother is at peace, the child is at ease; when the child is at ease, the family is harmonious; and when the family is harmonious, everything prospers."

At this moment, Yan Xu deeply realized the importance of family harmony.

A harmonious and loving family nurtures Shen Yi, who is confident and rich in inner strength, while a broken and resentful family produces someone who is equally broken and lacks love.

The stark contrast stirred up a strange sense of inferiority in her heart.

Yan Xu's nose tingled with emotion: "Shen Yi, you're so kind..."

He was so good to her that she felt unworthy.

Shen Yi noticed that she was in a bad mood, but he wasn't by her side right now and couldn't hold her in his arms: "I believe in the law of attraction. The better I am, the better you are too, which is why we are together."

This gave Yan Xu courage: "Mm."

Even if she's not good enough now and is still trapped in the past, one day she will come out of it and become better.

"Shen Yi, thank you."

After saying that, she hung up the phone, a warm feeling welling up inside her.

Shen Yi looked at the phone screen and called out affectionately, "Silly."

......

It was a little after 8 p.m.

The wind was howling outside the window.

Yan Xu sat on the hotel bed typing on the computer keyboard. The long-term shutdown of Youyu Technology had rendered many production lines unusable, and new equipment needed to be purchased for production.

"Thump! Thump!"

There was a knock on the door outside.

Who is it at this hour?

Yan Xu cautiously shut down the computer and took off the hairpin from her hair, clutching it in her palm.

She cautiously approached the door: "Who is it?"

Outside the door: "Your brother Yi~"

"..." Yan Xu rolled her eyes helplessly, put the hairpin back on her head, opened the door, and said, "Didn't you say you weren't coming?"

Shen Yi strode into the room and hugged Yan Xu tightly, saying coquettishly, "I can't sleep alone, I need you to hug me."

"Go take a shower first," Yan Xu said, pushing him away with a look of disgust.

Shen Yi obediently walked inside: "Okay!"

He left his phone at the foot of the bed and headed straight for the bathroom.

Yan Xu also returned to working in bed.

Just then, Shen Yi's phone rang. She glanced at the bathroom and then at her constantly vibrating phone.

She shouted, "You have a phone!"

Shen Yi replied, "Never mind it."

It's most likely his mother calling again, urging him to come home and arrange a marriage.

The phone rang again and again, and she got up and went to the foot of the bed to hang up.

But when she saw a girl's name on her phone screen, her heart skipped a beat.

Su Xiao hung up the phone herself and sent him a text message: 【Are you asleep?】

Who is Su Xiao?

Yan Xu stared at her phone screen for a long time, unable to come back to her senses, until the sound of running water in the bathroom stopped, and then she pulled herself out of her thoughts and lay back down.

The phone still lay quietly at the foot of the bed, but it had completely taken her thoughts away.

Why would a woman contact him so late at night? And ask him such ambiguous questions.

Shen Yi, do you have someone else outside like Yan Shan?

Yan Xu dared not think any further.

She was afraid the truth would be just as she suspected.

Doubt, grievance, sadness, and fear have all coalesced into her current silence.

Shen Yi walked out of the bathroom wrapped in a bath towel and saw Yan Xu looking absent-minded.

"Are you tired from work?" He took her computer and placed it on the bedside table. "If you're tired, take a rest. Work is never-ending."

He still spoke gently and considerately, but the name "Su Xiao" was still on her mind.

Yan Xu showed no reaction to his actions, looking at him with a heavy heart, without saying a word.

After a while, Shen Yi realized that something was wrong with her.

This feeling of unease arose after he finished showering.

Shen Yi looked at the phone on the bed, a bad feeling creeping over him.

He opened his phone and his face instantly darkened.

He immediately called, and the other party seemed to have been waiting for him to call back, answering instantly: "Feed?"

Shen Yi yelled, "Why are you calling me so late at night? Anyone who didn't know better would think we have some kind of special relationship! Couldn't you have told me tomorrow?"

After he finished yelling, Su Xiao remained calm and said, "It was Aunt Gong who called, not me."

"..."

What kind of mess is this?

Shen Yi apologized: "I'm sorry."

He hung up immediately before the other party could reply.

Yan Xu, lying in bed, naturally heard what he said.

It seems she misunderstood him.

Immediately afterwards, Shen Yi put her hands on her hips and continued making the call, biting her lip in anger: "Mom! Can you please stop making jokes like this?"

Shen's mother said aggrievedly, "I was just giving you guys an opportunity..."

Shen Yi was furious and sighed, "I'm hanging up."

Yan Xu understood the meaning of the phone call.

The girl Su Xiao just now is the one Shen Yi's mother likes; she probably wants to introduce her to him.

In other words, his parents did not know that he was married.

Yan Xu said in a deep voice, "Your parents don't know you're married, right?"