T/N: Today is double update. If you haven’t read the previous chapter, please read it first
It was said that people are in a good mood when they were full, and Chi Qiu was a typical example. As soon as he had eaten enough, his steps were much more brisk and even the words that he had just been unable to say were on his lips.
He smoothly took Lu Ming from the guest bedroom next door, back to the master bedroom.
His reason was very simple: “Auntie Zhang cooked noodles for me to eat, I’m a little bit full and can’t sleep.” He asked Lu Ming, “Will you talk with me?”
How could Lu Ming refuse: “Okay. I don’t know what’s wrong today, I’m not sleepy at all, I just want to talk.”
These words were inconsistent and Chi Qiu was immediately amused. He didn’t expose Lu Ming on the spot. After all, Lu Ming had given him face, so he also wanted to give Lu Ming face
But at this time, sitting while talking was too exhausting.
Chi Qiu was full of food, and as the two of them were talking, his eyelids began to fight. Chi Qiu’s head swayed like a chicken pecking at rice. Lu Ming, who couldn’t stand it any longer, took Chi Qiu’s hand to wash up.
Chi Qiu rubbed his eyes while arguing: “I don’t want to sleep.”
“I know, but you can lie down and talk to me.” Lu Ming’s tone was like a marshmallow, falling into Chi Qiu’s ears, sweet and soft.
Chi Qiu couldn’t help but yawn as he sleepily got under the covers with Lu Ming’s persuasion. After the weather turned cold, the warmth of the bedding became the best cradle, which made people want to close their eyes whenever they touched it.
Lu Ming sat by the bedside to talk with Chi Qiu, or maybe he was the only one talking there.
Chi Qiu was more like a listener.
Slowly, Chi Qiu’s eyelids stopped fighting and his breathing became even. Lu Ming didn’t know if he fell asleep. He looked at Chi Qiu’s sleeping face and ran his hand along the sheets, touching Chi Qiu’s fingertips: “Good night.”
Unexpectedly, Chi Qiu hugged his arm naturally, breathing evenly on Lu Ming’s skin.
Chi Qiu was being a little coquettish, letting out a long breath.
Lu Ming’s heart went soft, not daring to casually draw away his arm.
Lu Ming was helpless. Time passed slowly as the two were frozen in a very intimate manner. Seeing that Chi Qiu had no intention of letting go, Lu Ming coaxed softly: “Chi Qiu, you have to let go of me.”
Chi Qiu sleepily rubbed against him.
Lu Ming asked, “Chi Qiu, are you sleeping?”
Chi Qiu whispered, not knowing if he was really confused: “Lu Ming…”
“En?”
“Let’s sleep together.” He said more and more softly, like a dream.
Lu Ming was stunned; his heart was slightly itchy and the numbness spread all over his body. He even suspected that he had heard it wrong.
This step that Chi Qiu took was too big. Could it be that he really heard it wrong? He wasn’t sure until Chi Qiu let go of his hand, turning his back to Lu Ming and said again: “I want you to hold me to sleep. It’s a little cold…to sleep by myself.”
He found the most appropriate excuse at this moment.
Lu Ming suddenly realized that he completely understood Chi Qiu’s intentions. Without any hesitation, he immediately fell into the bed and embraced the sweetheart he was thinking about.
As the clock ticked, their body temperature melted into each other.
Lu Ming’s lips lightly touched the end of Chi Qiu’s hair, and the lemon-scented body wash at home turned into a light body scent that leapt into Lu Ming’s breath. Lu Ming’s heart was burning in the boiling water, it became scalding hot, and the throbbing that even his chest could hardly control swept through his body in an instant.
“Chi Qiu.” He leaned forward in a daze.
“…”
“Can I kiss you?”
Under a million polite inquiries, Chi Qiu’s eyelashes trembled as he feigned a deep sleep. Lu Ming then kissed his neck, his gentle voice was the ups and downs of moonlight and the falling of stars: “Good night, Chi Qiu.”
He said that with his mouth, but his hands were not honest at all.
Within a few seconds, when Lu Ming was about to touch Chi Qiu’s stomach, Chi Qiu grabbed his hand, looking both shy and annoyed: “Don’t pinch my belly!”
Lu Ming let out an almost low laugh that was full of doting. His forehead rested on Chi Qiu’s shoulder, like a big dog who succeeded in scheming and was very coquettish: “You haven’t slept yet?”
“…I, I’m going to sleep soon.”
“Then can I kiss your forehead?” He could no longer suppress the restlessness and anticipation in his heart. He propped himself up and saw Chi Qiu’s moist eyes in the faint light of the bedroom.
It was like a flower that was silent in the abyss, quietly blooming by the intense love.
Chi Qiu was silent for a while before finally nodding gently: “En.”
However, Lu Ming didn’t follow the rules; he kissed Chi Qiu’s lips a sticky and lingering deep kiss. In the darkness of the night, in the starry sky outside the window, Lu Ming’s breath scorched hot, hitting the tip of Chi Qiu’s nose, arousing people’s thoughts and restless sleep.
“Mn.”
The long kiss ended, and Lu Ming’s lips made a slight sound when he left.
Chi Qiu’s eyes were dense and full of meaning. He was so obsessed that he actually took the initiative to reach out and hug Lu Ming’s neck.
Lu Ming was unexpectedly a gentleman, but at the same time, it seemed like he did it on purpose. His fingers rubbed against Chi Qiu’s lips as he asked him in a hoarse voice: “Do you want more?”
“…Don’t always ask me.” Chi Qiu drooping eyelashes hiding countless shyness, “If you want to kiss, you just kiss, ah.”
Lu Ming rubbed his lips, whispering: “I’m afraid of crossing the line, I’m afraid you’ll be unhappy.”
“I, I won’t be unhappy.” Chi Qiu didn’t know that Lu Ming was doing it on purpose. He blinked his eyes honestly and slowed down his tone. “Since you are chasing me, you have to take the initiative, don’t ask me everything.”
Because——
“Lu Ming, you clearly know… I will be embarrassed.”
The last syllable of ‘embarrassed’ was a syllable that Lu Ming swallowed in his mouth. When his lips touched, Lu Ming’s kisses made him addicted. Chi Qiu knew for the first time that Lu Ming was so good at kissing.
In the long night, Chi Qiu tasted the unique sweetness between the lips and teeth.
The next morning, the sweet-scented osmanthus trees in the backyard emptied their branches early.
Chi Qiu lamentably drank the osmanthus honey made by Aunt Zhang, sitting moodily on the sofa, wearing headphones and listening to the study materials recently given to him by Ji Feining. Lu Ming, on the other hand, sat beside him with his laptop, frowning at his work while keeping tapping on the keyboard with both hands.
When Lu Ming let out a low cry, Chi Qiu would reach out, touching his brow to smooth it: “Don’t frown all the time, it’s too fierce.”
“Okay, no more frowning.” Lu Ming laughed immediately and kissed Chi Qiu’s palm.
Chi Qiu blushed but he didn’t withdraw his hand: “The sweet scented osmanthus honey that Auntie Zhang made is delicious. She said it was made from the osmanthus tree in the backyard.”
“I know.”
Chi Qiu muttered, “What a pity, I haven’t seen it bloom this year.”
As soon as Lu Ming heard this, he put down his work: “Wait for me for a moment. He quickly walked into the study and took out a small glass vase from the cabinet. It was filled with sun-dried golden osmanthus.
He pulled out the cork and handed it to Chi Qiu: “The fragrance is still there, you can smell it.”
Chi Qiu held the glass bottle in surprise, leaning forward in disbelief to smell it: “Did you make it?”
“A while ago, I originally wanted to take it to please you. I didn’t expect that you wouldn’t even let me in.” Lu Ming cherished the moment very much, and he said with relief, “But it’s not a waste to give it to you now. Chi Qiu, do you like it?”
Chi Qiu’s smile hung on the brows and the corners of his mouth. He lowered his head and sniffed the fragrance left by the osmanthus flowers in winter, and pursed the corners of his mouth: “I like it.”
Hearing that Chi Qiu liked it, Lu Ming was excited: “I will collect sweet-scented osmanthus for you every year from now on, and then I will ask someone to tidy up the backyard to plant the sweet-scented osmanthus trees.”
“One osmanthus tree is fragrant enough, it’s good to plant some others.” Chi Qiu spoke in a gentle voice. He couldn’t put down the bottle of osmanthus.
He put the wooden cork back in, afraid that the fragrance would run out. He had to smell a little today, a little tomorrow, save it and hide it. He hoped that the fragrance of osmanthus flowers would last into the next autumn.
It turned out that as long as it was given by Lu Ming, he would still like it so much.
And being loved by Lu Ming felt very good, like a cloud that couldn’t be wrapped, like an overflowing syrup. Light and floating, and falling in the heart, as if the tears once were all absurd dreams.
Chi Qiu stepped forward carefully but at the same time cherishing the moment very much.
Therefore, Chi Qiu and Lu Ming almost reached an agreement on the outcome of their marriage.
Chi Qiu brewed the words in his heart and clutched the glass bottle in his hands. Suddenly, the light reflected in the glass inexplicably caused a flash of light before Chi Qiu’s eyes. Chi Qiu was startled, thinking that it was his own delusion before hurriedly asked: “Is my follow-up date approaching?”
“It’s next week, I’ll accompany you there then.”
“En.” Chi Qiu breathed a sigh of relief.
At the end, he told Lu Ming what he was thinking about: “Lu Ming, I think…Isn’t the injury on my face almost healed? How about we take time to go to grandpa’s place? He must be furious. He kept calling us over, but we haven’t been able to go to this day.”
Lu Ming reassured him: “If you go with your injury, he will only be worried when he sees you. I think he should have heard the wind about Lin Yuming, so he has not urged me recently, he should have taken this into consideration.”
Regarding this matter, Chi Qiu and Lu Ming decided to divorce first, but not separate.
Their thoughts were the same, and they both hoped that each other could get used to each other’s new personality——whether it was Lu Ming who had become gentle and considerate, or Chi Qiu who started to learn to refuse.
Because of this, Chi Qiu was a little nervous and took a deep breath.
And Lu Ming, in order to reassure Chi Qiu, took the initiative to speak to Chi Qiu from the heart: “To be honest, I can’t give up the hatred I once had.”
Chi Qiu raised his head suddenly, Lu Ming’s loneliness was fully reflected in his voice.
“Everyone in the Lu family, except Grandpa, was very indifferent to my mother. She actually didn’t do anything wrong, she just regarded her love as her life. If Lu Rongtian had treated her well, if Lu Rongtian hadn’t cheated on her, she might not have gone completely insane and paid the price of her life for it. If I let go of this, I’m afraid there will always be a wall in my heart.”
Lu Rongtian and Zhen Zhen were not qualified to occupy the Lu family’s property. Every achievement that Lu Rongtian had achieved in the company couldn’t be separated from the help of the Lu You family.
In the world, there was no reason to kick something away without eating it.
Lu Ming shared his cards with Chi Qiu. He longed for Chi Qiu’s understanding and found a suitable way.
He held Chi Qiu’s hand: “But don’t worry, even if I don’t inherit 70% of the Lu family’s property, I won’t let them monopolize everything in the future. Even if the time will become a little longer, I have the confidence that I can do it well. Grandpa should also hope that there are capable people sitting in high positions. I will use the bright and upright way to break them down. So, you don’t need to worry about that, just do what is most comfortable in your heart.”
He was also happy as ever, smiling as he said: “After all, we’ve started over, haven’t we?”
The marriage contract set by Elder Lu was a shortcut. Once, Lu Ming wanted to use the quickest way to solve all the grievances Lu You had suffered and wanted to use this way to retaliate against the Lu Rongtian family.
But at this time, Lu Ming didn’t plan to take this shortcut anymore.
Chi Qiu quietly listened to what Lu Ming said. He slowly reached out and touched Lu Ming’s brow, accepting all of Lu Ming’s knots with a relaxed attitude: “Look at you, you’re frowning again when you say this, it’s too fierce.” He pursed up the corners of his mouth and said in a warm voice, “Lu Ming, thank you, for thinking of me so much.”
T/N: So, next Sunday is CNY and my holiday started this Friday until January 27th. Anyway since I don’t celebrate CNY, you can expect daily update from the 23th until 27th.
