Is Chapter 105 okay?

Shen Qingci stood in the courtyard for a moment before entering the new house.

Just as Wanqing said, although this new room was much larger than her boudoir in the Shen family mansion, the furnishings were exactly the same, except that everything was larger than what she had in her room.

A sumptuous meal has been laid out on the table.

Shen Qingci looked up at the maid standing to the side, who smiled and said, "These are all the dishes for the Prince and Princess's wedding banquet. They were all made by the best chefs from all over the country that the Prince found."

"The prince said that since it is the prince and princess's wedding, the princess should also enjoy her own wedding banquet."

Shen Qingci raised his eyebrows and chuckled. Who would go to such lengths to prepare a banquet for the bride in the bridal chamber just so she could taste their own wedding feast?

Chu Jichen's way of doing things is really... completely disregarding rules and etiquette.

But... just as Wanqing said, although Chu Jichen disregarded rules and etiquette several times today, it seemed that it was all to make her comfortable.

After finishing her wedding banquet, Shen Qingci sat down on a chair in the corridor.

Next to the new house, there was a bamboo grove. It was early summer, and the bamboo grove was lush. The sound of the wind blowing through the trees was quite charming.

A maid from the Regent's Palace poured her a cup of tea at the right moment, and then brought over a low table with some tea snacks placed beside her.

As dusk fell, Shen Qingci was thinking that Chu Jichen might not return until very late when she heard Chu Jichen's voice: "Why didn't you take off your phoenix crown or your wedding dress? Aren't you tired?"

Shen Qingci looked up and saw Chu Jichen maneuvering his wheelchair toward her, with only Yuanbao following behind. When Chu Jichen reached her, Yuanbao immediately disappeared.

Shen Qingci blinked: "Why is it only the Prince who came back?"

Chu Jichen raised an eyebrow: "Hmm, otherwise how many people should there be?"

Shen Qingci wondered to herself, "Aren't we going to have a wedding night prank?"

But considering that Chu Jichen always claimed to be impotent, it was probably for this reason that he canceled the wedding night pranks.

But... Chu Jichen is clearly capable of it.

She clearly felt Chu Jichen sneaking into her bed late at night before...

Why would Chu Jichen lie and say he couldn't do it?

As a man, wouldn't he know how much this kind of reputation would affect him?

Chu Jichen didn't know what Shen Qingci was thinking, so he reached out and took Shen Qingci's hand: "Let's go back and change your headdress and wedding dress. This headdress makes me feel tired just looking at it."

Shen Qingci nodded, got up, and pushed Shen Qingci back into the house.

"Have you tried the wedding banquet? Was it delicious?" Chu Jichen asked.

"It's delicious."

Chu Jichen nodded: "That's good. We'll have them cook for us again when we hold banquets in the manor in the future."

"Hold a banquet?" Shen Qingci raised an eyebrow. Isn't a wedding banquet only once? Could it be that Chu Jichen wants to remarry?

Too……

The thought had just crossed her mind when she heard Chu Jichen say with a smile, "Yes, the wedding banquet is naturally only once. But there are other banquets, such as... our child's full moon banquet? Hundred-day banquet? And when we get older, we can hold a birthday banquet."

"..."

Shen Qingci paused slightly, staring intently at the top of Chu Jichen's head.

What was he implying with those words?

No, that's not right either; it can no longer be called a hint.

This is practically... an explicit statement.

Regardless of whether it was explicitly stated or implied, it was still quite tactful, so Shen Qingci decided to pretend she didn't understand for the time being.

Upon entering the room, Shen Qingci sat down in front of the dressing mirror. Immediately, a maidservant came forward to remove her hair ornaments and undo her hair bun. She then helped her change out of her wedding dress, take a bath in the back room, and put on a simple red casual outfit.

As soon as Shen Qingci came out of her bedroom, she saw two more plates of dumplings on the table.

Her gaze fell on the dumplings, her eyes pausing slightly. She suspected that Chu Jichen married her to fatten her up.

Seeing Shen Qingci's reaction, Chu Jichen laughed and said, "I'm a little hungry. I didn't eat much earlier. Why don't you join me for a couple of bites?"

Shen Qingci recalled that they hadn't eaten raw dumplings after drinking the nuptial wine earlier.

Could this be... to make up for this?

Thinking of this, Shen Qingci obediently sat down, took the bowl and chopsticks, and ate one.

"Oh, it's cooked?"

After she finished speaking, she looked up and met Chu Jichen's smiling gaze: "Yes, we're very familiar."

Chu Jichen's eyes were full of smiles: "If Qingqing wants to have the baby, it's not impossible."

Shen Qingci blushed deeply: "Who wants to give birth? Raw ones don't taste good."

After eating dumplings and resting for a while, it was already quite late at night.

Shen Qingci felt a strange sense of unease. Seeing that Chu Jichen was still looking at the memorials, she went to bed and lay down first.

After a long while, Chu Jichen finally finished washing up and came over.

Shen Qingci closed her eyes, pretending to have fallen asleep, but even with her eyes closed, her ears seemed to become exceptionally sensitive.

She heard Chu Jichen move from his wheelchair to the bed and felt the bed sink slightly.

Before long, Chu Jichen's hand wrapped around her waist, and his body pressed against hers.

This posture is far too intimate.

Shen Qingci's body stiffened slightly.

Perhaps it was this slight stiffness that revealed the fact that she was not asleep, because Chu Jichen suddenly spoke up behind her: "I thought back carefully earlier about Huo Yunzhan's reaction in the wedding hall earlier."

"I think the reason he came in a rage but then left without a trace is probably because he guessed that you already knew he was Huo Yunzhan."

"He probably thinks that you're marrying me just to spite him."

Shen Qingci's eyelashes trembled slightly. She had already given up on thinking about it, but now Chu Jichen brought it up again...

Chu Jichen buried his head in the back of her neck, and she could almost feel the hot breath he was exhaling.

Chu Jichen's lips... seemed to have brushed against the back of her neck.

"So Qingqing chose to marry me because she found out that Huo Yunzhan faked his death and was secretly having an affair with Liu Ruolan, so she was angry with him?"

Shen Qingci bit her lip, her voice almost squeezed out from between her teeth: "Of course not."

"real?"

Chu Jichen no longer pretended that his lips had accidentally brushed against the back of her neck, but simply kissed Shen Qingci lightly behind her ear.

Shen Qingci's ear was the most sensitive spot, and he almost instinctively shrank back.

Chu Jichen seized the opportunity, slipped his hand under Shen Qingci's waist, and picked her up.

Shen Qingci felt dizzy and disoriented. In the next instant, she was already in Chu Jichen's arms.

Shen Qingci was worried that she was pressing down on him, so she struggled to get up, but Chu Jichen held her firmly in place.

Shen Qingci raised her eyes and met Chu Jichen's dark and brooding gaze.

Chu Jichen's voice was slightly hoarse: "Qingqing, tonight is our wedding night."

"My Qingqing is the smartest, she should already know that I am not incapable, right?"

"So...is that okay?"