Gu Bin looked at Xie Yan suspiciously, "You look so listless, did you miss your wife last night and couldn't sleep well?"

"That's not right! Judging from the snow on you, you've been out for a long time. What? You just finished shoveling it?"

"You're not really impotent, are you?!"

Xie Yan glared at him and shook the snow off her body.

The more Gu Bin thought about it, the more convinced he became that it was true. He was terrified. He walked over and touched Xie Yan's forehead, asking in confusion, "It feels fine to the touch!"

Xie Yan raised her head, slapped his hand away, and vigorously shook off the snow, as if trying to shake off all the irritability in her heart.

"Of course I'm fine, I'm perfectly alright!"

After saying that, he slumped his shoulders and lazily walked into the house.

Gu Bin: "?"

"What's wrong with you? You don't seem to have a cold! Why are you so distracted?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he seemed to suddenly remember something, his eyes widened, he clapped his hands exaggeratedly, and raised his voice, saying, "You're not thinking about your wife, are you?"

After saying that, he burst into laughter, which was particularly loud in the empty courtyard, making Xie Yan's ears hurt.

After laughing his fill, he clutched his stomach and continued haltingly, "Xie Yan, I never imagined you were this kind of person!"

"You're so inseparable from your wife!"

Xie Yan sneered, "What's wrong? What's wrong with me wanting my wife? Is it reasonable or legal?"

"It's better than some people who don't even have a wife!"

Gu Bin: "..."

He cares more about this guy than he cares about this guy!

With such a quick tongue, what could possibly happen?

He turned away, ignoring the guy, and went straight into the house.

Upon entering the house, he found it to be completely cold. He turned to Xie Yan in surprise and asked, "You didn't even light the stove?"

Xie Yan nodded and said matter-of-factly, "I'm busy shoveling snow, aren't I? I don't have time!"

"Since you're here, you can have it burned."

Gu Bin was speechless.

He shook his head and got up to do it himself. He could tell that Xie Yan was already ruined and had been pampered by Yu Yue into a spoiled little husband.

We can't count on this guy anymore.

She thought this to herself, but the envy in her eyes was impossible to hide.

He knew better than anyone what Xie Yan was like when he was a sent-down youth.

They've only been married a short time, and they've already completely changed.

Sigh! I really envy this guy's good fortune!

Xie Yan kicked off his shoes, climbed onto the kang (a heated brick bed), found a warm spot to lie down, and pulled out a medical book from beside his pillow to read.

He paid no attention to Gu Bin, who was working hard to stoke the stove below.

Gu Bin put in a lot of effort and finally got the stove going. The flames licked the bottom of the pot, and warmth gradually spread.

He straightened up, wiped away non-existent beads of sweat from his forehead, and saw Xie Yan already comfortably sprawled on the kang (heated brick bed). He was furious!

If it weren't for the fact that this guy looked so pathetic and listless, I would have loved to punch him.

He glared at Xie Yan fiercely, then turned around and went to boil water by himself.

Although Xie Yan was reading, his eyes gradually became vacant, and his thoughts had already drifted away to who knows where.

Suddenly, a cry broke the silence in the room. He snapped back to his senses and looked up to see Gu Bin frantically trying to fetch water. The water on the stove overflowed, extinguishing some of the flames and making a hissing sound.

Xie Yan asked incredulously, "You can't even boil water?"

Gu Bin glared at him. "Stop talking nonsense. If you had been watching closely, would this water have even boiled?"

"All you do is lie there and act like a big shot! How dare you criticize others like that?"

Xie Yan widened his eyes and said, "Is this my fault? Who was watching from the side?"

"Besides, didn't I get really cold while shoveling snow?"

Gu Bin retorted, seemingly without a clear conscience, "I wasn't paying attention because I was reading. Is it my fault?"

Xie Yan sneered, "You mean I didn't read the book?"

Gu Bin said disdainfully, "Is that reading a book? Do you think you're blind?"

"You were clearly spacing out, okay?"

"I was giving you face by not saying anything, but you insisted on bringing it up yourself."

Xie Yan: "?"

Slightly inferior!

But it didn't matter; he quickly found a point of rebuttal, "I'd really like to know what book you're reading. It's so captivating that you can't even hear the water boiling next to you."

Hearing this, Gu Bin chuckled, a smug look on his face. "This book of mine is really no ordinary book; it really does have this kind of magic."

After saying that, he took out the book cover and flashed it in front of Xie Yan!

The book was indeed very attractive. Xie Yan's gaze was immediately drawn to it at first glance. His eyes widened in surprise. It was "The Book and the Sword," a novel by Jin Yong.

I hadn't even seen the banquet yet, and my curiosity was instantly piqued.

"You've finished reading?"

Gu Bin puffed out his chest proudly and said, "Not yet."

"Isn't this real watching?"

"You want to see it too?"

Xie Yan looked at him speechlessly, "Isn't that obvious?"

"If you don't want to see me, why are you asking me?"

"And besides, you haven't even finished reading it, so what are you so smug about?"

Gu Bin kindly suggested, "I'm just worried that you're missing your wife and won't have the energy to watch it."

"Isn't it something to be proud of that I have it?"

Xie Yan said irritably, "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and look, then I'll look."

After saying that, he asked with great curiosity, "Where did you get this book from?"

To be honest, I've never seen this book here before!

Gu Bin smiled mysteriously and said, "You don't need to worry about that, just keep watching."

After saying that, he ignored Xie Yan and continued to immerse himself in the world of his book.

Xie Yan wasn't particularly interested in how he obtained the book; he only asked to find out if he could continue to get his hands on Jin Yong's books in the future.

Seeing that Gu Bin said this, he did not ask any further questions.

After a while, Xie Yan remembered the tense situation and said to Gu Bin seriously, "After you finish reading this book today, don't take it out to read again."

"You know better than I how tight things are right now."

After saying that, she asked, still quite uneasy, "You haven't shown it to anyone else, have you?"

Gu Bin shook his head and said seriously, "I'm not stupid!"

"If I hadn't seen you so down, I wouldn't have shown it to you."

Xie Yan nodded, his expression softening. He wasn't angry at Gu Bin's words; instead, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's enough that you know it yourself!"

"How about I put it away for you after I've finished reading it?"

"Don't worry, no outsiders come to our house. I'll find you a secluded place to put it, and I guarantee no one will know."

"Your family has a lot of visitors, so it's not very safe to keep this book at your house."

Gu Bin thought about it and agreed. He looked down at the book in his hand and said without hesitation, "Okay, I'll leave it at your place."