Chapter 74

Wen Zhenni stared at the black screen, dumbfounded.

She accidentally touched the end button and hung up the phone.

"Miaomiao..." She curled her lips and looked at Xi Miao with a sad face, "It's over. I seem to have made things worse."

"Think positively, it won't be that bad."

Xi Miao grabbed her and pressed her against the chest muscles of the young man next to her. "Besides, if the old doesn't go away, the new will come. It's the same if you touch it with another man. Why don't you follow me and experience what it's like to wake up in the bed of a different handsome guy every day."

“…”

Although the feel is good, it is still different after all.

Wen Zhenni was not in the mood at all. After playing by the swimming pool for a while, she returned to her room and browsed Weibo out of boredom.

The party lasted until very late. After Xi Miao settled the young ladies, he and Mingxia went to her room to find her.

Mingxia calmly analyzed the phone call between the couple.

To sum up, both of them have their reasons, but they both got stuck in a dead end and used the worst possible way of expression.

Wen Zhenni didn't understand: "Relationships are so complicated. My brain is going crazy."

Mingxia changed her perspective and asked, "Think back to how you usually get along. Does he take care of you?"

Wen Zhenni paused scrolling the screen because a post from a relationship blogger had just been pushed:

"My husband would tuck me in at night, pour me water when I was thirsty, and always put me first. But there was no love between us."

Wen Zhenni couldn't help but connect it to herself, as if every one of them matched.

Could it be that Ciheng's kindness to her was simply out of responsibility and obligation?

This thought made her panic: "I suddenly want to cry."

Xi Miao patted her back: "Cry, cry, then go to sleep. Four-legged frogs are hard to find, but two-legged men are everywhere."

Wen Zhenni pursed her lips and thought for a long time, but in the end she didn't cry.

She obediently took a shower and went to bed, but her mind was full of things and she couldn't sleep at all, tossing and turning in bed.

Then, as if possessed, she reached for her phone, opened WeChat, and sent a voice message: "Hubby, I miss you, I miss you so much."

Insomniac, completely insomniac, Wen Zhenni fell asleep almost at dawn.

When I woke up, I was groggy and my head felt like it was filled with lead. My memory of last night was completely blurry and I couldn't remember what I did at all.

But when Xi Miao came in and called her to have breakfast, he asked her in an ambiguous tone, "Did you remember anything?"

Xi Miao gave a hint: "For example, did you send a voice message to your husband last night?"

Wen Zhenni knocked her aching head, and her memory gradually came back to her, and she remembered that this was what happened.

Then, she suddenly woke up as if she had been electrocuted, her eyes widening: "How did you know?!"

"What do you think?" Xi Miao held back his laughter, opened WeChat, found a voice message and played it.

It was the message she sent to Ciheng when she couldn't sleep in the middle of the night.

"..." Wen Zhenni froze in place, digging her toes into the ground in embarrassment. She'd forgotten Ci Heng was still on the blacklist, and sent the voice message to Xi Miao, whose profile picture had the same color.

So embarrassing!

She wanted to die on the spot: "Can you have selective amnesia? Pretend nothing happened?"

Xi Miao added fuel to the fire, "I'm sorry, your voice was so cheesy, I immediately recorded it and sent it to your dear husband."

Seeing Wen Zhenni's stunned look, she said with a smile, "What are you afraid of? Maybe someone will be so soft-hearted after hearing your confession that they'll fly over to find you today. By then, you won't have time to thank me."

After saying that, Xi Miao closed the door and walked out of the guest room. As soon as he entered the living room, he saw the person he had just mentioned walking in from the front door, looking exhausted. There was a hint of fatigue between his brows, as if he had been traveling all night.

"Oh my god!" Before Xi Miao could recover from her shock, the tall and hurried figure had already brushed past her, and a gift bag was stuffed into her arms at the same time.

“…” Xi Miao opened it in a hurry and saw that it was actually Patek Philippe earrings.

When she heard the sound of the bedroom door opening, Wen Zhenni thought Xi Miao had come back to urge her, so she walked out of the bathroom and casually replied, "I'll be there soon, don't rush me..." She raised her head and froze in place.

The man who was supposed to be in Tianhai suddenly appeared in front of her without any warning.

Wen Zhenni blinked, suspecting she was hallucinating and covering her lips in surprise. Besides being shocked, a complex mix of emotions surged in her heart, a mixture of bittersweet.

Her voice was trembling with a hint of expectation: "Are you... here to apologize?"

"Yes, I apologize." His voice was hoarse after a night of running around. "I apologize for not being calm enough that night. I'm sorry."

He sincerely apologized and opened his arms to her. The look in his eyes was so gentle and full of undisguised longing, overflowing and about to drown her. "You said you missed me, is that true?"

Wen Zhenni nodded blankly, forgetting that her arms were still hanging in front of her chest, and threw herself into his arms regardless of anything.

Ci Heng was shaken by the collision, but he caught her steadily, then gathered his strength and tightened his arms around her, wanting to hold her close to him, but afraid of hurting her.

He lowered his head and buried his face in her hair, sniffing her scent almost greedily. His eyes turned red little by little, and his hot lips kissed her hair, cheeks, forehead and eyes again and again with eagerness, finally landing on her lips, as if eager to confirm something, and kissed her deeply and heavily.

"Wen Zhenni, you're driving me crazy." His body temperature was incredibly hot. "How can you say I don't love you?"

He said it so humbly: "Maybe you just treat me as your possession, consumable, but I really love you."

"I love you, I love you so much, I don't know what to do anymore... What do you think I should do with you?" He confessed his feelings like crazy.

Wen Zhenni was shocked and said, "But...but all my belongings are what I cherish."

Ciheng held her face and forced her to say, "Then say you love me."

Wen Zhenni panted and only started to say: "I love..." The lingering sound was drowned out between their lips and teeth.

He held up Wen Zhenni's legs, lifted her up from the kiss, and pressed her against the door panel, kissing her with all his strength, leaving her with marks.

Wen Zhenni threaded her fingers through his short hair, pulling it, and his back arched unconsciously.

She tried hard to respond to his surging love, but in the passionate kiss, all her efforts seemed futile and passive, and she could only let his breath engulf her...

Twenty minutes later, the two of them came out of the guest room and went to the restaurant for breakfast.

Xi Miao's gaze paused for a few seconds on Wen Zhenni's red and swollen face, then shifted back and forth between the two of them, and said jokingly in a long voice: "Oh, it's settled now, no more quarreling."

"...Uh." Wen Zhenni's face flushed red, as if she had been caught doing something bad, and she just wanted to bury her face in the bowl.

Ci Heng glanced over, and Xi Miao immediately looked away and cleared his throat: "Thank you for that gift."

She was grateful for the favor and was reluctant to return the favor. After accepting his gift, how could she say anything bad about him in the future?

Ciheng: "You're welcome, you deserve it. Thank you for taking care of Ni Ni these days."

Xi Miao was so embarrassed: "I have been acting as a messenger for you two these days. I have suffered 10,000 points of damage. It is only natural to charge me some mental damage compensation."

She sighed pretentiously, then turned to ask Wen Zhenni: "By the way, I'm going back to Tianhai this afternoon. What are your plans?"

Mingxia had to go back to work, so she left early this morning. Xi Miao, while free to come and go, had to be at home on her birthday. Her birthday month usually went like this: she spent the day with her family and then met up with friends to celebrate around the time of her birthday.

Wen Zhenni replied: "The program will officially start recording tomorrow. The team will come to pick me up today, and I will move to the arranged hotel at that time."

*

The team arrived in the afternoon. They first helped Wen Zhenni move her luggage to the hotel and checked the safety of the room. Then Orange came over to pick up Wen Zhenni at the hotel.

While packing, Chengzi glanced at Ciheng who was on the phone and asked secretly, "Sister, did you have a fight with your brother-in-law the other day?"

Wen Zhenni is in a good mood now that the rain has turned to sunshine: "He wanted me to turn down the show, but I didn't want to, so we had a few arguments. But now everything is fine, we talked it out."

"Actually, my brother-in-law cares about you very much."

Chengzi whispered to her, "He specifically talked to Sister Qin. We all know about Gao Chengsi's situation. He said that this matter will be resolved as soon as possible. The team's main task is to protect you."

"Ah?" It had only been a few days, and he had actually taken care of all the links without making any noise.

Wen Zhenni turned her head in surprise and looked at the bloodshot eyes. It was not difficult to imagine that he probably hadn't slept much recently.

She put down what she was holding and was about to go over and tell him to get some sleep, but the doorbell suddenly rang.

"Who's coming?"

"I'll go open the door." Orange ran to open the door.

The next second, Tang Yu appeared at the door: "Zhen Ni, I heard you arrived, I came to see..."

Tang Yu was halfway through her words when her eyes caught sight of a strange man standing by the window. The rest of her words got stuck in her throat and she stood there awkwardly.

Wen Zhenni didn't intend to hide it from her and pulled her into the room directly: "Don't be afraid, come in and sit down."

Ci Heng also ended the call, his eyes fell on Tang Yu, and asked, "Is he Zhen Ni's friend?"

Tang Yu didn't know his identity, but was intimidated by the aura that he inadvertently exuded and felt a little restrained: "Hello, hello, my name is Tang Yu."

Ciheng nodded and greeted her: "Hello, I am her husband."

"...Zhen Ni, you are married!" This news was so sudden that Tang Yu was so shocked that he was speechless.

"It's a long story. I'll tell you when I have a chance." Wen Zhenni noticed her pale face and asked with concern, "How did you feel yesterday? Are you okay?"

Tang Yu shook her head. "It's still the same. You might not know this, but because I've been in a bad mood lately, my fans have been making a scene on my Weibo."

Wen Zhenni thought that Ci Heng had already decided to intervene, so he must have made up his mind. She pulled Tang Yu to sit down and said, "Don't think about it for now. It's time for dinner. Come stay and have dinner with us."

Tang Yu felt uncomfortable with the couple being there, and hesitated: "Will I disturb you?"

Wen Zhenni glanced at the man next to her. Ciheng's face showed no extra expression, but he nodded: "I have someone prepare a meal and send it up. Miss Tang, please join us."

As they were talking, Orange and the hotel staff had already brought in the meals that had been ordered in advance.

Tang Yu took the chopsticks a little awkwardly, and then she heard Ci Heng say to her, "Miss Tang, I'd like to ask you for a favor."

"Me?" Tang Yu asked nervously, her grip on the chopsticks tightening. She couldn't think of how she could help others in such a precarious situation.

Ci Heng didn't beat around the bush and got straight to the point: "Ms. Tang, I'm aware of your situation. If you're willing to cooperate with us and help gather evidence of Gao Chengsi's suspected crimes, we will not only have a high probability of sending him to prison, but we will also provide you with two years of resource support to help your career."

Tang Yu didn't expect that this was the reason, so he asked uncertainly, "Can I...?"