Chapter 262 One Mistake After Another

Seeing Jiang Ning angrily emptying all the cigarette butts from the ashtray, Lu Junyan couldn't understand what he had said wrong again.

"If you don't want to talk about smoking, just pretend I didn't mention it..."

Lu Junyan said softly, his tone somewhat cautious.

He asked about this simply to learn more about Jiangning.

There were so many opportunities to learn about Jiangning.

But he missed them all.

Lu Junyan didn't want to make the same mistake again.

However, at this moment, he was not sure if Jiang Ning would give him the chance to get to know her again.

Jiang Ning, with her back to Lu Junyan, was unaware of Lu Junyan's hidden thoughts and simply said:

"It's nothing, I was just pretty rebellious when I was little..."

"You?"

Lu Junyan was stunned.

In my memory, Jiang Ning was always well-behaved and sensible.

Now she exudes an even more intellectual and capable air.

He always felt that the word "rebellion" should have nothing to do with Jiangning.

It's hard to imagine what Jiang Ning was like when he rebelled.

Lu Junyan couldn't help but think of himself.

"I was quite rebellious when I was a kid..."

Jiang Ning turned to look at Lu Junyan.

Most people might think that Lu Junyan's rebelliousness stems from being spoiled.

After all, Lu Junyan is the only successor of the Lu Group. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and was always pampered and spoiled.

However, Jiang Ning did not think so.

If Lu Junyan were truly so pampered, he would never have ended up in a juvenile detention center.

She wasn't sure about other places in Jiangning, but in her eyes, the juvenile detention center in City A was also a tool for the rich and powerful to punish their own children.

Of course, some people are indeed locked up because they committed crimes.

Once locked up, if the parents are capable, they will use all sorts of connections to ensure their children have a better life in the juvenile detention center.

Just like Zhang Hai, who dared to act arrogantly inside the juvenile detention center when she was doing volunteer work there.

When Jiang Ning and Lu Junyan were imprisoned in the juvenile detention center, they were isolated and helpless.

In terms of family background, the two of them were definitely not inferior to others back then.

However, no one in Jiangning supported him, and no one came to visit him.

Lu Junyan was the same.

Jiang Ning had previously wondered if Lu Junyan's current polite yet distant attitude towards Lu Yexiong and Yang Liyun was related to his time being imprisoned in a juvenile detention center.

However, when she decided to divorce Lu Junyan, Lu Junyan's family background was no longer relevant to her.

"Yes, I know."

Jiang Ning muttered something under his breath.

You know?

Lu Junyan was surprised.

He had originally thought that Jiang Ning would be interested in his rebellious childhood self!

"You can't imagine how rebellious I was back then..."

Jiang Ning smiled faintly as she looked at Lu Junyan's mysterious expression.

Can't she imagine it?

She doesn't even need to imagine.

Lu Junyan was the only person in the juvenile detention center who refused to wear the uniform.

He would fall asleep at his desk during every class, but when he was woken up, he would answer all the questions fluently.

After she left the solitary confinement cell, he dragged her to graffiti on the cell door.

He threw the food with bugs from his plate at the face of the cafeteria lady who was deliberately making things difficult for him.

He beat the instructor who tried to take advantage of her so badly that he was hospitalized.

He secretly climbed over the wall and ran out of the dormitory in the middle of the night just to catch a firefly for her.

He even threatened the students who secretly took her work, scaring them into tears.

...

She remembered all of these.

People I don't remember...

It was Lu Junyan.

Lu Junyan noticed that the faint smile on Jiang Ning's face gradually faded, replaced by an increasingly deep sadness.

He lowered his eyes, as if something was stuck in his throat.

His topics always displeased Jiang Ning.

Or perhaps, it's not a problem with the topic itself.

Jiang Ning would feel uncomfortable if the person he was chatting with was him.

Lu Junyan suddenly wondered if he had treated Jiang Ning the same way after three years of marriage!

Getting more and more impatient...

They're taking it less and less seriously...

Lu Junyan felt his head, which had just felt refreshed, start to ache again.

The bedroom was completely silent.

The atmosphere between Jiang Ning and Lu Junyan became increasingly awkward.

Lu Junyan realized that Jiang Ning didn't want to stay here at all.

Although she didn't say anything, the aura she exuded from head to toe sent that signal to Lu Junyan.

Lu Junyan didn't understand, had he become ugly?

Or has he simply lost his charm?

Why did Jiang Ning's attitude towards him change so much?

Jiang Ning used to have nothing but him in her eyes and heart.

But Jiang Ning now wishes she could stay far away from him.

"Could you... pour me a glass of water?"

Lu Junyan took the initiative to speak.

He remembered that when he was sick in the past, Jiang Ning would always prepare a glass of lukewarm water and some freshly cut fruit for him without him having to say anything.

When Lu Junyan saw Jiang Ning stand up, he filled a glass of water with water from the water dispenser and handed it to him.

Although it wasn't boiled and cooled water, it was still a cup of warm water.

The temperature of the water was transmitted through the cup to his fingertips, and then flowed from his fingertips through his limbs and bones.

Before even taking a sip, Lu Junyan felt warm both physically and mentally.

Jiang Ning saw Lu Junyan take a sip of the water she poured for him.

It was just a very ordinary cup of warm water, made by mixing hot and cold water together in a water dispenser, but she found that Lu Junyan was drinking it with great relish, seemingly more engrossed than when drinking an 1982 Lafite.

If Jiang Ning remembers correctly, this water dispenser was bought when she and Lu Junyan had just gotten married. If Lu Junyan doesn't remember changing the water purifier filter, then the water...

Jiang Ning took a bottle of mineral water and drank it silently.

She originally wanted to ask Lu Junyan if he was hungry and if he wanted her to order takeout.

Before she could even speak, her stomach growled first.

"I haven't eaten anything all morning either. What would you like to eat? I'll order."

Seeing Jiang Ning pick up her phone, Lu Junyan got out of bed and said:

"No need to order... I'll make it."

"You do it?"

Jiang Ning was shocked.

She looked at Lu Junyan and thought he looked like he could faint at any moment, so weak that he was only fit to lie in bed and rest.

However, Lu Junyan didn't seem to be joking.

His handsome face had a very serious expression.

Jiang Ning knew that Lu Junyan could cook.

She didn't know that before.

But she found out after she ran into him and Chu Qingxue at the supermarket one day.

The rich young master she thought was someone who never lifted a finger to cook actually cooked quite a bit for her first love, her white moonlight.

Lu Junyan stared at Jiang Ning and saw the complex emotions changing in Jiang Ning's eyes.

"Occasionally... I'll let you taste my cooking."

"Occasionally?"

Jiang Ning gave a cold laugh.

Lu Junyan's choice of words is ridiculously wrong.

In the three years of their marriage, she had never tasted Lu Junyan's cooking even once.

"Even if you cook for me, I won't start over with you."

Jiang Ning's expression was indifferent, and his voice was resolute.

Lu Junyan's eagerness to try was dashed.

But he won't be discouraged.

“I don’t have to have a purpose for everything I do… I just want to cook you a meal when you’re hungry, it’s that simple…”

Lu Junyan finished speaking calmly and turned to go into the kitchen.

Jiang Ning clearly saw Lu Junyan's tall body swaying, unable to stand steadily.

During their three years of marriage, she often went into the kitchen to cook for Lu Junyan while she was ill, but Lu Junyan never noticed.