Chapter 124 Deep Addiction to the Antidote
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The marriage registration only took an hour, more like a quick get-together. She even dressed up carefully, had a professional makeup artist do her hair and makeup, and then asked Chen Mo which dress looked better.
He looked no different from usual, in a simple shirt and without makeup. But for a guy, the most important thing is his face. Even though he had just come out of a meeting at the company, he looked as handsome as a groom who could go straight to a wedding.
Looking at the photo on the red book, Wen Yining couldn't help but sigh, "Some people are born with the ability to easily attract attention."
Life after marriage was not much different from when we were in school; we still saw each other mostly in the evenings.
She was given a lot of resources and was even criticized by netizens as a pretty face with no substance.
"Wen Yining was kept by a rich second-generation heir during her university years. Back then, she carried designer bags every day, and the cars that picked her up were all sports cars. But I heard that she was dumped by that rich guy later, went back to work, and couldn't get any acting roles anymore. She probably couldn't stand being poor, so she hooked up with a new tycoon."
[“She used to be a very outgoing person (winking knowingly), she was classmates with Feng Yan, and they have quite a few photos together. Feng Yan became famous first, and back then she especially loved to piggyback on his fame.”]
"I heard her current boyfriend is her sugar daddy, and he's quite generous with his money. He even got a bunch of veteran actors to play supporting roles for her in that movie."
"The paparazzi said she'd married into a wealthy family, but it's actually a fake one. Her daily outfits and spending habits are very ordinary; she can't compare to those truly wealthy wives."
"Her current boyfriend is quite old; it's obviously a sugar daddy/sugar baby relationship. They even photographed her leaving a restaurant with him, didn't they?"
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There are all sorts of things said online, but Fei Qing never pays attention to them. Seeing Fei Qing slowly browsing through the internet while she was putting on makeup, she spoke up to stop her, "Don't look at it. It's not a good time to go public now. It's inevitable that people will speculate. Let's wait a few years. When you're older and have successfully transitioned to a new role, you'll be fine."
Wen Yining sat in the chair, waiting for the stylist to curl her hair. She was quite relaxed about it, saying, "Happiness isn't something you show to others. No matter how much you say, it's useless."
"However, many people in the industry do suspect that he is a fake tycoon. Some people have asked me to my face, and some even think that I have other big shots behind me."
"They do look somewhat alike."
"Don't you think it's great? Everyone thinks I married a fake rich kid, but as long as I'm doing well, that's all that matters."
She doesn't have the vanity to show off to outsiders. Besides, with a handsome husband of this caliber, she'd rather as few people know about it as possible.
Moreover, Shen Yueze and his family are not involved in the film and television industry; they keep a low profile and cannot easily appear in entertainment gossip.
Their circle has so many areas to invest in: artificial intelligence, semiconductors, brain-computer interfaces, new energy, commercial spaceflight...
"By the way, where do you keep all the money you earned from acting after you got married?"
Fei Qing asked.
“He kept it for me, so I only kept a little over 100,000 yuan. But I used his card, and when I went out to buy things, I didn’t spend my own money.”
This was his request; she wasn't good at managing money anyway, so it was safer for him to manage it.
Fei Qing, ever the forerunner, said, "Shen Yueze is quite cunning. Aren't you afraid that if we break up someday, all your assets will be transferred?"
“When we broke up, he gave me a house in Oceanwide, which, with the renovation and the collection inside, was worth at least 80 or 90 million. At that time, he hadn’t thought about getting married.”
Wen Yining always felt that he was quite willing to spend money on her. When she was talking to Shi Yingmeng before, she never gave her any gifts that cost more than seven figures. She only gave her a few luxury brand bags, which added up to only two or three hundred thousand.
However, I only found out about this after we got married. Thinking back on it, I feel quite emotional, as I used to argue with him about it all the time.
Fei Qing was actually a little worried for her. "Men's hearts are hard to fathom. You'd better keep the money to yourself."
"He's better at managing money than I am, and he can make money grow."
However, it was only much later that Wen Yining realized that this was also part of his scheming, one of the ways he wanted to keep her. If she wanted to leave, she might have to leave with nothing.
Of course, she wouldn't be so at ease if her marriage partner wasn't him.
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Ye Qingchi and his buddies were actually quite surprised to learn that their good friend was getting married. The first year, they thought he was just joking and made bets on how long it would take for him to get divorced. Some bet two years, some bet three years.
Instead of getting a divorce, their relationship actually got better and better.
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We still argue, but we don't say things we don't mean anymore, and we almost never have a cold war.
It's not necessarily a matter of who's comforting whom; anyway, when they see each other again after a few days apart, they can act like nothing happened.
Unlike back in college, when we had to argue until we were right and no one would give in.
As we get older, we become less sharp-tongued and more tolerant.
That day, Shen Kuo invited them out to soak in the hot springs and casually asked, "Hey, your dad hasn't been pressuring you to have children. When are you planning to have one?"
He sat casually in the hot spring, leaning back, and said absentmindedly, "Shen Qiyan can have a baby, he's obedient. I might not be able to in the next few years, it depends on whether Wen Yining wants to have a baby."
You can't force her to get pregnant, and if she really gets pregnant, her family won't let her go back to work. Ten months straight, plus postpartum recovery, it would take at least a year. If her career is on the rise and she has to stop for a year, it would be quite devastating.
Ye Qingchi laughed and joked, "They haven't had enough time together as a couple yet. They're still like newlyweds. You've seen it before. I even suspect they've forgotten about their college days. How can they have a relationship that's even better after marriage than during their honeymoon?"
“I didn’t want to get married in the first place, but after seeing how they are, I’m starting to change my mind.”
Shen Kuo asked, "What does Wen Yining think? She doesn't have that plan. Actually, you two are at the perfect age. You don't need to take care of the baby yourself. You can just leave it to them and still enjoy your life as a couple."
Xie Yuchen's girlfriend came out of the room. "I just ran into Wen Yining. Why didn't I see her come over? I thought she came with you guys."
"Where did you see that?"
"There were a few people I didn't recognize in the indoor pool; they must be friends."
The club also has a heated swimming pool.
Shen Yueze's phone was lying by the pool; he had received a message from his wife just ten minutes earlier.
I have to film all day today. If I finish early, I'll come find you.
Everyone else tacitly stopped talking. He soaked for less than ten minutes, then calmly got out of the pool, put on his bathrobe, and slowly walked indoors.
Sure enough, I saw a familiar figure on the recliner.
Wen Yining was wearing a one-piece swimsuit, with a straw in her mouth, talking to a boy with a buzz cut next to her. She smiled sweetly and looked natural. The boy was not old, only about eighteen or nineteen years old.
Shen Yueze sat down expressionlessly. Wen Yining, engrossed in their conversation, handed him another glass of juice without even glancing at him, saying, "You're back..."
"Didn't you say you were on set?"
He took it and asked.
She was slightly surprised, and her attention immediately shifted to him. "What are you doing here?"
He raised an eyebrow slightly, gesturing to the unfamiliar boy opposite him.
She explained frankly, "He plays my younger brother in the drama, and he also has a younger sister. He went shopping, and I thought she was here."
"They were coming to swim because they had a scene to film in the water, and I happened to be free, so I came along."
The boy looked Shen Yueze up and down in surprise. "Sis, is this your husband?"
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
The boy said in a low voice, "I thought he was a celebrity."
"You've been reading too much gossip online. They all say my husband is very old."
The boy smiled sheepishly, then stopped bothering them and went to play in the water.
On the way back to his room, Wen Yining was put her arm around his waist and deliberately asked, "Honey, you're not jealous of even a child, are you? He's only a teenager, still a high school student."
"Aren't high school students boys? From eighty years old to eighteen years old, what age group of men wouldn't like you?"
She chuckled, "It's not that exaggerated, is it? People treat me like an older sister."
He continued, "He likes another girl in our crew, she was just in the pool. By the way, who did you come with?"
His room had a private hot spring, and on the table were decanted red wine and fruit.
Seeing that she was dressed rather provocatively, I didn't go outside anymore.
My brother asked us when we're going to have children.
Wen Yining took off her bathrobe, stepped barefoot into the hot spring water, sat in his lap, and hugged his neck. "What do you think? I'll listen to you."
As time went by, she gradually figured out how to get along with her husband. She was no longer the sensitive and insecure girl in her early twenties. Shen Yueze was so reliable that she was willing to have a child. Even if he didn't say it, she wanted to bring it up. However, Fei Qing didn't quite agree, feeling that it would interfere with her work.
She added, "You need to quit smoking."
I haven't been smoking much lately.
He reacted almost as soon as she pressed against him, starting to untie her swimsuit straps while kissing her and whispering to her.
Wen Yining took the initiative to straddle him, hooking her arms around his neck, becoming even more engrossed, "We didn't get pregnant during the few holidays over the New Year, shouldn't we go get a checkup first?"
"She wasn't in the S before, she was so young, what problems could she possibly have?"
Afterwards, she said, "Then remember not to smoke or drink from today onwards. Can you resist?"
"I'm not a heavy smoker, that's easy."
For him, nothing was more difficult than abstinence.
"Have you really thought it through?"
"Well, we're going to have a baby sooner or later anyway. Actually, I'm quite curious about what our child will be like."
"The process will be tough, but you won't have to worry about the baby after it's born."
Actually, he doesn't care about having children; it doesn't matter whether he has them or not. His elders in the family are urging him, and Shen Zongjun is also urging him, but he has an older brother who already has two sons. As for whether he gets married or has children, no one can force him.
The main reason is that he feels that Wen Yining will be even more dependent on him after having a child, which is like having an extra bargaining chip to bind them together.
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A note from the author:
I'll add more side stories if there are any I want to write~
To give a unified response: just because I didn't mention something doesn't mean it didn't happen. There was no misunderstanding between them to begin with; the initial period was just a time of adjustment.
After marriage, when the relationship improves, people no longer hold grudges against those hurtful words or deliberate acts of defiance from before.
Then their relationship will definitely get better and better, and they won't think about separating. Of course, it also requires some effort from both sides. Ning is very good at seducing her husband (many details can't be written, but you can understand them).
Shen Yueze's possessiveness and controlling nature remain strong; his fundamental personality is still the same. He won't change just because he got married, transforming from a wicked man into a gentle and kind person. Impossible. [glasses]
He manages all the money in the house. For example, given his personality, if Ning wanted to separate, she would have to leave with nothing. If they had children, it would be even more impossible for them to separate, as the children were there to keep Ning tied down.
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Bonus chapters will be posted depending on the situation—I'll write them if I feel like it.
My next book, *Deep Oxygen Deprivation*, will still feature a ruthless and eccentric male protagonist.
Unrequited love/stealing someone else's love—different stories, but similar feeling. [heart emoji]
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