Long Tingwei sought out Jian Mujin frequently, visiting her whenever he had free time.
It was raining that day. Long Tingwei drove up, knocked on the door a few times, and mumbled noises came from inside.
"We told you to come earlier, but you wouldn't come. You came all this way in the rain..."
When Jian Mujin opened the door and saw Long Tingwei, she immediately tried to close it.
Long Tingwei squeezed in, smiling ingratiatingly at her, "It's raining outside, can you let me in?"
Jian Mujin glanced at his car, refusing to back down, "Your car can also take shelter from the rain!"
Long Tingwei pressed the car key, and the luxury sedan transformed into a convertible sports car. Rain pattered down on it, a sight that made one's heart ache.
"It can't keep out the rain now, can you let me in?"
While Jian Mujin was still in a daze, Long Tingwei took the opportunity to squeeze in.
Jian Mujin looked regretful. "You can give me your car if you don't want it anymore. It'll be totaled if you leave it down there!"
"If you want one, I'll buy you a good one!" Long Tingwei was particularly generous these days.
Jian Mujin was somewhat tempted. She neither said she wanted it nor didn't want it, but angrily slammed the door shut.
The place was damp and dark inside. As soon as Long Tingwei entered, he smelled a musty odor. The thought that Dan'er was willing to live in such a place rather than go back to the Long family home with him made Long Tingwei feel very uncomfortable.
"Where's the light? It's so dark in the room, why don't you turn on the light? Have you eaten yet?"
Long Tingwei fumbled to turn on the light and found the whole room was rather messy. There was a small table and a small stool on the floor, and a bowl of instant noodles that hadn't been finished on the table.
"It's not night yet, don't turn on the lights, it's a waste of electricity!"
Jian Mujin turned off the light and sat down again to eat her instant noodles.
Long Tingwei stopped her, "You're going to eat this?"
"What's wrong? I eat this every day!" Jian Mujin picked up a mouthful of noodles and ate it.
Long Tingwei felt uneasy when he smelled the instant noodles, but what really bothered him was seeing Jian Mujin eating them.
"This instant noodles have no nutritional value, throw it away!" He reached out to throw the instant noodles into the trash can.
Jian Mujin quickly snatched the instant noodles back, "You think you can just throw them away like that? I'm not full yet!"
"If there's nothing to eat, I'll cook for you!" Long Tingwei looked in the refrigerator and found that it was almost empty.
Moreover, there was only one kettle in the kitchen and nothing else.
"You used to eat instant noodles all the time?" Long Tingwei felt particularly uncomfortable. What kind of life was his woman living?
"I can't cook, so of course I eat instant noodles. I ate instant noodles every day when I was at your house, and you didn't say anything."
"Egg, you shouldn't eat too much instant noodles. I didn't know that before... Don't eat instant noodles anymore. Call me if you're hungry, and I'll cook for you..."
Long Tingwei had no idea how long she had been eating instant noodles; if she continued like this, she would definitely suffer from malnutrition.
"Egg, wait for me! I'll go buy groceries and cook for you!"
Unable to bear the guilt in his heart, Long Tingwei, partly to make amends to Jian Mujin, immediately went downstairs to drive and buy groceries.
Since the unfair treatment she has suffered over the past ten years was caused by me, then I must take responsibility for the rest of her life.
He was determined to prove to her that he was a man she could entrust her life to.
Long Tingwei left. Jian Mujin pouted, finished her instant noodles, and still felt a little hungry, so she found some snacks to eat.
When Long Tingwei returned, he saw snack scraps scattered all over the floor. To be honest, he was a little angry, but when he looked up into those clear eyes, his anger immediately dissipated.
"I won't give you any more chances to eat snacks!" Long Tingwei swept up the cardboard on the ground and then threw away all the remaining snacks that Jian Mujin hadn't finished eating.
Jian Mujin grumbled, "I'll eat mine, what's wrong with you? If you don't want to eat, don't stop me from eating!" She looked regretfully at the unfinished snacks that Long Tingwei had thrown away.
Long Tingwei carried the purchased items up one by one, including a rice cooker, a wok, a spatula, and various cooking utensils.
Next came the seasonings and vegetables. Jian Mujin watched him carry them up one by one, then suddenly picked up something. "What's this? Huh~"
As Jian Mujin held the seemingly brand-new and beautifully packaged underwear in her hands, her face flushed, she turned her head away and looked at the two items with disdain.
Long Tingwei looked at her with amusement. How adorable she was! It was a pity he had always thought she was faking it.
After putting everything away, he started washing vegetables and cooking.
Jian Mujin looked at him with heartache at the tap that was turned on wide open, "Use less water, it costs a lot of money!"
Long Tingwei smiled slightly, "With me here, you don't need to worry about money!"
Jian Mujin felt a bit resentful of the rich. Since he had already said that, what else could she say?
Feeling a bit bored, Jian Mujin went over to chat with him, "Hey, I didn't expect a grown man like you to be able to cook. Is it even edible?"
Long Tingwei was very pleased that Jian Mujin had come to chat with him. While chopping vegetables, he said, "Whether it tastes good or not, you'll know once you try it. I didn't know how to cook before, but I learned all of this for you. If you're willing, I'll cook for you for the rest of my life."
Jian Mujin found it a bit cheesy, and she shuddered, getting goosebumps. She asked, "You've never cooked with Ling Yuexue?"
Long Tingwei paused, then turned around. "Do you care that much? She's nobody to me. Why should I cook for her? The only person I'd be willing to cook for her myself is you!"
Jian Mujin didn't believe it. She put one leg on the stool and waved her hand in a very unladylike manner. "Come on, this is what you call guilt. You feel sorry for me because I saved you when you were a child, and then you hurt me like that. So all the things you did were just to make yourself feel better."
To tell you the truth, I wasn't trying to save you when I was a child. My grandfather was a soldier and taught me a few moves. I was too young to understand and thought you were just playing around, so I saved you without even realizing it. If my grandfather hadn't come to me and told me about it, I wouldn't have known I saved your life.
I only asked the old man to find me a partner because he said my grandfather had saved his life, and that's why I asked for payment!
Jian Mujin was telling the truth. She was so young then, how could she have known that society was so treacherous?
But Long Tingwei didn't care. He put down what he was doing and hugged her from behind. His magnetic, husky voice reached her ears.
"Whether you wanted to save me or not, you truly saved my life. While I feel guilty for what I did, my biggest motivation is to bring you back to me. Egg..."
Jian Mujin felt a tingling sensation near her ear and couldn't hear what he said next. She pushed him away and said, "Don't get so close to me!"
Long Tingwei thought he could still handle being hurt by Dan'er so many times, but when he actually faced Dan'er's indifferent gaze, he realized how vulnerable he truly was.
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