When Zhuochuan posted the Weibo, it had actually been two months since Chuli and her husband got married. Chuli went from being a "girl" to a "married woman", and it took her some time to get used to this role...
When I was a girl, I secretly imagined a thousand times what my future husband would look like.
Whether he is tall, handsome or plain;
Is he a rich man or an ordinary working class?
Whether they will worry about mortgage loans;
Do they have the determination to spend their lives together?
Will she love him?
Will he love her?
How would she feel on the day of the marriage certificate?
what kind of clothes to wear;
What kind of words...
Seven or eight years later, when this day finally came——
She still remembers that the sun was shining brightly on the day they got their marriage certificate.
This day is just like any other day. The earth keeps turning and the rivers keep flowing. For many people, it is just an insignificant and unmemorable day in their lives.
However, when Chu Li held the red book in her hand and carefully opened it, looking at the headshot of herself with a bright smile and the paralyzed and cool man on the inside page of the marriage certificate, Chu Li took a deep breath: I can't believe that I am getting married like this. From now on, in the second half of my life, there will be a man who will be with me day and night for decades...
This man had been a stranger to her for the past twenty years.
Now, he was going to spend the rest of his life with her.
——So magical.
Thinking of this, when Chu Li and Zhu Chuan walked out of the Civil Affairs Bureau hand in hand, the unreal feeling came back again... Chu Li shook the man's hand, with a little excitement in her tone: "Teacher! Teacher!"
"Yeah," he turned his head and looked at her under the sunlight. Under the sunlight, his whole body seemed to be covered with a layer of warm light. He lowered his eyes and looked at her. He squeezed her hand slightly, then raised the corner of his lips and said slowly, "Call me husband."
Chu Li suddenly realized that everything that was happening now was actually similar to her fantasies in her teenage years, but also seemed to be different. She could not remember the specific details of her fantasies back then.
Maybe the “tall and handsome” model she imagined at that time was a senior whom she had a crush on;
Maybe the "rich man" she imagined at that time was just someone driving a Mercedes-Benz;
Maybe at that time she didn’t know what “spending the rest of your life together” meant…
But now everything seems to have settled.
She held the man's hand and asked him to bend down. When that handsome face came close to her, Chu Li hooked her hands around his shoulders, smiled and stood on tiptoe to kiss the corners of his raised lips.
If she had the chance, she would like to travel back in time to seven or eight years ago in a time machine and tell her dreamy teenage self: Don’t think too much. Congratulations, at least in the end, you married for love.
…
The timeline goes back to this moment.
It was the first day of 2015, and the baby in Chuli's belly finally had some presence. When Chuli's lover was sitting with his legs crossed, busy arguing with someone on Weibo, and madly emphasizing that "my ring is the most beautiful in the world", Chuli was standing in front of the mirror with her follower Ergouzi, lifting her clothes to look at her belly, and then she said with a pale face: "Teacher, my waistline is gone, it's all your fault!"
"You've never had anything like that," Mr. Love said without looking up. "It's said that pregnancy makes women stupid for three years. I can allow you to be stupid for ten years, but I can't allow you to be full of unrealistic fantasies about your past and try to blame it on me."
Chu Li bent down, took off her slippers and threw them at him.
Zhuochuan reached out and caught the slippers without raising his head, then raised his head and stood up.
The identity of "Gentle and Jade Prince Chuan" hindered him from displaying his fighting talent. Now that fighting was boring, the man simply threw away his phone and walked towards Chu Li with slippers in his hand. Chu Li shrank her shoulders as if facing a great enemy and asked, "What do you want to do? Beating a pregnant woman will lead to jail." At the same time, the lackey standing at her feet wrinkled his nose and bared his teeth, tucked his tail and gave a low warning roar at the man, "Hulu Hulu Wuwu"...
Ergouzi has been like this for a long time.
As expected, it was one of the first three foods that Chu Li emphasized to keep after she was confirmed pregnant. On the day Chu Li was confirmed pregnant, Er Gouzi completely became her lackey, following her around like a little bodyguard...
The fierce battles in the river have become its daily routine.
Recently, it often happens that a person and a dog lie on the sofa. The person plays with his mobile phone, the dog hugs the person's legs, and the big dog puts its head on her belly and closes its eyes to rest... Then when the owner of this house, the buyer of this sofa, the male master of the whole family tries to get closer, he sees his wife's dark eyes scanning him from behind her mobile phone, and his dog baring its big fangs at him...
Zhuochuan has been living this kind of depressed life for a long time.
Sometimes he would get so angry that he would point at Er Gouzi and her mistress and roar, "How dare you treat the big guy who won the Flower and Blossom Award and wanted to cooperate with Herman like this?" After getting two "Mad idiots" paralyzed faces countless times, finally on this day, at this moment, Chuan Chuan felt that it was time to revive the government.
He reached out and grabbed the big dog's ears, pushed its fierce face aside, and warned in a deep voice: "Go away, this is my wife."
Then he threw away his slippers and picked up the person standing in front of the mirror. He heard her say "ah", and directly carried her up with the slippers still hanging on her feet and put her on the sofa, holding her down to prevent her from moving. His other big hand reached out to lift up her clothes, hesitated for a moment and touched her slightly bulging belly: "Is this my daughter?"
Being stuck by the man's body and unable to move, Chu Li slapped his hand away with a frown on her face: "What else?"
Zhuochuan: "Bloating? You had a good appetite this morning..."
As soon as he finished speaking, his ears were grabbed.
Zhuchuan ignored her and lowered his head to rub against Chuli's belly, listening attentively for a long time. When Chuli reminded him that even if his mother had a thousand-mile ear, she couldn't hear anything, she heard Zhuchuan suddenly tense up, raised his head and said to her mysteriously: "Banana man, I seem to hear my good daughter calling daddy."
Chu Li: "..."
I don't want to admit that my love is such a stupid thing.
Chu Li: "Teacher Chu Chuan, that's just the sound of my normal gastrointestinal movement."
Zhuchuan: “…”
Chu Li: "Without professional medical equipment at this time, you can't even hear the baby's fetal heartbeat..."
The shock and tenderness in Zhaochuan's eyes disappeared in an instant. He stood up expressionlessly and pulled down Chuli's clothes: "Don't I know about this? But the boring life should not only be filled with oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, but also with poetry and distant dreams. You don't even have any beautiful fantasies, and you don't allow others to have them. People like you are really disgusting..."
Chu Li listened to his endless complaints and yawned, not taking it seriously: "Is this the romance of a writer?"
Zhuochuan glanced at her and said, "So what?"
"So I can only be an editor," Chu Li kicked him away and climbed up from the sofa. "If I have a developed romantic nature, I should be able to write books. If I am such a smart person who can write and sell books, what is the place for you stupid authors in the physical publishing circle..."
Zhuchuan watched Chuli stand up and walk around the room in his big slippers as if it was a matter of course. From Zhuchuan's perspective, her back seemed to have gained some weight recently, but her skin had become whiter and softer for some reason... It felt like tofu to the touch.
Because she was afraid of stretch marks due to her growing belly, Chu Li had been massaging her skin with baby oil recently. It was even more painful to snuggle into his arms after taking a shower at night. The smell of baby oil and shower gel mixed with the smell of shower gel——
Zhuochuan remembered that after graduating from elementary school, he never looked forward to summer vacation like this, flipping through the calendar and counting the days. He counted the days with sighs, hoping that the first three months would pass quickly.
…My thoughts were a little off track, and the impulse was strong.
"First Ceremony."
"What?"
"I feel like I can agree to anything you ask me to do now, even if it means I have to go to Thailand and buy you an elephant."
"…What are you smoking now?"
“…”
When Chu Li didn't get a response and looked back at him curiously from a distance, the man moved uncomfortably. He didn't want to be called a beast, so he grabbed a pillow to cover his lower body, cleared his throat and said, "No, I just think you are really the most capable, so when are you going to resign?... I don't think it will be helpful for prenatal education for you to take my child to face an idiot like Liang Chonglang every day--"
"That's easy. Just tell Mr. Liang not to get mad at me. His legs start to tremble when he hears your name."
Chu Chuan's words "I can agree to anything you say now" inspired Chu Li. She walked to the entrance without leaving a trace, then reached out to take her small canvas bag from the shoe cabinet: Ever since she became pregnant, Chu Chuan had read the poisonous chicken soup that someone had sent him: "Beware! This pregnant woman will have a miscarriage if she just raises her hand to take something." All the things in the house were placed at the same height as her arms. She hadn't raised her hand to take anything for a long time...
"What can I say? --Mr. Liang, please move aside. Are you messing with my child?"
Chu Li stood there holding a canvas bag, laughing so hard that he was shaking all over.
Chu Chuan is still very funny when he speaks sarcastically.
...as long as the person you are being mean to is not her.
Chu Li smiled as he took out a folder from his canvas bag, walked back to the sofa and handed it to Zhu Chuan. Zhu Chuan thought it was something else, but when he looked up, he realized it was the contract that he had snatched from Chu Li when he was furious at Yuan Yue Society last time. He immediately withdrew his hand that was about to take it: "Why are you showing this to me?"
After a few months, he thought she had wisely given up.
"This is just a publishing contract for your future collaborative work with Herman."
"No sign." Zhaochuan frowned.
...What about the promise of "I can agree to anything"?
"This contract is pretty good, at least take a look at it—"
"No, take it. You know I'm already very unhappy with you for not resigning from Yuanyue Society. How can you let me cooperate with this stupid place?"
"I want to leave, but if I leave now, where should I go? What about Ah Gui and Suo Heng's book signings next year? And what about your buddy Sui Guang's new series? There are so many things to do, I have to be responsible for them, right?" Chu Li raised her hand, put her hair behind her ears, and persuaded gently and patiently, "Not to mention that this contract is really crazy favorable. I bet there is no other publishing company or publishing house in the world that dares to offer you such conditions... Teacher, you can't miss this opportunity because of me--"
Zhuo Chuan took the contract from Chu Li and threw it aside. "Do you still remember when you signed the first contract for the Luo River Divine Book with me, you asked me to agree to the first print of 45,000. What did you emphasize at that time?"
"?"
"Let me, you, suffer that lousy loss and sign that lousy contract."
“…”
"You're the one who said everything."
Chu Chuan turned his back, indicating that he refused to pay attention to her.
After a while, he felt the person behind him fall silent, and then a soft body pressed against him from behind, with two cotton balls on her chest pressing against him, and the warm breath she exhaled sprayed on his neck——
The man stiffened, goosebumps appeared on his back, and the impulse that he had just suppressed with great difficulty continued to flow, gathering somewhere between his legs into a small cosmic force that was about to explode...
Feeling the heavier breathing of the man in his arms, the person behind him reached out even more fiercely, hugged his neck, rubbed up to bite his ears, and shook his neck: "Calm down and look at the contract. This contract that steps on the physical bodies of Ah Gui and the others is really good!"
“…”
"Hubby... huh?"
All his rationality was completely destroyed by the word "husband". The man turned around, pulled the person lying behind him into his arms, bit her lips hard, and said with an unsteady breath, "I'll collect some interest first."
As he spoke, he dishonestly lifted the hem of her clothes...
Chu Li took a quick breath and narrowed his eyes slightly——
But what I was thinking in my heart was: Damn, in order to let this big guy take a good look at the contract without me getting beaten, I racked my brains for several months before I dared to take out the contract. In the end, it turned out that the sex seduction technique worked. It's poisonous!