153 Living together
Huo Yanxi leaned against the wall between the two houses, looking at her with a dark expression. "Don't you like it?"
Xie Yaoyao: "You knocked down someone's load-bearing wall, and the property management didn't come to bother you?"
Huo Yanxi said, "I made a special trip to check before I started knocking, and this wall just happened to be a non-load-bearing wall."
Xie Yaoyao: "...Why did you suddenly buy the house next door?"
Being rich really lets you do whatever you want!
Not only did they buy a house, but they also replaced all the furniture. This whole thing must have cost several million.
Huo Yanxi said, "You have to take it slow. You won't let me sleep with you, and my son complains that I'm crowding him, so I'll have to find myself a place to sleep."
His tone sounded very resentful.
Xie Yaoyao coughed awkwardly and quickly changed the subject, "You're still up so late?"
"I can't sleep if you don't come back."
Xie Yaoyao stared at him blankly. She realized that Huo Yanxi had started talking ever since they reunited.
He will express his care and love for her, and will no longer make her guess what he is thinking.
Seeing Huo Yanxi staring at her, and the atmosphere gradually becoming a bit tense, she quickly looked away.
I'm afraid if the two keep looking at each other, they'll probably kiss again.
She said, "I'm back now, you can go to sleep peacefully."
Huo Yanxi walked towards her and suddenly leaned down to hug her; the two had a height difference.
Huo Yanxi pulled Xie Yaoyao into his arms, making her appear petite and delicate.
His intense body heat emanated through the thin fabric of her clothes, causing a thin layer of sweat to break out on her back.
"Huo Yanxi, it's very hot."
Huo Yanxi rested his chin on her shoulder and said in a hoarse voice, "I just want to hug you, nothing else."
Xie Yaoyao's cheeks flushed, and she thought to herself, "What else do you want to do?"
But she didn't dare ask; asking would seem like a provocation.
She sensed that he seemed a little down, so she asked, "What's wrong? Did you run into trouble at work?"
Huo Yanxi tightened his arms around her, pressing her body even closer to his.
"I feel sorry for you."
Xie Yaoyao's heart skipped a beat when she heard his seemingly random words of concern for her.
"Oh, is it because I get off work too late? Oh well, that's just how homeroom teachers are."
The freshmen finish class at 10:00 and lights out at 10:30. After she finishes inspecting the dormitories and gets home from school, it will be no later than 11:00.
She used to live in an old tenement building, and she wouldn't get home until after 11:30 every day.
Now, she got home half an hour earlier than before.
Huo Yanxi felt sorry for her because she got off work late, but he felt even more sorry for her because she, like himself, did not have the love of her parents.
The Chi couple failed his test today, and he doesn't want them to know where their biological daughter is for the time being.
Let him be selfish for a while longer and keep her by his side.
"Um."
Xie Yaoyao couldn't see his face and didn't know what expression he had.
All she could tell was that his voice sounded muffled, and she chuckled softly, "I'm not this busy during the day either."
Fearing he wouldn't believe her, she gave an example: "Before we reunited, I was raising Yu Bao by myself. In the morning, I would take him to kindergarten, and in the afternoon, I would pick him up from kindergarten and take him to school."
“You have no idea how well-behaved Yu Bao is. He knows I’m busy, so he stays in the office drawing. He won’t go anywhere unless he can’t see me. When I get off work at night, he’s already asleep on the small sofa in the office, so I carry him on my back to take the subway.”
As Huo Yanxi listened to her rambling on about the past few years, he was not comforted; instead, he felt even more heartache for her.
"I'm sorry, if I had gone to St. Paul's Co-educational School sooner, we might have reunited long ago."
Xie Yaoyao sighed softly.
She was intentionally avoiding him, so how could they possibly meet again?
If Huo Yanxi hadn't kept his attendance at the teacher appreciation banquet a secret, she might have deliberately avoided him that night.
Sometimes, it's just fate's best arrangement.
Xie Yaoyao let Huo Yanxi hold her for a while longer, but her legs were really a little numb.
She had four classes today, and evening self-study was also hers. After class ended at 10 o'clock, she went to the dormitory to check on students and then walked back to the community. Her legs were sore by now.
She patted Huo Yanxi's arm and said, "Mr. Huo, why don't you hug me after I sit down?"
Huo Yanxi, flustered and at a loss, released her.
Xie Yaoyao was about to walk towards the sofa to test how soft it was when Huo Yanxi picked her up from behind.
"I'll carry you to a seat."
Xie Yaoyao subconsciously hooked her arm around his neck and said, "Seeing how you can lift me up and down anytime, anywhere, I really doubt that my 160-pound weight is real."
Huo Yanxi weighed it in his hand and said, "Hmm, it's lighter again."
Xie Yaoyao has stopped indulging in excessive eating and drinking to maintain her figure. Although she was a little sad at first when she quit, she has now gotten used to the feeling of hunger.
These past few days, with school starting and things getting busy, she hasn't even had time to drink a sip of water, and she's actually lost weight again.
Monica saw her today and said her chin is getting sharper and sharper; she really envies her successful weight loss.
Xie Yaoyao said, "Isn't this exactly what you wanted?"
Huo Yanxi placed her on the sofa, turned around and walked towards the bathroom. A moment later, the sound of the water heater being turned on came from the bathroom.
Xie Yaoyao had no idea what Huo Yanxi was up to, so she took out her phone to check the messages.
After a while, Huo Yanxi came out with a basin of water. He placed the basin at her feet and squatted down.
Xie Yaoyao: "What are you doing?"
“You’ve been standing all day, soaking your feet will help relieve fatigue,” Huo Yanxi said, reaching out to hold her ankle and putting her feet into the water.
The water was a bit hot at 45 degrees Celsius, but not uncomfortable.
The hot water relieved the soreness in her feet, and Xie Yaoyao smiled, unable to resist teasing him, "President Huo, you're quite the husband now."
Huo Yanxi rolled up the sleeves of his pajamas, dipped his long, slender fingers into the water, and grasped Xie Yaoyao's foot.
Xie Yaoyao was startled and almost kicked over the basin of water. Her face flushed, she tried to pull her foot back. "Huo Yanxi, what are you doing?"
"Didn't you say I feel very much like a husband now? Does giving my wife a foot massage count as being a husband?"
Xie Yaoyao was surprised that he had flirted with her in return, and her cheeks felt slightly hot.
"Let me go!"
Although they washed their feet together when they were little, she always liked to step on the back of his feet with hot water to scald him.
But that was when I was a child.
Besides, it was her feet stepping on her feet, not him massaging her with his hands.
She always felt that such a humble thing was not something a world's richest man should do.
Huo Yanxi said, "I'll give you a simple massage today. If you feel uncomfortable, just say so. Tomorrow I'll find a Chinese medicine doctor to teach you about foot acupoints."
Xie Yaoyao was astonished, "A top student truly lives up to his reputation."
He maintains a high level of learning ability in everything, including how to take care of his ex-wife.
Huo Yanxi lowered his eyes, looking at Xie Yaoyao's round fingertips in the water, and his Adam's apple bobbed up and down.
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