Xiang Zhilan was taken aback. He could have easily dodged, but he thought she would be happy to be hit, so he didn't dodge or flinch, and took the hit. That pen holder was made of brass and was quite heavy; it must have hurt a lot to be hit by it, right?
"What kind of idiot are you! Did I say I was going to hit him?! I'm not a sadist!" Xiang Zhilan was both anxious and angry, not knowing how badly he had been hit.
Shen Muzhi really didn't understand. She clearly seemed to want to smash him to vent her anger just now, but now that she had hit him, she was furious.
He really doesn't know how to coax women. Isn't it enough that he's already gone along with her?
"Don't be angry." Shen Muzhi hesitated for a moment, then reached out and patted her head.
When Jinji used to be agitated, he would touch it like this, and it would always calm it down.
Xiang Zhilan felt that she was a little guilty just now, so she didn't push his hand away. In fact, she really disliked being touched on the head. She held back for a moment before awkwardly moving her head away.
Seeing that her emotions seemed to have stabilized a bit, Shen Muzhi mistakenly thought that the method was effective and reached out to touch her again persistently.
"Are you ever going to stop?" Xiang Zhilan couldn't take it anymore and looked up at him.
"Are you still angry?" Shen Muzhi asked, withdrawing his hand.
Xiang Zhilan pursed her lips and remained silent; she still remembered the sarcastic remark about her being short of money.
“Getting angry is bad for children.” Shen Muzhi didn’t know how to coax or persuade, so she started with the child she cared about most.
Little did she know that these words would trigger another trigger in Xiang Zhilan's heart. She thought that his desire to make her happy after being hit was also for the sake of the child. So, she glared at him and said, "Can't I even get angry? Does having a child mean I have no human rights?"
"That's not what I meant." Shen Muzhi had heard from the doctor that pregnant women might be a little temperamental, so he had to try his best to bear it. He had never been yelled at like that before, and now he could say that he had shown Xiang Zhilan the greatest patience and tolerance.
"Are you implying that I'm being unreasonable?" Xiang Zhilan's cheeks puffed up with anger.
"No." Shen Muzhi reached out to touch her head to comfort her, while calmly and rationally saying, "I just don't understand what you're angry about, and I'm thinking about how to make you stop being angry."
Xiang Zhilan felt like she was angry at a block of wood, and immediately deflated. She slapped his hand away, leaned back against the headboard, and said, "I'm fine now, you can go back."
Shen Muzhi didn't move. He just didn't understand women, but he wasn't oblivious. When he was about to leave, she threw so many things at him and got angry. This emotion should mean that she didn't actually want him to leave that much, right?
He sat down in the chair and looked at Xiang Zhilan.
After being stared at for a while, Xiang Zhilan said irritably, "Why aren't you leaving yet?"
"I can leave if I want, and I won't leave if I don't want to," Shen Muzhi replied coldly, his eyes fixed on her.
He noticed that the flush of anger on her face seemed to have subsided somewhat, so he remained seated even more firmly.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Xiang Zhilan felt even more uncomfortable being stared at for so long. Although she had always been the center of attention for boys since she was a child, no one had ever stared at her like that for so long.
"You're beautiful," Shen Muzhi said calmly, without blushing or feeling flustered, as if he were just saying something completely ordinary.
Xiang Zhilan blushed. She had received countless compliments like "pretty" and "beautiful," but she never expected to hear them come from Shen Muzhi's mouth.
With his sexually apathetic and misogynistic demeanor, she thought that women had no concept of beauty or ugliness in his eyes.
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