Chapter 313 Reciprocity
Zhou Shuang looked at the time and it was only a little after five in the afternoon.
She thought he was either at the company or out for a social event.
Yesterday, Qi Huaijing didn't come back until the early morning when she fell asleep. She thought he was either busy or hiding something from her.
"Yes, I'll wait for you to have dinner."
I didn't wait for her to have hotpot with me at noon, but I can always wait for my wife to have dinner with me in the evening.
Zhou Shuang felt a little guilty when she thought about how she had rejected him. So when she heard someone in the Jewelry Plaza today say that Mrs. Qi had used Mr. Qi's card to buy jewelry, she wanted to come back and ask him about it, but she couldn't bring herself to ask.
"oh."
Zhou Shuang was still holding the diamond necklace she bought at the jewelry plaza. Qi Huaijing saw it and helped her pick it up.
"Shopping?"
He asked very naturally, but Zhou Shuang felt a little awkward.
"Well, didn't you get the text message on your phone?"
If you use his card, there will definitely be a text message on your phone informing you.
"I didn't notice. You usually don't like those things. Why did you suddenly buy jewelry today?"
Qi Huaijing took out a list from the bag, which clearly stated that the selling price was 380,000. For Zhou Shuang, the price she paid for such a thing was too low and abnormal.
"oh--"
Zhou Shuang originally wanted to come over and question Qi Huaijing, but now she is the one who is acting like a thief.
"I just saw this chain and suddenly liked it, so I bought it. What's the matter?"
Zhou Shuang looked at Qi Huaijing, her eyes seemed to want to say "Are you doubting me", but she lowered her head inexplicably feeling guilty.
Qi Huaijing reached out and hooked her chin, forcing her to look into his eyes.
"Are you hiding something from me?"
Qi Huaijing was so self-assured and justified in his response, so he must be fine.
Zhou Shuang felt that she was being stingy.
"No, really not. I just went shopping with everyone else and saw that everyone else had bought something. I felt embarrassed so I just picked one at random and bought it too. I just wanted to fit in."
The reason is too far-fetched.
Qi Huaijing was too lazy to expose her lies, but he was also relieved.
It turned out to be a coincidence. He thought Zhou Shuang had discovered something—
The couple were both very nervous, and in the end no one said anything.
Qi Huaijing took out his cell phone and turned it to silent mode when Zhou Shuang wasn't paying attention.
After dinner, the servant lit incense and cut some fruit and brought it to the study.
Qi Huaijing was working on the company's unfinished business during the day on the computer, while Zhou Shuang took out her painting supplies and continued painting. She had spent a week painting the flowers and plants in the yard, and there was still some finishing work to be done.
The carved seal was almost finished. Qi Huaijing would take time out from work to look at Zhou Shuang. Seeing her focused expression, the empty space in his heart was filled.
The phone vibrated a few times on the table. Qi Huaijing took a look and saw that it was Du Yuqian.
The WeChat message only had one tentative sentence: "What are you doing? Are you asleep?"
Qi Huaijing ignored him and turned off his phone.
Zhou Shuang would forget the time whenever she started painting. It wasn't until Qi Huaijing took the brush from her hand that she looked at him behind her in surprise and subconsciously said, "Why are you here?"
Qi Huaijing frowned and simply picked her up.
"I've been here all along. It was you who asked me to come to the study to work with you. How come you've been so absorbed in painting that you've forgotten your husband? Look at what you're painting."
He looked at Zhou Shuang's drawing board, but she subconsciously blocked it with her hand. Qi Huaijing saw his profile on the drawing board and was touched.
"This is?"
Zhou Shuang blushed: "You."
After she finished painting the landscape, she unknowingly painted Qi Huaijing. When he called for a stop, she was startled and realized that he was still in the room.
"That means you missed me. It's okay. I'm here with you now. It's getting late. Go to bed early. We can still do something else."
The words were so explicit that Zhou Shuang's face turned red.
"There are servants watching over the house."
As a man, his needs are really too great. How did she think he was the abstinent type before?
"That's all right. They'll be tactful and won't bother us. Isn't it a good thing for the servants if the masters and servants are so affectionate?"
Why would the servants bother their master? They'd be too busy hiding when they saw the two of them together. Did they want to stop working?
Zhou Shuang's body still aches from the torment she's endured these past few days.
Every time Qi Huaijing was with him, her legs would become weak and tremble, and she would be unable to walk for several days.
After thinking about it, it seemed that he was really hungry.
After all, a man who has been single for so many years suddenly meets a woman he likes, just like a beast that has been released from a cage and has been hungry for a long time.
There were several times when Zhou Shuang felt that she could no longer bear it.
Fortunately, Qi Huaijing seemed to be aware of her physical discomfort and was extremely gentle when they were together, trying not to let her get tired. But even so, Zhou Shuang fell asleep as soon as her head touched the pillow after they were done.
Qi Huaijing still felt a little unsatisfied, but he gave up because he felt sorry for her.
The next day, when the alarm clock rang, Zhou Shuang opened her eyes for fear of being late. Qi Huaijing had already gotten up. Seeing her lift the quilt, he reached out and hugged her.
"Did you feel uncomfortable last night? If you are tired, don't go to the company today, Mrs. Qi. I'm here, and the company won't go bankrupt even if you go one day less."
Zhou Shuang stiffened her neck and immediately refused, "No, our relationship is known only to the two of us, no one else knows. If I take leave every now and then and don't go to work for a long time, they will definitely get suspicious."
Qi Huaijing looked at his little wife with amusement.
"Mid-Autumn Festival is next month, and we're going back to Haicheng to hold the wedding. By the time the media reports on it, Rongcheng will know about it, and Mrs. Qi's identity won't be hidden for long."
"Let's just keep it a secret for the day. If they knew she was your wife, who would dare let me go to work? Who would dare give me work? How boring would that be?"
It’s not okay to be a rich lady every day, and it’s even worse to be a young lady.
Qi Huaijing thought he was working to accomplish something big, but it turned out he was just afraid that he would be too bored.
His beautiful eyes flickered slightly. After pulling Zhou Shuang into his arms, he put his lips to her ear.
"If you want to avoid being bored, there are other things to do, such as having a baby."
Zhou Shuang felt his teeth gently attacking her soft earlobe, and her whole body trembled uncontrollably.
child?
She was stunned...
It seemed like they had never taken any measures when they were together. It had been almost a month since they had sex in Haicheng.
She also forgot to pay attention to when her period came.
Realizing that Zhou Shuang had stopped moving in his arms, Qi Huaijing kissed her cheek lovingly.
"Why are you suddenly silent? What did you think of, huh?"
Of course Zhou Shuang didn't dare to say anything, and she thought of something very important.
Of course, we can't talk nonsense before we are sure.
"Nothing."
Zhou Shuang twisted uneasily in his arms a few times, pretending to check the time.
"If I don't get up now, I'll be late. I still have nearly half a month to work properly..."
Qi Huaijing knew what she was going to do, and no one could convince her otherwise. They hadn't taken any measures. After the little one came, she would naturally stop going to work.
Qi Huaijing is not a male chauvinist, but he feels that Zhou Shuang's personality is not suitable for the workplace.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been schemed against by Chen Yunna so many times. He couldn't stand seeing others bullying his wife.
If it weren't for the relationship between the Qi family and Old Man Chen, not only would Chen Yunna be transferred from the company to another place, she would be fired and might even be banned by the entire industry.
Even if he was transferred to Liufengong, the driver was so discriminatory here that he would never be able to make a breakthrough.
She was also smart and knew that if she offended Qi Huaijing, she would not go anywhere else, because no one would dare to want her if she went somewhere else.
Chen Yunna will never be able to make a breakthrough in her life.
Qi Huaijing watched his wife dressing up in front of him, her skin glowing white in the morning sun.
At this time, Qi Huaijing was somewhat glad that he had already won his wife's heart before others discovered her beauty.
I'm afraid it won't be possible to be so smooth in a few years.
Zhou Shuang tied her hair into a ponytail and changed into commuting clothes. She found that Qi Huaijing was staring at her intently, which made her feel a little strange.
"What are you looking at?"
Qi Huaijing replied indifferently.
"nice……"
A faint pink flush appeared on Zhou Shuang's face again, and like a magic trick, she took out an exquisite little box from behind and handed it to him.
"What?"
Her gift to him?
"You've always given me things, so this is a gift from me."
Qi Huaijing opened the box in front of her. Inside lay an exquisite seal.
The seal was carved from real jade and had his name on the bottom.
"I don't know what to get you. It feels like you already have everything. I carved this myself, don't mind."
Zhou Shuang took out the cinnabar jelly and blew on the bottom of the container. The three seal characters carved by Qi Huaijing using ancient methods immediately appeared on the paper.
Zhou Shuang doesn't have any other special hobbies or bad habits.
In my spare time I paint and carve.
Qi Huaijing took the paper and read it many times.
"Can you also restore cultural relics and ancient paintings?"
Zhou Shuang was surprised and blurted out.
"How do you know?"
Qi Huaijing: "The Qi family's largest businesses are cultural relic restoration and intangible cultural heritage inheritance."
Some people are really blessed by God. Zhou Shuang's technique requires at least forty years of practice by a master, yet she has this ability at only her early twenties.
Considering her background, God is also unfair. Sometimes all good things will fall on one person, and sometimes one person will bear the misery imposed by the whole world.
Zhou Shuang was delighted that they had something in common. She was very interested in Chinese culture and enjoyed studying classical literature when she had nothing else to do.
So he often seemed out of tune with people of his age and therefore had very few friends.
Qi Huaijing accepted the seal, and also the paper that Zhou Shuang had just stamped with his name.
"Then when can you take me to see it?"
When Zhou Shuang heard about the restoration of cultural relics, her eyes lit up.
Qi Huaijing tapped her pretty nose lovingly.
"Of course, these are all our family assets and they are yours. Mrs. Qi, please give me your guidance. I didn't expect that I would marry such a treasure."
Zhou Shuang gave him a look of reproach.
"You mean to say that before I gave you this seal, you thought I was a good-for-nothing?"
Qi Huaijing didn't expect her to use such words to describe himself, and couldn't help but let out a low laugh from his throat.
Zhou Shuang saw that he seemed to be trying hard to hold back something, but he couldn't.
She pretended to be angry and raised her fist, punching him directly. Qi Huaijing grabbed her soft little hand and warned her.
"Look at the time, we're almost late."
When I looked in the morning, it was almost eight o'clock and there was only half an hour left, so I stopped arguing with him.
The couple went out hand in hand. When they got downstairs, the rescued puppy ran over to Zhou Shuang with its chubby little butt sticking out.
Zhou Shuang was just about to bend down to pick it up, but Qi Huaijing was quick-witted and grabbed it by the neck and threw it to the housekeeper.
"I'm going to be late for work. Let's talk about it when I get back."
This is time for him and his wife, why is this little puppy coming out to join in the fun?
Qi Huaijing put his arm around his wife's waist and got into the car directly.
The dog was held in the air, whimpering non-stop. Its four short legs paddled constantly. Zhou Shuang looked at it sympathetically. Qi Huaijing pressed Zhou Shuang's head directly onto his shoulder and then looked at Wang Yu.
"drive."
“…”
"This week I plan to hold an exhibition under the company's name, which will also be a charity sale. There will be many ancient artifacts on display.
The company will give everyone a ticket. Since you like to keep a low profile, you can go with them when the time comes."
Qi Huai had already thought it through. Zhou Shuang didn't really socialize much, but it was obvious that she seemed to enjoy the feeling of being in a crowd.
"Exhibition? Ancient paintings?"
This really touched Zhou Shuang's heart.
Seeing her excited face, Qi Huaijing knew that this gift was the right one.
If you just take her to see those things, she will definitely be bored. It will be different if someone accompanies her.
While her identity is not exposed yet, let her go and watch it with her colleagues at the company. She will be very happy.
Zhou Shuang was indeed visibly excited, her two beautiful big eyes full of longing.
"OK……"
After being happy, Zhou Shuang looked at Qi Huaijing cautiously: "Will you go that day?"
Qi Huaijing touched her head.
"I have a meeting that day, so I may not be able to go. The exhibition lasts for three days. If you want to go again after you have seen it with them, I will accompany you."
Zhou Shuang's expression brightened up. In fact, she really wanted Qi Huaijing to be there, but if he was there, her identity would definitely be exposed.
If you go there with your colleagues and then have them accompany you, it is not the only good idea.
Zhou Shuang could no longer conceal the longing and expectation on her face.
The ancient city of Rongcheng attracts people from all over the world with its unique cultural heritage.
Zhou Shuang is looking forward to it.
Qi Huaijing's phone rang at this moment. He had forgotten to mute it when he turned it on that morning. Du Yuqian's name appeared on the screen.
He took a look and ignored it.
Zhou Shuang looked at him curiously.
"Aren't you going to answer the phone?"
"Ignore irrelevant advertisers."
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