Finally, he added, "But not today."
Chen Muxue deliberately acted like a little girl about to be kicked out of the house, her eyes moist, looking pitifully at Liang Zhirou.
Those bright, watery eyes seemed to be saying: Mom, look at Dad, he's trying to kick your most precious daughter away...
Liang Zhirou quickly looked away. She was too embarrassed to speak, so she lowered her head and fidgeted with her fingers, pretending that she knew nothing.
Chen Muxue took two deep breaths, annoyed:
"I'm running away from home! I'm going to sleep at my godmother Miaomiao's house tonight!"
The usually aloof female CEO, who commands respect at Polaris, stormed out of her home in a fit of anger.
The couple worked together to chase the little light bulb away, and Liang Zhirou moved a little closer to Chen Lu, wiping the sweat from his forehead so he wouldn't catch a cold.
After finishing all that, the girl asked softly, "What did you dream about?"
Chen Lu shifted his gaze to the floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room, watching the setting sun hang over the river, casting a golden afterglow.
He took a deep breath, remained seated on the sofa, clapped his hands at Liang Zhirou, and then opened his arms.
After the girl puffed out her cheeks and sat on his lap, nestling in his arms, he smiled smugly and said, "I'll tell you slowly..."
The setting sun gradually turned fiery red, dyeing a large patch of clouds on the horizon before slowly sinking into the river. Darkness fell completely, and streetlights lit up one by one. The traffic on the road below and the distant overpass emitted countless hazy lights, some red, some white, like stars.
When Chen Lu finished speaking, the living room was dimly lit and so quiet that only the ticking of the wall clock and the occasional laughter of the girl next to him, who was covering her mouth and whose shoulders were shaking.
Chen Lu twitched the corner of his mouth, looking speechless.
"Just accept your fate, my dear~" Liang Zhirou said, deliberately stroking his head. "You silly frog, you're only fit to be manipulated by your older sister."
She emphasized the word "sister" very much, as if she wanted to pronounce each word carefully.
Chen Lu glared at her playfully, and the girl quieted down, continuing to lean gently against him.
"It's a pity it's just a dream." The girl's eyes were still curved at the corners, and a tear that had just come out of her laughter was still hanging on her long eyelashes. "If only it were real."
"Let's go out to eat. I specially booked a table at your favorite restaurant." Seeing that it was getting late, Chen Lu patted Liang Zhirou's shoulder and prepared to get up, but found that the girl had no intention of getting up at all.
"No, wait a little longer~"
Liang Zhirou yawned lazily, savoring the feeling of being in Chen Lu's arms.
The scent of this man is always so reassuring.
It's an anniversary, after all; the wife comes first. Chen Lu wasn't in a hurry anymore. He smiled gently and stroked the girl's soft right hand, suddenly recalling when Liang Zhirou was pregnant.
That afternoon he dreamed that he was with two children, and as a result, Liang Zhirou really gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, and even the two naughty children had the exact same personality.
Oh shit.
It might actually be a bit of a mystery...
“Maybe it really will happen,” he suddenly said seriously. “After all, my dreams are usually very accurate. Just like the last time, after waking up, it felt so real…”
"That's nice," the girl said softly.
Chen Lu didn't know whether the silly girl believed it or not. She just snuggled up in her arms, found a comfortable position, and closed her eyes again contentedly.
"But if that's the case, even if you're reborn, you'll just be walking the same path again with me and the same person. Won't you get tired of it?" After a while, Liang Zhirou asked softly, her voice seemingly tinged with regret and apprehension. "I guess I will, just like not many people like to reread a book they've already read..."
"How could that be? Even if you read the same book three or four times, the ending won't change, but your feelings will inevitably be different. Not to mention... the so-called path we came from isn't entirely the same for everyone."
"What's different?" Liang Zhirou asked curiously.
Chen Lu pondered for a moment, then suddenly leaned close to her ear and said with a wicked grin:
"You can also experience something you've never experienced before, like me at eighteen..."
After he finished speaking, he blew a breath behind Liang Zhirou's ear, and the girl immediately shuddered as if she had been electrocuted.
"you!"
"Alright, alright! Be good~"
Liang Zhirou was just about to let this old and still indecent bad guy taste the feeling of a rocket headbutt again, but suddenly he pulled her back into his arms and patted her like he was coaxing a child.
"..."
She was already in this man's arms; how could a weak and delicate woman like her resist?
So without even a symbolic shove, she shrank into Chen Lu's arms like a cat and continued to close her eyes timidly.
After an unknown amount of time, Chen Lu called out softly again.
"Wife?"
"Um?"
"And what about you? If you walk the same path again... wouldn't you get tired of it?" Chen Lu asked softly.
Liang Zhirou pretended to be asleep with her eyes closed, but unfortunately, the curve of her lips betrayed her completely.
"Pretend with me?" Chen Lu reached out and pinched the girl's mouth into an "o" shape. "If you don't talk, I'll tickle you."
The girl squirmed a couple of times from his teasing, then quickly begged for forgiveness, "I was wrong, I was wrong~ I was just thinking about how to say it. We're an old married couple, some things are just a little embarrassing to say..."
Excuse me?
Chen Lu snorted coldly, thinking to herself that she wondered who it was that went on a trip with her best friend a few days ago, and then insisted on buying a plane ticket home in the early morning because she missed her husband so much that she didn't care about waiting at the airport for more than two hours while she was still sleepy.
That morning, he groggily lifted the covers and suddenly found someone sleeping in his arms.
Just as I was about to suppress a laugh, I heard the girl's soft voice:
"Actually, I don't really believe in such miraculous things, after all, I'm already this old..."
Liang Zhirou gently grasped Chen Lu's hand, their fingers intertwined, and a faint smile appeared on her face.
"But because of you, I really hope there will be an afterlife."
Upon hearing this, Chen Lu's lips involuntarily curled upwards.
Unlike its understated and pure nature during the day, Hangzhou at night is dazzling and colorful, with eye-catching neon lights everywhere, like a cool and beautiful woman who loves to dress up.
The distant lights shone through the window, illuminating Liang Zhirou's still gentle and beautiful face. They were soft, illuminating only the girl's features, not the few gray hairs hidden at her temples, nor the faint wrinkles that eventually appeared at the corners of her eyes. Taking advantage of the surrounding dimness, they made her look as young as she did on the day she received her marriage certificate.
Chen Lu looked down at the woman who had toiled for him and their two children for half her life, and a hint of sadness welled up in his eyes.
He sniffed and unconsciously hugged her tighter.
“Happy anniversary, darling,” he said.
The girl kept her eyes closed, a faint smile on her face, and said lazily, "I want to hear 'I love you' again."
"Well, before that, guess what I'm going to give you?"
"...Chen Lu! You've been wasting money again!!"
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