51. Husband~
“Daddy, do you want to eat soup dumplings?”
In the middle of dinner.
Qian Qian seemed to suddenly remember something. Not caring if it’s hot, she picked up a steaming soup dumpling with her little hand and wobbled it towards Su Yan, who was on the sofa.
Sunlight poured in from outside the window, making the crystal-clear soup inside the dumpling quiver gently along its folds.
“No need, you eat.”
Facing his daughter’s concern, Su Yan rubbed his aching chest and forced a smile: “Your mom has already fed me well.”
“Vegetable chicken.”
Jiang Zhi rolled her eyes, dismissing Su Yan’s complaints:
“Who’s the one with the sharp tongue?”
“If I have a sharp tongue, can you hit me?”
Su Yan spoke with righteous indignation, and when it came to verbal sparring, he was not about to back down.
“Comrade Jiang Zhi, I now seriously suspect you have violent tendencies.”
“So? What do you want to express?” Jiang Zhi shot him a sideways glance, her heart faintly sensing that this guy was going to start talking back again.
“I’m just thinking…”
After pondering for a moment, Su Yan said seriously, “Will you hit me in the future?”
He was a Shandong man!
You should know that in Shandong, women are not allowed to sit at the dining table (incorrect).
If he were beaten by his wife, wouldn’t that be quite embarrassing? 😨
“You’ll just have to endure any domestic violence from me.”
Hearing this, Jiang Zhi pressed her lips together, a bit unhappy: “Do you think I have violent tendencies? Then don’t marry me in the future!”
Once those words came out, the dining room fell silent, enough to hear the sound of soup dripping.
“……”
“……”
Silence.
Silence was tonight’s Cambridgeshire.
Suddenly, Jiang Zhi covered her face with her hands and deeply buried her head.
What was she saying?
The atmosphere reached an embarrassing level, and Su Yan sighed, pretending he didn’t see her flushed ears: “I didn’t hear anything.”
This person… how can she be both playful and clumsy?
“What’s this?”
Suddenly noticing the picture frame on the coffee table, Su Yan quickly changed the subject: “Is that you in the photo?”
Jiang Zhi followed his gaze and saw the familiar photo – it was a picture of her and Lin Shuwan during college military training.
One of the few photos she had.
Because they were in military training outfits and she was already strikingly beautiful, it was hard to tell her gender just from this photo, so Jiang Zhi had not put it away.
“Yeah.”
“Is the other girl your friend?”
“Yeah…”
Jiang Zhi softly replied again, her fingers unconsciously twisting the hem of her clothes.
She didn’t like taking photos.
Er… not that she disliked it, right?
There was never a photo with just her, and even if there was one, it wasn’t very meaningful. Over time, photos became something she could do without.
That was also why Jiang Zhi hadn’t thought about taking pictures of Qian Qian earlier.
So why did she take a photo with Lin Shuwan?
It seemed that Lin Shuwan had requested it back then, wanting to take a picture for memories.
What Jiang Zhi thought was rather embarrassing… she had a crush on Lin Shuwan, and since Lin Shuwan wanted to take a picture with her, did that mean she liked her too?
Crap.
That was indeed quite embarrassing.
But Jiang Zhi looked handsome when she was a guy!
Could a handsome guy’s embarrassment even be called embarrassment? That’s called confidence, okay?!
The emotional connection between the two of them did indeed start from this photo.
She thought she and Lin Shuwan would really continue like this. If she hadn’t turned into a girl, she would have probably confessed to Lin Shuwan by now…
“Hey.”
After a barely audible sigh, Jiang Zhi gently placed the picture frame back on the coffee table.
Inside, she made a decision to find a time to end things with Lin Shuwan…
After all, she had changed her gender, had a child, and now had a future husband by her side. If Lin Shuwan could hold back from slapping her, it would be quite impressive. 👍
Beside them, Su Yan: 😳.
What does this mean?
Isn’t the atmosphere suddenly off again?
“Um, um, that,” Su Yan pretended to glance at his phone, there was still a long time before the training match began: “I should go.”
“The training match is about to start.”
Now that he had seen Qian Qian, there was really no need to stay longer.
However, Qian Qian was unhappy: “No, no! Qian Qian doesn’t want Daddy to leave!”
Why is he leaving?
She had just met Daddy!
There were still many things Qian Qian wanted to say to Daddy… If she had known, she wouldn’t have let Princess Leilei marry the Milk Dragon; they wasted so much time!
At that moment, the little girl was filled with regret.
“Daddy, can you not go?”
Qian Qian muttered softly, her tone becoming slightly whiny, tears pooling in her eyes: “If Daddy doesn’t leave, Qian Qian doesn’t want Daddy to go.”
Hey, hey, hey! Why is she crying?
Seeing his daughter’s aggrieved little face, Su Yan felt his heart soften, simultaneously feeling a bit pained but also wanting to laugh for some inexplicable reason.
The reason was simple.
Qian Qian’s crying appearance… so cute and pitiful.
The little girl’s face scrunched up like a little squirrel that had just lost its pinecone.
Crystal tears hung on her long eyelashes, seeming like they would drop at any moment, and her nose was adorably pink.
The most fatal part was that while she cried, she was still chewing on the soup dumplings, with crumbs hanging around her mouth, looking ridiculously funny.
Su Yan: “Stop crying, Qian Qian.”
“Woo, woo, woo, Qian Qian doesn’t want Daddy to leave. Mommy doesn’t want Daddy to leave either!”
Jiang Zhi: 5Q.
Seeing that coaxing the child was ineffective, Su Yan rubbed his forehead in annoyance and looked to Jiang Zhi for help.
I can’t handle this anymore!
“……”
So I have to step in!
Jiang Zhi rolled her eyes in exasperation, walked over to Qian Qian, took out a tissue, and wiped her tears: “Can we be a little more mature?”
She gently patted Qian Qian’s back, worried the little one would choke on the soup dumpling in her mouth.
“Daddy has work to do. Qian Qian is a sensible child, right?”
“Yeah!”
The little girl replied through sniffles, but her tears fell even harder: “But Qian Qian wants Daddy to spend more time with me. It’s been so long since I’ve seen Daddy.”
“Mommy…”
The little girl suddenly looked up with teary eyes, staring directly at Jiang Zhi:
“Don’t you want to be with Daddy?”
When the whole family used to be together, Mommy was always sticking to Daddy.
Sometimes Daddy would find Mommy annoying, and Mommy would pout and pretend to be wronged, or act like she was angry, just like a little kid.
Jiang Zhi’s corner of the mouth twitched at this.
She turned to look at Su Yan, forcing out a smile that was more painful than crying:
“I really want to be with your dad.”
Su Yan felt a chill run down his spine: 🥵.
Regarding the future level of his wife’s gradual decline, Jiang Zhi obviously didn’t want to delve deeper into that topic. Her eyes blinked, and she had an idea: “How about this, let’s send Daddy off, okay?”
“We’ll take Daddy to his workplace and then go back home. If you have anything to say, you can talk to Daddy on the way.”
Her voice was gentle, like a little mosquito humming, and as warm as a March breeze.
Su Yan was stunned.
It was not until Jiang Zhi kicked him that he came back to his senses, only to hear Jiang Zhi say: “What are you spacing out for? Can we go to the club with you?”
Just treating it like taking Qian Qian out for a ride.
“Ah… okay…”
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Community parking lot.
The cicadas’ cries tore through the air, like dull saws being pulled back and forth in the heatwave.
As soon as Jiang Zhi got into the car, a mix of leather and tobacco aromas invaded her nostrils. She glanced at Qian Qian in the back seat and then rolled down the window a bit.
“Don’t smoke in front of Qian Qian in the future.”
After hesitating, she said to Su Yan, who was fastening his seatbelt.
Compared to morning crankiness, this was a true bad habit. It’s better not to smoke in front of children, or it would be troublesome if they mimicked it.
Su Yan mumbled in response: “Uh-huh.”
“Why do you look so distracted?”
Jiang Zhi frowned and waved her hand in front of his face: “Dude, focus! You’re the one driving; can you be a little more alert?”
“I’m fine…”
Su Yan shot her a sideways glance: “Isn’t it you who should be wishing I well?”
“I’m just worried…”
While they were talking, the car slowly started moving, with a hint of cool heat wafting into the car, gradually diminishing the smell of tobacco inside.
Su Yan sneaked a glance; the summer breeze swept by, stirring Jiang Zhi’s high ponytail, and the tips shone with chestnut color in the sunlight.
Suddenly, the scene of Jiang Zhi being busy in the morning flashed in his mind—buying breakfast, mopping the floors, doing Qian Qian’s braids, washing the clothes for both mother and daughter.
“You…”
Su Yan hesitated for a moment and asked, “Have you been doing things like this for the past half month?”
“What are you talking about?”
Jiang Zhi didn’t hear clearly, she closed the window, which reduced the noise considerably: “What do you mean by ‘doing this’? Say it again; I didn’t hear clearly.”
Su Yan, however, fell silent.
At this moment, he truly felt a significant amount of respect for Jiang Zhi.
To be honest, she, a 22-year-old female college student, could accept and carefully take care of Qian Qian; that alone was quite remarkable.
Speaking of which, the person sitting next to him now is really his future wife!
Why wasn’t he feeling any waves deep down?
Su Yan understood himself; in his original expectations, he would always be alone, would have cravings and yearnings, but never consider finding someone.
Marriage was something he didn’t even dare to dream about.
Looking at Jiang Zhi, it seemed she wasn’t very interested in these emotional problems either.
So what on earth happened in the future that led them, both avoiding emotional entanglements, to come together as such a loving couple?
What the heck!
“Hey, hey, Su Yan?”
Just then, Jiang Zhi’s calls interrupted his thoughts. Unknowingly, the red light turned on, and the car stopped at an intersection.
“What’s wrong?”
Jiang Zhi pointed to a supermarket outside the window where a familiar little scooter was parked, with two bottles of Maotai and two buckets of peanut oil placed on it.
Oh darn!
Almost forgot about that!
Su Yan was even more confused: “Aren’t you going to speak? Is there something wrong with that electric scooter?”
“……That’s my scooter.”
“???”
Seeing Su Yan look at her like she was crazy, Jiang Zhi felt a bit embarrassed for the first time. She playfully stuck out her tongue and turned to look at the back seat.
This was a business car.
Although she didn’t know why Su Yan bought a model typically driven by middle-aged men, the trunk of a business car usually had a lot of space, right?
Hey ☝️😀!
I have a plan!
Jiang Zhi asked, “Are you in a hurry right now?”
“Not in a hurry…”
Su Yan didn’t understand why Jiang Zhi asked, but it was true he wasn’t in a hurry; after all, he was the one who claimed the training match would start soon.
Then he witnessed a bone-chilling, unforgettable scene for a lifetime.
“Then～ if you’re not in a hurry～”
Jiang Zhi leaned over like she had no bones, her delicate fingers tightly gripping his arm, shaking it back and forth. She slightly tilted her little face up, her rosy lips pouting in a cute manner.
Her usually cold peach blossom eyes were now filled with seductive charm, and her gaze flowed as if it could drip water.
The worst part was that she deliberately altered her voice, her overly sweet tone sounding like it was soaked in honey, making Su Yan break out in goosebumps:
“Can you help me move my scooter, okay, hubby~”
