novellhall Chapter 166 Heartless Woman
Chapter 166 Heartless Woman
Zhuang Qingxiang immediately noticed that he was starting to overthink again, so she avoided his gaze and played with the child.
Lu Congyue went in and out repeatedly, and seeing that the mother and her four children were only interested in playing and had no intention of washing up or going to bed, he became impatient.
"Aren't you going to sleep yet?" he asked. "It's too late."
"I don't want to sleep," Xiao Qianyue protested first. "I want to play cat's cradle with Mom."
She hadn't been able to spend time with her mother for several days, so she didn't want to go to bed early.
Zhuang Qingxiang wasn't in a hurry.
What she said in the kitchen was just to coax the man to stop; she didn't take it seriously.
"Go to sleep if you're tired," Zhuang Qingxiang said gently. "You've been working so hard for so many days, you're exhausted."
Lu Congyue couldn't possibly sleep.
He lay on the small bed outside, his eyes open, listening to the soft laughter of the woman and child inside, followed by the sounds of the woman coaxing the child to wash up.
After waiting and waiting, finally, everything quieted down.
Lu Congyue waited patiently for a while longer before quietly getting up and gently pushing open the door to the inner room.
It wasn't pushed away.
He pushed harder, but still couldn't move it.
Lu Congyue stood in the darkness, glaring angrily at the door.
They had agreed on something, but she ended up locking him out!
Lu Congyue took a deep breath. Good. It proved that she was just deceiving him. She never thought about having a future with him.
This realization made Lu Congyue feel extremely uncomfortable, and he really wanted to say something to her.
Are you asleep?
Upon hearing the sound, Zhuang Qingxiang slightly raised her head, then lay back down without responding.
"I know you're not asleep." Lu Congyue's deep voice rang out in the darkness. "I thought I had made myself clear enough. If there's anything I haven't explained, you can tell me, Zhuang Qingxiang. I don't like this ambiguous ending, and I don't intend to end it."
Zhuang Qingxiang listened, biting her lip.
I thought he would just say a few words and then forget about it, since no one wants to talk to thin air and will naturally back down if he doesn't get a response.
But Lu Congyue showed no sign of ending it.
"Was I not clear enough? Or was my attitude not firm enough? I want to be with you, all I need is your nod, Zhuang Qingxiang. I've never been attracted to a woman before, you're the first, do you understand?"
Zhuang Qingxiang nervously picked at her fingers, feeling a sadness she couldn't quite explain.
She was his first, but he wasn't her first.
Yueyue's biological father is really good to her, and she is very grateful.
But if we're talking about love, he was definitely her first.
I like him both in my heart and in my body, I like him very much. It is because of this liking that I cannot be a burden to him. I believe my choice was right.
Zhuang Qingxiang stubbornly held this view.
"Open the door," Lu Congyue pleaded. "Let's talk this out face to face."
Zhuang Qingxiang remained silent, even holding her breath, as if she weren't even in the room.
Lu Congyue tried to persuade him in a low voice for a while, but received no response, so he had to give up.
Lying back on the small bed, he felt as if a fire was burning inside him, or as if he were in an ancient ice cellar, where everything was cold and icy, including his entire body.
It hurts, it really hurts, it hurts so much that I feel so helpless.
As he grew up, he hadn't felt this helpless in a long time.
The woman in the house was ruthless, but she always had to have a reason for being so ruthless.
He initially thought that investigating her had hurt her feelings, but after he explained things clearly, her continued harshness indicated that it wasn't that reason.
What could be the reason?!
Lu Congyue tossed and turned, racking his brains until he couldn't figure it out. He even started to recall from the first day Zhuang Qingxiang arrived, trying to remember what he had done to make her so angry.
A sleepless night was futile. When he heard the children waking up in the room, Lu Congyue silently got up as well.
After making the bed, he conscientiously went to the kitchen to cook porridge and steam egg custard.
This way, that heartless woman won't be caught off guard by the child.
When Zhuang Qingxiang came out of the house, breakfast was already on the table, and the porridge and steamed egg custard for the child were at the perfect temperature.
"Thank you," Zhuang Qingxiang said softly, then carried the food into the house and coaxed the two children to eat.
Sensitive little Qian Yue noticed that something was off at home today, so she consciously kept quiet. She couldn't understand why her mother and Uncle Lu had become a little scary after she woke up in the morning.
It's okay, it's happened before, it'll be fine soon!
After breakfast, seeing that Zhuang Qingxiang still hadn't spoken, Lu Congyue could only take the initiative and say, "Are you going today? I'll go and call Shi Peiran and the others over."
"Okay." Zhuang Qingxiang smiled at him.
Lu Congyue had been holding back his anger all night, but when he saw her smiling at him, he felt both angry and amused.
How could that heartless woman still be laughing...
He was about to cry!
Lu Congyue, his face dark, hurried off to find Shi Peiran and Sun Yongxian.
When Shi Peiran opened the door and saw Lu Congyue's stern face, resembling that of Bao Gong, his heart tightened: "What's wrong? Has something happened again?"
Upon hearing this, Sun Yongxian jumped over as well: "What? What happened?"
"It's nothing!" Lu Congyue said coldly, his face dark. "What's wrong with you two? Are you hoping something happens to me?"
That tone...
Shi Peiran coughed lightly, signaling Sun Yongxian to mind her own business. He then pulled Lu Congyue away, saying, "Director Lu, come on, let me talk to you. Tell me what's on your mind, and I'll help you sort it out."
"I have nothing on my mind," Lu Congyue said in a muffled voice.
"Your face is so dark if you're not upset. Let me guess..."
Shi Peiran grinned slyly and suddenly whispered something.
Lu Congyue paused, his dark face turning red: "What nonsense are you spouting!"
"Hey, stop pretending. We're both men, do you think I can't tell?" Shi Peiran nudged him with his shoulder. "I won't call you out, but don't think I'm blind. I think it's great, you two are a good match."
Lu Congyue's heart tightened, and his voice tightened as well: "How did you figure it out? Who else figured it out?"
Shi Peiran sized him up: "Director Lu, are you nervous and scared, or excited and agitated? Are you hoping others won't find out, or are you hoping to be found out?"
"..." Lu Congyue's expression turned serious. "Stop talking nonsense. What business is it of anyone else's!"
"Looks like you've made up your mind about her." Shi Peiran chuckled in a low voice. "So, Sister Zhuang rejected you? Why? Does she really not plan to remarry? Even if she didn't plan to remarry before, after all this, can't she see your sincerity? How could she bear to reject you?"
Listening to Shi Peiran's endless stream of nonsensical questions, Lu Congyue's face darkened even more.
Look, even outsiders can see his sincerity, but what about her?
It was rare for someone to talk to him about this topic, and since Lu Congyue was also confused, he simply took Shi Peiran to an open space where no one was around, and told him about Zhuang Qingxiang's attitude.
Shi Peiran understood: "Sister Zhuang isn't just rejecting you, she's planning to cut all ties with you forever! What did you do to offend her so badly?"
Lu Congyue kicked her: "I'm not that kind of person. I offended her... but that's all been explained. Can she sentence me to death for that?"
Shi Peiran felt it was too much to ask; investigating someone's background was not a crime deserving of such punishment.
"If it's not because of you, then it's because of someone else..." Shi Peiran reminded him, "You should check what happened when her attitude suddenly changed."