Chapter 59: Bold Thoughts

Xia Li lightly raised her delicate eyelashes, calmly looking at him, and asked, “Which one do you want?”

Jiang Chenyi pressed his lips together, and his ears turned red as a thought crossed his mind.

With a serious expression filled with determination, he said, “I want you to hold me! Let me cuddle with you to sleep!”

“I want to hold my wife while we sleep together. Don’t worry, I won’t crush you! If you’re worried about being squished, you can bite me; it’s no big deal. I’m fine with you biting me all over, and even if it hurts, I absolutely won’t blame you!”

As he spoke, he seemed to recall a particular image, and his sun-kissed face turned slightly red.

His bright black eyes were very earnest and excited.

Xia Li thought he might say something bold.

Cuddling while sleeping?

…Should she call him bold or innocent??

And then there was that last sentence…

Cough.

She definitely didn’t think anything inappropriate.

Trapped in his embrace, Xia Li couldn’t help but catch a whiff of his scent, which resembled dry grass and trees—having a dry, refreshing, hormonal aroma.

She subtly leaned back, her gaze shallow: “You’re overthinking. Holding hands, having children, and cuddling to sleep? I’m not your maid, now let go.”

Jiang Chenyi wouldn’t give up, his dark eyes stubbornly fixated on her. Watching her lips move while she spoke, they looked like tender, rosy petals, with full, charming lips that made him want to kiss them…

To take them in his mouth and suck on them deeply.

He felt like he was drunk, his heart racing wildly, unable to resist inching closer…

“Ugh!”

The man suddenly jumped up, awkwardly covering his pants, “Li!”

His wife actually kicked him! Ouch… that hurt a little!

Xia Li noticed his gaze on her just now had changed, dark and dangerous.

She stood up from the bedside irritably, placing her hands on her hips: “Stop dreaming about nonsense every day. If you keep this up, I really will make you regret it!”

The man, resembling a wronged wife, tightly covered his pants, his tall figure shrinking to one side and falling silent.

Although she didn’t know exactly what “regret” meant, it didn’t sound like something good.

Xia Li’s family originally had a few acres of farmland that her father had left behind, not far from the old thatched cottage.

Due to some mix-up during the division of land, Xia Laosan’s family got the better piece, which was farther from the irrigation canal, making it hard to grow anything. Eventually, no one took care of it, and it became a wilderness overgrown with weeds.

After cleaning up the thatched cottage, Xia Li brought the man to that piece of land and told him, “Next time, I’ll buy some seeds. You can plant something here in your free time. If it yields a harvest, we can sell some for ourselves, and in the future…”

She almost said it was for when he married a wife, but she closed her mouth, “Ahem, it would be good to have something for emergencies in the future. It’s a bit of capital.”

Of course, this man was quite capable himself; he could gather a good amount of resources from the mountains and rivers, and whether to plant something or not was entirely up to him.

With one person gone from home, Xia Li felt relieved. Although it was much quieter, she still cuddled a rabbit in the yard before going to sleep.

Just as she stood up, a figure suddenly climbed over the wall behind the kitchen, startling her.

“Who’s there?”

The man paused by the wall, one long leg just having landed, while the other was still suspended in the air, not knowing whether to move up or down.

After a moment, he lowered his hoarse voice, “Li, it’s me.”

Recognizing him, the rabbit in her arms was startled and jumped away, scurrying back to its nest, which was filled with rabbit grass.

Seeing him in such an awkward position hanging halfway over the wall, Xia Li couldn’t help but chuckle in disbelief: “Why are you here again? Can’t you use the front door? Why climb over the wall?”

“I came just now and saw you taking a bath, so I left.” The man accidentally let it slip.

The yard fell into silence.