Chapter 4: Eating His Tofu

The sudden closeness made Lin Yuan inexplicably nervous.

Sheng Xiao was handsome, with long eyelashes and narrow, long phoenix eyes that held a hint of mischief as he looked at Lin Yuan. She nodded subconsciously, “Handsome.”

The sudden silence in the room made the sound of the television particularly jarring. Lin Yuan abruptly turned her head to look, instantly dying of embarrassment!

The television wasn’t showing anything else but the animal world, where a male lion was mating with a female lion in heat.

She wasn’t wearing shoes, so she dropped the remote and ran straight into the bedroom.

She pulled the blanket over her head, completely mortified!

All her embarrassment and social death today was thanks to Sheng Xiao!

It was a good thing Mi Yaoyao had said that she and Sheng Xiao were destined to be together. Lin Yuan thought that Sheng Xiao wasn’t her soulmate, he was clearly her nemesis!

She wriggled like a live maggot under the blanket, twisting and turning.

Sheng Xiao came in, standing by the bed with a leisurely air, deliberately saying, “Miss Lin, are you still watching TV? It’s getting to the good part.”

Lin Yuan clenched her two fists under the blanket, wishing she could hit Sheng Xiao on the head and make him explode.

This damned man!

Her muffled voice came from under the blanket, “No more!”

Sheng Xiao seemed to chuckle, but it might have been Lin Yuan’s imagination. She slowly lifted her head from under the blanket, and Sheng Xiao was sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at her. “Are you willing to come out now?”

Lin Yuan’s face was flushed, her hair was messy, and her captivating big eyes rolled around a few times. She turned her back to Sheng Xiao and clutched the blanket tightly in her hands.

Sheng Xiao raised an eyebrow, just as he was about to lift a corner of the blanket, Lin Yuan sat up. “What are you doing?”

“What do you think?” He didn’t answer her question directly.

Their eyes locked, and the already hot air became even thinner. Lin Yuan felt like she was suffocating. After a long pause, she said, “Turn off the lights,” and quickly shrank back under the blanket, trying to move as far away from him as possible.

Sheng Xiao paused, turned off the lights, lifted the blanket, and lay down next to Lin Yuan. He didn’t make any other move.

Just as Lin Yuan’s heart was pounding, wondering how she would react if Sheng Xiao did anything, she heard his steady breathing from beside her.

She pricked up her ears and listened carefully. This man was… asleep?

She secretly turned around, climbed up using the moonlight, and took a look. Sheng Xiao had his eyes closed, and without the coldness he had during the day, he looked quite gentle.

Looking at him like this, he was even more handsome and chiseled.

Lin Yuan lay back down and closed her eyes, but then opened them again. Sheng Xiao was just sleeping. Could it be that she wasn’t attractive enough?

That even lying together, he didn’t feel anything?

With a mix of contradictory and anxious feelings, Lin Yuan slowly drifted off to sleep.

She slept soundly through the night.

The next morning, Lin Yuan opened her eyes and saw a patch of white muscle.

She completely forgot that she had gotten married yesterday and rubbed her eyes, thinking she was dreaming.

It wasn’t until she heard a low voice from above her head that she opened her eyes wide, and a series of memories flooded back into her mind.

She was married!

To a stranger!

A flash marriage!

However, after seeing her own actions, she suddenly realized that all the awkwardness yesterday was just an appetizer. Now, she was truly speechless.

She was sprawled out, trapping Sheng Xiao under her arms and legs, her head buried in his chest. She didn’t know if she was drooling or not.

“Miss Lin, you really are all talk and no action.” The person who had vowed to sleep in separate rooms last night was now using her arms and legs to take advantage of him, eating his tofu.

Lin Yuan quickly got off Sheng Xiao, biting her lower lip and saying softly, “I’m sorry, I don’t sleep well.”

She wasn’t just restless. In the middle of the night, Sheng Xiao was sleeping soundly when he felt a soft, squishy thing nibbling on his chest. He turned on the light and saw Lin Yuan with her head buried in his chest, rubbing her face against him.

The curves of her chest were full and smooth, and the deep valley between them became even more alluring because of the pressure.

Sheng Xiao cursed under his breath, pushed her aside, and got up to take a shower.

Who knew that in the middle of the night, the woman would come back and cling to him. He basically didn’t sleep the whole night.

And this woman had the audacity to ask him, “Mr. Sheng, are you having trouble sleeping? You have such dark circles under your eyes.”

Sheng Xiao rolled his eyes at her and got out of bed.

Lin Yuan knew that she had caused him trouble, and she couldn’t think of anything to make up for it. So, she decided to use her special skill and make Sheng Xiao a sumptuous breakfast.

In the past, she had learned to cook to please Lin Zhenghai and even Jiang Peiyao, but in the end, it was all in vain.

Now, her skills were finally put to good use.

Sheng Xiao could smell the aroma of food while he was in the bathroom. When he came out of the bathroom, Lin Yuan had already prepared a full table of breakfast. “Mr. Sheng, I don’t know what you like to eat, so I made a little bit of everything.”

Sheng Xiao was drying his half-wet hair while looking at her in confusion. “You made this?”

“Yes, come and try it.” She was confident in her cooking skills.

Sheng Xiao sat down at the dining table and ate slowly. “It’s not bad.”

After breakfast, Sheng Xiao went to work, and Lin Yuan called out to him. “Mr. Sheng, if you’re not in a hurry, let’s go buy you a phone.”

She didn’t know if it was because he didn’t have money or if he was just unwilling, but Sheng Xiao didn’t even have the most basic phone. Lin Yuan thought that after they got married, they should at least be able to send each other messages or make calls. Not having a phone would be inconvenient.

Sheng Xiao was taken aback and nodded slightly.

After buying the phone and installing a SIM card, the two of them saved each other’s numbers. Lin Yuan then drove Sheng Xiao to the construction site where he worked and then went to the supermarket.

Yesterday, she had taken a look, and Sheng Xiao’s house was rented, according to him. The refrigerator was empty, and there were no daily necessities in the house. She went to the supermarket and bought some vegetables and fruits, as well as some daily necessities.

After thinking about it, she also bought Sheng Xiao a few changes of clothes before driving home.

Since they were married, she planned to live a good life.

Sheng Xiao’s work was hard, but Lin Yuan could tell that he wasn’t a person who would just live a mediocre life. It wasn’t terrible for a man to be poor, but it was terrible if he didn’t have ambition. As long as he was diligent and willing to put in the effort, life would always get better.

She cleaned the house, filled the refrigerator, and then took out her laptop and started looking for jobs online.

All these years, although she had the title of Lin family’s eldest daughter, only she knew that she didn’t have much money.

Lin Zhenghai had spent all his money on Jiang Peiyao and Lin Fangfei. Her own daughter was treated like she was picked up from the street, and she hadn’t received any benefits.

Now that she had moved out, she had to rely on herself even more.

She had to become stronger, not just for herself, but also for her deceased mother…