Chapter 20

Gu Qijiao lowered her head, looking at the big feet that were stepping on her feet and rubbing her instep intentionally from time to time, feeling indescribably embarrassed.

Although only her feet were in the hot water, Gu Qijiao felt as if her body temperature had suddenly increased.

Looking at the man so close to her, Gu Qijiao couldn’t help but sigh slightly in her heart.

If she were still in her prime, she would be completely bewildered and lost in the face of Zheng Yunsheng’s teasing.

Unfortunately, after the painful lessons she had learned in her previous life, she no longer dared to think about spending her life with Zheng Yunsheng.

“I don’t want to take a bath anymore, you can do it by yourself!” Gu Qijiao said in a cold voice with a stern face.

Zheng Yunsheng was stunned for a moment, and looked at Gu Qijiao’s indifferent face under the kerosene lamp with some confusion.

He really couldn’t figure out what went wrong.

“Jiaojiao, are you angry again?” Zheng Yunsheng stared at Gu Qijiao nervously.

Gu Qijiao didn’t say anything. She lowered her head and remained silent.

She had been separated from Zheng Yunsheng for a long time in her previous life, and she had gradually let go of many things as time went by.

She also always thought that she had neither love nor hatred for Zheng Yunsheng.

But now that she is living with Zheng Yunsheng again and has had close contact with him, Gu Qijiao discovered that those things were so clearly imprinted in her mind.

Never forgotten for a moment.

She was not as free and easy as she thought. The so-called relief in her previous life was actually just Gu Qijiao burying the saddest memories in her heart in order to escape the past.

As long as no one mentioned those memories, they would remain frozen in her heart like an iceberg.

But once someone tries to touch her, the regret and anger in her heart will erupt like a volcano.

Just like what happened just now, Gu Qijiao’s face turned cold instantly because she thought about the things in her past life.

However, she also knew that her performance was a bit extreme, so she softened her expression slightly and said:

“I’m not angry, it’s just that my instep is a little itchy, please let go, I want to scratch it!”

What Gu Qijiao didn’t expect was that when Zheng Yunsheng heard her words, he reached out and picked up her feet from the water and placed them on his thighs.

The delicate feet shone with a white luster under the dim light, and Zheng Yunsheng, who was usually calm, felt his ears getting hot.

The heat rushed up from the soles of his feet in the water, burning his eyes red.

“Jiaojiao, which foot is itchy?” Zheng Yunsheng held Gu Qijiao’s foot and asked while looking into her eyes.

Gu Qijiao was sitting on the bed. After Zheng Yunsheng pulled her feet onto her thighs, she was stunned for a few seconds. After she reacted, she quickly said:

“No, no, I can just scratch it myself!”

As she spoke, Gu Qijiao was about to pull her foot back.

But Zheng Yunsheng was quick to grab Gu Qijiao’s feet and stop her.

“Which foot is itchy? The left or the right? Tell me clearly.” Zheng Yunsheng looked into Gu Qijiao’s eyes and asked stubbornly.

Gu Qijiao shook her head helplessly: “It doesn’t itch anymore, let go, it’s time to go to bed!”

However, Zheng Yunsheng still did not let go of Gu Qijiao’s feet.

He lowered his head and pondered for a moment before looking up and looking at Gu Qijiao seriously:

“Jiaojiao, actually your feet don’t itch at all, you just simply don’t want to soak your feet with me, right?

I don’t quite understand. You obviously like me, but in order to marry me, you even ruined your own reputation and climbed into my bed.

So, after you married me, you should have planned to grow old with me, but I always detected a clear sense of resistance in you.

Can you tell me why this is?”

After thinking for a moment, Zheng Yunsheng asked the questions that had been lingering in his mind for a long time.

With the experience of his previous life, Zheng Yunsheng has deeply realized that if there is any rift between husband and wife, it must be made clear at that time.

Otherwise, over time, some trivial matters that seemed insignificant at the time may very well become hidden problems that are difficult to eliminate in the couple’s marriage life.

But how should Gu Qijiao answer Zheng Yunsheng’s question?

Normally, she married Zheng Yunsheng by climbing into his bed, so she should be very happy after marriage and try her best to please Zheng Yunsheng passionately.

But the current situation is……

“As you said, I married you by destroying my own reputation. I also found out when we got married yesterday that you were very opposed to this marriage.

Also, at the wedding banquet, you drank a lot of wine. If Captain Xie hadn’t held you back, you might have been even more drunk than on New Year’s Day.

I am indeed very happy to be able to marry you. After all, you are the person I have always dreamed of and loved for a long time, the person who makes my cheeks hot and my heart beat faster when I see you.

But after marrying you, I found that a marriage that was obtained through deception was not as satisfactory as I had imagined. You don’t love me and don’t care about my feelings.

Whenever I think about the fact that I will have to live with someone who doesn’t love me for the rest of my life, I will regret my reckless behavior of climbing into bed that day.”

These words are what Gu Qijiao really thinks.

It’s just that these thoughts came to Gu Qijiao’s mind after she came across Bai Xiaoou’s photo in her previous life.

It was because of these thoughts in her mind that her relationship with Zheng Yunsheng reached a freezing point during that period.

Because from that time on, Gu Qijiao had already begun to secretly regret marrying Zheng Yunsheng.

But at that time, Gu Qijiao had not seen much of the world, had not read many books, and held the idea that marriage should just go on as long as it lasted.

So even though she regretted it, she didn’t think of divorcing Zheng Yunsheng at that time.

Instead, I feel that even if I am wrong, I have to keep making the same mistakes over and over again.

Now, Gu Qijiao was just telling Zheng Yunsheng earlier about the idea that had only come to her later.

Zheng Yunsheng really didn’t expect that Gu Qijiao had already started to regret marrying him so early, and this was only the first day of their marriage.

As a husband, he was totally unaware of this in his previous life.

Fortunately, he asked all the doubts in his mind today, otherwise Gu Qijiao would have kept holding on to this thought, which would definitely affect the harmony between the couple.

There are some things that must be made clear today.

Suddenly, Zheng Yunsheng stood up from the basin, and his left hand, which was holding Gu Qijiao’s feet, slid down to under her knees.

His right hand was around Gu Qijiao’s shoulder.

While Gu Qijiao was still in a daze, Zheng Yunsheng had already quickly picked up Gu Qijiao and carried her sideways.

Then Zheng Yunsheng knelt on the bed and carefully placed Gu Qijiao on the bed.

Then he climbed above Gu Qijiao, put his hands on Gu Qijiao’s side, looked down at her, and said seriously:

“Gu Qijiao, I have liked you for a long time.”

Zheng Yunsheng added in his heart:

It’s been a really long time.