"Leave your suitcase on the trunk and I will wait for you on the other side of the street while you fetch your other luggage . "
"Or I can take a cab and you can message me your address?"
"Not happening . We just got married you think you can just leave me like that?"
"Shen Yi, I'm just taking my luggage . Why are you so frustrated about it?"
"And yet you were living on the same roof with your ex . Please don't tell me you two shared a room . "
She was ashamed to tell him the truth but she couldn't lie to him .
"I only moved on his place because I couldn't pay the rent of my last apartment . We did share the same room and bed but I swear we haven't crossed the line . "
Shen Yi didn't respond but Lu Xinyi knew that he wasn't happy with her situation .
He stopped the car when the stop lights turned red .
"How long have you been living with him?"
"About six months or so but we've been in a relationship for almost seven years now . "
"Seven years…" Shen Yi repeated . Lu Xinyi was on twenty-five now, that would mean she'd been with Gong Yijun since she was eighteen . Long years for being boyfriend and girlfriend .
"Then why didn't you slept with him?"
With seven years being together, shouldn't she be comfortable enough to be with her ex-boyfriend?
She took a deep breath and leaned her forehead on the window . She didn't want him to think that she was that petty and childish .
"I wasn't ready for that . What's more, we weren't married . I would like to marry someone like my dad . I wanted a marriage like what my parents had when they were both alive . "
She hadn't heard Shen Yi respond to what she said so she assumed that he understood where she was coming from .
Lu Xinyi adjusted to her seat and pulled out her phone as Shen Yi drove in the busy streets of the city . Checking her messages, her brows furrowed .
How many times did Gong Yijun messaged her and called her number? Good thing that she turned off her phone as soon as her deal with Shen Yi started .
'Where are you? Answer your phone . '
'Please, Xinyi . It isn't what you think it is . '
'Come home, please . I will be waiting for you . '
She stared at the messages long .
"Something's wrong?" Shen Yi asked when he noticed her unusual silence .
Lu Xinyi smiled and shook her head . She then deleted the text messages .
She was over with Gong Yijun . Now, that she's a married woman, her concern should be for her husband only .
"So where are we going?" she asked . She noticed that they weren't going on the right way to Gong Yijun's apartment .
"To a store . " The stoplight changed to green and he continued his driving .
"Why?"
Shen Yi turned his head to her and grinned . He extended a hand to hers and threaded their fingers together .
"To buy you something . "
And that something almost made Lu Xinyi cry in surprise and happiness . She knew she shouldn't ask or expect something from him . But as he slipped a wedding band on her ring finger, she couldn't stop her tears from falling .
"You shouldn't have bothered to give me one," she said but still accepted her ring .
She could really say now that she was indeed a married woman .
"You're my wife . It's only appropriate to give you one . "
They went back to his car so he could drop her to her previous residence . Before he could turn on the engine of his car, Lu Xinyi held his arm, leaned from her seat and gave him a quick peck on his cheek .
He was stunned, not expecting his wife will do something like that . His eyes took in the sight of her, seeing how her eyes gleamed with happiness . Her cheeks were slightly tinted .
Was it his own doing? Did he really make her happy for the first time?
Something flitted on his eyes as he looked at her face . Lu Xinyi turned her eyes away, afraid of what she might see but fully aware that her cheeks were heating up under his gaze . She retracted away from him .
"I'm sorry . Did I offend you?" she asked after the long silence .
"No . " His thumb lightly grazed at the back of her hand . "It's just I don't do pecks on the lips . " Then his eyes spotted the shimmer on her lips . By the way, he was looking at her, Lu Xinyi knew that the kiss he meant would be too much for her to handle .
Lu Xinyi sat there with wide eyes . Her hand could still the feel of his touch on her skin . Her cheeks burned with a bit of embarrassment and shyness .
"O-oh . " Her hands curled into fists on her lap while trying to ignore the blush on her face .
Chapter end
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