Chapter 1955: Anyway, I’m Feeling Wronged

Lu Zhenzhen pouted, let out a little hum that sounded almost like a sob. “I don’t feel well.”

“Where?” Gao Zhe panicked instantly. “Where do you feel uncomfortable? Where did I bump you?”

She’s pregnant, okay? At a time like this, the moment she cries out, shouldn’t your first thought go straight to her belly.

But all Gao Zhe could see was her.

Looking back over this period, Lu Zhenzhen felt not only that she’d been ridiculously melodramatic, but wronged too. Every time she told him to get lost, he really did get lost, and once he was gone she’d feel she’d gone too far, then get mad at herself and tangled up all over again. Her hormones were practically in revolt.

“Here.”

Lu Zhenzhen caught his hand and put it over her heart. She leaned back, a throw pillow tucked behind her waist, her shoulders slightly off the back of the sofa. At that reclined angle, Gao Zhe’s hand could rest flat on her chest.

“What’s wrong with it?” Gao Zhe asked anxiously.

Lu Zhenzhen slanted him a look from the corner of her eye. “It hurts. Really hurts.”

Gao Zhe went quiet for a beat, and by the time he looked up he’d already caught on. He scooped Lu Zhenzhen up into his lap. “I was wrong. I won’t dare do that ever again.”

“But my heart really, really hurts.”

Lu Zhenzhen sniffled as she spoke. “You’ve never bullied me like this since we were kids. Do I usually abuse you so badly? The one time you bully me you go straight for the big guns…”

“I was wrong, really wrong…”

Lu Zhenzhen pushed his hand away. “Who knows if you’ve been wanting to do that for ages.”

“No. Absolutely not!”

Lu Zhenzhen turned her head aside. “Anyway, I’m the one who’s been feeling wronged.”

“Then I’ll spend the rest of my life working like a horse and an ox to serve you, so you’ll never feel wronged again?”

Lu Zhenzhen tugged at the corner of her mouth, wanting to laugh but feeling it would cost her dignity. “You’re not even being creative. You can’t use the way you’re living now as your promise for the future. How is that progress?”

“I can’t exactly pretend and tell you, ‘You can punish me however you want.’ I’m not saying that kind of bullshit. Better to give you something concrete.”

The corner of Lu Zhenzhen’s mouth twitched again; she couldn’t quite hold it in anymore and a hint of a smile slipped out. She turned back planning to glare at him, but the moment she saw that cautious, guilty face of his that looked like it was bracing for a scolding at any second, whatever glare she’d been gearing up just fell apart.

“Not mad anymore?”

“Can’t stay mad.”

Gao Zhe carefully gauged the soft flesh around her waist. She’d lost weight, and a fair bit of it. “Want a late-night snack? I’ll go make something.”

“No, I want a shower.”

“Okay, I’ll carry you upstairs.”

Gao Zhe nudged the foot basin out of the way and carried her upstairs. He got the shower running, and by then Lu Zhenzhen had already changed into her nightgown.

When she came out of the walk-in closet, his gaze darted over the purple silk nightgown she was wearing, then snapped straight up to her face, as he forcibly tamped down a certain restless urge. “Planning to sleep with me tonight?”

Lu Zhenzhen’s expression was perfectly innocent. “Nope.”

Gao Zhe swallowed. “Then why aren’t you wearing your SpongeBob set?”

“It’s in the wash.”

“Washed…”

Gao Zhe got out one word and instinctively swallowed the rest.

“Yes, it’s washed.”

He leaned against the wall with a smile. “Should I be resisting right now?”

Hands behind her back, she lifted her brows slightly, hooked her eyes at him, and Gao Zhe obediently walked over.

She brought out a tie from behind her back and waved it twice in front of his eyes, then covered his eyes with it and tied a not-too-tight knot at the back of his head. Pressing both sides of the tie against his earbones, Lu Zhenzhen lightly tapped along his earlobes with her fingertips, slow, one point at a time. Her hand swept over that curve of his neck, then she pinched his short, sharp hair and rubbed it.

Finally, she wrapped her arms around his neck.