After a while, Zhou Yanjing came out of the bathroom and walked to the other side of the bed. Then the mattress sank slightly and a corner of the quilt was lifted.
Lin Yuxi smelled a faint cold fragrance, a cold and profound breath, a sense of invasion that penetrated the bones, the woody tone blended with body temperature, and the backnote revealed a faint tobacco scent.
Branded with Zhou Yanjing's personal signature.
The weak light from the floor lamp did not reach the bed. It was extremely quiet at night, so quiet that you could hear your gentle breathing.
The two of them each occupied half of the big bed, separated by a cold barrier.
After lying quietly for a while, Lin Yuxi looked at Zhou Yanjing. Perhaps because of the darkness, his outline looked deep and cold.
"Are you asleep?"
There was silence in the darkness, and Zhou Yanjing's cold and tired voice was slightly impatient: "Be quiet."
Lin Yuxi touched the safety lock around her neck and turned around.
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When Lin Yuxi woke up the next day, there was no one around.
She got up and washed up, and when she went to the living room, she found Zhou Yanjing fully dressed and sitting at the dining table, browsing real-time U.S. stock prices on a pad.
Hearing her coming out, he raised his eyes and said, "Where's Mrs. Chen?"
Lin Yuxi opened the refrigerator: "I'm fired."
Zhou Yanjing frowned and said nothing.
Lin Yuxi quickly fried two eggs, thought about it and added ham slices, lettuce and cheese, made two sandwiches, and brought them to the restaurant.
Zhou Yanjing glanced at him and said, "Do you usually eat this kind of thing?"
What's wrong? This is much better than what Lin Yuxi usually eats. She rushes to work in the morning, and most of her breakfast is just two pieces of toast.
I said in my heart: Eat as much as you like.
A cat meowed from behind the sofa. Lin Yuxi turned around and saw the calico female cat timidly sticking out her little head.
There was a heavy rainstorm recently, and she picked up a litter of stray kittens at the hospital. The newborn kittens were shivering in the rain, and the female cat was also very skinny.
She couldn't bear to look at it, so she had to take it home first, thinking of raising it until she was one month old and giving it away for adoption, but she didn't expect that Zhou Yanjing would suddenly return to China.
He did not allow Lin Yuxi to raise a cat. When he went to the United States for a year, Lin Yuxi also rescued a stray cat and wanted to take it home to raise. When he called him to ask his opinion, he only replied with two words: "No."
Lin Yuxi had obviously locked the cat in an empty room, but she didn't know it would be so smart, so she opened the door and ran out.
Zhou Yanjing frowned as expected: "Where did the wild cat come from?"
His tone was full of disgust. Lin Yuxi felt uncomfortable, so she walked over and picked up the cat, muttering: "I gave birth to him."
Zhou Yanjing chuckled when he heard this: "Then you should apply for the Nobel Prize."
Lin Yuxi put the cat back in the room. When he came out, he had already put on his coat, and the sandwich she made was still on the table, untouched.
Zhou Yanjing tied his tie in front of the mirror and declared the cat's death sentence without looking back: "Get it away before I come back."
Lin Yuxi said nothing.
It's not like such a big villa can't keep a few kittens, so why kill all the small animals whose survival is a problem?
He is so rich, but he has a very vicious heart.
Zhou Yanjing caught her expression in the mirror: "What are you scolding me in your mind again?"
"..."
"Who dares to scold you?" Lin Yuxi said, "I will lock them up and not run out again. I will disinfect the house every day and send them away when I find an adopter."
She rushed to work and packed the sandwiches in plastic bags to eat on the way.
"If you can't bear it, you can go live somewhere else. Anyway, you are a cunning person who has three holes in his home."
Zhou Yanjing chuckled: "I haven't seen you for half a year. I have a bad temper. When I came back, I drove me away."
Lin Yuxi said nothing and lowered her head to change her shoes.
Her work attire is mainly comfortable, with tight jeans covering her beautifully shaped long legs under a loose sweater.
When you bend over to put on shoes, the curve from waist to hip is very attractive.
Zhou Yanjing buttoned his suit, raised his eyes, and looked at her casually: "What did you want to say last night?"
This time, Lin Yuxi had no time to chat: "I'm in a hurry to go to work, let's talk about it when we get back."
After the ward rounds, Lin Yuxi spent the whole morning at the ophthalmology clinic. There were many patients today, and seeing that it was almost over at two o'clock, there was nothing left in the cafeteria, so she packed some food.
While eating, I received a call from Ling Yaqiong, asking her to go back today.
Lin Yuxi agreed, hung up the phone, lowered her head and poked at the white rice, suddenly unable to eat.
After work in the afternoon, the driver Lao Liu came to pick her up, and Lin Yuxi got in the car.
The Chinese-style courtyard in the Soviet style garden has a history of nearly a hundred years. Lin Yuxi is very familiar with it. She has grown up here since she was a child.
After her parents were killed, she stayed in an orphanage for several years, and was later adopted by the Zhou family. It was called adoption, but in fact it was just financial support.
If a pyramid were used to represent the entire class in Lin City, the Zhou family would be the top of the pyramid, a class that ordinary people could not touch at all.
She was an orphan and had bad luck being adopted by the Zhou family. How could she qualify for the Zhou family's household registration book?
Of course, no one expected that she would be so lucky twice. Later, she would marry the second son of the Zhou family, and her household registration would still be registered for her.
Lin Yuxi sat in the living room and waited for a while. Ling Yaqiong, dressed in an elegant cheongsam, came down from upstairs.
"I heard that you drove Xiao Chen away?"
Lin Yuxi was not surprised that she would know: "She came to complain to you?"
After Lin Yuxi and Zhou Yanjing got married, the Zhou family sent a nanny over. Mrs. Chen was quick and careful.
Zhou Yanjing is away from home all year round, and she and Mrs. Chen are the only ones who see each other day and night, so Lin Yuxi treats her very affectionately. She takes home all the high-end ingredients and supplements that the family can't eat, and gives red envelopes during holidays.
Sister-in-law Chen's work is actually very leisurely. Lin Yuxi is quite busy at work and doesn't spend much time at home. She turns a blind eye to many small things and doesn't care about them.
One time when the hospital needed to fill in the application information, one of Lin Yuxi's documents could not be found anywhere and she needed it urgently. Mrs. Chen was not at home and the phone call could not be reached. Finally, Lin Yuxi found her at a mahjong stand.
Her friend asked: "What time is it now and you still don't go back? Aren't you afraid that your wife will scold you?"
Mrs. Chen lost a lot at that time, and she couldn't bear to get off the card table when she was on top.
"She's busy at work, and she can't come back from this point. Besides, my salary is paid by the Zhou family, not her. Even if she finds out, what can she do to me."
"That person is also the young lady of the Zhou family. If you just blow my head off, I'll fire you without even saying you're fired."
"Come on." Sister-in-law Chen said in a disdainful tone, "Our second young master doesn't go home a few times a year, so where can she go to blow pillows?"
Middle-aged women are the most gossipy: "Hey, their relationship is not good as a couple?"
"What's so good? Our second son went to the United States not long after he got married. I heard he was chasing his childhood sweetheart's first love. This wife was forced to marry by her family. It's annoying just to look at her."
"So, women still have to have some tricks, otherwise being beautiful will be useless and they won't be able to win a man's heart."
Everyone has the instinct to watch what other people do, but Lin Yuxi didn't expect to hear such heart-wrenching words from her kind nanny.
Mrs. Chen was enjoying gossiping. When she turned around and saw Lin Yuxi standing behind her, she was so frightened that she almost threw the cards away and apologized in a panic.
Lin Yuxi didn't say anything at the time. She just asked her to go home and find the misplaced certificate, and let her go that night.
Ling Yaqiong sat down: "Xiao Chen is just gossiping behind his back. Although it can't be brought to the forefront, it doesn't hurt anything. You are also Yan Jing's wife, the second wife of the Zhou family. You can't even control a nanny. How can you not be noticed? Low."
Lin Yuxi pulled her lower lip.
I don't know what Mrs. Chen said in front of Ling Yaqiong to add insult to injury. Anyway, no matter what happened, whether it was her fault or not, Ling Yaqiong was always dissatisfied with her. She had always been like this since she was a child.
Lin Yuxi had long been accustomed to not explaining things. Even if Ling Yaqiong explained things, she would not humiliate herself.
"You can just forget it. Now that Yan Jing is back, you can't cook and can't handle housework. Are you going to wait for him to come home and serve you?"
Lin Yuxi said to her heart, it's not like she hasn't served him before.
But she didn't dare to say this in front of Ling Yaqiong.
