Chapter 225

"How does the food taste?" Li Heng asked with concern.

Xiao Han said, "This fish is very much to my taste; you try it."

The two ordered different dishes, and she picked two good pieces to put in his bowl.

Li Heng acted shamelessly, testing with a face full of anticipation: "Wife, why don't you feed me?"

Hearing this, Xiao Han couldn't help but reveal a very sweet smile, "What did you call me just now?"

Li Heng said: "Wife."

Xiao Han's eyes narrowed into curved crescents, and she teased with an encouraging look:

"If you dare to call me that in front of Lady Song and Lady Chen, don't talk about feeding me—I'll even bear your children for you."

This was a deadly topic, how could he dare to take it?

What does it mean to even bear your children for you?

Doesn't this clearly mean he can only love her alone from now on?

Doesn't this clearly mean urging him to break off his relationship with Song Yu and Chen Chen Zijin?

Seeing him speechless for a moment, Xiao Han instantly retracted all expressions on her face, calmly picked up a piece of fish, put it in her mouth, chewed it in small bites, and said:

"You are too self-righteous, Mr. Li."

A short sentence was like a bucket of cold water poured over his head, making Li Heng's heart feel cold and chilly.

But facing this problem that was like a dead knot, he couldn't sit and wait for death, so he used Tai Chi to circle back:

"I heard that you started having a crush on me in junior high. Because you had a crush on me, you often got jealous and had conflicts with Chen Chen Zijin—is that true?"

He hadn't expected him to take the initiative to lift the veil as thin as clouds and flip over past scars to whip them. Xiao Han, who was always in control, had her shoulders tremble slightly, her gaze dodging.

She lowered her head, trying her best not to look at him.

But Li Heng had finally worked up the courage to poke at her heart; how could he let it go so easily? He leaned his head over.

Xiao Han tried her best to turn her head away, but what came into view was still that face. She was furious, twisted her face into a knot, and asked: "What are you doing? Did Chen Chen Chen Zijin tell you?"

Li Heng said: "Answer me, is it true?"

"So what if it is?"

Xiao Han's words were very arrogant, but her face was miserable: "Mr. Li, don't rely on the fact that I foolishly like you to bully me, this weak woman, without fear."

Li Heng gestured exaggeratedly, "And this is called a weak woman? Just because you had a crush, you were thinking about locking me up and beating me up all the time."

Hearing this, Xiao Han didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "How could I bear to? Don't confuse the public and try to muddle through."

Li Heng sighed, "Since you can't bear to, why won't you agree to be my girlfriend?"

Hearing this, Xiao Han was silent, her head lowered again, her eyes shimmering. After a long while, she asked in a calm tone: "Do you feel that I was meddling back then, destroying your relationship?"

Li Heng answered: "No."

"Really no?"

"Really no."

Xiao Han slowly raised her head and asked with concern: "Then why did you even ask if I had a crush on you in junior high?"

Li Heng said excitedly: "You brought two friends to scold me twice back then, scolding me until I was bloody, scolding me until I had no face to see the elders of Jiangdong. I didn't expect that you would turn around and like me. I just felt it was quite interesting and quite an achievement."

Xiao Han smiled bitterly, her right hand tightly gripped her left hand. After a while, her red lips moved, and she spoke in a muffled voice:

"Then when you heard I liked you, were you happy?"

Li Heng stared into her eyes and said: "Naturally happy; otherwise, I wouldn't have followed you to Shanghai."

A romantic statement that hit the nail on the head made the two, whose eyes met, rarely fall into a world of uncontrollable passion. At this moment, her earlier difficulties and his desperate struggle to survive all seemed unimportant!

They calmed down in an instant because there was love in their hearts.

After a long while, he apologized: "I was a bit impulsive just now, but I didn't want to take revenge on you."

Before he could finish, Xiao Han interrupted: "I know, I understand. Actually, it's because I'm too, too..."

Too what? She was too shy to speak.

Li Heng muttered: "Too in love with me."

Hearing this, Xiao Han bit her lower lip tightly, poked him with the tip of her chopstick, and poked him again. Until the third poke, she couldn't hold it in anymore, lowered her head, and smiled with pursed lips.

Halfway through the meal, the two joint dorms, 325 and 107, appeared in the cafeteria collectively.

They split into teams and searched everywhere.

Liu Liu Liu Yanling and Zhou Zhou Zhou Zhangming were the first to discover the location of Li Heng and Xiao Han. They came over, circled around, and left. Less than two minutes later, the people from the two dorms gathered again and sat separately at the two tables next to them.

Those 14 eyes—wow! They stared straight at Xiao Han.

Xiao Han noticed this scene, smiled on her face, and generously let them look, not stage-frightened at all.

Wei Wei Wei Sisi was the first to be unable to hold back and asked: "Li Heng, your partner?"

Hearing this, 14 pairs of eyes, including Xiao Han's, all looked at him in unison.

Li Heng answered: "Yes, my wife."

Although it wasn't the first time he had called her "wife" today, in front of so many people, the outwardly calm Xiao Han felt very satisfied inside, and the love hidden in the corners of her eyes was so thick it was about to drip down.

It was precisely this "wife" that shocked the girls in Dorm 107; they hadn't expected Li Heng to be so direct.

Even though the boys from 325 had already told them about the scene in the classroom before they came, they still felt...

They looked at each other, speechless for a moment.

Just now, when Zhou Zhou Zhou Zhangming and the others told Dorm 107 how beautiful Xiao Han was and that she could rival Zhou Zhou Zhou Shihe, several girls scoffed and didn't believe it.

Everyone had seen how beautiful Zhou Zhou Zhou Shihe was, and they all agreed that she was the most beautiful girl they had seen in their nearly 20 years.

How could just any Tom, Dick, or Harry compare to Zhou Zhou Zhou Shihe?

How could a girl popping out of a corner compare to Zhou Zhou Zhou Shihe? Is she cabbage-priced? Is she that worthless?

Liu Liu Liu Yanling had come looking for trouble from the start, but after scanning Xiao Han four or five times with a critical gaze, she had no choice but to give up and accept her fate in frustration.

Following this, the ripples of affection she had for Li Heng in her heart had to be put away. Dorm 325 really hadn't lied; Xiao Han was as beautiful as they said, exquisite to the point of perfection.

Liu Liu Liu Yanling was particularly depressed, her heart feeling blocked. Being admitted to Fudan University in this day and age could be considered a "daughter of heaven." It was hard to meet a boy in university who could stir up physical desire and make her float in bed at night, but before she could take a few more looks, he was already someone else's.

Dai Qing's gaze toward Xiao Han was relatively subtle, but it couldn't hide the loss in her heart.

Out of the pride of the women in Dorm 107, Sun Sun Sun Xiaoye, Liu Meng, and Cai Cai Cai Yuanyuan secretly compared Xiao Han and Wei Wei Wei Xiaozhu, but in the end, there was no movement.

In their hearts, Wei Wei Xiaozhu was already very beautiful, a proper great beauty, but the enemy was just too powerful.

Wei Wei Wei Xiaozhu herself didn't have much of a feeling; she had a smile on her face, and when her gaze met Li Heng and Xiao Han's, she even nodded with a smile to show her blessings.

After finishing the last few bites of rice and walking about 200 meters out of the cafeteria, Xiao Han said with a smile: "Mr. Li, the quality of girls in your school is really high."

Some things are understood as soon as they are heard. She was referring to Zhou Zhou Zhou Shihe, Liu Yue, Wei Wei Wei Xiaozhu, and Ye Ye Ye Zhanyan.

Li Heng tilted his head and asked: "Is it high? You've seen the essence of Fudan University in half a day."

Xiao Han tilted her head slightly and teased: "Then why was I able to see it all in such a short half-day?"

Li Heng was speechless and laid his cards on the table: "Indeed, I also feel it's too coincidental. Maybe I'm a star; my gravity is high. Otherwise, why would someone scold me in junior high and then have a crush on me right after?"

". Sometimes."

Hearing this, Xiao Han looked miserable and was about to cry. Her voice trembled slightly, and she restrained her surging emotions and said: "Sometimes, I feel that someone like you who gets the benefit and still acts innocent is very hateful; I really want to beat you up."

Li Heng was very happy to hear this, reached out to hold her hand, and their two side-by-side backs were stretched long and long in the sunset.

After walking for a while, he asked: "Does Zhang Zhang Haiyan have a place to stay tonight? Do you want to go find her?"

"Yes, let's go to the Computer Science Department and ask."

Xiao Han had always been concerned about her friend, so the two turned around and headed toward the Computer Science Department's girls' building.

Before long, they found Zhang Zhang Zhang Haiyan, who didn't want to act as a "lightbulb" and told them she would stay in a classmate's dorm tonight.

Li Heng extended an invitation: "Let's eat together at noon tomorrow; Mai Sui and Manning will be there too."

They were all high school classmates from the same place, and being far away in a strange land made them feel extra close. This time, Zhang Zhang Zhang Haiyan readily agreed.

Before dark, Li Heng took Xiao Han back to Lushan Village.

Entering the alley, Xiao Han looked around and said: "The houses here are so special; they have a sense of human life."

These words hit Li Heng's heart; he and Mai Sui had the same feeling, so they both enjoyed it here very much.

Walking and walking, they soon reached the end of the alley.

The gate of Building 24 was open. After the fake fish incident, the fake Daoist who had disappeared for several days finally returned, but he didn't see anyone, nor was he meditating on the second floor.

Out of concern, he tried shouting a few times at the courtyard gate: "Old Fu! Old Fu!"

The result was no reaction at all.

All the doors and windows of the small building at No. 25 were closed, with only some clothes drying on the balcony. It looked like Yu Laoshi wasn't home at this time.

Xiao Han seemed to like the living environment and atmosphere here, her eyes constantly looking around, "How much is the rent here every month?"

Li Heng said: "40 yuan."

"So much?" Xiao Han was surprised.

This sum of money was equivalent to a roommate's living expenses for a semester.

Li Heng said: "It's a bit expensive, but it's worth more than the price. You'll understand after staying one night."

Saying this, he took out the key to open the door and slowly pushed it open to enter.

As her gaze fell into the room, Xiao Han, who followed, raised her brows subconsciously, finding it too clean inside, spotless, as if someone cleaned it often.

This didn't match the man in the words of Chen Chen Chen Zijin and Yang Yingwen.

It also didn't match the man in her impression.

In their eyes, although Li Heng was very hygienic, he only paid attention to personal hygiene, such as changing clothes and bathing diligently; he wasn't keen on sweeping and tidying up miscellaneous items, always dragging it out until he couldn't take it anymore and did a big cleaning once.

Is it such a coincidence? Honey did some cleaning in the last two days.

Or, as he gets older, he's slowly becoming different?

Her brows raised and then returned to their original position. She didn't take it too much to heart; the biggest change in her sweetheart now was becoming a great writer, and these small changes were not worth mentioning.

"You really have taste; this wallpaper looks so comfortable," Xiao Han praised.

Li Heng just smiled. Every person who entered the house would be attracted by the elegant and beautiful wallpaper at the first moment—the fake Daoist was like this, and Yu Laoshi was like this. Including himself.

He went to the kitchen to take a look, and everything inside was neatly arranged. He concluded that Comrade Mai Sui had returned.

During the time he was accompanying Xiao Han to eat, that girl had come back once.

This was what he was happy to see; otherwise, he wouldn't have taken such a long walk after the meal. The purpose was self-evident: to make time for Mai Sui.

Of course, if Mai Sui hadn't realized it and was bumped into by his wife for living here, he wouldn't be particularly afraid. First, the innocent are innocent; second, he trusted Xiao Han.

However, adhering to the principle of "less trouble is better than more," it was best not to bump into each other, so both sides could have some peace.

Going up to the second floor, he brewed two cups of tea and handed one to her: "I know you love drinking tea; I bought this a few days ago. This tea should suit your taste."

Holding it with both hands and taking a sip, Xiao Han revealed a sweet smile. This tea was indeed the type she loved; it seemed someone was quite attentive to her.

Like Mai Sui, Xiao Han fell completely in love with this place after touring the upper and lower floors.

She said this small building with an attic and courtyard was her ideal residence, praising him for having an eye for things.

Li Heng said: "Next spring, I plan to renovate the courtyard and plant some flowers and plants."

A moment later, he asked knowingly, "Wife, do you have any flowers you particularly love?"

Xiao Han said: "Morning glories and camellias."

"These two types of flowers are easy to raise; we'll plant them next year."

Talking about flowers and plants, the two happily communicated in the courtyard for more than an hour, planning in detail where to plant what flowers in the future. They divided it into 12 small areas and 12 varieties of flowers.

This could be considered catering to her preferences; Xiao Han's biggest hobby was planting flowers and grass.

She often said in her past life: My dream is to lie in a sea of flowers and spend my old age.

Later, it got dark, and the night gradually turned cool.

Xiao Han, who returned to the house, first took her change of clothes to the shower room, but as she washed, she discovered something wrong. She caught a glimpse of two long hairs in a corner.

She was stunned for a moment, then she turned off the shower, crouched down to pick up the long hairs, and observed them under the light, observing their color, hair quality, length, and thickness.

She was a medical student and was most sensitive to human hair, skin, and subtle things.

She carefully recalled the girls around Li Heng, especially those high-value women she saw today.

Why filter the high-value girls first?

Because her Mr. Li was very picky and only loved beauties.

The first to come to mind was Zhou Zhou Zhou Shihe, who instinctively made her feel dangerous. A moment later, she denied it; the hair length was about the same, but the color didn't match.

Next was Liu Yue. Obviously, this woman had a hint of hostility when she met her in the Management School teaching lobby.

But the next instant, she passed on her too.

There were two reasons:

First, the impression Liu Yue gave her was that she was a girl with strong aggressiveness, which could be seen from her trying to undermine her in the stairwell.

If she had really come here to bathe, she wouldn't have performed so anticlimactically today.

Second, the hair color was also wrong.

The third object—the figure of Mai Sui appeared in Xiao Han's mind.

The other party was a very good friend of his in high school. Now that they were in Shanghai, their friendship would only go a step further. It was possible that coming home to bathe and stay overnight would happen.

At the same time, Mai Sui should have a huge attraction to men. She, as a woman, could inexplicably feel it, and she believed men would only be more miserable.

Recalling Mai Sui's hair and comparing it with the two hairs in her hand, Xiao Han's heart suddenly "thumped," as if it had been hit by a heavy hammer.

So it was her!

Xiao Han stared at the hair for a while, feeling a bit stifled and not knowing whether to laugh or cry. Her honey was indeed a dog that couldn't change its habit of eating excrement; there were beauties accompanying him wherever he went.

Re-organizing the context of things and weighing the scene of meeting in the cafeteria today again, Xiao Han had an answer in her heart: it shouldn't have reached that step yet.

There were three bases for judgment:

First, when meeting in the cafeteria, neither Li Heng nor Mai Sui showed any sense of guilt.

Second, Li Heng's greatest love was Song Yu, and Mai Sui was Song Yu's best friend. Eating her best friend without having pursued Song Yu was a bad move that would lose Song Yu forever.

The loss outweighed the gain!

Third, he was currently setting his sights on her. Daring to bring her back to the rental house without any scruples already explained many things.

She didn't believe that if a woman had been with him, she would tolerate the man bringing another woman back to the couple's love nest.

However...

However, even if it hadn't reached that step, Mai Sui being able to bathe here was also a signal—a signal that she had no guard against him.

Such a signal could advance or retreat.

Advance: Become a miserable woman with a crush, living in fear and unable to see the sun.

She hoped Mai Sui wouldn't repeat her own mistakes. The years she had a crush were sweet, but there was more bitterness.

Retreat: Good friend, soulmate, will not cross the friendship line.

The problem is, would a great writer lack soulmates? Even if she and Song Yu guarded him every day, it couldn't be prevented. Xiao Han smiled bitterly, put the two hairs in the trash can, turned on the shower again, and continued to bathe.

PS: Informing all the big bosses, I have to go to a big hospital in Changsha for a polyp surgery tomorrow, so I have to rush over this afternoon.

So I'm asking for a day off tomorrow (there might be a chapter updated, but I'm not sure about the word count).

Although I already said it in the group last night, I still hope everyone understands. I will try my best to make up the word count in the subsequent updates in March. Thank you all for your support.

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