Chapter 20

"How do you know I didn't go back last night?" Jiang Lai looked at him with cold eyes.

Shen Xun's heart skipped a beat, and he carefully examined Jiang Lai's eyes, wanting to know if she was lying.

If she had gone back, she would definitely have seen him and Shutong...

If she had really seen it, Jiang Lai wouldn't have this reaction; she should be crying and blaming him.

Jiang Lai loved him; he had always known that.

"You didn't go back." Shen Xun concluded.

Jiang Lai seemed to know why he was so certain, because she hadn't caught him sleeping with Lin Shutong.

"I went back this morning." Jiang Lai said, "You weren't there when I went back."

"This morning?" Shen Xun secretly breathed a sigh of relief; it was good she hadn't seen it. Otherwise, with Jiang Lai's stubborn personality, if she had seen it, she would definitely have made a scene for a divorce.

If Jiang Lai left him, life would be very hard.

He gradually let go.

Jiang Lai rubbed her shoulder gently.

"Did I hurt you?" Shen Xun asked with concern.

Jiang Lai said "Mm" and nodded, adding: "A little."

Shen Xun didn't apologize either and continued to ask her: "Where did you go last night? And who were you with?"

His tone was much better than just now.

Jiang Lai felt he was so fragmented, changing every moment; it wasn't women who were fickle, it was clearly men.

"A..." Jiang Lai's mind conjured up Ke Zhongying's smiling appearance, "Friend."

"Male or female?" Shen Xun pursued.

Jiang Lai lifted her eyes to look at him: "Female."

"When did you have friends?" Shen Xun didn't know at all; he knew everything about Jiang Lai, but recently he found he couldn't understand Jiang Lai a little.

This feeling made him very uncomfortable.

"Those two secretaries of Ke Zhongyu? They aren't friends worth making; stay away from them." Shen Xun looked down on female secretaries from the bottom of his heart; this position had always been controversial.

Jiang Lai frowned: "Making friends is my own right; I don't need to ask you or get your consent."

"I am your husband!" Shen Xun roared this sentence out almost.

Jiang Lai attacked head-on: "You didn't admit it last night."

"I..." Shen Xun was speechless for a moment, and seeing Jiang Lai walk out, he followed quickly.

After walking a few steps, a young girl's figure ran towards them in a rush.

It was Ke Zhongying.

Jiang Lai was stunned for a moment.

Ke Zhongying stopped in front of Jiang Lai, panting as she took out a hair tie and handed it to her: "Beautiful sister, you left this at my place last night, so I brought it to you!"

"I saw it was tie-dyed just like your bag; it must be some kind of souvenir. Although it looks cheap, it would be a pity to lose it."

This morning, Jiang Lai had only discovered that she had been wearing the hair tie Shen Xun gave her; the tie-dyed cloth bag could hold a lot of things, and she was used to being frugal and reluctant to throw it away, but losing a hair tie was still easy.

She didn't expect Ke Zhongying to pick it up and even send it over in a hurry, and it was sent at just the right time.

She always felt something was wrong.

"You slept at her house last night?" Shen Xun didn't recognize Ke Zhongying.

Ke Zhongying looked like her mother, and Ke Zhongyu looked like her father; the brother and sister didn't look much alike, and besides, the Ke Family Eldest Miss rarely appeared in public.

Shen Xun hadn't even met Ke Zhongyu a few times, so how could he have met Ke Zhongying, who had no intersection with him and was well protected by the Ke family?

Ke Zhongying looked at Shen Xun; she didn't know this person either.

"Beautiful sister, who is he?"

Before Jiang Lai could answer, Shen Xun immediately said: "I am her husband."

Ke Zhongying staggered.

"Beautiful sister, you're married?" Then what about my brother? Who will take in my brother, this disaster!

Although Jiang Lai didn't know what kind of wind Shen Xun was suddenly blowing, admitting the fact of their marriage, she didn't want to admit it now, so she just simply said "Mm."

"Ah..." Ke Zhongying looked at Shen Xun, looking left and right, looking horizontally and vertically, he couldn't compare to her brother anywhere.

A fresh flower stuck in cow dung.

Facing Ke Zhongying's undisguised disgust, Shen Xun seemed to be challenged, and he took out his business card: "Thank you for taking care of Jiang Lai last night."

Yes, this was Shen Xun's well-dressed appearance in front of outsiders. Jiang Lai thought.

"Thank you, but I don't need your business card." Ke Zhongying smiled and politely declined.

Shen Xun frowned.

He looked at Jiang Lai, that look as if to say: This is the friend you made?

Jiang Lai didn't care if Shen Xun liked it or not; she actually quite liked Ke Zhongying, so she reached out to take the hair tie, stuffed it casually into her pocket, and then took a tissue out of her bag and handed it to Ke Zhongying.

Ke Zhongying giggled: "Thank you, beautiful sister."

She used the tissue to wipe her sweat, and looking at herself, having been called over in a hurry by her own brother without even changing her pajamas, she took Jiang Lai's arm and said: "Beautiful sister, accompany me to buy some clothes here."

"Okay." Jiang Lai nodded in agreement.

Shen Xun's eyes rolled; those who could consume here were not simple, so he asked one more question: "May I ask how to address you?"

"Just call me Nian Ying." After Ke Zhongying finished speaking, she secretly explained in Jiang Lai's ear, "My mom's surname is Nian."

Jiang Lai had never felt this kind of trust from a friend and smiled at Ke Zhongying.

Like a ray of light suddenly falling on a magnolia flower that had been rained on, even if it was only for a moment, it was very crystal clear.

Shen Xun was a little dazed.

"I'm going to get busy." Jiang Lai pulled Ke Zhongying away.

Shen Xun didn't stop her, just reminded her: "Tomorrow is Xiao Xi's birthday; don't forget to buy a gift, and go back early."

"Got it." Jiang Lai was perfunctory.

Ke Zhongying asked: "Who is Xiao Xi?"

Jiang Lai: "His sister."

"It's normal for you to give a gift for his sister's birthday, but why do you have to go back early?"

"To go back and cook." It had been like this for four years; although there was a nanny at home, the Shen family's birthdays always involved inviting people to eat at home, and one nanny couldn't handle it, so she needed to cook together.

Ke Zhongying got angry just hearing it: "Is he really your husband? How could there be such a husband."

She was greatly shocked.

"You don't know that in my house, as soon as the hair dryer in my mom's hand sounds, my dad appears immediately, not to mention cooking. But we have a chef in our house, so it's not needed, but sometimes when my mom is greedy in the middle of the night, my dad will go to the kitchen to cook two dishes, and even learn plating from the chef..."

Ke Zhongying noticed her mood was a little low and immediately said: "Ah, sorry, I talked too much."

"No, it's my own problem." Jiang Lai smiled at her.

Ke Zhongying instantly became a fan: "Beautiful sister..."

What a pity, why did you get married?

"Mm?" Jiang Lai was almost used to this address.

"Why couldn't you think it through and get married young? Don't you know the good ones are behind!"

Every time she stayed with Ke Zhongying, Jiang Lai would naturally relax: "Where are the good ones?"

"My brother!" Ke Zhongying said, "Although my brother's mouth is annoying, he's actually quite good."

Jiang Lai looked at her: "Does your brother know you want to match him with someone who has been married?"

"So what if she's been married?" Ke Zhongying pouted, "What era is this."

Jiang Lai didn't take what Ke Zhongying said seriously; children speak without taboo.

The two walked forward.

Two heads suddenly popped out from the corner behind them.

Secretary Guan: "Why isn't it Zhou Zhou who came?"

Secretary Cen: "Why is it the Eldest Miss who came?"

The two said in unison.

"Did you hear just now?" Secretary Cen said, "President Shen is Secretary Jiang's husband."

Secretary Guan stuttered: "He, heard it. But, wasn't President Shen just shopping with another woman? I smelled it; they both had the same perfume on."