Chapter 318: Extra Chapter

Extra Chapter. "When It Gets Dark"

Tushan Jiu, far away in Nan Cheng, has had her right eyelid twitching nonstop since the moment she and her two siblings left home.

But she didn't care at all, having long grown used to it.

When Tushan Bai and Tushan Xi go out to pawn knives on their own, she ends up like this; now with an extra little daughter, it's already not bad if her heart isn't in sync.

Just as she was debating whether to open her heavenly eye to see what trouble the three of them had gotten into again, Xie Shiyu pushed the door open and walked in.

Tushan Jiu exclaimed, "How did you come back? Didn't you say there was an urgent meeting at the company to handle?"

Xie Shiyu took off his suit, loosened his tie, and said, "I've finished handling it, come back to keep you company."

The three third wheels have left, and he even gave the nanny a holiday—these days are entirely their two‑person world; they can be lovey‑dovey anytime, anywhere—how could he possibly miss it?

Seeing his expression change, Tushan Jiu instantly knew what he was thinking and immediately began to worry about her waist: "No wonder you gave Aunt Li and the others the day off—turns out you had this in mind, husband. Friendly reminder: it's daytime now, you're doing this in broad daylight..."

Xie Shiyu calmly walked to the sofa, knelt with one leg between her legs, pressed her down, and while unfastening his cufflinks, his pleasant voice replied, "Hmm, I know, it'll get dark soon."

After both cufflinks were undone, he began undoing the shirt buttons one by one, lifted his chin slightly toward her, symbolically asking for her opinion: "Shall we start from the sofa?"

After saying that, he pressed down on her while leaning in to kiss her, took off his shirt, and placed her hand on his belt: "Wife, undo it..."

Tushan Jiu: "......"

And yet he just asked her what she was up to!

Soon, their private time began to heat up.

……

……

Later on, she fell asleep; before sleeping, she seemed to see Xie Shiyu pull open the curtains.

She thought, the moon outside was still quite round.

The next morning, Tushan Jiu was awakened by a burst of phone ringing.

She curled into Xie Shiyu's embrace, and he woke up at the moment the phone rang.

He put his arm around Tushan Jiu, stretched out, and took her phone from over her.

He glanced at the screen and saw the call was from Xie Jingting.

The phone ringing made Tushan Jiu frown; Xie Shiyu silenced it, kissed her forehead, then got up to answer the call on the balcony.

"Hello?"

"Big brother? How is it you answering the phone......" On the other end, Xie Jingting suddenly thought of a possibility.

Recently his nephew and niece have left, leaving only his elder brother and sister‑in‑law at Prosperous World Luxurious Court—could he have called too early?

Xie Shiyu didn't say much, just asked: "What's the matter with calling your sister‑in‑law? Speak up, I'll tell her when she wakes up."

Xie Jingting quickly said with a smile: "When I graduated, didn't I propose to Qingyi? I want you, sister‑in‑law, to help me pick a date, set the day for the betrothal gifts to Qingyi's grandmother—her condition isn't great, I want to put her mind at ease by entrusting Qingyi to me, so she can see her granddaughter happily married off."

Xie Shiyu knew about this matter.

Xie Jingting proposed at the graduation ceremony, and they were all there.

After graduation, Fang Qingyi wanted to focus on her career first and marry later once she had some achievements; Xie Jingting also opened a game company and started his own business.

Their relationship had always been good, but starting around the second half of last year, Fang Qingyi's grandmother's health began to deteriorate, and she was hospitalized several times.

Tushan Jiu hadn't told anyone else, but she told Xie Shiyu that the old lady still had over a year of lifespan left.

Now it's early April; there are still more than three months, less than four months, until the time Tushan Jiu mentioned.

Xie Shiyu didn't say much more, just replied, "Sure, I'll let her know when your sister‑in‑law wakes up."

"Okay, thank you, big brother."

After the call ended, faint sounds came from the bedroom, and Xie Shiyu turned his head to look.

Tushan Jiu on the bed was stirring.

This was a sign that she was about to get up.

Within a couple of seconds, Tushan Jiu narrowed one eye into a slit to look at Xie Shiyu and asked, "Whose call was that?"

"Jingting's." Xie Shiyu answered.

"You want me to check the date?" Tushan Jiu said confidently.

Xie Shiyu nodded, walked over, and said, "Hmm."

He lifted the blanket, lay back down, wrapped his arms around her waist, and said, "Lie down a bit longer."

Tushan Jiu also agreed, after all her waist was still sore.

Thinking about that, she angrily kicked his shin—who let him deliberately bully her? Still unsatisfied, she pinched his waist as well.

But before he could make a move, she quickly reached out, pretending to calculate, and said, "Hmm, what good dates are coming up lately? My third brother's wedding—we absolutely need to pick the best day!"

Xie Shiyu was also helpless, laughing without exposing her little trick.

Actually, Tushan Jiu wasn't really diverting attention either, because she was indeed calculating the dates.

When she matched their birth characters, there really was a good date coming up soon.

"Let's go to the Fang family in half a month for the betrothal, and hold the wedding at the end of May!"

Tushan Jiu took her phone, sent the date to Xie Jingting, urging him to prepare quickly, as the time was also tight.

After sending the message, Tushan Jiu was about to sit up.

Xie Shiyu gave a firm pull and drew her back into his arms, asking, "Where are you going?"

Tushan Jiu felt surrounded by a furnace, her body instinctively growing restless, her shin still pressed down, and a large hand rested on her waist, slowly rubbing—exactly the same spot where she had just pinched him.

She swallowed, then hurriedly said, "I need to go prepare a gift for my younger siblings—I said I'd give her 999 gold for her wedding, so I really ought to get ready."

Xie Shiyu laughed, propped up his upper body and pressed toward Tushan Jiu, his other hand lightly stroking her cheek as it slowly moved downward.

"No rush, husband will have someone prepare things later...... wife, we haven't done our morning exercise yet......"

A "ding" sound.

The electric curtains slowly closed.

Tushan Jiu wanted to cry but had no tears; morning practice, what a load of crap; a thirty-year-old man is too terrifying!