Chapter 1263: Mother-in-Law's Divine Assist

Yun Qitian could no longer sleep in the guest room and was "forced" to move back into the master bedroom.

He took a quilt out of the closet and spread it on the floor to make a floor bed.

Shi Ran hesitated, but still issued an invitation: "Don't sleep on the floor, you'll catch a cold; I'll share half the bed with you."

Share half?

Not interested.

Yun Qitian said very gentlemanly: "No need, sleeping on the floor is comfortable, the whole thing is mine, I don't need anyone's charity of half a bed."

Shi Ran:...

There was no way to respond to that.

Should she tell him the whole bed was also his?

Then what about the person on the bed?

"Fine, if you're willing to sleep on the floor then sleep there, do whatever is comfortable for you." She agreed.

Yun Qitian:...

"You're being too insincere, aren't you? Only inviting me once?"

"Right, things shouldn't happen more than three times."

"But you haven't even reached the third time yet, that was only once." He hugged the quilt, not spreading it on the floor, and just looked at Shi Ran pitifully like that.

She "pfft" laughed, unable to hold it in.

"Alright, you sleep on the bed, the floor is cold..."

Actually, this sentence was already complete, but the proud Shi Ran insisted on adding another: "I'll share half the bed with you."

"No need, the floor is quite good."

Yun Qitian refused once again and spread the quilt onto the floor.

"You..."

Shi Ran was rendered speechless by anger.

How could someone be so infuriating?

"Knock, knock, knock."

The mother-in-law said from outside: "Ranran, Qitian, are you two asleep yet?"

Yun Qitian picked up the quilt and instantly jumped onto the bed, his speed very fast.

Shi Ran: "We aren't asleep, Mom, do you need something?"

"Nothing much, I don't have enough quilts in my room, and as an older person, I'm afraid of the cold. I was just asking if you have any extra quilts?"

Shi Ran:...

Yun Qitian:...

They actually did have one.

But there was only one, and Yun Qitian was holding it.

Shi Ran: "We do, please come in."

Upon receiving permission, Ma Ling'er pushed the door open with a smile, saw her son and daughter-in-law lying on the bed, each hugging a quilt, and frowned slightly: "Oh, you young people are also afraid of the cold? I thought only us older folks were afraid of the cold."

Shi Ran said: "It's not that, we usually just use one quilt. Qitian just said you were afraid of the cold, so he was holding a quilt ready to send it over to you, and you just happened to come by."

Ma Ling'er beamed with joy: "So that's how it is, what a coincidence. I'll carry it over myself, you two get some rest early. Ranran, Mom has to thank you; Qitian has become much more sensible since marrying you."

"In the past, he would never have thought about me being afraid of the cold; it was only after marrying you that he learned how to care for people..."

Shi Ran blushed.

She could withstand all sorts of conspiracies and schemes, but she couldn't handle others being genuinely good to her.

In this day and age, sincerity is the rarest thing.

And the entire Yun Family treated her with sincerity, which made her feel ashamed.

"Mom, please don't say that. Qitian is very good; being able to marry him is my blessing."

There isn't a mother in the world who doesn't like others praising her son.

Ma Ling'er was so happy she couldn't close her mouth, but she still spoke modestly: "No, being able to marry you is his blessing."

She turned to speak to her son, but the expression on her face immediately became stern: "Qitian, I'm warning you, if you dare to bully our Ranran, I'll kill you!"

Yun Qitian:...

He protested: "Mom, did you take the wrong medicine today? I'm your biological son, biological! How can you favor an outsider..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he received a heavy rap on the head.

"You're the one who took the wrong medicine. You were swapped at birth, you're not my, Ma Ling'er's, son, how are you talking? Who is an outsider?"

"We are all one family, where would there be any outsiders?" Ma Ling'er argued forcefully, scolding her son roundly.

The son wasn't a pushover either; even though he was clearly in the wrong, he remained eloquent: "Can you blame me for saying the wrong thing? It's all your fault, you've been hitting me since I was little, and you specifically hit me on the head. If I'm stupid, it's because you beat me stupid!"

Ma Ling'er widened her eyes and threatened Qitian: "Your wings have hardened now, haven't they? I say one thing and you retort with a hundred. Forget it, I don't want this son anymore; having a daughter-in-law to treat like a daughter is enough!"

After saying this, she took the quilt and went out.

When she left, she didn't forget to close the door for them.

The mother and son were just bickering; they wouldn't actually be angry.

But Yun Qitian took the opportunity to act pitiful in front of his wife to gain sympathy.

"Ranran, if my mom and I both fell into a river, who would you save?"

Shi Ran:...

She said: "Did you get the script wrong? From ancient times until now, this kind of question is always asked by a wife to a husband, how could it be the other way around?"

His expression was incredibly aggrieved, yet he argued forcefully: "Didn't you hear what my mom said just now? She wants to sever our mother-son relationship, and from now on you're her own daughter. You're closer than me, so is there anything wrong with me asking that? Not a single thing."

Shi Ran:...

Fine, twisted logic has always been the style of Yun Qitian.

Having been together for so long, she had also grown accustomed to his way of never speaking properly.

However, she was still very used to this kind of family atmosphere.

Because her maiden family was the same.

Her mother got along with her and her younger brothers just like friends.

Her father used to be strict with her younger brothers and always acted high and mighty, but he had always been kind and gentle toward her.

In the entire Sheng Family, the one most favored by Sheng Hanyu was Shi Ran.

Although she was used to the family atmosphere, she could not ignore the problems in reality; the most realistic problem was—now that the two of them only had one quilt, what were they to do?

There was no other way, they could only share the one quilt.

After the lights were turned off.

Shi Ran lay on the bed, not moving an inch.

She was very nervous; although the man beside her was someone she had known inside and out since childhood, she was still very nervous now.

It felt different.

Her face flushed red, and her heart thumped so fast it felt as if it were about to jump out of her chest.

Fortunately, the light in the room was very dim, so he could not notice.

The next day.

Early morning.

"Knock, knock, knock."

The door was tapped three times lightly.

The decibel level of this sound was enough to ensure that anyone awake in the room could hear it, but anyone asleep would not.

"Coming."

Yun Qitian prepared to get out of bed.

But he could not move.

Shi Ran's sleeping posture was quite unsightly; she was well-behaved before falling asleep, but once asleep, she was like "a fish leaping in the vast sea, a bird flying in the high sky."

The agreement from last night to split the bed in half did not count at all.

After she fell asleep, the whole bed was hers, and the scene in the room right now was ironclad proof!

Yun Qitian was pressed tightly against the edge of the bed; if he moved even a little further out, he would fall off.

Shi Ran was lying horizontally across the bed, one leg draped over him, sleeping soundly.

He had not slept all night, having to cover her with the quilt every half hour.

He wanted to get out of bed, but was afraid of waking his wife, so he dared not move.

His mother waited for a while, and seeing no movement in the room, she said from outside the door: "You don't need to get up; I'm just letting you know that I've made breakfast and left it in the pot. Eat breakfast before you leave for work."

"Thanks, Mom."