Chapter 65. Secretly Getting Married? The Drives-You-Crazy Kind (5)
Zhong Jiaren looked at Shen Wan, half-reclining against the headboard with her eyes closed and mouth open, and almost lost her composure. She clenched her fist tightly, listening to Shen Wan’s gradually deepening breaths, then slowly relaxed her hand.
“Shen Wan, I’ve never seen this side of you before.” Zhong Jiaren laughed in anger, walking to the side and actually picking up the bowl and chopsticks. She slowly approached the bed.
Shen Wan’s breathing paused for a moment before she spoke, “A person has many sides. It’s normal that you haven’t seen this one. Even if you’ve seen many sides of me, everyone has a hidden side. It’s even more normal not to have seen the hidden side.”
Shen Wan felt Zhong Jiaren place something on her body. She opened her eyes slightly to see a napkin spread over her. Seeing this, she closed her eyes contentedly. “Jiaren, you’re so thoughtful and considerate. I don’t know who will be lucky enough to marry you in the future, but they’ll certainly be happy.”
Zhong Jiaren picked up a piece of food with the chopsticks and brought it to Shen Wan’s open mouth. “If my future partner were like you, I’d break their legs.”
Shen Wan quickly chewed and swallowed the food, still speaking with her eyes closed: “Don’t be so fierce. You’ll scare off your future partner if you’re always so angry. If they get frightened and don’t want you anymore, you might end up single for life.” Being so fierce wasn’t cute at all. However, she guessed that Jiaren must be quite nice when she’s gentle. For instance, the way she was feeding her now was rather tender.
Hearing about having her legs broken, Shen Wan decided to wait and see. She’d consider a little romance with Jiaren once she stopped threatening to break her future partner’s legs. Of course, her legs were more important than romance. Mainly, she was afraid that if Jiaren broke her legs in the future, she’d feel guilty, sad, and heartbroken. She was thinking of Jiaren’s feelings, after all, who knows who their future partner might be? People can’t escape the “true fragrance” rule.
Zhong Jiaren fed Shen Wan one mouthful at a time, her gaze lightly sweeping over Shen Wan’s face. “I see you like staying up late to play games so much that you can’t even eat properly, needing someone to feed you while lying down. We might as well have the housekeeper mince all your food and cook it into porridge for you from now on. It would be more convenient.”
“Jiaren, you’re so considerate. If you were feeding me a bowl of porridge right now, it would indeed be much more convenient. I don’t mind, I’ll eat anything. As long as you don’t find it troublesome and are willing to feed me, I really don’t mind.”
188 thought: To be shameless to this degree, host, your Miss Jiaren probably won’t like this type.
Just keep acting up. When you drive your partner away, let’s see if you cry or not.
Zhong Jiaren hadn’t expected Shen Wan to be so shameless. She took a deep breath, deciding not to continue this bizarre conversation. She found her own patience strange. Finally, she came up with a very good reason for herself: she wanted to see how Shen Wan would react when she remembered Fang Anshuo being beaten up last night.
Even after Shen Wan had finished eating, she still hadn’t remembered anything about Fang Anshuo. Zhong Jiaren finally reminded her, “Are you still going to sleep? Do you have anything important today? Don’t stay up late tonight. Sleeping all day and staying up all night isn’t good for your health.”
Currently, Shen Wan was about to be a junior in college, and it was during the holiday break. It was impossible for the Shen family’s young lady to work a summer job. The Shen couple had taken the opportunity during the holiday to go on a trip, feeling relatively at ease with Zhong Jiaren watching over the house. This was also why Zhong Jiaren had no choice but to take care of Shen Wan.
“I’m not fully awake. If I don’t wake up properly, my mind won’t be clear and my head will hurt.” Watching Shen Wan already hugging her pillow and slowly drifting off to sleep, completely disregarding that sleeping right after eating was bad for digestion and could lead to weight gain.
She really doubted whether any of the Shen couple’s excellent genes had been passed down to Shen Wan. How could such hardworking parents have such a lazy daughter?
“Sleeping right after eating makes it easy to gain weight.”
“Jiaren, you’re becoming more and more nagging. Your future partner won’t be able to stand you if you’re this nagging.”
Zhong Jiaren gritted her teeth, “If they can’t stand me, then they can get lost.”
Shen Wan thought: So fierce, no wonder she’s single. Serves her right to be single by her own efforts!
“If you get fat, Fang Anshuo might not want you anymore.” Zhong Jiaren had to mention this, wondering if Shen Wan would remember last night’s events now. It was really strange, she was more anxious than the emperor’s eunuch.
“Then I’ll find someone else who’s obedient, gentle, doesn’t mind if I’m fat, and treats me well,” Shen Wan mumbled with her eyes closed. “I’m the Shen family’s young lady. Everyone in my family is extremely capable. My parents are impressive, you’re impressive, Jiaren. With all of you backing me up, am I afraid of not finding a partner? If I’m willing, believe it or not, countless people would kneel and fawn over me.”
Zhong Jiaren thought: Has she been spoiled rotten?
Zhong Jiaren gave up trying to remind Shen Wan of anything and turned to walk to the door, not wanting to converse with Shen Wan anymore. It was tiring. They weren’t on the same path. She had her own goals, while Shen Wan clearly just wanted to live an easy life. They couldn’t connect. It was really worse than in her previous life. This must be Shen Wan’s true face. She wondered how Fang Anshuo had tolerated it back then.
(Fang Anshuo pitifully: I don’t know either, she wasn’t like this before.)
As Zhong Jiaren’s hand grasped the doorknob, there was a sudden movement behind her. She instinctively turned back to see Shen Wan suddenly sitting up, her face pale, as if remembering something. The corners of her lips curled up slightly. Had this fool finally remembered? Good, it wasn’t in vain that she came back at noon and even personally fed her. She had finally remembered.
“Jiaren, what should I do… I… I seem to have forgotten something very serious. I was really scared stupid yesterday. How could I have forgotten about this?”
Shen Wan’s face was full of guilt. Zhong Jiaren believed this was the expression Shen Wan should have.
Shen Wan glimpsed Zhong Jiaren’s pleased expression and laughed inwardly. What was she so happy about? Being happy that her partner was worried about another man, no wonder she was single. That schadenfreude look wasn’t cute at all.
“What’s wrong?”
Shen Wan’s face was full of regret and distress, her voice tinged with tears, “Jiaren, can you help me call the police? Yesterday, it seems Anshuo was beaten up. I don’t know how he is now.” As she said this, she suddenly remembered something and quickly opened her phone. Seeing several missed calls, all from Fang Anshuo, she hurriedly said, “Anshuo called me. Oh, we seem to have talked on the phone this morning. Right, I remember now, we really did talk on the phone. Anshuo is fine…”
Seeing Shen Wan’s joyful expression, Zhong Jiaren’s smile faded. Was Fang Anshuo still so important to Shen Wan? Look at how worried she was about Fang Anshuo just now, and now how happy she is knowing he’s fine. Being this stupid, it’s no wonder she’d be led around by Fang Anshuo.
Shen Wan had already called Fang Anshuo. It happened to be a free moment for him, and seeing Shen Wan’s call, his face brightened with joy. Remembering Shen Wan’s attitude earlier and last night’s events, he felt a bit unhappy. But he didn’t dare show his displeasure in front of Shen Wan.
They had only been dating for a few months, too short a time for Shen Wan to be truly infatuated with him and unable to do without him.
“Wan Wan, are you awake?”
“Anshuo, I’m sorry.”
“What’s wrong?”
“Anshuo, I was scared stupid last night. At first, I called Jiaren. Then one of the thugs tried to grab my phone, and I got scared and ran away. I hid somewhere until Jiaren’s car came. Then she picked me up. At the time, I was so pale with fright, my mind was completely blank.”
“Still in shock, after I got home, I forgot about what happened before and fell asleep without realizing it.”
Zhong Jiaren thought: Lying, is this how Shen Wan usually deceives men?
Fang Anshuo asked half-believingly, “But at noon when I called you, you said you had played games all night last night, met pig teammates all night, didn’t gain two stars all night, and even lost two, didn’t you?”
“Anshuo, that must have been a dream within a dream where I played games all night in my dream. Think about it, we watched a movie so late last night, and then those scary things happened. How could I possibly have the heart to play games? Since being with you, I’ve spent most of my gaming time on dates with you.”
“It must have been a dream within a dream. When you called, I was in a daze from sleep. Look, it’s not even two o’clock now. If I had really played games all night, I wouldn’t be awake at this time.”
Before Fang Anshuo could say anything, Shen Wan said guiltily, “Anshuo, are you alright? Where are you now? How serious are your injuries? Have you eaten? If not, I can bring you something. I’ll personally make you some soup to apologize.”
Fang Anshuo seemed comforted, hearing Shen Wan so concerned about him, and believed her words. Perhaps it was as Shen Wan said, she had been too tired and fell asleep, and when he called later, she had a dream within a dream and talked nonsense.
“It’s just some superficial injuries.”
Fang Anshuo told Shen Wan his hospital location. Shen Wan said she would make him soup right away.
Zhong Jiaren witnessed the entire process of Shen Wan’s lie. Her eyes were full of disbelief. She didn’t know this little mouth could lie so well, and Fang Anshuo actually believed it. So, how did Fang Anshuo manage to trap Shen Wan in her previous life? Was she really so deeply in love that she couldn’t extricate herself?
After Shen Wan hung up the phone, Zhong Jiaren asked, “Why did you lie? You clearly played games all night last night.”
“I really did forget about last night. If I said I forgot about that incident but played games all night, Anshuo might have been furious and wanted to break up with me. Jiaren, please help me keep this secret.”
Zhong Jiaren let out a cold laugh, “Fine, I can’t be bothered with your affairs.”
Then, she saw Shen Wan really go to make soup, and her heart sank. It seemed Shen Wan truly cared about Fang Anshuo. She was curious if Shen Wan really knew how to make soup. Unable to resist, she came to the kitchen to observe. Watching Shen Wan fumble around, she finally managed to package the soup, of course, following a recipe on her phone.
When she saw Shen Wan add a large spoonful of salt, she very kindly considered the other’s face and didn’t remind her. Could Fang Anshuo even eat soup with so much salt?
The color looked quite good though. She shook her head, clearly Shen Wan didn’t know how to make soup, but she wouldn’t remind her. With this appearance, Fang Anshuo would surely be happy to take a big gulp when he saw it.
Let him be salted to death.
Shen Wan thought: She’s a rich young lady, how could she possibly make delicious soup?
Even if Fang Anshuo was salted to death, he would forgive her.
188 thought: Is she a devil?