Chapter 118
After staying at Bo Muyu’s place for a while, Jiang Chenyin began to feel a little unaccustomed, not in terms of getting along, but in terms of daily necessities.
Many of her work materials were at her own place. Sometimes, when she needed them, she had to go back, and it was impossible to move everything over.
After this happened a few times, during the days she was on a business trip with Jiang Yingzong, she had made up her mind in her free time that when she returned to Qinzhou, she would discuss with Bo Muyu about them moving back to her small villa together.
It was already May, and in another three months, it would be a full year since Bo Muyu had moved out of her house. Thinking of this, she only felt that she had gone in a big circle. She had almost given up on her current happiness.
Thinking of their life after they had started their relationship, Jiang Chenyin couldn’t help but curve her lips. During the time they had confirmed their relationship, she had been in Jinghe, contacting Bo Muyu by WeChat and phone, her mind full of longing. After she had returned, their interactions had been as close as before, with occasional intimacy, and her heart was full of softness.
From the time she had accepted this relationship, it was not just acceptance. She wanted to be with Bo Muyu as a lover.
Two days before her return from the business trip, Bo Muyu couldn’t help but repeatedly confirm with her in a video call, “Auntie Yin, you’re coming back the day after tomorrow, right? It’s been a week.”
“Yes, I’ll be back the day after tomorrow, probably in the afternoon,” Jiang Chenyin had been writing something in a file. Hearing her question, she had closed the file with a smile, capped her fountain pen, and focused on chatting with her.
“Mmm…” she said, lying on her stomach on the bed, her hands under her chin, and blinked. “Then what do you want for dinner?”
Jiang Chenyin reached out and tapped her cheek on the screen, her eyes filled with doting affection. “I’ll buy it on my way back. You can go home after you get off work, and then we’ll cook together.”
A smile appeared on the corners of Bo Muyu’s lips, and her soft laughter came through the video. The clear quality of her voice was tinged with a sense of distance because of the video.
She had never dared to imagine this kind of life before. They could actually be so happy together as a couple. And she felt that Jiang Chenyin really had her in her heart. In the past, it had been familial love. Now, it was romantic love. Jiang Chenyin would think of her and miss her.
She would also take the initiative to be intimate with her, always taking the initiative to hug her, and then whispering to her affectionately.
Jiang Chenyin had never said a single word to express her feelings, but she could completely feel that her actions came from the heart.
Seeing her smiling and gazing at her, Jiang Chenyin couldn’t help but ask, “You finished your shower so quickly today?”
Bo Muyu nodded, her cheeks turning a little red. “Mmm, this way, you won’t have to wait for me to shower after you get back to the hotel. We can talk a little longer.”
Jiang Chenyin leaned closer to the screen, touching the blush on her face with her finger through the screen, and chuckled in a low voice, “Then you’re not going to call me from under the covers?”
Bo Muyu was quiet for a moment, the corners of her lips curving up. “I will. I’ll call you after we turn off the video and are about to go to sleep.”
“Okay…” Jiang Chenyin drew out her tone, her amorous eyes curving up in a smile.
Bo Muyu touched her own flushed face and smiled at her. “Wait a minute. I’ll show you a pair of cups I bought today…”
As she spoke, she got up and took a pair of white ceramic cups from the bedside table, put one aside, and then, with her elbow on the bed, she held the other one and turned it over for Jiang Chenyin to see. “This pair of cups is very simple and elegant, and the color is also very good. They’re very beautiful.”
As she turned it, a flowing light seemed to surround the body of the cup, simple yet exquisite. Jiang Chenyin could feel her liking for it even through the screen. But her gaze only lingered on the cup for a few seconds, and then even the smile on her lips gradually froze, her gaze deep as she stared at her.
After she had shown it enough, Bo Muyu put the cup aside, rested her chin on her hands, and asked, “Auntie Yin, should we use them at the office or at home?”
Jiang Chenyin slowly leaned back in her chair and said slowly, “We can leave them at home and buy another set for the office.”
Bo Muyu said thoughtfully, “Then let’s buy another set with a pattern. The cups in your office should be changed too.”
Jiang Chenyin paused, then said with a warm smile, “You bought those for me several years ago.”
Neither of them wanted to bring up the four years of separation, but speaking of the time before the separation, it had a different feeling now. A faint smile appeared on Bo Muyu’s lips, and she continued to rest her chin on her hands.
“You…” Jiang Chenyin suddenly lifted the corners of her lips, a hesitant look on her face. “Pull up your collar.”
As she spoke, she raised her hand and touched her own collar. Bo Muyu was puzzled and subconsciously looked down, and immediately, with a flushed face, she slammed her laptop shut with a “thud.”
The cup and the laptop were both tossed aside. Bo Muyu pulled up the blanket and huddled under it, feeling her ears burn as if they were smoking. Just now, when she had looked down, she had found that because she was lying on her stomach with her hands on her chin, the collar of her soft silk nightdress had drooped even lower.
Jiang Chenyin had been watching for who knows how long. The thought of this made her whole face burn as if she had a fever, and she curled up under the covers, biting her lip tightly.
Not long after she had burrowed into the covers, her phone rang, the sound seeping in from the gap. She didn’t answer, letting it ring several times. It wasn’t until she was uncomfortably stuffy under the covers that she finally threw off the blanket and sat up, taking deep breaths of fresh air. Unwilling to neglect Jiang Chenyin, she subconsciously covered her chest when she answered the call.
“Are you angry? You’re not even answering my call,” Jiang Chenyin’s tone was the intimacy between lovers, as if she were whispering in her ear.
Bo Muyu was not angry to begin with. Hearing her tone, she was not so resistant anymore, but thinking about it, she was still ashamed, so she replied placidly, “No.”
Jiang Chenyin let out a soft laugh. “Really not?”
I already said no. Why are you still asking…
Bo Muyu covered her chest even more tightly. The thought of being watched by Jiang Chenyin for so long without any defense made her want to find a hole to crawl into.
“You’re not talking to me anymore?” Jiang Chenyin laughed again, and after a pause, her voice became even softer, and also a little shy. “Actually, I reminded you as soon as I saw it, and… we are lovers. This kind of situation will probably not be uncommon in the future. Won’t I also…”
Bo Muyu followed her words and thought. This kind of situation was indeed not uncommon in life. Of course, Jiang Chenyin would not lie on her stomach with her chin on her hands, but when she changed her clothes, when her figure was outlined by her nightdress, every scene was a temptation.
Thinking of this, Bo Muyu murmured in a low voice, “I’m not angry. I’m just embarrassed.”
“I know,” Jiang Chenyin said, still smiling, as if she had expected it. “Then should I remind you next time?”
“You should. You should remind me right away,” Bo Muyu replied without a second thought.
“Are you sure?” Jiang Chenyin’s smile was tinged with a hint of a tease, and then her voice was as deep as the quiet night. “You often groggily lie on me after the alarm goes off in the morning. A nightdress is already easy to get messy, so…”
The more Bo Muyu listened, the more ashamed she felt, her face almost dripping blood. She hung up without a word and huddled back under the covers like a snail.
How could Jiang Chenyin tease her like this! She remembered that she would groggily go and hug her, but how could she keep her nightdress from getting messy in that half-asleep, half-awake state? Besides, every time she woke up, she would see Jiang Chenyin gently saying good morning. She had no impression of it at all!
And if that had happened, and Jiang Chenyin had not had the slightest intention of taking a step further with her, was it really that she was not attractive enough? Or could they only stop at this stage?
She felt a little wronged. A sudden message on her phone made her smile in the pitch-black of the covers. “Goodnight. Cover yourself well. I miss you.”
And “goodnight.” I can’t be at peace!
Bo Muyu threw her phone out of the covers, hugged Jiang Chenyin’s pillow, and kept a curve on her lips, her whole heart sweetened by the last two words of the message.
For so many years, when she was away from home, Jiang Chenyin had always been homesick. That feeling had always been slowly flowing in her heart. But now, a heavier longing was piled up in her heart, as if it had merged with her breathing. She even began to have the thought of why this business trip had to be so many days.
She had rejected Jiang Yingzong’s invitation to have dinner at his house and had immediately rushed back to Bo Muyu’s residence from the airport, buying dinner ingredients and a fresh cream cake on the way.
As she entered, she saw Bo Muyu sitting on the sofa in the living room, typing on her laptop. Her expression was focused, but the moment she opened the door, she turned her head to meet her gaze, and the joy in her eyes was obvious.
Bo Muyu quickly came over in her slippers, and a faint, elegant fragrance surrounded her. Just as she was about to show her gentle smile, a soft laugh came from by her ear. “Auntie Yin, you’re back.”
“Mmm, it’s still early, not even six,” Jiang Chenyin said, her hands full of things, so she could only rub her cheek against hers. “I bought you a cake. We’ll eat it together tonight.”
“You don’t want your abs anymore?” Bo Muyu asked softly, letting go of Jiang Chenyin to take the ingredients from her hands.
Speaking of abs, Jiang Chenyin thought of the matter she had to discuss with Bo Muyu, and she quickly reached out with her free hand and stroked her head. “Of course I do. You can go to the kitchen first. I’ll take my computer and files back to my room, and then we can start cooking.”
“Mmm, then I’ll go to the kitchen.”
Bo Muyu first went to wash the rice and cook it. After Jiang Chenyin came in, they prepared the ingredients together. It was still Jiang Chenyin who was the main cook. She knew Bo Muyu’s taste and preferences, and the way she cooked was her favorite.
They ate dinner together. Jiang Chenyin’s appetite was smaller than Bo Muyu’s, and she was full quickly. But she did not leave the dining table. She liked to watch Bo Muyu eat the dishes she had made with a satisfied look on her face. She looked as if she were thin because of her small appetite, but in reality, she couldn’t gain weight no matter how much she ate.
She put the deboned fish on Bo Muyu’s bowl, and also picked out her favorite cartilage part of the pork ribs and put it there. A soft ripple appeared in her eyes as she watched Bo Muyu go and get a second bowl of rice.
After Bo Muyu was full, Jiang Chenyin took a tissue and wiped the sauce from the corner of her mouth with amusement. “Are you full? Your mouth is all oily.”
Bo Muyu nodded and smiled, taking over the task from Jiang Chenyin. “Mmm, I’ll wipe it myself.”
Jiang Chenyin said, “I’ll tidy up in a bit. You can go and take a shower first. We’ll eat the cake later. I just happen to have something to discuss with you.”
“Hmm? What is it?”
“What’s the rush?” Jiang Chenyin said with a soft, gentle laugh, flicking her forehead.
Seeing her being mysterious, Bo Muyu couldn’t help but guess, “Did you buy the cake just to discuss something with me?”
Jiang Chenyin blinked, her tone plaintive. “Am I that bad at spoiling people? I’m misunderstood for buying a cake just to discuss something.”
How could she not be good at spoiling people? She was clearly very good at it, a perfect and qualified lover. A mature woman knew better how to make her partner happy. While Bo Muyu could feel her sincerity, she could also feel her usual rationality and composure.
Bo Muyu silently answered a long string of things in her heart, but she was too shy to say it out loud, so she moved very close and kissed the corner of her lips, saying with a smile, “I know. Discussing things is just a side thing. It’s so that we won’t be so bored when we’re eating cake.”
Jiang Chenyin couldn’t help but pinch her nose. “You little glutton.”
