Chapter 69: Garden. The recliner swayed up and down.
After hanging up the phone, Xu Xun looked up.
“Who called?”
Cheng Yang put her phone to the side and said with a smile, “Who else could it be? Su Ran.”
Xu Xun bit Cheng Yang’s fingertips, her two hands held high above her head, panting in small breaths.
“Why is she calling me?”
The corners of Cheng Yang’s lips curled up. “She’s asking for your stir-frying skills.”
Xu Xun found it a little inexplicable. “Why would she call me for stir-frying?”
Cheng Yang held back the smile on her lips. “Mmm… probably to please Jian Fan. Your cooking is so delicious, she would definitely call you first. After all, to capture a person’s heart, you have to first capture their stomach.”
Xu Xun’s palm slowly pressed against Cheng Yang’s stomach, and she asked with a smile, “Then have I captured your stomach?”
Cheng Yang held Xu Xun’s wrist and lowered her head to kiss her knuckle.
“Mmm.”
The next morning, Xu Xun was drinking tea in the garden outside when she received another call from Su Ran.
She looked at the name, answered the phone, and before she could even exchange a few pleasantries, she heard Su Ran’s hurried voice.
“How do you make braised eggplant? Jian Fan wants to eat it.”
Before Xu Xun could speak, her phone was taken away by Cheng Yang.
She sat across from Xu Xun and talked eloquently, “Isn’t braised eggplant easy to make? You just have to put the eggplant on the fire and roast it.”
“…”
Seeing Cheng Yang wink at her playfully, Xu Xun knew that this person was doing it on purpose.
But the other side actually listened.
“Oh, put the eggplant on the fire and roast it. Then what? What seasonings do I add?”
Xu Xun took the phone and sent the recipe she had handwritten to the other party.
“That was the method for hand-pounded eggplant. This is braised eggplant. Don’t get it wrong.”
After hanging up the phone, Cheng Yang smiled slyly. “Wifey, why did you really teach her how to make it? I wanted to tease her.”
Xu Xun said, “Didn’t you hear? She said just now that she was going to make it for Jian Fan. If she were eating it herself, it would be fine for you to make her a dark cuisine, but you can’t hurt an innocent person.”
Cheng Yang said curiously, “What do you think their relationship is now?”
Xu Xun shook her head. “I don’t know. According to my understanding of Jian Fan, if the two of them were really together, she would have made it official on her Moments. But now it seems that the matter is far more complicated than I had imagined.”
Now Cheng Yang was also curious. She wanted to know what stage the two of them’s relationship had reached.
As she spoke, she called Su Ran.
Su Ran didn’t answer.
Cheng Yang called ten times in a row, but there was still no answer.
“…”
Cheng Yang looked at Xu Xun with an innocent expression. “What if she doesn’t answer my call?”
Xu Xun’s lips curled into a smile. “Simple, just keep harassing her.”
The two of them exchanged a knowing smile.
Cheng Yang said, “You’ve gone bad.”
Xu Xun shrugged her shoulders and said with a smile, “I’ve always been like this. It’s just that you don’t know.”
Cheng Yang stared at her, dazed, recalling the little things from when she had been with Xu Xun before.
Xu Xun was cold to everyone, and she was no exception.
But now it seemed that the other’s coldness towards others was because she didn’t want to talk or communicate.
Her indifference towards her was a protective color for fear that her unrequited love would be discovered.
Now it seemed that Xu Xun’s acting skills were probably better than hers.
Even Cheng Yang hadn’t seen that Xu Xun’s indifference, aloofness, and silence towards her were all just an act.
She couldn’t help but curve her lips, but this secret smile was caught by Xu Xun.
“What are you laughing at?”
Cheng Yang shook her head. She always felt that saying this kind of thing in front of Xu Xun would make the other lose face.
But Xu Xun insisted on getting to the bottom of it.
“What are you laughing at? Hurry up and tell me. There’s nothing I can’t handle.”
Cheng Yang smiled and told the truth.
“…”
Sure enough, as she spoke, she found that Xu Xun’s face was getting greener and greener.
Cheng Yang fell backward with an innocent expression. “I told you, it’s better if you don’t know.”
Xu Xun held her waist and “dragged” her to her side.
“Where are you going? I’m not going to eat you.”
Cheng Yang licked her lips. “You always eat so deep. You still say you’re not going to eat me? Who are you fooling?”
Xu Xun slowly curved her lips, and a nameless fire gradually rose in her lower abdomen.
“Come here. Let me eat for a while.”
Cheng Yang was taken aback. “I just said it casually. How… how did you get wet so quickly?”
Xu Xun’s eyes were sparkling. “You know, I’ve always had no resistance to you. The moment I think of you, my brain will automatically lock on, and I’ll even help you take off your clothes.”
Cheng Yang bit her lower lip. Suddenly, her waist felt a chill, and Xu Xun’s hand was on it.
Xu Xun’s hands had always been relatively cold. Even in summer, they were cool to the touch.
It was the same for her feet. When Cheng Yang was sleeping, the moment her calf touched the other’s foot, she would be so cold that she couldn’t help but suck in a breath.
However, after getting used to the other’s body temperature, Cheng Yang liked to have Xu Xun put her feet on her calf, and they would be warmed up in a few minutes.
The two of them were swaying up and down on the recliner.
Xu Xun sat on Cheng Yang’s waist, one hand on the swaying recliner, and the other stroking the back of the other’s neck. The two of them were intimately pressed together.
“Too… too fast.”
Cheng Yang’s body was swaying up and down with the swaying recliner, her fingers sometimes deep and sometimes shallow.
Xu Xun repeatedly called a halt. “Slow down, slow down!”
The corners of Cheng Yang’s lips curled up as she asked with a smile, “You can’t take it anymore? I haven’t even moved.”
Xu Xun reached out and patted her on the knee. “You still say that. What are your legs doing? Did you secretly move them?”
Being discovered, Cheng Yang’s face was not red, and her heart was not beating fast.
“Wasn’t I just helping you? You said you wanted to eat deeper. Of course, I have to fulfill your wish.”
Before she could finish, Xu Xun pinched her on the waist.
“You still say that!”
The two of them fooled around on the recliner for a while, their clothes wrinkled, and their pants not even properly on.
This small garden, Xu Xun had forbidden the nannies to enter. The flowers and plants inside were all watered and fertilized by her personally.
Cheng Yang lay on the recliner, and Xu Xun lay in her arms, panting intermittently.
“You’re a bad guy. You did it on purpose. Do you know how uncomfortable it is when it’s too deep? My waist is so sore I can’t even straighten it.”
Cheng Yang smiled at her. “I know I was wrong. I won’t do it again next time.”
Hearing Cheng Yang apologize so quickly, Xu Xun was taken aback for a moment.
She was just complaining, but this person had actually taken it seriously.
“Actually… it’s also very comfortable when it’s a little deeper. If you like it, anything is fine.”
Cheng Yang couldn’t help but laugh. “You used to be a doctor. You must know more taboos than I do. I was indeed wrong just now, but you’re still so indulgent with me. Don’t you know that it’s not good for your body if it’s too deep?”
“…”
Xu Xun was at a loss for words. “I… I just feel… that…”
Cheng Yang softened her voice. She wiped the sweat from the corner of Xu Xun’s forehead with a handkerchief.
“You don’t have to accommodate me and wrong yourself.”
Cheng Yang kissed Xu Xun on the forehead, her lips sliding down her high nose to the corner of her mouth.
“Seriously, every time you say these things to me with such a lack of confidence, my heart hurts.”
Xu Xun would always be unconfident. Every time she encountered something, she would always ask for her opinion first, and only after Cheng Yang had nodded would she execute it.
At first, Cheng Yang had not noticed this, but later, she had gradually felt that something was wrong.
Whatever Xu Xun did, she had always been the center of it.
Of course, Cheng Yang was happy, but after a long time, she felt that Xu Xun was willing to become an accessory of hers.
Xu Xun was stunned for a few seconds. “Why? You don’t like me revolving around you all day?”
Cheng Yang nodded. “I like it, but you can’t revolve around me in everything and act according to my mood every day. Although we’re married, you’re still you. What do you think?”
Xu Xun stared at her, dazed. “I don’t know. I just want to see you happy. If you’re happy, I’m happy.”
“Me too.”
The corners of Cheng Yang’s lips curled up as she gently touched Xu Xun’s nose with her lips.
“I’m the same as you, so you don’t have to mind my feelings. Just do what you want.”
The corners of Cheng Yang’s lips curved. “Do you know why I like you?”
Xu Xun shook her head. “I don’t know.”
She really couldn’t think of any reason for Cheng Yang to like her.
Even if she had gotten into a prestigious university and had become a famous actress, she still felt inferior, especially in front of Cheng Yang.
So, when Cheng Yang had regained her memory and had confessed to her, Xu Xun had retreated.
She even felt that it was fine for her to have an unrequited love for the rest of her life.
No matter how hard she worked, she was still not worthy of the other, even if Cheng Yang didn’t care.
Cheng Yang said, “Because you’re different. Your grades are good. Although you don’t like to talk and always have a cold face, you’re very warm-hearted and sincere. I think you’re a very good person.”
Xu Xun was a little unconfident. “Really?”
“Really.”
Cheng Yang touched the top of her head with some embarrassment. “Actually, in high school, I would always secretly look at you at school.”
As she spoke, Cheng Yang’s face turned red.
“I can always see you first in a crowd. You’re confident and generous. Although you don’t like to talk, there are always many people who are willing to be friends with you.”
“If you’re not good, why are those people always surrounding you?”
As Cheng Yang spoke, her ears slowly turned red.
“Every time I see you talking to others, I’m not happy in my heart. I thought I hated you, but later I searched online and found that this is called liking.”
At first, Cheng Yang didn’t know what liking was. After being suppressed by Cheng Yourong for so many years, she felt that she had become a robot that could only be driven by others and could not receive normal instructions.
“You don’t have to feel unworthy. We’re going to be together for the rest of our lives.”
Xu Xun’s eye sockets gradually turned red. “I know.”
Cheng Yang sniffled, wrapped her two arms around Xu Xun’s neck, pressed the back of her neck, and kissed her on the lips.
The two of them’s tongues were hooked together, and Cheng Yang skillfully held her soft and warm lower lip.
“You’re very good, good everywhere.”
·
In the afternoon, Cheng Yang drove Xu Xun around S City.
Before she was with Cheng Yang, Xu Xun had always been busy with work and had rarely paid attention to the beautiful scenery around her.
She sat in the passenger seat, looked at the tall buildings in the distance, and the beautiful scenery of the Bund, and happily curved her lips.
“I’ve never thought that this place was so beautiful before. Before, when I went abroad or to other places, it was always for work. I never had a good time and went sightseeing.”
Cheng Yang was driving. “Then let’s enjoy it now. After the variety show is filmed, I’ll take you on a trip.”
Xu Xun said with a smile, “I want to go to Northern Europe.”
Cheng Yang was taken aback for a moment. “Northern Europe?”
She thought for a long while but couldn’t think of any fun places in Northern Europe.
“Why do you want to go to Northern Europe?”
Xu Xun said without thinking, “I think it’s very romantic there, and you can also see the aurora.”
Cheng Yang asked again, “Do you want to go to Iceland?”
Xu Xun nodded. “Yeah. I haven’t been there yet.”
Cheng Yang’s lips curled into a smile. “Alright then. Actually, we can go now. I have a house there. I bought it when I was on vacation before. It’s very beautiful, with a red roof and white walls, like a red mushroom.”
Xu Xun’s eyes lit up. “Do you have a photo?”
Cheng Yang said with a smile, “It’s on my old phone. Now it’s all gone. But if you want to see it, we can just go there.”
Xu Xun nodded much more heavily than usual.
“I’m so looking forward to it.”
Cheng Yang drove and went around the bridge.
“Then let’s go home first. We’ll go and get the visa later. But according to my understanding of the domestic visa, it will take at least half a month to get it.”
Xu Xun pinched the bridge of her nose. “This is too slow. It seems we can only go after the variety show is filmed.”
Seeing that Xu Xun was a little frustrated, Cheng Yang smiled. “Don’t worry. We can get it this afternoon.”
Xu Xun was taken aback for a moment. “Really? Didn’t you say we have to wait? I waited for one or two months before.”
The corners of Cheng Yang’s lips curled up. “I’m here.”
Xu Xun smiled and reached out to poke Cheng Yang’s cheek. “You’re so amazing.”
Cheng Yang leaned her face over. “See, your wife is so amazing. Don’t you have anything to say?”
Xu Xun tilted her head and gave Cheng Yang a hard kiss on the cheek.
“Mwah—”
Hearing the sound, Cheng Yang smiled with satisfaction.
She continued, “I’ll have someone go and clean it up. I haven’t been there for a long time. I don’t know if the paint on the house has peeled.”
Cheng Yang’s old phone was broken. After she had regained her memory, she had gotten her old contact information from Yu Mei.
Cheng Yang called her former special assistant and asked her to send someone to repair the house in Iceland and to check carefully for any damage or weathering.
Xu Xun asked, “Then should I bring more clothes?”
Cheng Yang said with a smile, “No need. We’ll buy new ones when we get there. And I have a lot of clothes there. You can wear mine.”
Xu Xun found that Cheng Yang had said so much, but it was actually all for her to wear her clothes.
“Okay.”
The two of them were about the same size, and they could wear each other’s clothes and shoes.
Xu Xun liked to have Cheng Yang’s clothes stained with her pheromones, and Cheng Yang also had this habit.
After returning home, Xu Xun put the necessary documents in her bag.
“This… this… and this…”
She seemed to have returned to the day she had first applied for a visa.
Excited, nervous, and a little at a loss.
The first time was blank, and the second time was a longing for the future.
Xu Xun’s hands were slightly numb. She looked at Cheng Yang, dazed, and said in a small voice, “I’m so nervous.”
Seeing that Cheng Yang had not taken anything, she couldn’t help but ask, “Why aren’t you preparing?”
Cheng Yang said with some embarrassment, “I’m visa-free.”
“…”
Xu Xun belatedly remembered that Cheng Yang was not of the same nationality as her and let out a light hum. “What’s so great about being visa-free?”
Cheng Yang couldn’t help but laugh. “Alright, alright. Let’s go. They’re going to get off work in an hour.”
As Cheng Yang had said, she had only used a dozen minutes to get the visa.
On the way back, Xu Xun opened her phone and searched for delicious food and some beautiful scenery photo spots there.
Cheng Yang glanced at it from the corner of her eye and said with a smile, “Actually, I feel that the best scenery is still near our house. There’s a small mountain on the side. If you lie on it, you can overlook the whole town. The whole town is full of colorful and beautiful houses, and even the floor is colored.”
Xu Xun’s eyes widened. “Really? So beautiful?”
Cheng Yang nodded. “As for food, there doesn’t seem to be any.”
She was usually not a picky eater, but she always felt that the food in Iceland was very anti-human.
Cheng Yang suggested, “Why don’t we go to a local Chinese restaurant to eat? Otherwise you’ll regret it.”
Xu Xun was half-convinced. “Such a beautiful place, the food shouldn’t be… that bad, right?”
Seeing that Xu Xun didn’t believe her, Cheng Yang’s lips curled into a smile. “You’ll know when you get there.”
That night, Xu Xun had insomnia instead.
She was very excited. This was the two of them’s first trip abroad, and also their first honeymoon after confessing.
This kind of thing, Xu Xun had only seen it in her dreams and had never thought that it would become real one day.
When she was taking a bath, seeing that she was a little absent-minded, Cheng Yang went around behind her and helped her apply shower gel.
After getting into bed, Cheng Yang closed her eyes. Just as she was about to fall asleep, she heard a sigh by her pillow.
“Why do you look so worried?”
Cheng Yang held Xu Xun and affectionately rubbed the back of her neck.
“Still not sleeping? Aren’t you sleepy?”
Xu Xun said, “The moment I think of going out with you tomorrow, I’m so excited I can’t sleep.”
Now that she said it, Cheng Yang was not sleepy either.
She turned on the bedside lamp and held Xu Xun’s waist, having her face her.
“Since you can’t sleep, let’s see what delicious food we can eat after we land.”
Xu Xun opened her tablet, leaned against Cheng Yang’s embrace, and searched for specialty food.
“Puffin meat? What’s this?”
Cheng Yang frowned. “This is not delicious. It tastes strange. I can’t say what it tastes like.”
Xu Xun added this dish to her travel list.
“Let’s have a taste.”
Cheng Yang nodded, thinking to herself that she would definitely regret it.
“Whale meat? Can you really eat this?”
Xu Xun couldn’t help but widen her eyes. “Aren’t whales protected animals?”
Cheng Yang thought for a moment. “They probably aren’t. But you’d better not eat this. They usually make it half-cooked, saying that it’s to maintain the original taste and flavor. You don’t eat raw meat, so you definitely won’t be able to accept it.”
Xu Xun collected it again. “Can’t we just have it well-done?”
Cheng Yang was at a loss for words. “Alright then. Let’s try it.”
These two tasted average. For Cheng Yang, they were dark cuisine.
She had eaten white people’s food for so many years, but she still couldn’t accept this kind of food.
Seeing that Xu Xun was getting more and more excited, Cheng Yang couldn’t help but curve her lips.
“That lobster bisque is not bad. Reindeer meat… I think it’s average, but we can still try it…”
“…”
The moment she saw the fermented shark meat, Cheng Yang’s eyes widened.
She watched as Xu Xun added this dish to her must-eat list and couldn’t help but swallow.
“Are you really going to eat this?”
Xu Xun nodded firmly. “Since we’re there, we have to have a taste of the local specialties.”
“…”
Cheng Yang sucked in a sharp breath. Anyway, she was definitely not going to eat it.
She didn’t know why, but when Cheng Yang looked at Chinese food, even if she wasn’t hungry, she would want to drool, feeling that she could already smell the fragrance.
But looking at the delicious food that Xu Xun had just collected, she had no appetite at all. When she saw some of the food, she even felt a little nauseous.
Cheng Yang rubbed Xu Xun’s small belly with her hand. “Alright, it’s already one-thirty in the morning. Let’s go to sleep. Our flight is at nine in the morning tomorrow. We have to sit for more than ten hours, and there’s also a transfer in between.”
Xu Xun hummed and fell backward, exhausted. “Why is it so far? I hate flying.”
Cheng Yang snatched the tablet from her hand and placed it on the bedside table.
She turned off the bedside lamp. “Alright, alright. Don’t look anymore. Go to sleep.”
Xu Xun was still not sleepy. She was full of energy and pestered Cheng Yang for a kiss.
“Yangyang, I can’t sleep. Let’s do it for a while. I’m begging you. I’ll go to sleep right after we’re done.”
Cheng Yang didn’t believe her.
Every time Xu Xun coaxed her with these words, the two of them would do it until dawn.
Xu Xun would say that half an hour would be fine, but in reality, it would be half an hour after half an hour.
“I don’t believe you.”
Xu Xun continued to pester her. “If you don’t believe me, then forget it. At worst, I’ll just sleep on the plane tomorrow.”
Cheng Yang opened her eyes. Just as she turned on the bedside lamp, she found that Xu Xun had already taken off her top.
“…”
Cheng Yang smiled helplessly. “Liar.”
The two of them slept until noon the next day.
It was long past the time for the plane to take off.
Xu Xun rested her head on Cheng Yang’s arm and guiltily bought a new ticket.
“I didn’t expect the do not disturb mode to turn on by itself, and the alarm didn’t even ring.”
Cheng Yang smiled. “It’s fine. We can go in the afternoon. Anyway, we’ll arrive tomorrow. We’re not going to work.”
After buying the tickets, Xu Xun held Cheng Yang, her head resting on her chest.
“Hurry up and get up. We’ll have a meal and then leave.”
Cheng Yang said with a smile, “You’re pressing on me like this. How can I get up?”
“I’m just pressing on you. You can just push me away.”
The moment she finished speaking, her waist was held even tighter by Cheng Yang.
“Then I won’t get up.”
On the plane, the two of them slept for a full dozen hours.
When they got off the plane, Cheng Yang told Xu Xun a cruel fact.
“I forgot to tell you. There’s no aurora in June.”
The smile on Xu Xun’s lips gradually faded.
Cheng Yang couldn’t help but laugh. “It’s fine if we can’t see it. We’ll come back in September. Now, come home with me and see the little red house I’ve decorated.”
After a few more hours in the car, Xu Xun looked at the empty road. The driver had driven for more than half an hour before she saw a few cars pass by.
Xu Xun frowned. “So few people.”
Cheng Yang said with a smile, “Yeah, it’s very quiet. I think you’ll like it very much.”
Xu Xun nodded. “Mmm, my personality prefers this kind of atmosphere. What about you?”
Cheng Yang thought for a moment and answered, “I’m fine with anything, as long as I can be with you.”
She rested her head on Xu Xun’s shoulder. “We’re almost at the small town. There are a lot of people there, but there are usually not many people on the street. It’s almost all self-checkout. You might not run into anyone even if you walk for a few hours.”
After her surprise, Xu Xun was even more joyful.
“Really? That’s great. I actually don’t like to deal with people at all.”
Cheng Yang was more or less the same, but she always felt that if there were too few people, she would feel a little lonely in her heart.
No wonder the suicide rate in Northern Europe was high. The polar night climate and human factors could easily lead to depression.
But with Xu Xun around, she could go anywhere.
Cheng Yang held Xu Xun’s hand tightly and looked at the ever-approaching small town.
“Look, we’re here.”
A colorful small town came into view. Xu Xun stared straight at these colorful and beautiful houses, her eyes not blinking.
“So beautiful.”
After getting out of the car, the two of them stood in front of Cheng Yang’s red house.
Cheng Yang hadn’t been here for a long time. She looked at the flowerbeds that had been tidied up overnight and said with a smile, “This is it. Do you like it?”
Xu Xun wrapped her arms around Cheng Yang’s neck and gave her a hard kiss on the lips.
“I like it very much! It’s just like what I dreamed of yesterday.”
The corners of Cheng Yang’s lips curled up. After opening the door, she took Xu Xun’s hand and walked in.
Looking at the interior decoration, Xu Xun was stunned.
A red mushroom lamp, a colorful carpet, a table and stools carved with reindeer, and a brown fireplace in the shape of a tree stump.
“It’s like a magic cabin. Even the table lamp is like something out of a fairy tale world.”
Hearing her own designed cabin being praised by Xu Xun, Cheng Yang said with a smile, “It’s good that you like it. I thought you would think I was very childish.”
She sat on the recliner in front of the fireplace and beckoned for Xu Xun to sit on her.
“When it’s winter, and it’s snowing outside, and it’s freezing everywhere, we can sit in front of the fireplace, warm ourselves, and drink hot cocoa, just like now.”
Xu Xun’s eyes suddenly turned red.