So, You’re the Henpecked One? 41

Chapter 41

Lin Zhao, whose hair had been messed up, looked at Chu Xihuan with a huff. Seeing her walk toward the kitchen, she quickly smoothed her hair and followed, complaining resentfully, “Xihuan is so impatient with me!”

She grumbled and complained about Chu Xihuan, seemingly dissatisfied, but also as if she were shouting for Chu Xihuan to pay more attention to her.

After sitting down, Chu Xihuan looked up at Lin Zhao and said with a composed expression, “Then tell me, how do you want me to treat you to be considered good?”

Hearing her say this, Lin Zhao’s eyes lit up. She quickly came to Chu Xihuan’s side and squatted down, hugging her leg again, and looked up at her with a pitiful expression. “I want Xihuan to like me more.”

Chu Xihuan was slightly taken aback. She had originally thought that Lin Zhao would ask her to be nicer to her by kissing and hugging her more, or at least being gentler with her on a daily basis. But she never thought that it would be such a request.

She pinched Lin Zhao’s face, then changed to a gentle caress.

After this person had gained some weight on her face, it was much more convenient for her to pinch.

“Do you think I don’t like you enough?” Chu Xihuan’s voice was a little quiet, but there was a smile in her tone, not at all angry.

Seeing her like this, Lin Zhao quietly sighed in relief. Under Chu Xihuan’s gaze, she bit her lip but still nodded slowly.

She didn’t say anything more, just her brow furrowed slightly, as if she were a little wronged.

She could feel that Chu Xihuan was really living a good life with her, but at the same time, she felt that something was missing. She couldn’t say exactly what it was, but she just felt that they could be even better.

Chu Xihuan let out a low laugh and gently pinched Lin Zhao’s face again. “Don’t you think you’re greedy?”

In just a few short months, their relationship had already progressed to this point, and this person was still not satisfied?

Lin Zhao’s expression grew even more sullen, and she shook her head firmly.

“No, it’s normal to want Xihuan to like me more. It’s not greedy.”

Chu Xihuan chuckled, bent down, and gave Lin Zhao a kiss on the forehead, her voice filled with pleasure.

“Alright, I’ll be nicer to you in the future.”

To use such an amusing way to make her like her more, Chu Xihuan found it amusing, but at the same time, her heart softened to the extreme.

This person always made her heart soften.

She had really fallen for her pitiful act.

She’ll be nicer to me in the future.

In other words, she’ll like me more in the future.

With this realization, Lin Zhao’s eyes slowly lit up, and she looked at Chu Xihuan with surprise.

“Is what Xihuan said true?”

She had already promised her, but she still kept asking. Chu Xihuan snorted softly and messed up her hair again. “It’s fake. Are you satisfied now?” she said in annoyance.

“Huh?”

Lin Zhao was struck by lightning.

Realizing what had happened, she gave Chu Xihuan a resentful look and stood up with a huff. “I heard you. Xihuan, you can’t go back on your word.”

Chu Xihuan glanced at her but didn’t say anything more to anger her.

Lin Zhao snorted again, served their rice, and placed one of the bowls in front of Chu Xihuan. “Eat.”

Chu Xihuan found it extremely amusing. This person was so awkwardly virtuous and domestic.

After such a long period of practice, and with plenty of dishes for Lin Zhao to work with, her cooking skills had improved a lot. On the contrary, the things Chu Xihuan made herself, apart from soup, which she was quite good at, the other dishes were all mediocre. It could be said that they were edible, but that was it.

After finishing the meal, it was already dark outside. The two of them took a bath and lay in bed. Hearing the creaking of the bed, Chu Xihuan sighed deeply, feeling helpless about this bed.

“Lin Zhao, let’s get a new bed,” Chu Xihuan suggested. Now that they had more money, buying such a large item was not a big burden.

“Mmm?” Lin Zhao was slightly taken aback, then fell silent, not answering immediately.

Seeing her reaction, Chu Xihuan turned to face her and tried to make out her expression in the dim light. “What’s wrong? You don’t want to change it?”

Lin Zhao had always been a direct person. Sometimes she might hold back, but most of the time, what she said was her true thoughts.

“Mm, I don’t want to,” Lin Zhao said, sliding down and hugging Chu Xihuan, burying her head in her chest. “This bed was specially made for me by my mother,” she said in a muffled voice.

When this new house was built, almost all the furniture in the house had been replaced, and her bed had also been specially made at that time.

She didn’t have many things left, so she cherished every single one, like this bed. If it wasn’t really broken to the point where she couldn’t sleep on it, she wouldn’t think of changing it.

Hearing her words, Chu Xihuan’s lips tightened, and a hint of annoyance flashed in her eyes. She ruffled the head in her arms and said softly, “Then we won’t change it. We’ll find someone to check if there are any uneven parts and fix them. If it can’t be fixed, we’ll find something to replace it.”

“Mm,” Lin Zhao replied in a muffled voice, also knowing that this was the best solution.

Chu Xihuan ruffled her head, recalling what Lin Zhao had said that afternoon about not letting her go. Chu Xihuan sighed in her heart, and at the same time, a feeling of shyness spread through her.

If she and Lin Zhao wanted to take things a step further, she would have to be the one to teach her…

After all, with Lin Zhao’s clingy, perverted nature, if she really knew anything, she wouldn’t have been able to hold back for so long and still be at the stage of just kissing and hugging.

“Lin Zhao…” Chu Xihuan started to say, but then she hesitated.

“Hmm?”

Lin Zhao, who was buried in Chu Xihuan’s chest, didn’t even want to look up. She really liked Chu Xihuan’s scent, especially when she was curled up in her arms like this, completely enveloped by Xihuan’s scent, which was particularly comforting.

Chu Xihuan took a deep breath and finally asked, a little unwilling to give up, “Do you know what else we can do besides kissing?”

Hopefully, Lin Zhao really knew something, so that she wouldn’t have to teach her step by step. Even if she had a thick skin, she couldn’t help but feel embarrassed in such a situation.

Now that Lin Zhao could recognize some characters, she could just give her a book and let her learn on her own. But with Lin Zhao’s personality, she was really afraid that she would learn something bad and use it on her, which would be truly regrettable.

Lin Zhao was stunned for a moment, then pulled back a little and revealed her head. “What else can we do?” she said blankly. Then, as if she had thought of something, her face slowly turned red, and the confusion in her eyes faded, replaced by a hint of embarrassment.

She cleared her throat and tentatively reached out her index finger to poke Chu Xihuan on the chest. “Can I touch here and kiss here?”

Actually, she had always wanted to touch Xihuan here. She felt that it would be especially comfortable. But such a private place, she was afraid of being hit by Xihuan if she touched it.

The spot she had touched seemed to have been struck by a spark of electricity, and a tingling sensation spread from there. Chu Xihuan was speechless.

“Apart from that?” Chu Xihuan suppressed her embarrassment and asked, unwilling to give up.

“Mmm?” This was really touching on Lin Zhao’s knowledge blind spot. She blinked. “Apart from that, what else can we do?”

This time, she really didn’t know.

And when she had just poked Xihuan’s chest, not only had Xihuan not stopped her, but she hadn’t even been fierce with her!

Lin Zhao was overjoyed. She felt that it wouldn’t be long before she could touch Xihuan’s chest and even kiss it! She was already secretly planning how to coax Xihuan into agreeing!

Chu Xihuan’s heart was completely dead. She slowly closed her eyes, trying to process this news, but in the end, she resigned herself to her fate.

“Lin Zhao, do you want to know what else we can do?” Chu Xihuan bit her lip. She felt that this was something they would have to go through sooner or later, so it was better to get it over with.

And…

Her knowledge of this matter was also only on paper. In reality… she was actually a little curious.

Chu Xihuan tried to calm the heat on her face, not wanting to think about the fact that she was actually looking forward to doing such a thing with Lin Zhao.

Lin Zhao’s eyes widened slightly, as if in disbelief, shocked that Xihuan would take the initiative to bring up these things, especially things she didn’t know she could do!

Although she hadn’t experienced it yet, Lin Zhao already had an instinctive feeling that this thing she didn’t know would be something she would be extremely happy about! Otherwise, Xihuan wouldn’t be so hesitant!

After all, they had been married for a while now, and Lin Zhao was very aware that the things that made Xihuan feel helpless and hesitant were probably things she liked.

“I do!”

Realizing this, Lin Zhao sat up and nodded repeatedly. “I really do!”

If you ask, I really, really, really want to!

Chu Xihuan was speechless.

She took a deep breath and suddenly covered her face, her palms feeling the heat on her cheeks.

“You, take off your clothes.”

Chu Xihuan still had her face covered, but she spoke in a commanding tone.

Lin Zhao also took a deep breath and reached out with a trembling hand to untie Chu Xihuan’s clothes.

As soon as her hand reached out, Chu Xihuan suddenly took her hands from her face and glared at Lin Zhao with no force in the darkness. “I said you take off your clothes!”

This person was really a pervert. Her first reaction was to come and take off her clothes.

Lin Zhao’s face instantly burned, and she stammered, “I-I’m sorry. I thought you wanted me to help you take off your clothes.”

Chu Xihuan was speechless.

After two seconds of silence, Lin Zhao lowered her head, not daring to look at Chu Xihuan. She hesitated to lift her hand, but in the end, she placed it on the sash at her waist and untied the knot, her face so hot it could fry an egg.

She didn’t dare to look up. She quickly took off all her clothes and stammered, “N-now what?”

She was at a loss. She was completely naked and didn’t know if she should cover herself, or where she should cover.

Chu Xihuan’s gaze was fixed on her. Although it was difficult to see her specific reaction in the dim light, from her body language, Chu Xihuan could still feel her shyness and unease.

Chu Xihuan was very satisfied with her choice to have Lin Zhao take off her clothes first. After all, if she had taken them off first and Lin Zhao was still fully clothed, she couldn’t imagine how high Lin Zhao’s tail would be wagging, and how high she would climb up that pole.

Now that Lin Zhao had taken them off first, she was so busy being shy that she was not as bold. And Chu Xihuan was also glad that they hadn’t lit a lamp, or this first exploration would have probably ended in shame.

“Come here and take mine off.”

Chu Xihuan continued to give orders.

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Author’s Note:

Zhaozhao: [Starry Eyes][Starry Eyes]