So, You’re the Henpecked One? 55

Chapter 55

Lin Zhao was choked by her words, but she quickly thought of something and sneered, “Who said you have the right to know just because you’re my wife? I didn’t have that right back then.”

Chu Xihuan was speechless.

After more than three years, this person had really grown.

“Lin Zhao, you don’t believe that I really wanted to live a good life with you later, do you,” Chu Xihuan’s voice was a little quiet. She had originally guessed that Lin Zhao would be sad to know those things, which was why she had been so hesitant to say it. But at that time, she had not guessed that Lin Zhao would mind to this extent.

Lin Zhao pressed her lips together, not looking at her, and not speaking.

Seeing her so silent and resistant, Chu Xihuan was a little angry. She grabbed her lapels and pulled her over, kissing her on the lips. “Lin Zhao, don’t go too far!” she said in annoyance.

She had indeed deceived her, but this person had run away for three years without a word. Was she really not at fault? She had made her worry for so long. Was she so at ease with that!

The moment the soft lips pressed against hers, Lin Zhao’s eyes widened. She looked at the person in front of her in disbelief, not daring to think that she would do such a thing.

“What are you looking at? Didn’t you always used to pester me for kisses?” Chu Xihuan pecked at the corner of her lips. You know, in the past, this person was so excessive that she would have to kiss her for a long time every night before she would be willing to sleep. If she refused, Lin Zhao would pester her for a long time with both endearing and wronged expressions, until she had to give in and let her kiss her.

Lin Zhao’s face instantly flushed, but she had no room to argue, because what she said was indeed the truth.

“What do you want to do!” Lin Zhao said through gritted teeth. She was so excessive, to use such a method to seduce her.

“What do I want?” Chu Xihuan’s lips were pressed against the corner of Lin Zhao’s lips as she murmured, then she let out a low laugh. “Of course I want you to come back to me.”

“Lin Zhao, I like you, for real.”

Lin Zhao was speechless.

Her whole body’s blood seemed to be even hotter. She raised her hands and held Chu Xihuan’s shoulders, gritting her teeth slightly, and pushed her away.

Before she could speak, Chu Xihuan’s face changed. “Could it be that you’ve really fallen in love with someone else?”

Apart from that, she couldn’t believe why Lin Zhao would still push her away.

In the past, every time she took the initiative, it was met with Lin Zhao pouncing on her with a happy expression. Being rejected? This had never happened before.

“How could that be!” Lin Zhao immediately retorted. She was busy fighting a war. Where would she have the time to think about those romantic things?

Hearing her say this, Chu Xihuan slowly sighed in relief. As long as Lin Zhao hadn’t fallen in love with someone else, then everything was still fine.

“So why did you refuse me?” Chu Xihuan pressed, a little unable to accept this.

Lin Zhao bit her lip and glared at her angrily. “You don’t think I’ll just forgive you and forget the past just because of this, do you!”

However, after hearing her words, a hint of pleasure appeared in Chu Xihuan’s eyes. “The phrase ‘forget the past,’ you used it very accurately.”

The topic had suddenly turned, and especially to such a topic, which instantly reminded Lin Zhao of how Chu Xihuan had taught her to write back then.

Speaking of which, if it weren’t for Chu Xihuan, she would not have been promoted so quickly. In fact, now that she had retired, because she could read and write, she had been arranged a good position. As long as she was not a spendthrift, her later life would be very good.

Seeing Lin Zhao looking at her with a mix of gritted teeth and grievance, Chu Xihuan gave her a sweet smile and gently caressed her face. “It’s fine if you’re not willing to forgive me now. We still have a long time in the future. You’ll see my sincerity eventually.”

Lin Zhao was speechless.

The next second, Chu Xihuan withdrew her hand from Lin Zhao’s cheek, took two steps back to create some distance between them, and turned to walk toward the bed.

Chu Xihuan’s faint fragrance instantly disappeared, and Lin Zhao felt as if a hole had been torn in her heart. It was so empty and so painful.

She frowned at Chu Xihuan and saw her turn her back to her, take off her outer clothes, and casually hang them on a nearby rack. Then, she sat on the bed and looked up at Lin Zhao. “Aren’t you going to rest?”

Lin Zhao was stunned by her series of actions. She looked at Chu Xihuan in shock. “What are you doing!”

They were still arguing. How could someone so naturally take off their clothes in front of the person they were arguing with!

“Sleeping, of course,” Chu Xihuan said with a sweet smile, patting the side of the bed. “What, are you afraid?”

“Afraid of not being able to resist touching me?”

At her words, a rush of anger went straight to Lin Zhao’s head. Before her brain could react, her body had already strode toward Chu Xihuan. She got into bed without a word, lifted the covers, and lay down. “You’re the one who’s afraid!”

Why should she be afraid of Chu Xihuan? If anyone should be afraid, it should be Chu Xihuan!

Seeing her action, a hint of a smile appeared in Chu Xihuan’s eyes, but she didn’t dare to make it too obvious lest Lin Zhao find out. So she also got into bed and lay down. Feeling the long-lost scent of Lin Zhao so close to her, Chu Xihuan sighed in her heart, couldn’t help but wonder if things would have been different if she had been a little bolder and more honest back then.

The moment Chu Xihuan lay down, Lin Zhao’s body had already stiffened. Not to mention turning her head, she didn’t even open her eyes again. Her nose was filled with Chu Xihuan’s scent, and her mind couldn’t help but be filled with all the things that had happened between them in the past.

Speaking of which… this was also the first time she had slept on the inside of the bed when the two of them were lying in the same bed.

“Are you nervous?” Chu Xihuan heard her slightly rapid breathing, and the smile on her lips deepened.

It was because of this that Chu Xihuan had so brazenly approached Lin Zhao, sure that she could not be indifferent to her.

If she really no longer liked her and only had hatred for her, how could she allow her to lie so close to her?

“You’re the one who’s nervous!” Lin Zhao immediately retorted, unwilling to admit that she still couldn’t help but feel a palpitation when Chu Xihuan was close.

Chu Xihuan didn’t argue with her on this point, but instead changed the subject. “Although I did choose to marry you in a fit of anger back then, there’s one thing I have to make clear.”

“Before I decided to marry you, I no longer liked that person. All I had for her was hatred, not a single bit of affection.”

It was because she knew what it felt like to hate someone that she was so sure that what Lin Zhao felt for her was more of a wronged and resentful feeling of being deceived, and not… that she really no longer loved her.

Lin Zhao was slightly taken aback and couldn’t help but turn to look at Chu Xihuan. She saw that her expression was calm, and she was very frankly stating the past.

Chu Xihuan turned to face Lin Zhao and looked into her eyes. “Lin Zhao, if I really still had feelings for her, why didn’t I go with her when she came back?”

Lin Zhao was speechless.

Chu Xihuan could still recall what Cao Jing had said to her when she had come to find her before she left after the mourning period was over.

She had asked if things would have been different between them if she hadn’t left back then, if they would have gotten married like she and Lin Zhao had.

But Chu Xihuan had answered her with great certainty that it was impossible.

Even if Cao Jing had not left, she knew very well that there was no future between them.

Even when their relationship was at its best, she had not dared to let everyone know. How could they have a future? So Cao Jing’s “what if” was truly a meaningless and boring hypothesis.

Lin Zhao listened to Chu Xihuan talk about how Cao Jing had come to find her later, and she was so angry her eyes were about to pop out. But when she heard Chu Xihuan refuse Cao Jing, her body gradually relaxed, but she still pressed her lips together and did not speak.

Chu Xihuan was silent for a moment. She had already said everything she needed to say. The rest was to give her time to think about it. So she changed the subject. “How was your life in the army all these years?”

Lin Zhao pressed her lips together. “Training, resting, fighting. That’s all.”

Now that she was asked to say something, she found that it was so boring and tasteless that there was nothing to say.

However, in Chu Xihuan’s ears, it sounded like she was unwilling to tell her.

Chu Xihuan also fell silent. The air was so quiet that it made Lin Zhao feel uncomfortable all over. She had to find something to say. “You’re here now. What about your daughter? You’re not going to take care of her?”

The gentleness with which this person had treated that child earlier was not fake. She probably couldn’t just leave her at home alone, right?

“I sent her to my mother’s place. With my mother and second sister there, there’s no need to worry.” Hearing her take the initiative to mention the child, Chu Xihuan’s tone also softened a lot. Lin Zhao was still concerned about the child. Did that mean she was not that resistant to her?

Lin Zhao fell silent again. Time passed bit by bit, and the scent of Chu Xihuan in her nose grew stronger. Lin Zhao suddenly said in a slightly strained voice, “Can she understand what you’re saying now? When you said in front of her that she wasn’t your biological daughter, weren’t you afraid that she would understand?”

If she knew that she was not her biological daughter, what would she do?

“I’m not afraid,” Chu Xihuan replied softly. “Even if she doesn’t understand now, she will know eventually. I won’t hide her background from her.”

“Why?” Lin Zhao didn’t understand. The child was so young. Chu Xihuan could have hidden it well and let her think that she was her biological daughter, so that she wouldn’t think of looking for her biological parents when she grew up.

Hearing this, Chu Xihuan sat up and looked at Lin Zhao with a slightly speechless expression. She poked her on the chest. “You’re a woman, and I’m a woman. Where would we get a child like her? I don’t have any supernatural powers to get pregnant with a woman.”

And she couldn’t possibly say that the child was hers and some man’s. Not to mention that she herself would be uncomfortable, it would also make Lin Zhao uncomfortable. And in the eyes of the people around them, wouldn’t that mean she had cheated on Lin Zhao?

There were already a lot of these rumors. They said that she had been away for so long, and who knows who she had been fooling around with behind Lin Zhao’s back. If she still coaxed the child and said that she was her biological daughter, wouldn’t that be a tacit admission that what those people said was right?

Before giving the child a good growing environment, she definitely couldn’t let her affect her relationship with Lin Zhao, and she couldn’t let Lin Zhao become a laughingstock for outsiders.

Suddenly being poked on the chest, Lin Zhao was so startled she almost jumped up. She looked at Chu Xihuan in disbelief, thinking that she was just talking. Why did she suddenly have to get physical? But after reacting to Chu Xihuan’s words, she couldn’t help but fall silent.

It was true. If they said she was their biological daughter, she and Chu Xihuan were two women. They were not demons. They couldn’t give birth to her.

Pah! What am I thinking? Who wants to be with her in the future!

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Author’s Note:

Zhaozhao: Pah, pah, pah, I didn’t think that. [Crying][Crying]