Using Marriage as Bait : Chapter 49
Chapter 49: Don’t Peek, I’ll Show You…
After a few seconds of surprise, Lu Junting returned to his senses. His panicked heart slowly calmed down. It turned out that she didn’t leave, it turned out that she was brushing her teeth in the bathroom. He suddenly felt that he was ridiculous. Why was he so out of shape early in the morning?
She looked up at him and asked worriedly, “What’s wrong with you? Why are you panicking?”
Looking at the little girl in his arms with her soft body pressed against him, her warm breath ironed every cell of him, her face was as gentle as a warm breeze in spring, and her soft voice.
The smile on his mouth was deliberately hidden. He said to her, “Continue to wash yours. Don’t worry about me.”
“Are you really okay?”
“I’m okay.”
Then she let go of him and went back to washing up.
Lu Junting’s bedroom and cloakroom were connected. When Lin Xiyu came out after washing, Lu Junting was already fully dressed. A well-ironed shirt, a straight suit, well-draped suit pants, and a pair of shiny leather shoes. His clothes were just like him, were rigorous and meticulous in every detail.
It was no different from the way he used to wear it, but she felt he was extraordinarily good-looking as she looked at him now. He had broad shoulders, a strong waist, and straight legs. Every part of him was appealing to her.
Lu Junting wore a tie while looking in the mirror. He saw the little girl staring at him directly in the mirror. Lu Junting turned back to meet her gaze, but she hurriedly dodged it, pretending to look for something.
How come you’ve learned to peek at people?
He hadn’t finished the tie and the person who pretended to be looking for something returned. Lu Junting looked at her small movement from the mirror. Originally, her eyes fell on him, but she turned to the side when he looked at her from the mirror. Lu Junting didn’t say anything. After the tie was finished, he turned around, put his hands in his pockets, and completely faced her.
Okay, I’ll show you a lot.
“That…” Lin Xiyu faced him, feeling she didn’t know where to put her hands, interlocking them in front of her body and then releasing them behind her back.
Lu Junting was patient and waited for her quietly.
“That… Why don’t I take your car to work later? Don’t we have to go to the old home tonight for Baby’s birthday? So, I don’t have to drive.”
Did she watch him for so long only to talk about this?
“Okay.” He replied with a smile. “Anything else?”
“No.”
“Then go get ready. Let’s go.”
Lin Xiyu and Lu Junting got into his car together. Lu Juntnig had a lot of things in the company recently. After getting in the car, he listened to the assistant’s report.
Lin Xiyu sat on the side, listening to his systematic arrangement. Why didn’t she realize before that the way he arranged his work was quite nice?
Lin Xiyu glanced at the hand he put on his lap. At this time, he was leaning back in his seat with a slightly lazy posture, one hand resting on the armrest and the other casually resting on his lap. After listening to his assistant’s words, he fell into deep thought. The slightly lowered head made his profile facing her delicate and three-dimensional. With his formal set of suits, it gave an unattainable sense of nobility.
She thought about how this man had once softly begged her not to leave. She thought about how this man had her in his heart. Thinking of his preference, she couldn’t help but rejoice in her heart.
It should be okay to hold your man’s hand. Lu Junting was about to have a morning meeting in a while. He was arranging the morning meeting in his mind when suddenly there was a warm feeling in his hand. He looked down and saw that a small hand was holding his hand.
Almost immediately, he turned his head to look at her and met her smiling gaze. He looked down at the hand that was holding him. Why did she suddenly grab his hand?
Lu Junting held back the pleasure that was about to come up at that moment, but his eyebrows and eyes, which were sharp because of contemplation, were uncontrollably soothed.
He didn’t ask her, so he tacitly let her hold his hand without moving a muscle.
It didn’t seem strange about her holding his hand. He continued to talk to his assistant after giving her a puzzled look at first. It looked like he was letting her movements go, but Lin Xiyu could feel his fingers gradually tightening as if he was responding to her.
Lin Xiyu felt that the deer in her heart was bumping. It was really strange. She had done all kinds of intimate things with him, but now she felt as if there was some special stimulation when holding hands.
Lu Junting sent her to the entrance of the club and only then did the two of them let go of their hands.
“I’ll pick you up from work in a while. If I’m late, you can wait a little longer.”
Lin Xiyu nodded obediently. “Okay.”
Lin Xiyu didn’t expect that she would have this kind of feeling to like someone. Her heart would beat faster when she thought of him. She felt he was good-looking, no matter how she looked at him.
Lin Xiyu had a break at noon, but she couldn’t stay idle. She went to search for Lu Junting’s news and it was easy to find it. There were recent ones and previous ones. Even a video of him speaking at a famous university..
She would read every news related to him carefully. She listened to his speech word by word. She always knew that he was very powerful, but after reading the news related to him, she realized that he demonstrated his strength in many aspects. He had a unique view of opportunities. He was very sensitive to the market and could grasp the direction well. For example, he developed technology when everyone was not optimistic about the technology industry at the beginning. Now, the technology field has become an indispensable part of everyone’s life, which also proves that he made the right choice in the first place.
She felt that he was really good. The kind of excellence that ordinary people couldn’t reach, not just because he was born well. His birth only gave him a chance, and his personal ability determined his development.
Immediately, when she thought that this man was hers, she had an excited feeling of picking up a treasure. Such an excellent man turned out to be her own.
Lu Junting came to pick up her on time after work. They came to the Lu family’s mansion together and the child Lu Chengmao had already been picked up.
The big cake ordered by Lin Xiyu was also delivered. The family celebrated the little one’s birthday with great enthusiasm. This was a big family reunion after Lu Junting and Lin Xiyu got back together. Everyone seemed to be a little happier than ever.
The most popular part for the child was blowing out of candles and making a wish, because after making a wish he got to eat a big cake.
Little Baby was held by Lu Junting on his lap. The lights in the room were turned off, and only the lights on the cake were on. All the elders around were coaxing Chengmao to make a wish.
The little one was also particularly cooperative. He put his hands together, eyes closed, and looked particularly devout as he said, “I hope that mommy can always live in daddy’s house, never go again…”
Before he could finish his sentence, his father behind him covered his mouth and said, “Don’t say the wish. It won’t work if you say it.”
The little one got anxious when he heard this. “What to do? What to do? I said it.”
Everyone was amused by him. Old Madam Lu said, “As your mommy. If your mommy says it will come true, it will come true then.”
The little one looked over to Lin Xiyu with an expectant face. Lin Xiyu hurriedly said, “It’s okay, it’s okay. It will come true.”
“Really?” Little Baby looked at his father again for confirmation.
Lu Junting glanced across the room at Lin Xiyu and said, “If mommy says it will come true, then, it will come true.”
The little one clapped his hands in delight and the others laughed along with him.
Chengmao was still young, so they didn’t give him too much to eat. Chengmao played for a while and got sleepy, so Madam Lu asked the couple to sleep over here tonight as well. It wasn’t like she hadn’t slept over here before, so Lin Xiyu agreed.
After holding little Chengmao to sleep Lin Xiyu came down from upstairs. There was an aisle leading to the backyard at the entrance of the stairs. Lin Xiyu just walked down when she heard the sound of talking coming from the other side of the aisle.
“When exactly are you going to remarry Xixi ah? What are you thinking ah? You need to hurry up and get married quickly ah, stop dragging it out.”
Lin Xiyu heard that it was Old Madam Lu’s voice. Hearing this, Lin Xiyu’s movement that was ready to walk away paused. She was actually curious about how Lu Junting would answer.
Lu Junting was silent for a while before he said, “I know. It’s getting late, rest first.”
When Lin Xiyu heard footsteps, she didn’t think twice and hurriedly headed upstairs. She walked to Lu Junting’s room. Her mind still thought about the conversation she had just heard. Although Lu Junting sounded like he had promised, his words were clearly perfunctory.
The sound of a door being pushed rang out behind her. Lin Xiyu turned around to see that it was Lu Junting walking in.
“Sleepy?” Lu Junting asked her.
“Not yet.”
She had just walked in a hurry and didn’t control her footsteps. She didn’t know if Lu Junting had noticed her listening to their conversation. Lin Xiyu simply took the initiative to confess, “I accidentally heard you and Grandma talking.”
Hearing this, Lu Junting wasn’t too surprised. He probably guessed it. He didn’t say anything. He knew that she had something to say by bringing it up, so he waited patiently.
Lin Xiyu hesitated for a while before saying, “Actually, I also want to know when we’re going to remarry.”
Lu Junting knew that some things couldn’t be hidden. Originally, they had expressed their true feelings for each other and it would be dangerous to say it at this time. However, he also did not want her to misunderstand that he was not going to remarry her.
“We’re not actually divorced.”
“...”
“Just signing a divorce agreement in the first place doesn’t count as a real divorce. A divorce only counts if you go to the Civil Affairs Bureau and get a divorce certificate.”
“...”
Lin Xiyu didn’t react for a long time. She thought she had divorced Lu Junting for more than a year, but in fact, they were not divorced at all. Are they still husband and wife?
It was Lin Xiyu’s first marriage and she didn’t have much experience. She thought as long as the signing of the divorce agreement was a divorce. At that time, did his lawyer say that they were officially divorced after signing the divorce agreement?
Lu Junting moved his fingertips that were resting on his side. He was actually quite nervous. At her obviously startled expression, that nervousness doubled several times over in an instant. He felt his hands and feet stiffen.
“Don’t be angry. I’m sorry that I didn’t make it clear to you in the first place.”
Lin Xiyu sort of realized that she had been set up by this mand again. She was silent and Lu Junting had no idea in his heart. He stepped forward and tried to hold her shoulders, but he didn’t dare to land his hand after he reached out.
“I didn’t want a divorce in the first place. You insisted on it, so I can only do it.”
“...”
“I’m really sorry.”
Lin Xiyu was in a complicated mood. She thought that he had to divorce her because he was disappointed with her, but now she knows that he didn’t want to divorce her from the beginning until now. So, when she thought about it, she felt that she should be happy. However, when she thought about her being so stupid to be set up by him for even this kind of thing, she felt that she should feel angry again.
However, Lin Xiyu still had a lot of questions in her head. If he never wanted a divorce, why hasn’t he contacted her during the time they were ‘divorced’?
“After you signed the divorce agreement in the first place you weren’t afraid that I’d think were were really divorced and I’d be with someone else to marry?”
It was a problem he had definitely thought about. He had always been good at solving problems, but it was a problem he hadn’t thought of a solution for. He had made the stupid decision to not think about it since he couldn’t think of one. So, he pretended that the problem didn’t exist.
Lu Junting said, “I’m not sure. Maybe I won’t know what I’ll do until it really happens.”
“Then, we don’t have to remarry now?” Lin Xiyu asked him.
“En. We never got divorced and there is no need to remarry.”
Lin Xiyu was speechless. How did she run into such a man with such a heart? Even setting her up for something like a divorce? But strangely enough, she chose to forgive him easily. She even thought that it was kinda nice that she didn’t have to make a special trip to get remarried.
Lu Junting’s heart was in a mess right now, but this calm and sophisticated man didn’t show it in his face. He even asked her calmly, “How do you think now? Tell me, or you can tell me how you want me to do now?”
It was impossible to say that she was not angry. He liked to set people up, Xiao Chengmao was also set up by him. However, when she thought about it, it was also this man who helped her pay off her parents’s debt. If it wasn’t for him, she wouldn’t even be able to go to the university.
He was her benefactor, but he was also a bastard.
If she didn’t like him, she might have agonized over whether to forgive him or not. However, she had fallen for him, this bastard. How had she fallen for this bastard?
She just stared at him and didn’t say anything. Lu Junting was getting more and more uncertain. He even started to regret it. He shouldn’t have told her so early. He should have waited until they had developed their relationship a bit more when their feelings were a little deeper.
He was really afraid she’d run away again.
“You…” The calm man’s expression began to panic. “Just tell me straight out. What do you want me to do? Don’t be silent. I’m kind of afraid when you do that.”
Afraid? Is there something he is afraid of in this world?
However, his visibly flustered expression was quite at odds with his demeanor. It was clear that he was indeed nervous about her. Lin Xiyu secretly thought, you are nervous, I should let you be nervous.
“Will you say something? Do you want to leave me again? Don’t you know I like you? It’s hard for me to get married to you. How can I be willing to divorce you? Can you put yourself in my perspective for a second? Maybe divorce is a matter of a piece of paper for you, but it’s important to me. Can you understand it?”
He’s got a lot of crooked ideas.
Lin Xiyu felt that at this moment, Lu Junting was like the kind of person who sank in the water and desperately needed driftwood to preserve his life. It was obvious that she was that piece of driftwood.
Thinking about how was this man outside. The man with an immeasurable mind, who didn’t reveal his thoughts to others, yet he showed his flustered and scared side before her.
He was afraid. He was afraid that she would leave.
Lin Xiyu felt that she was sick. She should be angry after being set up by him, but looking at him in this appearance, she felt a little heartbroken.
He was getting panicked in the face of her silence. Lin Xiyu could obviously feel his eyes dimmer as if a person who was about to reach a desperate place. She suddenly remembered that in the early summer evening when he stood under her building in a mess. He felt dejected after being rejected by her. He was lost, the bright sunset couldn’t disperse his dejected look.
Lin Xiyu sighed softly as she walked up and wrapped her arms around his waist.
“Forget it. It saves us the trouble to go on a trip to do a remarriage.”
Lu Junting felt that he was just one step away from breaking down. The emotional ups and downs could really drive people crazy too easily, even for someone as restrained as him.
He’d just heard her say she liked him. He felt like he’d been dreaming for the past two days and it seemed unreal. But just now, he had the panic feeling of a shattered dream.
He was afraid that misfortune was his normal state. He was afraid that the beauty he had experienced was really just a flash.
Until she suddenly hugged him.
He was in a really complicated mood that was hard to describe. She said forget it, she didn’t care about it, she didn’t blame him, she would not leave him. After the great panic came the great euphoria.
Everyone was just a false alarm.
He looked down at the person in his arms, surprisingly he didn’t even know what expression to use at this point. A voice seemed to keep repeating in his head.
“Lu Junting, you’re finished. You’ve planted yourself in this woman’s hands for the rest of your life. Even your joy and sorrows are in her hands.”
Lu Junting closed his eyes and used his greatest will to calm down. It took a lot of effort to calm himself down a bit. When he opened his eyes again, the panic in his eyes had already disappeared, but, the veins throbbing on his forehead were silently telling of the struggles he had before.
Lu Junting suddenly squatted down and hooked his hands around her knee to pick her up.
This action…
Lin Xiyu was startled and hurriedly hugged his shoulders to stabilize her body. Her cheeks instantly turned red. She didn’t really understand how he always liked to hug her in this strange position.
There was a desk in the room. Lu Junting placed her on the desk, he braced his hands on both sides of her body to confine her, bowed slightly to her eyes, and asked her, “Are you really not blaming me anymore?”
He resumed that calm face again, and there was no longer a flustered expression on his face. His appearance always made her feel that he was a bit bad. There was a halo around his aura, and his appearance made him unable to resist. She felt shy unconsciously and didn’t dare to look at him, only nodding her head.
All of his emotions were wrapped up and hidden under his seemingly unperturbed expression at the moment. After the false alarm, somewhere instead felt like there was a space, and he wanted to do something to fill it. He preferred the kind of crazy thing that would make a person sweat profusely and be exhausted.
Lu Junting admitted that he was now having those beast thoughts about her again, wanting to hold her down and lover her hard.
But he knew the girl was timid and he had to follow her motions.
It’s not a big deal to give a kiss, right?
Lu Junting leaned towards her a little. Lin Xiyu’s heartbeat accelerated for a split second. Her hands propped up on the edge of the table clenched subconsciously. The moment his breath approached, she subconsciously closed her eyes.
En?
Is she closing her eyes cooperatively?
Since this was the case, then he did not need to be concerned about anything. Lu Junting had a lot of raging thoughts in his heart, but after being next to her lips, he just gently and carefully touched a little.
Originally intended to kiss a little and leave, but when he kissed her, she was cooperative by pouting her lips on his lips a little.
Soft lips wrapped around his lips. Seeing her taking a bit of initiative, he had a feeling of being hit in an instant. He was finished. He was afraid that he would not be a ble to control it this time.
He cursed in his mind as his long arm reached out and wrapped the person into his arms. His other hand clasped the back of her head as he lowered his head to kiss her again.
Lin Xiyu was completely overwhelmed by his heavy and urgent kiss. At first, she could not keep up with his rhythm, only to be led by him. She panicked and didn’t know how to respond to him.
His kisses from the desk and then moved to the bed. He tightly embraced her and the kiss got hotter and more entangled. Lin Xiyu was placed on the bed, completely controlled by him. She could passively follow, without a reason, and she also didn’t know where to go.
But he stopped the kisses abruptly. Lin Xiyu opened her eyes and looked towards him. Her eyes were moist and blurred, but her face had an innocent look. She asked, “What’s wrong?”
Her face was covered in red, evoking the image of an innocent little girl. However, her lips, kissed by him, were rosy and full. The tenderness on her body seemed to emanate from every cell, as if drilled into her.
Lu Junting didn’t dare to look at her. He took a deep breath and lowered his head to say, “There’s no condom at home.”
Lin Xiyu: “...”
Lin Xiyu’s cheeks turned even redded as she asked, “Aren’t you prepared?”
She remembered that time. He had prepared it early before they shared a room.
Lu Junting said, “Why should I have to prepare it for? With whom will I use it?”
Lin Xiyu: “...”
Lu Junting got up from the bed and put the clothes he had taken off back on. When Lin Xiyu saw that he looked like he was about to go out, she hurriedly asked, “Where are you going?”
“Something’s up.”
He went out after saying this. Not a moment later, Lin Xiyu heard the sound of the car driving out the door. Lin Xiyu was puzzled. What else did he have to deal with in the middle of the night? He didn’t make it clear to her. However, not long after the car left, he was back. Lin Xiyu was even more puzzled as to what was dealt with so fast.
The door to the room was pushed open a few minutes later. She only saw Lu Junting enter through the door. Lin Xiyu was about to ask him what exactly he was going out for, when she saw him slowly and methodically take off his coat. He gave her a meaningful look. Lin Xiyu felt that his eyes were hot, as if he wanted to break her bones. Lin Xiyu subconsciously shivered.
Just as she was wondering, she saw him pull the contents of his bag out and put it on the bedside cabinet.
It was a box of condoms.
Is this… is he going out to buy condoms?
His slender fingers slowly unbuttoned his shirt. A pair of deep eyes fell on her. The corner of his lips upturned slightly as he smiled. “Now, we have condoms, 8 boxes.”
Lin Xiyu: “...”
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