Meng Chu deeply wanted to do all the things that lovers could do with Cheng Jinyu, openly interlocking their fingers together, introducing each other’s existence to their mutual friends, and completely ceasing to be in a relationship where they only took what they needed from one another.
Instead, she wanted a genuine relationship where they truly liked each other!
She profoundly wanted to be in a loving romantic relationship with Cheng Jinyu. 4
After getting into the car, Meng Chu slightly turned her head to look out the window, and she remained entirely silent the whole way.
While stopped at a red light, Cheng Jinyu turned his head to glance at her, only to see that the corners of her mouth were turned upward in a smile.
She did not look like she was still troubled by her previously depressed mood, which was completely different from what he had originally imagined in his mind.
Just a moment ago in front of the apartment building, the two of them were standing behind the car, and after he took the keys from Meng Chu’s hands, she remained silent for a very long time.
And then, following that long silence, she suddenly reached out her hands and embraced him tightly.
This sudden action, however, made Cheng Jinyu feel particularly surprised and caught off guard.
However, after Meng Chu released her embrace on him, she did not say a single word, and simply got into the car in complete silence.
Even though Cheng Jinyu had many questions he wanted to ask at the bottom of his heart, considering her current mood, he still firmly chose not to say anything at all.
While the two of them were eating dinner that evening, Cheng Jinyu asked her, “Do you need to ask for a few days of leave from your company?”
“There is no need,” Meng Chu shook her head, “If I continue asking for leave, Gu Ting will probably start thinking that I am preparing to run away.”
Before the long National Day holiday, she had already missed several days of work at the company because she needed to take care of a sick Cheng Jinyu.
Even if she had made a trip to the company the day before yesterday, it was still asking for leave on the very first day back from a holiday.
Cheng Jinyu stared directly at her, with an incredibly inquiring and curious expression visible on his face.
Meng Chu, on the other hand, seemed to have recovered her emotions quite well, as she calmly stated, “Staying at home will instead cause me to be constantly troubled by negative emotions. For me, working is actually a form of relaxation.”
Cheng Jinyu let out a light chuckle, “With a boss like you around, I suppose absolutely none of the employees in your company would ever dare to slack off.”
“You flatter me too much.” Meng Chu said with a bright smile reaching her eyes, “I suppose the two of us are quite alike in that regard.”
Cheng Jinyu raised his eyebrows at her words, yet he did not voice any objections to this statement.
It was only when Meng Chu was preparing to take a shower that evening that she suddenly became acutely aware of a glaring problem.
Would Cheng Jinyu still be coming over into her room tonight?
After all, the two of them had never even discussed the issue of where they were going to sleep; last night had been considered a special situation, so he had taken the initiative to come over and keep her company.
But what was going to happen tonight?
Could tonight still be reasonably considered a special situation in any way?
Moreover, Meng Chu also had not figured out exactly how she was supposed to treat Cheng Jinyu from now on.
That is to say, if she truly wanted to pursue a romantic relationship with him.
She was still not entirely clear on exactly what his attitude toward her was.
After all, the very premise of them starting this marriage in the first place was to each take what they needed, without any need to be responsible for one another; she had spoken with such confident certainty back then, only to turn around and completely overthrow it all.
She could very clearly feel the unique difference in how Cheng Jinyu treated her.
However, she was completely unsure whether this unique difference was based on the fact that he also liked her, or simply because she held the official status of being his wife.
Because for the longest time, Cheng Jinyu’s behavior had always reflected his deeply held belief that Meng Chu harbored ulterior motives toward him.
Before all of this had happened, she certainly did not have any such intentions.
But as of right now, her innocence in that particular regard was completely completely ruined.
Therefore, it was precisely because of this that Meng Chu was completely unable to guess his true intentions.
But there was one thing she could be absolutely certain of, which was that he should also harbor some sort of feelings for her, right?
Otherwise, there was no way he would have willingly done so many incredible things for her sake.
Meng Chu had just finished taking her shower at this time, and as she looked at herself in the mirror, she was suddenly immensely amused by her own thoughts.
It was just that she was feeling rather surprisingly confident in herself.
Meng Chu had previously been silently criticizing Cheng Jinyu in her heart for being quite narcissistic, always assuming that other people harbored some kind of hidden motive toward him.
Yet as a result, now that it was her turn, she was exactly the same.
However, just how exactly was she supposed to firmly ascertain what his true thoughts were?
After thinking about it back and forth, Meng Chu still could not find a single person she could ask for help.
Song Yumian was most definitely out of the question for this matter.
She had always believed that Meng Chu and Cheng Jinyu were in a perfectly normal romantic relationship, so if she found out that even after the two of them had already obtained their marriage certificate, they had not yet confirmed each other’s feelings, she would definitely go completely insane.
Moreover, Song Yumian did not look like she was any sort of seasoned veteran when it came to romantic relationships either. 1
In the end, she still decided to seek assistance from her omnipotent cell phone.
Meng Chu opened up a certain social media platform that currently had the most active users, and typed a line of text directly into the search bar. 1
[How to Determine Whether a Boy Likes You or Not]
Right after she clicked on the search button, all sorts of varied posts immediately popped up below.
[Physical Contact: Unconsciously wanting to get closer to you, or looking for various opportunities to touch you, such as putting an arm around your shoulder, or accidentally brushing against your fingers.]
Wow, that was quite an eye-opener!
Meng Chu instantly became completely energized with sudden excitement.
Physical contact, well, there had been far too much of that going on between them.
Meng Chu suddenly recalled the time he came to the company to pick her up from work, where he had even actively requested that she move closer to him.
Furthermore, they had even interlocked their fingers together, and they had also tightly embraced one another.
All of these actions completely counted as physical contact, and they were far more intimate than what was merely written up here.
[Initiating Conversations: Someone who likes you will actively look for various opportunities to start a dialogue between the two of you, and even if the conversation topics are mundane, they will still provide incredibly positive responses.]
What exactly should she think about this one?
This should probably count as well, right?
Meng Chu immediately flipped through the chat records between the two of them, and realized that many of the topics were actually initiated by Cheng Jinyu first.
Consequently, after finishing reading all of this information, the deep anxiety at the bottom of Meng Chu’s heart lessened by a considerable amount.
Perhaps, he was simply waiting right there for her to make the first move.
Meng Chu had never once taken the initiative in any sort of emotional romantic relationship.
Oh, wait a minute, that statement was entirely incorrect.
She had simply never experienced any kind of romantic feelings whatsoever.
She had received a great deal of one-sided displays of affection from other people, but she herself had never once responded to them, much less taken the initiative to start anything.
This time around, however, she genuinely wanted to give it a proper attempt.
She wanted to try and actively like a person, just to see what that kind of feeling was truly like.
Perhaps it was precisely because her goals had finally become firm and resolute that her entire mood had also improved significantly.
Thus, she happily opened the bathroom door; the guest bedroom was not full of twists and turns like Cheng Jinyu’s master bedroom, where one still had to pass through an entire walk-in closet after coming out of the bathroom just to see the bed.
As soon as Meng Chu opened the door, she directly laid her eyes upon her very own bed.
As well as the incredibly handsome man dressed in black silk pajamas currently sitting directly at the head of the bed.
Cheng Jinyu also seemed to have just finished taking a shower, and his short hair had that distinct fluffy feeling of having just been blow-dried; it was unlike his usual sharp and exquisite hairstyle, giving him a sort of vibrant, youthful aura instead.
He genuinely did not have even the slightest hint of that commanding presence he usually displayed when devising strategies within the company.
Just a moment ago in the bathroom, Meng Chu had been using her cell phone to frantically search for all sorts of matters relating to him.
At this exact moment, she was seeing the real person suddenly appearing completely unexpectedly right in front of her very eyes.
Cheng Jinyu, however, very calmly raised his head, glanced at her for a brief moment, and then continued to lower his head to flip through the tablet computer resting securely in his hands.
It was only then that Meng Chu slowly walked over, and after pulling back the covers to climb into bed, she quietly caught a brief glimpse of it.
She accidentally ended up seeing the specific contents displayed brightly upon his tablet computer screen.
To her surprise, it was actually a highly detailed project proposal document.
It was most likely a brand-new project that Yunji Capital was currently in the rigorous process of investigating and evaluating.
“Are you interested in this?” Cheng Jinyu suddenly turned his head to look directly at her.
Meng Chu hurriedly withdrew her line of sight as she replied, “I just accidentally saw it, that is all.”
Seeing her desperate attempt to firmly draw a clear line between them, Cheng Jinyu chuckled softly, “Look at it if you want to look at it, no one ever said that you are not allowed to see it.”
Meng Chu muttered under her breath, “But this is highly classified commercial business secret belonging to your company.”
How could she possibly have the nerve to shamelessly pry into such sensitive information?
“Are you going to go out and tell everyone else about it after you read it?” Cheng Jinyu boldly asked her.
Meng Chu subconsciously replied, “I must be entirely crazy if I were to go everywhere randomly leaking your company’s private business affairs.”
“Then that completely settles the matter,” he said.
Even though Cheng Jinyu specifically told Meng Chu she could look at it, Meng Chu still chose to scroll through her cell phone for a little while longer.
It was not long at all before Cheng Jinyu directly shut off his tablet computer completely.
As he casually placed his tablet computer onto the bedside table next to him, Meng Chu’s rapidly beating heart instantly leaped all the way up into her throat.
Is he seriously preparing to go to sleep just like this?
It was only 11:00 PM right now.
“Are you not going to work tomorrow?” Cheng Jinyu looked steadily at the person who was still aggressively scrolling on her phone, and spoke to her in a low voice.
Meng Chu let out a brief hum of acknowledgement, “Yes, I am going to work.”
Cheng Jinyu replied, “Then I am going to turn off the lights, so go to sleep early so that you can actually wake up on time in the morning.”
Following his words, she also pressed the button to turn off the screen of her phone, and she carefully began to lie down properly on the bed.
The man beside her reached out his hand and lightly pressed the light switch firmly mounted onto the wall.
Hearing only a crisp ‘click’ sound, Meng Chu’s entire visual world was instantly plunged completely into absolute darkness.
She clearly felt the mattress directly beside her gently cave downward by a noticeable degree.
It was entirely obvious that he had finally lain down to sleep beside her.
What exactly was she supposed to do in a terrifying situation like this?
Meng Chu completely did not know either, and considering it was clearly not their very first time sleeping together, how could she possibly be feeling this incredibly nervous?
Just last night, she had undeniably been lying directly and comfortably within his warm embrace.
She absolutely had not been even the slightest bit as overwhelmingly nervous as this before.
Meng Chu thought about it over and over again, only to fully discover that it was entirely because her state of mind had undergone a massive and fundamental shift.
Last night she had been completely immersed in the terrible things that had just occurred, causing her thoughts to be incredibly chaotic, not to mention that she was entirely too exhausted.
She had fallen deep into sleep extremely quickly after closing her eyes.
But tonight was completely different, because she had thoroughly and clearly recognized the deep thoughts she genuinely held toward Cheng Jinyu.
It truly was exactly as one would expect.
Once a person developed distracting thoughts in their mind, it became entirely impossible for them to ever remain focused and free from all desires.
All of their previous instances of sleeping together had truly meant absolutely nothing more than pure and simple sleeping to her.
However, tonight’s situation of sleeping alongside one another had transformed into something else.
It was lying right next to the person she liked upon the exact same bed.
Upon reaching this thought, Meng Chu simply could not help but let out a very faint, deeply suppressed sigh.
However, by the time she fully reacted to what she had done, this quiet yet incredibly clear sigh had already rung out within the entirely tranquil room, making it appear exceptionally noticeable.
Meng Chu immediately held her breath tightly within her constricted throat.
SOMEBODY PLEASE COME AND SAVE HER LIFE RIGHT NOW!!!!
Was it still completely too late for her to firmly pretend she was already fast asleep right now?
Otherwise, she should probably just resort to blatantly pretending to have fainted dead away on the spot.
That particular option definitely held an immensely higher degree of overall credibility.
However, Cheng Jinyu did not display absolutely any reaction whatsoever to it, allowing Meng Chu’s heart to momentarily relax for a second; could it honestly be that he was actually already asleep?
Just as she was completely preparing to let go of her vigilant caution, a voice suddenly resounded directly from beside her, “What exactly are you sighing about?”
Meng Chu’s brain began to spin with absolute madness as she frantically desperately wanted to come up with some kind of reasonable explanation.
But Cheng Jinyu’s low and somewhat deeply magnetic voice rang out loudly once more within the pitch-black darkness, “Is it completely because I did not hold you tightly in my arms tonight?”
“…” Meng Chu was left completely speechless by him.
“Come over here,” he told her.
Before Meng Chu could even properly react to his words, her entire body was already being forcefully dragged directly into a warm and comforting embrace by a powerful arm, and at this exact moment, the profoundly intoxicating scent coming off of his muscular body rushed right into her face.
It was that incredibly crisp and unimaginably clean scent of his.
Yet even though it was obviously such an incredibly clean and pure scent, her entire body suddenly began to inexplicably grow fiercely hot and completely flustered all over.