After this bout of talking and joking, the atmosphere finally eased considerably, but Wang Zhao’s heart felt a bit heavier. She wasn’t a fool, as if she hadn’t sensed the tumultuous waves hidden beneath Li Zhenguan’s changing expressions, but this slight oddness wasn’t enough to support her suspicion of Li Zhenguan as a whole person.

After calming down, Wang Zhao pushed the person on top of her, making Li Zhenguan get off her and sit properly on the sofa. This clinginess was a bit too much for Wang Zhao to handle.

He was now eating double portions of food every day, and although her strength had increased, her arms would still ache from holding this man for long periods. Moreover, she found that as they spent more time together, Li Zhenguan was becoming bolder. She suspected that one day this person would climb onto her head and act up.

For instance, right now, Li Zhenguan was sprawled on top of her, refusing to move. When pushed with a hand, he would whine, and Wang Zhao couldn’t help but pinch his ticklish spot.

“Didn’t you say you’d give me a massage to help me relax? Are you backing out now?” Wang Zhao pinched Li Zhenguan’s nape again, propping herself up and making Li Zhenguan sit up as well, making him sit back in his original position obediently. “You should avoid such roughhousing in your current condition. If anything happens, not just your father, but your sister would skin me alive.”

She said jokingly.

Li Zhenguan made an “oh” sound and finally sat back in his original position properly and dignified. He touched his belly, his eyelashes trembling several times. At this moment, a thought unexpectedly flashed through his mind, but he didn’t pursue it further.

Because he thought for a moment, it wasn’t worth it. Chen Fangli wasn’t worth such a big sacrifice, and besides, looking at Wang Zhao in front of him, his heart was suddenly filled with joy.

As for why Wang Zhao had changed her attitude towards him after the car accident a month ago, Li Zhenguan didn’t think much about it. He thought Wang Zhao had just realized some things because of that accident. After all, in the beginning, her attitude towards him wasn’t exactly warm either, still distant and cold, just with less annoyance and avoidance.

This was already very good. They were entering the hall of marriage, would have children in the future, and grow old together.

As for Chen Fangli, Li Zhenguan looked at the woman in front of him and smiled: “Turn around, I’ll give you a massage for a while.”

Wang Zhao raised an eyebrow. She looked at Li Zhenguan and sighed inwardly.

So easy to coax.

She didn’t know if other men were as easy to talk to as Li Zhenguan, like how she had met her ex-boyfriend privately at the wedding, and after she said a few words, Li Zhenguan didn’t dwell on it anymore. She began to wonder if Li Zhenguan’s soft nature was only towards her or if he was like this with everything.

Amidst various complex thoughts, Wang Zhao fell asleep leaning on the sofa, feeling Li Zhenguan’s gentle movements massaging her neck and shoulders. Thus, she didn’t notice the bottomless dark eyes of Li Zhenguan as he watched her after she fell asleep.

He went out and made a phone call, asking the hotel staff to package and send over the public area surveillance footage from 10 am to 1 or 2 pm today, especially requesting the balcony surveillance to be sent separately.

The hotel happened to be under their group, and Li Zhenguan was essentially the crown prince. He called the manager, who didn’t refuse, but privately consulted Li Zhenwei first. After getting her approval, they only sent the balcony portion of the surveillance to him.

As for the other areas, not a single one was sent over. This was Li Zhenwei’s instruction – even in their own hotel, Li Zhenguan couldn’t act recklessly.

Because there was a lot of surveillance video, the hotel needed to screen it first, so they didn’t immediately send it to Li Zhenguan.

Li Zhenguan returned to the room after hanging up the phone. Wang Zhao was still leaning on the sofa, her face sideways against the sofa, only half of her face visible, covered by stray hairs.

He rarely saw Wang Zhao’s sleeping face, and now that he did, he couldn’t help but sit on the carpeted floor, curling his legs and leaning against the sofa, propping his head up to gaze at her.

Perhaps because she was extremely tired, Wang Zhao slept for two hours straight. During this time, several groups of people came looking for them, but Li Zhenguan sent them away after just one or two knocks on the door.

These weren’t urgent matters, but around 4 o’clock, an elder was about to leave, and both Wang Zhao and Li Zhenguan had to go see them off. This kind of thing couldn’t be done without Wang Zhao’s presence, as it would be bad for their reputation. So he delayed at the door for a while talking to Li Zhenwei, and Wang Zhao, lying on the sofa inside, woke up.

She sat up from the sofa, rubbing her temples and brow, feeling like she must have slept for a long time, as the daylight outside wasn’t as bright as before.

She had barely sat up when Li Zhenguan, standing at the door, sensed it. He turned back to look and indeed found the person on the sofa had woken up. His face didn’t look too good, and Li Zhenwei felt somewhat helpless.

“Zhenguan, this is grandfather’s elder brother, our great-grandfather. It wouldn’t be right for Wang Zhao not to see him off. The old man is of advanced age and made a difficult journey, taking both car and plane, just to see you two young ones.”

Li Zhenwei had also heard Wang Zhao getting up. She glanced at Li Zhenguan and couldn’t help but sigh. She used to think her younger brother wouldn’t be taken advantage of, but now she wasn’t so sure.

As Li Zhenguan looked back, Li Zhenwei pushed the door open a bit more. Meeting Wang Zhao’s gaze, her eyes swept over the other’s slightly disheveled hair and now somewhat wrinkled formal attire, furrowing her brow slightly.

“You need to go see off a few guests here. Tidy up a bit and come down with Zhenguan.” Today she had been so busy she couldn’t catch a break, yet these two newlyweds seemed more relaxed than her. Li Zhenwei couldn’t do anything about Li Zhenguan, so she could only speak directly to Wang Zhao, “A few elders are homesick and refuse to stay overnight. You just need to see them off to their cars later, I’ve arranged for people to send them back.”

Wang Zhao adjusted her dress and nodded.

Li Zhenguan beside her said nothing.

After Wang Zhao had tidied up, the two of them went downstairs together. Some people were standing at the hotel entrance, mostly middle-aged or older individuals. Some less familiar relatives and guests had already left, leaving only some cousins and second cousins, as well as Wang Zhao and Li Zhenguan’s friends and classmates.

After seeing people off, Wang Zhao finally breathed a sigh of relief. There were supposed to be activities in the evening, but she really couldn’t move anymore, and Li Zhenguan’s body couldn’t take it either. So the two of them just made an appearance, then put on some music and let the young people enjoy themselves.

Wang Zhao led Li Zhenguan to sit in a corner, waiting for it to end so they could send these people home. Those who were too drunk to find their way would be put up in the hotel first, as the hotel had been closed for business these few days due to their wedding.

By the time it ended, it was already late at night, around eleven or twelve. Xu Yingchun and several bridesmaids had drunk quite a bit today, so Li Zhenguan arranged for them to stay directly at the hotel. Li Zhenguan’s groomsmen, however, were all night owls. They had also drunk quite a bit by now but still had some consciousness, though they looked drunk. One of them almost fell onto Wang Zhao, nearly causing an embarrassing scene, but fortunately, someone nearby was quick enough to stop him.

Li Zhenguan’s face didn’t look too good at that moment. He stood behind the crowd, and seeing this scene, his expression became somewhat gloomy. However, when someone looked over, his expression had already changed. He stood behind Wang Zhao, telling someone to support the drunk groomsman.

There were four or five groomsmen, only three of whom were his close friends he usually hung out with. The other two were children of relatives from the Li family. The one who almost fell on Wang Zhao was the child of a distant cousin of the Li family. Because he was about the same age as Li Zhenguan, Li Zhenwei had pulled him in to be a groomsman, unexpectedly almost causing an embarrassing scene.

After settling everyone, the two of them didn’t stay at the hotel, even though Li Zhenwei had prepared a room for them there. Instead, Wang Zhao had the Li family’s driver send them back to the Wang family’s place.

Wang Xuechun and Zhang Ke were still awake. After drinking tea with the two of them and giving each a red envelope, they urged the two to go rest quickly. It was late now, and they were very worried about whether Li Zhenguan’s body could hold up.

Because of this, the Li family had specially sent a doctor over to check. After measuring his heartbeat and blood pressure, fortunately, they were all within the normal range, just that his heartbeat was slightly fast, probably due to staying up late.

Wang Zhao’s room had been newly arranged, with all the bedding and some utensils replaced with new ones. For festivity, the main color of the entire room was bright red, true red, with the quilt being a red one.

After the doctor left, Li Zhenguan entered the room with Wang Zhao. He couldn’t help but look around. This room wasn’t actually very big, but Wang Zhao’s traces were everywhere.

He had been here once before but hadn’t looked around too blatantly. Now, thinking that he would be living here for most of the year, Li Zhenguan couldn’t help but feel some indescribable emotions welling up.

The bookshelf full of law books, the pile of exercise books on the desk, the small bedside lamp, the slightly worn carved pattern on the headboard, all spoke of Wang Zhao having lived in this room for many years, having spent her childhood here.

At the top of the bed hung their wedding photo, a rather conventional wedding photo where both of them were smiling at the camera, looking like the sweetest normal wife and husband.

Wang Zhao finished talking with Zhang Ke at the door, sending the two hesitant middle-aged people back to their own rooms, before closing the door. Turning back to Li Zhenguan, who was looking at the photo, she said, “You go wash up first. Some of your luggage has been brought over and is placed next to the wardrobe. We’ll sort out these belongings tomorrow. It’s very late now, let’s rest first. There are clean pajamas in the bathroom, you can use them for now.”

Li Zhenguan came back to his senses. Hearing Wang Zhao’s words, he nodded, his gaze moving down to look at the bed in front of him. For some reason, his heart suddenly started beating violently.

Author’s note:

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