Chapter 22, Chapter 22 (First Update) 022...

Chapter 22, Chapter 22 (First Update) 022...

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Jiang Lai was ultimately held firmly in Ye Anguo's arms and wasn't thrown directly to the ground. Of course, Ye Anguo's initial strength was still there, and even with Ye Anguo as a cushion, Jiang Lai was still thrown around and felt dizzy and saw stars.

Lying in Ye Anguo's arms, Jiang Lai questioned her life. She felt she needed to reconsider whether she should date Ye Anguo; she didn't want to die young.

"Uh... I don't usually do this, Jiang Lai, believe me, I promise I'll control myself and not act recklessly in the future." Ye Anguo explained anxiously to Jiang Lai. It turned out that she had not only thought it in her mind, but also said it out loud, which scared Ye Anguo. He really thought that Jiang Lai was frightened by him, and that his newly dating partner was about to leave.

"I don't think this is the time to talk about this. Please let me get up first," Jiang Lai said awkwardly.

How could it not be awkward? Jiang Lai, who has a high standards for maintaining a clean relationship, has never interacted with anyone like this in her past or present life. It's so awkward.

"Okay." Ye Anguo quickly let go. He had been holding Jiang Lai tightly in his arms to prevent her from getting hurt. When he heard Jiang Lai say that she wanted to reconsider dating him, he thought she had changed her mind and instinctively hugged her tighter.

The only thing to say about their current posture is that it's quite strange, well, not strange, but rather quite ambiguous. If other people saw this, they might think they were flirting.

When Jiang Lai got up, her hand accidentally rested on Ye Anguo's stomach. With the hand of the girl he liked on his abdomen, Ye Anguo subconsciously straightened his chest and pulled in his stomach.

As a result, Jiang Lai could feel the obvious abdominal muscle lines under her palm. Jiang Lai couldn't help but move her fingers. She was really curious about this. She had only seen them on TV or in pictures and didn't know what real abs felt like to touch.

"Wow, those abs are really defined!" Jiang Lai blurted out again, her mouth moving faster than her brain. "Wow, your abs are pretty good. How many are there?"

"Uh... about eight pieces?" Ye Anguo's mind wandered as Jiang Lai touched his hand, and Jiang Lai took the lead in the conversation.

Jiang Lai had already snapped out of her daze when Ye Anguo asked about her abs, and felt incredibly embarrassed, wishing she could disappear into a hole. But Ye Anguo answered with a straight face, leaving Jiang Lai feeling awkward and unable to move on.

Jiang Lai decided to throw caution to the wind, plopped down on the ground, and directly lifted up the hem of his shirt: "I've never seen what abs look like before. Let me see."

Ye Anguo's clothes were lifted, revealing eight clearly defined abs, but not the exaggerated kind. It was the kind of physique Jiang Lai liked, and Jiang Lai whistled in her heart.

Jiang Lai dislikes looking at those exaggerated, large muscles; she personally finds them disgusting. She prefers the kind of physique that looks slim in clothes but muscular when undressed, and Ye Anguo clearly fits that description.

The atmosphere was incredibly ambiguous. Jiang Lai was touching Ye Anguo's abs, and because she had never touched abs before, she was curious and touched them a couple more times, which made Ye Anguo's originally straight back sag.

Ye Anguo's waist and abdomen are sensitive areas. He originally wanted to show off his physique in front of Jiang Lai, but he couldn't stand it when Jiang Lai touched him. So the scene became interesting. Jiang Lai was like a bully in a melodramatic plot, harassing an innocent man, and Ye Anguo was the poor guy being harassed by Jiang Lai.

"Cough cough cough... I have a wooden gun carved from wood, would you like to take a look?" Ye Anguo stood up abruptly. If this continued, he would embarrass himself in front of Jiang Lai.

"Ahem... well, I've never seen it before, so I'm a little curious." Jiang Lai was so embarrassed she could practically dig her toes out of her seat; it was just too awkward.

But that wasn't the most awkward part. The most awkward part was yet to come. Just as the two of them were getting into a very intimate relationship, a naive, curious, and childlike voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Second Uncle, are you kissing this pretty sister? Does that mean I'll have a new little brother or sister soon?"

Jiang Lai choked on her own saliva, coughing until her face and neck were red and swollen. She was so embarrassed, she didn't even need anyone else to feel embarrassed for her; she was already dying of embarrassment herself. It was truly an unprecedented level of embarrassment.

The air seemed to freeze for several seconds before Ye Anguo finally found his voice: "Ye Changqing, didn't you go to your grandmother's house? Why are you back now?"

"Of course, my grandma brought me back," the little boy named Ye Changqing said in his childish voice.

"Gulp..." That was the sound of Ye Anguo swallowing. "Where is your grandmother now? I can't see her."

"Grandma's at my house. She saw your door open, Uncle, and asked me to come over and call you. Grandma picked a lot of sour tangerines for you." Despite Ye Changqing's three-headed figure, his speech was remarkably clear.

However, Ye Anguo's head started to ache as soon as he heard Ye Changqing's words, and he coaxed Ye Changqing in a low voice, "Changqing, did your grandmother come alone?"

"No, there's also my Aunt Xiangxiang." Ye Changqing gave an answer that Ye Anguo clearly didn't want.

"Changqing, go tell your grandma and the others that your second uncle is with friends and doesn't have time to come over," Ye Anguo said to Ye Changqing.

Jiang Lai understood a bit after hearing Ye Anguo's words. This so-called Aunt Xiangxiang was definitely Ye Anguo's unwanted romantic interest. Isn't that how it's always written in novels? Just from this conversation, if Jiang Lai were to write it, she could write a bunch of melodramatic plots. At the very least, she could fill 8 or 10 chapters.

"Second Uncle, can I tell Grandma that I'll be having a little brother or sister soon?" Ye Changqing once again surprised everyone with his words, so much so that Jiang Lai, who had just taken a sip of water, suddenly burst into a "population fountain."

"Little friend, your name is Changqing, right?" Jiang Lai immediately put on a gentle smile and spoke to Ye Changqing.

“Yes, pretty sister, are you going to marry my second uncle and become my second aunt?” Little Ye Changqing’s opening line was a bombshell.

Jiang Lai swallowed hard, and under Ye Anguo's bright gaze, said, "That's right. Since I'm going to be your second aunt, isn't your second aunt your elder? Shouldn't a child listen to adults?"

"You must listen. Changqing is an obedient child." Ye Changqing is still a child and doesn't yet know the wickedness of people.

"How about we make a deal? Look, my sister accidentally fell today, and it was Second Uncle who helped her up, right?" Jiang Lai coaxed gently.

"Yes." Ye Changqing said loudly.

"Won't people laugh at you if you fall down when you're such a grown woman?"

"That's right!" she exclaimed loudly in agreement. "Sister, how could you be so careless?"

"So that others won't laugh at my sister, can you keep this secret for me?"

"Yes, I definitely won't tell Grandma that my sister is such a big girl and still walks carelessly." Ye Changqing nodded vigorously in agreement.

"Then it's settled." Jiang Lai pulled out a handful of fruit candies and successfully bribed Ye Changqing.

Ye Changqing happily walked away with the candy. Jiang Lai wiped non-existent sweat from her forehead. She was shocked to be bumped into by a child while touching Ye Anguo's abs. What a mess this was! Her image was ruined. She was too tired to care anymore.

"What are you laughing at? If it weren't for you, would I have fooled a little kid like this?" Jiang Lai said with dissatisfaction.

"Yes, yes, it was my fault. Don't worry, children don't have good memories, he'll forget about it soon," Ye Anguo said, suppressing a laugh. He thought Jiang Lai was particularly lively and adorable right now.

"I don't want to continue this topic. I want to go home." Jiang Lai puffed out her cheeks. She felt ashamed just thinking about what had just happened, and she wanted to go home.

"Let's stay a little longer. I'm taking the train back to my unit this afternoon. I don't know when I'll have another chance to go home and visit my family." After what had just happened, the distance between the two of them unconsciously shortened. Ye Anguo was reluctant to part with Jiang Lai, and he said it very smoothly, without any of his previous hesitation.

"Your sister-in-law's family is here, don't you need to go and see them?" Jiang Lai was captivated by Ye Anguo's gentle and soft-spoken manner.

"I won't go. Every time I come back, my sister-in-law's mother brings a niece over. If I go, I won't be able to explain myself." Ye Anguo understood perfectly well that he was giving the girl face.

"Sounds like there's a story behind this?" Jiang Lai drawled out the last syllable, originally intending to tease Ye Anguo.

As a result, Ye Anguo thought she had misunderstood, and hurriedly explained, "I really have nothing to do with that person. The year before last, my parents were worried about my marriage, so they found a matchmaker without informing me first. My sister-in-law brought my sister-in-law's cousin over. Before anything was even settled, she immediately told me to send my three children away..."

Speaking of Li Qingqing's cousin, Li Xiangxiang, Ye Anguo was really annoyed. He had never seen such a self-righteous person. As soon as she met Ye Anguo, she said that she would send away the three adopted sons. If they were not sent away, she would send the children back to her hometown to be raised by You Maidong.

Later, he may have heard from Li Qingqing that Ye Wenyu's three adopted sons had brought some money with them, so he tried to find out more from Ye Anguo.

Putting aside what the other person looks like, with such character, even if he were as beautiful as an angel, Ye Anguo wouldn't be tempted.

However, Li Xiangxiang, thinking herself superior because of her looks and being a "married" stepmother, acted arrogantly in front of Ye Anguo, as if he were already her devoted subject. She was completely oblivious to human speech and would cling to him every time he came home, considering herself a member of the Ye family.

"You already have a boyfriend, why are you still avoiding him?" Jiang Lai glared at Ye Anguo in annoyance. Although Jiang Lai understood that Ye Anguo might be scared by Li Xiangxiang's behavior, things were different now. They were already dating, so Ye Anguo's behavior made her think more about it.

"Oh right." Ye Anguo looked like he suddenly realized something, appearing quite naive, but what he said made Jiang Lai feel like she had fallen into a trap: "I have a boyfriend now, Jiang Lai, I'm very happy."

Jiang Lai rolled her eyes without any regard for her image: "So, you said all that just to hear me say this? You think I was joking after talking to Ye Changqing for so long? It's not like I don't acknowledge that you're my boyfriend."

Not only Ye Anguo would put on an act, but Jiang Lai would also pretend to be angry, puffing out her cheeks like a pufferfish.

"Don't be angry." Ye Anguo poked Jiang Lai's puffed-up little face: "I just felt a little unreal, so I wanted to hear you say it again in person."

Jiang Lai slapped away Ye Anguo's mischievous hand: "Try poking me again, or I'll get angry."

"Then I won't poke you anymore, I'll let you touch my abs instead." Ye Anguo grabbed Jiang Lai and placed her on his abdomen.

Jiang Lai's eyes widened in surprise: "I didn't expect you to be a rogue from this brand." To act so smoothly and skillfully as a rogue is quite an achievement. Jiang Lai really wanted to say that this handsome guy had completely ruined his image.

Perhaps it was Jiang Lai's bewildered expression that amused Ye Anguo, for he suddenly burst into laughter, leaving Jiang Lai even more confused: What's so funny about this? Is it really that funny?

However, no one noticed that Ye Anguo, who seemed mature and composed, changed completely when he smiled, as if he had come from the bountiful autumn to the spring when all things are reviving, or even the month full of flowers.

But the next second, all talk of spring and autumn was defeated by Ye Anguo's soft words: "Jiang Lai, I hope you will be in my future."