The moment those words were uttered,
Alarm bells went off in Li Chuchu's mind.
【Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep! Alarm! Alarm! The villain's actions have deviated from the plot! The host should correct the plot as soon as possible!】
The alarm sounds came one after another, never ceasing. A powerful pressure squeezed in from both sides of her brain simultaneously.
The intense tinnitus made her almost dizzy. The space and time in front of her gradually began to distort. Li Chuchu felt like the world was spinning around her, and she could hardly stand steadily.
There was nothing around for her to hold on to. Relying solely on her instinct, she hugged the person closest to her tightly, as if grasping the last straw of hope. Shaking her head like a rattle, she desperately refused, "I won't leave! I won't leave! Shen Yanshan, I'm willing to stay here. I'm yours in life and will be yours in death. I won't divorce you!"
Please, big villain!
Save her life!
She was so eager to live!
The girl's body was soft and warm. The delicate fragrance of late-blooming magnolias reached him even before the hug. Her hands tightly wrapped around his waist, but Shen Yanshan's body was as stiff as if it were filled with cement. Even his breathing became cautious.
The sudden hug was like a bucket of cold water, dousing the momentary tyranny and irritation in Shen Yanshan from head to toe.
He couldn't help but want to hug her back.
At this moment, Shen Yanshan realized that he wasn't as decisive as he thought.
At least he couldn't be decisive when it came to Li Chuchu.
Desires were insatiable,
And Li Chuchu had already stepped into his desires.
Shen Yanshan raised his hand and gently placed it on her back. The movement was so light that Li Chuchu hardly noticed it.
Li Chuchu felt the whistling sound in her brain gradually weaken and finally let out a sigh of relief. She really didn't want to experience that intense sense of suffocation ever again.
She slowly loosened her grip on Shen Yanshan's waist.
Shen Yanshan felt the emptiness in his arms as a cold breeze blew in. It was as if the previous hug had just been an empty dream.
Li Chuchu's mind was spinning at high speed, thinking about how to quickly dispel Shen Yanshan's idea of divorce. She explained, "Shen Yanshan, I won't divorce you. I did a lot of wrong things before, but it was just a moment of youthful confusion."
Although Shen Yanshan's heart was in turmoil, his face remained calm as ever. "So you're sober now?"
Li Chuchu said seriously, "I've never been more sober."
Shen Yanshan felt as if his heart had been gently bumped by something.
Li Chuchu wished she could raise four fingers to swear her sincerity to the sky. Unfortunately, Shen Yanshan's expression was indifferent, as if he wasn't interested in anything she said.
She had no choice but to give up. Out of the corner of her eye, she sized up Shen Yanshan's expression and tentatively asked, "Then... what kind of person did you originally fancy as a marriage partner? I think I'll study hard to be a good wife."
The system really should give her a silk banner!
Even at this moment, she was still thinking about completing the mission.
Shen Yanshan's expression paused for a moment, as if he was stumped. He looked up at Li Chuchu, his eyes filled with a certain kind of inquiry.
Li Chuchu raised her hand and swore, "I'm really being honest. I don't have any other thoughts."
Shen Yanshan pursed his lips slightly and curled the corner of his mouth. He used a playful smile to hide his inner uneasiness. "I fancy someone who is honest and has no other thoughts as a marriage partner."
Li Chuchu thought to herself: Why do I feel like I've been hit? Is he implying that I wasn't honest and had other thoughts before?
She coughed lightly. "Okay, I'll figure it out. Let's have dinner first."
Shen Yanshan stared at Li Chuchu for a long time without saying a word.
It wasn't until he saw her really concentrating on what she was doing that a hint of disappointment flashed in his eyes. This emotion disappeared in an instant and was quickly hidden beneath his calm demeanor.
...
When the food was brought into the room, the spicy aroma of the stir-fried pork with chili peppers mixed with the fragrance of the rice. The steam rising from the corn and spare rib soup kept rising, filling the room with a homely smell.
This kind of fragrance was something Shen Yanshan had only smelled when passing by other people's houses before.
His tense nerves relaxed.
Li Chuchu sat across from him and handed him the counted chopsticks.
"Let's eat."
Shen Yanshan took the chopsticks.
He picked up a piece of stir-fried pork with chili peppers. The chili peppers were crispy, and the taste of the pork was even more fragrant than that in the state-run restaurant.
Shen Yanshan looked up at the few dishes on the table and silently calculated in his mind.
There were two meat dishes, one was stir-fried pork with chili peppers and the other was spare ribs stewed with corn. In addition, there was also a plate of small green vegetables. Just this one meal probably used more than a pound of meat. He remembered that the last time they ate at home was also congee with lean meat.
He suddenly asked, "Do we still have meat coupons at home?"
Li Chuchu stopped her chopsticks. "Yes, we do. Why?"
Most of those meat coupons were for half a pound or a pound. Shen Yanshan had given her a lot of them. She hadn't counted them carefully, but there were probably still some left.
"It's okay. Let's eat."
If he liked to eat, it wasn't a big deal. He could just figure out a way to get some more.
After dinner,
The two of them sat at the table, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward.
Li Chuchu thought Shen Yanshan would still talk about topics like divorce, but he didn't mention it at all.
"I'm going on a long trip to Rongcheng the day after tomorrow. It'll probably take five or six days to come back."
Shen Yanshan's fingers gently tapped on the table. This was his habitual action when he was thinking. "After that, I may also plan to set up a factory. As you can see, I'll have to travel around most of the time and can't always be at home. So... when you occasionally want to find me, I may not be around. Can you accept all this?"
【Ding! Mission completed! Achievement unlocked: A heart-to-heart conversation with the big villain! Mission reward: Love-struck value +5, total: 25】
【Money value +2000, total: 2100. Please check carefully, host!】
The mission was finally completed.
Li Chuchu's mood instantly brightened. She nodded without hesitation. "Of course I can."
Shen Yanshan looked deeply at Li Chuchu.
"You know my background. What I'm doing now is very risky. Once I'm reported and exposed, all my efforts may go to waste. You may also be implicated. Aren't you scared?"
This sentence seemed to be testing Li Chuchu, but in fact, it was also persuading himself. He was sure that Li Chuchu would be scared and wanted to use her reaction to persuade himself to back down.
However,
"I have nothing to be scared of." Li Chuchu said matter-of-factly. "Moreover, you will definitely succeed. Otherwise, I wouldn't be here."
Shen Yanshan choked. His always narrow and gloomy eyes were now full of astonishment. The words that followed seemed to be stuck in his throat and he couldn't say them no matter what.
He himself wasn't even sure about this,
How... how could she be so certain?
However, Li Chuchu had seen through all of Shen Yanshan's awkwardness and uneasiness behind his repeated questions. She suddenly realized that the big villain was also an ordinary person who would occasionally doubt himself.
Although she didn't know where this sense of insecurity came from, since she had enjoyed the benefits brought by the big villain, she might as well encourage him a little.
...