Xu Tingyu had a rather good sleep this time. The next day, she went to the dance studio full of energy.
She always felt that there were still a few dance moves that didn't meet her requirements. So she changed into a close - fitting training suit and started practicing.
She was so absorbed in her practice that she didn't even notice when someone entered the classroom.
She was originally spinning around, and before she knew it, she spun into someone's arms.
She was greatly startled. Before she could even scream, a hand steadied her waist.
"Be careful."
A deep voice rang in her ear, which really made Xu Tingyu's legs go weak.
She instantly lost her strength and fell directly into Qi Shifeng's arms.
The man caught her steadily and even held her waist, lifting her up.
By the time Xu Tingyu came to her senses and tried to struggle, she had already been placed on the leg - pressing rack.
Qi Shifeng didn't leave but continued to hold her waist. In his jet - black eyes, there was only her reflection.
Xu Tingyu felt her face heating up under his gaze. She subconsciously frowned and said, "Mr. Qi really has great skills. He can even find this place. Who let you in?"
The environment here was quite good. There was a dedicated security guard downstairs, and one needed to swipe an access card to enter.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have been so careless as not to notice someone coming in.
Qi Shifeng curled up a smile. "I just told the old gentleman that I was here to find my wife. After I showed him our photo, he let me in."
"What your wife? And what photo? I have no idea."
Xu Tingyu glared at him and then tried to push away the hand on her waist.
But the man's hand didn't budge. He leisurely took out his phone and showed her the photo.
On the phone screen was actually a selfie. In the front of the frame was her sleeping face, while he was leaning against her in the back.
Obviously, it was taken the night before last while she was asleep.
However, this man wasn't completely despicable. In the photo, her clothes were neat, and she was covered with a quilt.
"I had no idea you had the habit of taking pictures of people while they're asleep. And you even showed it to others. Delete it right away."
As she spoke, she reached out to grab the phone.
Back then, even in their wedding photos, there was no such intimate scene of them leaning against each other. What would this photo look like if it got out?
Qi Shifeng held the phone high above his head. She couldn't reach it at all.
"What's wrong? We're a legal couple. Is there anything wrong with taking some bed photos? Or are you afraid that someone might see this photo?"
Actually, he was lying to Xu Tingyu. The old gentleman downstairs didn't even look at the photo.
He just said he was here to find his wife. The other man sized him up and then let him in directly.
But now seeing Xu Tingyu's strong reaction, he remembered the photos he saw last night and immediately felt annoyed.
She was smiling and chatting happily with Shen Yan. She not only let him stay in the other room of the suite but also smiled at him.
On some foreign web news pages, there were also photos of the two of them attending events.
Even on the official website of Xu Tingyu's company, there were such photos.
It was a company team - building activity. In the last group photo, the two of them were standing on the outermost edge but next to each other, smiling appropriately at the camera.
He tortured himself by looking at those photos. He hardly slept all night and couldn't restrain himself from coming to find her early in the morning.
As a result, there was no one at the hotel. After learning that she had come to practice dancing early in the morning, he followed her here.
He really wanted to ask how much her heart had leaned towards Shen Yan and what he should do to win back some of her affection.
But he didn't dare to ask. He could only force a smile and ask her who she was afraid might see the photo.
How could Xu Tingyu know about all his inner thoughts?
She simply and straightforwardly said, "No one is allowed to see it. If it gets out, it will damage my reputation."
What a "damage to her reputation".
Qi Shifeng was absolutely furious.
"When we first got married, you also secretly took photos of me. I never asked you to delete them."
He got even closer to her, forcefully pushing open her knees and almost pressing himself against her.
Xu Tingyu was stunned for a moment. Then her face turned red, and she subconsciously retorted, "How do you know?"
She did secretly take photos of him.
Back then, they had just gotten married and hadn't shared a bed yet.
She didn't see much of him, but he would spend one day at home on weekends.
Sometimes he would be in the study dealing with official business, or he would stand on the balcony of the study with a cup of coffee in his hand, making a phone call.
When he entered the study, she would crouch in the greenhouse for the whole afternoon.
The greenhouse faced the balcony of his study.
Then when he appeared with a cup of coffee, she would press the shutter.
She liked to see him in such a daily - life state. Unfortunately, she didn't have many opportunities to see it, so she took photos to enjoy slowly.
Later, when they got closer, she would always fall asleep first.
But occasionally, she would wake up suddenly. After waking up, she couldn't help but trace his sleeping face with her eyes.
Later, when she got bolder, she would take out her phone to take photos of his sleeping face.
When he was asleep, he looked much more approachable than usual.
She liked the way he looked when he was asleep.
...
There were many such scenes. She did take a lot of photos of him. She was even afraid that they would be discovered if they were stored in her phone, so she specially registered a network disk.
She set multiple passwords for the network disk, passwords that only she knew.
She always thought she had done it flawlessly, that this was a little trick for her own self - satisfaction.
Unexpectedly, this man had always known?
She was sure that no one had logged into her network disk, so it was impossible for him to have found out later.
Seeing the shock written all over her face, Qi Shifeng couldn't help but smile.
"Do you really think you hid it well back then?"
She would crouch in the greenhouse until her legs went numb and would even use flowers in front of her as a cover.
But unfortunately, he was standing at a higher place and could see everything clearly.
At night, as soon as she moved, he would wake up immediately. How could he not know that she was taking photos of him?
Even occasionally, he would think about playing a prank and suddenly open his eyes to see her reaction.
But this thought flashed by quickly. Immediately afterwards, he was shocked by the realization that he would even want to play a prank on her.
He was so startled by this thought that he deliberately distanced himself from her even more.
"That was in the past. At least I never showed your photos to others, and they weren't group photos."
She didn't want to recall how stupid she must have looked in his eyes back then. She really wanted to find a hole to crawl into.
Unfortunately, her bravado didn't make Qi Shifeng back down.
He almost opened his arms and hugged her whole body into his arms.
He got close to her ear and whispered, "So, why didn't you take group photos with me? Hmm, wife?"
The last two words rose slightly at the end, with a hoarseness that made one's back tingle.
Xu Tingyu felt a jolt all over her body, and then her face became even hotter than before.
"Don't call me that. I'm not your wife."