This beautiful woman, with her alluring and unrestrained appearance, was incredibly cautious and serious in matters of the heart, giving Bie Yunzong a strong sense of security. During this seven-year relationship, he rarely felt insecure or wavered—aside from the two incidents of arguing and returning to her parents' home, and the hotel paparazzi incident, Bie Yunzong never experienced heartache or grievance.
Of course, his slow reaction time and fluctuating emotional intelligence also contribute to this.
Su Yanxi is like the nine-tailed fox in ancient mythology, representing pure love. She is not only a living symbol of loving only one person in a lifetime, but also fulfills all of Bie Yunzong's fantasies about love and partners.
Before meeting Su Yanxi, Bie Yunzong had never experienced love. But after meeting Su Yanxi, Bie Yunzong's mind was filled with love.
My mind is filled with thoughts of my wife! This person must be my wife for this life, the next life, and the life after that—forever and ever!
"In short, your mother gives me enough security, while I don't give your mother enough security." Bie Yunzong sighed softly, releasing the kitten that was trying to walk away. "Wife... wife is too outstanding. Whether as a wife or an actress, wife always performs well and takes on all the responsibilities."
"As for me, I still have a lot to learn about being a husband."
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For example, how can I give my wife enough security so that she no longer doubts or worries about me?
For example, how can one be as decisive and efficient as their wife? His wife once started preparing a birthday gift for his aunt more than half a year in advance; but him? He was flustered and almost couldn't even handle the anniversary surprise.
It will be soon.
The anniversary is in a month, and we should be able to finish it before then.
Bie Yunzong, who was lying on the bed in a starfish position, staring blankly at the carved ceiling, suddenly sat up, picked up the laptop on the bedside table, and began to study the planning map of the commercial street.
"Is there anything else wrong? Is there anything we haven't taken care of? Can we urge them again?" In Su Yanxi's absence, Bie Yunzong would act unusually serious and attentive. "This place... is a bit strange?"
His shrewish and unruly behavior is reserved for his wife and family—that's where he's most vulnerable and intimate. As for strangers? They'll only see his dark side.
Bie Yunzong was completely absorbed in planning the anniversary surprise, so engrossed in his work that he lost track of time. It wasn't until he heard a commotion coming from the first floor that he snapped out of his serious state, quickly closed all documents and images, composed himself, and went downstairs to pick up his wife.
"Wife—!"
The moment he stepped out of the bedroom, Bie Yunzong was once again that shameless, bratty dog.
"Waaaa, wife, I missed you! Why are you only coming back now?" Bie Yunzong hurried downstairs, and as soon as he reached the first floor, he opened his arms enthusiastically, ready to hug that beautiful, slender, gray-purple figure. "Give me a hug! Give me a hug!"
Bie Yunzong screamed inwardly, thinking, "Great! My wife didn't remove her makeup or change her clothes—she came back wearing the archangel outfit that he regarded as a goddess descended from heaven, with her full makeup on!"
Oh my god, it's so beautiful! How can his wife be so beautiful and charming? Such a gorgeous woman deserves all the honors and praise in the world!
"You're so beautiful, so gorgeous!" Bie Yunzong hugged Xiangxiang's wife tightly, taking a deep breath as he leaned close to her, mesmerized. "This outfit suits you so well, and your makeup is gorgeous too; I want to buy all three outfits you're wearing tonight so you can wear them every day!"
Perhaps it was because the maid was present, but his wife seemed rather cold. She neither responded to his embrace nor engaged in any flirtatious banter. His beautiful wife merely gave him a cold, sidelong glance, her lips slightly parted.
"Let's talk in the room."
Bie Yunzong was completely bewildered, but obediently followed his wife back to their room.
He thought his wife meant "let's go back to the room" to discuss buying clothes, since that was the topic she'd brought up earlier. But to his surprise, as soon as he entered the bedroom, Su Yanxi turned around, locked the door, and glared at him fiercely.
"come over."
Normally, when a wife locks the bedroom door, it's a very "good" sign! It means she wants to do something intimate with him that she doesn't want to be disturbed or seen by outsiders.
But tonight, his wife was in a rage, clearly not looking to give him meat. Bie Yunzong carefully considered his tone before timidly approaching the chaise lounge where his wife was sitting.
"What's wrong, honey?"
"Nothing much."
Su Yanxi tossed her expensive handbag onto the carpet beside her, her tone light and casual, but a closer look revealed that beneath her seemingly indifferent words lay a burning rage.
"I just want to hear about your engagement to your 'ex-fiancée'."
"You must be the eldest daughter of the Xie family. Are you prettier than me, or more attractive to you that makes you take the initiative to show your affection?"
Author's Note:
It's about to explode! Hehe~
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Thank you for the 7 bottles of Yakult – I promise I'll never change my email address again!
With the Lunar New Year approaching, Su Su, who is extremely disciplined in her diet and prioritizes health, reminds everyone: while indulging in rich and fatty foods, don't forget to consume probiotics!
#70 My only thought is that you're the one who's having this thought!
"Huh?" Bie Yunzong frowned in confusion, his eyelids twitching involuntarily. "What ex-fiancée? I don't understand a word you're saying."
Bie Yunzong asked his wife with a puzzled expression, but his heart skipped a beat, and he knew something was wrong!
Is the Xie family's eldest daughter that my wife mentioned the same Xie family's heiress that my brother mentioned before? Help! This matter isn't over yet? He thought my brother had already resolved it!
"Still pretending?" Su Yanxi wasn't easily fooled. She stood up abruptly, grabbed her husband by the neck, her pretty face contorted with rage. "You bastard, I saw your eyelids twitch! You're definitely hiding something from me, so you're feeling guilty, aren't you?"
Su Yanxi's grip on the neck was like a tickle to the tall and strong Bie Yunzong. Even so, the panicked dog still grabbed his wife's hand first, anxiously adding, "I really don't know!"
"If you're just talking about Miss Xie, I can explain a bit; but if you're asking about my fiancée, I'm completely clueless!"
Su Yanxi angrily let go, tidied her disheveled hair, and regained her composure: "Tell me, tell me everything. Whether you're the young lady or the fiancée, tell me everything you've been hiding!"
"Alright, alright, I'll tell you, I'll tell you." Bie Yunzong tried to calm Su Yanxi down, coaxing his wife gently as he pulled her to sit on the chaise lounge. "I assure you, it's not something that's disloyal or detrimental to you. It's just that I've temporarily kept it from you for business and family interests."
Unexpectedly, Bie Yunzong's words overlapped with those of Qi Xiang'an and Song Jinlan. Su Yanxi thought to herself, "No way, no way, could 'business and family interests' refer to a marriage alliance?"
His biggest and strongest backer, his most proud in-laws, had actually fallen so low that they had to rely on marriage alliances between their descendants to maintain their status and power.
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Su Yanxi started to let her mind wander again, with a million strange and illogical ideas flashing through her mind. She completely forgot that YUNSO Group had just acquired a bunch of poorly managed niche brands not long ago—there was absolutely no possibility that they would fall into decline!
"Honey, don't be angry, okay? You've been busy all day, and you just got back from the fashion gala. You must be exhausted. Let's sit down and rest for a bit, so you don't get too worked up and hurt yourself."
Seeing that the stinky dog was about to sit on the chaise lounge, Su Yanxi hurriedly kicked the scoundrel away.
"Who gave you permission to sit?" The beautiful owner, exuding authority tonight, fiercely reprimanded the restless, stinky dog. "Squat down!"
Bie Yunzong obediently knelt down on one knee, clinging to the armrest of the chaise lounge with a pitiful expression: "Wife..."
"Don't play the victim. I'm not so easily fooled tonight." Su Yanxi snorted unhappily, reclining arrogantly on the chaise lounge. "You rascal, if I don't keep an eye on you for a while, you'll cause trouble!"
“But I’m innocent…” Bie Yunzong deliberately squeezed out teary eyes and looked at his beautiful wife with a wronged expression. “If you want to scold me for other things, I will readily admit it; but if you’re talking about Miss Zhou’s matter, then it really wasn’t me who caused it.”
"If it wasn't you who caused this, then who was?" Su Yanxi said irritably. "Today was supposed to be a day for me to slap someone in the face and have a good time, but because of you, I almost felt so frustrated!"
Comparing the two scenarios, the feeling of being slapped in the face by Song Jinlan was the most frustrating and unpleasant of the three experiences he had had so far! First, Song Jinlan's mental state was unstable, and she admitted her mistakes and gave up too quickly, leaving Su Yanxi with no way to use the many tricks she had prepared; second, just as he was about to "retire successfully," Song Jinlan told him the complete version of that rumor that made him so angry and depressed, a rumor that he had never heard of in detail before!
The words "childhood sweethearts" and "innocent childhood friends" made Su Yanxi's teeth itch. On one hand, she wished she could drag Qi Xiang'an out of prison, press him in front of her, and interrogate him carefully. On the other hand, she wanted to rush home and teach that stinky dog who was hiding something a lesson!
"It's all your fault!" Su Yanxi punched the stinky dog's head with her little fist. "If you don't explain yourself clearly tonight, neither of us will be able to sleep tonight!"
Although Su Yanxi was angry, she didn't threaten divorce or break up as she had done in the previous outbursts. Noticing this, Bie Yunzong secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking, "Thank goodness, my wife still has some sense of reason and affection left!"
Bie Yunzong sorted out his thoughts and pulled the timeline back to after he reunited with his wife, when he and his wife parted ways at Nanxiang Airport and he returned to Beicheng to find his grumpy old brother.
He briefly explained the cooperative relationship between the other families and the Xie family, then mentioned his relationship with the Xie family's daughter, and finally added that he had made some jokes about the Xie family's daughter when he was a child.
It was that remark, "If you don't have a partner, just settle down together," that caused this whole series of troubles.
"Wife, I have no other thoughts about you! I don't have many memories from when I was eleven or twelve, so naturally I don't remember what I said or what promises I made."
"Besides, that wasn't really a 'promise.' It was just something I said casually when we were getting along well; I didn't mean it!"
Bie Yunzong pulled up the handwritten letter from Miss Xie's WeChat on his phone. The letter itself was too dangerous and too damaging to him; if his wife found it, he would face her wrath! Therefore, the letter was still sealed in Bie Congrui's office, and he didn't even dare to save the picture file; he could only find it on WeChat to show his wife.
"Waaah, honey, do you understand what I mean?" Bie Yunzong handed over the phone, his puppy-dog face contorted in a fake sob. "I've been wronged and framed. I really didn't do anything wrong to you, honey!"
Su Yanxi gripped Bie Yunzong's large-screen phone and smacked the stinky dog's head hard.
"Shut up, stop whining and acting pitiful." Not content with just knocking him, Su Yanxi flicked Bie Yunzong's forehead. "You lecherous scoundrel, how dare you cry foul?"
Bie Yunzong timidly covered his head, remaining in a squatting position on one knee, pleading with a pitiful puppy-dog face: "Stop hitting me, if you keep hitting my head I'll really go crazy..."
"You deserve it!" Su Yanxi said sternly. "Why were you so irresponsible when you were young, flirting with everyone you met? So what if you were young? So what if you didn't know any better? Is that a reason for making promises so easily?"
After clarifying the general course of events, Su Yanxi's anger subsided considerably. It seemed that the rumors of a "family marriage" and a "former fiancée" were most likely false; the Xie family's widespread dissemination of these false rumors was probably an attempt to put pressure on other families through public opinion, hoping to persuade them to agree to a more lucrative contract renewal.
But the false claim was about a marriage alliance, not a promise from Bie Yunzong. Bie Yunzong did make a promise to Miss Xie when he was young—even if it was just a casual remark, it was still a promise; and because of this "promise," the Bie family, which was both ruthless and compassionate, was forced into a passive position.
“If you’ve made a promise, you can’t blame the girl for taking it to heart. What you consider a joke might carry a lot of weight to a girl.” Su Yanxi was angry about this. “Don’t be so indulgent. You shouldn’t make promises to people so easily.”
Bie Yunzong felt incredibly wronged, thinking to herself, "How could I have known that what I said when I was eleven or twelve would be taken as truth?"
If we follow this logic, all sorts of relationships in the world would be in chaos! His childhood friend, whom he grew up with, once said he wanted to marry his kindergarten's foreign teacher!
Under pressure from his wife's authority, Bie Yunzong reluctantly admitted his mistake: "I'm sorry, wife, I know I was wrong... All I've ever thought about is marrying you and spending my whole life with you. It's all just talk to others!"
"No, you don't need to apologize so reluctantly."
Faced with Bie Yunzong's apology and explanation, Su Yanxi just rolled her eyes.
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"How could I not know you? You're the kind of person who gets lustful at the sight of a beautiful woman. You must have been just like you were when you were a child, loving beauty and being lustful! It must have been because you saw that the Xie family's daughter was pretty that you casually flirted with her and made promises."
"How...how does this relate to me having lustful thoughts?"
Bie Yunzong was almost speechless.
“I admit that Miss Xie is indeed quite beautiful, but I absolutely did not flirt with her! I was just talking nonsense with her – it was just a casual joke, I didn’t think about it at all, and it certainly wasn’t a ‘promise’.”
“Honey, you can say that I’m being irresponsible by making this kind of joke, but you can’t say that I’m lustful! I only felt ‘lust’ for Miss Xie, I had absolutely no ‘lust’.”
"Yes, yes, you're full of twisted logic." Su Yanxi didn't believe her husband's words. "We've been together for seven years, and I can't even count the number of times you've been unfaithful on two hands! You say you won't be tempted by women, but what about in reality?"
"Do you think I haven't noticed? You've started acting strangely again lately. When I ask you where you've been, you stammer and won't tell me. Who knows if you've gone somewhere to 'lustfully' meet someone again!"
Su Yanxi pursed her lips speechlessly.
"The explanation is ineffective; it is rejected."
"But I really only saw you having feelings for me!" Bie Yunzong cried out in protest, feeling as if he could stand shoulder to shoulder with Dou E. "Before I met you, I never had the idea of managing a relationship; I didn't even have the idea, let alone whether I was serious or not, or whether I made any promises."
"It was your appearance that made me see the possibility and made me want to fall in love, get married and settle down."
"You're so glib." Su Yanxi turned her face away. "If you're really as innocent as you say, then explain why you've been acting so strangely and why you've been leaving early and returning late."
"If you can give a legitimate reason, you can turn over a new leaf here and erase all your 'dark history' together."
Bie Yunzong opened his mouth but then shut it again, struggling with whether or not to tell the truth.