Chapter 550 - 580: What If You Spoil Me Rotten?
Old Mrs. Qin didn’t have many opinions of her own, so she went wherever her son arranged for her to go. And while she did favor boys over girls, Qin Na was her own daughter, after all. When she heard that her daughter had given birth to a big, healthy boy, the old woman was delighted.
Qin Xiaolan made a face at Qin Jiao.
’See? She still likes boys best.’
With Old Mrs. Qin following Qin Zhonghui and his family to North City, Qin Bogang and his family also returned to the county town to resume their routine lives. The Qin family, once so prosperous in the village and the envy of many, had scattered just like that.
Still, some people envied Old Mrs. Qin for getting to go enjoy life in the city. Word was that her second son had opened a restaurant, her granddaughter had become a factory director’s wife, and her youngest daughter had just given her husband a big, healthy son.
Villagers loved to pass the time gossiping about day-to-day affairs. The talk was about Qin Na’s second marriage: she’d given birth to a big, healthy boy, and her new husband was especially successful—a manager of some sort, they heard. Eventually, this news reached the family of her first husband.
The first husband had accidentally beaten his second wife to death in a drunken rage. Not only was he locked up and sentenced to twenty years, but his family also had to pay a great deal of compensation to the Lin Family.
And after hearing the news that Qin Na had given birth to a big, healthy son, everyone understood. So it wasn’t Qin Na who couldn’t have children back then—it was your family!
Of course, Qin Na was no longer around to hear any of this idle gossip. In truth, she was delighted to have her mother there to help with her postpartum recovery.
After dropping Mrs. Qin off at her aunt Qin Na’s place, Qin Jiao headed back to school. With final exams just around the corner, she was the type of person who wouldn’t let anything get in the way of her studies.
Whenever she felt like she didn’t have enough time, she would go home at night and enter the space to study.
Time flowed more slowly in there, so she could cover more material.
A neglected Shen Yi had finally returned from his research trip to the South, so he started holing up in the space with her. While Qin Jiao studied, he studied too, never letting his own schoolwork fall behind. After he finished his books, he would pick up his brush and sketch Qin Jiao as she studied so diligently.
When Qin Jiao got tired of studying, Shen Yi would cut up some fruit or pour a glass of warm milk and place it by her side.
Qin Jiao said, "Shen Yi, you’re so good to me. What am I going to do if you spoil me rotten?"
Shen Yi replied, "You’re my wife. I like spoiling you. What’s wrong with that?"
Qin Jiao laughed. "If you spoil me rotten, no one else will want me later on. My temper in this life is much worse than it was in my last one."
Shen Yi’s eyes widened at her words. "What’s that? Are you planning on letting someone else have you? Let me tell you, Classmate Qin Jiao, not a chance! You’re stuck with me for life! No, not just this life—the next one, and the one after that, we’re tied together for good. It’s a dead knot. It can’t be undone!"
As he spoke, he leaned in and kissed her.
Qin Jiao: "..."
’We were having a perfectly normal conversation. Why did you suddenly have to use your mouth?’
But since neither of them planned on having children yet, figuring they would wait until after graduation, they were always very careful. However, perhaps because of some kind of bonus effect from being in the space, their intimate moments there were always exceptionally enchanting.
The two of them spent quite a lot of time in the space. Most of the time, their neighbors probably thought the young couple was never even home.
When they emerged from the space, they took turns taking hot showers. As Shen Yi came out, drying his hair with a towel in one hand, he walked over to the window where Qin Jiao was standing and looking down at something.
"Jiao Jiao, what are you looking at?"
"Shen Yi, look. It’s snowing."