"Since you insist, how about reserving your weekends for me? We could go out on dates or anything. You know, so we can get to know each other."
Zhou Yuexi wanted to refute as weekends used to be her alone time but she remembered what they told each other. They both said that they would try to make their marriage work. Zhou Yuexi was never one to run back from her words so she viewed Zhang Yixing's request as the first step into keeping her promise.
"Okay. As long as we make sure to visit grandfather on Sundays it's fine with me."
"Sure thing. I told grandfather myself that we will visit him frequently so I naturally agree.", Zhang Yixing answered. "Our first weekend date starts tomorrow. Is there anything you want to do? Or if you already have something scheduled for tomorrow I can just accompany you."
Zhou Yuexi thought if there's anything she had to do the next day but she was practically free the whole day. "I don't have anything scheduled for tomorrow. I was just planning to rest. You decide, anything's fine with me."
"Since you're planning to rest, how about we go to Flower Spring Resort? Mom and Xiao Qing frequents that hot spring, it's a good place to relieve some stress.", Zhang Yixing suggested.
Zhou Yuexi felt sleepy and yawned before answering. "Okay."
Zhou Yuexi was extremely tired. She woke up early in the morning as she traveled from tbe suburbs to her company building which is in the center of Imperial. All day she was busy doing paperwork and attending meetings. Moreover, the proposals for the companies of the shareholders in Zhou Real Estates were also sent to her today and she meticulously proofread and revised them, not wanting anything to go wrong. Zhou Yuexi is a perfectionist, added to the fact that she never takes things lightly, specially those with regards to her grandfather's company.
She wanted to get back to the old geezers that stole her grandfather's. It was her grandfather's only possession. In order to make it flourish, he sacrificed a lot of things along the way, including his relationship with his daughter. Zhou Yuexi knew that she can not bring her mother back to life but she knows she can at least bring Zhou Real Estates to it's rightful owner, so that all of Elder Zhou's sacrifices will not be in vain.
Zhang Yixing saw that Zhou Yuexi was really sleepy so he said, "Sleep. You must be tired. I'll just wake you up when we get there."
His words were like magic words, as soon as he finished Zhou Yuexi's eyes fluttered shut and she drifted off to dream land.
Zhou Yuexi looked so peaceful while sleeping. There was a faint smile on her lips as she slept. She seemed happy and careless even in her slumber. Her delicate face looked as calm as ever, her eyes lightly shut and her plum red lips slightly agape. Her beauty even when asleep is a sight to behold.
Zhang Yixing who was focused in driving, shot occasional glances on his quietly dozing wife. The more he looked, the more he found it hard to keep his eyes from staring and focus on the road.
Fighting the struggle, he stepped on the accelerator and drove quickly. In less than half an hour, he managed to reach his villa in Regal Palace. Good thing the traffic was light since it was just a few minutes before midnight.
When Zhang Yixing parked his car in the garage, he turned to Zhou Yuexi who was still enjoying her sleep. He wanted to wake her up but found his self staring at his gorgeous wife. Zhou Yuexi had no signs of waking up on her own and her posture while sleeping looked too uncomfortable but Zhang Yixing doesn't have the heart to destroy her rest when it was clearly visible how exhausted she was.
Zhang Yixing was having an internal battle with his self whether to just carry Zhou Yuexi inside the house or just let Zhou Yuexi wake up on her own accord.
"But what if she doesn't wake up and spends the night here?", he worriedly thought.
After a few seconds of contemplation he decided to do the former.
"I'm not doing anything that crosses the line, we are a married couple after all. What's so wrong with a husband carrying his wife home?", he thought, trying to fight the tingling feeling of awkwardness.
Zhang Yixing stepped out of the car and went to the other side where Zhou Yuexi was. He opened the door as gentle as possible, trying to create the least sound he could make. He was very careful, afraid that even the slightest movement would wake Zhou Yuexi up.
Zhang Yixing's mind was a nervous mess for it was the first time that he would carry someone in his arms, let alone a beautiful and charming woman like his wife. So he first took a deep breath and released it then he snaked his left hand around Zhou Yuexi's waist and supported her legs with the other.
When the servants heard the sound of Zhang Yixing's car stop, they all lined up by the entrance in two lines to greet him. But when they caught sight of their master with Zhou Yuexi asleep in his hands, they were sensible enough not to greet and just bowed as sign of respect.
Zhang Yixing went straight upstairs, into their bedroom and laid Zhou Yuexi into the king sized bed gently.
It was quite a while that Zhang Yixing carried Zhou Yuexi in his arms but he wasn't even an ounce tired. Zhou Yuexi was as light as feather, and it can be seen in her body frame.
Zhou Yuexi was 1.75 meters tall and has a slim body. Zhang Yixing estimates that she was just a few over 40 kilos, a far cry from the normal weight she should have. He made a mental note to always feed Zhou Yuexi nutritious food and help her gain weight.
Zhang Yixing stared at Zhou Yuexi who was in deep sleep, totally unaware of the things happening around her. He loosened his neck tie and removed his coat then sat at the other side of the bed, his eyes never leaving Zhou Yuexi.
The more he stared at his wife, the more he felt the urge to treat her well and give her the best of the best things in the world.
At first Zhang Yixing felt they could at most, be house mates that minds their own business. But as he got to know about Zhou Yuexi's background story and seeing how she pushes her self to be a strong and independent woman, he wanted to be a knight in shining armor that saves the damsel in distress, Zhou Yuexi.
He wanted her to be like how a woman her age should be, enjoying all the best things in life and not spending her days worn off from all the workload and stress she have to carry on her shoulders. He wants to give Zhou Yuexi all the pampering that she deserves.
Zhang Yixing himself was tired so he left his soundly sleeping wife and called a female servant to help Zhou Yuexi change into comfortable pajamas. Then, he went to the bathroom and took a shower. After he was done, he laid silently next to Zhou Yuexi and drifted off to sleep.
...
Morning the next day.
Zhou Yuexi woke up at exactly 5 a.m. as if her body has it's own clock. She sat up and lightly scrubbed her eyes. She scanned her eyes all around the room, only to notice it to be so unfamiliar.
"Where is this? How did I get here?", Zhou Yuexi thought to her self.
When she looked to her side, she saw a fast asleep Zhang Yixing. She was shocked when she realized that they have slept together. She quickly checked her clothes and was petrified as she was on set of pajamas. Zhou Yuexi racked her brains to remember how she got into new set of clothes. She then again turned to the sleeping Zhang Yixing and her eyes opened widely as her mind pointed into one conclusion.
"We didn't do it, did we?!", she disbelievingly thought to her self.
While Zhou Yuexi was busy having a fight with her self as to why she can't remember everything that happened or if 'something' happened, Zhang Yixing being the light sleeper that he is, was awoken by her movements. The first thing he saw as he opened his eyes was a Zhou Yuexi glaring at her pajamas and slapping her self.
Zhang Yixing could already get the gist of what was happening but he enjoyed watching his wife's pantomime act. Instead of clearing things up, he decided to prank Zhou Yuexi.
"Good morning, darling.", Zhang Yixing greeted.
Zhou Yuexi's mind seem to have stopped when she heard Zhang Yixing speak. She was so shocked to having been discovered chastising her self that she just stopped moving, her hand that was supposed to spap her got stuck in mid air.
Zhang Yixing chortled to Zhou Yuexi's reaction, it was exactly like how he imagined it would be. But of course he wasn't about to stop there.
"What were you doing? So early in the morning and you're so energetic. Just a few hours ago, you look super exhausted.", Zhang Yixing said as if hinting something.
There wasn't really anything wrong in what Zhang Yixing said, Zhou Yuexi was indeed exhausted the night before. But added to the thoughts that are already running through Zhou Yuexi's mind, his words only caused chaos. It was like adding fuel to the fire.
Zhou Yuexi looked at Zhang Yixing in terror, thinking that something really happened between them. She was so embarrassed to even face Zhang Yixing that she resorted to acting ignorant. "What do you mean exhausted?"
Zhang Yixing frowned, continuing his act. "You mean, you don't remember what happened last night?", he probed.
"Of course you don't remember what happened, you were dead asleep!", Zhang Yixing laughed internally.