It's almost ten o'clock. It's a beautiful day, sunny but not scorching, the air moist and full of the vitality of spring.
Gu Chen holds Ji Pianran in his arms and walks with his head bowed.
She was very light, her body was soft, and she had a special fragrance, a bit like gardenia.
Holding her in his arms, he felt a faint sense of unreality.
Gu Chen seemed to smell the hint of warmth brought by her breathing.
Looking at such a beautiful face, feeling the soft and fragrant body in his arms,
Gu Chen's heartbeat uncontrollably skipped a beat, and all the blood in his body seemed to have congealed in that instant.
The next second, it flowed even faster towards his heart.
That pounding was almost unbearable.
Gu Chen's house was not big, and it didn't take long to reach Ji Pianran's room.
Ji Pianran quickly untied Gu Chen's neck and opened the door together.
Ji Pianran's room was really simple, with no decorations. A red silk banner hung from the wooden beams of the ceiling, which they had hung when they got married.
There was a bed, a wardrobe, and nothing else.
Gu Chen took a deep breath to calm herself down.
'Where are the sanitary napkins? I'll go get them.'
Hearing that Gu Chen was going to get such intimate things for herself,
Ji Pianran sniffed and her eyes became flustered. She said nervously, 'I'd better go get them myself.'
After saying that, she struggled to get out of Gu Chen's arms.
Because the family was poor, she had always used toilet paper.
These days, many people in the village use toilet paper. The kind sold in bulk is rough, but it costs just 50 cents for a big pack and lasts a long time.
The key is that it's cheap. Sanitary napkins are still sold in bulk at 30 cents each, which is really expensive compared to toilet paper.
She didn't know how to tell Gu Chen.
'I'll go instead. Don't move. Just stand here,'
Gu Chen said gently as he gently placed her on the ground.
Ji Pianran pursed her lips, her face a little embarrassed.
Gu Chen rubbed her eyebrows, she was having such a hard time walking, what else was she carrying.
She might as well go herself.
After he said that, he started looking around. He looked back and forth in her room.
Seeing how persistent he was, Ji Pianran had no choice. She clenched her hands together, blushed, and whispered, 'It's in the cupboard,'
But she was afraid that Gu Chen might not be able to find it, so she added, 'It's at the bottom of the cabinet.'
'Okay,' Gu Chen agreed, and walked straight to the cabinet.
He reached up and grabbed the handle on the wooden cabinet, then squatted down to help Ji Pianran find the sanitary napkins.
He searched back and forth a few times where Ji Pianran had said it was.
He didn't find any sanitary napkins, but there were two thick packages of toilet paper and a set of underwear.
They were black and quite nice.
This scene made Gu Chen's temples throb uncontrollably.
He was, after all, a young man full of blood and passion, at the peak of his energy.
Besides, Ji Pianran was his wife whom he had married in a proper ceremony.
She was the one he loved, his beloved!
If he didn't forget about that aspect, then he was not a normal person.
Ji Pianran saw that he had stopped moving, as if in a daze, and subconsciously wondered what else was in the cupboard.
Her heart suddenly felt tight.
Damn it!
His underwear was still in there!
There was no privacy at all now!
Her heartbeat suddenly became so fast that it seemed like it was going to fly out of her throat.
For a moment, time seemed to have come to a standstill. The room was quiet, and except for the sound of her own heartbeat, Ji Pianran couldn't hear anything else. She even felt like her brain was a little oxygen-deprived.
She couldn't remember how she'd managed to blurt out the fact that she'd been using toilet paper.
She could only feel her own heartbeat, powerful and true, one after the other.
But just because she didn't remember, didn't mean that Gu Chen didn't.
He admitted that in that moment, he really almost couldn't hold back.
But when he heard that Ji Pianran had actually used toilet paper,
his heart felt like it had been stung by something, and it hurt, and it squeezed for a moment.
His daughter-in-law had actually used toilet paper?
How utterly failed he had turned out to be.
God.
He trembled as he took a pack of toilet paper from the cupboard and walked towards Ji Pianran.
He held her tightly in his arms, his heart aching.
Over and over, he whispered his apologies, 'I'm sorry, Pianran, I'm sorry.'
He really hadn't fulfilled his responsibilities as a husband.
He had caused her to be short of money everywhere, living in hardship, causing her to borrow money from everywhere, being looked down upon, all because of his own irresponsibility.
Ji Bianran froze for a moment, completely taken aback by Gu Chen's reaction.
She reached out and gently patted Gu Chen on the back, 'It's nothing, everyone does it.'
She had even had Zhou Nan from the village buy her toilet paper. But then again, Zhou Nan's family was also well-known in the village as a poor family.
Gu Chen felt really bad inside, and she was actually comforting herself.
Thinking about the days when Ji Bianran had endured alone with gritted teeth, he was truly ashamed.
He tried hard to calm himself down and then spoke.
'Wait for me at home, I'll go buy them for you!'
He then clenched his fists and walked towards the door.
His daughter-in-law must be able to live a normal life!
Seeing that Gu Chen was leaving, Ji Pianran suddenly reached out and grabbed Gu Chen's arm to stop him.
Gu Chen felt his arm being jerked, and then his whole body stopped involuntarily.
He felt uncomfortable, really uncomfortable.
His heart was filled with anger, which he could not vent.
'Don't go, we still have to cook. Sanitary napkins have to be bought at the coal factory's canteen, even if you cycle there, it takes ten minutes, nearly half an hour each way, it's too time-consuming. I'm fine, really.'
Ji Pianran was always calm and collected, and she thought of everything.
The expression on her face when she spoke was extremely serious. Her fair face was tinged with a little red, her moist eyes seemed to be able to speak, and her pretty little mouth moved, her lips red and teeth white.
The whole person looked like a rose with morning dew.
Gu Chen looked at her and felt only a mixture of emotions.
How could she be so good.
Finally, he couldn't hold back any longer and pressed himself against her soft lips.
With a heavy heart full of love and guilt.
Gu Chen's breathing was heavy and a little unsteady.
As he kept getting closer, she could even smell his breath.
It was indistinct, warm and hot.
Ji Pianran's mind went blank, and her heartbeat skipped more than just one beat.
Gu Chen's kiss was so passionate and hot, with a hint of aggression, sweeping inch by inch over every inch of her territory.
She just felt her head thrumming, and her body felt like it was being slightly electrified.
The feeling was wonderful and tense, with a hint of secret joy.
She could hardly breathe.
After a while, Ji Pianran suddenly pushed Gu Chen away and took a sharp breath of air.
If they continued kissing, she would be drowned!
She forced herself to calm down.
'Er, could you go out for a while?'
She hadn't changed her pants yet.
Gu Chen snapped back to reality when he saw the tissue paper that Ji Pianran was clutching tightly in her hand, and blinked, trying to breathe steadily.