Lu Yi's entire body froze, and her brain felt like an old building that had fallen into disrepair, and on the day it was demolished, it suddenly collapsed with a loud explosion, sending up a huge mushroom cloud of dust.
After you get to know Lin Jinshen for a while, you will realize that he can say anything, and he says it in a serious tone without the slightest evil thought.
Business is business.
Even in married life, what has to be done has to be done.
Three times a day, okay?
Lu Yi didn't dare to say it for fear that he really could.
With her face burning hot and tense, she tried her best to remain calm and asked, "Do we have to do it tonight?
Since she couldn't sleep anyway, she might as well find something to do.
"Do you need the light on?" Lin Jinshen asked in return.
"No!"
But how do we start?
Lu Yi felt the side of the bed sink a little, and Lin Jinshen stood up, bent down, and pulled the top half of the pajamas off, revealing a slender waist.
She didn't look, but she smelled and heard, and her mind filled in the picture for her.
Lin Jinshen had always worked out, and today, as she got wet and her pajamas clung to her skin, she could vaguely see his muscular barriers with clear lines.
"Do you need help?" asked the soft voice next to her.
Lu Yi snapped back to reality, said no, and slowly raised her arm, her fingertips resting on the first button.
Since the last time he had asked her to add a layer of clothing to her sundress, she had stopped wearing dresses to bed and had switched to conservative tops and shorts.
The two of them were each busy with their own things, and the scene was a bit strange.
With the preparations almost complete, Lin Jinshen leaned over her, and although it wasn't very clear in the dim light, they could see the three-dimensional contours, especially the high, straight nose bridge and the deep-set eye sockets.
Lu Yi's hands and feet were frozen and she stood straight.
Lin Jinshen asked, "Do you want the foreplay to be long or short?"
"..."
Lu Yi kept her eyes open and looked very confused. She replied in a low voice, "I don't know, it's my first time, what do you think?"
"It's my first time too."
"..."
The two novices started their journey together. Lu Yi tried to suggest, "Watch while you do it?"
"Mm."
Lin Jinshen lowered his head, and the tip of his tall, straight nose almost touched hers. After remembering something, he paused and said, "If it's uncomfortable, you can stop at any time.
If she doesn't stop, that means she's comfortable. Is that the logic?
Lu Yi hadn't really thought about it yet, but her vision darkened and her lips pressed against hers. It was still awkward, clumsy, but slow and tiring.
She held his hand as if it were her heart.
They were close in the kiss, fitting perfectly. She was curled up from the scorching heat, unable to stand it, and shivered constantly.
Halfway through the kiss, Lin Jinshen pressed his lips to hers, not letting go, and made a swallowing motion as if taking a break, inhaling deeply and exhaling. He opened his lips and sucked on the soft lips.
He tasted the sweetness for the first time.
His broad palm pressed against her back, forcing her to wrap her arms around his neck.
Every sound was amplified: the sound of water, the sound of swallowing, the sound of sipping, the sound of breathing out of rhythm, like a lively concert in her eardrums.
Lu Yi almost fainted from the heat.
Her sobs were heard by Lin Jinshen, who stopped and looked at her with dark eyes, asking, "Are you feeling sick?"
His voice was so sexy that it made people want to curse.
Lu Yi covered her lips with the back of her hand and shook her head no, but nodded yes. She could only grab his tightly muscled arm and clasp her fingers tightly.
There was still some kind of mistake.
Lin Jinshen supported his arm with his elbow next to her, and his whole body leaned to the other side. He stretched out his long arm and pulled open the bedside table drawer. She was sweating all over, her eyes burning with thirst as she breathed.
Her eyes slowly adjusted to the light and she opened them a crack, unconsciously trapping him with her gaze. He was kneeling, his eyes downcast, his attention fixed on the plastic wrapper in his hand.
Then came the sound of the plastic tearing.
Lu Yi closed her eyes, her face burning hot.
But there was no movement for a long time.
She had to open her eyes to see. Lin Jinshen frowned, met her gaze, and explained, "It's upside down.
"...
"Okay."
Lin Jinshen bowed his head and captured her lips.
Lu Yi thought of the cotton candy in the summer, beautiful at first, overflowing with a sweet taste, but not heat resistant, and it would melt after a short while until it became a puddle of syrup.
In a hurry, her hand touched the phone under the pillow, and her fingers slid aimlessly across the screen, and the screen suddenly lit up.
The light was very weak, not enough to illuminate the room in front of her. In those few seconds, Lu Yi caught a glimpse of Lin Jinshen's eyes. They were dark and black, like the predatory gaze of a predator in the deep sea.
Before we got married, I thought he might not be able to do it, but now I know that not only can he do it, but he can do it very well.
Lin Jinshen is an academic monster. He doesn't just want to know how to do something, he wants to know why, what the effect is, what the principle is, where the critical value is, and where the point of acceptance of stimulation is. He experiments, draws conclusions on the spot, summarizes the results, and then submits a satisfactory experimental report.
The result is that the target of the experiment is fragile and sensitive and shows an intolerant reaction to stimulation. It is necessary to slow down the frequency of stimulation, give enough reaction time, and the number of experiments is too small, lack of training, and it surrenders before the end of the experiment.
The only problem is that the current number of experiments is small and prone to chance.
Long-term experimental observation is needed.
When the light was turned on, Lu Yi uncomfortably covered her eyes with the back of her hand. She pulled the blanket over her, not caring that she had just sweated profusely, and even the hair on the sides of her head was wet and stuck to her pale cheeks.
Lin Jinshen was kneeling, and the lines of his facial muscles seemed to be carved in the light. He lowered his eyes and carefully inspected it, making sure nothing was missing, then wrapped it in a handkerchief and threw it away.
He got out of bed, glanced at the small ball of tangled sheets, and with a voice hoarse with satisfaction, reminded Lu Yi to go wash up.
"You go first," Lu Yi said with a sulky head and dry throat.
Lin Jinshen thought about her lack of energy just now and asked thoughtfully, "Do you need my help?"
"No!"
"I can do it myself!"
Lu Yi suddenly opened her eyes. She didn't know where the strength came from, but she quickly put on her pajamas and carried her clean, new pajamas into the bathroom. She didn't dare look away, afraid that if she did, she would remember the image of the dry mouth and tongue.
She closed and locked the door.
Lu Yi leaned against the door, her legs still weak. After a while, she stood under the shower and saw the red marks on her chest from the shower gel.
A flash of memory quickly came to her.
He looked down, his black hair fluffy and soft, his snow-white fingers pressed against his scalp and plunged in, pulling at the roots of his hair without being too hard, but unable to stop the beast from licking and devouring.
"..."
Did he suddenly understand without any guidance at this time?
A bath made Lu Yi even drier, and the moisture in her body was washed away together.
After she finished washing, Lin Jinshen had already changed the sheets. The old sheets were crumpled into a ball and piled up on the sofa, crumpled beyond recognition. The dark blue sheets had bled in places to a deeper blue.
Lu Yi silently looked away.
Lin Jinshen casually pulled on a bathrobe. He had waited long enough for her, and after she came out, he went straight into the bathroom.
Five minutes later, he came out after washing himself.
Lu Yi was lying on the bed two minutes earlier and heard the door open, so she closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep. Her technique wasn't very good, and her eyelashes couldn't help but tremble.
She heard Lin Jinshen turn off the light and lie down.
The darkness was like a protective color, and all the vigilance and shame were contained together.
There was a distance between the two of them, just like the previous two nights. Even though they had been close in this bed not long ago, it still didn't change the outcome.
Lu Yi was trying hard to fall asleep when she heard Lin Jinshen's clear voice saying that he had to work on Saturday morning and have a business dinner that night, and that the dinner time would have to be moved up to 5:00 p.m. and finished before 7:00 p.m.
They had made a rule that they would have dinner together once a week.
"It's okay, you don't have to eat if you're busy," Lu Yi replied sincerely.
"Since this is a rule we set together, it has to be followed."
"Okay."
Lu Yi thought for a moment and asked, "Do you have a date for dinner tonight?"
"No, I don't need one."
Lin Jinshen was used to bringing his assistant instead of a date.
"How about this, I'll accompany you to dinner, and we don't need to have an extra dinner. You're busy with work." Lu Yi's original intention was not to have a face-to-face dinner alone, and she thought it was a bit of a disaster.
Lin Jinshen said it was okay, "You don't like to participate in such activities, right?"
Lu Yi said with her eyes wide open and her face unflinching, "If necessary, we can consider each other's schedules and be flexible."
Lin Jinshen paused for a moment and said, "Thank you."
"I should be the one to thank you for what happened tonight."
She was referring to picking her up in the rain. Although she was independent and had the ability to solve problems on her own, a small part of her heart still collapsed when he appeared.
"There's nothing to thank me for, I was just doing what a husband should do."
"Then I'm just doing what a wife should do."
"..."
"Go to bed early, it's not early." Lin Jinshen reminded him that it would be two hours before he got up, and his normal routine of sleeping and waking up at the same time would be disrupted tonight. Not only was he not sleepy, he was wide awake.
After a cold shower, his body temperature did not drop.
"Okay."
"I'll have someone bring you some medicine tomorrow," Lin Jinshen said calmly. "You didn't let me see it, so I don't know if it's swollen."
Before he could finish, Lu Yiren impatiently interrupted him with her eyes closed: "Stop it!"
She didn't know where Lin Jinshen had learned that girls were uncomfortable the first time, and the word "tearing" made her suspect that he had read the article about the flower market. She had to blush and tell him that if she was well prepared, it wouldn't be like this. Had he just kissed her for so long for nothing?
Unexpectedly, he half-believed it and brought it up again.
The inappropriate scene was about to happen again.
"Go to sleep!"
Lu Yi raised her voice to end the conversation.
With the late nights and the training, Lu Yi, who didn't have an alarm clock, went straight to sleep until noon.
There was a message from Yu Yin on her phone. She didn't know that she was offline yesterday, and she just sent a message saying that she was late to reply, and in the next half an hour, she sent a question mark?
Yu Yin: [Sleeping with a man?
Lu Yi: "..."
She suspected that Yu Yin had prophetic abilities.
Yu Yin replied that she was just talking about last night's breakdown and that she had returned home in the middle of the night, which was why she was sleeping until this hour.
Yu Yin: "Then you should drink some ginger soup or something, catching a cold in the summer can be really hard."
Lu Yi: "Okay."
Dropping her phone, she stood up, casually brushed her hair and went to wash up. When she went downstairs, Auntie Fang was cleaning the living room. When she saw her coming down the stairs, she stopped to greet her.
"Auntie Fang,"
Auntie Fang said, "Manager Lin said you got caught in the rain yesterday, so I was told to keep the hot soup you asked me to make warm. I'll get you a bowl, you must drink it while it's still hot."
"Thank you," a strange feeling crossed Lu Yi's mind.
"Meow, meow, meow!"
Puff could not wait any longer and came running over, rubbing against her legs and sounding as if he had suffered a great injustice.
Lu Yi picked Puff up and asked, "What's wrong? What little piggy is being spoiled?"
She weighed nearly ten kilograms, and it was a bit of a struggle to pick her up.
Puff meowed softly and rubbed her head against her chest, still looking hurt and as if she had been bullied.
Aunt Fang brought over a warming soup, her own recipe. The bright red soup base. Lu Yi held the white porcelain spoon, blew on it to warm it, and brought it to her lips.
"What kind of allergy do you have?" Aunt Fang watched her drink, narrowing her eyes and focusing on the side of her neck. She was old, and her eyes were not what they used to be, so it looked like she had a prickly heat.
"Here?"
Lu Yi reached out to touch it but couldn't feel any bumps. It didn't itch or hurt, and then she suddenly thought of the reason. She pushed her long hair out of the way of her face and said, "Something like that.
"Did you touch something dirty?"
"..."
Lu Yi said with a stiff face.
She had come across that dirty thing, Lin Jinshen.
Is he a dog? He has to bite everything.
Lu Yi had lunch at home. The seafood delivered by Mrs. Qin had to be eaten in time, otherwise it would be wasted after it died. Aunt Fang chose a few steamed garlic dishes and also made a dish of crabs from the typhoon shelter.
She couldn't eat it all by herself, so she shared it with Aunt Fang.
After dinner, Lu Yiwei prepared for the dinner party.
She didn't often attend such occasions, but after all, she was raised in a wealthy family and immersed in the world of fame and fortune, so she was already familiar with it.
Because of the marks on her neck, she had a headache when choosing a dress. She thought about covering them with foundation, but it was too dark. Her skin was too pale, so no matter how she tried to cover it up, it was useless. In the end, she had to choose a silk scarf of the same color.
Lu Yi chose a long, floor-length, backless satin dress with an irregular cut and simple, elegant lines that accentuated her slender figure.
The dress had a simple cut, but the necklace she chose was more complicated, with a teardrop shape that followed the lines of her neck.
...
After getting ready, she waited for Lin Jinshen to finish her work and then came back to pick her up.
Auntie Fang was about to finish her work when she saw Lu Yi dressed up and complimented her on how good she looked. She was really pretty, and Lin would probably not be able to take his eyes off her.
Within a few minutes, Lin Jinshen sent a message that he had arrived and told her to go downstairs.
Lu Yi went downstairs, got into the car, and thought that Auntie Fang's words had more or less come true. He couldn't take his eyes off the screen. He had been working, going through reports and making phone calls.
There had been a mistake at work, and he was calling to assign blame.
Lin Jinshen's voice was cold and impersonal, without a single curse word, and the pressure was suffocating.
The air pressure in the car continued to drop.
The driver in the driver's seat and the assistant in the passenger's seat were already familiar with each other, keeping their eyes on the road and not saying a word.
After the call ended, Lin Jinshen remembered the presence of Lu Yi beside him and said, "Wait, Auntie will be there too.
"Okay."
Lin Jinshen's eyes fell on the silk scarf tied around her neck and asked, "Aren't you hot?"
"No," Lu Yi said, "I'm cold."
"You're wearing so little, do you need a jacket?"
"It's not that hot." Lu Yi kept her composure because there were other people in the car.
The car arrived at the destination and the usher opened the door.
Lu Yi took Lin Jinshen's arm as they entered, and there were quite a few people in the banquet hall. The moment they entered, she felt the stares coming from all sides, so she straightened her back and maintained a proper smile.
In a way, this was the first time the two of them attended an event together after their marriage.
From Yu Yin, she knew about the controversies surrounding their marriage. The gossip with the Zhong family was just a passing cloud, and the state of her marriage with Lin Jinshen, which was only outwardly harmonious, was the talk of the town.
Most people believed that their marriage was only based on interests. After the marriage, she was Mrs. Lin, an ornament, a symbol of the prosperity of the Lin and Lu business empire.
She was also a victim of interests.
Lu Yi took the champagne glass from the waiter.
Lin Jinshen had introduced her to some people, and when they greeted her, she introduced them back with a graceful posture and a polite response.
After a while of socializing, her aunt Lin Wenjun came over. Lu Yi had met her before and called her aunt quietly.
Lin Jinshen still had some work to do, so Lu Yi turned to Lin Wenjun.
"I heard that you are organizing an art exhibition this time?" Lin Wenjun asked as he took her arm. She sometimes flashed an elderly smile of concern, and she was pleased with Lu Yi.
"Yes, how did you know, Auntie?"
"Doesn't your uncle like to paint? He's not a very good painter, but he has a lot to say in the industry. Jinshen rarely asks him for help, and he is happy to help."
Lu Yi listened in a daze.
What does she mean by "open her mouth" and "help with something"?
However, the scene did not give her the opportunity to ask more questions, as people who had business dealings with the Lin family kept coming over to say hello.
"Lu Yi, my niece-in-law," Lin Wenyun introduced Lu Yi to the outsiders.
"She's so pretty, you have to let her go out more often in the future, and don't keep her at home after you get married," the other person said half-jokingly.
Lin Wenjun said, "Our daughter Lu Yi works in Yixing, in the curation department. You might have seen her with your husband. She doesn't like to stay at home. She is serious and focused on her work, so she doesn't like to come to these kinds of events. It was Jin Shen who insisted on bringing her here to meet people."
"..."
Facing the speculative and insinuating looks, Lin Wenjun already defended Lu Yi without her having to say anything.
Lu Yi drank half a glass of champagne.
Lin Wenjun put his arm around her waist and said, "You've had a hard time as well. Jin Shen is really a very boring person, with no sense of fun, let alone understanding of women. It's been hard to live with him."
"No, Auntie, I knew before the wedding that it would be more or less as expected after the wedding, and it's not hard."
Lin Wenjun, as if to reassure her elders, gave her an understanding look and said, "You really are a reasonable child."
"..."
She had suddenly become the object of sympathy in this marriage.
The key was that no one would believe her explanation.
Halfway through dinner, Lin Wenjun had to leave early, and if she came home late, her son would be asleep and she would miss another opportunity to spend time with him.
"You go find Lin Jinshen, I think they've pretty much finished talking."
"Bye, Auntie."
Lu Yi did not go to find Lin Jinshen. She replaced her glass of champagne with a new one and planned to kill some time alone. When the dinner party was over, the couple's activities together for the week would be over.
She walked around the front hall to the central garden. In the center was a dry fountain, unused, surrounded by benches for people to rest. In contrast to the grandeur of the front hall, this place was dark and gloomy, and not many people wanted to come here.
Lu Yi sat quietly for a while. When she looked up, the position of her neck was pulled by the necklace. When she looked down, the hook of the necklace had pierced the fabric of her dress and embedded itself. The necklace was in the form of a thin chain, and the fabric had poked into it, so she had to pull it out of the broken position.
The problem was that the thin chain was as small as a sesame seed, and she didn't know how the cloth got in there.
"..."
There was no way, so Lu Yi had to ask for outside help.
The only person she knew there was Lin Jinshen. Although she was reluctant, she sent him a message asking him to come over.
Lin Jinshen was chatting with someone when he received the message. He read the message, apologized, asked for the location, and walked past the crowd to the back hall.
In the dim light, Lu Yi was sitting on a bench. The satin fabric gave off a silvery white light. She looked over, her face flushed, her eyes bright.
It was like the moon had fallen by accident and landed in a dilapidated garden that no one cared about.
And he was lucky enough to see it.
Lin Jinshen walked over. He stood there, his already tall frame even more imposing. His Adam's apple rolled down as he asked, "Why are you here?"
"Help me."
Lu Yi grabbed the small piece of cloth in front of her chest, "The necklace is caught, I can't get it out.
She tried to untie the necklace first, but the more she tried, the more her hands slipped, and no matter how she tried, she couldn't untie the necklace.
Lin Jinshen lowered his eyes and saw the tangled necklace, and then it landed on her face, which was red with fear. His heart stirred slightly, and he knelt down and said, "I'll try."
"Mm!"
"Lower your head," Lin Jinshen said.
Lu Yi cooperatively lowered her head, and the top of her hair hit his chest. She didn't move as she felt his fingers lift the necklace and the pads of his fingers brush against her skin, just like last night.
Lin Jinshen was not familiar with girls' things, so he studied the necklace in his hands for a moment before he managed to untie it.
Then there was the position of the hook in the fabric.
He half crouched down, and Lu Yi, who did not have the necklace hooked, was finally able to straighten her neck. Her gaze was fixed on him, her attention shifting from his fingers to his face.
His nose was really straight, and when they kissed, it would hit her.
Lin Jinshen's fingers were thicker than the necklace, and after trying a few times, he couldn't get it out.
He held his breath. The close distance made the air he breathed smell like her. He pursed his lips, forcing himself to concentrate.
Both of them slowed their breathing at the same time.
Unnecessary tension.
"Lin... ah, sorry, wrong room! You guys go ahead." A sudden male voice broke the silence.
Lu Yi turned to see a running back. Inexplicably, she looked back, and Lin Jinshen was still doing what he had just done, pinching the fabric on the breast of her dress with his hand.
Since he had to get it out, he leaned his head close and stared carefully at the location of the tear, pulling the fabric out from the inside.
At first glance, it looked as if she had been...
It was burned red, as if it had been hit by a sudden spark. The other person wouldn't think that they couldn't help themselves and were kissing passionately, would they?
"He seems to have misunderstood. You go and explain," Lu Yi gritted her teeth and forced her voice out through her teeth.
Lin Jinshen didn't think so. He remained focused on solving the problem in front of him.
"I'll do it myself, you explain to the person. We were really just messing with the necklace, not..." Lu Yi tried to take the necklace back.
Lin Jinshen didn't let go.
"Let him think what he wants."
In a few moves, he pulled out the cloth, held her necklace, placed it in her palm, then stood up, straightened his suit, and said, "We are a legal couple, not secret lovers."
He also knew that they really did look like an adulterous couple.
Lu Yi was caught off guard, and for a moment, she struggled to think of an answer.
Lin Jinshen noticed the almost empty glass next to her and reminded her, "Drink less, you still have things to do tonight.
"Do things? What things?"
Lin Jinshen glanced over.
The dark look seemed to say one word:
You.
Do things.