After Being Forced To Marry A Wealthy Man, Mr. Qi Wants To Divorce Every Day - Chapter 16
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Chapter 16: Because of Cherishing, So Self-Restraint
In the haze of drowsiness, Qi Yue gradually felt sleepiness creeping up on him.
When the car smoothly pulled into the garage, Shen Kuozhi glanced sideways at the person beside him.
Qi Yue was quietly leaning against the seat, so well-behaved that Shen Kuozhi hesitated to wake him up, feeling a slight tug at his heartstrings, akin to being gently scratched by a little kitten.
After a while, Qi Yue furrowed his brows in his sleep and slowly opened his eyes.
Qi Yue blinked dazedly, momentarily unaware of his surroundings.
“Awake? Is there anything uncomfortable?” Shen Kuozhi gently asked, restraining himself as he lightly clasped Qi Yue’s hand.
“Um… I don’t think so,” Qi Yue replied softly and slowly, clearly still feeling the effects of alcohol.
Shen Kuozhi’s gaze was drawn to Qi Yue’s slightly disheveled hair, feeling an urge to reach out and touch it.
“Are we there?” Qi Yue turned to Shen Kuozhi and their eyes met. He blinked without any particular reaction.
In Shen Kuozhi’s eyes, this expression was simply too adorable, almost crossing the line of cuteness.
In the end, Shen Kuozhi couldn’t resist reaching out to pat Qi Yue’s head, a fleeting touch.
“We’ve arrived. Let’s go home.”
“Yeah.”
Qi Yue didn’t particularly react to Shen Kuozhi’s gesture just now, obediently nodding his head and getting out of the car together.
The next morning, when Qi Yue woke up, he felt refreshed, his head not hurting too much, and there was no strong hangover feeling.
However, he couldn’t remember anything after getting into Shen Kuozhi’s car last night.
It seemed that Shen Kuozhi had taken care of him last night.
Unexpectedly, not only did he not take care of someone with poor health like him, he even let Shen Kuozhi take care of him.
When Qi Yue finished washing up and came out, it was already past ten o’clock, and he had to go to school this afternoon.
But what Qi Yue didn’t expect was that Shen Kuozhi hadn’t left at this hour.
“Awake? I’ve put breakfast in the thermos. Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?”
As soon as he stepped out, he caught Shen Kuozhi’s gaze.
“Yeah, thanks for last night. I’m not uncomfortable,” Qi Yue said, feeling a bit uneasy about Shen Kuozhi being so good to him.
“Let’s have breakfast.”
“Yeah.”
Shen Kuozhi didn’t know if he noticed Qi Yue’s discomfort, but both of them tacitly avoided mentioning what happened last night.
Living together for a week, this was the first time the two of them had breakfast together in the dining room.
If it wasn’t for Qi Yue eating outside or Shen Kuozhi coming back late from work.
“In the future, there will be a cook coming over at meal times. It’ll be healthier. If I’m not back at mealtime, you don’t have to wait for me. Do you mind?”
“I don’t mind.”
“This is my supplementary card. Take it and use it.”
Qi Yue didn’t stand on ceremony and accepted the card Shen Kuozhi handed over.
“Thank you.”
“No need to thank me. Each to their own.”
Shen Kuozhi smiled faintly as he looked into Qi Yue’s eyes.
Qi Yue also smiled. He always enjoyed playing with clever people.
After breakfast, Shen Kuozhi seemed to have no intention of going out yet, so Qi Yue casually asked.
“Are you not going to work today?”
“I’ll be working from home today.”
“Okay, then I’ll head out first.”
Qi Yue tidied up his appearance and prepared to change shoes at the entrance.
“Leaving already?” When Shen Kuozhi heard Qi Yue’s words, his gaze, which had been fixed on the tablet, suddenly shifted to Qi Yue’s figure aggressively, scanning Qi Yue’s back with intrusive eyes, but quickly returned to normal.
“Yeah, I need to go to school this afternoon.”
Qi Yue changed shoes with his back turned, not sensing anything amiss from Shen Kuozhi’s usual tone and didn’t think much of it.
“Will you be back for dinner tonight? The cook will start preparing food today.”
“I won’t be coming back for dinner tonight.”
“Alright, take care on the way…” Early out, early back.
Shen Kuozhi only thought the latter half silently in his heart without saying it out loud.
“Yeah, I’m off. Good luck with work, bye~”
Qi Yue went to confirm matters regarding his thesis with his advisor, which didn’t take much time. Mainly, his direct graduate school senior wanted to meet up with him.
After leaving the office building and walking on the bluestone path of the school, Qi Yue quietly looked at the young faces around him, some hurrying along while others strolled leisurely, feeling the vitality of the campus.
Now, it was still early before his appointment with his senior, so Qi Yue planned to go to the library for a while.
Unexpectedly, he ran into a big acquaintance.
“Qi Yue!”
A voice so familiar it made him sick sounded behind him.
Qi Yue didn’t turn back, and even quickened his pace.
But the other party obviously didn’t intend to let him go like that. With a call from him, even the passersby around heard it.
Originally, Qi Yue was wearing a mask, so not many pedestrians would pay too much attention to him.
But with that call, he was directly exposed.
In his four years of university, Qi Yue had been the campus heartthrob for four consecutive years. Not only was he good-looking, but he was also good at studying.
Not to mention that many girls in the school knew him, even his reputation among the boys was also very high.
“Is this our campus heartthrob?”
Passersby around them began to gossip.
The road ahead of Qi Yue was also blocked by that person.
“Brother, I called you, why didn’t you respond?”
Qi Lei’s white face was fully revealed in front of Qi Yue.
He and Qi Lei were from the same school, so even if they deliberately avoided each other, it was inevitable that they would run into each other.
Moreover, Qi Lei was not a simple character. Most of the rumors and gossip about Qi Yue were his doing.
“What’s the matter?”
“Brother, you haven’t been home for one or two weeks. You don’t answer calls or messages. As your younger brother, can’t I be concerned about you?”
The people around them had stopped to listen to the gossip.
“It’s hard for you to worry about it. I live with my partner, which is safer than being at home, and there’s no problem at all~”
“Even if you’re not married yet, you’ve moved in with someone. Aren’t you afraid of being deceived by your partner? After all, you’ve had a boyfriend with a bad reputation before.”
“Hey, the cost of spreading rumors is still too low. Even though we’re in university, don’t you know that spreading rumors is wrong? How did Auntie Guo educate you?”
In public places, Qi Lei had no control over his volume at all. He hoped that people would hear and spread the bad things about Qi Yue.
But how could Qi Yue’s status be shaken by just a few words from him?
“Isn’t this person the son of the stepmother of the campus heartthrob?”
“By the way, isn’t the campus heartthrob’s younger brother only a year younger than him? I guess there’s no blood relationship between the two.”
“I guess so. It seems that our campus heartthrob has inherited his mother’s excellent genes.”
“The campus heartthrob is so handsome, even with a mask on, he’s better looking than others!”
“Am I the only one who heard that the campus heartthrob has a partner? Oh no, I’m heartbroken!”
“Someone like the campus heartthrob seems very busy. You can’t dream about it.”
Not only was Qi Lei a clown in front of Qi Yue, but he was also a nobody in the eyes of others. After all, Qi Yue’s brilliance was too dazzling, dazzling to the point where Qi Lei couldn’t touch it.