Weekend.
Wen Xian, with eyes closed, was scooped up from the warm bed by Shen Lingge.
At this moment it was already mid-October, the weather turning cool. She often, once touching the bed, would not wake up. Qiuqiu at the end of the bed also slept with all four feet up in the air, little snoring sounds and Wen Xian’s humming sounds rising and falling in succession.
Wen Xian softly leaned on Shen Lingge’s body, muttering in a small voice: “Shen Lingge, my eyes have been sealed, I can’t open them.”
Shen Lingge pulled a hoodie over her body, helplessly responding: “Last night told you to sleep early, yet you still played so late with Duoduo. Duoduo still had to get up early to tidy up clothes for you.”
Wen Xian rubbed against Shen Lingge’s chin: “But the newly released game is so fun, yesterday Xiao Song also went online surfing together with us.”
Shen Lingge fell silent for a moment, suspecting whether he had heard wrong.
Usually Xiao Song was serious and proper, Shen Lingge also didn’t know he liked playing games, he faintly had a kind of feeling of being isolated outside. So he pretended to casually ask: “What game did you all play?”
Wen Xian waved her hand: “You old people wouldn’t understand.”
Old person Shen Lingge: “……?”
After being tormented like this by Shen Lingge, Wen Xian also woke up. She lowered her eyes to look at this pitch-black ugly hoodie on herself, and pushed Shen Lingge aside in one go, drilling into the dressing room herself.
Shen Lingge followed to the door to glance in. After she took off the hoodie, she went to search for skirts.
He leaned on the door side, slightly frowning: “Xian Xian, mountain area temperature is low, wearing a skirt will be cold.”
Wen Xian didn’t turn her head: “Duoduo definitely brought me a jacket, I just want to wear a skirt, you don’t understand, you go away.”
When Shen Lingge saw her starting to take off clothes, he consciously walked away. When Wen Xian came out again, she had changed into a lemon yellow long-sleeved long skirt, only the back was a layer of light gauze replacing the fabric.
Shen Lingge stretched out his hand toward her: “Go downstairs to eat breakfast.”
When Shen Lingge and Wen Xian went downstairs, Duoduo had already packed all their travel belongings for these two days. Wen Xian smilingly leaned next to Duoduo to give her a cheek kiss.
Before Duoduo could even have time to smile, she felt an icy cold gaze. Very clearly, this gaze came from Shen Lingge.
She lightly coughed: “Miss, you quickly go eat, Xiao Song already set off first, we will meet up there.”
Just as Duoduo’s words fell, she heard Shen Lingge lightly say: “Xian Xian, you can’t just after kissing Wen Xianxian go kiss Duoduo. Did Wen Xianxian take a bath yesterday? I remember didn’t.”
Duoduo’s entire face was full of black lines. Their family’s young master suddenly became so childish.
Wen Xian looked inexplicably at Shen Lingge: “I also often kiss Wen Xianxian and then kiss you ah, then from now on I won’t kiss you.”
Shen Lingge: “……”
Shen Lingge unhappily furrowed his brows, wasn’t this moment supposed to be Wen Xian saying from now on won’t kiss Wen Xianxian? He always had a kind of feeling like lifting a rock to smash his own foot.
While eating breakfast, the atmosphere between the two people was somewhat stiff. Wen Xian held her little face taut, not wanting to pay attention to Shen Lingge. Shen Lingge also kept his face cold, not speaking all along.
At the entire dining table, aside from the clinking sound of bowls and chopsticks, there was no other sound.
Duoduo and the butler helplessly exchanged a glance.
People in hot love are really hard to understand.
…
When getting in the car, Duoduo very consciously sat in another car.
So inside the car Shen Lingge and them were riding, aside from the driver, in the back seat there were only the two of them. And the driver, sensing the atmosphere in the back wasn’t right, very consciously lowered the partition.
Shen Lingge turned his head to glance at Wen Xian. She was sitting far from him, holding a tablet, not knowing what she was looking at.
At this moment Wen Xian was wearing headphones, watching the content playing on the screen, but after just a short while, her thoughts couldn’t help but float toward the person beside her. She wanted to secretly look at him once, yet didn’t dare to.
Shen Lingge had always loved getting jealous, she wasn’t unaware. After all, he had been thinking about being jealous of Zanzan for a long time already.
Wen Xian felt awkward in her heart for a moment. Just as she was about to apologize to him, she felt him sitting a little closer to her.
His slender hand also stretched toward her, until it held her hand.
Wen Xian immediately turned her head to look at him, and the next second Shen Lingge tilted his head and kissed her once. After kissing, he steadily looked at her and said: “If you don’t kiss me, then I’ll come kiss you.”
Wen Xian blinked her eyes, then softly said: “I apologize to you, but you must not dislike Wen Xianxian. From now on I won’t kiss Duoduo anymore.”
It was rare for Shen Lingge to see Wen Xian backing down on something like this. Her temper was usually very good, but toward the people close to her, her attitude would not yield in the slightest.
Especially those three long-haired little things.
Seeing that Shen Lingge wasn’t angry anymore, Wen Xian then once again clingily leaned on him while holding her tablet, starting to watch TV again. And Shen Lingge was measuring the size of Wen Xian’s finger joints.
Her hands were small and soft, he liked them very much.
After Wen Xian watched TV for a while, feeling bored, she pulled out her phone and opened the group chat.
On Why Shen Lingge Is This Much of a Dog (3)
Wen Xian: Duoduo, I’m so bored, Xiao Song also came out to play.
Wen Xian: Let’s play Dou Dizhu. [popular Chinese card game.]
Duoduo: Miss, you’d better cover the group name well, Young Master is sitting right beside you.
Xiao Song: Madam, I’m handling things at the hot spring, temporarily can’t accompany you to play Dou Dizhu.
Wen Xian: Duoduo, then let’s call Shen Lingge to play Dou Dizhu together, okay?
Duoduo: Miss, I don’t have time, please play by yourself.
Wen Xian: ……
Seeing Wen Xian’s drooping eye corners, looking disappointed, Shen Lingge lowered his eyes and glanced at the content on her phone screen. And so, at a glance, he saw those ten big characters: 论沈临戈为什么这么狗 (On Why Shen Lingge Is This Much of a Dog).
Shen Lingge: “……”
After a moment of silence, Shen Lingge opened his mouth to ask: “Xian Xian, what group is this? I also want to join.”
Wen Xian blankly let out an “ah” sound. She lowered her head to take a glance at the screen, then looked at Shen Lingge again, suddenly feeling a bit embarrassed.
She immediately tossed her phone to the side: “Game group, even if you join it’s useless.”
Seeing that she wasn’t willing, Shen Lingge didn’t insist further. Wen Xian also obediently started watching TV again.
And at this moment, seeing that Wen Xian’s attention was on the screen, Shen Lingge pulled out his own phone.
[Shen Lingge: Xiao Song, add me into the group.]
[Xiao Song: Sir, which group?]
[Shen Lingge: That group where you all say I’m a dog.]
[Xiao Song: …We don’t have that, sir.]
[Shen Lingge: Add me in. I’ll use a small account, if Xian Xian asks just say it’s for playing games.]
[Xiao Song: Understood, sir.]
Five minutes later, the WeChat group “On Why Shen Lingge Is This Much of a Dog” suddenly had one more person. And Wen Xian, who was watching TV, was completely unaware of what was happening in the group.
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The place Shen Lingge took Wen Xian to was a forest hot spring located in a remote small town in Mingcheng. Wen Xian rarely came to this kind of small town. After the car drove onto the mountain road, she threw the tablet to the side.
The mountains in Mingcheng were not quite the same as the mountains in Licheng. The mountains here were very tall, and there was even faint mist winding between the mountains.
Wen Xian opened the car window. At a glance, she saw squirrels with fluffy big tails jumping between the woods. Under the long sky, birds with long tails flapped their wings, gliding past the treetops.
Soft, white clouds looked like torn-apart cotton candy scattered in the sky. In the cool mountain wind was mixed the fragrance of flowers and a faint smell of soil. It seemed it had rained in these mountains last night.
Driving further in, they passed by a residential area, with rows of magnolia trees planted on both sides of the road.
For a moment, Wen Xian heard many sounds: the rustling sound of wind blowing through tree leaves, the crisp and pleasant sound of flowing water, the barking of dogs from the houses by the roadside.
A warm touch came from the side of her face—it was Shen Lingge reaching out to smooth the hair blown messy by the wind behind her ear.
Wen Xian leaned on the window and softly said: “Shen Lingge, in the future when I’m old, I want to live in a place like this. In spring, go to the mountains to pick flowers. In summer, go to the creek to catch fish. In autumn, stay at home petting Qiuqiu. In winter, watch the snow together with you.”
Shen Lingge listened for a long time and finally heard himself being called by name.
He glanced at this quiet village, his voice calm: “When spring comes and the weather gets warm, there’ll be mosquitoes in the mountains. In summer, small towns like this easily have water and power outages. In autumn, the air gets very dry. In winter, once it snows, you won’t go outside.”
He added unhurriedly: “More importantly, this place can’t get delivery.”
Wen Xian: “……”
Wen Xian turned her head and glared fiercely at Shen Lingge, then reached out and punched him once: “You’re so annoying!”
Seeing her puff up her face, Shen Lingge didn’t tease her anymore. He switched to talking about the forest hot spring: “They built villas in the mountains. The open-air hot spring pools are right in the forest. If we’re lucky, we can see rabbits.”
When Wen Xian heard him mention rabbits, she obediently turned back around to look at him again: “Even if there are rabbits, my Zanzan is still the best-looking rabbit in the whole world. The one I saw last time at your friend’s estate was the second best-looking.”
Shen Lingge hadn’t expected she was still thinking about the rabbit from that person’s estate at this time. He suddenly remembered what Chang Shang had said to him. Chang Shang said when she was in elementary school, she secretly ran to the park to look at puppies.
He couldn’t help asking: “Xian Xian, did you raise a puppy when you were little?”
Wen Xian shook her head: “No, I used to be scared of raising those kinds of small animals.”
Shen Lingge paused, not expecting her to say the word ‘scared.’ He furrowed his brows and asked: “Why would you be scared? Were you bitten by a puppy before? Or scared by someone else’s pet?”
Wen Xian helpless: “Neither. It’s not being scared of small animals. That time I ran out to look at puppies and scared my mom and dad. After that, my dad took me to the pet shop to look at puppies over the weekend. We had already picked one, but when I went back to school on Monday, I heard a classmate say the dog their family had raised for over ten years got sick and passed away. So I didn’t want to raise one anymore.”
After Wen Xian finished speaking, Shen Lingge was silent for a long time without saying anything. He just leaned over and hugged her.
After driving past the village for about ten minutes, Wen Xian noticed they had entered the forest hot spring area. On the roadside walked a few scattered tourists; they all looked like families out for a trip.
Beside the road, next to dark red railings, was a long river. The green mountains reflected on the clear river surface, making the whole river look like a long strip of green silk ribbon.
Beside the railing, there were also a few slanting branches of flowers of unknown name.
Wen Xian turned her head to look toward Shen Lingge. Her brows and eyes curved into a smile: “Shen Lingge, have we arrived?”
Seeing her smile, Shen Lingge couldn’t hold back from leaning over and kissing the corner of her lips. He said in a low voice: “Mm, we’ve arrived. After we eat, I’ll take you to play at the golf course in the back for a while, then take you to soak in the hot spring at night.”
While sitting in the car, Wen Xian didn’t notice that a black car brushed past their car, then suddenly stopped.
A moment later, the car that was originally going to leave suddenly turned around and drove back.