Chapter 316: Chapter 0316: To Love is to be Sweet, Sweet, Sweet Chapter 316: Chapter 0316: To Love is to be Sweet, Sweet, Sweet The two of them looked at each other, and what they once cautiously and tentatively tested, even trying to avoid, they could now speak so openly and naturally. That subtle feeling was indescribable.

Mu Lan eyed the handsome face in front of her and suddenly leaned in, pecking him on the lips with a pop.

Huo Tingxiao was stunned for a moment, then looked at Mu Lan with an expression of someone who had just been taken advantage of, which brightened her mood considerably.

“From now on, don’t hold anything back inside. Share everything with each other, the good and the bad.

As long as it’s something you want to say, I’m willing to listen.”

“Wife, I’ve been thinking…”

Mu Lan naturally knew what he was thinking and snuggled up to him like a cat.

“Hmm, I’ve been thinking too.”

Huo Tingxiao hoisted her into his arms, his once fragile patient had finally transformed, ah, something worth celebrating.

… (A highly willful ellipsis, strong, democratic, and harmonious.)
The two lay on the master bedroom’s big bed, Mu Lan clinging to Huo Tingxiao without letting go.

Ever since they reconciled, she had become more clingy by the day, but he loved her clinginess, finding it unbearably cute.

Although she was already a mature woman of twenty-five, with a bare face and a school uniform, she could still pass for a high school student.

Huo Tingxiao gazed at the ceiling; he was already thirty years old, compared to her, an old man.

“Do you think I’m old?”

Mu Lan lifted her eyelids slightly, hearing Huo Tingxiao’s voice overhead.

“Hmm? Why do you say that? Do you think you didn’t perform well just now?”

She had said it casually, but Huo Tingxiao tensed up.

“Do you… think I performed well?”

Mu Lan almost laughed out loud, patting him gently on the collarbone area.

“I’ll give you a certificate of recognition tomorrow, to show approval. What’s with you, why did you suddenly start worrying about being old? I’ve never seen you so concerned about it before.”

Huo Tingxiao also felt he was being somewhat childish, probably because loving someone made it easy to get anxious about loss.

“I’m afraid you’ll think I’m not young enough, not romantic, not considerate enough…”

“What’s this? A self-criticism meeting? There are many things you can’t do, but you can’t demand everything. Nobody’s perfect, we’re all new at life. Take it easy, we can learn the things we don’t know slowly.”

Huo Tingxiao felt a bit dazed by Mu Lan’s words; he thought she seemed to have returned to her eighteen-year-old self.

“I learn quickly.”

Huo Tingxiao said this with full confidence.

“Yeah, I know you’re a top student, I, the underachiever, am out of my depth. Tingxiao, tell me about your school days, okay? Like your high school times, the college entrance exam, I want to hear it all.”

Mu Lan begged him to talk, and Huo Tingxiao was patient enough to tell her about his once monotonous and fearless life.

“I didn’t take the college entrance exam, I won first prize in a math competition and was recommended to Q University.”

Now that’s a conversation killer.

“Math competition recommendation? Fine, I take my leave.

So, what was your high school life like, hmm, did you ever like a female classmate?

With your excellence, did many girls have a crush on you?”

Mu Lan was beating around the bush trying to fish for these stories. Huo Tingxiao thought, this girl sure could grind people’s patience.

But he explained everything one by one.

“I’ve never been in a relationship. I was only focused on studying, preparing to take over the family business in the future.

In high school, Sheng Xueqin dealt with the love letters, I didn’t know about them.”

Mu Lan raised an eyebrow; no wonder Sheng Xueqin was so confident about her relationship with Huo Tingxiao, feeling unrivalled. Jealousy suddenly surged in her.

“You let her deal with your love letters, yet you say there’s nothing between you!”

Huo Tingxiao looked bewildered. What kind of inevitable logic was that?

“I didn’t want to be distracted by love letters, so when she said she could handle them for me, I didn’t refuse, and so… isn’t this just a collaboration?”

Mu Lan wanted to roll her eyes upon hearing this; goddamn collaboration my ass.

“Girls will think that if you tell them about such private matters and even ask them to handle them, what kind of status must they have to be entitled to do so, aren’t you implying she’s your girlfriend?

Come on, put yourself in her shoes, if I had people sending me all kinds of love letters and I grabbed a boy to fend them off, would you think that’s a collaboration?”

When Huo Tingxiao heard this, his face darkened, and he said seriously:
“I don’t think so.”

“See, that’s the thing, your actions are prone to misinterpretation.

After she blocked love letters for you for so many years, she must think she’s the real deal. Really, I don’t understand how your mind works.”

Only after being enlightened by Mu Lan did Huo Tingxiao suddenly realize why both families thought their marriage was inevitable until he out of the blue married Mu Lan, leaving everyone stunned.

In other people’s eyes, they were already seen as a couple.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t know.”

Huo Tingxiao apologized seriously.

Mu Lan thought to herself that she really was a double-standard dog.

“If Huo Tingxiao hadn’t been married to you for seven years, knowing your personality, I would have definitely called any other guy a ‘green tea bitch’.”

Huo Tingxiao frowned and asked earnestly:
“Green tea… is?”

“It means acting pitiful and harmless in front of others, but scheming behind their backs.”

“Isn’t that Lin Yize?”

Mu Lan was taken aback for a moment, then burst into laughter.

“Hahahaha… If you put it that way, it’s not wrong at all.”

As Huo Tingxiao was infected by her laughter, he began to chuckle as well, then he seemed to remember something and asked sourly.

“Did he always cling to you in the past?”

Mu Lan thought back to her high school days.

“Not really, we were both in the student council, just some work-related contact, he was polite to everyone, so I never felt there was anything special toward me.

If there was quite a bit of interaction, it was after the school celebration when I performed and attracted the attention of bullies from other schools. They would wait for me after school, and he happened to come across it, helped me, that’s all.”

Huo Tingxiao huffed.

“You remember quite clearly.”

Mu Lan could tell he was jealous and laughed gleefully.

“I’m just laying it out clearly for you, so you don’t always think there was something between us.

Moreover, I think even if he had any thoughts about me before, he wouldn’t have them in the future.”

Hearing the underlying meaning in her words, Huo Tingxiao propped himself up on his arms, raising his upper body to look at Mu Lan.

“What happened?”

When Mu Lan thought about what had happened in the underground parking lot that day, she felt a bit embarrassed.

“I slapped him because he was spouting nonsense and slinging mud at you.”

Huo Tingxiao couldn’t help but laugh when he heard this.

“What did he say that got you so angry?”

Mu Lan found it laughable just thinking about it.

“He said you were involved in my dad’s death, claiming he had evidence. If I believed such nonsense, I’d fear I was an idiot.”

A smile appeared in Huo Tingxiao’s eyes as he leaned in and kissed Mu Lan.

“For having such faith in me, you deserve a good reward…”

Well, as for the reward, use your imagination…