Chapter 836: From Now On, I’m Your Ah Long
Xiao Li felt a little uncomfortable. She had just moved when Zhuang Long reminded her. “Don’t move.” His voice was even hoa.r.s.er than before. Xiao Li knew how fierce Zhuang Long was. She didn’t want to have an overly intimate relations.h.i.+p with him yet, so she really became obedient and stopped moving.
Zhuang Long dried the water droplets on her head and found a hairdryer to dry her hair.
Zhuang Long was sitting on the bed, holding a hairdryer in his hand. Xiao Li was lying on the bed, her hands on Zhuang Long’s lap, her chin resting on the back of her hand. This was the first time Zhuang Long had dried Xiao Li’s hair. Xiao Li felt strange, and her heart was filled with sweetness.
When her hair was about to dry, Zhuang Long suggested, “Shall we not attend the ball tonight?”
“Yes?” Xiao Li was lazy, like a sleepy cat.
“Ask Qilin to come to my house for dinner tonight.” Zhuang Long saw Xiao Li turn around. She looked at him, her eyes flickering. Zhuang Long’s gaze was deep. He lowered his head and rested his forehead on Xiao Li’s. His voice was gentle and a little coquettish, as if he was speaking sweet nothings. “I’ll be the cook tonight.”
“I’ll be the cook tonight.”
Zhuang Long’s words were ordinary, but Xiao Li was stunned.
Her eyes lit up in surprise. As she didn’t know what expression to use to accurately express her excitement, Xiao Li’s eyes turned red. The original Zhuang Long didn’t know how to cook, but the other Zhuang Long did.
When he said that…
Xiao Li decided to make himself clear.
“Who are you?” Afraid that Zhuang Long would misinterpret her words, Xiao Li added, “Are you Zhuang Long? Or my Zhuang Long?”
Zhuang Long chuckled.
He raised his long arm and brought it down again. His well-defined fingers gripped Xiao Li’s right hand tightly.
She heard Zhuang Long say, “From now on, I’m only your Ah Long.”
Xiao Li was so happy that he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Zhuang Long kissed away the tears in her eyes.
His heart ached. Zhuang Long’s eyes were also a little hot. Their cheeks were pressed against each other. For a moment, Zhuang Long felt a mixture of sorrow and joy. “I’m sorry for making you suffer so much. All these years, I’ve been numbing myself. When I’m in danger, I subconsciously want to forget and escape…”
“You clearly have high hopes for love in your heart, but you’re putting on a strong front by saying that you want to be a single n.o.ble for the rest of your life. I think I’m really a despicable person who doesn’t mean what I say. If I really want to be single for the rest of my life, my other side won’t like you.”
“In the end, I still yearn for love. Be it love, friends.h.i.+p, or kins.h.i.+p, I’ve always yearned for it.”
“I used to be so weak and useless. Ah Li, thank you for staying by my side. In the future, I won’t be afraid anymore. You have to stay by my side and be my little angel alone.”
This was the first time Xiao Li had heard Zhuang Long speak affectionately.
In the past, the second personality was not someone who knew how to say sweet nothings. Most of the time, he only accompanied her silently. As for Zhuang Long, he had always neglected her. After knowing her for so many years, the child was already nine years old. This was the first time Zhuang Long had spoken sweet nothings to Xiao Li.
These cheesy words made Xiao Li so touched that she wanted to cry.
Xiao Li sat up and crawled into Zhuang Long’s arms, crying.
“I thought you would never recover. Ah Long, you have no idea how uneasy I was during the divorce. When you signed the divorce agreement, my heart almost stopped beating. I was afraid, afraid that that piece of paper would really end our relations.h.i.+p.”
“In the past few years, when you looked for me several times, I almost surrendered. But I always remember your words. You said that before you recovered, you wouldn’t allow me to approach you. You said that you didn’t want to wake up one day and find that you had killed the person you loved with your own hands.”
“For this reason, I’ve never dared to accept you, even though I’ve already screamed silently in my heart for thousands of times: Accept him! Forgive him! He likes you too… but I don’t dare to. I don’t want you to kill again.”
“The first time you killed someone, it was for me. If you kill me the second time, you’ll really go crazy.”
Xiao Li was afraid that Zhuang Long would go crazy from then on. Every time Zhuang Long came to look for her and coaxed her with sweet words, she really almost agreed.
Fortunately, she managed to hold on.
Xiao Li had finally waited for the day when Zhuang Long would recover. All the grievances and waiting were worth it.
…
Zhuang Qilin slept at home for the entire day.
Naturally, he couldn’t fall asleep, but he could pretend to be asleep.
While he was pretending, he really fell asleep at three or four in the afternoon. When Zhuang Qilin woke up, he realized that the sky had already turned dark. He walked downstairs and only saw the butler, but not Xiao Li. His heart skipped a beat.
Mom didn’t come back…
She was married to Bruce. Tonight was their wedding night. It would be strange if she returned.
Zhuang Qilin was a little frustrated. He took a big gulp of water. The water had just been taken out of the fridge. It was cold, but it couldn’t quench his anger. Zhuang Qilin suddenly smashed the cup against the wall. The cup hit the wall and fell to the ground, shattering into pieces.
The butler and servants were too shocked to speak.
Zhuang Qilin stared at the shattered pieces and cursed, “Screw off!” The first time he swore was on the night of Xiao Li’s wedding.
The phone suddenly rang.
The butler carefully glanced at the angry young master. Seeing that he did not respond, she quietly walked past him and picked up the phone. “h.e.l.lo.”
The person on the other end of the line said something. When she put down the phone, the butler actually smiled.
When she got closer to Zhuang Qilin, the female butler was no longer afraid.
“Young Master.”
Zhuang Qilin glared fiercely at the female butler but did not speak.
He was afraid that he would spit fire if he spoke.
The female butler quickly said, “The call was from your father’s butler, Butler Gray. He invited you over for dinner. The chauffeur will be here soon. By the way, Butler Gray also said that Miss Lawson is there.” Zhuang Qilin was still a little angry when he heard the first half of the sentence.
His mother was already married to someone else, yet his father was still in the mood to invite him to dinner!
What was going on!
He was furious!
When he heard the second half of the sentence, Zhuang Qilin was stunned.
What was going on?
Shouldn’t his mother be with Bruce?
Why was she at her father’s?
Zhuang Qilin returned to his room to change his clothes. When he went downstairs, the chauffeur Zhuang Long had sent had already arrived. Zhuang Qilin got into the car and asked the chauffeur, “Is my mother at my father’s place?”
The driver replied, “Yes, Young Master.”
Zhuang Qilin said nothing more.
He arrived at Zhuang Long’s house in silence.
After getting out of the car, Zhuang Qilin saw Gray. Gray welcomed him into the house himself. On the way, Gray kept asking him if he was hungry or thirsty…
Zhuang Qilin felt irritated.
“Gray, what’s going on with my mother and father?”