Under the influence of Lin Huayin, Xiao Zheng's cooking skills were improving day by day. Although he hadn't reached the realm of combining Chinese and Western cooking, a bowl of Egg Fried Rice was cooked to perfection and had the charm of a chef.
Xiao Zheng went home at seven and began to prepare dinner. Although it was called Egg Fried Rice, it still needed to be accompanied by two side dishes and a pot of soup. The dishes were one meat and one vegetable, and the soup was pork ribs and winter melon. It wasn't a delicacy, but it catered to Lin Huayin's taste.
Dinner was prepared from seven. Xiao Zheng spent two hours stewing the soup and then began to stir-fry. First, it would take a long time to stew the soup. Second, he was afraid that Lin Huayin wouldn't be home in time and the dishes wouldn't taste good when they were cold.
After completing all the procedures, Xiao Zheng carried two plates of Egg Fried Rice sprinkled with shallots to the table. He took off his apron and looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction. "With my cooking skills, won't I be able to make her swallow her tongue?"
Looking at the time, it was already ten o 'clock in the evening.
Xiao Zheng had told Lin Huayin to get off work early. But she still hadn't come home. What a disappointment.
Bored, Xiao Zheng curled up on Lin Huayin's precious leather sofa and watched TV. Because the TV program was too boring, Xiao Zheng fell asleep after watching it for a while.
After sleeping for a long time, Xiao Zheng was awakened by a crisp sound of the door opening. Raising his head, he saw Lin Huayin in her work clothes open the door and enter the room. Her white and beautiful face was full of fatigue, but her eyes were as cold as ever.
"You're back." Xiao Zheng yawned and stood up. "I'm going to heat up the food. It'll be ready soon."
Lin Huayin put down her handbag and said expressionlessly, "I've eaten."
"Huh?" Xiao Zheng asked with a look of surprise. "Didn't we agree to go home for dinner?"
"I have a few urgent documents to deal with, so I'll eat at the company's cafeteria," Lin Huayin said as she changed her shoes.
"Then have another bowl of soup," Xiao Zheng said with a smile. "I stewed spareribs soup. It also filtered the layer of oil that floated up. "
"I don't want to drink anymore," Lin Huayin said lightly. "I'm a little sleepy. I'm going to take a shower."
Her tone was cold and her attitude indifferent, as if it was the first time Xiao Zheng had met her. His entire body was brimming with an unapproachable aura, causing people to shiver.
Watching as Lin Huayin went upstairs, Xiao Zheng helplessly returned to the dining room and ate the two plates of Egg-Fried Rice, then drank a large bowl of pork ribs soup. Only then did he clear the table and trudge up the stairs.
When he arrived at the bedroom, Lin Huayin had already taken a shower, but she did not sit at the desk to work as usual. Instead, she lay on the bed early to rest.
Xiao Zheng only glanced at it briefly before entering the bathroom to take a shower. After a simple shower, he came out in his pajamas.
Just like a long time ago, Xiao Zheng carefully lifted a corner of the quilt and quickly got under the covers. He lay down, but he did not hug Lin Huayin like before.
The atmosphere in the bedroom was suffocating. In addition to the sound of warm air, even his heartbeat seemed to have stopped.
The long cold war made Xiao Zheng's mood quite chaotic. He thought that after today's incident, Lin Huayin would slowly return to normal. Unexpectedly, not only did she not get off work on time to go home for dinner, but she even slacked off on her daily compulsory work.
This made Xiao Zheng feel suffocated in his heart, but he didn't know how to vent it.
"Are you going to continue like this?" Xiao Zheng said in a low voice.
In the darkness, his eyes were wide open, staring at the ceiling with a complicated expression.
Lin Huayin did not move, nor did she say a word.
"Do you know that I started to prepare dinner at seven o 'clock today?" Xiao Zheng said in a subtle tone. "I even specially made your favorite pork ribs soup."
"Are you doing this to punish yourself or me?" Xiao Zheng took a deep breath and said with a stiff expression.
Lin Huayin still did not say a word, but changed to a sleeping position that was closer to Xiao Zheng. She did not seem to want to talk to Xiao Zheng, nor did she want to share any feelings. What she had to do was to close her eyes and sleep. When the sun rose, the first thing she would do was to get dressed and go to work.
That was what she thought, and that was what she was doing.
"The house is yours." Xiao Zheng said bitterly. "If you feel that staying with me will be stressful, I can go downstairs and live. Or leave. "
In the darkness, Xiao Zheng said in a low voice, "What do you think?"
Under the moonlight, Lin Huayin's shoulders trembled slightly, but she still did not say a word. But anyone could see that she was immersed in a fierce ideological struggle.
"No matter what, you should say something, right?" Xiao Zheng asked with a subtle expression.
Finally, Lin Huayin could not stand it anymore.
She slowly turned her head. In the darkness, Xiao Zheng clearly saw the glint of tears in her eyes. For a moment, Xiao Zheng was completely stunned.
As God's witness, since Xiao Zheng knew Lin Huayin, he had never seen this iceberg woman shed a tear. Even when she was angry a few times, she vented her emotions coldly. And she had never lost control.
At this moment, although she was trying hard to suppress the turbulence in her heart. But the pair of beautiful eyes shining in the darkness betrayed her heart.
Yes.
She shed tears.
There was no crying, no choking, just pure, beautiful tears overflowing from her beautiful eyes. However, even such a Lin Huayin caused Xiao Zheng to be completely dumbfounded.
Why was she crying?
Wasn't she the one who bullied me all the time?
Even if what I said just now was a little harsh, a little cruel, it was not necessary for her to cry without saying a word, right?
"Why do you have to force me?" Lin Huayin's voice trembled, and her beautiful eyes were full of tears.
"How did I force you?" Xiao Zheng asked.
"You did." Lin Huayin said with a strong attitude. "You are forcing me."
The speed of the tears was obviously faster, and it looked like they were about to burst out.
"Okay, okay. I forced you. "Xiao Zheng hurriedly raised his hands in surrender and apologized. "Whatever you say, I don't object."
Lin Huayin bit her red lips and said with a slightly contradictory mood, "Can't you let me sleep peacefully and go to work peacefully?"
"I didn't want to disturb your sleep." Xiao Zheng did not know whether to laugh or cry. "I also didn't want to disturb your work. I just hope that you don't always hold it in, it's easy to get sick. "
Lin Huayin tried to control her emotions that were about to go out of control, and said in a low voice, "I just want to be alone."
"You have been quiet for half a month —" Xiao Zheng kindly reminded.
"It's not enough." Lin Huayin shook her head.
"In another week, we will go back to Beijing to see your mother." Xiao Zheng reminded again. "With auntie's wisdom, no detail can escape her eyes."
"I don't care." Lin Huayin stopped trembling, and her tone became calm again.
The tears just now had unknowingly released the emotions that she had been suppressing for a long time.
"I care." Xiao Zheng said with conviction. "People say that the more a mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more she likes him. I don't want your mother to see me as an eyesore! "
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