Please Confess to Me

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Chapter 3
Memories of Breakfast

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Su Hang brought their breakfast to the kitchen and placed the food in delicate plates. After finishing his arrangements, he brought the plates to the dining table. Su Huang then hesitated, wondering if he should go upstairs and call Shen Xi to come down and eat. But just then, Shen Xi slowly came down the stairs, wearing a beige, lace embroidered dress.

"Morning." Shen Xi saw Su Hang by the table and habitually smiled, nodding.

"Morning." After a moment of shock, Su Hang turned and pointed to the food on the table: "I've prepared some breakfast."

Shen Xi walked towards the table. She looked at the exquisite breakfast and replied: "It looks delicious."

"It's good that you like it." Su Hang handed her some chopsticks from across the table.

"Thank you." Shen Xi took the chopsticks and politely thanked him.

"You're welcome." Su Hang also replied politely.

Wait, there's something wrong here! Shen Xi sat down and thought about the situation as she began to eat. She had been married to Su Hang for five years. When Su Hang handed her a pair of chopsticks she was habitually polite as she said her thanks, and similar to the man she was married to for five years, the person in front of her replied in a polite manner.

Day after day, in those five years, their conversations were like this, and Shen Xi had never thought anything of it. Just now she suddenly realized that today, on the first day of their marriage, such polite and formal language was understandable. However, even after five years of being together, their way of speaking had stayed the same: courteous, as if speaking to a guest. How strange.

As Shen Xi pondered this, she eyes unconsciously fell on the man eating breakfast across her.

Su Hang had long noticed Shen Xi's gaze. At first, he pretended not to know and continued to eat, but after a while, Shen Xi's eyes still remained on him and he started to feel uncomfortable. But being a well-established businessman, Su Hang naturally wouldn't call Shen Xi out on it and make her uncomfortable. So as he put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth with a napkin he asked: "Was there something you wanted to tell me?"

"Ah?" Shen Xi blinked. She had been lost in thought and had unknowingly stared at Su Hang. His sudden question gave her pause, but then Shen Xi smiled, and replied in a natural manner: "This morning, I looked out the balcony and saw a dog out on the yard."

"You saw." Su Hang was stunned.

"Nn." Shen Xi nodded.
　　
"That's Li QingYuan's dog. He went out on a business trip, so he asked me to take care of his dog for a few days. He'll come by later this afternoon and take him away." Su Hang explained, his expression unchanging as he lied.

"Li QingYuan?" Shen Xi was puzzled, but she had never been familiar with Li QingYuan, so she didn't know if he ever had a dog.

"Yes." Su Hang nodded.

"Oh..." Shen Xi no longer thought about it and smiled, "He's pretty cute."

"Cute?" Su Hang paused, surprise visible in his eyes. "Don't you dislike dogs?"

"How do you know I dislike dogs?" Shen Xi paused in the middle of sipping porridge and looked at him strangely.

"Well..." Su Hang tried to act normal as he explained: "I heard that you were bitten by a dog before, so I just figured that you would be afraid of dogs."

"So you know about that." Shen Xi smiled, then said: "I was very small at the time, I think around five years old when I got bit."

Su Hang had wanted to say that he knew. He knew that she had been wearing a furry rabbit coat and her hair had been braided into looking like two sheep horns. That when she had been bitten, she had shrunk into his arms and cried for a long time. At the thought of this memory, Su Hang's face softened.