Can't Take My Eyes Off You

C 94-95

Upon hearing that sentence, the one who was still struggling quieted down instantly. Jiang Yao responded with a hum and lay there obediently. Without knowing what was on her mind, she suddenly raised her head and glanced at him. She approached him, kissed him on the corner of his lips, moved away swiftly, and lay back on him.

Hah, as expected, she was a little woman who could be persuaded by reason but not cowed by force.

Lu Xingzhi could not help but feel pleased about his accurate assessment about her.

Initially, Jiang Yao had planned to accompany Lu Xingzhi to sleep for a while. After he was asleep, she would go downstairs. However, the next time she opened her eyes was when Lu Xiaoxiao knocked on the door.

She rubbed her sleepy eyes and heard Lu Xingzhi asking Lu Xiaoxiao, who had knocked on the door, to wait downstairs.

"You're awake?" Lu Xingzhi said in a playful tone, "Pig."

Jiang Yao asked in a dazed manner while being teased, "What's the time?" Then, she sat up straight and looked at the clock on the bedside table.

"Oh my goodness! It's five o'clock already?" Jiang Yao rubbed her eyes, stunned. "It felt like I have been sleeping for just a while!"

"So, I married a pig." Lu Xingzhi laughed. "A pig-like wife."

Jiang Yao kicked him unhappily. "Uncle and Xiaoxiao have arrived." After some thought, she said, "If Mom asks, I'll say I was accompanying you while you're asleep, and that you slept until now."

"I was wronged. I was awake at three-thirty, I saw that you were in deep sleep, so I did not get up." Lu Xingzhi said unwillingly.

Jiang Yao did not care if he was falsely accused. Anyway, that would be her explanation if anyone asked.

"Go wash your face and go downstairs to eat. Xiaoxiao has called us down to eat." Lu Xingzhi was simply teasing Jiang Yao. She was thin-skinned and of course, he should be a responsible husband.

Jiang Yao quickly rushed to the washroom to wash her face. When she looked up, she saw Lu Xingzhi, who came in afterward, standing beside her while smiling cheekily at her.

Jiang Yao suddenly realised that Lu Xingzhi liked to smile when he was with her. While they were together, he was not like when he was with other people, where his face was always icy and expressionless.

However, even when he was smiling, he was just slightly curving up the corners of his lips. But for Jiang Yao, she could sense his emotions in his eyes, that he was really smiling.

"What are you looking at?" Lu Xingzhi asked casually when he saw Jiang Yao looking at him after he lowered his head and wiped his face.

"Nothing." Jiang Yao shook her head. "Let's go downstairs after we're done washing up. Don't keep them waiting for too long."

"Wait a second." Lu Xingzhi lifted his arm and pressed against the wall with white ceramic tiles beside Jiang Yao. He surrounded her with his arms and the wall, then bent down to kiss Jiang Yao after she asked why.

He did not know why he kissed her. He just felt the sudden urge to kiss her, without any reason, while following his heart. She was like a dessert that he would never stop tasting for the rest of his life, and she was a drug that he was addicted to for a lifetime.

Jiang Yao was concerned about the elders downstairs. She pushed him lightly after kissing Lu Xingzhi for a while, and pouted. "We should go downstairs. If you continue kissing me, my lips will become swollen."

Although Lu Xingzhi did not continue kissing her, he wrapped her in his arms, very, very tightly, until there wasn't even a tiny gap between them.

"Jiang Yao, don't stop maintaining it," Lu Xingzhi said randomly. He released her before holding her hand while exiting the room and then, they headed downstairs.

Jiang Yao did not understand why Lu Xingzhi had said that. What did he mean by 'don't stop maintaining it'? Maintain what?

She was planning to ask him, but seeing that Lu Xingzhi had no intention of explaining himself, she did not say anything further and followed him downstairs.

When Jiang Yao got downstairs, she saw Jiang Lei and Lu Xiaoxiao busy arguing. Jiang Lei did not even care about his image, and did not compromise with Lu Xiaoxiao either. Both of them had argued until their faces were flushed red and the adults were looking at them while laughing without the intention of stopping them. Even Lu Haixing smiled to the point his eyes curved into a line.

"Sis!" Lu Xiaoxiao lost the fight and hurried over to Jiang Yao right after she arrived downstairs. "Your second brother is bullying me!"

"Lu Xiaoxiao, you really are capable, aren't you? How dare you complain when you can't win against me! What's more, your sister-in-law is my younger sister, she would not dare to interfere!" Jiang Lei stood there flaunting.

Lu Xiaoxiao agreed with what he said, so he ran to Lu Xingzhi and said, "Brother, Jiang Lei, that brat..."

Before Lu Xiaoxiao could finish, Lu Haixing interjected, "Xiaoxiao, it's no use even if you look for your brother. Jiang Lei is your brother's brother-in-law, he would not interfere too."

Lu Haixing was gleeful. He had never seen Lu Xiaoxiao being provoked to this extent, and he thought it was interesting.

Lu Xiaoxiao was indeed the youngest in the Lu family. Lu Yuqing and Lu Xingzhi would always tolerate her and she was always the overlord of the Lu family, with no one ever objecting to whatever she said. Meanwhile, in the Jiang family, there was one person who did not see her as a queen, and he would always strike back at whatever she said. Lu Haixing thought that only this one person could fight with Lu Xiaoxiao and let her come back to her senses.

"Dad!" Lu Xiaoxiao was on the verge of crying as the entire family had no intention of helping her.

"Okay, okay, let's eat." Mrs. Lu felt sorry eventually and dragged Lu Xiaoxiao to the dining table before calling for everyone to have their meals.

Lu Yuqing did not come back for this meal. Jiang Yao did not see her, and she did not ask about her either. She assumed that Lu Yuqing was probably busy with something and hence did not return, or perhaps she had just divorced and had to run some errands.

After dinner, Lu Haixing had the driver send the Jiangs back to their house. Lu Xiaoxiao and Jiang Lei really became rivals, as they were busy arguing at the table. However, surprisingly, no one stopped them. Instead, they chit-chatted on their own, with no one bothering to interrupt. The atmosphere was really strangely peaceful.

Before leaving, Lu Xiaoxiao knew that Jiang Lei was going on a movie date with his girlfriend. Hence, she cursed that he would be dumped by his girlfriend and have nowhere to cry.

It was only after Lu Xiaoxiao had mentioned it that Jiang Yao remembered Jiang Lei had a girlfriend at that time, who was a salesperson at a mall in town.

The relationship between both of them had really ended with Jiang Lei being dumped by his girlfriend, who found a rich proprietor.

Jiang Yao had met Jiang Lei's current girlfriend two times. Honestly, Jiang Yao did not like her at first sight. She felt that the way she looked at others was as if she were looking at a product, as she calculated the value of the product.

However, Jiang Lei loved her blindly as if he had no eyes. After he was dumped, Jiang Lei drowned his sorrows for a very long period of time. Just when the whole family thought that Jiang Lei would never get over that woman, he had suddenly pulled himself together and travelled to the north to earn a living. In less than two years, he had really become successful.

Jiang Yao did not plan to interfere with Jiang Lei's fate. Some things were more like a blessing in disguise to Jiang Lei. After enduring it, he would only be left with good fortune.

However, Jiang Lei was not married even after Jiang Yao's rebirth. Jiang Yao was concerned about Jiang Lei, as she was afraid that Jiang Lei could not forget that woman for the rest of his life.