Captivated By You ✔️

102 There Was Dirt

Jiang Xu arrived before the ten minutes was up, which pleasantly surprised Hui Yin.

She didn't even expect him to arrive after ten minutes. Wang Yong's villa was pretty far from the Jiang's family home, so her request to him was only a bit of wishful thinking on her part.

In addition to how slow Jiang Xu moved, like that of a geriatric old man, Hui Yin had estimated that he would probably arrive after half an hour at most.

"That was fast," she praised, after Jiang Xu rolled down his car window and honked at her.

He opened the car door for her, and Hui Yin caught a glimpse of his pajamas. She burst out laughing.

"I disturbed your sleep, didn't I?"

Jiang Xu flushed, until the tips of his ears turned red. His Wifey looked beautiful tonight, especially when she laughed...he couldn't help but be grateful that the twins weren't here.

"En," he replied.

Hui Yin unwinded her braid, hands combing through her hair. She opened the glove compartment, and held up a piece of hair tie triumphantly.

"Aha! I knew you'd be too lazy to clean this up. Has my poor hair tie been languishing inside your glove compartment since our university days?"

Jiang Xu didn't know what to say. He might be lazy, but he treated his car like his second bedroom. He cleaned it regularly, so he knew about the things his Wifey had left behind. But why should he remove her things?

His car was his Wifey's car!

Feeling nostalgic, Hui Yin looked around. There was the usual excessive number of pillows on the backseat, which she used to tease Jiang Xu as his ploy to do 'merrymaking' with girls.

However, both of them knew the sad truth.

During the occasional periods where their classes were suspended, Jiang Xu could be found here, sound asleep under the pile of pillows.

"Wifey..." Jiang Xu paused, then continued. "You went to Wang Yong's birthday party?"

He could only secretly guess, because she was near to Wang Yong's villa. She was also wearing a formal dress and some light make-up, so he put two and two together. Jiang Xu knew that his Wifey wasn't close to any of the Wangs, so the reason why she got invited was probably...

"Mmm." Hui Yin stretched her legs. "I went there with my fiancé."

His chest tightened, making it hard for him to breathe. Jiang Xu tried his hardest to sound normal.

"He...your fiancé didn't give you a ride home?"

Hui Yin shot him a mischievous smile, not noticing that Jiang Xu had nearly reached his limit of ten words.

"Well, he was being stupid so I ran away."

"Stupid?"

"He was drinking too much. And..."

I knew that he would kiss somebody else.

"...we're going to break up soon."

The painful feeling inside Jiang Xu eased slightly. He frowned. This was what others would probably call...jealousy?

If Qin Bingqing hadn't described this feeling to him so that Jiang Xu would understand why she hated seeing him and Hui Yin together, he would have probably thought he was having a heart attack.

Hui Yin leaned forward and pointed out a direction.

"Turn here."

Jiang Xu was shocked. "Not back to your apartment?"

Feeling embarrassed, Hui Yin scratched her nose.

"Erm...the two of us signed some sort of contract, and...well, I have to stay in his villa for now until our engagement gets annulled. But he's going on a business trip tomorrow and our engagement will be over by the time that he gets back!"

The last part wasn't something Lu Shen had told her, but a prediction Hui Yin based on her past life. One reason she waited patiently until the party to break their engagement was because Lu Shen wouldn't be able to interfere during the execution her plan. It was better for that man to stay out of the way first.

"You...live together?" His shoulders tensed, not liking the thought of his Wifey living in the same house with a man.

Her fiancé was so lucky...Jiang Xu coughed. No, her fiancé was being corrupt!

Hui Yin poked his cheek. "Separate rooms, dummy. What were you thinking?"

He pursed his lips, still feeling sullen. In his cat pajamas, he looked like the missing third clone of the twins.

The car stopped in front of the villa, and Hui Yin clicked off her seatbelt. Pushing the door open, she turned to Jiang Xu with a smile.

"Driver, many thanks for your kind service." She saluted him.

Just as she was about to go out of the car, Jiang Xu captured her wrist. Surprised, Hui Yin looked back at him.

"Hm?"

"Ah!" Frightened at his own impulse, he took his hand back. "Dirt...there was dirt on your skin. I was wiping...I wiped it off."

Jiang Xu wanted nothing more than to dig a big hole in the ground, crawl in, and bury himself.

Why did he do that?

What was he trying to do?

Stop her from getting inside that ginormous villa?

He had no right to do that! Although Jiang Xu's heart was brimming with reluctance, he could only let his Wifey go back to her fiancé.

She said that they were going to break up soon...instead of being hasty and ruining their friendship, it was better to slow down and take his time. After all, he would have more chances in the future.

Jiang Xu puffed up his cheeks.

Her fiancé, whoever that was, better not have his intestines turn green with regret when he finally loses his Wifey!