Chapter 39 - Gentle and Considerate

Ji Naitang treated that night as the last night that they would be together, so he was more passionate and active than at the resort. Maybe because his stomach hurt too much, but he didn’t fall asleep in the end like before.

He was very tired and very sleepy, but he couldn’t sleep because of the pain in his stomach.

Cen Muqi leaned on the bed and looked at his phone. He then put his phone down and left the room to do something. Ji Naitang wasn’t in the mood to care. But as soon as Cen Muqi went out, his phone sounded.

Ji Naitang opened his eyes and saw it from the bed. It was less than a minute from the time that Cen Muqi had put down his phone and when he left, so the phone hadn’t locked itself yet.

He was disdainful of looking at other people’s phones, but the name displayed on the phone was HuanHuan. He could only see a few words and reached out to click on the message.

[Qi ge, was what Aunt Yan told me true? Did you really tell Aunt Yan that?]

Ji Naitang’s eyes flashed. He wondered what this message referred to. Was it about the birthday and engagement party?

His heart turned tart. What he wanted but couldn’t get in a lifetime, Tan Huanya could easily obtain it. Sometimes comparing yourself to other people would really anger you to death.

Cen Muqi came back about twenty minutes later. As soon as he entered the room, Ji Naitang smelled vegetables. He quickly looked up and saw Cen Muqi holding a tray in his hands. “Are you hungry, CEO Cen?”

Cen Muqi smiled. “I ‘ate’ very well.” He deliberately stressed the word “eat,” to refer to food and on the bed.

“Then…….” Ji Naitang held a faint hope, but he wasn’t sure. Cen Muqi put the tray on the nightstand on his side and sat on the bed. “Take the medicine first and then eat the noodles.”

He was right. Cen Muqi actually prepared it for him!

Ji Naitang was quite joyful. His earlier depression instantly dissipated a bit. He slowly sat up and put the medicine that Cen Muqi handed to him in his mouth. Then he picked up a cup and drank water to swallow the medicine. “What kind of medicine is this?”

“What do you think? Ji Naitang, shouldn’t you go for a check-up in the hospital about your stomach?”

Ji Naitang had tried hard to control himself earlier, but Cen Muqi still noticed. His heart turned warm, but with that, came even more reluctance.

Cen Muqi was such a good person. He was gentle, humorous, and considerate, but he wasn’t Ji Naitang’s boyfriend. In fact, they wouldn’t have anything to do with each other very soon. Thinking of this made Ji Naitang’s stomach hurt even more.

“It hurts every once in a while……”

“Once in a while?” Cen Muqi raised his eyebrow. “We don’t know each other for very long, but it’s already been two times. And it looks like this time is more serious than last time, but you didn’t even say it. Ji Naitang, don’t joke about your own body.”

Ji Naitang looked silently at him and silently thought, ‘You haven’t known me for long, but I’ve known you for twelve years.’

“Eat first.” Cen Muqi saw that he wasn’t look good, so he didn’t continue lecturing him and handed the tray to him.

Ji Naitang silently took it and started to eat. He didn’t eat more than a few bites at dinner tonight, but judging from just the appearance of the earlier dishes and the few bites that he had, the Cen housekeeper’s cooking skills were really good. However, this bowl of noodles looked good, but it was salty to death and even gooey.

Were the housekeeper’s skills just for decoration? Although Ji Naitang was not a picky eater, his stomach was already hurting. He really didn’t want to eat such food to make matters worse. He couldn’t help but look up at Cen Muqi.

Cen Muqi calmly asked, “Does it taste bad?”

“It’s a little salty and a little mushy.”

“Try to eat it. Everyone’s asleep already. Besides, you deserve it. Who told you not to eat earlier?”

“They’re all asleep? Then this bowl of noodles……”

“I made it.”

Ji Naitang stared with round eyes. He was incredulous.

Cen Muqi didn’t feel the slightest bit embarrassed about his awful cooking skills. He even said seriously, “I made it according to the recipes on Baidu. It looks just the ones online, so it shouldn’t be that bad.”