Chapter 20 - Carving

Chapter 20: CarvingTranslator: Chen DanniProofread by Liang Yaping

Getting marriage license was one thing, but to live with a man was another. Ji Xiaoli always felt that she was not ready, or she didn’t have that awareness.

But it’s no use crying over spilled milk. What they could do was, as he said, learning to accept it.

After dinner, they went upstairs together. Ji Xiaoli went to the master bedroom slowly. When she saw the big bed, her face became blushed because of the memory of the night that they two had spent here.

“Will you take a bath?” Qin Zhenyang was happy when he saw his wife’s rose face, and raised his thin lips slightly.

Ji Xiaoli was eager to find some place to hide quickly, too. She nodded, took some clothes from the trunk, slipped into the bathroom, and slammed the door behind her.

The girl in the mirror who had a pair of watery eyes and flushing cheeks seemed to have been different from the former herself.

She took off her clothes to let the warm water flow through her body. She closed her eyes agreeably. It’s so comfortable to take a shower after a day’s hard work.

However, after showering, she found she was not that lucky.

She took all the underwear except for the towel. It might be left in Qi Xiaoguang’s house. She patted her head, wrapped herself in her bathrobe, opened the bathroom door a little and stretched her head out.

“Qin Zhenyang?”

The man leaned back on the sofa and idly looked through the military magazine. He was not in the state to read it, especially when he heard the sound of water splashing in the bathroom. He seemed to think of something…

And his breath became hot.

After all, he was used to living alone. Anyway, he was accustomed to the life with a person who suddenly appeared in his life, perhaps just because this person was her.

And a call in a low cat-mewing-like voice came into his ears. He raised his head suddenly and, sure enough, saw the ‘little cat’ poking out her head and calling to him. He threw aside the magazine and strode to her.

He raised his lips with a sort of spoiling, “Do you forget something?”

Ji Xiaoli carried the wrapped bath towel with one hand and scratched her head with the other, which made her obviously very helpless: “I did not take the towel back. Is there more in the home?

“Yes!”

Ji Xiaoli raised her head and looked at him, “Where is it?”

“That gray one, but I have used it before.” Qi Zhenyang gave her a playful look.

Ji Xiaoli glared at him.

“Just joking! The white one next to it is new. You can use it!”

Ji Xiaoli stuck her tongue out to him and closed the bathroom door quickly for fear that he would come in. Actually, Qin Zhenyang was a wise rogue. When his wife was so alert, he wouldn’t act.

Ji Xiaoli lay in the bed after showering. She felt at sea when hearing the sound of water. She rolled on the big bed. But she was stunned when she found the condoms in the nightstand.

“Have you slept?” Half of the big bed suddenly sank. When the man raised the quilt and came in, a breath of peppermint flavor came over Ji Xiaoli’s heart.

Bang bang bang (Her heart beat heavily)

They did have more imitate behavior. But this time was the first time after marriage, so her feeling was totally different.

Being shy or nervous, Ji Xiaoli kept motionless, pretending to be a dead woman in a corner of the bed.

Qin Zhenyang smiled and he knew she was playing possum especially through her fluttering eyelashes. But he didn’t expose her. Instead, he reached out to untie the robe at her waist.

“Stop!”

Qin zhenyang spread his hands, “Are you going to wear this to sleep? Are you sure it’s not hot? Or are you afraid I’m going to do something?”

Ji Xiaoli swallowed her saliva, then she found that his robe has been taken off earlier. His upper body was bare and of the bronzing light, only wearing a black CK underpants.

The moment he took a step forward, she took a step back.

“I’m not afraid. Anyway, we have done it before. Isn’t it all the same?” Ji Xiaoli contended. While she was uncertain at heart.

“Yes, you’re right! We are couples now. We can make everything we want! Since it is so, just take off your clothes! Aren’t we supposed to be honest with each other?” Qin Zhenyang’s eyes were moving from her flushing cheeks to her red earlobe edge, and then he gave an extremely unkindly playful smile.

Ji Xiaoli was not herself when the belt in her waist was loosened by him until a burst of coldness in the chest made her thoroughly sober. She pointed at Qin Zhenyang but could not give a word.

“You’re a rogue from the past to now!”

Qin Zhenyang wrapped her fingers in his warm palm and said with a smile, “That’s not right! Was it that I did not know before, but now you are my wife. I do things with you just as husband and wife do, how can I be called rogue?”

“Are you getting into your role too fast?”

Qin Zhenyang pulled her to his bosom, and then his strong body immediately came upon her. He raised a wild smile: “Fast? Not fast at all! But if you want to try a faster one, I’m quite willing!”

Feeling her soft body and charming fragrance in his bosom, he raised her chin, stared at her blushing face, and kissed her tender and lovely lips.

Ji Xiaoli was about to stop breathing due to the hot, long kiss. The chaos of the brain made her blank with her little hands grasping his waist unconsciously.

“Zhen…yang…”

“I’m here.” There was no discomfort or pain in him, but he grew more and more animated by her cry, and kissed her more wildly and more wantonly. His unruly hands came upon her waist and rubbed it back and forth.

“Call my name again!”

“Zhen…yang…Qin Zhenyang…”

He began to stop kissing her feverishly and pecked her face softly instead. The tip of his mint-favor tongue passed one by one over her beautiful features, along the smooth neck, leaving a faint red mark on the beautiful neck, and the thin lips gradually moved down…

Ji Xiaoli began to cater to him slowly after her rejection at first and put her hand around his neck to react to his considerate and wild kiss again and again.

Maybe.

She was trying to accept him step by step but she just didn’t realize it.

*

The next morning, Ji Xiaoli woke up to find that he wasn’t here. She looked up at the time, but it was only close to eight.

She yawned and, in a daze, heard the water running in the bathroom… Thinking of the exciting affair last light, she blushed again.

Now she wasn’t alone. Yesterday she ended her single life by getting marriage licenses with a man she just met for three times

But it did not feel bad

“Are you awake?” The bathroom door opened. His upper body was still bare. With a black robe around his waist, he came out. His messy short hair was still dripping water, which slid down from his chest.

Yesterday they did what they could do and they had been naked to each other. But to see him suddenly like this, she was still not used to it. Thus, she returned a low “yes” to his question.

Qin Zhenyang looked at her logy and blushing face with a smile. She didn’t find her robe was on the edge of falling off, which was so appealing.

If he had not had something to do, he would make love with her now. It’s said that a night after marriage with one’s lover may be worth lots of money. But that moment that already passed did not mean that passion disappeared.

They would live a long life together. He had plenty of time to run in with her.

Lightning marriage was not a new word to him, but Qin Zhenyang had never thought he would do like it. He was not a gambler and did not believe in the accidents of life, but now he did change his ideas.

His wife was his best accident.

He went close to the bed and rubbed her long hair with his hand. His voice was a little husky and low. “Still dazed?”

Ji Xiaoli was in a daze for a while and soon she was clear.

“Needn’t you go to the army today?” She felt he’s had a lot of free time these days recently.

Qin Zhenyang took back his hand and answered with a smile: “It’s not I needn’t but I asked for a leave. After all, I have to marry my wife. How can my political commissar refuse me?”

“Then you still get up that early?” In Ji Xiaoli’s mind, except for getting up at 7:30 from Monday to Friday, she got up after 10:00 on Saturdays and Sundays.

This moment should be spent on the bed!

“It’s not early. According to the army training, at this time the weight lifting and the breakfast have been finished and we will continue training then.” Qin Zhenyang said quietly.

They were different.

When he was young, he was sent to the army for training by his father. He had developed the habit of body-building. He was awake at 5:30 a.m. because of the internal clock. Just like this day, in order to stay more time with her, he had eye practice in the bed for nearly two hours.

Ji Xiaoli opened her mouth slightly, as if to hear something quite new.

Looking at the man who had great muscle and tanned skin, she suddenly felt the soldier was really distinctive, and she somehow became the wife of a soldier…

During her thinking, a hand came upon her breast, so she was stunned and glared at him, “What are you doing? It’s morning!”

“If you don’t want me to do something with you, get dressed and get up in 5 minutes!” The man raised his eyebrows with a half smile.

“Now?”

“Yes, now!”

“Why?”

The man said to her with a ruthless coach-like face just as he was training his little new soldier: “Comrade Ji Xiaoli, before you sleep late, I can’t discipline you, but now you are my woman, and I think I have the right to discipline you! Sleeping late is not good for your health, so as long as I am at home, you have to get up at seven o ‘clock and run one lap with me in the garden and then come back!”

7 o’clock?

“No! I refuse it！”

She was getting married, marring a husband rather than marrying a father. How could he discipline more than her father…

Qin Zhenyang grasped her waist and picked her up, “Of course you can refuse, but if you don’t want to do something with me early in the morning, you can disobey my orders!”

It…

“3 minutes only!”

Ji Xiaoli scratched her hair. What kind of man she had married, she had a bad prediction… The following days will be quite ‘wonderful’!

After she finished washing herself and walked downstairs, Qin Zhenyang has already been reading a military magazine, waiting for her on the sofa. When he saw her coming down slowly, he said again: “You speed still needs to improve!”

Ji Xiaoli glared at him but she knew she couldn’t compare with him in terms of physical power. So she gritted her teeth as if she had heard nothing.

The breakfast on the table was cooked by the someone in the kitchen, and Aunt Wang also helped doing some chore. Aunt Wang could never be more happy after knowing Qin Zhenyang married this girl.

“Miss Ji, this is milk and edible bird’s nest porridge, which will be beneficial to your body. And there are some dishes. Have a try to see if you like them or not.”

Ji Xiaoli tasted a few mouthfuls of those dishes and smiled at Aunt Wang. “It’s delicious. Is it made by yourself, Auant Wang?”

When they came to the villa yesterday, Qin Zhenyang had told her the importance of the old lady, Aunt Wang. After getting along with her, Ji Xiaoli also found that although the old lady was just the housekeeper here, she sincerely regarded Qin Zhenyang as her son. Therefore, it’s easy to get along with her.

Aunt Wang nodded with a smile.

“Why don’t you eat the porridge? You don’t like it?” Qin Zhenyang put down the newspaper and gave her a glance.

“I don’t like milk…”

Qin Zhenyang nodded after he knew why, “You are so picky. No wonder you are so thin”

With the word, ‘thin’, Aunt Wang’s eyes glistened, as if thinking of something, “Yes, what he said was quite right, Miss Ji. You should eat some mouthfuls of everything. This milk and edible bird’s nest porridge was boiled for a long time, you just eat some as a try… The body… you should build your body. Too thin is not good, especially after you are pregnant…”

When it came to the topic of baby, Aunt Wang could not stop talking.

Ji Xiaoli secretly took a look at Qin Zhenyang, found that he did not care about her. And facing Aunt Wang’s persistent advice, Ji Xiaoli had to hold the porridge bowl and eat it quickly and reluctantly. The thick favor of milk made her ready to collapse…

Qin Zhenyang must be deliberate!

It’s true that she didn’t realize it, when she turned around to eat the porridge, that Qi Zhenyang smiled contented.