Chapter 31 - The Silent Treatment

Chapter 31: The Silent TreatmentTranslator: Mo LipingProofread by Liang Yaping

Qin Zhenyang just felt that there was something wrong with his wife in the past few days, but he did not know what was going on. Since his marriage to now, he felt that she had regarded him as a husband in name only, and beyond that, she had never opened up to him.

This made Qin Zhenyang more or less unhappy.

“You didn’t go to the army today?” Ji Xiaoli had been in the habit of getting up at eight or nine every morning since she left the company. When she woke up, she found it a little strange that Qin Zhenyang was still at home.

“There will be a full-closed exercise in a month. I am free these days. I can stay at home for two days.” Qin Zhenyang looked at his honey with her messy hair, beaming with smile.

For two days?

Until now, to be exact, they only spent time together at night. In the day, the two were respectively busy with their own jobs. If Qin Zhenyang came back early in the evening, the two would have a chat. If he came back late, they would go straight to sleep.

That could avoid some discomfort and embarrassment.

Ji Xiaoli resignedly grabbed her hair, got out of bed, slipped into her slippers and went to the bathroom to wash. After she finished, she glanced at the man on the sofa, sitting solemnly with a military magazine in the hand, slowly turning the pages.

“Do you have any plans at home today?” The man put down the magazine, looked at her and said, “Not yet.”

He looked at the alarm clock on the bedside table and narrowed her eyes and blinked: “It’s half past eight. You don’t need to go to the company today?”

He seemed to remember that her vacation time had run out. Ji Xiaoli grabbed her hair. He did not know that she had been dismissed by the company. She leaned on the door and said lazily, “Well, I won’t go there anymore.”

“What happened?”

“It’s okay. I won’t have to go to that company anymore, because I was fired just a week ago.” Ji Xiaoli shrugged her shoulders, looking as if she didn’t care, but actually, she still more or less cared about it in her heart.

Qin Zhenyang frowned, tossed down the magazine in his hand, strode over with his long legs, and his sharp eyebrows raised unconsciously: “Why not tell me about this?”

“Because I know the results are the same whether I say it or not. It’s better to forget it.” Ji Xiaoli said noncommittally.

“It is different!”

Ji Xiaoli raised her eyes to look at him, but found that the man was somehow sullen, with coldness in his eyes.

“I don’t deny that it’s not a big deal, but we’re married, and you don’t have to hide anything. I have told you we are husband and wife, and you are no longer alone. Have you forgotten?” The man’s voice was a little hoarse, and there was a dangerous gleam in his eyes.

Ji Xiaoli could not help but retreat.

She seemed to have never seen him like this. From the marriage to now, he had been very gentle with her, just as she had said that she did not marry a husband, but a father.

So she could be without fear.

But now, she realized that maybe she was wrong … The man was never without a temper, and he just never showed it.

She smiled bitterly: “I didn’t forget it, but what’s done is done. I think I can handle it well, so I didn’t tell you …”

“You never trusted me, never wanted to depend on me, right?” The man stared at her, as if to see through all her thoughts.

Ji Xiaoli did not speak.

She was a very alert person by nature. When she was a child, Ji Xuewei often set out to trap her, pretended that nothing had happened, and always slandered her secretly. Not only Ji Xuewei, but also Fang Youlan did so …

Such was the situation even they lived in a family. If she was not defensive, she might not be able go to middle school or college, and she would be reduced to a pawn for her adoptive mother, a pawn to set off her own daughter.

She didn’t want to live like that, so most often she didn’t trust anyone easily.

During college, she was with Qin Zheng. At first she was careful. Before she knew Qin Zheng’s background, everything between them might be fine … but gradually, as more and more pursuers went after Qin Zheng, she seemed to feel that she had made a wrong decision.

She kept the distance between them like this, and she just felt nothing wrong with being respectful to each other. She also longed for such warmth, but she was more afraid that once she coveted that, what awaited her would be betrayal, and what would become of that?

She knew she would be tired, and it was unfair to him to distrust him. But it was not so easy to get rid of the habit …

Ji Xiaoli looked at him and felt a little guilty.

“I……”

Qin Zhenyang sneered, showing a self-deprecating smile. Then he strode out of the bedroom, went downstairs, and left her alone standing for a long time in a daze.

Ji Xiaoli always thought that she didn’t do anything wrong. She was just doing something in her own way. She just thought that her things didn’t need him to worry about … But at this moment, she seemed to understand something.

The two were just like this. The silent treatment lasted for two days.

Qin Zhenyang was not a talkative person. If he hadn’t been with her, he would not have said a word half a day.

Ji Xiaoli also went out these two days. Sometimes she went to the stock market and sometimes went to the urban area to look at shop fronts. Even though she was busy all the time, there was a trace of unspeakable bitterness in her heart.

At night, Qin Zhenyang didn’t come back for dinner, but came back late and went directly to the study … He didn’t even go to the bedroom to sleep at night.

She felt uncomfortable with the silent treatment. Of course she could feel that. When one was used to having two people together at night, lying alone on the big bed was an unpleasant feeling …

And so it went on until the next night.

Even Aunt Wang, who did not care about the outside world, also felt that something was wrong. It was true that the young master was a cold fish. However, since there had been a mistress here, it was not as cold as icebergs, but now it became as cold as it used to.

The two went downstairs one after the other, kept a straight face and said nothing. Were they absolutely quarreling? But wasn’t it normal for a couple to quarrel?

In the opinion of Aunt Wang, this was the case.

When couples quarreled, the more they fought, the better their relationship would become. She felt that the young master really loved Miss Ji, but she did not know what had happened, why the two didn’t even say a word …

After dinner, Aunt Wang called Ji Xiaoli into the room and asked what happened.

“… Just because of this, he was angry?” Aunt Wang was pleased. The young master usually didn’t care much about everything. But when he met a person he really cared about, he was so considerate that he would get himself involved in everything no matter how big or trivial.

Ji Xiaoli twitched her mouth: “If I had known such result, I would have told him … Who knows he is so small-minded …”

A sensitive man, one really should not offend him …

Aunt Wang laughed her head off: “This is the first time for my young master. I have been here for many years. Young master has lived here for a long time since he came of age. To tell the truth, I’ve never seen him lose his temper … He, just always puts that face, cold, to everyone like that, not irritated or passionate. I worry about that …”

In short, the one who could make the young master angry was definitely not an ordinary person.

“Aunt Wang, am I wrong?” Ji Xiaoli could feel that Qin Zhenyang was usually good-tempered. But she should avoid his landmines from being injured accidentally.

Aunt Wang smiled and said, “There is no one right or wrong about this. I’m afraid there are no such thing between some couples. But I know the young master’s temper, and he is a little domineering, especially to people or things around him. He hopes that you can share some things with him. He cares about you … Even he always puts a poker face, he would defend whatever he is concerned about. You will realize that when you get to know him gradually and deeply.”

At first, Aunt Wang was a little surprised when she knew that the two got married in a flash. The steady man had unexpectedly made such a reckless decision. But she was relieved to see that the young master really loved the girl.

There was such a delicate relationship between people. There was love for a long time and love at first sight, but they were the same as long as they liked it.

Hearing that, Ji Xiaoli nodded, “I know. Aunt Wang, I would like to ask for your advice more in the future. After all, you have taken care of him for so long and know more about his habits than I do.”

“Silly girl, instead of asking me, you’d rather realize it by yourself slowly … Young master really loves you, even if you don’t know many things, he just loves you. You have a lot of things to understand.

Ji Xiaoli didn’t think marriage would generate difficult problems before. Indeed, the real difficulty was how to maintain the relationship between the couple after marriage. Except for the daily necessities, the affection between the couple was more important.

“Well, now, I have to drive you out. Maybe you have understood a lot. Go upstairs!” She pushed Ji Xiaoli, and made eyes at her, “These days his face always takes on a ghastly expression. Obviously, he’s frustrated. Don’t let him sleep in the study tonight, he can not take care of himself … ”

“Aunt Wang!”

Aunt Wang laughed and pushed her out. She had said what she should say. The rest was for the couple to understand by themselves.

Going upstairs, Ji Xiaoli first took a shower. Although the weather was not as hot as the previous two days, a shower every night was still necessary. Climbing to bed, she remembered what Aunt Wang had just said.

What was Qin Zhenyang doing in the study at this moment? A man, who was often alone outside, couldn’t really take care of himself? Couldn’t he really take care of himself?

…

In the study.

Qin Zhenyang leaned on the chair, and with his knitted eyebrows listened to the report from the man on the phone.

“Boss, I have checked it out. The previous report was sent by a person surnamed Jiang, the deputy editor of Beijing Morning Post. Then I looked up the person surnamed Jiang. Sure enough, I found something … He is the sister-in-law’s adoptive mother’s cousin. If I am right, the information should probably be provided by these two persons.”

One was Fang Youlan, and the other was Ji Xuewei. Both were possible! Sure enough, it was just the same as what he guessed!

Qin Zhenyang sat up straight, looked more and more serious and concentrated, and his eyes narrowed into a line.

“The surname Jiang, I don’t want to see him in the media reporting industry anymore. You know what to do!”

The person on the line didn’t hesitate at all, and said with a laugh: “That is easy! Let someone make verbal attacks on him. No one will dare to employ him anymore!”

“Yep!”

“Boss, Bai Yuqiu said that you went to the Martial Arts Hall today and gave him and Lin Hao a beat. The two guys just told me that you must have eaten explosives! Boss, your menopause has not yet arrived. Did you quarrel with my sister-in-law?”

“Are you sure you want to know?” Qin Zhenyang grunted coldly.

“Ah?”

“If you want to know, come here and let me beat you first!”

Oh no!

Wang Yue whined and accused. Boss was not gentle at all. No wonder he would be abandoned by his wife …

“Next time I will let you know what gentleness is!”

Wang Yue pretended to be stupid, “No … Boss, I had investigated a matter which seemed to be related to my sister-in-law?”

“Say!”

“Since my sister-in-law didn’t go to the company, she often went to the stock exchange … I heard about that, she seems to have invested two million. I don’t know much about stock market, but that stock looks not very good …”

Qin Zhenyang contemplated for a moment.

“I see, You leave this matter alone!”

The first thing he thought of was not money, but that his wife, who had always been cautious, turned out to be so courageous. After all, when entering the stock market, many people just tested the water, and at most invested hundreds of thousand.

He didn’t care about the money. He could get it for her whatever she wanted.

“Boss …” Wang Yue also wanted to report on the latest situation of ‘Red Eagles’, and at that moment, someone knocked the door of the study.

The man raised his thin lips slightly, and no matter how Wang Yue on the computer shouted, he didn’t respond.

He just leisurely pressed the end button, leaned on the sofa, squinted, and said, “Come in! “