"I... I just feel like I missed out on you growing up, and I’m going crazy with jealousy over that guy!"
By the end, he was speaking with righteous conviction.
Xia Zhaoyun’s heart immediately softened. She chuckled and wrapped her arms around his neck. "I’m just teasing you. I couldn’t bear to leave you either."
"Tong Yuanbin doesn’t mean anything to me. He was just someone the adults tacitly approved of me playing with. The Song Family couple was very strict with me, so I rarely got to go out, and Tong Yuanbin was brazen enough to claim me as his."
"But, because of him, I haven’t really had any suitors. It’s been peaceful until now."
"Going to Song Zhenbao and Tong Yuanbin’s engagement party isn’t because I can’t let go of Tong Yuanbin. It’s because Song Zhenbao invited me twice in front of so many people. It would have been hard to refuse, right?"
"Besides, it’s not like my man is someone to be ashamed of! I figured, if she dared to invite me, think of all the drama everyone would miss if I didn’t show up."
"And it’s the perfect chance to introduce my man to everyone!"
Huo Tianhao was satisfied with her explanation, but he was still hung up on the eighteen years he’d been absent from her life.
’We clearly lived in the same factory complex, so how did we barely ever cross paths?’
’Then he thought about how if he hadn’t been a "dead man" and saved his wife from dire straits, the one standing before Xia Zhaoyun now definitely wouldn’t be him.’
That lingering fear made him even more reluctant to leave. He needed to truly possess her again to calm his inner turmoil.
Huo Tianhao’s voice was husky. "Wifey, look how late it’s gotten. How about I get a room at the guesthouse?"
Xia Zhaoyun wasn’t some truly innocent girl. How could she not understand what he meant?
’He’s my man, so I should be the one to dote on him.’
She lowered her gaze to her watch and whispered, "I... I’ll stay with you at the guesthouse for an hour..."
’It wasn’t too late now,’ Xia Zhaoyun calculated. ’An hour from now, it would only be a little after nine.’
’As long as I go home to sleep, no one will have anything to say, right?’
Huo Tianhao didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. "Wifey, you really have no idea about my stamina, do you? One hour? Is that just the appetizer?"

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