“Sir, we’ve arrived,” the driver said cautiously.
Ling Qingzhou opened his eyes, and he was already at his doorstep.
The sound of the door lock stirred Zhou Qin, who had been sitting on the couch. She turned her head and saw her husband changing into slippers by the entrance.
Click—
The light switch was pressed, and the living room instantly lit up.
Seeing his wife sitting on the couch, Ling Qingzhou froze for a moment. “Why aren’t you asleep yet?”
Zhou Qin stood up, walked over, and took the coat from his hand. Suddenly, a strange scent of orange blossom mixed with amber entered her nose.
Her pupils shrank.
This scent…
Though it wasn’t any perfume she recognized from the market, her intuition told her that this fragrance came from a woman!
He left her at the party and went to meet another woman?!
This realization left Zhou Qin flustered, so she did something she had never done in all these years, something that could even be considered overstepping—
“Where have you been?”
She was questioning her husband’s whereabouts.
Ling Qingzhou’s eyes flashed with surprise at his wife’s unusual behavior, but the feeling of being interrogated made him furrow his brow uncomfortably.
“It’s late, go to bed,” he evaded, turning to go upstairs.
Zhou Qin lowered her gaze, her voice soft and hoarse. “Is it wrong to ask just one question?”
The man paused in his steps and looked back at her. “You’re acting very strange today.”
“You’ve never asked before, so now it’s strange?” She raised her eyes. “But in most families, this is the most ordinary question, just like asking what you ate today or how well you slept.”
Ling Qingzhou: “Others are others. Every family has its own way of getting along.”
“Do you think our way of getting along is normal?”
The man looked puzzled and asked back, “Is it not normal?”
Zhou Qin fell silent.
Ling Qingzhou didn’t want to argue; a quiet home was what he was used to.
But Zhou Qin didn’t follow her usual pattern of yielding to him.
“Is this question so difficult? Why are you refusing to answer?”
Ling Qingzhou didn’t understand what was bothering his wife today. “It’s not difficult, but it’s unnecessary.”
“You left me alone at the party, letting the other wives laugh at me. Don’t you think you owe me an explanation?”
The man paused for a moment, then his tone softened. “Sorry, I should have informed you before I left today.”
Zhou Qin responded, “The driver should have reminded you, right?”
Ling Qingzhou’s lips tightened.
Zhou Qin’s eyes flashed with bitterness, and her smile grew even more sorrowful. “Even the driver remembers that I was still at the party. What about you? Even if someone reminded you, wouldn’t it have been nice to make a quick call to let me know? At least after the party ended, you could have had the driver come back to pick me up. It wouldn’t have been so embarrassing for me in front of everyone!”
“It was indeed sudden today, and I—”
Zhou Qin waved her hand. “Forget it, you know I’ll never be a bother to you. And because I know that, I let you get away with everything.”
“No matter when, no matter what you do, I will always unconditionally tolerate you, always try to understand.”
“You’ve been spoiled, Ah Zhou.”
That’s why you dared to be so bold!
The man was momentarily speechless.
“…Today, I indeed acted thoughtlessly. It won’t happen again.”
Zhou Qin froze.
Her heart, which had already turned cold, somehow drew a faint warmth from his momentary softness, even though it hurt to admit it.
“You…”
In the next moment, Ling Qingzhou took her hand. “It’s late, let’s go to the room. Don’t wake up our son.”
Zhou Qin had no strength to resist.
She loved this man so much that in the face of this rare tenderness, her heart softened, forgetting all the grievances and pain. She allowed him to take her hand…
