Chapter 224: I… That, I…

“Oh no!”

Watching those long legs walking toward him step by step through the gap in the quilt, Lin Xun panicked.

He even suspected that his heartbeat was making the bed frame vibrate.

Lin Xun knew Qinger was keen, but was she really this sharp?

“Sister Nongqin, where did you buy this doll? It looks quite cute,” Jiang Qingshang said, sizing up the doll lying on the bed. “And it seems unusually tall.”

“…”

Lin Xun really wanted to slap himself.

He had forgotten to curl his legs. Although the doll was already tall, holding it made it look even longer.

“This doll… I brought it from… from my hometown.”

Nong Qin’s cheeks were slightly flushed, and her tone carried a hint of nervousness.

In fact, Jiang Nongqin had made this doll based on her memory when she was ten years old, after meeting Lin Xun. She missed the Little boy who saved her so much but couldn’t see him.

Furthermore, every year Lin Xun grew taller, Jiang Nongqin would resew the doll to match his height.

This doll had accompanied Jiang Nongqin for nearly ten years.

Fortunately, the doll looked like Lin Xun at age ten, only bearing a twenty to thirty percent resemblance to him, so it didn’t easily arouse suspicion.

Otherwise, if the doll looked any more like Lin Xun, everything would be truly impossible to explain.

“I see. Sister Nongqin, may I touch it?”

“Um…” Nong Qin nodded.

Hearing the permission, Jiang Qingshang lightly smoothed her skirt and sat beside the doll, stroking its head.

From Lin Xun’s perspective, Qinger’s body was no more than fifty centimeters away from his face.

The familiar light fragrance from Qinger’s body quietly drifted into Lin Xun’s nose.

At this moment, Lin Xun didn’t even dare to breathe.

He was afraid that if he breathed too hard, it would flutter Qinger’s dress.

Just then, Lin Xun saw Qinger lean forward, a movement that looked like she was reaching out her hand!

It’s over! Could Qinger have discovered me?!

Thump! Thump! Thump!!!

Lin Xun swallowed hard, his heart racing.

Then, Lin Xun felt the doll being squeezed once, and then its leg was squeezed too!

Just as Lin Xun felt Qinger’s hand was about to squeeze his own foot and thought he was doomed—

Suddenly, Yaya climbed onto the bed, sat on the doll, and poked it repeatedly with her small hands.

“Sister Jiang, this doll looks so ugly.”

Lin Xun: “…”

Jiang Nongqin: “…”

Jiang Qingshang withdrew her hand and gently rubbed Yaya’s head. “Not at all, Sister Qinger thinks it looks quite nice.”

“Eh? Is it?” Yaya squeezed the doll a few times and tilted her head, but she still thought it looked ugly.

Interrupted by Yaya, Jiang Qingshang only touched the doll once more before standing up and leaving to sit on a wooden stool in the room.

Both Lin Xun and Nong Qin breathed a sigh of relief.

As for Yaya, she was still bouncing on the doll, constantly fiddling with it, and almost stepped on Lin Xun several times.

However, Yaya’s reckless playing on the bed made Jiang Qingshang relax her guard completely.

“Ugh…”

Still bouncing on the bed, Yaya’s small foot, wrapped in a white tabi sock, accidentally stepped on Lin Xun’s eight-pack abs.

Yaya lifted her little foot, her big eyes blinking.

Just as Yaya wanted to crawl under the covers to see what she had stepped on, she was called over by Nong Qin to eat some pastries.

Since Spring Breeze Tower sent people to clean every day, and knowing Nong Qin was returning, they had prepared new daily necessities, pastries, and tea today. Thus, it didn’t look like a house that had been uninhabited for over two months, but rather like a courtyard that had just been tidied up.

Yaya finally left. At this moment, Lin Xun’s mood felt like a roller coaster.

He decided.

When he got out of this alive, he would definitely make Yaya drown in a sea of practice problems and studies, unable to extricate herself!

“Yaya is becoming more and more cute.” Nong Qin fed Yaya with a smile. Yaya sat in Jiang Qingshang’s lap, opened her small mouth, and ate the pastry with a “nom.”

“Sister Nongqin is also becoming more and more beautiful,” Jiang Qingshang said with curved eyes.

“Sister Qinger, please don’t tease me.”

Nong Qin looked down at herself, her face slightly red.

“Actually, I’ve put on weight recently.”

“Put on weight?” Jiang Qingshang tilted her head in confusion. “I can’t tell.”

“Really.” Jiang Nongqin’s cheeks flushed. “When I put on clothes recently, my chest feels tighter and tighter. I have to use a chest binder, otherwise, it’s really inconvenient. My old clothes don’t fit anymore.”

Jiang Qingshang: “…”

Listening to their conversation from under the covers, Lin Xun subconsciously began to visualize it, then quickly shook his head to clear the mental images!

Who would have thought!

Mount Everest’s altitude seemed to have risen again!

This was so wrong. Mount Everest was already the highest peak in the world, yet it kept growing taller and widening the gap with others. How were the other peaks supposed to survive?

How sinful! Truly too sinful!

“Let’s not talk about that for now.” Jiang Qingshang looked down at herself.

Jiang Qingshang, who was usually extremely confident in a certain area, now felt a strange sense of inferiority.

Perhaps this was the first time Jiang Qingshang had admitted defeat in a certain aspect, to the point where she didn’t even have the heart to compare.

“Sister Nongqin, do you have someone you like?” Jiang Qingshang held Jiang Nongqin’s small hand and asked softly. “What do you think of my husband?”

“Eh?” Nong Qin looked up abruptly.

“Young Master Lin? I… that, I…” Jiang Nongqin felt a faint panic in her heart, and stars even began to appear in her eyes.

Nong Qin waved her hands in a panic. “Sister Qinger… Sister Qinger, don’t joke like that. How could I possibly… with…”

“Sorry, sorry,” Jiang Qingshang said with a smile. “Qinger was just joking. Please don’t take it to heart, Sister Nongqin.”

“Um… Sister Qinger, please don’t make such jokes anymore.” Nong Qin lowered her head, her small hands tightly clutching the skirt on her legs.

“Actually…”

Jiang Qingshang smiled.

“Qinger wasn’t entirely joking. Other than Qinger, Husband hasn’t taken a Secondary Wife or a concubine. Qinger knows that Husband has always been considering my feelings.

But isn’t it only natural for a husband to take a Secondary Wife? As a wife, how could I stop him?

It’s just that Qinger finds it hard to tell Husband…”

“So…” As she spoke, Jiang Qingshang looked seriously at Jiang Nongqin. “If Sister Nongqin thinks well of Husband, then Qinger is willing to live with Sister Nongqin as equal wives.”

“Equal wives… live together…”

For a moment, Nong Qin’s eyes were filled with stars.