As if it were nothing, she flipped out a T-shirt and said indifferently, "Looking for clothes."
The man’s gaze fell on the clothes hanging in a wardrobe.
Those clothes were all new, with a variety of styles, did she really need to search for an old piece of clothing to wear?
Without asking anything, he dried his hair and then found a new shirt and trousers to put on.
An Ruo put the suitcase back in place, her actions so natural that they didn’t give anything away.
She also went to the bathroom to take a shower, and after changing her clothes, she went downstairs to eat.
It was now noon, breakfast time had long passed, so she could only go for lunch.
After they ate, An Ruo, because of her injured foot, couldn’t go out and so she sat in the living room watching TV.
Tang Yuchen pretended to go upstairs to work, but in fact, he went to the bedroom to sift through her suitcase.
He was naturally suspicious and had very accurate instincts.
For matters he doubted, he always sought to clarify.
In the suitcase were only some clothes that were neither new nor old; he reached into the pile and from the bottom corner, he drew out a bottle.
Seeing the text on the bottle, the man’s eyes suddenly turned frosty.
No wonder she didn’t go out to buy medicine; she had a backup plan!
Tang Yuchen gripped the bottle in anger, intending to destroy it, but after thinking it over, he changed his mind.
If An Ruozhen truly didn’t want to get pregnant, she would definitely find a way to take birth control pills.
He couldn’t let her succeed every time, and after a while, it wouldn’t be certain that she wouldn’t find the opportunity to use contraception.
Since he couldn’t prevent it completely, it was better to pretend he didn’t know.
Letting her sneak around under his watch was better than alarming her.
He put everything back in its place and got up to go to the study, where he called someone to arrange for vitamins identical to the birth control pills.
An Ruo, preoccupied with taking the pill, had watched TV for two hours. She thought that Yuchen was working in the study and now was the perfect time to take the pill.
Turning off the TV, she limped upstairs, pushed open the bedroom door, and seeing Tang Yuchen working in front of the couch, she paused.
With the study available, why was he working in the bedroom?
Anxious that taking the pill too late might reduce its effectiveness, An Ruo went to the bed to lie down, pretending to rest.
Tang Yuchen’s legs were on the coffee table, and he was typing rapidly on the laptop on his knees, making a rapid tapping sound.
If he had any respect for others, he would leave and let them rest properly.
Unfortunately, he didn’t have that respect.
An Ruo pretended to doze for a while with her eyes closed and then, somewhat impatient, opened them, "Can you go to the study to work? Your noise is keeping me awake."
"..." The man did not respond to her, but he stopped typing and truly did not make any noise.
An Ruo was speechless and had no choice but to wait for him to leave before she could take her pill.
Time ticked away second by second, hour by hour.
He had no intention of leaving.
An Ruo had heard that birth control pills were effective if taken within seventy-two hours after sex, but she had never experienced it herself and was worried that such claims were incorrect, worried that taking it too late would halve the effect.
She didn’t want to get pregnant.
At least, not while Tang Yuchen had caused the death of one of their children, not when there was no love between her and him, and even more so when she still hated him and rejected him, she did not want to get pregnant.
She couldn’t take the risk, because she knew if she really got pregnant, she would not have the heart to terminate the pregnancy.