Shi Nuan blinked, not quite understanding. At this moment, all she felt was the pain in her shoulder, her chest, her whole body, tightly constricted by him.
It was the first time she realized that such a warm gesture as a hug could also bring pain.
The man’s breathing was light, but the heartbeat in his chest remained steady and powerful, with the strength of his fingers embedded in her thin shoulders and back.
His voice was soft, almost whispering in her ear: "I know I’ve arranged for someone to follow you recently, so you went to see Shi Jiaojiao, deliberately provoking her to attack you. Your purpose was to let me know you were being bullied, right..."
His voice paused: "But Nuannuan, the reason you’re so sure I would stand up for you, do you think it’s because I’m your husband? That our interests are aligned? Or do you just assume you’ve got me figured out... hm?"
Shi Nuan’s body stiffened, and her long eyelashes pressed against his chest trembled violently...
It turned out he knew everything...
It was that Saturday morning, in the library, when she bumped into a girl on her way to the restroom, knocking her water bottle to the ground. f|re(e)web.n\ovel. (c)o.m
Fortunately, it didn’t break.
As she bent down to pick up the bottle, the girl also bent down and quietly said, "Those two administrators over there have been watching you. Do you know them?"
Her eyes flickered, but she didn’t reply.
Later, she did notice the administrators the girl mentioned; two middle-aged men with slightly cold expressions, looking unfamiliar.
Later at the school, she also noticed certain people watching her intentionally or unintentionally. Sometimes it was a janitor, sometimes a campus security officer, all with the same cold expression...
Even if she were foolish, she should know she was being "protected"...
And this person, apart from Song Yansheng, couldn’t be anyone else...
No one else had such capability...
So she thought of using Shi Jiaojiao.
The purpose wasn’t actually complicated. Li Guirong and her daughter probably didn’t know about her marriage to Song Yansheng.
But they certainly knew they had a relationship, and while Li Guirong could keep calm, Shi Jiaojiao couldn’t.
Since she was tied to Song Yansheng, Shi Jiaojiao being disrespectful to her was being disrespectful to Song Yansheng.
And Shi Jiaojiao was tied to Li Guirong and the Shi Family...
She deliberately mentioned Shen Zui precisely to anger Shi Jiaojiao...
Because she knew that while Shi Jiaojiao might bear other things...
She couldn’t handle Shen Zui!
In fact, Shi Jiaojiao did fall for it and drenched her in wine!
But she didn’t expect Song Yansheng to show up, even now shattering all her plans mercilessly...
She suddenly thought of the last time she went to the hospital to visit an injured person; he seemed to know exactly what she wanted to do, just like now...
Song Yansheng, why do you understand me so well?
Apart from the past month, it seems we’ve rarely intersected, right?
She struggled to raise her small head from his embrace, her delicate face nearly touching his chin, their breaths intertwined in the amorous space.
She looked at him, her dark eyes confused and dazed: "Have we met before?"
If they hadn’t met, why did she feel like he had known her for many years?
He understood every one of her thoughts so thoroughly, knowing she liked to drink mango juice, knew her eating habits, clearly loved purple vine flowers, yet planted a courtyard full of gardenias...