Chapter 48
During the night, Shen Ron pressed up against Cheng Lydia’s body as usual.
Cheng Lydia, however, tilted her face to the side, avoiding his lips and said, “I’m not available today.”
“Having your period?” Shen Ron asked as he stared at her, and after she nodded, the same deflated look of loss flashed instantly across his face as his lanky body slumped to the side and his eyes closed up.
Cheng Lydia understands that what he’s lost is not that he can’t have intercourse with her tonight, but that she’s on her period again, which means she’s failed again and is not pregnant.Còntens bel0ngs to Nô(v)elDr/a/ma.Org
Since Anjo’s return, Shen Ron has changed his tactics and will want her almost every empty day, regardless of the danger period safety period. This shows how much he wants her to have a quick pregnancy, and yet, her period still shows up on time.
She was actually disappointed in herself and wanted to get pregnant quickly, but it really seemed like what others said, the more anxious you are the harder it is to succeed in such things.
Just as she was closing her eyes and preparing to sleep, Shen Ron suddenly turned on his stomach and stared at her, “Do you think there could be something wrong with your body? Why else would you have been unable to conceive? Why don’t you go get it checked out?”
Cheng Lydia opened her eyes to meet him, somewhat defiantly, “Why is it me and not your body that’s the problem?”
“Me?” Shen Ron shook his head and snorted, “How can that be? Look at my great body.”
“My body isn’t that bad.”
Shen Ron was speechless and fell back to his side of the bed.
Despite her defiance, Cheng Lydia went to the gynecologist’s office the next day for a full set of tests and was slightly relieved to see that the results were normal.
She sent a text message to Shen Ron: I’ve already had a medical checkup and everything is normal, so take the time to do the same.
Ten minutes after the message was sent, I received a short two-word reply from Shen Ron: Boring.
As deadpan as ever, Cheng Lydia shook her head in disbelief as she reached for her phone.
In the afternoon, Cheng Lydia intends to attend the launch of Chung Grace’s new play after work, but the hospital receives news of food poisoning at a nearby secondary school at this time, and Cheng Lydia is pulled out to attend to the students in an emergency.
The food poisoning spread to more than half of the school, and most of the students were so sick that even the hallways were full of students sleeping in the hallway. Cheng Lydia worked with the group until after 10:00 to get the students settled.
After she finished her shift with her colleague, Cheng Lydia walked out of the hospital and realized that she had been so busy that she had forgotten to eat dinner, and was now tired and hungry.
She bought a loaf of bread from the kiosk in front of the hospital and walked to the stop just as a bus drove by near The Shen Family and stepped on as it did.
There was still a short walk from the bus stop to The Shen Family’s mansion, and Cheng Lydia took the cake out of her bag and ate it while she walked.
Because this is a rich people live in the area, often some Ruoxi beggars run here to stop the car to ask for money, meet the barbaric point, do not pay the money also do not let go.
She should not be so unlucky to meet these people, Cheng Lydia reassured herself in her mind.
Off to the side, the heavens were not kind, and just when she thought she was finally safe and around the corner to The Shen Family gate, a crippled man in tattered clothing suddenly came out of the road.
The man appeared to be drunk and jumped in front of Cheng Lydia, mouthing incoherent words and carrying a beer bottle in his hand.
Cheng Lydia instinctively step back, panic from the bag inside a few coins handed over, who know the other party simply do not appreciate, stretch out the magic claw will grab Cheng Lydia’s arm, while laughing and talking about wine: “beautiful … to play with me, I buy you Eat … dinner.”
“Get off!” Cheng Lydia huffed, shaking off his dirty paw.
“No, don’t go … play with me.” The claw that she had just shrugged off came up again, and it was aimed at Cheng Lydia’s breast, and Cheng Lydia was so frightened that she turned and ran, screaming even as she ran, “You psycho! Don’t touch me!”
“Pretty girl, don’t go, wait for me. …”
Hearing footsteps following behind her, Cheng Lydia grew more and more nervous, picking up her pace and sprinting in the direction of the main road.
She was so anxious that she didn’t know what to do when two beams of headlights suddenly came from ahead of her, and Cheng Lydia, not caring who was coming and how fast the car was going, rushed up to it. The car braked sharply and came to a stop just in front of her.
Just that close, Cheng Lydia could have been hit by a car.
But at this point she couldn’t care less, her body against the front of the car, turned and pointed at the male Ruoxi beggar furiously, “This is my relative’s car, you better not come over.”
However, the man was so drunk that he didn’t even know what he was doing, still smiling and making obscene remarks, and jumping on her to hug her.
Cheng Lydia screamed and turned her back on him, and just as she thought she was going to be held by this disgusting maniac, there was a sudden wail of pain in her ear, followed by a familiar low growl, “Get out!”
She looked back in surprise, only to find Shen Ron standing in front of her at some point, and the man had fallen to the ground wolf-whistling from the beating.
Cheng Lydia looked down and saw that it was Shen Ron’s Bentley that she had stopped in front of her… it was Shen Ron!
Terrified, her eyes welled up and she jumped into Shen Ron’s arms, hugging him tightly.
She thought she was dead this time, she was sure she wouldn’t be able to get rid of that alcoholic, she didn’t expect to meet Shen Ron at this time, luckily she met him.
The stunned heart inside her body was still beating suddenly and furiously, and a thin layer of cold sweat even broke out at the corners of her forehead from the shock, as she gasped for breath and burrowed into his arms, as if she had to integrate herself into his bones and blood to feel safe.
“It’s okay, don’t be afraid.” Shen Ron patted her head, his voice gentler than it had ever been.
For the first time, she saw her so stunned, so much more endearing than the usual stubborn Cheng Lydia. He could even feel her body shivering, and her little face that kept digging into the nook of her neck, sticky and wet, not sure if it was sweat or tears.
“Get rid of him.” Cheng Lydia still had her face buried tightly inside the nook of his shoulder.
“I’ve already gotten rid of it.” Shen Ron said.
Cheng Lydia then released her arms from holding him tightly and swept her head behind her, the madman who had just been lying on the ground listening to the wails was indeed gone. Only then did she quietly feel more at ease, backing out of his arms, wiping a handful of cold sweat from her face with her sleeve with a grateful face, “Thank you, I was really almost scared to death just now.”
She didn’t cry, but her eyes were full of horror.
“This and where do you go at night? Or just back?” Shen Ron asked as he sized her up.
“It’s been busy until just today with food poisoning among students at the first high school near Yahn.”
Without another word, Shen Ron embraced her and walked to the car and pulled the door open for her to get in, while he went around to the driver’s side and got in, and the car restarted and headed for The Shen Family mansion.
When she got home, Cheng Lydia still had the image of being chased by that drunk in her head even when she was taking a shower. She simply sped up her shower, turning off the water valve to get dressed after three or two washes.
Stepping out of the shower, Cheng Lydia saw Shen Ron sitting on the couch watching TV while eating a cookie, surveyed him and asked, “You didn’t eat dinner?”
“Staying with a client tonight.” Shen Ron said without looking back.
Cheng Lydia nodded knowingly, accompanying clients who basically ate nothing but drinks and bragging.
“Do you want some dumplings? I’ll order two bowls up.”
“Don’t bother with that.”
“It just so happens that I haven’t had dinner either.” Cheng Lydia said.
Shen Ron rolled his eyes at her breathlessly, “I knew you weren’t so virtuous as to care if I ate dinner.”
“Are you going to eat it or not?”
“Do you know how to make dumplings?”
“Sure.”
“That can be tried.”
“The dumplings are going to be slow, wait for me for twenty minutes.” Cheng Lydia finished and headed for the bedroom door.
Cheng Lydia found the dumplings and ingredients in the kitchen, put the dumplings in a pot and steamed them over water, then started preparing the ingredients.
It was after eleven o’clock and most of the people inside the mansion had gone to bed, Cheng Lydia had deliberately kept the noise down but still attracted the sound of footsteps.
Ho Gina, who had scanned the ingredients in her bowl, said with a mocking look, “Is this the young lady making dumplings for the youngest?”
“Yes, you either, can keep your bowl.” Cheng Lydia asked without looking up.
Ho Gina was disdainful: “I think you’d better not waste your time, the young master loves the young lady’s dumplings, even the chef can’t make the taste, the dumplings you make will only stain the young master’s mouth.”
The knife in Cheng Lydia’s hand paused, even making a dumpling could be related to Yang June!
Seeing her reaction, Ho Gina continued, “The Young Master once had several of the family’s chefs try making dumplings once, but they all threw them down without taking two bites.”
“Gina, it’s easy to bite your tongue with a cheap mouth, go back to bed early, be a good girl.” Cheng Lydia looked up and gave her a small smile.
Expecting her to be so angry that she would give up making the boiled noodles, but not to look so unconcerned, Ho Gina’s heart knotted up and she turned around and left with hatred.
Twenty minutes later, Cheng Lydia returned to the bedroom with two bowls of dumplings, Shen Ron just came out of the bathroom after taking a shower, as soon as he came out, he smelled the fragrant smell of dumplings, while tying the belt of his robe with both hands, he walked to the table, surveyed the two bowls of dumplings with good color and aroma, his face flashed surprised: “You really know how to make dumplings? ”
“It’s definitely not the flavor you’re looking for, will do.” Cheng Lydia handed him a pair of chopsticks.
“Thanks.” Shen Ron took the chopsticks and then put his head down and ate.
He took the first bite, followed by a second… was he too hungry today? Why did it feel like her dumplings tasted like the one he remembered?
He is not a particularly picky eater, but he is very picky about dumplings, and he can’t accept any other taste if he is sure of the taste, and no dumpling made by a famous chef can attract his tastebuds.
Except for tonight, the only other time, since he thought it tasted pretty good!
Cheng Lydia, who was eating her noodles with her head down, felt his pause, looked up at him ask, “What’s wrong? Can’t eat?”
Is it really like what Ho Gina said? He’s so sure of Yang June’s dumplings that he throws away the chef’s dumplings after just two bites?
“It tastes pretty good.” Shen Ron bowed his head and continued eating.
Soon, Shen Ron’s big bowl was at the bottom.
Looking up, I found Cheng Lydia pushing the noodle bowl, which was only half-eaten, to the side and checking MMS on her phone.
“Why are you eating so little?”
“No appetite.” Cheng Lydia continues to look through the photos Chung Grace sent her of the launch.
Perhaps because she couldn’t get the drunken man out of her mind, she felt that tonight’s dumplings were extremely difficult to eat, so she couldn’t eat them after only half of them.
“So wasteful, I’ll eat it for you.” Shen Ron reached over and brought the half bowl of noodles to his heels and ate it with his head down.
Cheng Lydia didn’t notice his demeanor, a light smile on her lips as she zoomed in on the photo on the screen and looked at it over and over again.
Shen Ron, seeing how fascinated she was looking and smiling so sweetly, thrust his handsome face towards her, “What are you looking at that’s so funny?”
The phone shows a photo of a flirtatious and charming Chung Grace with a light smile, while beside her stands Gu William in a black dress, both holding a bottle of champagne together, the sultry champagne is sliding into the cascading glasses in a joyous manner.
“So it’s a sighting of a sweetheart.” Shen Ron mockingly sat upright.
Cheng Lydia gave him a lazy look.
She kept looking at this photo over and over again because she suddenly felt that Gu William and Chung Grace were actually quite a good match, a good couple and a beautiful woman.
Since the trip to Anseong, Cheng Lydia had a better impression of Gu William, and her heart began to hope that he and Chung Grace would be together forever.
Cheng Lydia put down her phone and put away the bowls before she noticed that both bowls on the table were empty. She raised her small face in surprise and looked at Shen Ron who was testing the corners of his mouth with a tissue.
“Don’t look at me like that, I just don’t want to waste my The Shen Family’s food.” Shen Ron said with a calm face as he placed the tissue that had wiped the corner of his mouth on the table.
Cheng Lydia suddenly felt funny, since when did he, Young Master Shen, have such a concept of cherishing food? How come she didn’t know anything about it?
Didn’t you say that he only recognizes Yang June’s dumplings? Didn’t you say he only eats two bites of the chef’s dumplings?
Looks like Ho Gina’s word is indeed not to be trusted!