352: obsessed

Seeing Chen Xinyi staring with wide eyes, as if she were about to gaze a flower out of the shopping card, Ye Su could only stop her with annoyance:

"Alright, stop looking. This card is real. I wouldn't really give you a fake shopping card like that Handsome guy outside said, only to have the people at Joyful Gathering call the police and get you arrested later."

Chen Xinyi asked tentatively: "You're really giving it to me? You can't go back on your word, right?"

"Really giving it to you…" Ye Su glanced at Chen Xinyi speechlessly: "I was originally planning to take you to Joyful Gathering tomorrow to shop, as a reward for you filming that short drama for eight days, leaving early and returning late. Since that someone or other ruined things, I'll just give you this card directly."

Chen Xinyi's eyes sparkled as she blinked continuously: "Then don't I have to thank him?"

"Hey—" Ye Su's voice went up an octave: "I'm the one giving you the shopping card, yet you're thanking him instead, huh."

"Oh, thank you, I love you the most—"

Chen Xinyi cupped Ye Su's face and kissed him several times in a row.

"That's more like it."

After collecting some interest, just as Ye Su was preparing to drive away, Chen Xinyi suddenly blurted out:

"Wait, if this shopping card is real, then what you said just now about the Patek Philippe and Richard Mille watches you usually wear—those are real too, right?"

"Otherwise what? Would I bother bragging about things like that?"

"Wow—" Chen Xinyi made an exaggerated and surprised expression:

"So you've been pretending to be an ordinary person in front of me all this time, afraid that I'd feel inferior?"

"What this and that…"

"Otherwise, why would you even hide those watches, afraid for me to see them?"

"I didn't hide them. Those two watches have been sitting on my computer desk the whole time. It's just that you haven't helped me tidy up the desk recently, so you didn't see them."

"Ah!" Chen Xinyi's mouth dropped open in a daze: "You just left them on the desk?"

Usually, when Chen Xinyi cleaned the house, she would also help Ye Su tidy up the gaming room.

But for the past week or so, she had been leaving early every morning to film the short drama and only returning at night. Let alone cleaning the house, she hadn't even stepped into the gaming room, so how could she have discovered the two watches on the desk?

"Otherwise what? Should I have set up an altar and worshipped the two watches…"

Chen Xinyi pouted: "Then you could've at least told me, so I could see what a million-plus watch looks like."

"It's just two watches, nothing worth mentioning. If you want to see them, when we get home later, you can take them and look at them to your heart's content."

Ye Su took the opportunity to pinch Chen Xinyi's pouting lips, which made her as angry as a kitten fighting, and she flailed her hands in front of Ye Su's eyes.

"Alright, fasten your seatbelt first, let's find a place to eat."

"Oh…"

After Chen Xinyi fastened her seatbelt with puffed-up cheeks, Ye Su stepped on the gas and took her to a restaurant to eat.

By the time they finished eating and returned home, it was exactly 8 o'clock in the evening.

"Ah—"

After entering the door and throwing her bag onto a chair, Chen Xinyi collapsed comfortably onto the sofa.

"It's been so long since I've been back at this hour!"

"Alright, alright, I know you've been working hard out there."

"You just realized that?" Chen Xinyi glanced at Ye Su and asked casually:

"These past few days when I've been coming back so late, what have you been doing at home by yourself?"

Ye Su felt guilty, but his face remained calm as he brushed it off: "What else could I do alone? Just found some things to keep busy."

"Oh." Chen Xinyi didn't press the issue further. She stood up and pulled Ye Su to the guest bedroom:

"Where are the watches you mentioned? Hurry and let me see."

"Here." Ye Su pointed to the two boxes on the edge of the computer desk: "Aren't they right there?"

"Wow." Chen Xinyi exclaimed fussily: "Something so expensive, and you just leave it on the desk like this? Aren't you afraid it'll get lost!"

"It's right here, where would it get lost?"

"Aren't you afraid I'll steal it?"

"If you steal it, then steal it. If you really steal it, I can only blame myself for sleeping with the wrong person."

"What the hell, sleeping with the wrong person…"

Chen Xinyi complained, but in her heart, she knew that Ye Su only left such valuable watches lying around because he trusted her.

This trust touched Chen Xinyi's heart again.

She opened the two boxes and solemnly took out the two watches. Chen Xinyi put them on her wrists, one on the left and one on the right:

"So this is what it feels like to wear a house in Guangzhou on your hands!"

"Alright, take them and go play somewhere else."

"Got it!"

Chen Xinyi didn't care that both watches were men's models. She happily took them to the mirror, fiddled with them constantly, and even took several selfies while wearing them.

Taking advantage of the moment Chen Xinyi was occupied, Ye Su took out his phone and sent a message to Yan Ran.

[I won't be coming over to your place for the next two days.]

[Sister Ran: Alright, I know you have to accompany your girlfriend on the weekend. I wouldn't force you to run back and forth, lest your body can't take it.]

[Where else would you find a girlfriend like you who is good-looking, wealthy, has a great body, and is so understanding!]

[Don't worry, in two days when I'm free, I'll come over to your place and serve you diligently!]

[Sister Ran: Alright, stop with the glib talk. I'm not some girl in her twenties who gets spun around by a few words from you.]

[Sister Ran: Go accompany your girlfriend. Later, show me with actual actions how exactly you'll be diligent.]

Being over 30, Yan Ran was simply bolder than Chen Xinyi. When chatting, she was uninhibited, and a few words were enough to stir up Ye Su's fire, making him wish he could teleport to the villa right now and let Yan Ran know what "diligently" meant!

[Love you.]

[Mwah—]

[Yan Ran: I love you too.]

Yan Ran, who treated teasing Ye Su as a joy, suddenly felt a bit of panic in her heart when she sent this seemingly joking message.

This was the first time in her 30-plus years that she had said the word [love] to another man.

The two chatted on their phones for a while longer. It wasn't until Ye Su stopped replying that Yan Ran put her phone down with a hint of disappointment.

"What a thorn in my side…"

She looked up at the empty room. Having gotten used to Ye Su being here over the past few days, Yan Ran only felt empty inside, as if something was missing.

Yan Ran also knew that having this feeling now proved that in just a few short days, she had already fallen for him.

"Sigh, I chose this myself, so who can I blame?"

After a helpless sigh, Yan Ran stood up to get her clothes, preparing to go into the bathroom to shower.

Before entering the bathroom, Yan Ran turned on the audio equipment in the room and played Jonathan Lee's "Obsessed".

"I really once thought that life would just be like this, a calm heart refusing any more waves—"

"…"

"Someone asked me what exactly is so good about you, that after so many years I still can't forget—"

Accompanied by the unique, textured singing voice of Jonathan Lee from the speakers, the sound of Yan Ran showering also echoed in the bathroom.

On the other side, just as Ye Su finished chatting with Yan Ran, Chen Xinyi walked into the guest bedroom with the two watches:

"Here, returned to its owner. Check it yourself. Don't say later that I broke your watches and ask me to pay for damages or something; I can't afford that."

Ye Su took the two watches: "It's fine if you can't afford it, just pay with your body."

"Blehh—"

Knowing that nothing good ever came out of Ye Su's mouth, Chen Xinyi made a face and left the room to shower.

It wasn't a small separation, but it was better than being newlyweds.

At night, the two naturally ended the day with a vigorous aerobic workout.