PANT - Chapter 56
Chapter 56
It was the middle of the night by the time Shi Ning and Su Tianxue took a taxi home.
The moon hung in the sky, adding a sliver of light to the dark world.
As Shi Ning and Su Tianxue passed through the overlapping shadows of the trees in the residential complex and started up the stairs, that long-itching heart of hers was now stirring even more intensely.
Her mind was filled with the image of Su Tianxue’s golden skirt hem draped over the edge of the sofa, swaying with her movements and undulations.
And on that narrow sofa, her waist arched into a beautiful, resilient crescent moon, as if it could never be broken no matter what.
Everything that had happened in that cramped space was replaying in Shi Ning’s mind.
Su Tianxue walked quickly, a few steps ahead of Shi Ning, like a stream of light that could never be caught, a bright moon that could never be held. She was always just ahead, luring her forward, luring her to fall.
Su Tianxue’s home was in an old residential complex where the lights were voice-activated; you had to stomp your foot hard to make them turn on.
But the light on the first landing seemed to be broken, so as they walked up, the sound of their footsteps failed to trigger a response.
They walked in darkness.
Shi Ning quickened her pace to catch up with Su Tianxue and quietly reached out, her hand finding Su Tianxue’s fingertips.
She said nothing.
The moment their soft fingertips touched, a subtle electric current passed from one to the other.
Su Tianxue said nothing either.
She silently squeezed Shi Ning’s hand in return, a gentle press before letting go.
Her footsteps quickened, and the distance between them grew once more.
The silence was enough to brew their ambiguity into another kind of impulse, as if some wild beast was lurking in the dark night, waiting for its chance to strike.
On the next floor up, the light was also broken.
The building was old and in disrepair. Hearing the sound, the broken light flickered once, then went out again.
The women ascended step by step into the darkness. Their footsteps echoed rhythmically. Shi Ning followed behind Su Tianxue, but gradually, her steps fell out of sync as the slight distance between them closed.
Another floor.
This time, the light in the stairwell was finally not broken.
Or rather, it wasn’t completely broken.
Awakened by the sound, it would light up for a moment, then dim again after a short interval.
They were almost at the door. Their footsteps stopped.
Su Tianxue paused and turned to look at Shi Ning.
Shi Ning stepped onto the landing, gazing at Su Tianxue. In the silence, she moved a little closer.
Her eyes fell on the woman’s lips, her intention unspoken but clear.
Possessiveness and desire ignited the air, which had been so quiet it was almost dead.
Shi Ning licked her dry lips and began to speak, “Today-”
Can I stay at your place for one more night?
She never finished the sentence.
She never had the chance to finish it.
Nor did she need to.
Because Su Tianxue had already pulled her in, tilted her head up, and pressed her lips against Shi Ning’s.
This kiss seemed to have been brewing for a long time, ever since they got out of the car.
And the longer the moment of suppression and waiting, the more astonishing the explosion when it finally came.
Their lips and tongues intertwined, the sounds wet and distinct.
With every breath they took, the light brightened and dimmed.
Their figures shifted from darkness to light, then from light back to darkness.
The only constant was the kiss, which continued.
When the light came on, the shadows cast upon the wall were never separate.
After an unknown amount of time, Shi Ning reached into the pocket of her own white suit jacket, which was draped over Su Tianxue’s shoulders, and pulled out the door key.
She inserted the key into the lock and turned it, her other arm still wrapped around Su Tianxue, their lips never parting.
The kiss continued.
Once inside, there was no time to even properly take off their shoes. They could only stand where they were and kick them off haphazardly.
Then, with her arm around the woman, she moved further inside. Perhaps in the process, she accidentally bumped the light switch on the wall.
Click.
The lights flared on.
Shi Ning instinctively raised a hand to cover Su Tianxue’s eyes, afraid the sudden brightness would be uncomfortable for her. She herself squinted slightly, adjusting to the abrupt glare.
Just as Shi Ning was about to lower her head to continue, Su Tianxue let out a soft cough.
What’s wrong?
Shi Ning was confused.
Su Tianxue reached up and patted the arm of the hand Shi Ning had raised to shield her eyes.
In truth, her hand hadn’t blocked the light completely.
Light streamed through the gaps between her fingers, and Su Tianxue saw the other two people standing in the room.
For a moment, she was mortified.
Seeing Su Tianxue’s reaction, Shi Ning turned around, bewildered, only to find Su Wanxing and Zhu Yu standing behind them.
They looked like two unlucky saps who had just stumbled upon some prime gossip.
Shock was written all over Su Wanxing’s and Zhu Yu’s faces.
The two of them had heard a noise, and Su Wanxing had wanted to bring Zhu Yu over to say hello to her sister. Who would have thought…
They’d walk in on such an explosive scene.
Su Wanxing’s jaw nearly hit the floor.
Although this was Shi Ning’s first time facing such a situation, and her initial reaction was to be so embarrassed she could die, she managed to keep her composure.
Shi Ning glanced at Su Tianxue’s expression.
Su Tianxue appeared completely unfazed, not a ripple of emotion on her face, as if she were entirely unaffected.
Shi Ning decided to learn from her wife.
She reined in her emotions, turned to Zhu Yu and Su Wanxing, and went on the offensive. “What are you two doing here in the middle of the night?”
Su Wanxing’s crashed brain was slowly rebooting. She answered blankly, “This is my home. Why can’t I be here?”
A… a fair point.
Shi Ning jutted her chin toward Zhu Yu. “Then what about her? What’s she doing here?”
Zhu Yu explained patiently, “It got too late. I was worried about Wanxing going home alone, so I brought her here. Then she was worried something had happened to you two and was anxious, so I stayed to wait with her.”
Shi Ning asked, “Has your relationship already progressed to this stage?”
Zhu Yu said helplessly, “Shi Ning, if you’re trying to ease your tension, you don’t have to do it this way, do you?”
Zhu Yu continued, “Wanxing and I are perfectly innocent; we haven’t done anything. Why are you interrogating me?”
Zhu Yu was no pushover.
Her words finally snapped Su Wanxing out of it, and she switched from defense to offense. “That’s right, this is my home, so of course I’d be here! But you! In the middle of the night! Where- where did you take my sister? You came back so late, and you were… you were…”
Su Wanxing and Zhu Yu had heard them before they even came through the door.
That passionate…
If they hadn’t opened the door, Su Wanxing was worried her old-fashioned security door would have been knocked down.
Faced with Su Wanxing’s questioning, Shi Ning coughed lightly to ease her own embarrassment.
Su Wanxing, having found her footing, looked at Shi Ning and Su Tianxue like a mother hen interrogating her daughters for coming home late. “Well? Where did you two go today?”
Su Wanxing leaned in, her small nose twitching. She caught the scent of alcohol and asked in disbelief, “You two went drinking today??”
“We just went to a bar,” Shi Ning corrected.
“A bar?” Su Wanxing was shocked.
“Don’t tell me it was one of those clubbing places?” Su Wanxing guessed.
Shi Ning said, “Hmm… why wouldn’t it be?”
Su Wanxing: Help me!
This was genuinely surprising to Su Wanxing.
She wasn’t surprised that Shi Ning went to a bar. She was surprised about her sister.
After all, for as long as Su Wanxing could remember, Su Tianxue had always been the model student. Forget drinking; she had never even slept in class.
Besides, Su Tianxue didn’t even like to drink, let alone go to a place like a bar.
Facing Su Wanxing’s astonished gaze, Shi Ning explained, “Mo Lingyuan had something come up and asked us to go for a drink on short notice.”
Zhu Yu almost thought she’d misheard. “Mo Lingyuan? Asked you two for a drink? Isn’t she your ex-girlfriend?”
Shi Ning glanced at Su Tianxue, thinking, Don’t ask me that question, I’d like to ask the heavens the same thing.
Zhu Yu shot Shi Ning a look: You’ve got some skills, my friend.
There weren’t many Alphas in this world who could handle their current partner and ex-girlfriend so well.
Shi Ning: No, you don’t understand.
She was troubled too!!!
She constantly had to be on guard against Mo Lingyuan going crazy and making a move on her wife.
That damn sister-loving Omega!!!
It’s one thing to be a lesbian who loves older sisters, but what is wrong with you Omegas!!!
Don’t just see an older sister and think you’re in love!!
This is my wife!!
“Xin Ya and Zhou Lu were there too,” Su Tianxue added.
Hearing this, Zhu Yu lamented, “Then why didn’t you invite me?”
Shi Ning said, “What, you want to drink? I can invite you for a second round right now.”
Zhu Yu smiled and declined. “No, that’s okay. Since you’re both back, maybe I should get going.”
Shi Ning played along with Zhu Yu. “It’s so late. How will you get back?”
Zhu Yu: “I drove here.”
Shi Ning: “But it’s not safe to drive so late at night, isn’t it? Don’t you have night blindness? Why don’t you just stay? You can sleep on the sofa.”
Su Tianxue: “I don’t mind.”
Su Wanxing: “It’s not right for her to sleep on the sofa.”
Shi Ning: “What’s not right about it?”
Su Wanxing huffed, starting to get protective. “Why don’t you sleep on the sofa?”
A smile spread across Shi Ning’s face. “I have a wife. My wife’s warm bed will take me in. She doesn’t have a wife, so she can only sleep on the sofa.”
Su Wanxing: She may not have a wife, but she has a mom-fan!!!
Su Wanxing made up her mind. “How about this, Zhu Jiejie, you can sleep in my room, and I’ll sleep on the sofa.”
Zhu Yu hesitated. “That wouldn’t be right.”
Seeing that Zhu Yu and Su Wanxing’s attention was completely diverted by this, no longer focused on the earlier awkwardness, Shi Ning breathed a sigh of relief.
She took Su Tianxue’s hand and tiptoed away, hoping to slip back to the room to rest.
She had only taken two stealthy steps when Su Wanxing called out to her.
“Jie, there’s something I want to tell you,” Su Wanxing said cautiously from behind them.
“Hm?” Su Tianxue responded.
“I… I want to enter the entertainment industry,” Su Wanxing said.
After hearing Su Wanxing’s words, Su Tianxue thought for a moment before replying, “Hasn’t that always been your goal?”
Otherwise, Su Wanxing wouldn’t have studied arts for the college entrance exams, become an art student, and then enrolled in photography.
Didn’t she choose this path to be able to shoot her own works?
Doesn’t that count as entering the entertainment industry?
Hearing Su Tianxue’s question, Su Wanxing quietly clenched her fists, glanced at Zhu Yu, and after receiving a look of encouragement, nervously explained to her sister, “Jie… what I mean is… I-I want to sing.”
After meeting Zhu Yu, Su Wanxing had picked up singing again.
She had gone to a recording studio and even collaborated on a song with Zhu Yu just for fun.
She found it very enjoyable.
It felt like she had rediscovered a part of her past, and… she was starting to yearn for a bigger stage.
“Singing?” Su Tianxue was a little puzzled.
Why so suddenly?
She felt her heart had been put through quite a challenge today.
First, Shi Ning told her she wanted to be a lawyer and was preparing to switch careers and take the bar exam.
Next, her younger sister told her she wanted to debut as a singer.
What was with all this?
“Come here and talk to me properly,” Su Tianxue said.
Su Wanxing nodded obediently.
As the two sisters discussed serious matters, Shi Ning quietly dragged Zhu Yu to the side. “Alright, spill. Did you put her up to this?”
Zhu Yu was truly helpless. “What do you mean, I put her up to it? If a person truly wants to do something, no one can stop or change their mind.”
Looking at Zhu Yu’s expression and recalling the way she had looked at Su Wanxing just now, Shi Ning understood.
“You have ulterior motives,” Shi Ning said.
“I just think she should give it a try,” Zhu Yu replied.
“You’re in the industry yourself, so you should know it’s not an easy path. Her personality might not be suitable for it.”
“She has talent.”
“There are many talented people in this world, but not all of them can reach your position. Luck and skill are both indispensable.”
Zhu Yu chuckled lightly. “And you think she isn’t lucky?”
With complete sincerity in her eyes, Zhu Yu said, “Her older sister is Su Tianxue. I believe that is her greatest luck.”
Shi Ning clicked her tongue. “Tsk. Are you trying to set me up?”
“Isn’t the company planning to sign new talent? What do you think of this newcomer I’ve found for you?”
“So you had this planned from the start. You want Su Wanxing to join my company so she’ll be your direct junior, making it easy for you to look after her, and for me as well.”
Zhu Yu shrugged. “Not really. From a business perspective, I think she can bring you a return on your investment.”
“But you also know it’s hard to debut just as a singer these days. There aren’t many prospects for idols in this country. It’s the environment. You either have to go into acting as an indirect path, or you compete in a talent show. What are your thoughts?”
“It’s up to her,” Zhu Yu said. “She’s better off than I was. She still has choices.”
Shi Ning made a mental note of the matter.
That night, she sent a message to Ye Wanlan to inform her, so that Ye Wanlan could help out in the future, and then she briefed the people at the entertainment company on the situation.
The next morning, Ye Wanlan replied that she understood.
She also told Shi Ning that the one from the Fei family had returned to the country.
Shi Ning had just woken up, her mind still fuzzy, and for a moment she couldn’t remember who Ye Wanlan was talking about.
Ye Wanlan: Shi of the South, Fei of the North. Fei Yue.
Seeing the name, Shi Ning remembered.
Fei Yue. She seemed to be one of Su Wanxing’s seven Alphas.
The standard mafia boss type. She had apparently been injured and saved by a young Su Wanxing, which led to her falling deeply in love. Later, when she met Su Wanxing again and learned she was the one who had saved her, her feelings became uncontrollable.
Basically, it was that kind of cliché white moonlight plot.
But judging by the current developments, Su Wanxing’s life had almost nothing to do with the original plot anymore.
Fei Yue’s return probably wouldn’t have any impact, right?
Shi Ning: Got it, got it.
Ye Wanlan: The Fei family might be holding a banquet soon. Will you be going?
Shi Ning: I need to focus on my studies lately.
Ye Wanlan: You mean focus on keeping your wife company?
Shi Ning: No! I’m really focusing on studying! I have to prepare for the bar exam!
Ye Wanlan: ?????
Ye Wanlan: …
Ye Wanlan: Xiao Ning, you should know, we can’t possibly buy you a certificate. This is a matter of principle.
Shi Ning: Thanks a lot.
Why did no one believe her?
But on second thought, Shi Ning figured, yeah, it would be weird if they did believe her.
Ye Wanlan must have told Qin Li, because her mother called right away.
Qin Li: “I hear you’re preparing for some bar exam?”
Shi Ning: “What? Can’t I?”
Qin Li: “If your love life isn’t going well, just tell Mom. Don’t do anything rash.”
Shi Ning: “...We’re just talking, why are you jinxing me!”
Shi Ning hung up the phone, annoyed.
Just then, Su Tianxue finished getting ready for work. Shi Ning went over and wrapped her arms around her, clinging to her side and cooing sweetly in her ear, “Wife, wife.”
Su Tianxue didn’t like to wear much makeup to work, but she would apply a light layer of lipstick to brighten her complexion.
Standing in front of the mirror, she took out her lipstick, applied it lightly, pressed her lips together, and turned to ask Shi Ning, “What is it?”
Shi Ning pouted. “Ye Wanlan and my mom don’t believe that I’m going to take the bar exam.”
“You still have me, don’t you?” Su Tianxue said.
“Hm?”
“I believe you.”
Su Tianxue kissed Shi Ning’s forehead. “You can do it. I’m heading to work now.”
When the two of them emerged from the room, clinging to each other, Zhu Yu and Su Wanxing tactfully averted their eyes.
Zhu Yu: “I didn’t see anything.”
Su Wanxing: “Actually, I’m blind.”
“What’s wrong?” Shi Ning asked.
Su Tianxue sighed and pulled out a tissue. “You have a lipstick mark on your face. Remember to wipe it off.”
Shi Ning grinned. “I’m not wiping it. I’m going to leave it there all day.”
Zhu Yu and Su Wanxing exchanged a look, then quickly turned away and pretended to gag.
It was unbearable.
So early in the morning.
“I think I’ll take Wanxing to the company,” Zhu Yu said.
“Yes, yes,” Su Wanxing agreed.
All three of them had things to do, so they left together.
After sending a message reminding Su Tianxue to buy breakfast on her way, Shi Ning sat on the sofa in a daze.
With Su Tianxue gone, Shi Ning suddenly understood a little of what those puppies in short videos felt like, pitifully waiting by the door after watching their owners leave every day.
In that moment, she felt a deep empathy for those dogs.
The first second Su Tianxue left the house.
She missed her.
Looking around the apartment, an idea sparked in Shi Ning’s mind.
She got up and knocked on the door of the apartment across the hall.
She vaguely remembered that it was occupied by tenants, possibly several people sharing the space.
The door opened, and facing the person inside, Shi Ning smiled amiably. “Hello, there’s something I’d like to discuss with you all.”
After Su Tianxue arrived at the research institute, her junior colleague immediately scurried over to her and asked gossipily, “Senior, who did you fall for? Is it Shi Ning?”
The junior colleague was still thinking about the message with the chemical formula for dopamine she had suddenly received the other day.
Su Tianxue didn’t say anything.
The junior colleague asked again, “So, has your confession been successful yet?”
Su Tianxue thought for a moment, recalling what Shi Ning had told her yesterday about taking the bar exam…
Mm.
It would be better to talk to Shi Ning about these things after the exam was over.
Based on Su Tianxue’s judgment of Shi Ning, discussing these things now would only distract the already seemingly-unserious woman even more. Then there would be no telling what score she’d get on the exam.
After vaguely brushing off her junior colleague, Su Tianxue was summoned to her superior’s office.
Unexpectedly, she saw a familiar person in the office: Shen Qingtang.
Her superior introduced them with a smile. “This is Teacher Shen from the university. She’s in charge of personnel and logistics, and also oversees scientific research. Her university has a long-standing partnership with our institute. They currently need a substitute teacher for astronomy, just for a short time, one semester. I thought it would be a good opportunity for you to experience it, Xiao Su. What do you think?”
Su Tianxue had little interest in teaching, so her first reaction was to refuse.
“I still have projects on my hands. I can’t get away.”
“Oh, Xiao Su,” her superior said, quickly trying to persuade her. “Think of it this way: even if you go to the university, you can still come to the lab often, can’t you? Teacher Shen said your course load won’t be heavy, two classes a week at most.”
“I’m afraid I’ll mislead the students.”
Her superior became displeased. “Xiao Su, how can you talk about yourself like that? You’re the top student in our institute! The chief researcher! If you would mislead students, then- then there’s no one left who’s cut out for teaching!”
Her superior seemed to have mastered the art of changing faces. His expression shifted with every sentence, and now he spoke gently again. “Besides, it’s mainly teaching an astronomy elective to their students. Your level is more than sufficient. Xiao Su, just think of it as helping out, okay? And…”
Her superior glanced at Shen Qingtang and whispered to Su Tianxue, “The university is quite…”
He rubbed his thumb and index finger together.
He cleared his throat. “Xiao Su, just consider it a favor for me! Give it a try! And look, ever since you went on that romance show, you’ve become the most famous person in our institute. Now the university is specifically asking for you because of your reputation, hoping you’ll be an elective teacher.”
With things put that way, it was difficult for Su Tianxue to refuse any longer.
Seeing the matter settled, her superior was delighted and asked Su Tianxue to see Shen Qingtang out.
Su Tianxue led Shen Qingtang out in silence. When they reached the main gate, Shen Qingtang stopped.
She turned to look at Su Tianxue, took out her phone, and wiggled it. “Let’s add each other on WeChat.”
Su Tianxue: “...?”
Shen Qingtang: “It’s not because I want to add you. Although, I do kind of want to.”
Shen Qingtang continued, “Add me as a friend so I can easily notify you of any university matters. And I need to send you things like the class schedule.”
“It’s for work, Miss Su. You won’t refuse, will you?”
Su Tianxue took out her phone and displayed her QR code.
The moment she was added, the smile on Shen Qingtang’s lips deepened.
Because she discovered that as soon as she sent the friend request, she and Su Tianxue became chat contacts.
There was no approval process.
This meant that in all these years, ever since she had unilaterally deleted Su Tianxue in a fit of pique, Su Tianxue had never deleted her back.
The way WeChat works is: if you delete someone, but they haven’t deleted you, then… when you add them again, they don’t need to approve it, and they won’t even know.
There would be no notification.
Shen Qingtang smiled as if she had discovered a secret.
She said to Su Tianxue with a hint of triumph, “Teacher Su, it seems you never deleted me. You couldn’t bear to, could you?”
After all these years.
Su Tianxue still couldn’t bear to delete her.
Didn’t that mean she still held some importance in Su Tianxue’s heart?
Faced with Shen Qingtang’s sparkling eyes, Su Tianxue remained indifferent.
She replied in a cold tone, “Sorry, do you need me to delete you again now?”
Shen Qingtang: “???”
Su Tianxue had no idea about all these weird quirks of unilaterally deleting someone on WeChat.
Su Tianxue had so many contacts on WeChat; she didn’t have the leisure to scroll through them every day to see who was on her friends list, let alone the energy to search for Shen Qingtang’s name.
It was understandable that she was unaware she had been unilaterally deleted.
Su Tianxue’s cold words made Shen Qingtang’s expression change, a hint of displeasure showing.
But soon, Shen Qingtang’s smile returned.
She said to Su Tianxue, “No need to delete me again. Let’s keep in touch from now on.”
“...There’s no need.”
Su Tianxue couldn’t understand it. She asked very seriously, “Shen Qingtang, is there any point in you doing this?”
Shen Qingtang paused, then asked, “What’s wrong?”
Did she figure out that I orchestrated this elective teacher thing? Or something else?
“We’re not going to be friends again anyway. Is there any point in you doing this?” Su Tianxue said.
Faced with Su Tianxue’s coldness, Shen Qingtang pressed her lips together and replied, “I’ll be the judge of whether it’s pointless or not.”
Shen Qingtang was also getting a little angry. “Su Tianxue, you don’t have to completely remove me from your list of friends just because of a small mistake from our youth, do you? I don’t think I did anything that terrible.”
Su Tianxue couldn’t be bothered to argue with Shen Qingtang any longer.
She said to Shen Qingtang earnestly, “We really can’t be friends again. You’re at the gate now. Goodbye.”
Having completed her superior’s task, Su Tianxue turned and walked away.
Watching her retreating back, a vicious glint flashed in Shen Qingtang’s eyes.
As soon as she returned to her office, Su Tianxue picked up her fully charged phone and saw that in the short time since she had arrived at work, Shi Ning had already sent her nearly 99+ messages.
This woman had single-handedly blown up her WeChat.
“Troublesome,” Su Tianxue sighed under her breath.
Her junior colleague overheard and asked with concern, “Senior, are you in some kind of trouble?”
“Yes,” Su Tianxue said. “My wife is too clingy.”
The junior colleague: “…”
The junior colleague pushed her chair back, the wheels rolling smoothly, and put some distance between herself and Su Tianxue. She looked at her with an accusatory expression. “Senior, I never thought you were this type of person.”
Complaining on the surface but actually showing off your affection!
How despicable!!
Su Tianxue: ?
What did she do?
Su Tianxue opened the chat window, intending to carefully read what Shi Ning had sent.
The first minute after she left, Shi Ning had said: Wife, I miss you.
The second minute after she left, Shi Ning had said: Wife, I really miss you a little.
By the time she arrived at work, Shi Ning had said: By my calculations, you should be at the office by now. So, wife, if you’re there, does that mean you didn’t buy breakfast again?
Seeing this message, Su Tianxue felt a little guilty.
Shi Ning’s next message was: If you didn’t buy breakfast, open your bag. I put some milk and purple rice bread in there for you.
Shi Ning: Tomorrow morning, I’m going to supervise you eating breakfast! Hmph!!
Shi Ning: Skipping breakfast is bad for your health!
Su Tianxue really wanted to say that this was a fallacy with no particular scientific basis, but she kept it to herself.
After that were Shi Ning’s scattered shares and questions about where things were in the house.
She had to tell her when she heard a cat meowing downstairs.
When she saw a beautiful cloud floating in the sky, she had to take a picture and send it to her.
When she saw something funny while surfing the internet, Shi Ning would also send it to Su Tianxue.
Faced with this version of Shi Ning, Su Tianxue sighed. She thought to herself, judging by how often this person was on her phone, she probably wasn’t studying properly.
Su Tianxue patiently replied to Shi Ning’s messages one by one, using the quote-reply feature on WeChat.
Su Tianxue: I forgot to charge my phone last night. The battery died on my way to work.
Su Tianxue: Yes, the purple rice bread was delicious.
Su Tianxue: Did you eat breakfast?
Su Tianxue: The cat is cute.
Su Tianxue: There are clouds at the lab too.
After replying to all the messages, Su Tianxue warned Shi Ning: Okay, no more chatting. You should be studying.
Seeing the pitiful, pleading sticker that Shi Ning immediately sent back, Su Tianxue made a decision.
She suddenly felt like she was tutoring a slacker from her high school class.
Although, during her own high school days, Su Tianxue had never taken the time to help others with their questions.
When it was time to get off work, Shi Ning had someone drive her car from her house to the Su family’s residential complex, and then she drove to the entrance of Su Tianxue’s research institute to pick her up.
Seeing her again, the junior colleague now understood her identity and even joked warmly with Shi Ning, “You’re not driving your little bull today, are you?”
The junior colleague still remembered the joke about the Lamborghini.
Shi Ning smiled and said, “Today? I didn’t drive the little bull today. I switched to another one. Why don’t you go take a look? See if you want to buy one for your mom to drive to the grocery store?”
The junior colleague quickly shook her head. “No! No! I’m leaving now! Bye, Senior! Bye, Senior’s wife!”
Hearing that form of address, Shi Ning’s smile was brighter than the sun.
She opened the passenger side door and boasted to Su Tianxue, “Did you hear what your junior colleague called me just now?”
“I’m not deaf,” Su Tianxue replied.
“That kid is pretty sharp. I think I should prepare a gift for her next time I see her.”
“Hm?”
“Buy her a little bull?”
“She’d probably faint from shock.”
As soon as Su Tianxue got into the passenger seat of the SUV-like vehicle, she noticed a pile of luggage in the back seat and trunk.
Su Tianxue lifted her chin slightly and asked Shi Ning, “Are you moving?”
“Mhm,” Shi Ning hummed, her fingers tapping lightly on the steering wheel. “Isn’t it obvious?”
She watched Su Tianxue’s expression and asked deliberately, “Wife, you don’t want to live with me? You don’t want to see me every day? You don’t want to be with me every day and-”
“Alright, you can shut up now,” Su Tianxue cut her off.
If she let her continue, more improper words would surely follow.
Shi Ning grinned. “Don’t worry, I’m not moving into your place.”
“I’ll leave you some personal space, hm?”
Su Tianxue gripped her seatbelt and looked out the window.
“Then where are you moving to?”
“You’ll see in a bit.”
A short while later, Su Tianxue watched as Shi Ning opened the door to the apartment opposite her own.
“...I thought this was rented out?”
“I have my ways.”
“Wife,” Shi Ning said, “my place isn’t set up yet today. Can I crash at your place for one night?”
Su Tianxue: Do you have to sound so pitiful?
Crash for one night?
As if she were that heartless.
She opened her own door and tilted her head inside. “Come in.”
Shi Ning grinned. “Thanks, wife.”
She rushed forward to kiss Su Tianxue, her hands on the woman’s waist starting to roam again. “Wife, do you know why I rented the apartment across the hall?”
“Why?”
Shi Ning whispered, “To avoid the awkwardness of last night. I think from now on, when we want to do it, we can go to my place. There are several rooms, we can switch it up, do it wherever we want.”
Su Tianxue glared at Shi Ning. “Is that still all you can think about?”
“These are important matters! What else should I be thinking about!”
Shi Ning pouted for a kiss, but Su Tianxue just smiled faintly, pulled a stack of printed and bound papers from her bag, and held it up, blocking Shi Ning’s approaching lips.
A bright red mark was imprinted on the white paper.
Shi Ning felt the texture against her lips wasn’t right and opened her eyes.
She was dumbfounded.
“What’s this?”
“Take a look,” Su Tianxue said.
Shi Ning took it and saw several large characters written on the cover of the stack of papers.
Shi Ning’s Bar Exam Study Plan.
Shi Ning: ...
She flipped through it and found that the pages detailed a daily study schedule, along with the content to be studied.
“Wife?” Shi Ning asked in disbelief.
“I had some free time at work today, so I briefly looked over the scope of the bar exam and drafted a review plan for you. Of course, it’s not set in stone. You can change it according to your situation. I just wrote it based on my own estimates.”
“Get up at seven in the morning?”
“I get up to prepare for work, you get up to study. Is there a problem?”
“No problem, no problem.”
“What’s this about going to bed at ten at night?”
“Starting today, you need to adjust your schedule and develop the habit of sleeping early and waking up early. It will be beneficial for your exam performance. Also, it’s best to do practice questions during the projected time slots of the bar exam to maintain your brain’s state. This will help you maintain that momentum during the actual exam and keep your brain at its most active.”
Shi Ning: “…”
Is this what it feels like to have a genius wife?
She asked cautiously, “Then, what about our dates and, um, our time for… you know?”
Su Tianxue gave her a cool glance. “The exam is not far off. Do you think you have a lot of free time?”
Shi Ning: …
Wuwuwu!!!
If she explained to her wife now that she was very smart, a genius, had studied law before, and passed the bar exam with high marks, would it be too late???
Studying it all over again isn’t a problem!!
There’s no need to be so strict!!!
Does this mean from now on, there won’t even be time for cuddles!!
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