He was just reminding her out of kindness to be careful of her safety after seeing how she had helped him out. It would be better if she didn’t do this to any stranger on the street. However, he didn’t specify the reason behind it. After Jiang Xiaobai heard that, she felt quite annoyed. The smile on her face disappeared as she glared at Xiao Su. “Mr. Xiao, are you saying that I’m a busybody?”
Xiao Su was stunned upon hearing that.
“Because I took the trouble to bring you home, you had to owe me a favor. Are you upset about this?” Jiang Xiaobai added as she looked at Xiao Su furiously. Men are all up to no good, indeed! Especially those who just fell out of love! If she had known that this would be his response, she would not have brought him back.
Xiao Su paused for a moment before replying, “That is not what I meant.”
Jiang Xiaobai was still annoyed. “What do you mean, then? Aren’t you telling me to stay out of such matters in the future?”
“That’s right,” Xiao Su nodded and looked exasperated as he replied to her. “I told you that because I wanted to let you know that, apart from what happened today, you’d better not involve yourself in such matters in the future.”
“Why?” Jiang Xiaobai was still furious at him, so she didn’t quite get it.
Xiao Su was silent upon hearing that. This woman actually picks things up so slowly, huh? Since he owed her a favor, and he was still at her place, Xiao Su explained patiently even though he felt that it was troublesome. “What if you meet someone else who has malicious intentions? You are living alone, so it’s quite dangerous to bring a man home.”
After listening to his explanation, Jiang Xiaobai finally understood what Xiao Su meant. “You’re saying that apart from you, all other men are dangerous?”
Xiao Su explained, “I mean, men who are strangers to you are dangerous, including me. So, you’d better be more vigilant about such matters in the future.”
Hearing that he didn’t categorize himself as a good person, and that his true intentions for saying those words were because he was worried about her, Jiang Xiaobai’s fury dissipated immediately as she snorted like a tsundere.
“Ah, I see. You are worried about me. You’re quite kind after all. It was worth the trouble of sending you back to my place from the pub. Do you know how tiring that was?” With that, Jiang Xiaobai suddenly remembered something. “Don’t worry. I’m not an idiot. I’ve weighed the risks myself. I know that you are not a bad person, so I chose to help you out.”
Xiao Su wanted to say something, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he coughed instead. After seeing that, Jiang Xiaobai stood up immediately. “I’ll get you a glass of water.” After she got up, she groaned in pain and fell back down.
Upon seeing that, Xiao Su frowned. “What’s wrong?”
Jiang Xiaobai lowered her head to look at her leg before looking at Xiao Su. She pouted and said in a pitiful voice, “My legs… are numb.” Since she had been sitting with her legs folded for the entire night without moving, of course this would happen. Jiang Xiaobai stretched out her hands to massage her legs gently to ease the numbness. However, as soon as she moved, she felt the pain and numbness, so she didn’t dare to move too much.
Xiao Su, who was sitting right beside her, felt that he ought to help her because he was the reason for her sufferings, but those were her legs after all. After thinking about it, Xiao Su walked to her and offered, “Let me give you a hand.”
Upon hearing that, Jiang Xiaobai thought that he wanted to massage her legs for her, so she immediately rejected him. “T-There’s no need for that! You—” However, before she could finish her sentence, Xiao Su held her in his arms immediately. She looked at him in shock while she clung onto him subconsciously with wide eyes. “What are you doing?”
Xiao Su merely shot her a glance without saying much. He walked to the couch and placed her there while whispering, “It’s because you’ve been in the same position for too long. The restricted blood flow is the reason for the numbness and pain. Put your legs down gently here.”
Initially, Jiang Xiaobai wanted to rebuke him, but Xiao Su’s slightly hoarse voice was quite deep after waking up from a night of drinking, and it made her feel a sense of tranquility. Hence, Jiang Xiaobai followed his advice. After a long while, Jiang Xiaobai felt that her legs didn’t hurt that much anymore, so she glazed at Xiao Su, who was next to her. “You hugged me before asking for my permission just now.”
Xiao Su remained silent for a while before uttering, “I’m sorry… I didn’t mean to.”
“Since you’ve taken advantage of me, you have to agree to one of my requests as well.”
There was a pause before Xiao Su replied, “Fine.”
Although Jiang Xiaobai didn’t know what exactly Xiao Su could do, since she didn’t really mind about others owing her a favor, she thought it would be good to let him owe her favor. Perhaps sometime in the future, I would have the opportunity to use it, hehe.
However, it was a pity that Xiao Su didn’t know that he had left a deep impression in her because of this. And he also didn’t know that there would be a lot of entanglements because of these two favors that he had owed this sly woman in front of him. And in the end… Of course, those were things that would happen in the future.
…
Time passed very quickly. There were 365 days in a year, 24 hours in a day, and 60 minutes in an hour. Though it seemed to be a lot, time and tide waited for no one indeed.
Little Sprout would be a month old soon, as Ye Moxuan grew from a novice father to a professional care-taker. As he was worried that Han Muzi would be too tired, he had been caring for Little Sprout by himself basically. From changing the diapers, making baby formula, to taking care of Little Sprout, Ye Moxuan had taken all the responsibility.
Han Muzi didn’t have to do any work at all, nor did she have to even ask him to do that. In fact, she wanted to share the load as well, but Ye Moxuan didn’t allow her to do that. During the confinement period, he took good care of both Han Muzi and Little Sprout. Everything that was more heavy duty was all left to him. Because of that, Han Muzi only ate and slept every day.
After all the nourishing food given to her for the confinement period, Han Muzi was not that bloated anymore after a month, but her weight had not gone down. Looking at how she looked so much fatter than before, Han Muzi shot a glare at Ye Moxuan. “It’s all because of you that I look like this. If you had let me take care of the baby and put more effort into it, I probably would have had the opportunity to lose my body weight.”
Upon hearing that, Ye Moxuan stretched out his hand to caress her hair. “It was already so tough for you to give birth to a child. Why do you still want to take care of her? You have a husband, you know; what’s wrong for me to do that?”
There was nothing wrong about it, per se. It was just that Han Muzi felt that she should also be taking care of Little Sprout; otherwise, she might be close to her father but not to her mother. Although Han Muzi had gained some weight, she was actually quite slim because she worried too much. Hence, though she had gained some weight, she still maintained a regular figure. However, she still decided to sign up for gym classes a few days later to train her physique.
Han Muzi wanted to care for her child, but Yan was quite envious when she heard that. “Oh, you don’t know how blessed you are, Muzi! Do you know how many men don’t participate in taking care of their children? This is also one of the reasons for postnatal depression.”
