I go north, you go south

Ling Bei smiled and took her hand: "Shu Shu, remember to tell others this when you go out in the future."

"Understood, my lord president."

Nan Zishu's coquettish tone made Ling Bei's heart melt.

He couldn't help but leaned forward and kissed the girl between the eyebrows.

"Where do you want to go shopping after dinner?"

Ling Bei caressed the back of Nan Zishu's hand intentionally or unintentionally, with a doting smile on his face: "Do you have a place you want to go before you come here? Or can you let me arrange it?"

Hearing him ask this, Nan Zishu frowned inadvertently.

"Abei, don't you have anything to do?"

She looked at him with a familiar gentle and well-behaved tone: "Just be busy with your work. There is no need to change your plans for me."

"I can go out for a walk by myself. If you're really worried, you can have someone pick me up then."

"Why can't I stay with you?"

Ling Bei looked at Nan Zishu with a little confusion in his eyes...even sullenness.

Nan Zishu also felt something was wrong with his aura for a while.

She sat up uncomfortably: "It's not that I can't, I'm afraid it will disturb your work..."

"But I am your husband!"

Ling Bei would always be suffocated by Nan Zishu's unexpected "understanding".

"Nan Zishu, sometimes I really can't figure out whether you really don't care or whether you pretend not to care."

In fact, they have quarreled many times because of this kind of thing.

Ling Bei also knew that Nan Zishu just didn't like to cause trouble to others out of habit.

But he just doesn't want to be that other person. "Shu Shu, sometimes...you are so generous that it makes me collapse."

Ling Bei took a deep breath and tried to calm down: "I really don't know how you convinced yourself to push me out so naturally."

"You don't mind that I go on a business trip on the third day after my wedding, and you don't mind that I'm just busy with work and not with you. You don't even worry about me being out alone.

"You are too sensible and generous. Many times I really wonder if you... don't care about me that much."

"Shu Shu, you must be a little disappointed, a little dissatisfied, a little angry, and a little sad about me, right?"

Ling Bei squeezed Nan Zishu's hand tightly, his eyes almost pleading: "Do you know that every time you are considerate, you make me feel like a scum."

"Can you stop being so sweet and making me feel bad?"

The apology in Ling Bei's heart surged again, and the desire to retreat that he had finally put behind occupied his brain again.

He wished that Nan Zishu could get angry with him unscrupulously, yell at him, and force him to go home to be with him.

Instead of like now, even if she runs thousands of miles to him, her first worry is still to disturb him.

This made Ling Bei suddenly unable to find the reason for doing these things.

"Abei, wouldn't it be nice if you knew..."

Nan Zishu looked at Ling Bei's slightly pale face and subconsciously held his hand.Only then did he realize that his hands were not as dry and warm as they were familiar with before, but as cold as they had been soaked with cold sweat at some point.

There had been such coldness in her memory, it was the fear Ling Bei felt when he was invaded by nightmares.

Nan Zishu understood how afraid he was of losing her.

"Okay, okay, you stay with me, you stay with me these two days, okay?"

She shook her hands coquettishly, trying to warm his hand with the warmth of her own palm.

Also trying to warm his heart. (End of chapter)