The Overnight Chosen Wife: Darling, Kiss Me Deeper

"Can I say no?" Lanni joked. 

"Nope. I will trouble you even if you said no." Luna giggled like she would be the most annoying thing if she got rejected. After joking for a while, she got serious. "It's our company. I feel the exposure is a little too lacking." 

Lanni thought about it briefly. "Got it. I will try my best on my end, but I may need to interview you, Xiao Yu and Xingyu. Is that okay?" 

"It's okay for me." Cheng Yu agreed, then frowned a little. Would it make a difference? After all, she had zero popularity. Even so, she decided to trust Lanni's arrangement. 

"I'll ask Xingyu if he minds." Luna responded. Even though they were engaged, she was not going to use his name for publicity without finding out whether he was comfortable with it. 

"Tell me about it when he responds. I will schedule an interview for the three of you." 

"Thanks, sis." Luna hugged her gratefully. 

They had all come to the mall in Lanni's car, so they decided to drop Xiaoshi and Ruby off first. 

When it was just the three of them in the car, the atmosphere turned serious. 

"You…" Luna didn't know how to start. 

Cheng Yu started, "She didn't seem suspicious to me." 

"Ruby?" Lanni confirmed. When Cheng Yu nodded, she thought about it. "She didn't seem suspicious to me either. And neither did Xiaoshi." 

Luna mulled over it. "Perhaps we really are being paranoid. They couldn't have put on an act the entire time, right?" 

Lanni raised an eyebrow. "One can put up an act for decades, let alone a night. But don't worry, I didn't get any red flags from their attitudes earlier." 

Cheng Yu didn't like the direction this was taking. "So, we should consider them our friends? Let's not talk about how Xiaoshi still likes Luna's fiancé. Who is to say that her jealousy won't flare up and make her want to hurt Luna later?" She didn't believe a word about Xiaoshi having found a boyfriend. 

"And Ruby… are we really going to trust Ji Feifei's former friend?" 

Lanni started the car and glanced at her worried friend. "Ruby's situation is a little complicated. I will explain it later, okay?" 

Cheng Yu was barely pacified. But when she thought that this could have something to do with how strangely Xiehan and Lanni were acting at the beach, she nodded and decided to patiently wait. 

Goldenwing Apartments was closest, so they dropped Cheng Yu off. 

As she got off, Luna couldn't help taunting her. "I would have stayed with you tonight but I'm no longer single so goodnight." 

"Are you seriously flaunting to me the fact that you are going to seduce your man?" Cheng Yu was speechless. 

"Can't I?" Luna teased. "Let's not talk about my s.e.x life. Go to bed early, okay? Hug a pillow and don't be scared." 

"That's enough. Who will Xiao Yu complain to if you tease her too much?" Lanni pretended to speak up for Cheng Yu before teasing her as well. 

Cheng Yu glared at them. "You horrible sisters. I'm no longer your friend." She then fled to the elevator before they could make fun of her again. 

… 

After taking a bath and making a cup of coffee, Cheng Yu settled in her room to draw. She had just drawn for a few minutes when her phone screen flashed with an incoming call. 

Seeing who the caller was, she was a little puzzled but stilled herself. "I wonder why Young Master Han couldn't wait to talk to me at the office and had to call me this late at night?" 

"I miss you." The other party sounded aggrieved. 

Cheng Yu was helpless. "I'm sorry. If you don't have anything important to tell me, I need to get back to work." 

"Don't you miss me at all?" Cedric lamented inwardly but didn't dare to voice it. Knowing that she must really be busy, he went straight to the main point. "My sister agreed to be your marketing director and wishes to report to work tomorrow." 

"Really?" Cheng Yu was pleasantly surprised and stood up excitedly. 

"Yes. Also, since she is doing her little brother a favor, she doesn't need any remuneration for now." 

Cheng Yu's surprise turned into shock. "What? But she will be working so hard. How can she not receive any income?" 

As she finished speaking, she realized the oddity of it. Moonlight Studios was just a start up. In comparison to the jobs that Natalie had undertaken in the past, her pay at Moonlight would probably only be enough for her breakfast. 

"You can discuss the details with her tomorrow. I'll give you her contact number and email address right away." He added. 

"Thank you." She was so excited that she was inarticulate. She could only get these two words out. 

Cedric wanted to continue talking to her but he had nothing to say except express his feelings. However, it was not the best time to do that; it would only seem like he was taking advantage of the fact that he had done her a favor. Hence, he reluctantly said, "Then I will go to sleep. Don't stay up too late yourself." 

Cheng Yu chuckled at his tone. Why did he sound like a boss? 

"Goodnight." 

When the call ended, she checked the time and decided not to call Luna. The latter must have already arrived at the Jiang mansion, so she didn't want to accidentally disrupt something she shouldn't. 

… 

Jiang Mansion. 

"You are back." Xingyu looked up from his laptop and stood when he saw that Luna had arrived. 

He had wanted to pick her up but she said that Lanni would drop her off. He checked behind her and was curious. "Lanni didn't come in?" 

Luna hugged him and sat down. "She was in a hurry to go to Xiehan's." 

Xingyu nodded and didn't probe further. He carried Luna onto his lap and kissed her. "Did you have fun?" 

"Uh-huh. The movie was awesome. She blabbered on about the movie they had watched, then mentioned that they had gone shopping as well. 

"I'll have the chef warm your food." He stroked her and was about to summon the chef. 

However, she shook her head. "I already ate dinner. We had a meal at Lanni's place before going shopping." 

"What did you buy?" He was curious.

"Uhm… a dress." She blushed when he asked. Now that she talked about it, she remembered that she had planned to give a certain someone a surprise tonight. 

She wiggled out of his arms with a pout. "I'm sleepy. Let's go to sleep." 

"Okay." Since the wife had said it, he shut his laptop and carried her upstairs. 

Once he reached his bedroom, he gently placed her on the bed and went to get her pajamas from the closet. 

"I want to take a shower first." She slid off the bed and grabbed the pajamas he had brought. When he was not looking, she sneakily grabbed the lingerie from the shopping bag from earlier and disappeared into the bathroom. 

The bathroom door was translucent so he could see the outline of her body as she showered. Swallowing, he took a book to read in an attempt to calm himself. 

After reading at the speed of two words per minute, he finally managed to keep his mind off the sound of running water from the bathroom, and her alluring voice as she sang. 

After half an hour of this indirect torture, the sound of water finally stopped.

Then came her sweet voice after a long time. "Love, are you going to take a shower too?" 

He turned to answer her and was stunned silly. "You…" 

She had let down her hair and had no makeup since she had just taken a shower, but her skin looked radiant and beautiful. The red, lacy material clung to her supple skin, nullifying all the progress he had made at suppressing his desire. 

He almost forgot to breathe and struggled to get a word out. 

She walked over to him provocatively and climbed onto his lap. "Do you like it?" 

"Honey, you are pregnant." He reminded, trying to avert his gaze from her b.o.o.b.s that were now in front of him. They looked fuller and more seductive under the red lace. He so badly wanted to touch them… 

She took his hand and pulled it to her chest. "It's okay as long as we are not too rough at it. Didn't the gynecologist say that?" 

He squeezed one of her b.r.e.a.s.ts gently and almost went insane when she unconsciously bit her lip and closed her eyes. "How am I supposed to be gentle seeing you like this?" 

She smiled and kissed his lips as she pushed him gently, making him fall back onto the bed. She knelt over him and whispered in his ear, "Then let me take the initiative." 

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