Belated Romance (Mu Tongrui)

Mu Tongrui gave a small laugh while staring at her phone. “Why did you give them my number? I bet they think you're a sissy
now!”
“As long as you don't think so.”
Mu Tongrui pursed her lips to stop herself from bursting into laughter.
This man is so sly!
After lunch, Mu Tongrui accepted the friend request from the girl on the way home. Soon enough, she initiated a conversation.
“Hey, handsome.”
Mu Tongrui sent her a picture of herself.
The girl replied with a question mark.
“This is my wife. Isn't she pretty?” Mu Tongrui replied shamelessly.
The girl sent over a set of ellipses, indicating her speechlessness.
After a couple more seconds, Mu Tongrui was about to send an emoji over, but the app notified her that they're no longer friends.
“She......blacklisted me,” Mu Tongrui said.
Fu Lingye's dark pupils were fixated on her face. “My wife? Who's that?”
“......”
Mu Tongrui wished that the ground would just open up and swallow her at that moment.
How could he be peeking at her messages?
Fu Lingye raised his eyebrows and looked at her with a slightly amused expression. “Since when did I have a wife?”
Mu Tongrui quickly pecked his chin, her face red. “Now you do!”
He had neglected shaving for a couple of days, so he had a bit of stubble on his chin. However, the stubble was almost invisible
and looking at it up closely, it only enhanced his manliness.

Her man's looks were amazing in any situation.
Fu Lingye continued to stare at her with that scathing gaze. “Yeah, I get it. I'll bring my ugly little wife home now.”
“Since when was I ugly?”
Mu Tongrui was unhappy, and she pressed on. “Were the two girls just now hotter than me?”
Why didn't she realize anything? Was it because she was being too narcissistic?
She wouldn't compare herself to a goddess, but she was confident with her visuals. Since when was she ugly?
Fu Lingye merely smiled and replied, “A truly beautiful person won't ask other people if they're beautiful or not.”
“......”
Mu Tongrui stopped abruptly, refusing to move.
Fu Lingye whirled around to face her, before he finally pulled her into an embrace, his large hands resting on her waist. Lowering
his head and pressing his lips against her eyelids, he whispered, “I didn't even get to look at the two girls properly just now, so
how would I know if they're prettier than you or not?”
However, Fu Lingye figured that they could never compare to his beloved Rui.
Mu Tongrui smiled, the dark clouds clearing from her face immediately.
“Was I too pretty that you couldn't stop looking at me?”
With that, her face turned scarlet, and she burrowed deeper into his embrace, unwilling to look at his face.
Since when did she become so shameless?
She reached into his unbuttoned coat and wrapped her arms around his waist, leaning into his body.
He spoke again. “Rui, if you run away again, I can't promise that I won't get kidnapped by some other woman. If that happens,
you won't be able to do anything.”
It was a threat, a straight up threat.

However, Mu Tongrui was already beyond ecstatic. “We're getting married soon anyway! You'll be a married man in no time.”
“Rui, are you proposing to me?”
Mu Tongrui remained silent for a moment.
“Yeah, that's my proposal. Are you going to say yes?” She finally said.
Shouldn't it be the man's duty to propose? Why were the roles reversed?
His lips touched her temple as they curled upwards into a sly smile. “I'll think about it.”
After that, he let go of her and led her back to Boya Condominium.
“You have three seconds!”
“Rui, you can't force this.”
“Three minutes! No more!”
On the way back, Fu Lingye remained calm despite her incessant chanting. When they got home, she began to feel sleepy due
to her pregnancy and proceeded to fall asleep on his lap. Fu Lingye pinched her face lovingly as she slept soundly.