Mavis looked at the closed door, feeling empty in her heart.
She continued to lay out the quilt on the sofa, not intending to occupy Ning Chengxu's bed to sleep. It seemed that she couldn't get anything that didn't belong to her, no matter how hard she tried.
Ning Chengxu went to the study to work and slept there by the way.
Mavis curled up on the sofa in the bedroom all night.
Early the next morning.
Mavis walked out of the bedroom after washing up, and happened to meet Ning Chengxu coming down from the study room upstairs in the stairwell.
She stopped and called him in a low voice, "Good morning, Mr. Xu."
Ning Chengxu walked downstairs wrapped in the cold, walked up to her step by step, and touched her neck with his knuckled fingers.
The pinch mark from last night has not faded yet, and a faint red mark can be seen.
"Why didn't you apply some medicine before going to bed last night? Are you going to go downstairs for dinner like this and let Jingxuan and Third Brother see the injuries on your body?"
The cold tone made Mavis stunned for a while, then she covered her neck and said, "I'm sorry, I forgot, I... wore a silk scarf to work today."
The medicine kit was not in the room, but in the cupboard in the hall. If she went downstairs to get the medicine kit at night, a servant would definitely find it, and then the marks on her neck would become unjustifiable.
But Mavis didn't want to explain. She knew that Ning Chengxu wouldn't believe her and would still blame her, so she might as well apologize directly.
Just as she was going back to the room, Ning Chengxu took her arm, bent down slightly, put his lips close to her ear, and whispered:
"Except in private, you are not allowed to call me Mr. Xu in the Ning family. You must call me husband."
Not really my husband...
Mavis couldn't shout, but she still agreed, "I understand."
Ning Chengxu refused to let go of her arm, his eyebrows slightly raised, his phoenix eyes teasing, "Shout now and let us hear it."
Mavis raised her head in horror, confused by him.
He is really too uncertain.
One second he was angry and scolding her for the injury on her neck being exposed, and the next second he was staring at her with a faint smile and asking her to call her husband immediately.
Mavis was horrified and refused, "You...you have to let me slow down. I can't scream now."
Ning Chengxu squeezed her arm and refused to let go, clearly reminding her word by word: "You must shout."
"..."
Mavis was forced to do nothing.
A servant passing by in the corridor saw the two of them close to each other, close to each other's ears, and walked away quickly in embarrassment, thinking it was a little fun the couple had in the morning.
Mavis's ears were slightly red, she bit her lip, and endured the awkwardness and said: "Old...husband..."
She tried to pull her arm back, but Ning Chengxu still refused to let her go.
"What the hell is this, old man? I can't even speak clearly? Scream well and shout again."
Mavis blushed and her voice became softer and softer, "Honey, I'm going to be late for work, please let me go."
The soft voice is so nice.
Ning Chengxu felt much happier, loosened the shackles on her arms, and let her go back to the room with great mercy.
Looking at her back, which seemed to be running away, Ning Chengxu's ears were still inexplicably echoing with the words she had just called 'husband'. It was really easy to get carried away when a girl shouted like this in such a delicate and delicate manner.
After breakfast, Ning Chengxu left the villa first and drove to work.
Mavis was still sitting in the restaurant eating, planning to eat slowly and stagger the time when she and Ning Chengxu would go out.
Jing Jingxuan asked coldly: "Sisi, my fourth brother is gone, don't you all go out together?"
"..."
No longer able to pretend that she couldn't see Ning Chengxu leaving, Mavis could only put down her spoon and follow him out of the villa.
Ning Chengxu has long legs and can walk faster than her.
When she walked slowly to Ning's open-air parking lot, Ning Chengxu's car sped past the roadside and drove away under her nose.