Call Me Husband

"Brother Yang, have some popcorn."

Chen Qian picked up a piece of popcorn and popped it into her mouth, nodding in satisfaction. She then fed one to Li Yang, who opened his mouth to eat it, a smile appearing on his face.

He slid his palm over her smooth, slender legs. The twenty or thirty thousand yuan he had spent buying Chen Qian clothes had clearly paid off.

The two of them leaned together and whispered for a while, eating a couple of pieces of popcorn. When the movie began, even Li Yang, who had been absorbed in touching her legs, couldn't help turning his attention to it. Before he knew it, it was past six.

After the movie ended, both Li Yang and Chen Qian felt thoroughly satisfied. Holding hands, they went to a nearby restaurant for dinner.

After the meal, they went straight to the hotel.

They parked, took the elevator, swiped the key card, and entered the room.

He tossed their clothes aside, hoisted Chen Qian up, and charged three steps onto the bed.

"..."

"Haah, Brother Yang, there's a call."

More than ten minutes later, a burst of phone vibration suddenly rang out in the dark room. Chen Qian caught her breath. One hand gripped Li Yang's hair, while she removed the other from the tightly clutched mattress. Biting her lip, her face flushed bright red, she picked up the phone.

"Why is it another unknown number?"

Looking at the unfamiliar number on the screen, Chen Qian impatiently tugged at Li Yang's hair. She was just about to hang up when Li Yang grabbed her and made her answer.

"Brother Yang~"

Chen Qian's face grew even redder. She wanted Li Yang to stop, but there was nothing she could do—he simply refused to listen. She could only bite her lip and answer the call.

"Hello? Who is this?"

"This is Liu Wu. Since you didn't choose me, then we need to settle everything between us. The meal I treated you to cost three hundred and thirty-five yuan, so we should split that. The hotel cost one hundred and twenty-five yuan for the night, and you need to pay me back. And there's also the milk tea and other things I bought you when we first met..."

Once the call connected, Chen Qian hadn't expected Liu Wu to be on the other end again—and for him to open with words that left her biting her lips, unable to make a sound.

But although Chen Qian couldn't speak, someone could help her. Li Yang lifted his head, and Chen Qian finally relaxed a little. She decisively said, "Just tell me how much."

"How much? Do you think this can be settled with money? Do you know how humiliating this makes me feel? What about emotional damages? And I really want to know—why did you suddenly leave without saying goodbye?"

"Hello? Say something!"

Liu Wu's questioning voice came from the other end. Chen Qian freed one hand and pressed the end-call button.

"Brother Yang, what are we now?"

After hanging up, Chen Qian felt that her defenses were about to collapse completely. She hurriedly pressed the hand that had hung up the phone against Li Yang's chest, panting, her cheeks red as wine.

"What are we?"

The corner of Li Yang's mouth pulled up. At a time like this, she was still pretending not to know?

He bent down without saying anything more, his eyes burning as he moved forward. "As long as you behave, you can be my girlfriend—my darling."

"Husband..."

Chen Qian's expression instantly turned incomparably gentle, and both hands loosened their grip on the tightly clutched bedsheet.

"Sis, she hung up on me again!"

In a room at Wanke Hotel, Liu Wu heard the busy tone and irritably tossed his phone onto the bed. Turning to Liu Lili sitting beside him, he said, "Every time I call, she blocks the number. Once she's done blocking all of mine, she'll block yours too. This is a brand-new number I got specifically for this. Don't let her block it again."

"What do you think she's doing?"

Liu Wu looked irritated. He had met a pretty girl from his hometown through a matchmaking arrangement and had only taken her out for a day. After barely holding hands, she no longer wanted anything to do with him. How could he not feel miserable?

Chen Qian looked pretty, and he had been quite pleased with her. Who would have thought she would pull something like this?

"She really needs to know her place. How dare she reject you? Is she crazy? My little brother took her out of his own accord, and she still has the nerve to do this?"

Liu Lili had long been fuming. She gave a cold snort and launched into her tirade, only to suddenly remember, "What did she say to you on the phone just now?"

"She said, 'Just tell me how much.'"

Liu Wu gave a soft snort, anger rising in his heart as impatience surfaced on his face. After saying that, he snorted again. "But is this about the money I spent on her? She dared reject me—where does that leave my dignity? I have to demand emotional damages!"

"Then calculate how much you spent on her in total, add emotional damages, and make her pay it all back. Even if she wants to return it later, she'll have to see whether we're in the mood to accept it."

Liu Lili snorted and kicked him. "Calculate it. How much in total?"

"Three hundred and five."

Liu Wu took out his phone and calculated it, immediately reaching a conclusion before looking up at Liu Lili.

"Three... We'll demand thirty thousand from her!"

Liu Lili was stunned for a moment, but then gritted her teeth. "Call her first and see if you can get through again."

"Okay."

Liu Wu nodded and immediately dialed again. Before long, the phone began to ring. "It went through."

"When she answers, tell her that amount and see whether she can pay it."

Liu Lili snorted, crossing her arms over her chest. After thinking for a moment, she took out her phone and checked it again. Li Yang's message box was still empty, and she immediately frowned. "Why hasn't he replied to the message I sent this morning?"

"Who is it? How dare he?"

Liu Wu raised his eyebrows and turned to ask.

"That man."

Liu Lili stuck out her little finger and probed at the matter. Liu Wu nodded in sudden understanding. "That bastard? He dares not reply to your messages? If he comes looking for you again, don't give him a friendly face."

"Enough. Why discuss him? He's not worth it."

Liu Lili waved her hand dismissively and turned off her phone screen. In her heart, she was thinking about how to forgive Li Yang when he came looking for her again after she finished settling her brother's affair.

He would have to buy her at least ten thousand yuan worth of things. Otherwise, there was no way she would let this matter pass.

While Liu Lili was lost in thought, Liu Wu's phone rang for a while before suddenly hanging up automatically.

"Sis, no one's answering."

Liu Wu took back his phone and said, somewhat bewildered.

"Call again. I don't believe she won't answer."

Liu Lili knitted her brows and said with a soft snort.

"Answer it. Wait... answer it later..."

In the room with the lights off, the phone kept ringing.

Li Yang figured it was best not to go too far at the beginning, so he hadn't paid it much mind. But when he suddenly noticed that Chen Qian's voice sounded different, his eyes lit up, and he pulled her fiercely into his arms.

You make me miss you so much, miss you so much...

"..."

The phone's song rang out a full thirty times in the room. When it reached the end of the thirty-first ring, a delicate hand groped toward the phone. Then a finger swiped across the screen, and the call was answered.

"Hello? What do you want?"

Chen Qian brushed aside her sweat-damp bangs. Her voice was soft as sticky rice cake, and as she spoke, her fair upper body rested against a pair of powerful arms.