Chapter 49

Oh no, he still wasn't that skilled at diving from a high platform TvT!!

"Mm." Ye Heng replied blandly, "Because I'm desperate to get married."

Tang Mingxi: ...

Autumn had already arrived in Ningcheng Eastern Suburbs. The plane trees were beginning to yellow, and when the wind blew, fallen leaves scattered all over the courtyard.

After driving for over an hour, the small villa where Liang Ru lived gradually came into Tang Mingxi's view. The last time he had visited Liang Ru was during last year's Lunar New Year.

Compared with the fiery, irreconcilable relationship Tang Mingxi and Ye Heng had when he had first transmigrated, the two of them were no longer quite as hostile toward each other.

Their act of pretending to be affectionate in front of Liang Ru had become even more convincing, delighting the old lady.

That evening, Tang Yun and Tang Nuo also hurried over from the company. During dinner, Liang Ru brought up Tang Mingxi and Ye Heng's wedding.

Tang Yun picked up the conversation. "I've already had someone consult the almanac. They said there's an auspicious date next July."

Tang Mingxi bit his chopsticks and calculated it. Next July happened to be the time of Tang Mingxi's death in the original novel.

By then, he should have run away long ago, right?

Liang Ru nodded. "Little Xi and Aheng's marriage has always been the old man's greatest concern. Before he died, he told me that no matter what, I had to see the two children get married. You two are both good children, and your temperaments suit each other. Little Xi doesn't have a head for business, so Aheng must take good care of him in the future."

Ye Heng peeled a boiled shrimp and placed it in Tang Mingxi's bowl, saying obediently, "I understand."

Tang Mingxi looked at the food already piled too high in his bowl.

Half of it had been served to him by his brother, Tang Yun.

The other half had been served to him by Ye Heng.

He seriously couldn't eat another bite TT.

Upholding the fine virtue of not wasting food, Tang Mingxi picked through his bowl and ate a few bites before dumping all the food in his bowl into Ye Heng's.

Tang Nuo's heart skipped a beat at the sight. He was just about to stop Tang Mingxi when, in the next second, Ye Heng casually and familiarly finished Tang Mingxi's leftovers.

Tang Nuo watched in stunned disbelief. His fingers stiffened slightly, as if he could not believe what he was seeing.

He remembered that whether in his previous life or this one, Ye Heng had always been an extremely fastidious man.

How could he eat someone else's leftovers?

And Tang Mingxi's leftovers at that!

Wasn't that an insult?!

After dinner, Liang Ru pulled Tang Mingxi into the little study for a chat.

As they talked, the old lady became muddle-headed again and kept asking Tang Mingxi when he planned to have children.

Tang Mingxi was nearly in tears from her questions. Why was the old lady so obsessed with having children?

The key was, if he could give birth, that would be one thing—but he was a man! Where was he supposed to get a baby from? He couldn't even produce a ball!

Later, it was only when his second uncle Tang Xuejin appeared that Tang Mingxi was rescued from the hellish conversation.

He wandered from the second floor all the way to the koi pond in the backyard, grabbed some fish food from the shelf by the ornamental rockery, and tossed it into the pond. More than a dozen koi swarmed over in a rush.

"Why is Second Brother feeding fish here?"

Tang Nuo's voice came from behind him.

Without turning his head, Tang Mingxi grabbed another handful of feed and scattered it into the water. "I was bored. Want some?"

His feelings toward Tang Nuo were neither warm nor cold. They were not closely related by blood, and Tang Mingxi's deepest impression of Tang Nuo was simply the four words: "Ye Heng's lover."

Tang Mingxi tilted his head to look at him. Objectively speaking, Tang Nuo was delicate and refined, gentle and sensible. If he were gender-swapped, he would be the very picture of a modest young lady from a Jiangnan water town.

Who would have thought the male lead, who looked so poker-faced and repressed, liked this kind of gentle housewife type?

Tang Nuo smiled. "Why is Second Brother staring at me? Is there something on my face?"

Tang Mingxi looked away, already reviewing his Fudgeology phrasebook in his mind.

After feeding the fish for a while, Tang Nuo quietly said, "Second Brother, have you been getting along with Ye Heng lately?"

Oh, so he was here to check up on things!

Tang Mingxi suddenly understood. He had been wondering why Tang Nuo had come to find him out of nowhere. So he was probing his romantic rival.

Remembering that he would be running away next year anyway, Tang Mingxi decided he might as well do a good deed and serve as the male lead's wingman, helping this poor pair of lovers get together.

"Don't misunderstand. There's absolutely no feeling between him and me."

His words were earnest and sincere.

Tang Nuo laughed softly. "Today, I saw Brother Ye even eat the leftovers in Second Brother's bowl. It really looks like he likes you."

"It has nothing to do with me. It only means he's thrifty and doesn't waste food."

Nice, Tang Mingxi! You really are an ordinary little genius. With one sentence, you not only praised the male lead but also cleared yourself of any connection!

Tang Nuo paused strangely, looking at Tang Mingxi. "Second Brother, you seem different from before."

"Am I? People grow up." Tang Mingxi played dumb. "Or maybe I've just gotten more handsome."

Tang Nuo said nothing more. Looking at the sky, he seemed to sink into memories. Only after a while did he speak again. "You know, when I look here, I think of the sky over Tang Family Manor."

"When I first came to Tang Family Manor as a child, I thought it was so big that I could never walk all the way through it. It was like a monster with its mouth wide open, swallowing me whole. My mother held my hand and told me that I would live here for the rest of my life. Second Brother, do you remember the first time I met you? You were so fierce then. I greeted you, and you shoved me down the stairs. I broke my leg and chipped my tooth. Blood covered the ground, yet not a single person came to help me."

"Everyone revolved around you, and they took out your unhappiness on me."

Tang Nuo turned to look at him, his voice gentle. "Second Brother, do you know there is a kind of twin flower in this world? One of them absorbs all the nutrients, stretches toward the sunlight, and is born to claim all the light. The other lives forever in the shadows."

After he finished speaking, he stared unblinkingly at Tang Mingxi, waiting for his answer.

What would he do?

Would he, like before, fly into a rage and shove him into the pond?

Yet after waiting for a long time, Tang Mingxi did not explode in anger and push him into the water.

Tang Mingxi seemed to snap back to his senses and finally answered with great feeling, "Huh? That's just too... you know."

Very good, man. Let him experience the charm of Fudgeology :)

Tang Nuo: ...

Sharing a Bed!

That night, Liang Ru was reluctant to let Tang Mingxi leave and made him stay overnight.

This meant Tang Mingxi had no choice but to keep up the act until nine in the evening.

Under Liang Ru's expectant gaze, Tang Mingxi and Ye Heng returned to their room.

It was the same room as last time, seemingly reserved specifically for Tang Mingxi.

What was this called?

A maiden's room before marriage?

The thought had barely formed before Tang Mingxi gave himself goosebumps.

At Mingxi No. 1, Tang Mingxi and Ye Heng lived separately on different floors.

But with their previous experience of living together in Ningcheng Eastern Suburbs, Tang Mingxi did not make a big fuss this time.

It was not until they had finished washing up that Ye Heng opened the wardrobe and discovered that the shelf where the quilts should have been was completely empty.

Tang Mingxi had already changed into his pajamas and was lying on the bed. Since there were other people around, he had been too embarrassed to roll around on it.

Seeing Ye Heng standing motionlessly with his back to him, he yawned. "What's wrong?"

He had been acting all day and still wasn't tired enough to fall asleep? The male lead truly was impressive.

"The quilt in the wardrobe is gone. Grandma probably took it away."

"Huh?"

Tang Mingxi sat upright.

The quilt was gone—where was Ye Heng supposed to sleep?

"I'll sleep on the sofa."

After saying that, Ye Heng turned and headed for the small sofa in the bedroom.

Tang Mingxi