The Qiu at the center of all this regretted it now. Deeply.
If only she had firmly denied being his girlfriend from the start. What was wrong with saying they were roommates...? Or she could have hidden in the book early on. What did this whole mess have to do with her?
And now?
She was his girlfriend, they were "madly in love and living together," yet they had never even slept together.
Who would believe that, no matter who you told?
Actually, since they were unmarried, sleeping in separate rooms was not that unusual. You could say they both kept themselves chaste and firmly refused to do that sort of thing before marriage. There really were people online who tried living together that way before marrying. Qiu Wuji went online every day now, so she was not unfamiliar with such things.
But this kind of trial marriage was a niche practice that few people believed in. More people would think you were keeping someone as a backup. Even without thinking anything so dark, it at least proved one thing: your relationship was still fairly ordinary, and you were still getting to know each other and adjusting. That much was undeniable, surely.
For other people, an ordinary relationship was just that. It was no big deal.
But she still had that unexplained problem of having no legal identity sitting between them... The older woman had only refrained from digging deeper because she thought they were so close.
And this was all their supposed closeness amounted to? Who would not have a few thoughts after seeing that? Judging by Wu Xiuyun's expression, who knew how many strange suspicions about her identity had already crossed her mind? Keeping a backup, a female spy, a five-hundred-thousand-yuan bounty, someone targeting her son's identity... Any