If you want a husband, you have to fight for it.

Before going to bed, Wan Chuncao also massaged Xu Muyu's legs with medicated wine.

She stood by the bed and placed a cushion under Xu Muyu's legs to prevent the medicinal wine from dripping onto the sheets.

"Do I look like a technician?"

As she pressed the button, Wan Chuncao laughed out loud as she stood by the bed: "Technician No. 8 is here to serve you. If you work overtime, you will be charged extra, boss."

Xu Muyu didn’t understand: “Huh?”

Forget about not understanding. Wan Chuncao finished pressing the lid of the medicinal wine bottle for her own amusement and asked Xu Muyu to relax for a while before lying down: "When I touched your thigh just now, your muscles were very tight. I must have used too much force. Relax for a while before going to sleep."

His thigh muscles were very tense because he had to bend over and stand up, stand up and bend down again, over and over again. His legs, especially his thighs, felt very uncomfortable.

Xu Muyu thought she didn't know and didn't want to know.

He looked at her and saw her take out a piece of plastic tarpaulin, her pillow and quilt from two snakeskin bags outside the door.

When I came in, I saw her spread the oilcloth beside the bed, threw the pillow on it, threw the quilt away, and then lay down.

Xu Muyu was very surprised: "You, are sleeping here?"

Wan Chuncao lay on the oilcloth, covering her belly button with the quilt, and stared at Xu Muyu on the bed, "Where else can I sleep if not here?"

"Do not……"

Xu Muyu thought she would sleep in bed with him, because isn’t that the case?

He didn't say that he hoped or wanted to sleep in the same bed with her, it was just that he thought that they slept in the same bed downstairs, so they would sleep in the same bed upstairs.

Because, because isn't that the case.

With her personality, even if he told her not to go to bed, she would still climb up to him and sleep with him, and then say all sorts of things to him and touch him. That's how she is.

Besides, he, he couldn't say for sure why she...slept on the floor by herself.

Wan Chuncao spread the oilcloth she brought on the floor to the right of the big bed. She said, "If I sleep on the left, it will affect you from getting out of bed. If you get out of bed in the middle of the night, you will step on me to death."

Xu Muyu didn't mean that: "I..."

"It's okay. I'm used to sleeping on the floor."

Wan Chuncao told him not to worry about it: "When I was a child, the bed in our house was harder than this. Besides, this is a wooden floor. I often sleep on a wooden bed without a mattress. So what's the problem?"

Xu Muyu couldn't describe how he felt: "..."

"Go to sleep. We have to get up early to go to the market tomorrow morning."

Wan Chuncao yawned and said, "I'm sleepy."

Xu Muyu was still looking at her while sitting on the bed. She was lying peacefully on the oilcloth mat, not feeling any discomfort and showing no intention of sleeping in the same bed with him.

He looked at her for a moment longer.

"Oh, yes, I forgot to turn off the light."

Wan Chuncao got up from the mat and said, "I thought you were looking at something. You didn't say anything for a long time. I couldn't see you from below and you didn't remind me. If you had called me, I would have turned off the light for you."

When she got up to turn off the lights, Wan Chuncao helped Xu Muyu put his legs back into the quilt, and dragged him to sleep, but let him sleep on her side.

After turning off the lights and coming back to lie down, she said, "If anything happens while you're sleeping over here, I can notice you, too."

"..."

Xu Muyu still couldn't say anything.

It was not until now, with the lights off and her lying on the oilcloth again, that he was really sure that she really did not intend to sleep in bed with him.

The night has truly arrived. The space upstairs is more private than downstairs. There is no night wind blowing into the room, and no moonlight can be seen. Only the occasional chirping of crickets can be heard.

It's really strange that I can't hear the crickets during the day, but at night they become clearer.

The sounds of breathing were equally clear, whether it was Xu Muyu's or Guan Chuncao's.

The two breathing sounds were amplified so many times in this quiet room that one could even distinguish each other's breathing frequency.

"husband."

"Ok?"

Xu Muyu responded, and only then did he realize how natural and quick his answer was.

He quickly glanced to the side, fortunately, he could only hear her voice but not see her face.

She couldn't see him either.

"Are you tired today?" she asked him.

"Not bad." Xu Muyu said.

"Is dinner okay?" Wan Chuncao asked again.

"Yeah, it's okay." Xu Muyu answered again.

"What about the weather?"

"Fortunately."

"With more people at home, are you adapting?"

"good."

"Do you get along with them?"

"……good."

"Oh."

"Ah."

"I've almost laid the groundwork." Wan Chuncao changed the subject: "So it's almost time to talk to me, right?"

Xu Muyu didn't expect her to change her mind so quickly.

It wasn't that Wan Chuncao spoke quickly, but she had been waiting for Xu Muyu to speak first: "I told you, we can talk about anything between us."

“No matter how many times you forget, I will remind you.”

Xu Muyu was stunned. She had said that, several times.

The lights in the room were off and it was pitch black. Xu Muyu could neither see nor touch anything.

In this room, the only person he could hear and feel was her.

They were the only ones in the room.

Wan Chuncao looked at the dark roof and said, "So, do you want to talk to me?"

"..."

Xu Muyu placed his hands under the quilt, clenched them quietly, and then let go quietly.

"What is your relationship with Chen She?" he asked.

As soon as he asked, he heard a knowing smile coming from the darkness.

"Before I answer your question, I want to say something."

Wan Chuncao said, "First of all, I didn't wipe your sweat in front of Chen She and the others today because I was afraid that you would feel embarrassed in front of outsiders, not that I didn't want to do it. The same goes for not feeding you water. I didn't peel off the candy wrapper for you because I was afraid that you didn't like candy and would be embarrassed to let me peel it for you. I didn't give you more candy after you ate it because I was afraid that you would get sick of it if you ate too much. Why didn't I talk to you after I came back after I went out? It's because I felt sorry for you. And why did I pour water for Chen She and give him candy? It's because I treated him as a guest, and I think I should still maintain basic courtesy when treating guests. Why do you feel that I treat you differently? It's because I don't treat you differently at all. You and I are a family, and a family doesn't need so much unnecessary courtesy."

Wan Chuncao finished this long paragraph in one breath without even taking a breath.

She spoke very quickly, and Xu Muyu could hear her very clearly, and it became clearer and clearer.

"Then you ask me what my relationship with him is."

Wan Chuncao answered Xu Muyu's question: "We are good friends."

She said, "I told you once before, and I don't mind saying it a second time."

"He and I grew up together. We are the same age and neighbors, so we have the same social circles and topics to talk about. Therefore, we have a good relationship, which has continued to this day."

"Of course, until now, we have not crossed the line of being good friends. We have only chatted verbally and have never done anything more intimate."

"That is to say, before I married you, I had never done anything inappropriate with him."

"Even less after I married you."

She was so sure that Xu Muyu's ears were burning: "Before and after marriage, you are the only man I have."