Sweet Wife Arrives: Mr. CEO, Please Pamper Me-Chapter 859 - 698: Love Crosses Thousands of Mountains and Rivers, Love Is a Lifelong Obsession [45]
Just waiting to get up again...
At about five in the afternoon, Qiu Mingyan came out of the room, adjusting his clothes, and met Feng Chengjin’s gaze — Feng Chengjin didn’t seem very friendly.
Feng Chengjin’s mood, all afternoon was: "..." along with "@@**&&".
But...what could he say?
The matchmaker who personally encouraged it, even if he wanted to grit his teeth, could only swallow it himself?
During their eye contact, Qiu Mingyan saw the excessively dark pupils of Feng Chengjin, but couldn’t quite understand what he was thinking.
"Brother Feng, are you hungry?"
Not knowing the situation, Qiu Mingyan could only look at the time and rashly guess Feng Chengjin’s mood.
Upon hearing this, Feng Chengjin almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
He had to admire his new "brother-in-law’s" ability to hit the mark, but Feng Chengjin couldn’t say anything.
He could only take a drag from his cigarette, respond with a heavy "Hmm", and let this dreary afternoon pass.
Qiu Mingyan didn’t think much of it, hearing Feng Chengjin’s answer, he smiled and said, "Alright, I’ll make dinner," and went into the kitchen.
Behind him, Feng Chengjin, hearing his response, became even more depressed and couldn’t speak for a while.
So, at eleven, Feng Chengjin held back.
At twelve, Feng Chengjin held back.
That night, Feng Chengjin sat up straight, scrolling through his phone, looking at the photos of his wife, reluctant to wake her with a call, and could only make a cup of tea, control his smoking, and sulk.
This matter, extending into the second, third day, Qiu Mingyan was with Feng Chengyue, and also had to deal with the deputy steward of the Feng family. But Feng Chengjin’s expression...
On the evening of the third day, after dinner, Feng Chengjin flicked ash from between two fingers and said, "Qiu Mingyan, let’s talk."
Qiu Mingyan knew that lately Feng Chengjin had been intermittently helping him deal with village affairs. To be honest, for Feng Chengjin’s way of handling things, Qiu Mingyan genuinely felt there was a lot to learn; he had to admire this man with such high emotional and intellectual intelligence.
But he also knew that Feng Chengjin couldn’t stay around forever, and now calling him to talk, it should be about leaving, right?
He nodded, "Alright."
Qiu Mingyan, after everyone else had left the table and washed the pots and dishes, returned to Feng Chengjin’s side.
The night-time Feng Chengjin still looked very dignified.
But when Feng Chengjin’s first words came out—
"Qiu Mingyan, would you say I’ve been good to you?"
Qiu Mingyan was stunned, especially with Feng Chengjin’s faint, weak tone, but given the current situation, he should call him Brother Feng, nodded, and said, "Very good."
Feng Chengjin raised his eyes coldly, "I’m just staying at your place for the last night. Tonight, can you not repay kindness with injury?"
In an instant—
Qiu Mingyan’s mood went from puzzled, to shocked, to stunned, then to sudden realization...
Ten seconds later, realizing something, blushing, he also burst into laughter.
Feng Chengjin’s face turned dark instantly, "What are you laughing at? Is this how a brother-in-law should behave?"
The acknowledgment of "brother-in-law" deeply moved Qiu Mingyan.
But recalling the times he personally witnessed the countless arguments between Feng Chengjin and Yu Yuanshen, he knew too well Feng Chengjin’s temperament.
At this moment, also amused by Feng Chengjin, he laughed more...
Shaking his shoulders, Qiu Mingyan tried hard to hold it in, nodded, and said: "Okay."
Facing Qiu Mingyan, Feng Chengjin, knowing that his uncontrollable longing for Qiu Zhixuan had once again become a joke, his expression grew darker. Flicking ash, he said: "It’s not that I want to criticize you, but you really are a bit too frequent."
Qiu Mingyan laughed, "Alright, got it."
Feng Chengjin’s expression turned even more sullen, "I’m talking about you, not me."
Qiu Mingyan laughed, "Alright, understood."
Feng Chengjin’s face was livid, wanting to say something, but knowing that saying anything now was useless. Qiu Mingyan had always been a clever person, and now with an even higher IQ, he understood everything. With a gloomy face, he gloomily took a drag from his cigarette, turned away, and said nothing.
Silently, Feng Chengjin observed the man with an innate bit of "childishness" in his bones.
After a while, he slowly spoke, "Brother Feng really misses Miss Qiu, doesn’t he?"
This obviously teasing remark left Feng Chengjin stunned for three seconds before his shoulders finally relaxed.
Extinguishing the cigarette butt, Feng Chengjin looked at the distant moon, and after a long time, said: "It’s been ten years, there’s only been this one woman in my heart, what do you think?"
Thinking about everything learned two years ago, understanding how tough the love between this pair of lovers has been.
Qiu Mingyan, looking at the man in front of him with eyes as deep as the sea, felt deeply moved and, after a while, grabbed the pack of cigarettes on the table, lit one for himself, and said: "Indeed, in this world, a man can be responsible for many things, but he cannot be irresolute about his affection for a woman."
At that time, on the operating table, he watched as Feng Chengjin’s life slipped away, and after numerous failed electric shocks, he saw Feng Chengjin cross back from the brink of death only because he didn’t want to let Qiu Zhixuan down in this life, driven by the obsession of not marrying her.
Recollecting after two years, it was all shocking to Qiu Mingyan.
Feng Chengjin acknowledged Qiu Mingyan’s sentiment, considering something else, his gaze serious at this moment: "So, it’s best you understand this now. Do you know what your biggest trouble is?"
Instantly, Qiu Mingyan’s heart was steadied.
Looking into Feng Chengjin’s eyes, he asked: "Do you mean—"
Feng Chengjin nodded: "The Mai Family, the woman you got engaged to as a child, Mai Manxiang."
Afterward, Feng Chengjin shared his observations over the past few days with Qiu Mingyan.
Understanding that these past days, almost everyone in the village wanting to apologize or asking for money tried to reach out to Feng Chengjin, yet only the village secretary from the Mai family came once and never again.
Even with Mai Shilong’s return from meetings, while the entire village was immersed in the mindset of—Feng Chengjin has come, and Qiu Mingyan and Feng Chengyue must be a done deal, the Mai family remained silent...
And that Mai Manxiang, who had waited for Qiu Mingyan for so many years and even dared to approach Feng Chengyue’s matter, remained eerily quiet these days.
Feng Chengjin straightforwardly expressed the word "abnormal".
Qiu Mingyan, with a cigarette butt in hand, pondered deeply, furrowed his brows slightly: "But Uncle Mai is truly an upright person, he shouldn’t..."
Feng Chengjin smiled, interrupting, "In this world, the most complicated thing is human nature. A bad person can become good if they stand on the right side, and a good person might change to fit their stance; be wary, based on my intuition, the Mai family won’t let this rest..."
