The CEO's Substitute Wife Is A Genius-Chapter 373: Jiang Man, Shall We Have a Child?

Jiang Man hadn’t expected him to suddenly ask this question.

It wasn’t at all like his style or personality.

"The agreement was torn up by you, wasn’t it?"

"I just tore up my copy, there are two copies, yours is still there."

"Pfft." Jiang Man couldn’t help but laugh.

It seemed that President Lu was fixated on the marriage agreement in her hands.

"I won’t give it to you." She deliberately teased him.

Lu Xingzhou didn’t get angry but spoke with a playful tone, "Sooner or later, I’ll steal it and tear it up."

"Haha!" Jiang Man burst into laughter, her mood significantly brightened.

"Lu Xingzhou, you fool."

She couldn’t stop laughing.

Lu Xingzhou, however, watched her calmly, his eyes brimming with indulgence.

He was willing to be her fool, the lifelong kind.

"You’re the clever one, it’s okay if I’m a bit foolish," he quipped.

Jiang Man, who had grown up abroad, wasn’t familiar with all the internet slang in China.

But she did understand the meme ’big clever one,’ and Lu Xingzhou was definitely calling her out.

"Perfect, a clever one paired with a fool, a match made in heaven."

Laughter and chatter filled the car, and Zhao Huai, sitting in the front row, couldn’t help but smile.

Seeing that the Boss and the Mistress’s relationship was getting better by the day, he just wondered whether they had plans to have little young masters or little princesses?

...

The Maybach arrived at Rong Mansion late at night.

Next door, Shaye had been waiting at the telescope for a long time but didn’t see what she wanted, so she barged into Wu Yingfan’s room with her doll, wanting her Fan brother to play with her for a bit.

Wu Yingfan, used to living alone, often forgot to lock his bedroom door.

Shaye walked in just as he had come out from the bath, wrapped only in a towel.

"Ah—Pervert!"

She shouted loudly, just as Jiang Man was getting out of the car, prompting her to look up at the lit second floor not far away.

"What are you two doing? Stop disturbing the peace."

She raised her voice, looking up. freёnovelkiss.com

In an instant, the second floor of the villa went silent.

"Do you think the two of them match?" Jiang Man withdrew her gaze, glancing at the man getting out of the car beside her.

Lu Xingzhou frowned, "The girl is still too young."

"In their country, she’s of legal age to marry."

"I know." Lu Xingzhou smiled faintly, walking around the car to Jiang Man’s side.

His large hand wrapped around her waist, "My opinion is, wait another two years, someone your age would be most suitable."

"Hm?" Jiang Man felt he was speaking scandalous words.

What did he mean, her age was most suitable?

Before she could react, her body was lifted horizontally, her feet dangling in the air.

"What are you doing?" Jiang Man asked, amused and unresisting, just a bit surprised.

Lu Xingzhou was very serious, his eyes filled with tenderness, "Jiang Man, let’s have a child, shall we?"

"What???" Jiang Man’s eyes widened in shock, a rare expression of astonishment on her face.

She could face death without a wrinkle in her brow, she could negotiate with Blackwater Pirates with rows of guns pointed at her without fear.

But Lu Xingzhou’s words just now made her heart race uncontrollably.

Lu Xingzhou was so serious, so earnest, his long legs striding firmly yet gently, "With our genes being so good, it’d be a pity not to have a child."

"Lu Xingzhou, I haven’t agreed yet."

"Then I’ll just have to take you by storm."

...

"Tsk." Zhao Huai stood by the car, clicking his tongue softly.

He thought the Boss had finally seen the light.

With such a perfect wife, what was there to hesitate about?

They say that the best pawn to keep a woman tied down is a child.

When madam has a child, she won’t leave easily, for the sake of giving the child a complete home.

He knew his own thoughts were sordid; the BOSS definitely didn’t see it that way.

But, no matter what the thoughts are, the final outcome was the same, leading to the same destination by different paths.

...

Upstairs in the bedroom, Lu Xingzhou held Jiang Man, placing her down gently.

Jiang Man’s face had long been flush with redness, nestled in his arms, she looked up at him, "I touched a dead body today, do you really not mind?"

"I don’t mind... didn’t you clean yourself up?" Lu Xingzhou’s eyes were deep, gazing intently at the girl before him.

He found her increasingly attractive, not just her appearance, but the deeper soul within, deeply captivating him.

"Really not taking any precautions?"

"I don’t want to," Lu Xingzhou’s voice was very low, slightly hoarse, his eyes already reddening, "But I’ll respect your wishes. If you say no, then we’ll take precautions."

"Pfft," Jiang Man couldn’t help chuckling, "All that big talk earlier was just bravado?"

"It wasn’t," Lu Xingzhou’s thumb landed on her lips, gently caressing, "The one who suffers in childbirth is you. Even though I want to have a crystallization of our love, if you don’t want it, then we won’t."

Jiang Man could see the longing at the bottom of his eyes.

"You know, I’ve always wanted a home of my own."

Although Lu Xingzhou was smiling, his bitterness was apparent.

"The old house will never truly be my home. There, I have an aunt; a second uncle and second aunt; even a sister without blood relation. These years, I’ve always been lonely."

Jiang Man listened earnestly.

"So lonely, and so tired."

His voice grew lower, his gaze burning into Jiang Man, filled with yearning.

"What about you? Have you been lonely all these years? Tired?"

The question struck her soul.

No one had ever asked her that before.

Because from a young age, her father had trained her to be strong enough.

She rarely cried, and her emotions, in comparison to others, were much less pronounced.

Even though these years Wu Yingfan had always been with her, they ultimately were different.

Wu Yingfan had grown up in a loving home since childhood, never experiencing the fragmented childhood she had.

She was strong, but behind that strength, she often closed her door to heal alone.

"How can I not be lonely?" Jiang Man smirked, her smile cold.

Since childhood, because she was too outstanding, she was often ostracized.

This ostracization wasn’t the common bullying.

It was a kind of isolated respect; people avoided her, a hidden form of ostracization.

No one dared play with her. She was too exceptional, and she had a formidable father behind her.

Everyone behaved around her as if they had seen a ghost.

Later, as she grew up and met Wu Yingfan and JOJO, the situation got a little better.

But apart from them, everyone else still dramatically kept their distance.

"The heights are too chilling; the strong have their own solitude," Lu Xingzhou smiled with his lips curved up.

This single sentence pierced Jiang Man’s inner thoughts.

She looked up, staring at the man before her.

For an instant, it felt as though their souls were in perfect harmony.

Indeed, who understands the loneliness of the strong?

He does.

"Have another child like us, lonely? That would be too pitiful."

"Then let’s have an ordinary child, who doesn’t have to be so outstanding."

"Lu Xingzhou, you’re very good at bewitching people."

"The older the ginger, the spicier it is."

"Old men have devious minds... what are you doing?" Jiang Man suddenly tilted, falling into the man’s arms, he carried her in a princess hold.

"Taking a mandarin ducks bath~"