Chapter 17：Guidance for That

Banxia glanced at him with a smile and immediately seemed to remember something. Her black and long eyelashes fluttered a few times. "I… I want to go to work recently, so I should be free. I'll have time whenever you do."

After she said this, she looked carefully at him. Would Mo Chenyan not want her to work?

She used to think that she would become a wealthy wife of a wealthy man, but now the Ye family was bankrupt. She didn't want to add another debt to this unequal marriage and wanted to become an independent woman.

It wasn't that she was unwilling to rely on him. She was just unwilling to depend on him and didn't want to live her life like that.

Speaking of which, she also had a career direction she liked.

The expected negation didn't come. Mo Chenyan just glanced at her with his deep eyes narrowed slightly. "I'm going on a business trip tomorrow. Since you are free these days, we can go back to the courtyard when I'm back."

Banxia was stunned, and at the same time, she let out a sigh of relief and asked in surprise, "You're going on a business trip tomorrow? What time?"

"In the morning."

"Oh…" Banxia nodded and thoughtfully stuffed rice into her mouth. Her white face swelled slightly as she chewed slowly. Even if she was so casual, she was still elegant.

Although she wasn't a flower vase, she was still pleasant to the eye.

Mo Chenyan chuckled slightly, withdrawing his gaze slightly from her face.

After having dinner in the evening, Mo Chenyan went to work in the study. Banxia had nothing to do. She took a tablet and looked at the resumes she had picked, and then leaned on her bed to find a movie to watch.

After about five minutes, before even seeing who the male lead was, she decisively cut it and changed to another movie.

This movie was a comedy. It was quite humorous and the acting was also good. Banxia dragged her cheek with one hand and stared at the constantly moving picture, her delicate eyebrows knitted slightly. She just couldn't laugh.

After four consecutive movie changes, she gave up.

Frustrated, Banxia stared blankly at the white ceiling, her face sullen and bashful.

The movie wasn't the problem.

Today was the second day after she and Mo Chenyan got married and was the first night for them to share the same bed. Although he had said he was going on a business trip the next morning, she really didn't know if he would advance on her tonight.

If she slept now, she could avoid it, and he probably wouldn't wake her up intentionally.

But now it was just over nine o'clock. If she went to sleep now, wouldn't her intention be too obvious? Mo Chenyan was so smart that he would surely see through her.

Banxia bit her lip slightly and hesitated.

They were already married, so she naturally wouldn't be unreasonable and say that she wouldn't do anything with him. Furthermore, she was the wife that Mo Chenyan had spent one million yuan exchanging for, so she was in no position to refuse at all.

But they had only known each other for a few days…

Sighing, she took the mobile phone that was on the bedside table and opened a contact. She sent a text message to Ling Nian.

"Nian Nian, are you asleep?"

"Why? If you're coming for guidance for that area, you also know that I have zero experience. I suggest you find some movies to watch."

She was speechless.

Banxia stared at the screen with a burning face. Ling Nian, this shameless girl.

Tossing the phone back again, Banxia looked up in frustration when the door opened and a handsome and indifferent face appeared.

She was stunned and licked her dry lips subconsciously. "You're done?"

"Yes, almost."

The man nodded and raised his hands to pull his tie and walked into the room with his slender legs. His ironed black trousers were clean and tidy under the light and his white shirt seemed to be covered with a touch of elegance.

"Are you going to take a bath? I'll pour water for you, or do you prefer to use the shower?"

Her tone was imperceptibly ill at ease. Upon careful examination, there were still unnoticeable red marks on her beautiful face.

Mo Chenyan narrowed his eyes slightly, his deep eyes congealed. "You can wash up first, I still have things to look over."

Banxia immediately got out of bed and entered the bathroom at the fastest speed.

The man behind raised his eyebrows slightly, and his cold, handsome face slackened and became softer.

…

It wasn't until the warm water was sprinkled on her body and the comfortable feeling spread to every inch of her skin that Banxia slowly relaxed.

Her heart was still beating irregularly, however.

She felt that if she stayed with Mo Chenyan for a few more days, she would have a heart problem. She was in a very tense state of mentality and would blush often and her heart would beat irregularly—this shouldn't be the signs she should be having at eighteen.

"Knock, knock…"

A rhythmic knock on the door suddenly sounded.

Banxia's body stiffened, and the foam of the shower gel was slippery and greasy on the soles of her feet, almost making her slip. Fortunately, she grabbed the transparent glass door handle in time to stabilize herself.

"What's wrong?"

Her soft voice was almost trembling. Didn't he let her wash up first? Did he suddenly change his mind and want to bathe with her?

"Look around, have you forgotten your pajamas?"

Mo Chenyan spoke lightly outside the door.

There was a set of women's pajamas on the sofa. She probably didn't need to take out two sets and just left one set on the sofa for viewing, so he expected that she had forgotten to bring it in.

Banxia angrily clutched the glass doorknob until her knuckles were pale and her skin was flushed.

"Yes, I think so. Why don't you put it…"

Before she could finish, the man said, "Then I'll come in."

The bathroom door was suddenly pushed open.

Banxia was shocked. She didn't know what to say and quickly turned around so that her back was facing the door.

Her heart was beating like a war drum.

The water vapor of the hot water was dim on the glass door, and the woman's slim and beautiful figure stood vaguely there.

Under the shower, the warm water sprinkled unscrupulously on her fair skin, winding down the beautiful curve of her back.

It was an extremely arousing scene.

Mo Chenyan's Adam's apple bobbed and his dark eyes dilated like a deep and bottomless lake. His noble body seemed alienated by a layer of shrowd that enveloped his entire body with a sense of dangerous aura.

Although Banxia didn't look back, her inexplicable seventh sense also made her feel his burning gaze at her back for a long time.

Time seemed to stagnate.