Chapter 11

Coming to the bathroom, Wang Weixi remained smiling. He washed clothes for Chen Kexin, while imagining how distressed she was in the moment. Thinking of her face full of bitterness, he couldn’t help laughing.

Humming the song “My Deskmate” in a good mood, he was waiting for Chen Kexin to give in. When the time came, he could teach her by the hand, make a qualified housewife of her and make her admire him.

Finishing washing, Wang Weixi put the clothes in the tumbling-box to dry them off. He then got the clothes out, got out of the bathroom and went to the balcony with hangers. As he was walking, he heard a crackling sound and froze there. It was followed by Chen Kexin’s dramatic scream.

Wang Weixi put down the basin hastily and rushed to the kitchen from the bathroom while shouting, “Honey, what’s the matter?”

However, he just saw Chen Kexin’s innocent face and two bowls broken into pieces on the floor. Wang Weixi stared at Chen Kexin with his head tilted and a dull look in his eyes.

“Honey… the bowls…” Chen Kexin pointed at the bowls on the floor and said ruefully.

Wang Weixi covered his face with a hand helplessly and said gloomily, “I saw.” He mourned for his bowls.

Chen Kexin came up to Wang Weixi on tiptoe, pulled down his hand in front of his face and shook his arm. She said coyly, “Honey, don’t get angry with me. I’ll buy you a new bowl later, okay?”

Wang Weixi shook his head and said with a forced smile, “It’s not a big deal. I won’t get angry.” “Yeah, I just feel sorry for my broken bowls. Each of them is worth fifty yuan…” He thought.

He was in sorrow.

“It’s my fault. I’m so clumsy… Honey, It’s my fault. I’ll clean it now,” Chen Kexin said. She then turned around to get the broom.

Wang Weixi stopped her immediately. He said, “You don’t need to do that, silly girl. I blame myself for not teaching you before because it’s your first time doing this. It’s okay only if you didn’t get hurt. Well, just leave everything to me and go to play on the computer.” Now Wang Weixi was not in the mood to teach Chen Kexin. She was so clumsy that she would probably get hurt by the broken pieces.

Chen Kexin said with a guilty face, “No, honey, I’ll clean them with you.”

Wang Weixi said helplessly, “You don’t need to, indeed.”

“I want to do it! Honey, do you think I’m extremely useless, so you even don’t want to clean them with me?” Somehow Chen Kexin got serious.

Wang Weixi was in a daze. Watching Chen Kexin who was angry, he realized that he was a bit impatient just now. So he apologized instantly, “Honey, I didn’t mean that. I’m just afraid that you will get hurt by the broken pieces. What’s more, you wear a dress and high heels. It’s inconvenient for you to do the cleaning, right?”

Chen Kexin remained upset. She folded her hands and rubbed one index finger with the other. After a few minutes of silence, she raised her head and said discreetly, “I’ll wash the dishes after lunch to make up for my fault, okay?”

Wang Weixi wanted to refuse at first. However, at the sight of Chen Kexin’s resolute face, he instantly took back what he was about to say. He nodded and said, “Okay, since you have such a strong sense of righteousness, I will consent to your request.”

On hearing that, Chen Kexin looked more soothed. She nodded and said, “That’s better. I’ll go to the bedroom to watch cartoon. Bye, honey!”

Wang Weixi nodded. Watching Chen Kexin walking into the bedroom, he felt relieved. He slapped himself and cursed, “Wang Weixi, what you did is looking for trouble!” It was amusing that he thought it was a good idea to punish Chen Kexin! He shook his head, walked to the broken bowls and bent down to clean them carefully.

Finishing cleaning, Wang Weixi turned around. At the sight of the sink, his face froze again.

Wang Weixi forgot that Chen Kexin had left everything to him. Now he watched the leftover scrambled eggs silently lying in the sink which was full of water, looking distressed.

At this moment, he felt the misery of watching bodies all over. “I should make fried eggs tomorrow…” Wang Weixi thought with a sigh. He brought the trash can and began to clean gloomily.

Finishing cleaning, Wang Weixi opened the refrigerator and found there was little food left. He went to the bathroom to dry the clothes and then left with his purse after telling Chen Kexin.

It was just nine o’clock in the morning. There were numerous wedding limousines going past because it was during the National Day holiday. Standing on the sidewalk, Wang Weixi missed his wedding day a bit.

“Hey, Wang Weixi, you have a car now. Why do you still walk here?” Suddenly Yi Duanfang, who appeared and disappeared mysteriously, stood behind Wang Weixi.

Wang Weixi turned around and glared at Yi Duanfang, who was grinning. He said listlessly, “I’m not used to driving.”

Yi Duanfang teased with his arm on Wang Weixi’s shoulder. “Really? Why do you seem so tired? Where are you going?” Glancing at the supermarket across the street, Yi Duanfang continued saying with a grin, “You are going to the supermarket, aren’t you?”

As the traffic light turned green, Wang Weixi pushed off Yi Duanfang’s arm and walked across the street. Yi Duanfang just followed him, whistling with great enjoyment.

“Are you so idle? I heard the company had assigned a big project to you. Why don’t you take this chance to behave yourself? Try to conceive some ideas in your spare time!” Wang Weixi walked while saying to Yi Duanfang walking casually behind him.

Yi Duanfang waved his hand and said, “There’s nothing to conceive. I got so many ideas that I just need to pick one from them. I don’t need to waste a lot of time conceiving ideas. As to you, since you’ve been married, don’t you intend to get promotion?” Speaking of this, Yi Duanfang finally got a little serious.

Walking into the supermarket, Wang Weixi instantly found that several cashiers were looking at him with a strange eye. Or to be exact, they were looking at the one behind him with a strange eye. He didn’t actually mind that, because he had got used to people’s strange eyes. After all, the sissy behind him wore an outrageous outfit today, and his blond hair was hideously dazzling.

Walking the shopping cart to the vegetable shelf, Wang Weixi selected various vegetables carefully while talking to Yi Duanfang, “Unlike you, I’m not so eloquent without inherent design talent. I don’t have powerful connections like other either. How can I get a promotion? If I can, do you think that I would just work as a design assistant now?” Taking two cabbages, Wang Weixi turned around and walked to the next vegetable shelf. He talked with little grievance. It seemed that he had gotten used to the situation.

“That’s the previous situation. Now you have a father-in-law who is influential around the city. Besides, you are pretty capable. If it were not for the shameless guy who has powerful connections, you would have been promoted to the chief designer like me a long time ago, okay? But it doesn’t matter now. I guess that you will get a promotion after the holiday.” He continued saying with confidence on his face.

However, Wang Weixi just pretended that he heard nothing. He selected some tomatoes and cucumbers and put them in the cart. It was shameful for him to get a promotion with the help of his father-in-law.

“Ah, Wang Weixi, why can’t you get it!” Yi Duanfang couldn’t bear being ignored by Wang Weixi, so he blocked Wang Weixi’s way and said in exasperation.

Staring at Yi Duanfang, who was disappointed with him, Wang Weixi patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, “I know you want to help me, but it’s something still up in the air. You want me to just ask the boss out for having tea or shopping? What’s more, both of us have always hated those who get a promotion with the connections. Isn’t it a joke if I do that as well? I don’t think it something cheerful.”

Yi Duanfang instantly said with his hands on his waist, “You are capable, right? You just show your talent on the platform offered by your father-in-law, what’s the problem of that?”

Wang Weixi shook his head. Walking the cart to the fruit shelf, he remembered that Chen Kexin liked strawberry, so he took several boxes of strawberry with an irresistible smile.

Looking at Wang Weixi, who seemed not interested, Yi Duanfang could do nothing but shake his head and say, “You are so… incurable.”

Wang Weixi said nothing but just smiled and walked the cart to meat stall.

When Wang Weixi was hesitating about what to buy, Yi Duanfang leaned in, pointed at the mutton and said, “I want to have the mutton soup made by you.”

Wang Weixi glared at him and said, “You’ll come to my house for another free meal?” Despite his words, he turned around to get several kilograms of mutton.

Yi Duanfang clapped in delight and said to Wang Weixi with adoration, “Honey, you are so sweet.”

On hearing that, Wang Weixi’s face froze instantly, while the guy at the stall stopped cutting meat. Besides, some customers froze there, staring at Wang Weixi and Yi Duanfang with fixed eyes and amazement.

What was worse, without noticing that, Yi Duanfang added, “Ah, I like the mutton soup made by you the most!”

At the moment, Wang Weixi really wanted to find a crack to squeeze into. Seeing people around talking about them, Wang Weixi took the meat in a hurry and left with Yi Duanfang who was clueless about what was happening. They left after Wang Weixi swiftly paid at the checkout counter.

Yi Duanfang, whose head was full of the mutton soup, was pulled out of the supermarket by Wang Weixi like that.

As they got out of the supermarket, Wang Weixi knocked on Yi Duanfang’s head and said viciously, “Yi Duanfang, would it kill you to stop talking like that!”

Yi Duanfang blinked his big eyes, showed an innocent face like Chen Kexin and said coyly, “What’s wrong with me?”

Although Yi Duanfang had an amazing face which was comparable to that of a woman, outstandingly delicate features and faultlessly smooth skin, he was actually a man no matter how pretty he was, unless he was a eunuch. Thus, when Wang Weixi saw him acting cute, he felt the urge to stab him with a knife.

However, with many people around, Wang Weixi just clenched his fists, leaned Yi Duanfang’s ear and said, “Bastard, just act normal.” He then walked across the street in a crowd and went back home. Yi Duanfang walking behind him kept talking, but he just pretended that he heard nothing and kept walking.

Today Wang Weixi realized that the saying “Go your own way and let others talk” was nonsense. It was painful torture which normal people couldn’t bear.