If You Could Hear My Heart

Chapter 448: Chapter 448: Earning Milk Powder Money
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“In this world, who could be more beautiful or more cultured than you?” Shen Chi laughed.

He watched her, never tiring of looking at this girl.

She was lovely when she was angry, and just as lovely when she wasn’t. It turned out that when you truly love someone, every smile, every frown, every chuckle, every burst of anger is the best, endlessly fascinating.

In fact, wasn’t he the luckiest man? From now on, she could always stay by his side.

“Are you trying to flatter me?” Xu Chaomu said with a pout.

“No, I am simply stating a very correct fact,” Shen Chi replied with utmost seriousness.

“Save your sweet talk for the young girls; I won’t fall for that,” she retorted.

“My sweet talk is reserved for you for a lifetime. Are you prepared to hear me nag for a lifetime?” Shen Chi raised an eyebrow.

He gazed at her, and while it seemed to affect him little, Xu Chaomu’s face flushed slightly.

It was a fleeting blush that returned to normal almost instantly.

But even in that brief moment, he caught it.

He liked her like this, blooming quietly like a red lotus.

The smile at the corner of his mouth deepened.

Xu Chaomu lowered her eyelids; she really couldn’t resist this man’s sweet talk.

How pathetic.

Just moments ago, she was all bold talk, resolving not to bother with him, not to talk to him, to show him what’s what.

And now, with just a bit of his tenderness, she had fallen for it.

How pathetic she was.

“Pathetic Xu Chaomu,” she scolded herself secretly in her heart and pinched her thigh, trying to snap herself out of it.

“Shen Chi, weren’t you quite fierce when you just came back? Why aren’t you continuing to be fierce?” Xu Chaomu pouted, truly.

If he was a bit more fierce, she could have retorted, but she found herself unaccustomed to his gentleness.

“Do you like it a bit fierce?” he asked.

“No, it’s not that…”

“Then, Xu Chaomu, listen to me, in this lifetime, you can only belong to me. If you’re unhappy, I’m here to cheer you up. If someone bullies you, I’m here to stand up for you. Do you understand?” he declared dominantly.

Such commanding words, coming from Shen Chi, sounded surprisingly normal and not awkward at all.

Xu Chaomu, on the other hand, smiled.

“Shen Chi…” she looked into his eyes, “Right now, the person bullying me the most is you.”

“That’s because…”

“Hmm?” Xu Chaomu waited for him to continue.

Instead, Shen Chi picked up a fish ball with his chopsticks and popped it into her mouth, saying lightly, “I love you.”

Before she could speak, he continued to feed her.

Xu Chaomu ate and ate, and just as Shen Chi picked up some greens with his chopsticks, she finally stopped him, her eyes twinkling with mirth, “What did you just say?”

“Eat more,” he responded.

“No, those three words you just said?”

“Eat more!”

“Come on, Shen Chi, don’t be a coward. Say it again if you dare.”

“Hmm?”

“If you dare… mmph…”

Xu Chaomu’s mouth was stuffed with delicious food by Shen Chi, who then conveniently refrained from repeating his words.

Really, such a coward; it’s not like saying it again would get her pregnant.

The meal consisted of Shen Chi feeding, and Xu Chaomu eating.

“Shen Chi, I have hands; I can do it myself!” Xu Chaomu protested.

“Just now, the butler said that women should be cherished,” he replied.

“The butler also said you should apologize,” she reminded him.

“Did I commit domestic violence?” Shen Chi asked her with a serious face.

“Uh…” Xu Chaomu faltered.

Now, she couldn’t face the term ‘domestic violence’ anymore; previously, the term was a purely derogative phrase, but ever since Shen Chi, that scoundrel, had used it, it took on a whole different connotation.

“If you want domestic violence, just say so. Your husband will be obedient and satisfy any… hard request,” he said, then embraced Xu Chaomu around the waist.

For the moment, all he could do was to hug her waist. Anything else, no matter how much he wanted to, was out of the question.

Consider it looking forward to something out of reach.

“Shameless, you better disappear for a few days.”

“Hmm, will you miss me?”

“I’ll miss… as if,” Xu Chaomu looked away.

“Eat up!” Shen Chi feigned annoyance and continued feeding her.

Halfway through the meal, butler Manman became apprehensive about the couple’s dynamics and specifically came over pretending to add dishes.

She was worried these two might start quarreling again. If Shen Chi managed to drive Xu Chaomu away in his stubbornness, what would they do?

To her surprise, upon opening the door, she found Shen Chi feeding Xu Chaomu.

Butler Manman blushed, covered her head, and asked in a whisper, “Young Master, Chaomu, would you like more dishes?”

“No need,” Shen Chi answered indifferently.

“Alright,” butler Manman quickly left and closed the door behind her.

Her worries were evidently redundant. It seemed that the Young Master’s stubbornness had long been set aside.

Once the door closed, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Xu Chaomu blushed with embarrassment as soon as butler Manman entered. She really didn’t want Shen Chi to feed her…

Struggling through the meal, Shen Chi then went to serve her soup.

The soup of the day from butler Manman was corn and goji berry with rib soup, and Shen Chi filled a bowl to the brim for her.

Of course, the bone soup was very nutritious, and he didn’t know why he felt the need to be so good to this child.

After all, this child wasn’t his. She had even said she wouldn’t have his children.

He knew that if she truly didn’t want to bear his children, he couldn’t force her.

He only hoped it was a spur-of-the-moment sentiment because he loved her and wanted her to give birth to a child for him.

Whether a boy or a girl, he yearned for a child born of her.

He would treat her well, and the child too.

If, if she truly didn’t want to, then he would love the child she was carrying now as his own.

He loved her, including everything about her.

Seizing the moment while he was getting the soup, she spoke up, her tone lukewarm and indifferent, “Do you really plan to disappear for a few days right in front of me?”

“What, can’t bear to let me go?” he smirked.

“No, I was just wondering, why only a few days? Why not a few dozen days? A hundred days? Or even a year, two years, N years?”

“Then who would earn the money for our baby’s milk powder?”

“Alright, alright, for the sake of earning milk powder money for our baby, come back early,” Xu Chaomu pouted, feigning indifference.

“Don’t worry,” he touched her head, his eyes full of doting affection, “it’s nothing.”

“How can you tell I’m worried?” Xu Chaomu lowered her head, scoffing.

Shen Chi laughed, placed the bowl in front of her, and stirred the rib soup with a spoon.

After a silence, Xu Chaomu finally lifted her head, “What are you going to do?”

“There’s a closed-door meeting at the company that requires my presence, so I probably won’t be able to come back these days,” he explained.

“Really?”

Xu Chaomu’s face showed concern, though she tried to sound nonchalant.

She always called him pretentious to butler Manman, but truth be told, after knowing him for so many years, she too had picked up a bit of his haughtiness.

“Yeah,” Shen Chi confirmed.

The meeting wasn’t the only reason; he planned to personally check the cargo at the docks.

That visit to the docks would undoubtedly involve danger, and he didn’t want her to worry.