Heartthrob, Your Image is Crumbling!

Chapter 376: Laying Cards on the Table with Su Qing

Zhou Yuwen didn't drive today, so Su Qing first drove Pan Min home before driving him back to his place.On the way home from the shopping mall, Su Qing looked completely miserable as she drove.

Zhou Yuwen knew why she was upset, so he tried to coax her from the front passenger seat, saying, "Alright, stop being so unhappy."

"That old man was just talking nonsense. I can't believe you actually bought into that."

As Zhou Yuwen spoke, he reached out to tease her a little, only to be rejected. She let out a coquettish whine and complained, "Save it. For anyone else, it might be fake, but for you? Who knows?"

Zhou Yuwen countered, "He also said Aunt Pan has one son and one daughter. How many children does Aunt Pan have? Don't you know?"

At this time, Pan Min was still sitting in the back seat. Seeing her daughter so angry, she couldn't understand it. Previously, Pan Min hadn't really understood Zhou Yuwen, and there had been many misunderstandings between them.

However, after today's interactions, Pan Min felt that Zhou Yuwen was truly a very good young man who deeply loved her daughter. Su Qing really didn't need to get angry over such a trivial matter.

"If he said Yuwen would have two or three children in the future, or if you said Yuwen was going to marry some other girl, I could understand. But what he said was just too exaggerated. Twenty-one? Xiao Qing, there's no need to lose your temper at Yuwen over something like this, right?" Pan Min took the initiative to speak up for Zhou Yuwen.

Su Qing, however, remained silent after hearing this. 'It might be impossible for anyone else,' she thought.

'But with Zhou Yuwen, it just might be possible!'

Seeing her daughter stay quiet, Pan Min added, "Besides, that person just said I have one son and one daughter. Could it be that I'm hiding another child from you?"

"Exactly," Zhou Yuwen chimed in.

But Su Qing retorted bluntly, "That's completely different, okay!? Who knows, maybe you'll remarry in the future, Mom. Having another one isn't impossible."

"What nonsense are you sprouting!?" Despite her age, Pan Min still had a bit of a young girl's bashfulness.

Hearing this, a blush involuntarily surfaced on her face. She scolded gently, "How old am I already? Remarrying at this age?"

"Exactly. Xiao Qing, you're being a bit unreasonable. Don't we know what Aunt Pan will be like in the future? Or are you secretly planning to find someone else for Aunt Pan?"

Zhou Yuwen tapped Su Qing's forehead gently, thinking to himself, 'We both experienced a rebirth, okay? Ten years passed in our previous life, and didn't Aunt Pan still live completely alone?'

'Now that we've returned through rebirth, as long as we don't interfere, how could Aunt Pan possibly remarry and have a child?'

'Or are you planning to interfere?'

Su Qing just let out another coquettish whine, thinking to herself, 'I don't have the free time for that.'

However, she had genuinely taken the fortune-telling old man's words to heart. Why did he say everyone else would have one or two, or three or four? Yet when it came to Zhou Yuwen, it was suddenly twenty-one?

The problem was that Zhou Yuwen himself wasn't exactly honest when it came to women!

The more she thought about it, the more unreliable Su Qing felt it all was.

'If I really can't change Zhou Yuwen's bad habit of being a playboy,' she thought, 'then at the very least, I must ensure that my child with him is born first!'

The car arrived at Su Qing's home first. Pan Min got out, and as she left, she advised them to just park the car over at Yuwen's place.

"You can take a taxi back later. We don't have anywhere to park downstairs anyway."

Su Qing didn't take these words to heart and just stepped on the gas to drive away.

On the way, Su Qing continued to wage a cold war with Zhou Yuwen.

However, now that Pan Min was no longer there, Zhou Yuwen wasn't going to indulge her bad habit anymore.

Since she refused to speak, she could just focus on driving. Zhou Yuwen simply lowered his head and started playing on his phone.

It was only a ten-minute drive from her house to his. The car soon pulled up and stopped in front of Zhou Yuwen's home.

Zhou Yuwen looked up. "Oh, we're here? Then I'll head out first."

"Are you just going to leave like this?" Su Qing puffed out her cheeks.

Girls were just like this; spoil them a little, and they would push for more. She hadn't realized that his earlier behavior was merely him giving her face because Pan Min was present.

Seeing her puffed-up, angry look.

Zhou Yuwen acted completely casually. He caressed Su Qing's thigh and said, "Alright, stop being angry. The fortune teller was just spouting nonsense."

"Zhou Yuwen, you know perfectly well in your heart whether it was nonsense or not."

Su Qing immediately went on the offensive. She declared that while twenty-one children might be an exaggeration, if he kept playing around like this, who knew how many children he would have with Zheng Yanyan and the others. She absolutely would not allow it!

Zhou Yuwen laughed upon hearing this. "And what right do you have to forbid it, my dear Miss Su?"

"I!"

Just as Su Qing was about to speak, Zhou Yuwen cut in, "You should remember, we are just ordinary friends."

Su Qing froze. But thinking about it carefully, it seemed that was actually true. Even though they had been intimate, they hadn't established that they were boyfriend and girlfriend beforehand, had they?

It was just that Zhou Yuwen had been indulging her so much these past two days that she started feeling overly confident again.

Now, being cut off by him like this, to be honest, it felt a little terrible.

But what could she do?

Once, a sincere marriage had been placed right in front of her, but she hadn't cherished it.

Now, she was the one who had constantly badgered him to unlock a lock. Zhou Yuwen had obliged, and he had even bought her a car, a house, and helped take care of her mother.

Zhou Yuwen could be considered to have done everything humanly possible, right?

"Looking at your expression, you've figured it out, right? I'm heading back first. I'll come find you guys tomorrow morning so we can go look at the house. Alright, why are you overthinking this? Who knows if it's true or false regarding how many children I'll have."

"But I'll definitely give you that one son and one daughter, so why are you making such a fuss?"

After saying this, Zhou Yuwen patted Su Qing's thigh. He threw out a final, "I'm leaving," before stepping out of the car.

Seeing Zhou Yuwen act so clear-headed and cold, a wave of feeling wronged washed over Su Qing. But watching him actually about to walk away...

She couldn't bear it. Unable to hold back, she got out of the car and called out his name.

Zhou Yuwen turned his head, asking if she needed something else.

Without saying a single word, Su Qing threw herself forward and embraced him tightly.

Faced with her throwing herself willingly into his arms.

Zhou Yuwen naturally accepted it.

He watched her bury her head against his chest. When she lifted her face again, her eyes were completely red, looking incredibly pitiful and endearing. Zhou Yuwen immediately softened his voice, "Everything was fine, why are you crying?"

"Who bullied you this time? My good baby, stop crying, okay?"

The streetlights in the residential area cast the cool glow of incandescent light, and the surrounding environment wasn't particularly nice. Su Qing simply clung to Zhou Yuwen tightly under the lamp, while Zhou Yuwen wrapped his arms around her slender waist, gently swaying and coaxing her.

Choked with sobs, Su Qing complained about him, crying that he was mean and no longer willing to coax her at all.

"Do you think I don't know he was making things up? All I wanted was to see your attitude." Su Qing bit her lower lip, her face entirely filled with feeling wronged.

Zhou Yuwen smiled with a look of pure innocence, "But I did coax you, my dear rich young lady."

"When Aunt Pan was there, didn't I coax you the entire way? The car, the house—aren't those all my ways of coaxing you? Did we have these kinds of conditions in the past?"

"Is that what I really want?" Su Qing continued to pout.

Zhou Yuwen replied, "Then I really don't know what to do anymore."

The two fell into another bout of silence.

Seeing that Su Qing wasn't speaking, Zhou Yuwen eventually tightened his hold on her and took the initiative to whisper in her ear, "Baby, you should know."

"No matter how many women I have in the future, your place in my heart is completely different. The others are just passing flings, but what you and I share is real. In our previous life, you were able to tolerate me messing around with other female university students. So why can't you allow the existence of other women now?"

Zhou Yuwen was speaking the truth. With other girls, he could hide things and weave a few lies, but considering how far his relationship with Su Qing had progressed, there was genuinely no need to hide anything from her.

Their feelings for each other were the most unique. He couldn't exactly play the pure love game with Su Qing, right? So he just told her the honest truth.

'I truly treat you and your mother as family, and I will definitely take full responsibility for both of you until the end.'

'But I certainly can't be responsible solely for you.'

"Yanyan and I have already crossed that line. It's completely impossible for me to just abandon her."

Zhou Yuwen kept his head lowered, muttering softly like this. Su Qing listened in muffled silence. Although she wanted to retort, she couldn't find a valid reason to do so.

In their previous life, she had indeed caught Zhou Yuwen in bed at home with other female university students.

But they had been divorced at that time!

Su Qing voiced this exact point out loud.

Zhou Yuwen's defense was even simpler. He pointed out that back then, they were at least divorced. But right now, they weren't even married to begin with. So if he had something going on with other women, was it illegal?

Well... it didn't seem to be illegal.

Su Qing's brain tied itself into a knot for a second. Thinking about it seriously, it seemed he was right.

Zhou Yuwen hugged her again and said, "So you see, you don't actually care if I sleep with other girls. Furthermore, you truly like me, and I truly love you. So why can't we just be together like this?"

Su Qing kept her head bowed, lost in thought, and didn't speak.

Zhou Yuwen asked her what she was thinking.

"Wife."

Zhou Yuwen called her "wife" as he nibbled on her ear and gently blew air into it. Su Qing's ears were quite sensitive. Whenever Zhou Yuwen was doing that with her, he loved to bite her ears, making her body go completely soft every time as she murmured softly.

Being dealt with so quick and efficient, Su Qing instantly felt her legs go weak. She melted into Zhou Yuwen's arms, snuggling against his chest with a bright red face. Though her voice had already grown soft, she still stubbornly stammered, "D-don't... don't try to coax me."

Under the light, Su Qing's small mouth was slightly parted, her eyes reflecting a glistening sheen. She truly looked incredibly appetizing. Zhou Yuwen found it secretly amusing. He asked, "Just tell me, are you going to let me coax you or not?"

"Hmph!" Su Qing pouted her small lips, neither confirming nor denying, though her demeanor suggested she had already silently agreed.

Zhou Yuwen certainly wasn't going to hold back. He simply lowered his head and captured her lips in a kiss.

The two shared another passionate kiss under the streetlamp.

With this, Su Qing was thoroughly conquered.

After all, in this lifetime, Su Qing had only just experienced intimacy for the first time. Since Zhou Yuwen had taken such good care of her during her first experience, she was naturally a bit captivated and longing for more.

Held firmly in Zhou Yuwen's embrace, Su Qing resembled a tipsy little girl, barely able to stand steady. She blinked her eyes and whispered to him, "I can't control you if you want to have other women."

"But I need you to promise me one thing."

"What is it?" Zhou Yuwen asked with a smile.

Su Qing demanded, "No matter how many women you have in the future, I must be your favorite! You have to marry me eventually!"

Zhou Yuwen immediately agreed, "Of course! You've always been my favorite baby!"

"As for marriage! That's a matter of course!"

"Hmph!" Su Qing gave a pout.

Zhou Yuwen chuckled softly and kissed her sweet lips once more.

Zhou Yuwen felt that neither of these two conditions was difficult. For the first one, he didn't really take it seriously anyway.

As for the second, Zhou Yuwen would indeed marry Su Qing. But in the future, once he had the means, he intended to marry every single one of his girls. That was the only true way to take responsibility for them.

However, one thing was absolutely true: Su Qing did hold a special place in Zhou Yuwen's heart. No matter what happened between them in the future, Zhou Yuwen would provide for both her and her mother for the rest of their lives.

The two kissed under the light for a while longer. Su Qing, arms wrapped around Zhou Yuwen's waist and head resting on his shoulder, murmured in a dazed tone, "Hubby, I want it again."

"So weak-willed already? What do you want?"

The two simply stood in this deserted area, sharing intimate whispers.

"So annoying!" Su Qing's pretty face flushed.

Zhou Yuwen teased, "Hurry up and say what you want. How am I supposed to know if you don't tell me?"

"You!"

Su Qing was genuinely embarrassed, but Zhou Yuwen was acting incredibly wicked, insisting that she say it out loud.

They were locked in an embrace right now, which meant certain parts of their bodies were pressed tightly against each other, separated only by layers of clothing. Su Qing could distinctly feel Zhou Yuwen's passion, making her face turn even redder. Although she was deeply flustered, she lightly bit her lower lip, hesitated for a moment, and still murmured, "I want hubby's..."

Before she could even finish her sentence, the large, heavy iron gate that had been shut tight suddenly opened.

Zhou Yuwen's mother, Yang Lirong, appeared, as if she happened to open the door at the exact moment to see Zhou Yuwen and Su Qing embracing right on their doorstep.

The embracing pair naturally sprang apart in an instant.

However, the awkwardness was absolutely unbearable. Su Qing's face turned as red as a tomato as she lowered her head and stammered out, "Auntie."

"Oh."

It took Yang Lirong a long time to snap out of her daze. She asked, "Why are you two just standing around at the door? Come inside and sit!"

"No need, no need!"

Su Qing hurriedly waved her hands in refusal. She said, "Auntie, it's getting quite late, so I'll be heading home now. You should rest early too."

After saying this, she waved at Zhou Yuwen to signal that she was leaving first.

Zhou Yuwen nodded, promising to come find her tomorrow.

Yang Lirong was still being polite behind her, asking, "Why are you leaving so soon?"

"Hurry inside and sit!"

It wasn't until Su Qing, the blush on her face still unfaded, drove off as if escaping.

While Su Qing was driving away, Yang Lirong maintained a warm smile on her face, waving her hand.

Only after Su Qing had left did Yang Lirong suddenly say, "That little white car is really pretty. It's a new car, isn't it?"

"Ah, yeah, it is," Zhou Yuwen replied.

"So pretty. I'm almost fifty, and I've never even driven a sedan like that."

Hearing this, Zhou Yuwen suddenly felt that something was off. He took another look at his old mother's eyes.

"Ahem, well, Mom, I'm pretty tired. I'm going to go in and sleep first."

Saying that, Zhou Yuwen planned to just slip away.

"Did I tell you that you could leave?"

"..."

And so, just like that, Zhou Yuwen was dragged by his mother into a significant and meaningful family meeting.

This meeting was so serious that even Zhou Guobin, who was in the study room playing Fight the Landlord, was called out.

The most important part was that Zhou Guobin carelessly remarked, "Isn't it just buying a car? He earned the money himself, so what's the big deal?"