My Breathtaking CEO Wife Novel - Chapter 24
Chapter 24: Chapter 24 – Keeping A Distance
Lin Yi was extremely nervous as though she were a small child, and she didn’t know where to put both of her hands.
It was also at that moment that Li Tian saw another side of hers.
Of course, he didn’t do anything else besides putting his arm on her shoulders. If he did, Lin Yi would’ve lost it there and then.
In the end, Lin Yi listened to Li Tian and they continued walking in this manner for roughly five minutes.
Lin Yi furrowed her brows as if she was confused. She didn’t quite understand why lovers enjoyed doing this sort of thing.
However, when she felt the warmth of Li Tian’s arms wrapped around her shoulders, she slowly began to understand.
It was an indescribable sensation. Perhaps it was… what people described as a sense of security.
The couple didn’t have much to talk about, so after a few minutes had passed, they were engulfed in silence.
After a while, Lin Yi gazed forward and said, “If you plan to come home late next time, can you give Wang Ma a call? She’s not young anymore, don’t keep her up all night waiting for you.”
“Huh?”
After hearing Lin Yi’s words, Li Tian knew she was talking about last night.
As Li Tian was feeling slightly guilty, Lin Yi continued to say, “If you don’t wish to, it’s fine. I was just giving a suggestion.”
Lin Yi knew that she didn’t have any say in Li Tian’s private life, and vice versa.
After all, Li Tian was the heir of the Li family. It wasn’t a big deal to keep a maid up at night, so Lin Yi didn’t want him to think differently of her because of a small suggestion she made.
“I know. I didn’t think it through last night, and I also didn’t have Wang Ma’s phone number. I’ll apologize to her later, alright?”
Li Tian said, upon reflecting on his actions.
Not only did Li Tian agree with her, but he also promised to apologize to Wang Ma. Lin Yi thought that it was weird, as she was never someone who would personally apologize to anyone no matter how sorry she felt.
“Okay.”
Lin Yi said coldly, contrary to the emotions she felt.
He isn’t so bad after all… But why did she always feel uncomfortable with him? Perhaps she was subconsciously rejecting the thought of him?
Should I give him a chance, and at the same time, give myself a chance too?
“Tonight… you can move into my room.”
Lin Yi mustered up her courage and uttered.
Unexpectedly, she began to accept the marriage.
“What?”
Li Tian looked at Lin Yi, stupefied. He thought that he had misheard her, did she say that she wanted me to move into her room tonight?
Li Tian knew that no man in this world would be able to reject an offer like this from Lin Yi, so he quickly took her up on her offer.
After this, however, they ran out of things to talk about, once again.
Li Tian was usually a talkative person, but he couldn’t bring himself to say anything in front of Lin Yi.
In front of other women, Li Tian would always joke around with them, or tell them stories he had read online. However, in front of Lin Yi, he couldn’t imagine himself doing the same.
It was because Lin Yi seemed like as though she didn’t have a sense of humour. Thus, if Li Tian had joked around with her, she would’ve answered, “boring.”
After returning to the villa, Li Tian went to apologize to Wang Ma. He also promised that he would come home before ten, and wouldn’t be late anymore.
If he wasn’t coming home, he would call her before ten. He also asked for Wang Ma’s phone number.
Sure enough, Li Tian took this chance to ask for Lin Yi’s number as well, with his reason being that if for any reason he couldn’t reach Wang Ma, he would call her.
As they were already married, Lin Yi didn’t feel the need to reject his request, she just gave him her number.
“I’m leaving now, as I need to get breakfast for my colleagues as well.”
Li Tian quickly gobbled down his breakfast and said to Lin Yi.
However, he also added, “Do you want to go together?”
Although Li Tian didn’t know where Lin Yi worked, there was only one small street—the street where he was getting breakfast—which led to the city. Apart from this, there were the suburbs and Lin Yi’s workplace was unlikely to be on that end.
“You go first, I have to do something before going to the office.”
After being rejected by Lin Yi, Li Tian left without thinking much of it.
…
“Breakfast is here…”
“Mine! Mine!”
“Mine!”
Li Tian had just arrived at the office, and before he could finish his sentence, he was instantly bombarded by people.
Following this, the silhouettes of his colleague’s arms darted about before his eyes, and within seconds, the box was already empty.
Li Tian thought he was lucky to have had breakfast at home earlier that morning.
Shu Qing Qing came over to Li Tian and whispered, “Brother Tian, what happened between you and Ya Jing last night?”
“What do you mean by ‘what happened’?”
“Stop acting, didn’t you send her home last night?”
“Yeah, I did. What about it?”
“Don’t tell me nothing happened between the both of you? Ya Jing was quite drunk, you know.”
Shu Qing Qing said with a suggestive expression on her face.
Li Tian thought to himself, how did she guess it correctly. However, he would never tell her the truth.
“What are you talking about? I left right after I sent her home.”
After answering her question, he signalled for her to go get her share of breakfast and sent her away.
After that, Li Tian walked towards Chen Ya Jing. She was the only one who didn’t go collect her breakfast.
Like magic, Li Tian took out a breakfast set from behind him and placed it in front of Chen Ya Jing.
However, Chen Ya Jing pretended to not see him and just continued to focus on her work. Li Tian felt that something wasn’t right.
“Ya Jing, is anything wrong?”
“No, nothing’s wrong. Return to your seat, don’t stand so close to me.”
Close? Li Tian was standing more than a meter away from her. Previously, she didn’t even mind if both of them sat together side by side.
“Ya Jing, you don’t want to see me? About yesterday…”
“Nothing happened last night, you left right after sending me home. Let’s keep a distance between us in the future, okay?”
