Bai Tao never dreamed that once she slept with Pei Shi, her life would suddenly become... dissolute and excessive.
Pei Shi's demand in this aspect was even stronger than she imagined. Bai Tao was almost exhausted every time, but this man was still full of energy.
With such a strong sexual desire, he doesn't look like a married man at all. Instead, he looks more like a young boy who has just started having sex. I don't know how this man managed to survive the period of abstinence when he ignored me.
But Pei Shi did care about Bai Tao's feelings to some extent. On the second day after satisfying her, he did not mention that request again. Instead, he and Bai Tao spent a leisurely day on the beach seriously.
"The wind is nice today, I'll fly a kite with you."
I don’t know where Pei Shi found the kite, but he said he wanted to take Bai Tao to play with it.
Bai Tao was feeling lazy and just wanted to lie down on the bed and sleep. When Pei Shi called her, she huddled deeper into the quilt and said coquettishly with a nasal voice, "It's too sunny outside, can you please not go out?"
"cannot."
It was a pity that it was useless. Pei Shi, the man, refused to recognize Bai Tao after getting off the bed and ruthlessly rejected her. But she was not completely unmoved, because soon, Bai Tao's quilt was lifted, and then Pei Shi came up and kissed her. His voice was still very steady, but Bai Tao could taste some unhappiness that he tried hard to suppress -
"Zhong Xiao took you to fly a kite." Pei Shi paused, "I haven't yet."
Come on, come on, I don't know how long Zhong Xiao will be able to eat the old vinegar! Didn't I say not to bring up the past and look forward
Pei Shi looked at Bai Tao expressionlessly: "I don't know how to fly a kite, but I watched the video all night and learned it for a long time."
The closer Bai Tao got to Pei Shi, the more she realized that this man was actually very cunning. Although he looked calm and composed on the surface, he was actually very dark inside. For example, now he brought up Zhong Xiao and hinted that he had spent a lot of time learning to fly a kite. This made it completely impossible for Bai Tao to refuse. By the time she realized it, her thoughts were unconsciously led by Pei Shi.
Ten minutes later, Bai Tao sat on a beach lounge chair yawning, while Pei Shi was adjusting the kite not far away.
The wind was indeed good today, but Pei Shi's kite still didn't fly. The man's face darkened, as if he was trying to hide his embarrassment. Seeing Bai Tao looking at him, he lowered his eyes and emphasized: "The video I watched last night may not work. The tutorial is not good. It's not my problem."
The man's expression was still calm and composed, but Bai Tao felt that he was angry, like a little boy in adolescence who wanted to show off his basketball skills. He had been planning to wait for the girl he liked to pass by the court and then give him a cool slam dunk. But when the time came, he failed to slam dunk and someone else snatched the ball away. He was both embarrassed and annoyed.
Bai Tao stood up and said, "It's better to fly a kite with two people. I'll hold the kite for you while you run in front. That'll be fine."
It was not known whether it was because the two of them had perfect coordination or if there was just a good wind, but anyway, after Bai Tao lifted the kite, Pei Shi tried again, and the kite really soared up with the wind.
The news reports said that she had taken Pei Shi to fly a kite before. However, Bai Tao, who had traveled through time, naturally had no recollection of this. Now, when she was flying a kite with Pei Shi, her hands were very unfamiliar, as if she had never learned this skill at all. From what Pei Shi said, she had taken Zhong Xiao to fly a kite before
Is it now popular among rich people who are in love to fly kites
Did I have to take men flying kites to pick them up? So old fashioned
But... it seems to work
Are men so gullible
Because at this moment Pei Shi was obviously happier than Bai Tao.
“It’s flying.”
The man's face was filled with undisguised joy. He had discarded his usual coldness, self-restraint and steadiness, and smiled brightly and without any gloom in the sun. It seemed as if this happiness came without any conditions attached.
Pei Shi looks so good when he smiles.
Apparently, Bai Tao was not the only one who thought so. Several hotel staff members walking on the beach couldn't help but look at Pei Shi.
Bai Tao couldn't hold it in any longer and said with a fierce face, "Pei Shi, stop laughing."
Pei Shi frowned as expected: "What?"
Bai Tao cleared her throat: "You are a married man, you should be reserved and stop being lewd!"
Before Pei Shi could refute, Bai Tao continued, "Your smile is a little too attractive. You should be a man who follows the rules of husband. It is said in male ethics that you cannot smile too much in front of outsiders."
"I attract bees and butterflies?" Pei Shi looked at Bai Tao in disbelief, then pursed his lips, "How can I compare to you."
The man pursed his lips: "I don't have an ex-girlfriend to look for, unlike you."
Oh, yes! How could I forget it! According to Pei Shi's five years of secret love and many years of hard pursuit, this man has already fallen in love with me! I'm afraid I really don't have time to make friends with my ex-girlfriend.
Thinking of Pei Shi's deep affection for her, Bai Tao couldn't help but feel a little intoxicated: "Let me calculate, you have been secretly in love with me for five years, so doesn't it mean that you may have fallen in love with me when I didn't even know you?"
But Bai Tao thought about it and felt something was wrong: "But... that's not right. You studied abroad in college. I didn't know Pei Fei had a brother like you until you graduated and returned to China. You..."
"There's no need to ask so many questions." Pei Shi probably didn't want to recall the bitter secret love anymore, so he interrupted Bai Tao: "It's mainly because you attract so many people."
Bai Tao was not convinced: "Me? I attract bees and butterflies? Where am I?"
As a result, Pei Shi said this in a sarcastic tone: "When you were in school, you received a lot of love letters and had many ex-boyfriends. Now you have a famous ex-boyfriend who is on a variety show. So many years have passed and you are married, but people still can't forget to recall the passion of the past and share the sweet words and love memories of the past with the whole country."
Pei Shi paused, looking a bit like a victim: "Think about how you confessed to me just to be angry with Pei Fei. Your ability to provoke people and your courage to risk everything worked together, and in the end, you attracted me as well. Isn't that normal?"
"When did I date a lot of ex-boyfriends?! I haven't been in a relationship since college!" Bai Tao got angry when she heard Pei Shi's accusation, "It must be Pei Fei who told you, right? Your sister is such a grown-up, why does she always make up rumors about me? If it wasn't for your face, I would have sent her a lawyer's letter!"
Bai Tao felt really aggrieved. When she traveled through time, not only did she get a husband out of nowhere, but even her ex-boyfriend Zhong Xiao was arranged for her out of nowhere. She had no memory of being in love with these two men, and she became a married young woman without knowing why. She didn't even get to enjoy the joy of being in love, but she got married!
Also, what’s the matter with the famous ex-boyfriend appearing on the variety show
Is it Zhong Xiao? Or... or someone else
After so much difficulty, she and Pei Shi reconciled and were now in love with each other. Bai Tao thought about her aching waist and tired legs from kneeling, and she didn't dare to ask the question fearlessly at this time.
It’s better to change the subject!
"Oh, by the way, husband, let's not talk about others. We should cherish our world of two." Bai Tao snuggled into Pei Shi's arms again. "Didn't you make a cake for me every year on my birthday? How about this year's cake?"
Perhaps he changed the subject a little too abruptly. Pei Shi was stunned. He paused for a moment before saying with some difficulty, "I came to the beach this year. I was busy with work before I got here. After I arrived at the hotel, I didn't have ingredients like cake flour. On my birthday last year, you said you wanted to lose weight and asked me not to do it this year."
No way? Cake is her favorite thing to eat, and Bai Tao can still refuse it, saying that she wants to lose weight? !
I really can’t understand myself a year ago!
Never mind!
Anyway, it is a woman's right to be fickle. Bai Tao immediately nudged Pei Shi again: "But I didn't get to eat it this year. I miss the taste of the cake made by my husband."
Pei Shi naturally couldn't refuse, but his voice and expression were a little unnatural: "Then I'll make it for you on your birthday next year."
Why couldn't this man understand my hint
Bai Tao glanced at him coquettishly, and tiptoed to Pei Shi's ear: "Make it up to me when you get home. I want you to make it for me this year." She blinked at Pei Shi, "I want to see my husband make a cake for me personally, and I want to eat birthday noodles made by my husband himself."
"… "
Seeing that Pei Shi didn't say anything, Bai Tao pulled his hand and said, "Is that okay?"
"good."
*****
It is easy to agree to something with just a "yes", but it is quite difficult to actually complete what you promised.
After a short island tour, Pei Shi brought Bai Tao back to Rong City. Bai Tao slept almost all the time during the entire return flight.
She really couldn't bear any hardship, and she kept complaining about her sore waist and legs, but she had no idea that such words meant something completely different to a man. Because of her shouting, Pei Shi couldn't help himself, and before checking out, he made another mistake with Bai Tao and almost missed his flight.
Pei Shi felt a little dazed as he rushed to the boarding gate following the check-in announcement. He thought that almost missing the plane would never happen in his life, and the reason for almost missing the flight was very undisciplined and shameful.
He tried not to think about what happened just now, trying to appear more professional, steady and focused, but Bai Tao always managed to easily break his plans -
"Pei Shi, please walk slower." She weakly called out from behind Pei Shi, lagging far behind him. When Pei Shi turned around, she bit her lip and complained pitifully, "I can't walk anymore."
Pei Shi never thought that he would be so patient. He didn't feel angry at all for being held back. He just said calmly: "You haven't exercised today, how come you can't walk anymore?"
Bai Tao blinked her eyes, leaned close to Pei Shi's ear, and said in a rather aggrieved voice: "But I was forced to exercise in the hotel for two days and two nights. My legs are weak and I really can't walk. Can you walk slower... If not, you can change your ticket and wait for the next flight..."
Pei Shi felt that Pei Fei's words about him being blinded by lust might indeed have some truth in it, because he had already stayed on the island for one more day. The change in plans had made Yuan Mu very busy, and a lot of work had been piled up and postponed because of it, and now there was no way to change to the next flight.
Therefore, the final result was that Pei Shi had to slow down, ignore the inquiring and curious looks and stares of others in the airport, and the hurried atmosphere of everyone around him, and calmly and confidently arrived at the boarding gate with Bai Tao at an incredibly slow speed just before it was about to close.
Now sitting in the first-class cabin, Pei Shi looked at Bai Tao's profile and was still doubting himself.
He had a slight headache and suspected that Bai Tao's brain virus had indeed spread from person to person, and his condition might not be as good either.
What's so good about this woman
Why did I choose her in the first place
With a family background like Pei Shi's, it is destined that there will not be much room for free love, and marriage must be chosen within the established circle, but Pei Shi does not resist this. He even thinks it is very easy, because he has never considered marriage and love to be the main theme of life, but career is.
Marriage is just an embellishment of career. It just needs to be stable and not too energy-consuming.
Pei Shi’s view on choosing a mate is very simple and crude: not clingy, not noisy, not interfering with himself, not encroaching on his time, looking acceptable, and most importantly, having knowledge of the overall situation.
Pei Shi thought that such a standard for choosing a spouse would be very easy, but after returning to China for a while, he found that it was quite difficult.
When Pei Shi was in school, his mother hinted to him many times, "When can you bring a girlfriend home?" After a period of unsuccessful response, she began to hint, "Mom has a strong psychological endurance, so a boy may not be a problem." Now, some time after Pei Shi graduated and returned to China, she no longer hinted, but started to make it clear - she directly started to look for girls who met the requirements for Pei Shi and suggested that he go on blind dates.
Pei Shi scoffed at blind dates and naturally refused to meet them one by one, but his circle was so small. In some subsequent business activities or cocktail parties, although they were not blind dates, Pei Shi met these girls in other ways to a greater or lesser extent. However, none of them met the criteria - they looked clingy and delicate. Pei Shi had not even had a formal dinner with them, but only exchanged contact information as a courtesy, and some girls had already shown an attitude of dominating Pei Shi's time.
This made Pei Shi feel troubled, and also made him further understand what kind of wife he needed.
He needs a wife who likes the life of a rich lady more than himself and has no possessiveness towards him.
It was also at this time that he learned about Bai Tao's recent situation—
She refused her family's arrangement, insisting on realizing her dream of becoming a freelance cartoonist. She had a big fight with her family for this and was even cut off from financial support. The Bai family finally gave in to their youngest daughter and offered her a condition of mutual compromise - if she could have a stable and respectable marriage, the Bai family would no longer interfere with her freedom of choice of career after marriage.
Coincidentally, Bai Tao was also on the list of girls made by Pei Shi's mother.
Pei Fei was furious when she saw the list: "Why did mom put Bai Tao on the list? I heard that she brought a man home for dinner last month. She said he was her boyfriend. His last name is Zhong. She is not single. Is she looking at the pot while eating from her own bowl? She wants to take our bowl? Bah! Shameless!"
When Bai Tao was mentioned, Pei Fei became very emotional: "Brother, do you still remember? When we were in college, she approached you just to get revenge on me. What a rubbish! So many men gave her love letters, wasn't it because she was flirting with men everywhere? Was it wrong for me to misunderstand her as a mistress? How many of my ex-boyfriends said they fell in love with her and wanted to break up with me?!"
Pei Fei said it unintentionally, but Pei Shi took it seriously.
Yes, Bai Tao doesn't like herself.
After a few days of vigorous pursuit, she was hit by a car and stayed in the hospital for a few days. After being discharged from the hospital, she never appeared in front of him again, without even trying to hide the fact that her confession was false.
However, Pei would hear Pei Fei scolding her every now and then - who had written her a love letter, who had broken up with her because of her, who had even fought because of her.
And in all these stories, there is a lack of feedback from Bai Tao herself. She seems to not care at all, and these things have nothing to do with her.
Pei Shi originally refused to take over and insisted on starting his own business, which was opposed by his family. After all, Pei Shi's parents really wanted to hand over the company to Pei Shi so that they could take the opportunity to retire. After discovering that Pei Shi was serious about starting his own business, his parents became indifferent to the succession, but his mother repeatedly hinted at the matter of marriage - she wanted to have grandchildren.
Pei Shi naturally would not compromise. Succession and marriage were not originally in his plan.
However, as he got deeper into his business, whether in negotiations with partners or with investors, Pei Shi felt more and more that he might need a stable marriage, because it was the only way for him to quickly appear calm and reliable, and to dispel the concerns of partners and investors about his young age. After all, there is always a stereotype in the outside world that men with families are more responsible and less impulsive.
As soon as this thought popped up in his mind, Pei Shi discovered that soon, a second thought also popped up -
Maybe white peaches
Pei Shi is not good at talking about feelings, but he is good at talking about cooperation. As long as both parties have something to ask for, nothing is impossible to negotiate.
He drafted an agreement, and a week later he met Bai Tao for the first time after many years. When they met again three days later, they agreed on the details and years of cooperation, and became legal husband and wife directly at the Civil Affairs Bureau.
Pei Shi was very satisfied after the marriage. Bai Tao was indeed the perfect partner. She completely met Pei Shi's previous standards. She did not interfere with him and did not require him to worry about her. Apart from informing him that she would unilaterally send out some love press releases to avoid other people's eyes, she was busy drawing comics and almost did not take up Pei Shi's time at all.
In order to make readers pay more attention to her comics rather than her appearance, she never appears on camera, does not act like a troublemaker and keeps to herself, almost becoming a role model of a wealthy lady.
This marriage also made Pei Shi and Bai Tao's families very satisfied. If there was only one person who was dissatisfied, it was Pei Fei. Fortunately, Pei Fei eventually chose to go to Austria to study and had no chance to contact Bai Tao again.
…
Thinking about this memory now, Pei Shi feels as if it were a lifetime ago.
Why did I feel that Bai Tao was worry-free at that time
She was the exact opposite of what he wanted in a partner: clingy, noisy, possessive, and a complete waste of time - when he was with her, time always passed very quickly, so quickly that Pei Shi didn't even know what he had done.
Since Bai Tao's birthday, Pei Shi sometimes spent this time in bed, but most of the time he didn't know where he went. His life seemed like a funnel set up by Bai Tao, and time passed by without him noticing.
At this moment, Bai Tao was sleeping soundly on the dining table. Because she was covered with a blanket, her whole face was slightly red from sleeping. Her sleeping face was innocent, like a carefree child.
Pei Shi suddenly felt that this was actually not so bad.
Bai Tao has become a little clingy and troublesome, but Pei Shi is very good at time management after all. If he and Bai Tao have to multi-task, it is not impossible. After all, his career has entered a relatively stable period, and it is necessary to take on more new challenges to exercise his ability to balance things.
But Pei Shi soon got a headache again.
He can't bake a cake.
Pei Shi couldn't even tell the difference between baking powder and baking soda, and had no idea about baking.
He really should have stopped Bai Tao from issuing a press release unilaterally at that time.
It's just that the past cannot be retrieved, and regret is useless. Pei Shi is not the kind of person who indulges in the past. Compared with the past, it is more important to seize the present. Therefore, Pei Shi pursed his lips and clicked on the quick tutorial for cake beginners.