I Want a Lifetime with You

When Shi Nuan walked into the kitchen, she saw Fu Chengyan busy cooking. She stood at the door for a while before Fu Chengyan noticed her presence and said, “Why don’t you sit outside?”

“We’re not doing much outside. Are you sure you can handle all these by yourself?” Shi Nuan looked at Fu Chengyan and noticed that that he was very organized and methodical. She observed him for quite some time before asking, “Do you need my help?”

Fu Chengyan paused for a moment and nodded his head. He then said, “Take a look at the soup and adjust the intensity of the fire. I brought it to boil a while ago. Please let it simmer now.”

“Sure!” Shi Nuan walked to the pot and took a sniff and said, “This smells really good. What soup is this?”

“Pork bone soup,” Fu Chengyan paused for a moment and said, “You were drugged yesterday and there’s definitely some remnant of the drug in your body. Drinking some soup is good for you.”

When Shi Nuan heard Fu Chengyan’s words, she nodded with a smile and said, “Sure. But since when was I drugged? I have no recollection about it. Also, what about Shi Wei……” At this time, Shi Nuan realized that something was amiss as Shi Wei would usually be gloating or reprimanding her furiously whenever something happened. But this time, she was not around.

Doubt started to fill her thought as she could not recall what happened yesterday and Fu Chengyan also did not fill her in on the incident. “Was Shi Wei really the one who kidnapped me?”

Fu Chengyan raised his eyebrows and said, “Your reaction time is a little too slow. Shouldn’t you have asked this earlier?”

Shi Nuan pursed her lips and replied, “As you have said, I was drugged and that’s why my mind is not very alert.” Shi Nuan held a ladle in her hand to stir the soup in the pot before bringing it to a simmer. She then leaned against the kitchen island and stared at Fu Chengyan.

She realized that whatever Fu Chengyan did was pleasing to the eye, even if it was only a menial matter. Shi Nuan imitated the usual way Fu Chengyan clasped his hands and said, “How did Shi Wei react when you rescued me yesterday? Based on her character, she would definitely come after me. But I still haven’t heard much from her today.”

Fu Chengyan lifted his eyebrows, twitched his lips and replied, “Isn’t it better if she’s not around to give you a hard time? Unless you are the kind of person who likes to be abused. Are you?”

“That’s not what I meant!”

“If that’s not the case, please help me to cut some garlic and ginger,” Fu Chengyan continued cooking while instructing Shi Nuan to help out. “Stop thinking about this matter as it’s not going to help you in any way.”

“That’s true.” It was a relief to be freed from Shi Wei. Although Shi Nuan still felt that something was amiss, she could not tell what went wrong.

Meanwhile, a “battle” was taking place at the living room. Although it was merely a misunderstanding between them all these while, Song Rongrong still found Su Shaoqing too snobbish. Furthermore, the smile of Su Shaoqing’s was just too irritating to Song Rongrong and that prompted her to challenge Su Shaoqing.

The method that they adopted was quite straightforward. The loser of the poker game would be punished with notes being pasted on his or her face.

and Shi Nuan played in their school days. No one expected that such a game would still be useful in such a context. Song Rongrong met her match today. In

It was rare for him to lose a game. If he was to lose one, most likely it was because of him not wanting to win it and not because of his inability to do

one round of poker, the face of Song Rongrong was covered in paper notes while the faces of Su Yian and Su Shaoqing were

in her hand on the table and continued, “Why am I the only

furiously. She really suspected Su Shaoqing of playing dirty. Otherwise, how did she lose in every game? Indeed, Su

she was merely asked to play so

Su Yian could improve by leaps and bounds and her only explanation was that Su Shaoqing had

at Song Rongrong’s sour face, “Ms. Rong, your accusations are unsubstantiated. We really played fairly

She wiped away all the paper

I’ll not go against a lady’s wish.” Su Shaoqing then put his cards down

the remote control to switch on

was bombarded with questions from reporters. Many mics were placed before her and they almost covered her face.

also saw the title

and Su Yian looked at each other and thought to

loudly and took out her cellphone to get an update on headline news. Indeed,

she had with various movie directors in order to secure a role. The reporting provided not only words

she also took her cellphone out to scroll through the news. “Oh my! No wonder Nuan could never defeat her as Shi Wei was such a wicked

chin with his fingers and watched the television screen as contentment swept across his face. He then looked towards the direction

to do so much for Shi

“Who did she offend?”

of food when she heard the

Rongrong. She then looked at Su Yian and then

her gaze on the coffee table and saw the messy state of it with cards and paper notes everywhere. She then asked, “Did you all play a card game? Who lost in the

Rongrong burst into laughter awkwardly and said, “Nuan, come and take a look at this.” Song

suspiciously and was flabbergasted when she read the news. She was in disbelief and reread the news, “When…when did this happen?” No wonder Shi Nuan was not around to make her life difficult today as she

a complicated one. Even a small scandal would cause an uproar on the internet. For instance, this news was only reported a few hours ago but Shi Wei is already on all news headlines now, including social media. Her name tops the

sigh and said, “Who would know that Shi Wei’s character was worse than what