Jiang Chenyu turned around. "What are you following me for?"

"Jiang Chenyu, let's move out," Gu Nuan Nuan said earnestly. "Staying here in your house will only end up with your sister-in-law, your brother, and maybe even your father being hospitalized because of me."

She looked at him with pleading eyes. "What do you think?"

She really didn't want to stay here anymore. She disliked every single person in the Jiang household. The domineering old man, the unpleasant Wei Aihua, and the inscrutable Mayor Jiang were all unbearable to Gu Nuan Nuan.

Jiang Chenyu was her husband and should be the closest person to her in the Jiang family. But he turned out to be the one who disliked her the most.

Gu Nuan Nuan even thought that it might be more comfortable to rent a small apartment of thirty to forty square meters than to stay in this mansion.

Seeing the desire to escape in the girl's eyes, Jiang Chenyu's Adam's apple bobbed. "As long as you don't send me to the hospital, you can do whatever you want to the others."

With that, he walked away.

Little did Jiang Chenyu know that one day he would indeed be hospitalized because of his young wife's anger.

At the moment, he found it amusing. How capable could she be to make his family members end up in the hospital?

However, letting her leave and live comfortably outside wasn't too cheap of him, was it?

She had just married into the Jiang family. Why shouldn't she "enjoy" the Jiang family's life properly?

The corner of Jiang Chenyu's mouth lifted. "Gu Nuan Nuan, I hope you will have good luck in the Jiang family."

In the dining room, Jiang Lao listened with a stern face as the servants explained the situation. He understood exactly what had happened.

"Did she really say that?" Jiang Lao asked the servants present.

The servants nodded. "Those were the exact words of the First and Second Madams."

Jiang Lao's cheeks bulged, and he pressed his hand hard against the edge of the table. "You may all leave, and remove the tableware."

"Yes, sir."

Everyone dispersed, leaving only the butler beside him.

"I just thought she was likable, and the next moment she would do something that disgusted me," Jiang Lao said.

The butler knew who he was referring to. Besides the recently arrived Gu Nuan Nuan, there was no one else.

Standing impartially in the middle, the butler spoke a fair word, "Sir, I believe there's something suspicious about this. Although the First Madam may have biases against the Second Madam, she wouldn't stoop to humiliating her. After all, the First Madam has always been quite self-confident, and she wouldn't easily say something that lowers her status. To say something like this today, there must be something that happened or something that triggered her.

As for the Second Madam, it was indeed wrong of her to directly insult the First Madam. But if we think about it from her perspective, the Second Madam is a filial child. If she hadn't been filial, she wouldn't have been threatened and forced to marry into the Jiang family. However, when the First Madam insulted her family, it's only natural for her to get angry.

Both sides are at fault, and both need to be investigated thoroughly."

Jiang Lao and Wei Aihua had a mother-in-law relationship of more than twenty years. In these twenty-plus years, Jiang Lao had long regarded Wei Aihua as his own daughter. When something bad happened, Jiang Lao immediately blamed all the faults on the newcomer, Gu Nuan Nuan. After all, who would think that their own children were at fault?

Fortunately, the butler's reminders on the side kept Jiang Lao sober.

Jiang Lao ordered, "Find out what happened to Aihua recently. Find out what she has done, who she has met, and what she has said. If I find out that someone is deliberately trying to sow discord, I won't easily let them off."

Butler: "I'll go check right away."

Late at night, no one in the Jiang family had dinner.

Gu Nuan Nuan's stomach growled with hunger, but she knew that if she went downstairs to find food now, she would surely be reprimanded. So, she decided to endure the hunger and wait until tomorrow to eat.

She made the sofa into a makeshift bed, using a blanket as a cover and a cushion as a pillow. Her clothes were all in her suitcase, and she would take them out when needed, change, and then put them back in the corner. She hadn't used the closet.

After changing into her nightclothes, Gu Nuan Nuan placed the clothes she would wear tomorrow on the coffee table, preparing to lie down and sleep.

Suddenly, the door opened.

She sat up instantly on the sofa, watching the doorway warily.

"Jiang Chenyu! Why are you back tonight?"

The person who entered was none other than the other owner of the room, Jiang Chenyu.

Since their marriage, he had never spent a night in the bridal chamber. Presumably, he had come back tonight to change his clothes. Usually, when he came to this room, it was to change his clothes.

Thinking so, Gu Nuan Nuan relaxed and lay back on the sofa, ready to sleep.

Jiang Chenyu glanced at her unexpectedly and then looked at the spacious and soft bed.

"You've been sleeping on the sofa all this time?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?" Gu Nuan Nuan replied.

Jiang Chenyu was very surprised. She had chosen to sleep on the sofa instead of the bed. Was she asking for punishment?

He went to a separate sofa and looked at the girl lying on the long sofa. "Why aren't you sleeping on the bed?"

Gu Nuan Nuan was lying on the sofa, looking up at the man sitting on the sofa with a dignified look. "We had an unpleasant argument on our wedding night. If I sleep on the bed again and push you onto the sofa, you might hate me so much that you'll throw me out of the third floor."

"I didn't notice that you were afraid of me."

"I'm not afraid of you," Gu Nuan Nuan said. "But I'm afraid of losing an arm or a leg."

Throwing her from the third floor would result in serious injury or even death. Even if she survived, she would likely be crippled. Even a fracture would be torturous.

Suddenly, Gu Nuan Nuan laughed and got up from the sofa, hugging her "pillow" and smiling at Jiang Chenyu. "Jiang Chenyu, are you implying that you won't be staying here at night from now on?"

"Keep dreaming."

Gu Nuan Nuan pouted. "I don't believe you'll come back to stay with me in this room again. If you do, let's see how you explain it to your beloved Rou'er."

"... "

Jiang Chenyu had originally intended to tell Gu Nuan Nuan that there was nothing between him and Gao Rou'er. But then he thought, why should he tell her? If there wasn't a reasonable explanation, then there was no need to do something.

Jiang Chenyu got up and walked to the bedside, picked up his watch, went to the closet to get his pajamas, and then went to the bathroom.

Hearing the movement, Gu Nuan Nuan lay on the sofa, watching the man's movements. "You're not really going to sleep here, are you?" Jiang Chenyu glanced at her and didn't answer her question. Instead, he went straight to the bathroom.

Watching him leave, Gu Nuan Nuan scolded herself angrily, "You foul mouth! Why provoke him? He might not leave tonight. Damn it, damn it, damn it."

Sure enough, Jiang Chenyu didn't leave that night. After he finished showering and went out to blow dry his hair, Gu Nuan Nuan watched him blow dry his hair and leave the room.

Gu Nuan Nuan patted her chest in relief. "Luckily, I'm not a jinx."

Then, not two minutes later, he returned.

Gu Nuan Nuan watched as he held a foreign-language book in his hand, observing his movements. He walked straight to the bed, pulled back the covers, sat down, and tucked himself in.

The overhead light in the room went off, leaving only the bedside lamp by his bed.

The girl on the sofa had been watching him for an hour, and Jiang Chenyu raised his eyes to meet her crystal-clear ones. "Am I good-looking?"

Gu Nuan Nuan shook her head. "Not really." Just handsome.

"... Then why are you looking at me?"

Gu Nuan Nuan pressed her right hand against her left, her arm against the edge of the sofa, her chin resting on the back of her right hand, and asked curiously, "Why don't you sleep in the study?"

"Why should I sleep in the study when I have a bedroom?"

"But you have me in your bedroom. If we share a room, we're both no longer innocent."

"We're already married. What more innocence do you want?"

Gu Nuan Nuan bit her lip at his words.

It seemed like they weren't supposed to be innocent anyway.

But, "We have our rules."

"Does the rule say I can't sleep in my own room?"

Well... not really.

Gu Nuan Nuan swallowed nervously, sitting up straight. "Jiang Chenyu, are you planning something sinister against me by deliberately sleeping in the same room as me?"

"Gu Nuan Nuan, put away your childish thoughts. I have no interest in a little brat like you."

Gu Nuan Nuan gritted her teeth. What childish thoughts could she have? She just wanted to deliberately provoke Jiang Chenyu into leaving this bedroom.

If he wasn't in this room, she could sleep on the sofa or even on the floor, and no one else would know. But if he was also sleeping in this room, she wouldn't feel comfortable. Someone would be encroaching on her territory.

Seeing that she couldn't drive him away, Gu Nuan Nuan sighed in frustration and lay back on the sofa. "Sigh, I'll talk less in the future, I promise."

Her teasing remark brought Jiang Chenyu back, a miscalculation.

She closed her eyes as if to sleep.

Jiang Chenyu also stopped engaging in childish conversation with her and resumed his cold arrogance, flipping through his foreign-language book.

The room was quiet, with dim lighting and the central air conditioning running continuously, making the room cool and refreshing.

After a few minutes, the sound of pages turning would be heard, like a lullaby, and Gu Nuan Nuan was almost falling asleep listening to it.

For the first time, she felt how pleasant it was to listen to the sound of pages turning with her eyes closed.

No wonder ancient people liked listening to books, rocking themselves to sleep on a rocking chair.

She just felt peaceful listening to the sound of pages turning.

The silence of the room was suddenly broken by a peculiar sound.

Then, the sound came again.

Gu Nuan Nuan's face turned as red as a tomato because the sound was coming from her stomach.

Jiang Chenyu also put down his book and looked in the direction of the sofa.

"Gurgle, gurgle."

Gu Nuan Nuan pressed her stomach hard, and the little person in her heart suddenly jumped out and went to warn her stomach: "When I starved you before, you didn't make such a fuss. Now that I'm hungry once tonight, you're making noise at this moment. Are you asking for trouble?"

Stomach: "Gurgle, gurgle."

Her stomach made another sound, "Gurgle, gurgle."

The man on the bed moved, and the sound of him putting on slippers entered Gu Nuan Nuan's ears.

She knew that Jiang Chenyu was coming over.

Shyly, she stopped covering her stomach with her hands and started covering her face, curling up her body and trying to suppress her stomach from making any more sounds.

Jiang Chenyu walked to her side of the sofa, looked down at the girl curled up into a small ball, her hands covering her face, her ears turning crimson.

He had originally planned to tease her a little with this opportunity, but seeing her embarrassment when he approached, he couldn't bring himself to do it. He turned around and left the room.