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"Even though nothing actually happened to me due to my effort; even though after he woke up, he stood outside my ward almost without eating or drinking for three days when I was in a coma, the damage he had done to me is ineradicable. Even though he was drunk back then, so what? That's not a reason," Ji Nuan said flatly. "My father was enraged. He used to appreciate this stepson and didn't mind he was an illegitimate son of the Sheng Family, but after that, there was no room for Sheng Yihan in the Ji family, and even Sheng Heru claimed to disown him."

"I was in the hospital for two months before I came home. My father expelled Sheng Yihan out of the Ji family in front of me to uphold justice for me. Mengran said in tears that Brother Sheng was drunk, and he didn't mean to offend me. She interceded for him, but my father was really furious, and he even warned Shen Heru that if she dared to keep contact with her son, he would drive her out too."

"To keep this shadow from haunting me, my father ordered that no one shall mention Sheng Yihan's name in the Ji family. From then on, his name had been a taboo in the Ji family. Then I went to the United States to study. My horizons were broadened, and I no longer thought about that matter. If it weren't for that night, I wouldn't be so afraid of coldness. I had been very healthy before that night!"

When she said 'very healthy' to Mo Jingshen, she looked a bit aggrieved.

Mo Jingshen looked at her and pinched her cheek. "I know, I know. Fortunately, that matter that happened when you were still a teenager is not too much of a shadow over your life."

"What did Ji Mengran tell you besides that I had a short affair with Sheng Yihan when I was fifteen?"

"What else would she say. As you expected, she made her own 'truth' with a lot of fabricated plots."

"...Why didn't you just ask me?"

"The truth filtered through her embellished words is that you were almost raped when you were still a teenager. How can I ask you about this if you don't want to tell me? Peel open your wound and ask if it hurts? Do you think I will do this?"

"..."

This may sound cold-blooded but seemed to be thoughtful to her.

Ji Nuan suddenly plumped out her cheeks as if in an expression of indignation. She leaned against Mo Jingshen's shoulders. "No wonder Ji Mengran was so confident that you would be hers, and no wonder she was always upset because you treat me so well. It turns out that she had early told you about that matter."

Mo Jingshen raised his eyebrows. "I've never seen her alone. Don't think too much."

"She doesn't need to see you alone. From what I know of her, she will find a chance anyway and let you hear the rumors about me without even meeting you."

At this moment, Ji Nuan suddenly remembered that Sheng Yihan wanted to give her a watch last time. She looked at him. "So, you know that I didn't accept that watch last time, right?"

Mo Jingshen gazed at her. "He knew you wouldn't accept the watch but still gave it to you. That watch is a Lady Arpels Pont des Amoureux. Who do you think he was provoking?"

"Yeah..."

"Nuan Nuan." He suddenly called her name. "If he comes to you again or does anything that makes you suspicious, tell me. Don't try to solve it yourself."

"What did you talk about today? He will still come to me?"

"Keep that in mind, just in case."

Ji Nuan gazed at his handsome face, pursed her lips and suddenly kissed him on the chin. "Why do you look so calm after hearing that I was almost raped when I was little? Shouldn't you be furious and want to kill, just like what happens in movies."

"Even if I have cut him into pieces in my mind, what has been done can't be undone." Mo Jingshen gently patted her head. His voice was calm, but there was a subtle chill in it. "Don't worry. I'll make him pay for what he has done to you."

Ji Nuan suddenly smiled. She got into his arms and put her hands around his neck. "My dear husband."

"En?"

"I love you," Ji Nuan put her face against his chest and said seriously.

Last time she said this a bit jokingly, but this time, she really meant it.

Mo Jingshen smiled and reached out his long arm to hug her. He rubbed her hair and chuckled. "It seems that you learn nothing but how to confess your love after you came to T City."

At this time, a doctor from the dispensary came around to check the list of medicine. Mo Jingshen asked Ji Nuan to stay here and went to talk with that doctor.

Four hours later, it was midnight, and they finally got the decocted medicine and drove back to their apartment.

When they waited for the medicine to be decocted, Mo Jingshen did everything, so she didn't have to worry about anything. She just needed to sleep in the waiting room before he took her back home.

After they reached home, Mo Jingshen coaxed her to drink the medicine. At one o'clock in the morning, she sleepily held a bowl and drank the medicine that was so bitter that she almost cried. She raised her head only to see Mo Jingshen looking at her. Obviously, he would take out another bag of the medicinal soup and make her drink it if she dared to spit it out.

Seeing her finally reluctantly drink off the bowl of medicine, he smiled in satisfaction. "Good girl. Now take a shower and go to sleep."

Finally being allowed to sleep, Ji Nuan washed up, got into bed, and immediately fell asleep.

In her sleep, she felt a warmth from her feet. She opened her eyes sleepily only to find Mo Jingshen holding her curled-up body in his arms and her feet in his palm, which was warm.

"What are you doing?" she mumbled sleepily.

"I just want to hug you, en?"

"En..."

"If your hands and feet get cold again just tell me and I'll prepare something at home to warm you." Mo Jingshen gazed at her sleepy face. This little woman looked so sexy when she woke up.

His Adam's apple bobbed in his throat. As she nodded and said, "En," he leaned over to kiss her between her eyebrows and forced two words out of his throat. "Just sleep."

--

Mo Jingshen would stay in T City for half a month, during which Ji Nuan had no chance to go back to her dorm or to be exact, she didn't want to go back to live in her dorm.

The first thing President Mo would do when he got back to his apartment from work was to cook for her. She had never enjoyed this treatment in Hai City.

But he didn't have time to buy the ingredients himself, which were delivered every day by the housekeeping aunt he had hired. She would clean up the vegetables and leave them in the kitchen.

Although the aunt really wanted to stay and cook for Mr. Mo and Mrs. Mo, she thought she'd better not disturb the lovers...

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Ji Nuan ran around in the kitchen, assisting Mo Jingshen. She had thought that she could attract him with her culinary skills.

But she was attracted by his culinary skill instead.

"Need a dish?"

"Are there any vegetables to clean up?"

"Do you need me to prepare ginger..."

"How about garlic? Do you need one?"

This was all she could do, and even these jobs were strongly demanded by her. Otherwise, she could only sit on the sofa watching TV because Mo Jingshen didn't let her touch anything in the kitchen.

She came into the kitchen to assist him because she thought she couldn't just do nothing but sit and wait to eat.

During dinner, Mo Jingshen watched Ji Nuan tasted the delicious food with relish and said to her, "Some directors of the Education Bureau of T City and T University invited me to dinner this weekend. I tried to reject them, but they insisted on it. Are you going with me?"

"Directors of T University? They will know our relationship if I go with you, won't they?"

"They are not your classmates. They will keep it a secret for you even if they know you are Mrs. Mo. Don't worry."

"I will think about it..."

"Why? Your principal will take his daughter to this dinner who has just got her master's degree. He has tried several times to introduce his daughter to me. Are you sure you're not going?"

"..."

"Why are you glaring at me?"

"Mo Jingshen, why are there so many women who want to date you?"

"But I reject them all, don't I?"

"..."

Ji Nuan chewed the rice in her mouth hard, but suddenly she realized that if she hadn't insisted coming to T University, Mo Jingshen wouldn't have had a chance to meet T University's principal and the latter wouldn't have dreamed of introducing his own daughter to him.

So, Mo Jingshen was to blame because he was too attractive to women!

Tut, how I want to have him all covered up except for a pair of eyes, then he wouldn't attract so many women's attention.

"If I go to that dinner, do I have to introduce myself?"

"Do you think you're a new student?"

"Then what if the principal takes me as a student and drives me away? How should I answer if they ask me who I am?"

"My wife."

"....what?"

Mo Jingshen glanced at her. "Then what do you think I would take you with me for?"

"You take me to fight three hundred rounds with the principal's daughter?" Ji Nuan raised her eyebrow. "I have to say you overestimate my ability."

Mo Jingshen laughed. "The principal just implied he wanted to introduce his daughter to me but didn't say it explicitly. Meeting his daughter won't change anything. I don't think he will force me to date his daughter if he finds out that I'm not interested in her. It's just an ordinary dinner. Mrs. Mo, are you too shy to go to that dinner with me?"

"Why should I be shy?"

"Then are you going or not?"

Ji Nuan put down the bowl and took a breath. "Okay, I'll go. I must go defend my husband, leaving you no chance to cheat on me."

"En?"

"Well, I mean, leave others no chance to covet you!"

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It happened to be the time of that dinner when Ji Nuan's class was over. Professor Lin emphasized to the students that he had something to tend to tonight and told them to call him tomorrow if they had any problem.

So, Professor Lin would go to that dinner tonight too.

Although it was just an ordinary dinner, the directors of the Education Bureau and T University would attend it, so they chose a very formal restaurant instead of a noisy nightclub.

When the dinner was going to begin, the principal of T University finally persuaded his daughter to come with him. The directors were all expecting Mo Jingshen's arrival.

Mo Jingshen arrived just on time. He came to the restaurant precisely at 7:30 p.m. As soon as he pushed the door, the people in the room all looked at him and then at Ji Nuan who was behind him. To their surprise, President Mo didn't come alone but brought a person with him.

A pretty girl.

She had black straight long hair and well-shaped long legs. On her fair, oval-shaped face, there was a pair of almond-like eyes with thick eyelashes. She was slim and wore a leisure dress that had no brand logo but looked fashionable and chic. She was young but didn't look childish and looked wise yet stunningly beautiful.

All men couldn't help glancing at the principal's daughter who was sitting among them as soon as they spotted the girl behind Mo Jingshen and then rested their eyes on Ji Nuan.

Under their stares, Ji Nuan smiled elegantly and calmly. Then she looked around and made eye contact with Professor Lin. She nodded at Professor Lin respectfully. "Hi, Professor Lin!"

Professor Lin's eyelid twitched.

He had early suspected that Ji Nuan had a special relationship with President Mo, but he didn't expect he would take her here today.

The directors of T University vaguely remembered that Ji Nuan was a student of T University. They exchanged glances with each other, wondering why Mo Jingshen took her here with him.

There was a thirty-something man among the directors of the Education Bureau sitting beside the principal. His eyes lit up when he saw Ji Nuan. Not looking embarrassed at all under these people's stare, Ji Nuan elegantly went to sit down at the table with Mo Jingshen.

That thirty-something man remembered that Ji Nuan seemed to be Professor Lin's student. He couldn't help looking at her a few more times and asked carefully and politely, "President Mo, who is this young lady?"

"My wife, Ji Nuan," Mo Jingshen smiled and said without any hesitation.

In an instant, the others in the room all gaped and some directors of T University who knew who Ji Nuan was almost froze.

"Wife?" The principal looked at Ji Nuan incredulously. "When did you get married, President Mo? If my memory serves me right, isn't this Miss Ji a student of Professor Lin at our school?"

"My wife founded a studio in Hai City in her spare time. She thought she lacked management skills, so she made time to study administrative management in T City," Mo Jingshen said casually as if talking about something perfectly normal.

But it wasn't normal at all in others' minds.

Mrs. Mo, President Mo's wife, went to study at T University, keeping a low profile and never exposing her identity, and had even become a top student in Professor Lin's class. The whole story was just unimaginable.

At this moment, Ji Nuan spotted a young girl sitting beside the principal who looked a bit embarrassed right now. It seemed that she was the principal's daughter.

"Hi, Principal. Hi, directors. I did come to T University for further education. As my purpose is to study, I didn't tell you about my family background. Professor Lin is an old friend of my father, but he didn't know who my husband was, and I didn't tell him," Ji Nuan explained and looked at Professor Lin. "You won't blame me, will you, Professor?"

After suddenly being mentioned, Professor Lin laughed. "Of course not. It's my honor that Mrs. Mo can be my student, but you really hide your identity well. You are the most low-key student in my class. I never expected that President Mo is your... husband."

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The news that Mo Jingshen was married was like a bomb, shocking everyone present.

The girl who sat beside the principal seemed to be attracted to Mo Jingshen in the beginning. Now she hid her emotions a bit, but she still kept looking at Ji Nuan and Mo Jingshen as if trying to confirm whether he was really married or just picked a random woman as an excuse to reject her.

Seeing her looking, Ji Nuan thought it was the right decision for her to come today.

Otherwise, if the principal introduced his daughter to Mo Jingshen, things would have been awkward.

As everyone came and sat down at the table, the sophisticated directors of T University soon changed the topic after the shocking surprise. They were all engaged in the education industry, and most of them had been leaders, so they all basically talked about education.

One leader of T University poured a cup of liquor for another and said fawningly, "Director Chen, the excellent students we XX department enrolled this year are less than in past years. Please don't give too strict requirements for our students' examination results. As a department receiving little attention, we need our school's special care."

--They mostly talked about topics related to T University and the education industry of T City.

Ji Nuan quietly enjoyed the food and listened to the conversation of these big shots in T City's education industry. Two thirty-something men sitting opposite to her enthusiastically picked some food with public chopsticks and put it into her bowl. After knowing that she didn't drink, they called the waiter to bring her coconut juice or a cup of lemon water.

Ji Nuan smiled gracefully at them and thanked them. However, at this moment, someone suddenly grabbed one of her fingers and pinched it.

Ji Nuan felt pain and tried to take her finger back but couldn't.

She jerked her head around and cast a questioning glance at Mo Jingshen, sitting beside her.

Mo Jingshen held her finger with one hand, picked the glass pitcher close to him with another, and poured a cup of water for her. Then he got close to her and whispered, "Why did you smile so happily? What made you so happy?"

Ji Nuan: "You asked me to come here with you, didn't you? I can't just show them a dark face."

The next second, the man pinched her wrist and exerted a bit of strength. "You just need to sit quietly and eat food. You don't have to smile at other men."

The two young leaders of the education bureau were almost mesmerized by her beautiful smile. If they hadn't known she was President Mo's wife, they would have been even more enthusiastic towards her.

"But I can't just remain expressionless when I look at them...."

Mo Jingshen picked a slice of beef with chopsticks and put it into her bowl. "You just need to look at me."

"You shouldn't have brought me here if you don't want me to see other men. You brought me here but don't allow me to look at others..."

"Yes, I took you here, but did I ask you to smile at other men?"

"..."

She smiled at the two men who were total strangers to her for his sake. She was his wife. She shouldn't be rude on this sort of occasion.

But since Boss Mo had prohibited her from smiling, she would just avoid looking at other men and smiling at them.

Seeing Ji Nuan silently lowered her head to take food, Mo Jingshen picked the peppercorns out of her bowl for her.

Their actions couldn't escape others' eyes, but they tacitly pretended not to see them and did not dare to joke about them, but now they were sure that this Ji Nuan was indeed Mo Jingshen's woman. From the way they got along, they could tell the two of them were quite intimate.

However, the principal's daughter, who was looking at them with a smile, suddenly turned her eyes to Ji Nuan's face, saying, "How old is Mrs. Mo? It is peculiar for a married woman like you to enter school to study business administration."

Ji Nuan stopped chewing, and then spent several seconds to swallow the meat in her mouth.

Mo Jingshen ignored her words too and picked a piece of codfish with his chopsticks and put it into Ji Nuan's bowl again.

The atmosphere became a bit awkward because of the principal's daughter's words. Everyone knew that the principal of T University wanted to introduce his daughter to President Mo, but before he even tried, President Mo's wife had shown up.