A Rough Man and His Beautiful Wife

Chapter 4: Little and Delicate Little Girl

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

His tone subconsciously became more serious. Jiang Ju trembled in fear and stole a glance at him before hurriedly taking the money back.

He glared at her at every turn. He was really too intimidating. She hoped that he would take the initiative to pay the rent on time in the future. Otherwise, she probably wouldn’t dare to take the initiative to ask for it. 800 yuan wasn’t a small sum. It was almost as much as her monthly grocery shopping fee. She still wanted to save money to open a shop, so she couldn’t let the rent be delayed. “Give me your identity card. I want to register it.”

Du Xi sat on the sofa with his legs on the coffee table. He looked at her with a smile as he said, “I didn’t bring it.” He clearly didn’t want to give it to her, so Jiang Ju didn’t ask further. She turned around and returned to her room.

He wanted to chat some more, but he didn’t expect her to turn around and leave. He just wanted to tease her, but when he saw how timid she was, he couldn’t bear to. If he even did so much as raise his voice, she would shrink into a ball like a frightened hedgehog. Fair enough. She was young and delicate, so her personality was probably quite docile.

Light footsteps sounded as a certain timid little girl had returned. Du Xi smirked and looked in the door’s direction from the corner of his eye as Jiang Ju brought the contract over and asked him to sign it. Du Xi was no longer in the mood to tease her. He had been busy all day and was covered in sweat, so he wanted to go in and take a cold shower to wash away the sticky feeling on his body.

His handwriting was as rough and unruly as himself. Jiang Ju stared at it for a long time, but he really couldn’t tell his name. “Jiang Ju? This name is quite interesting.” On the other side, there was her signature. Du Xi saw it at a glance. As the old saying went, names were reflective of people. She seemed so gentle and demure, and her name reflected it.

Jiang Ju had never liked small talk. When she heard this, she only nodded and left him a copy of the contract before walking out. She had forgotten to close the door, and Du Xi couldn’t be bothered to close it. In any case, there were only the two of them on the third floor. As a man, he wasn’t afraid of her peeping. Besides, she didn’t have the guts to do so anyway.

Du Xi stood up and stretched his muscles. As he took off his clothes, he walked to the bathroom. In the next few days, he was busy at the construction site. Du Xi went out early and returned late every day, so he didn’t see Jiang Ju for a few days. When he didn’t see her, he felt that his mundane life was lacking something and he couldn’t suppress the urge to see her.

Thus, one hot afternoon, he rode a motorcycle back from the other side of the city. The motorcycle was borrowed from a child at the construction site. The modified motorcycle’s roar was ear-piercing and intense. When it parked downstairs, it startled the surrounding residents. The hot weather made it easy to get tired, so at this moment, most of the residents who didn’t work were taking an afternoon nap. After coming back to their senses from the shock, they opened the window to curse, but when they saw the muscular Du Xi, they silently retracted their heads from the window.

This man was tanned and looked very intimidtaing. It was obvious that he wasn’t someone ordinary people like them could afford to offend. If they really got into a conflict with him on impulse, they might get injured. He had already parked his motorcycle downstairs and stopped making disruptive noises anyway, so they let it be.

Du Xi was holding a watermelon that weighed more than twenty pounds. He leaned her back against the wall and knocked on the door without revealing his head. Hearing the knock, Jiang Ju walked to the door and looked out through the peephole, but there was no one outside. She was puzzled and a little afraid, so she didn’t dare to make a sound and hid behind the door without moving.

She only opened the door a crack when the person outside spoke impatiently.

“Young lady, you’re quite vigiliant. You know that you can’t open the door to strangers that easily.” His head and face were covered in sweat, and the short-sleeved shirt on his body was drenched. His body blocked the door and he tried to enter.

Jiang Ju hesitated for a few seconds before letting him in. She had no choice. Even if she didn’t let him in, her small body wouldn’t be able to block his muscular body.

After Du Xi carried the watermelon into the kitchen, he found a fruit knife to split the watermelon into two and cut one half into pieces. “It’s hot, so eat the watermelon to ward off the heat. I still have something on at the construction site, so I’ll get going first.”

Jiang Ju stared blankly at the cut watermelon on the table. She didn’t react until a while after the door was closed. What did he mean? The sun was scorching outside, so he rushed back all sweaty just to send her a watermelon? When she thought of the half watermelon frozen in the fridge, she felt vexed.

She had finally finished half of the watermelon she bought yesterday morning. She would have to eat the remaining half over the next two days. In addition to the one he had sent over, she probably wouldn’t be able to finish it even if she only ate watermelon all day long.

It was too wasteful. If she had known that someone would send watermelon to her, she wouldn’t have bought watermelon and would have saved more than twenty yuan.