Chapter 52

Chapter 52 Rose x Kiss

Ji Mingzhu only felt her whole body bubbling like carbonated drink “gulu gulu” rising bubbles, even her taste buds bursting open in an instant.

But she wasn’t drinking now; she only felt it coursing through her blood.

Although the two had held each other before, but—moments like this, lying side by side on the bed and pressed tightly together, had never happened.

“Fiancée sounds much better than girlfriend...”

“No.” Jiang Ji buried his cool face into the hair at Ji Mingzhu’s neck. “A fiancée with feelings is better than a girlfriend.”

“…Then according to what you said, will you call me that from now on?” Thinking of this, Ji Mingzhu found it a bit funny.

As long as she imagined Jiang Ji calling her “fiancée with feelings,” the scene felt inexplicably comedic.

Or maybe they had known each other for so long.

Or maybe the affection that had once grown secretly, once seeing daylight, spread upward uncontrollably…

Thus, after confirming their relationship, sleeping together didn’t seem abrupt.

As if they had already been used to it for a long time.

Ji Mingzhu enjoyed being held in the arms of the cold-mouthed Jiang Ji. The corners of her lips couldn’t help lifting, then she seemed to think of something. “Ah… where’s my chicken?”

She reached around, but couldn’t find the little chick plush that had almost been plucked bald.

“…Jiang Ji! Did you press the Sally chicken under you?”

“Didn’t notice.”

Ji Mingzhu paused, continuing to feel around.

If she didn’t touch it before sleeping, she felt a bit unaccustomed.

But as she searched, her palm brushed over Jiang Ji’s body.

A light glide.

“What are you touching randomly.” His voice dropped several tones, heavy, like sand rolling in a scorching desert.

“Ah… touched you?” Ji Mingzhu’s hand was stopped under the blanket; she didn’t dare move.

“You like that chicken so much?” Jiang Ji held her slender wrist, circling it with a bit of force. “You even look for it before sleeping. Can I understand that you’ve liked it for a long time?”

Ji Mingzhu was restrained, unable to move. “Sorry, that’s my usual punching target.”

As if being stubborn, she emphasized, “Anyway it’s a daily necessity. If I don’t touch it, I feel uncomfortable.”

“Don’t feel uncomfortable.” Jiang Ji spoke slowly.

“…Hm?”

“I can count too. Just touch me and it’s enough.” After speaking, he forced her hand toward his body.

“Hey…!” Ji Mingzhu couldn’t let him have his way and immediately resisted.

For a moment, waves rose under the quilt; it was unclear what they were doing.

During this push and pull, her hand, dragged by him, touched somewhere.

Like volcano lava on the verge of eruption, condensed into a mass.

The world fell silent instantly.

Ji Mingzhu seemed burned, finally breaking free and hurriedly pulling her hand back.

Her face turned red.

“…Jiang Ji!”

Words like “big pervert,” “Dead pervert,” “stinky jerk” flashed through her mind but couldn’t be said, stuck in her throat.

Ji Mingzhu expressed her dissatisfaction with a raised voice and actions.

Jiang Ji simply didn’t fall for her act.

He laughed softly, like a feather brushing past.

It made Ji Mingzhu’s heart feel damp, like freshly fallen thin snow.

“Mm, I’m here,” he replied.

…

Ji Mingzhu woke up very late the next day.

Probably because they had stayed up late last night, and because of that accidental touch, she dragged Jiang Ji into chatting, refusing to let him sleep.

Their conversation covered a wide range. Probably because their aristocratic families interacted, their childhood circles overlapped, and both had gone abroad, so for many topics, their opinions were similar.

Once they really opened up, Ji Mingzhu became more and more excited.

Until they accidentally talked about Jiang Mo, Jiang Ji seemed to fall asleep instantly. No matter how she shook his shoulder or called him, he kept silent.

He really seemed… extremely principled :)

When she woke in the morning, Jiang Ji was no longer beside the bed.

But on the soft couch at that side of the bed, his changed home clothes were still placed there.

So.

This man had changed clothes right in front of her?

…Was the walk-in closet just decoration?!

Ji Mingzhu imagined the scene, rolled twice on the bed, then got up briskly to wash up.

Although everything at the Park Hyatt had already been cleaned up last night, the air still carried the unique fragrance of rose petals.

She pushed open the door, walked through the corridor into the living room. By the wall still stood the human-height rose tree.

The little robot was also nearby. Seeing Ji Mingzhu, it greeted enthusiastically and then rubbed against her leg.

From the kitchen counter came the smell of butter. Ji Mingzhu sat down, propping her face with one hand, looking toward the kitchen.

Ah, the more she looked, the more pleasing it was.

Ji Mingzhu felt her happiness was about to overflow.

She touched her lips—they were still a bit swollen.

Next time… she would be the one to bite him! Best if Jiang Ji’s lips swelled so much he couldn’t show his face!

Probably because her emotions fluctuated greatly, Tomi lying at Ji Mingzhu’s feet started playing a song—

“Everywhere Kiss.”

That wasn’t all. Its mechanical voice happily followed the song: Mistress, a romantic night song for you and Master. Although it wasn’t used last night, there’s still tonight!

Ji Mingzhu:

“............”

Tonight, kiss everywhere?

Every place… the kind that kisses everywhere?

While thinking wildly, Ji Mingzhu realized a serious problem—

So this little robot eavesdropped last night?!

This wouldn’t do!!!

…

When Jiang Ji came out, Ji Mingzhu was talking to Tomi.

Or rather, not talking—more like intensely discussing something.

You say one sentence, I say one sentence—by the end, Ji Mingzhu threatened, “Later I’ll make it so you can’t see tonight’s moon!”

“Mistress, what I liked most from the beginning is the sun~”

Jiang Ji finished plating on the counter. “Time to eat.”

Yet even so, it didn’t attract Ji Mingzhu’s attention.

His long lashes trembled slightly. Then he took out an automatic remote control from the glass cabinet beside him and pressed it toward the little robot.

After that, the debate finally stopped.

The most stunned person was Ji Mingzhu herself.

“You had this and didn’t say earlier?”

Before, she had thought the way to stop the little robot was to quietly wait for it to run out of power?

Seeing her like this, Jiang Ji explained lightly, “Special period, special policy.”

With such calm immortal-like bearing, when he said this, he didn’t feel his skin was thick at all.

Ji Mingzhu glanced sideways at him. “Then tell me, what policies have you implemented?”

“Before, there was pleasing, there was appeasement.” Jiang Ji sat across from Ji Mingzhu. “Now it’s making it so you can only see me.”

Ji Mingzhu choked again and again.

Why did that… sound so pleasing to the ear.

Even though she used to be obsessed with idol dramas, the concrete flutter of the heart had never felt as real and impactful as now.

This Jiang Ji.

The Jiang Ji who was only like this in front of her.

After realizing this, Ji Mingzhu pouted lightly, only muttering softly to herself, “Looks like a person but like a chicken…”

…

After eating, Jiang Ji washed the dishes and said he had some matters to handle, it would be quick, and told her to wait.

Ji Mingzhu agreed. Since it was still the weekend and she had nothing to do, she picked up her phone and continued scrolling Weibo.

She posted in a hurry yesterday and only glanced at some comments.

Now looking back, she found the popularity had surged unprecedentedly, even greater than her previous video traffic.

After fans’ congratulations and reminders, Ji Mingzhu realized she had made it onto the trending list.

Although the ranking wasn’t very high, it was still outstanding in the video blogger circle.

Her followers grew quickly. Probably amazed by such romance, many netizens came to follow her, some even digging back through her previous posts, constantly praising the high quality of her videos and the richness of her content.

Her videos spanned multiple countries and involved concrete projects; using the word “wealthy” to describe them was most appropriate.

This kind of showing hidden in details, and the environmental backgrounds revealed unintentionally, were dug out one by one for discussion—something netizens enjoyed tirelessly.

There were too many notifications on Ji Mingzhu’s homepage, making even refreshing a bit slow.

After marking them all as read, she closed Weibo and switched to WeChat.

However, unexpectedly, WeChat had exploded too.

But Ji Mingzhu hadn’t revealed any information in Moments last night.

Jiang Ji was also someone who never posted in Moments, like an ice popsicle.

When Ji Mingzhu entered the chat interface, she found her estimate was wrong.

Aside from normal exchanges with partners and brands, three-quarters of her messages were content bombarded by Lian Tang.

Lian Tang: Damn—! President Jiang is so good at this! Such a thoughtful man!!

Lian Tang: Wuwuwu I held back from saying it before, now I finally can, it’s really too romantic!

Lian Tang: My little eight, you must be happy!

Lian Tang: I saw the Moments! I only knew Jiang Ji’s plan, didn’t expect so many rose petals?

Lian Tang: Damn, did you two have wild action, those roses were ravaged into what state!

Lian Tang: No… it’s not even dawn yet, where are you?

Ji Mingzhu looked at the messages Lian Tang sent, like firecrackers exploding at her.

She typed and directly replied—

Ji Mingzhu: Dear, I’m alive.

Ji Mingzhu: Slept with Jiang Ji all night, my mood now is a bit indescribable.

Then remembering the Moments Lian Tang mentioned, she hurriedly opened it.

Ji Mingzhu casually scrolled down and finally locked onto a familiar profile picture.

It was Jiang Ji.

The iceberg big boss who had been invisible for years posted his first Moments.

【Boxing Jiang: Mine.】

The attached picture was probably taken when Jiang Ji was about to clean up; no wonder Lian Tang said the roses were ravaged.

Looking at it now, it really was messy, like something had rolled over it.

There were few comments below, but all were acquaintances.

Daddy: Brat, cherish it.

Cheng Chi: May you live happily ever after, have a child soon, I’ll definitely come to the full-month banquet.

Xiao Yi: Jiang Ji, you’ve got guts, the roses got messed up like this hahaha!

Lian Tang: Wow, rare sight, congratulations~

Aunt Lin: Sure enough, the most unreliable thing in this world is a man’s mouth, even if that man is my son!

Xiao Yi replied to Aunt Lin: Auntie, I want gossip, I’ve already prepared peanuts.

Boxing Jiang replied to Xiao Yi: Get lost.

Xiao Yi replied to Boxing Jiang: ?

Boxing Jiang replied to Cheng Chi: Okay, there will be.

Ji Mingzhu looked and confirmed carefully.

It was indeed Jiang Ji.

Her expression didn’t change; she reservedly liked the post, but…

What did Jiang Ji mean by specifically replying to Cheng Chi?

“Live happily ever after, have a child soon.”

And there was also the full-month banquet!

The key was, Jiang Ji seriously replied—【There will be.】

They just kissed, and he already thought about children?!

Ji Mingzhu recalled the burning sensation when her palm briefly touched last night…

She quickly switched back to the chat with Lian Tang.

Before she could relay her inner excitement and joy, she saw Lian Tang’s continued bombardment.

Lian Tang: You woke up this late?!

Lian Tang: Daytime doing that kind of lustful thing is unacceptable! And it can’t be day and night either!

Lian Tang: Getting into a relationship is amazing, already living a passionate nightlife!

Lian Tang: Where are you? So… tired? t.t I don’t dare look directly at you two anymore.

Ji Mingzhu: Be pure, be pure! We just chatted under the quilt!

Ji Mingzhu: You still dare talk about me! While I wasn’t around, you and my cousin wagged the dragon tail countless times, how do you explain that?

Lian Tang: …………

Lian Tang: That’s your misunderstanding, how could that be?

Ji Mingzhu: Oh, forgot to tell you, last time you wanted to transfer studio funds, so your card is still bound to my account.

Ji Mingzhu: Hua’an Tingcheng Grand Hotel, checked in four times, double luxury suite, male companion—Shen Qing.

Lian Tang: That was me handling him!

Ji Mingzhu: Oh? You were handling him.

Everyone knew Hua’an Tingcheng was a chain hotel under the Shen family. Someone as meticulous as Shen Qing, yet he could indulge Lian Tang handling him in such an environment?

Maybe it was intentional, pushing the boat along with the current. On the surface it looked like Lian Tang controlled him, but in reality he probably wanted the Shen family to know. After all, Shen Qing also had a marriage arrangement.

Ji Mingzhu pitied poor Little Tang; who knows who would handle whom later.

Ji Mingzhu: Not talking anymore, I’m leaving.

Lian Tang: Ah, not chatting? What are you going to do!

Ji Mingzhu smiled.

Ji Mingzhu: Of course, going to find my boyfriend.

She said this, exited, planning to wait a bit for Jiang Ji.

If he took too long, she would go to the study door and wait for him.

Ji Mingzhu looked again at the chat interface.

The chat box between Jiang Ji and her lay quietly at the top.

Speaking of which, seeing the ancient nickname she gave him, shouldn’t she change it?

Before Ji Mingzhu could think it through, a sentence softly exploded beside her ear.

“Boxing Jiang?”

It was Jiang Ji.

Ji Mingzhu quickly turned back. Seeing it was him, “Are you the reincarnation of a ghost?”

He walked so silently!

From before until now, the number of times she’d been startled by him was more than in horror movies.

Jiang Ji straightened slightly, repeating what he had just seen. “Is ‘Boxing Jiang’ the nickname you gave me?”

“Pet name…?” Ji Mingzhu blinked.

After she spoke, she saw Jiang Ji raise his brows slightly.

It was obvious he didn’t believe it.

But—

Ji Mingzhu didn’t intend to explain the origin of that nickname.

That was in the past; it should be turned over.

Thinking this, she changed the subject. “Jiang Ji, how about we change to a new nickname now? Come think of one.”

Jiang Ji’s long eyes lowered slightly. “Give me your phone.”

Ji Mingzhu subconsciously guarded it. “What are you going to do.”

“I’ve already thought of a new one.”

Ji Mingzhu nodded and handed the phone to him. “Oh…”

But on second thought, Ji Mingzhu felt a bit at a loss.

“You haven’t told me what nickname you gave me before. Let me see.”

She wanted to see what trick Jiang Ji could come up with.

Ji Mingzhu was both expectant and curious.

Jiang Ji glanced at her and complied.

He opened his phone, his jade-like fingertips casually unlocking it, then directly handed it to her.

Unlike Ji Mingzhu’s cluttered chat interface, Jiang Ji’s phone was clean.

Only four or five people.

Ji Mingzhu’s gaze fell and fixed on her own profile picture.

Her profile picture was pinned.

Firmly hanging at the very top, the most eye-catching position.

And even more eye-catching was something else.

Ji Mingzhu focused carefully. The nickname Jiang Ji gave her was—

【Little Princess】.

So when Jiang Ji chatted with her, he was chatting with “Little Princess.”

What kind of attitude and feelings… did he hold before?

When they were separated across shores, in those years divided by the wide ocean, or when they lived only two walls apart at the Park Hyatt, did he quietly, silently, think of her?

Ji Mingzhu looked up at him, just as Jiang Ji lowered his head.

One looking up, one bowing down.

Their eyes met.

The two stood silently, just silently… looking at each other.

The air seemed to freeze at this moment, the flowing particles slowly evaporating.

Only Ji Mingzhu’s senses, in this ordinary early spring morning, expanded infinitely.

She felt that the thoughts Jiang Ji had hidden in the dark, which she had been receiving these past few days, grew heavier.

So heavy she could hardly bear it.

As they gazed without words, Jiang Ji spoke first.

“What are you daydreaming about?”

He had already changed the new nickname. His arm reached over, first rubbing her hair, then handing the phone to her.

Ji Mingzhu covered her cheeks. “I wasn’t daydreaming…”

She took it and looked down at her phone interface.

The previous 【Boxing Jiang】 had been changed to—【Breeder】.

Author’s note: 【Mini theater】:

Chicken: Under the quilt.

Piggy: Pure chatting!

Chicken: Then don’t cover it.

Piggy: ?

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