Chapter 87: Chapter 87: Have You Ever Seen a Little Girl with Such a Good Figure?
Although Lu Cheng didn’t make any further moves after embracing her, Shen Nian could still feel a shift in his emotions.
After Lu Cheng’s arms around her tightened, Shen Nian finally spoke, her voice laced with a hint of nervousness.
"Lu Cheng..."
Shen Nian’s voice instantly snapped Lu Cheng out of the reverie he had just fallen into.
Realizing what he had just been thinking, Lu Cheng couldn’t help but want to slap himself across the face.
"Don’t be afraid. I just want to hold you. I won’t do anything."
"..."
Hearing his words, the first thing that came to Shen Nian’s mind was a saying she had once encountered in her past life.
’The biggest lie in the world is when a man tells a woman, "I’ll just hold you, I won’t do anything!"’
But Shen Nian believed that Lu Cheng’s words were no lie. So, when he said he would just hold her and do nothing, it had to be true.
’Still, could a virile, twenty-six-year-old Lu Cheng really restrain himself with his beautiful young wife in his arms and not do anything?’
"Actually..."
Shen Nian had wanted to tell him that he didn’t need to be so considerate, but the words died in her throat as soon as she began to speak.
’If she really said that, wouldn’t she seem far too eager? As if *she* were the one desperate for something to happen with Lu Cheng!’
"I know."
Knowing that Shen Nian didn’t reject him in her heart and was even willing to accept him, Lu Cheng was overjoyed.
But...
"You’re still too young. We’re... not in a rush."
’His young wife was just eighteen! Other eighteen-year-old girls were still in school!’
’But because of his own selfish desires, he’d had Shen Nian marry him at the tender age of eighteen.’
’He had already wronged her so greatly; he absolutely couldn’t let her be physically harmed as well.’
’An eighteen-year-old’s body was too delicate. At eighteen, she was still just a girl!’
If Shen Nian knew what Lu Cheng was thinking right now, she might have jumped up and shouted.
’What "girl"? Have you ever seen a girl with a figure this good?!’
In Lu Cheng’s mind, he had forced Shen Nian to marry him at eighteen out of his own selfish desires. But Shen Nian knew the truth. ’If my parents hadn’t been convinced that I’d face a great catastrophe if I didn’t marry at eighteen, they probably never would have agreed, no matter how many times Lu Cheng came to ask for my hand!’
’And if it hadn’t been Lu Cheng, knowing my parents as I do, they still would have found some other reliable man for me to marry, just to protect me from what they believed was harm!’
Unfortunately, Shen Nian had no idea what Lu Cheng was thinking, so she had no opportunity to reassure him.
Listening to his words, her head pillowed in the crook of his arm, feeling the warmth of his embrace, all the nervousness, worry, and fear in Shen Nian’s heart vanished.
Perhaps because the long day had been simply too exhausting, Shen Nian slowly closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.
Lu Cheng listened to her breathing even out, his eyes filled with deep contentment as he watched her sleep, a faint smile on her face.
For Lu Cheng, just holding her like this, watching her sleep, felt as if he had the whole world in his arms.
"Sleep now, my girl."
With that, Lu Cheng lowered his head and pressed a reverent kiss to her forehead. Then, holding her gently, he too closed his eyes.
