Rebirth: Splendid Marriage in the 80s

Chapter 3196: Chapter 3132: Under the Influence of Intoxication

Looks like the alcohol really is getting to her a little.

Meng Xinian let out a low laugh. "I’ve got shorts on."

"You’re only wearing shorts..."

"Wife, are you hoping I’m not wearing anything? Want me to take them off?"

What she was saying already had that faint drunken slur to it. She wasn’t totally drunk, but she was nicely tipsy, showing a hint of drunkenness.

"Aren’t you ashamed at all?" Jiang Xiao’s pale, slender finger poked at his chest.

"Not tonight. I’ll pick my shame back up some other day."

As Meng Xinian spoke, he set the wine aside, then came back to the bed and reached out to lightly pinch Jiang Xiao’s chin.

"I think my wife is the best-looking woman in the whole world."

Borrowing the courage of the alcohol, Jiang Xiao giggled. "I really envy you, getting to marry such a pretty wife."

Ha.

Meng Xinian nodded. "Mm, I’m also very envious of you, marrying such a handsome, capable husband."

"Pff, hahaha."

Jiang Xiao’s eyes curved with laughter. She poked his chest again and said, "You really have tossed your shame away."

"I can be even more shameless than this..." Meng Xinian said, pulling her down to lie with him.

Jiang Xiao felt her whole body floating in a daze. For a moment she couldn’t tell whether it was Meng Xinian bending over her, or her own future.

Or maybe Meng Xinian was her future.

She wanted to open her eyes wide to look at him, to see his brows and eyes clearly, but when he slid her collar down off her shoulder, she still trembled slightly and closed her eyes.

It wasn’t that she didn’t dare look, or didn’t want to look. It was that even with her eyes closed, she could still clearly feel him, still "see" him.

And with her eyes closed, she wouldn’t tremble quite so hard.

Otherwise she’d feel like his gaze could burn her to ashes.

"Little, wife..." Meng Xinian kissed her lips, occasionally letting a low murmur spill out at the corner of her mouth.

"Mm..." Jiang Xiao could only respond to him this softly, weakly.

She couldn’t tell if, once her clothes were all gone, she felt cold or hot.

In weather like this, the nights were already chilly; she usually needed to tuck herself under the quilt at night. But now she and he were both on top of the quilt, neither of them even thinking to pull it over, and yet her body was burning.

His was too.

Under the dim, flickering candlelight, she occasionally cracked her eyes open a sliver and could see the way the candlelight coated his face in a shade that was intoxicatingly beautiful.

Meng Xinian was so handsome.

Looking at him in that moment, all she could think was that his face, his features were impossibly good-looking.

And his eyes were just as captivating.

And his body.

Tall and solid as a mountain.

Along with the feeling he gave her.

So reliable.

Meng Xinian had originally thought she would instinctively shy away, but to his surprise she instead reached out and wrapped her arms around his shoulders and back.

As if encouraging him, as if anticipating him.

Her doing that utterly delighted him. He couldn’t help but draw a deep breath and ask, "Little, are you scared?"

Jiang Xiao shook her head.

"I’m not."

Her voice carried a lazy rasp to it.

That tone...

He pushed himself up a little, looking down at her.

In the candlelight, her body was like a work of art beautiful to the extreme, making him feel that if he moved too roughly he would hurt her. But this very beauty also tugged at that wolfish nature in his bones that he’d suppressed for years, making him want to cherish her and at the same time not cherish her.

It was a maddening contradiction.

"Little..."

He called her softly again, then finally took the last step.

A feeling he didn’t even know how to put into words.

Jiang Xiao bit down on her lower lip on reflex, and just when his heart ached for her and he was about to pull back, she wouldn’t let him retreat.