CHAPTER 236: 236: THIS DOG FOOD IS WELL STUFFED

Jiang Nuo said that when they first met, he had confessed to Mu Qiuniang several times, but she rejected him, citing his age as too young. This made him particularly sensitive about his age and felt it was especially unfair of her. Therefore, whenever she mentioned age, he would get particularly angry.

But that day, Mu Qiuniang shook her head, "No, I rejected you not just because of your age."

"Then what else? You don’t believe I really like you?"

"Because you haven’t thought it through, whether you want to spend a lifetime with me or just a while."

Jiang Nuo didn’t understand, "Didn’t I already say? When I say I like you, I mean a lifetime, definitely a lifetime. I never lie. If you don’t believe me, you can go to the school, go to the orphanage where I grew up and ask."

"But if you really want to spend a lifetime with me, what do you have to offer?"

Jiang Nuo was a bit dumbfounded.

"Can you even support yourself now?"

"I’m still a student. Once I graduate from college..."

Mu Qiuniang interrupted him, shaking her head, "You don’t understand. When a man can’t even support himself, how can he take on a future for two people? If he can’t take on a future for two people, what does he have to love that woman with? Just saying ’like’? The word ’like’ is easy, but a lifetime is more than just those two words; it needs to be built on a financial foundation."

"But, I’m still a student!" Jiang Nuo wanted to emphasize this point.

"That’s why I said, you’re too young to be saying the words ’like’ so early. Jiang Nuo, wait until the day you can support yourself, can take on a future for two people, then say the words ’like’, and you will truly grasp a lifetime of happiness. Otherwise, what you’re pursuing is just an illusion, ultimately only adding to the sadness, leaving nothing."

...

Xu Jing wasn’t surprised at all that Mu Qiuniang would say such things. She admired Mu Qiuniang. She was just in her early twenties at the time, yet she already had such vision and broad-mindedness.

Facing a child still in middle school, she could seriously speak such philosophical words to reject him, rather than treating his confession as a joke.

All right, maybe at first, Mu Qiuniang did take Jiang Nuo’s affection as a child’s joke, thinking that if she left it be, after a while, the child’s enthusiasm would be dampened, and he would retreat on his own.

But unexpectedly, this child was too persistent, insisted for several months, and Mu Qiuniang gradually realized his feelings.

So, she could no longer treat it as a joke.

She couldn’t reciprocate, so she could only tell him what true "liking" meant!

"After that day, I started to seriously think about how I would walk the road in the future. My initial goal was simple, just to make money, buy a house, buy a car, and get married. But you can imagine what a middle schooler could do? Hand out leaflets, wash dishes, anyway, I tried all the part-time jobs I could find one by one. But how much can you earn from part-time jobs? Not enough for myself even, but I still tried hard to save money to buy her gifts."

"Did Lady Mu accept them?" Although Mu Qiuniang wasn’t much of a talker, Xu Jing still hoped this quiet woman would say a bit more.

Mu Qiuniang: "Hmm."

"Can I make a suggestion?" Jiang Nuo, looking as if he had held back for a long time and couldn’t any longer, said, "Sister Xu, can you stop calling my wife Lady Mu? Makes it feel like we’re from two different families. Could you call her Lady Jiang instead?"

Xu Jing laughed, "All right, all right, the male god has spoken, how can I not obey? Lady Jiang, is this form of address okay with you? See, I’ve only said it a few times, and your husband already has an opinion."

Mu Qiuniang nodded, "He’s always been petty and thick-skinned."

"So, the male god in everyone’s eyes is like this in Lady Jiang’s?" Xu Jing asked with a smile.

"No, he’s even worse than that. In her eyes, I’m just a rascal, a good-for-nothing," Jiang Nuo added with a smile from the side, "It’s always been me pestering her, finally winning her over. Even when we got married, she had a special request not to make it public."

"Why?"

Jiang Nuo shrugged, "I’d like to know that too."

"He was too young, afraid he might regret it." Mu Qiuniang said earnestly, "But by that time, he had already entered the entertainment industry and was a public figure. If we divorced, it might not be good for him. So, we made an agreement not to make it public until he turned 25."

"So, in other words, you actually already liked Jiang Nuo back then?" Xu Jing said.

Jiang Nuo looked at her with eager anticipation.

The cameraman controlling the camera was also mischievous, giving a close-up shot of Jiang Nuo’s expression.

"I don’t know!" Mu Qiuniang was unsure, "He gave too much, felt like some reciprocation was necessary."

"My wife is rather slow in matters of affection. I chased her from when I was 16 until I was 22, only then did I win her over. You can imagine how slow she is."

As soon as Jiang Nuo spoke, the fans in the audience wanted to laugh, all saying "slow."

"Actually, when she agreed to marry me, I was quite surprised because I knew she hadn’t really fallen for me at the time. I was ready for a long campaign. However, she agreed, maybe because I was annoying her, maybe out of being moved, maybe it was an impulse. Whatever the reason, I was very happy and seized the opportunity to go to the marriage registry immediately."

"Judging by your tone, getting the marriage certificate seemed smooth. Didn’t anything unexpected happen? You just said that at that time, Lady Jiang might have been impulsive."

"Of course it went smoothly. I had already familiarized myself with the entire process, had everything prepared, just waiting for her to nod."

"Seems like you planned it early?"

"Yes, from the moment I entered the entertainment industry and received my first paycheck, I knew I was one step closer to my goal of marrying her. So, of course, I figured out what documents were needed for marriage registration and prevented any possible unexpected incidents."

"Don’t you think it wasn’t worth it, always you putting in the effort?"

Jiang Nuo tightly held Mu Qiu’s hand, his eyes filled with unfathomable tenderness and affection, "Of course, it’s worth it. Although on the surface, it looks like it’s all me putting in the effort, she actually contributed quite a lot too. Since being with her, my daily life has been managed by her; food, clothing, everything she could make by hand was made by her own hands. Even if she hasn’t completely fallen in love with me, I am certainly the most special in her heart. In her world, apart from herself, there’s only me, no one else!"

"You mean to say, even if Lady Jiang doesn’t love you, you’re the one closest to her?"

"Not exactly," Jiang Nuo shook his head, "It’s not that she has no feelings for me. She just moves too slowly in this relationship, and I move too fast! That’s why it gives the impression I love her, and she doesn’t love me. Like you said, I’m the one closest to her world. If I can’t get into her heart, then no one else can. As long as I have enough patience, I will surely wait for her. And now, I’ve succeeded."

As he spoke, he lifted her hand, smiling with such happiness.

Mu Qiuniang, though speechless, like an unreachable iceberg, bloomed for him with the most beautiful Heavenly Mountain Snow Lotus at its peak, stunningly beautiful.