Luo Qi didn’t refuse him at all and decided to move in after dinner.

The villa didn’t have any personal supplies she needed. It was still early, so Jiang Shenghe planned to stop by the mall to buy some before they go over.

Luo Qi didn’t bring many clothes with her; she just picked out a few good-looking ones.

Starting tonight, she would step into his personal realm.

The two of them had a tacit understanding of each other at work, but she wondered how they would live together as husband and wife.

The car ride to the villa was extremely quiet.

Luo Qi moved to break the silence, “Has Professor Liang returned from Suzhou?”

“Not yet,” Jiang Shenghe said. “She’ll come back the day before the holiday. She made an appointment with Aunt Jiang for tomorrow.”

Luo Qi’s mother decided to take over the design work for Professor Liang’s villa. After several contacts with Professor Liang, they realized they got along well and their aesthetics were somewhat similar. In the past few days, her mother was busy designing the terrace for the lake view room. From time to time, she asked her to call Jiang Shenghe and his wife to ask for their ideas.

Her mother knew the style she liked, so she could only talk nonsense.

Lying to her mother every day made her feel exhausted.

Jiang Shenghe drove the car to the shopping mall and wanted to go shopping with her.

“I’ll do it myself.” Luo Qi worried, “What if some colleague from Yuanwei bumps into us?” The boss went shopping with his assistant during the holidays—it was enough to make up for thirty episodes of dog-blood drama.

Jiang Shenghe parked the car and waited for her to get on the elevator before he also got off.

She walked around the mall, and he walked outside the mall.

Luo Qi had just left the cosmetics counter when she got Luo Yu’s call.

Luo Yu wanted to live with her, “I can’t stay in the place where I live now.” Unexpectedly, He Xu came to the door. She didn’t know who messed with him, but he was so angry, he almost wanted to gobble her up! She’d better hide.

“Older sister, I’ll stay with you for a few days. Anyway, Miss 302 will move out soon.”

Luo Qi said, “Okay, you can stay anytime. I’m going on a business trip tomorrow.”

“Didn’t you say your holiday was for eight days?”

“Do you believe everything the boss says?”

“Touché.”

After dealing with Luo Yu, Luo Qi went upstairs to buy home clothes.

It was the holidays and there was a promo: you can get 10% off if you get two sets, and you can even choose from men’s and women’s styles.

The price was moderate. She bought one set of each. She planned to give the men’s set to Jiang Shenghe after getting more familiar with him. Anyway, he had no shortage of home clothes.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

She was not completely unfamiliar with Jiang Shenghe’s villa, having already visited it once.

After walking out to the yard, Luo Qi remembered, “Aunt Chai knows me.”

Jiang Shenghe reassured her, “Aunt Chai has gone to take care of my aunt and hasn’t been back until now.”

Luo Qi felt relieved. She didn’t know the other staff here, so she had no psychological burden. Only Aunt Chai was an old acquaintance.

Jiang Shenghe was pulling her luggage with one hand and held her hand with the other.

This place was new to her. In fact, even he himself was not that emotionally familiar to her.

Luo Qi looked at the man beside her. At this moment, she fully regarded him as her husband.

Upstairs, Jiang Shenghe took her to choose a room.

“Each room has a different layout, you decide which one you like.”

Luo Qi had long been indifferent to her living arrangements, used to living in rooms of only seven or eight square meters.

She first asked, “Chief Jiang, which one is your room?”

Jiang Shenghe pointed to the bedroom on the right, “How about you come in and have a look? If the layout of the room is to your liking, you can live in it first and I’ll live next door.”

Luo Qi refused without hesitation, “No, thank you.”

The bed he had been sleeping on would be full of his scent, so she would definitely not be able to sleep.

She chose the guest bedroom closest to his room and pushed her luggage into the room.

“Chief Jiang.”

“Yes?”

She called out ‘Chief Jiang’ ten thousand times already, but Jiang Shenghe was still so patient with her.

Luo Qi suddenly forgot what she was going to say. That sentence was clearly on her lips before—she couldn’t remember a single word now.

“Never mind.”

“Then tell me when you remember.” Jiang Shenghe closed the bedroom door.

Luo Qi looked around at the unfamiliar room. Every time she changed places, she needed to get used to it for a day or two.

She sorted the clothes she brought and hung them in the cloakroom. As soon as she finished unpacking, her mother called her.

When Jiang Yifang was designing the terrace, she still felt that it would be better to discuss some details with Jiang Shenghe and his wife in person. Every time, it was her daughter who relayed the information, and she feared there would inevitably be errors in the feedback.

“Tell President Jiang’s wife that I want to talk to her on the phone, see when it’s convenient for her.”

“…”

Luo Qi was really stumped this time.

“Mom, wait a minute, let me see if she has time.”

Any disclosure about their marriage was a matter between two people, so Luo Qi wanted to first ask Jiang Shenghe to discuss what to do.

She knocked on the boss’ door, “Chief Jiang.”

“Did you remember what you wanted to say?” Jiang Shenghe asked her through the closed door without opening it.

“I didn’t remember it.”

“You just come here to call me ‘Chief Jiang’?”

His voice was so indulgent that Luo Qi could hardly hear it.

“…No, I have something to discuss with you.” She told him what her mother said on the phone almost word for word and asked for his opinion, “What should we do?”

Keep lying?

Or find someone to pretend to be his wife?

Or… be more transparent with their family.

“I told my parents that I have a boyfriend.”

“Luo Qi, wait a bit.”

“No rush.”

Luo Qi guessed that he might be changing his clothes.

Seventh Year of My Secret Love for You translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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