Jiang Shenghe turned off the computer and said, “I’m done with my work. What about you? Do you need to work overtime at night?”

She had a lot of time in her hands, why would she need to work overtime?

She only said, ”I’m done, too.”

“Then let’s go home and watch a movie.”

Jiang Shenghe asked Luo Qi to take the elevator down first. After waiting for another two minutes, he took his coat, turned off the lights, and left.

… …

Today would be Luo Qi’s fifth night staying in the villa. Luo Yu called her as she was driving. 

The young lady from 302 had already moved out, and Luo Yu has moved in. She asked Luo Qi when she would be back from her business trip.

The house Luo Yu rented was about the same size as her older cousin’s, and the layout was pretty much the same, but somehow she didn’t have the same sense of belonging when she stayed there as she did at her cousin’s house. Maybe it was because the furniture in the new home was unfamiliar.

That’s what she thought anyway.

“Older sister, I don’t have a picture to be turned to an oil painting. That’s not creative at all.”

Luo Qi cooperatively asked, “Then tell me what kind of creative oil painting you want. It’s probably in your mind, right?”

“Yeah.” Feeling absurdly guilty, Luo Yu came up with a long list of reasons to explain first, “Don’t I like reading novels? I recently became obsessed with a domineering romance novel. It’s actually very interesting. It’s about this heroine who fiercely overwhelms and takes the hero. Oh my god, there was this particular scene that shocked me. You don’t know how cool it is. I want to get exact moment painted.”

“Alright, tell me what the scene is.”

“After the unspeakable incident between them, the heroine leaned  back on bed, smoking, while the hero stood beside the bed feeling aggrieved and unwilling.”

“…”

Luo Yu scrunched her eyes closed; she wanted to bite off her tongue as soon as she said it. Fortunately, she didn’t smoke, so her cousin wouldn’t associate the image with her.

Of course, the image of the male protagonist being aggrieved and unwilling was only a picture she imagined; she wanted to use the connotation of this picture to rub it on He Xu’s face. It was clear that she had nothing to do with him, but he still didn’t want to let her go.

“Older sister, I’m out of my mind. I haven’t come out of the novel yet.”

“This can’t be drawn, I’ll just pretend you didn’t say this.”

“Older sister, have you had dinner?”

Luo Qi replied, “Not yet.”

Her mind was filled with the scene Luo Yu described. It wasn’t that she wasn’t satisfied with her younger cousin, but she was too embarrassed to speak to Teacher Yu about it.

“Think carefully about what you want painted the most. This is my New Year’s gift to you.”

Unexpectedly, Luo Yu asked her cousin for time to think and hung up the call.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Luo Qi’s and Jiang Shenghe’s cars drove into the villa yard one after the other. He was only a few minutes behind her, so she just waited for him at the entrance of the villa.

In the corner of the yard, there were two more plastic sheds, and all the planting equipment inside were used to grow pumpkins.

When the pumpkin harvest comes next year, they wouldn’t be able to finish it all even if they ate it three meals a day.

“After the pumpkins are harvested, we can plant something else,” Luo Qi once again hinted.

Jiang Shenghe calculated the time, “That’s just in time to plant cucumbers.”

“…”

Luo Qi could only smile and agree with him.

… …

After dinner, Luo Qi wanted to accompany Jiang Shenghe to watch a movie he liked and let him choose the movie.

The home theater was on the first floor, and the projection equipment was really no worse than that of a cinema.

Jiang Shenghe sat on the sofa in front of the screen and stretched out his arms to hug her, wanting to hold her in his arms as they watched.

But Luo Qi didn’t sit on the sofa—she sat down cross-legged on the thick woolen carpet.

“… Don’t you want to sit on the sofa?”

Luo Qi shook her head, “It’s comfortable to sit on the carpet.”

She leaned against his legs, resting her elbows on his thighs and supported her chin.

After a while, her entire weight was leaning on his legs, intimate and natural.

Jiang Shenghe had already seen this movie before; he mainly wanted to show it to her. During the entire time, which lasted more than two hours, he almost never took his eyes off her.

She couldn’t make up for all the regrets from that movie theater seven years ago, but she was making up for him now so that he would no longer have any regrets in the future.

In the last few minutes of the movie, the screen of Jiang Shenghe’s mobile phone turned on. He had put it on mute before the movie started. It was a work call.

He didn’t go out to respond to the call until the movie was over.

Luo Qi first went back to her room upstairs. She closed the door, walked a few steps, then turned back, held the door handle for a few seconds—then finally pulled it open halfway.

… …

She had already finished taking a shower, but Jiang Shenghe hasn’t gone upstairs yet.

Luo Qi was leaning against the bed, scrolling through her phone, half of her mind focused on listening for his footsteps.

The phone call lasted for more than forty minutes. Jiang Shenghe went upstairs and the door to her room was half open.

“Did you blow dry your hair?”

“Yeah, it’s dry.”

Jiang Shenghe walked over, took her phone from her unresisting hands and put it on the bedside table, lowered his head and kissed her.

She was trapped between his arms, but he didn’t dive straight in and only nibbled her lips gently.

Luo Qi was greatly moved by the kiss.

With great restraint, he left her lips and pressed his forehead against hers, “Besides being moved, do you have any other feelings for me now?”

He asked this so bluntly. It was probably because he was worried about gains and losses, and was never quite sure that she also liked him and that she wasn’t just purely moved by his seven years of persistence.

Probably the only thing he wasn’t sure about in his life was her feelings for him.

Luo Qi kissed him back, “I am not only moved.”

“Then we won’t be separated from now on,” he said.

Luo Qi didn’t respond and only kissed him again.

Jiang Shenghe picked her up by the waist, carried her to the master bedroom, and placed her on his bed.

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

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T/N: That part with Luo Yu was so embarrassing to translate 🙈 Good thing these two are so sweet they’re palate cleansing.

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A list of all advance chapters is HERE.
Chapter 47.1 — His First Love
Chapter 47.2 — His First Love