Jiang Shenghe watched the video again without waiting for Qin Moling’s reply.

Luo Qi came out of the bathroom with her hair already blown dry, wearing a men’s bathrobe.

The bathrobe was loose on her and hung all the way down to her ankles.

She went to the bedroom looking for Jiang Shenghe. He was standing by the window looking at his phone, with water still dripping from his hair. This man took a shower the same time her and came out ten minutes earlier than her, yet his hair hasn’t been dried yet.

“Busy?” She brought him a dry towel.

Jiang Shenghe didn’t say he sent the video to Qin Moling, instead giving an ambiguous ‘hmm’.

Luo Qi wanted to help him wipe his hair, but he refused, saying, “No need.” He put down the phone and took the towel from her to wipe his hair himself.

The robe on her body was too loose; Jiang Shenghe untied it, wanting to tie it again for her. Halfway through, he stopped— and lowered his head to kiss her on the lips.

Luo Qi wrapped her arms around his neck and responded to him gently.

After using the same shampoo and shower gel, Luo Qi now smelled of his refreshing scent.

Jiang Shenghe kissed behind her ear and breathed in the scent on her neck.

When she became confused, he lay her down on the quilt.

Luo Qi wanted to turn off the light; she raised her hand and flailed around but failed to touch the button on the bedside.

“Husband,” she called out, “turn off the lights.”

Jiang Shenghe responded to her warmly but had no spare hand to turn off the light.

He kept looking at her, the two bodies rubbing against each other.

The look in his eyes were so deep that Luo Qi turned her head to avoid looking at him and simply hugged him tightly.

She accepted him little by little, forgetting all thoughts about turning off the light.

When she completely accepted him, Jiang Shenghe stopped moving. He gave her a few seconds to adapt, lowered his head, and kissed her, “Once you’ve solved Ruipu’s matters, I will take you back to my family’s old house.”

“I know where you live,” she said. She had just broken up at that time, and they watched a movie in Jiang Yueru’s yard. After that, Luo Qi sent him back to his family’s old house.

“I wanted to take you home that time.” After a pause, he said, “I’ve always wanted to take you home.”

When she got used to him, Jiang Shenghe raised his hand and turned off the lights in the room.

Who knew how long it took but outside the hotel window, the rain that had been falling all afternoon and all evening finally stopped.

The hotel room gradually calmed down.

Both bathrobes had fallen to the floor at some point.

“Do you want to take a bath?” Jiang Shenghe asked her.

Luo Qi nodded, feeling very weak.

Jiang Shenghe placed her on the pillow, stood up, and pulled the quilt to cover her.

Luo Qi was covered in sweat and felt too hot, “I don’t want to cover up, it’s not cold.”

“It’s easy to catch a cold when you’re not covered.” Jiang Shenghe turned on the light, picked up the bathrobe, went to the sofa, and put his suit jacket on her.

Luo Qi tried to refuse, “I’m all sweaty. Your clothes will be stained and you can’t wear them anymore.”

“It’s fine.”

So she was wrapped up tight in his suit.

… …

After taking a bath, Luo Qi didn’t want to move anymore.

Jiang Shenghe took her mobile phone and said, “Tell Mom you’re staying here tonight.”

Luo Qi could hardly open her eyes and couldn’t think straight, “Please help me think of a reason.”

Jiang Shenghe thought for a while and sent a message to Jiang Yifang using Luo Qi’s phone: [Mom, it’s still raining. I won’t go back anymore tonight. I have to get up early to take wedding photos tomorrow.]

Jiang Yifang: “?”

The rain has stopped for almost half an hour now.

Did it start raining again?

She opened the window and reached out her hand, but there was no rain falling.

Perhaps they’re in the new side of town, and it was raining there.

… …

When Luo Qi fell asleep, Jiang Shenghe dimmed the bedroom lights, poured half a glass of red wine and went to the terrace to drink.

After taking a sip, he smiled to himself.

After it rains, one could vaguely see the stars in the night sky.

Unfortunately, Luo Qi was already asleep.

He turned on his phone; Qin Moling hasn’t responded to him yet.

… …

At the moment, Qin Moling was at a charity reception. His cell phone had been with his secretary all evening, and it was just returned it to him two minutes ago. There was a circle of people around him, so it was inconvenient to click on the video and watch.

He said to everyone, “Excuse me, I need to call someone back.”

When he got to the resting area, he clicked on the video.

They really were taking wedding photos! In order to prove that he had wedding photos, Jiang Shenghe worked hard even on such a rainy day. Luo Qi really has a good temper. If it were another woman, who could stand to be tossed around in such bad weather? She would have argued with him eight hundred times.

[I know you have received the marriage certificate, and I also know you’ve taken wedding photos. I’m not throwing cold water on you, but I’m kindly reminding you that you should cherish what you have and don’t overdo things. It’s easy to lose things if you keep doing what you’re doing. Next time, choose a warm place to take wedding photos.]

Jiang Shenghe on the other side: “…”

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

“Moling,” he heard someone call him.

Qin Moling looked up and saw Xu Xiangyi coming over holding a glass of red wine. There was a man and a woman walking beside him. The man looked familiar to him, but he had never seen the woman before.

“Uncle Xu, why do you have time to come to the reception?”

“I happened to be in Beijing.” The organizer had warmly invited him, and he came over to show his support.

Qin Moling was going to ridicule Jiang Shenghe again, but he had to put away his phone for the meantime.

“I was planning to go to Shanghai to see you soon.”

“Come on, don’t pretend to be obedient,” Xu Xiangyi exposed him mercilessly. “You and Jiang Shenghe come to me every day when you need something, but the phone signal is very weak when everything is okay.”

Qin Moling laughed and clinked glasses with Xu Xiangyi, “There are outsiders, please give me some face. It’s Jiang Shenghe who does this, not me.”

Xu Xiangyi took a sip of red wine and then briefly introduced the people beside him to Qin Moling, “These are Yu Bo and Cui Peng from Lingjia Capital. I happened to meet them at the door.”

Qin Moling nodded slightly to the two people introduced and raised his glass to acknowledge Yu Bo. No wonder he looked familiar. It turned out to be the person in charge of Lingjia Capital. Qi Moling has met him before.

Cui Peng brought the wine glass to her lips and sipped slightly.

Yu Bo brought her here tonight to get to know more people for future projects, but she didn’t expect to meet Xu Xiangyi. They followed Xu Xiangyi, and it was easy to see his authority at once.

“Where is Jiang Shenghe?” Xu Xiangyi asked. “I haven’t seen him since I came in.”

“You don’t know what he went out to do?”

Xu Xiangyi said, “After picking me up from the airport that day, I never saw him again. I’m not wrong too say that his phone signal is usually weak.”

Qin Moling opened his chat box with Jiang Shenghe and handed his phone to Xu Xiangyi, “He’s off taking wedding photos. Let me show you the behind-the-scenes.”

Cui Peng glanced at Qin Moling. She was standing opposite Qin Moling and could not see his mobile phone screen. Unexpectedly, Jiang Shenghe was also married. She has never even heard anyone say that he had a girlfriend.

Xu Xiangyi waved his hands towards Yu Bo and Cui Peng, “You go and do your work, you don’t have to accompany me.”

Then he and Qin Moling moved to the sofa.

… …

Yu Bo and Cui Peng walked away together. When they were far away enough, Cui Peng said, “I didn’t expect that Uncle has such a good relationship with Yuanwei’s boss.” She called Xu Xiangyi ‘uncle’, following her cousin.

“Yes.” Yu Bo gave her a few pointers, “It’s the boss’ business to have a good relationship with the bosses of other enterprises. But when it comes to the company’s interests, we still have to fight when we should, and we won’t give in at all.”

“I understand.”

Even brothers needed to settled accounts.

“How old is Yuanwei’s boss Jiang? He got married so early,” she asked nonchalantly, pretending to just be chatting.

Yu Bo replied, “It’s not so surprising. In their circle, people get married when they reach a certain age.”

Cui Peng nodded. It seemed that he had found a well-matched wife.

No wonder Luo Qi suddenly applied for transfer from the President’s Office to Ruipu.

Following her woman’s intuition, Cui Peng felt that Luo Qi once liked her boss. At the financial summit, when Jiang Shenghe was giving a speech on the stage,  Luo Qi kept taking pictures of him.

Who would take pictures so carefully of someone if they were not interested in him?

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

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A list of all advance chapters is HERE.
Chapter 54.2 — Don’t Just Keep Hugging Me
Chapter 54.3 — Don’t Just Keep Hugging Me