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Chapter 6: Healthy and Fully Grown, He Has Needs Too

Fu Nanzhou hadn’t heard what was said on the other end of the phone, but he did hear the words, “We won’t sleep together.”

His thick eyebrows lifted slightly. He remained expressionless, pretending he hadn’t heard anything.

Lu Xi felt guilty and shrank her neck like a frightened little quail. She grabbed her clothes and headed toward the bathroom.

As she passed Fu Nanzhou, she didn’t even dare look at him.

A pleasant, low chuckle escaped Fu Nanzhou’s throat. He couldn’t help touching his own face.

Did he really look as intimidating as Yiyi always said? Had he actually scared the little girl so much that she didn’t even dare look at him?

Seeing the phone on the cabinet, Fu Nanzhou walked over and picked it up.

On the other end of the phone, Che Nan said, “Hello?” several times, but when he tried calling again, the call wouldn’t go through. He realized that he had probably been blocked and immediately cursed angrily.

“Lu Xi, you little—”

He almost said something much harsher, but when he saw Lu Yao rushing over, he immediately stopped himself.

“A-Nan, hasn’t Xixi answered yet?” Lu Yao was extremely anxious.

Che Nan took a deep breath and comforted his wife.

“You take care of Guoguo first. I’ll go look for her. There aren’t many places she could have gone. I’ll check them one by one, and I’ll definitely find her. Don’t worry. Xixi is your only sister. I won’t let anything happen to her.”

Lu Yao’s eyes reddened with emotion. Then she became anxious and upset again.

“Xixi really knows how to worry people. I’m sorry, husband. Xixi has caused you trouble again.”

“What are you saying? When I married you, I swore that I would treat you well and also treat the people you care about well.”

After comforting his wife a little more, Che Nan hurried out and drove away.

But after driving for a while, he opened an app on his phone, and a sinister smile appeared on his face.

Back at the villa, Lu Xi was still marveling at how enormous Yiyi’s uncle’s bathroom was.

She estimated that the bathroom was at least thirty square meters, and even the bathtub was huge.

She actually wanted to soak in it for a while, but since this wasn’t her own home, she didn’t dare indulge herself.

After making sure the door was locked, Lu Xi still didn’t feel completely at ease. She hesitated for quite a while before slowly getting ready for her shower.

She stepped under the shower and spent quite some time figuring out where the switch for the smart system was.

When the warm water poured down, it felt wonderful. Lu Xi decided that once she made enough money in the future, she would install a system like this too.

She applied shampoo and massaged her hair while repeatedly glancing toward the bathroom door.

Whenever she showered at her sister’s house, she was always nervous because there had once been a problem with the door lock. Even though she had told her sister and brother-in-law that she was going to take a shower, Che Nan had still “accidentally” walked in, frightening her badly.

Ever since then, she had developed the habit of instinctively looking toward the door whenever she showered.

Meanwhile, Fu Nanzhou dried his hair and picked up the documents he had brought home from the company. He sat on the edge of the bed and began reading.

Every so often, he glanced at his watch.

Lu Xi had been in the bathroom for half an hour.

Had she not finished yet, or had she gotten dizzy?

He put down the documents. His tall figure slowly rose, and he walked to the bathroom door. He knocked lightly on the glass.

“Lu Xi?”

“J-Just a minute!” Lu Xi hurriedly replied.

Five minutes later, Lu Xi took a deep breath and opened the bathroom door. She held her arm awkwardly, looking extremely uncomfortable.

Fu Nanzhou glanced at her, his expression changing slightly.

The girl looked flustered and embarrassed, and Fu Nanzhou immediately looked away.

He stood up.

“Lu Xi, come here.”

Lu Xi’s heart tightened, and she immediately went on high alert.

Was he going to do it?!

Fu Nanzhou suddenly smiled.

“Come over and let me dry your hair.”

Hearing this, Lu Xi immediately looked up. Her clear eyes were filled with confusion.

“Dry my hair?”

“What else did you think I wanted you to come over for?” Fu Nanzhou asked teasingly, as though he were deliberately teasing a child.

Lu Xi was so embarrassed that she didn’t dare continue the subject. Otherwise, she was afraid he would realize what she had been thinking.

She walked over.

“Uncle Fu, I can do it myself.”

When she reached for the hair dryer, Fu Nanzhou raised his arm high above her head.

“Can you reach it?”

Lu Xi: “…”

Was this how Zhuang Yi usually interacted with her uncle?

He really seemed to enjoy teasing people.

“Sit down,” Fu Nanzhou said with a smile.

Lu Xi sat on the chair. Warm air from the hair dryer blew over her head while Fu Nanzhou gently moved his fingers through her hair.

The unfamiliar situation made her feel strange and nervous.

The room was enormous, and everything around them was quiet, making the sound of the hair dryer seem especially noticeable.

But when the hair dryer suddenly stopped, Lu Xi’s heart jumped again.

“Done.”

Fu Nanzhou’s voice was deep and pleasant, and his gaze rested on the girl’s face.

She really was easily embarrassed. Her cheeks had remained red this entire time.

Yiyi probably didn’t even know what embarrassment was.

This girl’s personality was completely different from Yiyi’s. How had the two of them even become friends?

Fu Nanzhou went to put the hair dryer away while Lu Xi remained awkwardly seated, extremely nervous.

“Aren’t you coming to bed?” Fu Nanzhou asked.

Lu Xi’s scalp tingled. Her hands hung at her sides, and she nervously gripped her pajama pants.

“I… I wanted to ask something. Are we going to… do that?”

Lu Xi finally gathered all her courage and asked.

Fu Nanzhou smiled and nodded.

“Yes.”

Lu Xi was so shocked that she forgot to breathe for a moment because of how certain his answer sounded.

Fu Nanzhou pulled back the covers and lay down.

“Although I’m thirty, I’m perfectly healthy, so naturally I have normal needs.”

He patted the spot beside him.

“Come here.”

Lu Xi stood stiffly in place without moving.

Agreeing to this marriage had been way too impulsive!

She hadn’t thought about this part of marriage at all when she agreed.

Just as Lu Xi stood there in panic, Fu Nanzhou suddenly let out a low laugh.

“Hahaha…”

Lu Xi: “…”

What was so funny?

Zhuang Yi had said that her uncle hardly ever smiled, always looked serious, and was extremely cold.

This was completely different from the man she had described!

Fu Nanzhou smiled.

“Fine, I won’t tease you anymore. I don’t know you well enough, so naturally we can’t do something like that. For now, let’s just start with sleeping in the same room.”

After a pause, he added,

“Just sleeping.”

Then he clarified again,

“I mean literally sleeping. Nothing else.”

Only after he explained it twice did Lu Xi slowly walk over.

Actually, if they were truly just going to sleep, they didn’t have to sleep together. But she didn’t have the courage to say so.

Fu Nanzhou also knew the girl was nervous. He picked up his documents and stood.

“I still have some work to finish. I’ll sleep in the study.”

After he left, the tension in Lu Xi’s body finally began to ease.

Fu Nanzhou returned to the study and walked over to the window, letting out a long breath.

Was it the beginning of summer already? Why did he suddenly feel so restless and overheated?

Outside the villa, Che Nan’s car had already been parked there for quite some time.

Earlier, while Lu Xi was showering, he had installed a location-tracking app on her phone so that he could track where she had gone.

This was one of the wealthy neighborhoods in Beijing. The people who lived here were certainly not ordinary.

How had Lu Xi ended up here?

Could she have gotten involved with some wealthy man?!

Impossible.

Although Lu Xi was innocent, she wasn’t easy to deceive. She wasn’t like Lu Yao, whom he could easily persuade.

Then why was Lu Xi here?

Che Nan narrowed his eyes.

He got out of the car, walked to the villa’s front door, and pressed the doorbell.