Treasure Hunt: Tycoon's Priceless Runaway Wife

Chapter 516 - 515: This is a Sickness! It Must Be Treated! (Second Update)

With a new member, Nuonuo, joining the family, Ji Rui and Le Tong discussed hiring a monthly nanny from a domestic service company, but Mr. Ji, upon hearing from Baobao that Baobao had brought back a little girl, directly sent Aunt Wang, the nanny dedicated to caring for Baobao at the mansion. Under Baobao’s strong request, Nuonuo’s and the nanny’s bedroom was arranged in the recreational room next to Baobao’s bedroom, which originally belonged to Baobao.The day after bringing Nuonuo home, Ji Rui had Xiao Li take her to the Civil Affairs Bureau to complete all the adoption procedures. By that afternoon, Nuonuo officially became a member of the Ji Family.

Initially, Ji Rui was worried that Nuonuo’s arrival would directly lead to a decline in his status at home, but reality proved that he was overthinking.

Nuonuo’s daily life was primarily taken care of by Aunt Wang and Aunt Guan. At other times, as long as Baobao was around, no one else could even hope to get a chance to hold Nuonuo. Even for Le Tong, the mother, the times she could directly interact with Nuonuo were scarce. Just as Le Tong said back then, Nuonuo seemed to be exclusively Baobao’s at home.

Moreover, since Nuonuo came home, that rascal Baobao changed his previous habit of following Le Tong around like a sticky candy. Once he got home from school, he would drop his schoolbag and look for Nuonuo, while everyone else seemed like wax figures in his eyes.

On this day, Ji Rui and Le Tong, having rare free time during work hours, finished their tasks and after dinner, Baobao pushed Nuonuo in her baby carriage to the terrace to view the night scenery and stars. Finally, the two lovebirds had the chance to openly enjoy their time together.

However, speaking of enjoying time together, for those who aren’t romantics, it simply meant staying in the living room watching TV together. Ji Rui had no interest in TV, choosing instead to take a book from the shelf and read it on the sofa. At first, Le Tong leaned on him watching TV, but after a while, she lay down with her head resting on his thighs, watching the TV screen intently.

After reading for a while, Ji Rui sensed an eerily quiet atmosphere. Aside from the TV sounds, there was no exchange between him and Le Tong.

"Le Tong..." Ji Rui called softly, but the woman resting on his thighs didn’t react at all.

Ji Rui glanced at the screen; it was just a thin, tall man with narrow eyes. Was he really that mesmerizing?

Feeling a pang of jealousy, Ji Rui closed the book and placed it on her face to block her view.

"Hey... what are you doing?"

Le Tong unhappily swatted the book away, her gaze chased after the tall, thin figure once more.

"Hey!" Ji Rui discontentedly waved his hand in front of her eyes.

"Don’t block the view..." Le Tong nudged her head against him several times, protesting impatiently.

"Is he that good-looking? Look at those eyes, narrow like slits, and those thin legs, just like bamboo poles," Ji Rui remarked sourly.

Le Tong grabbed his hand to stop it from causing trouble, her eyes still fixed on the screen.

"What do you know? This type is in vogue now!"

"I don’t get it," Ji Rui scoffed, "A man who looks neither masculine nor feminine..."

With that, he used his hand to turn her face so that she was looking directly at him.

"Weren’t you infatuated with my type?"

At last, Le Tong’s attention was diverted back to him. She looked at him steadily for a long while before bursting into laughter.

"Mr. Ji, can you not be so narcissistic?!"

"What’s narcissistic? You said it yourself; you were initially attracted to my looks. Now that you have me, am I no longer valuable?"

The more Ji Rui thought about it, the more plausible it seemed.

These days, he had tried every way to coax her, hoping to lure her into his bed. Even if they did nothing, just holding each other to sleep would be far better than spending sleepless nights alone like this.

But none of his elaborate schemes had succeeded at all.

Le Tong thought she knew Ji Rui pretty well, but recently, his temper seemed to have become more and more unreasonable.

Was it just because she watched a few more minutes of a star on TV that he started throwing a fit like this?

Little did she know, President Ji recently caught an ailment, which has a particularly high incidence in middle-aged men.

This illness was called frustration!

And the symptoms of this illness made him restless, anxious, and overly suspicious...

"Tell me, have you fallen for someone else?"

Ji Rui, thinking that at just thirty-one, when a man is said to be in his prime, believed he should be extremely attractive to her.

But seeing her gazing at that little star on TV with a dreamy look made his confidence crumble.

Le Tong couldn’t help but laugh and cry at his bizarre thoughts, "Ji Rui, did you get your head stuck in a door? What nonsense are you thinking?"

Ji Rui didn’t think his thoughts were nonsense, "Alright, so you mean you haven’t fallen for someone else, right? Then sleep with me tonight!"

Ji Rui could be more stubborn and childish than Baobao when he acted up.

It suddenly dawned on Le Tong, "Ah, so your baseless accusations were just to set the stage for this."

Ji Rui couldn’t be bothered to deny it; as long as he achieved his goal, the specifics of the process didn’t matter.

"Just sleeping, I promise not to do anything else!"

He had promised not to pressure her, but with no progress, he was growing impatient.

But impatience aside, he dared not demand too much.

Le Tong nestled in his arms, eyes lowered as if contemplating.

Truth be told, she felt Ji Rui had been sufficiently considerate of her.

They had been lovers for some time already. Other than the one time in the office lounge where things almost got out of hand, their daily interactions involved merely hugging. Even kissing typically stayed limited to cheeks and lips, rarely crossing boundaries.

of course, this boundary-holding could be seen as him respecting her. It could also be seen as him fearing that if he pushed too much, he might not control himself.

Both he and she knew that the issue between them stemmed from the night of drunkenness, a hurdle Le Tong couldn’t seem to get over.

But, upon reflection, though he was at fault that night, she couldn’t claim complete innocence either.

He had done plenty during this period, so wasn’t it time for her to give herself and him a chance, to try to adapt, to slowly heal rather than avoiding the issue?

After that realization, Le Tong raised her head, looped her arms around his neck, and gave him a peck on the lips, "Alright, I agree!"

Happiness, when it comes so suddenly, often feels unreal.

Ji Rui, who had prepared various arguments to persuade Le Tong, was now stunned into thinking he must have misheard when she readily agreed.

"What?"

"Dummy, I said I agree!"