After Jiang Tingxia finished washing up, she saw Li Changpu taking a roll of bedding from the kang. Jiang Tingxia looked at him in confusion.

"What are you doing?"

Li Changpu carried his bedding and walked to the stool he had just put together, "I'm going to sleep here today."

Jiang Tingxia understood that he wanted to sleep in a separate room from her. Since there was only one room, they could only sleep in separate beds.

The room was so simple that there wasn't even a bed, so he had to sleep on a stool.

Jiang Tingxia asked in confusion, "Why?"

Why do we have to sleep in separate rooms on the wedding night?

Is this another strange custom they have here?

Li Changpu concentrated on spreading the mattress on the stool, not even looking at Jiang Tingxia, very coldly, "You didn't marry me voluntarily, and I didn't marry you voluntarily, but there were various reasons that brought us together. Now there are only the two of us here, so there's no need to pretend."

So he was saying that he didn't get married voluntarily either.

Jiang Tingxia didn't understand. Why did he send her all the way back to Wenhai City and do his best for her? To be honest, she always thought that Li Changpu fell in love with her at first sight and loved her so much that he would do such a thing. It turned out that she was just imagining it!

She looked at his unrequited back as he left, and she cursed herself in her heart for letting down a good man who loved her so much, so when she had the chance to start over, she made up her mind to treat him well.

Oh my God, what is she thinking!

She actually felt love with a man she had only known for one day and who was very mean to her.

He now said clearly that he did not marry her willingly, and even preferred to sleep on a narrow bed made of benches rather than have any contact with her.

Jiang Tingxia understood. Even if it was Jiang Tinghe who married him, as a future husband he would treat her in the same way. The things about him that moved her so much were purely because he was a good man!

Then why are you being so self-indulgent?

She stood in front of a man who refused to even look at her, looking shy and asking him why they had to sleep in separate beds, as if she was the one giving him the real deal.

Because she is a person who cares about face, Jiang Tingxia realized that she had expressed the wrong feelings and immediately answered his words, "Yes, that's right. After all, we don't have any emotional foundation, so this is the most appropriate."

She added, “That’s what I thought, too.”

After saying that, he turned around and climbed onto the kang, then got into the bed very smoothly. He covered his head with the quilt and cried out silently in his heart, "This is so embarrassing!"

Narcissism is a disease and must be treated.

She remembered that during the wedding ceremony that day, she smiled at him, and her smile was worthless.

He kept a straight face and didn't look at her. Jiang Tingxia thought it was her calm and reserved personality that was causing trouble.

Moreover, she took the initiative to hold his arm.

When the guests pushed the newlyweds together, she couldn't stand steadily and her face brushed against his collar. She took his arm and never let go.

Didn't his expression at that time look particularly unwilling and impatient?

Jiang Tingxia thought of a shy and timid face in his mind, it was his own, and an evasive face, it was Li Changpu. He moved closer to him, and he was hiding to the side.

How embarrassing!

She seemed to have held his hand. His fingers were thick and the touch of the calluses on his knuckles left a deep impression on her.

Don't we have to hold hands when reciting wedding vows?

Well, real couples should hold hands, but fake couples don’t.

So I want to be a real couple with him.

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Jiang Tingxia was wailing in her heart, it was all fake, nothing had happened, and she had no intention of becoming a real couple with him.

Ah!

She deeply regrets her foolish behavior, but, can we say that this is not her true self?

……

Li Changpu turned off the lights. The moon was very bright tonight, illuminating everything in the room clearly through the window. He tossed and turned on the red quilt on the kang, unable to fall asleep.

Li Changpu thought that it must be because she was not used to sleeping on the kang, and the mud-made kang was too hard for her.

He thought that after suffering this torture, she might make a fuss and go back the next day.

He thought that if he wanted to send her away tomorrow, it would be difficult to borrow a car, and if too many people knew about it, he would be in trouble. If his leader got to the ears, he would give him a good scolding, and she might not be able to leave. It would be better to send her away secretly on a cart.

It's just a bit uncomfortable, that's all I can do.

Li Changpu got up early because they had to train in the morning, but Jiang Tingxia was sleeping soundly because he couldn't sleep at night because he had so many thoughts in his mind.

Li Changpu rolled up his bedding and tiptoed out of the door.

He is a tall and strong man, and he spent the whole night curled up on a small stool. Now he feels uncomfortable all over.

He rubbed his waist with his hands. His neighbor Zhao Yong happened to be out. Seeing him like this, he sighed and said, "Old Li, you are so young but your body is not good. You should take it easy at night."

Li Changpu looked at Zhao Yong, who was smiling frivolously, and cursed with a sullen face, "Get lost."

Jiang Tingxia was a bit attached to her bed and got up early in the morning. She wanted to wash her face but found there was no hot water.

She washed herself with cold water and then felt hungry. When she thought about it, she realized that she hadn't had a proper meal for several days.

Ever since she boarded the train from Wenhai City, she has been feeling depressed and has lost her appetite, and has continued to do so until today.

Now her stomach was rumbling, but she didn't know how to cook, so she could only sit on the bench and endure the hunger, looking at the stove with helplessness.

Li Changpu came back from morning training. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Jiang Tingxia sitting on a small stool with a wronged look on his face.

He was tall and had to bend down to enter the door. He said as he stepped over the threshold, "Let's go. I'll take you there..."

Jiang Tingxia was very happy to see him come back. She thought she would be hungry again today.

The girl's eyes sparkled, "Where are you going? Take me to dinner?"

Li Changpu: Eat? Aren’t you in a hurry to leave?

Jiang Tingxia jumped up from the stool, "You don't know I'm really starving, but I don't know how to cook with this stove."

Li Changpu then realized that she was sitting by the stove with a confused look on her face, thinking about how to cook.

A young soldier came in from outside the door and said, "Captain, I have found the car for my sister-in-law."

Jiang Tingxia asked, "Is it necessary to take a car to eat? Is the cafeteria so far away?"

Li Changpu said vaguely to the young soldier, "You go first."

The young soldier answered yes, and then asked Jiang Tingxia, "Sister-in-law, where is your luggage? I'll carry it over."

Jiang Tingxia was even more confused, "You need more luggage? Do you mean lunch boxes and chopsticks?"

The little soldier explained, "No, you are not..."

Li Changpu kicked the little soldier on the butt and said sternly, "I told you to go first."

When the young soldier saw Li Changpu getting angry, he was so scared that he ran away, muttering as he ran, why is he so angry?

Jiang Tingxia looked at the man running away like a rabbit, then looked at Li Changpu, accusing him of his barbaric behavior, "Why did you hit someone?"

Li Changpu didn't explain. He didn't use much strength in that kick. Besides, how could this new recruit not do something as basic as obeying orders? How did their squad leader lead him?

Looking at Li Changpu's face full of dark clouds, Jiang Tingxia muttered softly, "So fierce!"

Jiang Tingxia touched his empty stomach and complained, "Now that he's gone, how are we going to eat?"

Li Changpu finally responded. He turned and walked towards the stove, "I'll cook."

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