My Multiple Identities Revealed After Marrying the Bigshot-Chapter 55 - Where Are You Staying Tonight

Chapter 55: Chapter 55: Where Are You Staying Tonight?

Chapter 55 -55: Where Are You Staying Tonight?

The three of them, already hungry, were now even hungrier.

Thinking about how Lu Zhenguo’s family was comfortably dining inside while they were too drained to even curse made their own hunger intensify.

Lu Youzhen, locked in the room, felt her stomach itch with hunger as it growled; yet, the persistent scent of food wafted into the yard.

Unable to eat anything, she wept from hunger.

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Liu Yushu had a few bites of food and glanced back and forth between Lu Youxi and Zhou Shuyan, her expression conflicted.

“Mom, if you have something to say, just say it,” Lu Youxi saw Liu Yushu’s extreme indecision and took the initiative to speak up.

Liu Yushu gave a dry laugh, steeled herself internally, and then asked, “So, um… since you two have gotten your certificate, where are you staying tonight?”

Liu Yushu had been pondering this even while cooking earlier.

As of now, Zhou Shuyan was still staying at Grandma Xu’s, without a place of his own.

Logically, having married Zhou Shuyan, Lu Youxi should be living together with him.

But for Lu Youxi to stay with Zhou Shuyan at Grandma Xu’s just didn’t seem right.

Most importantly, up until now, Liu Yushu still hadn’t truly felt that Lu Youxi was actually married.

She had admitted the marriage between Lu Youxi and Zhou Shuyan in front of everyone and the Lu Family’s elders just a moment ago.

But deep down, she still felt she understood Lu Youxi well.

This summer, Lu Youxi had spent most of her time working at home, and Zhou Shuyan’s visits weren’t long.

Even though they inevitably saw each other in the village, they hadn’t spent enough time together to be ready for marriage.

Lu Youxi was different from her parents’ generation.

Liu Yushu thought about how her own generation met through introductions, decided the other was passable and capable of sharing life, and then married.

There was hardly any emotional attachment.

Feelings, for the most part, developed after marriage, and love wasn’t really a factor.

Take her and Lu Zhenguo, for example, they didn’t truly have love between them for a long time after marriage; it was simply about partnership in living.

Now, having lived together up to this moment, what they had was familial affection.

It wasn’t about being inseparable; it was just habit.

Lu Zhenguo had his minor faults, but Liu Yushu saw none of them as grave, intolerable mistakes.

But Lu Youxi’s generation was different; they dated freely.

She had always felt that if Lu Youxi married, it would be to someone she loved, not in a rush just for the sake of marriage, and not through someone setting them up.

Liu Yushu always suspected that there was something off about Lu Youxi and Zhou Shuyan’s marriage.

To this day, she still hadn’t felt any reality to the fact that Lu Youxi and Zhou Shuyan had actually gotten married.

Her daughter was able, good in her studies, beautiful, and was preparing to study at Jing University.

Who knew that without even starting college yet, she’d get a marriage certificate?

Privately, Liu Yushu wasn’t keen on them moving in together so soon.

Even if the two truly had feelings for each other behind everyone’s back, they should still wait.

Lu Youxi was still young.

The idea of her daughter now living with a man she had only recently met was incomprehensible to Liu Yushu.

Even though they were already married.

Lu Youxi was so startled by Liu Yushu’s remarks that she almost bit down on an egg, but instead chomped on her chopsticks, causing a slight pain in her teeth.

She hadn’t considered this at all.

Her marriage to Zhou Shuyan was fake, a temporary certificate obtained due to circumstances.

Zhou Shuyan had agreed to help only to repay the debt for saving his life; there were no feelings between them.

If they had to claim any, it could only be characterized as revolutionary camaraderie.

Thus, Lu Youxi had never considered living together.

Even though they were married, she would certainly stay where she did before, not together.

Lu Youxi then said, “We’ve discussed it already. Since Xu Mai has no place of his own, and it’s not appropriate for me to live at Grandma Xu’s. It’s also not right for Xu Mai to stay at our place; he’s not a ‘live-in son-in-law.’ If he really moved in, the village would surely start gossiping again.”

Liu Yushu nodded in agreement, and Lu Zhenguo too nodded, saying, “What you said makes sense.”

“So, the two of us will live separately as before. He at Grandma Xu’s, and I at our home,” Lu Youxi concluded.

Zhou Shuyan gave her a look.

The girl clearly hadn’t consulted him at all, and the words she had just improvised, she now dared to say they had discussed.

“Xu Mai, do you feel the same way?” Liu Yushu asked Zhou Shuyan.

She was worried he might not be happy.

Lu Youxi could be a bit domineering, and marrying Zhou Shuyan didn’t seem to change her nature.

An occasional submission was fine, but Liu Yushu feared Zhou Shuyan might become upset over time.

It was best to respect Zhou Shuyan’s wishes.

Zhou Shuyan looked at Lu Youxi but did not answer right away, causing Liu Yushu’s anxiety to grow.

Under the table, Lu Youxi discreetly kicked him.

Zhou Shuyan raised his eyebrows at Lu Youxi, “Why did you kick me?”

Lu Youxi: “…”

“My mom was asking you a question,” Lu Youxi had to say, “You should answer.”

“Oh, and don’t kick people!” Liu Yushu quickly added.

Lu Youxi: “…”

Of course, her mother was still her mother.

She had been stiff for a moment in front of the Lu Family’s elders and Lu Zhenjia and his wife, but now she softened again.

Zhou Shuyan, propping his chin with one hand, tilted his head looking at Lu Youxi with a self-satisfied lift of a single eyebrow.

Lu Youxi noticed he loved to raise his eyebrows, and each time, he conveyed a different mood, making it easy to read.

Sometimes it was mockery, sometimes speechlessness.

But this time, his thick brows were clearly filled with smugness.

“I just accidentally touched his foot,” Lu Youxi rolled her eyes at Zhou Shuyan, “He’s just overreacting.”

After a few seconds, Zhou Shuyan, smiling, said, “It must have been accidental.”

“As for what Youxi just said, although she hadn’t consulted me, my thoughts are not much different,” Zhou Shuyan put down his chopsticks, seriously, “One reason is that I don’t have my own place here, and it’s indeed not right to have Youxi stay with me at Grandma Xu’s.”

“Another bigger reason is that Youxi is still young. Here in Hexing Village, she thinks I’m handsome, a good person, so she got the certificate with me. But I feel it’s because she hasn’t seen enough people,” Zhou Shuyan stated.

Lu Youxi thought, had she seen too few people?

In her previous life, she had seen countless individuals.

Technically, Zhou Shuyan should even call her ‘auntie’.

“When she gets to the city, she’ll meet more people, many outstanding ones. Including the campus at Jing University,” Zhou Shuyan said, “I think if by then Youxi realizes she doesn’t like me that much after all, or that she misunderstood her feelings for me now, wanting to break up, we can still part ways without any strings attached. If I divorce her, it won’t cause her any loss.”