Chapter 206 Extra: Back to the Past If (1)

Chapter 206 Extra: Back to the Past If Line (1)

Ling Jue felt like the world had collapsed.

Waking up, his wife wouldn’t let him call her "wife," and even said he was crazy.

It was the same familiar room, the same familiar face—how could she be so cold?

This guy, spoiled by years of happiness and having forgotten how rough his old days were, felt like he’d been sucker-punched first thing in the morning, his heart aching with every throb.

"Wife."

He looked at the bewildered Qin Shuyi with a hurt expression, trying to set her straight.

"You're my wife. We're already married. You said you loved me last night, right?"

Even if she only said it because he backed her into a corner.

Qin Shuyi went quiet.

"Are you still asleep?"

Ling Jue looked crushed, staring at her like she was a heartbreaker.

Qin Shuyi: "..."

She rubbed her temples and sat down to collect herself.

Half an hour later.

After finally hashing it out, the two just stared at each other.

Qin Shuyi said, "So, you're saying you're Ling Jue from six years in the future, age 33?"

She thought he'd come back from a business trip abroad and snuck into bed late at night.

But when she woke up, he was all clingy, calling her "wife" and nuzzling and kissing her like a big puppy.

I mean, Ling Jue was clingy too, but not this...

Hmm, in-your-face?

A guy who could barely say "I love you" wouldn't confess so directly and intimately—she knew something was off right away.

Now, looking closely, she could definitely see the differences.

Though his face hadn't changed much, the rebellious coldness of 27-year-old Ling Jue was almost gone in the 33-year-old version.

In its place was a calm maturity, and... a kind of happy glow?

She paused for a second.

According to him, they were married, with both families' approval and the public's blessing.

And the current Ling Jue also loved her, he just didn't realize it yet.

They'd go through a breakup and reconciliation, figure out their feelings, and become the sweetest couple.

That's what he said, but her mind was still a mess.

"Can you even go back?"

Ling Jue: "..."

He was pretty hopeless too.

Even though seeing his baby from six years ago was nice, what if his wife woke up and couldn't find him and started crying?

Just thinking about that made his heart ache.

They went back and forth with no conclusion, and finally had to just go with the flow.

Ling Jue said he had a gut feeling he'd definitely go back, just didn't know when.

But since he showed up when they were together, he'd have to leave when they were together too.

Since they couldn't be apart for now, he'd have to pretend to be the younger Ling Jue who was still abroad.

...

That evening was Youyou's birthday, and Qin Shuyi was heading to the Jiang family's for dinner.

Ling Jue tagged along.

Seeing the Young Master, who never visited, walk in like he owned the place and casually greet "Auntie" and "Uncle," even giving Qian Youyou a thoughtful birthday gift, the whole family was stunned.

Zhou Tinglan was a bit dazed.

"Shuyi, what's going on between you two?"

Qin Shuyi said, "Just think of it as him wanting to experience what a normal person's romance is like."

Zhou Tinglan looked skeptical. "Really?"

But watching the Young Master Ling chat easily with Qian Youyou and Jiang Yuzhou in the living room, leaving the two looking like they'd seen a ghost, she had nothing to say.

Was this how dedicated method actors were?

Tonight's dinner was weirdly warm.

Everyone except Ling Jue looked spaced out.

Was Ling Jue really this easygoing, so proactive and natural about fitting into their family?

For a second, they even got the creepy feeling that the two had been married for years.

Ling Jue even went ahead and had Youyou and Xiao Zhou call him "brother-in-law."

That startled Qian Youyou so much she spit out her pomelo water.

"Haha, no way, shouldn't that wait till you're married?" she said with an awkward laugh.

Thinking about how Qian Youyou and Jiang Yuzhou saw him as just a "passing fling" now, Ling Jue bit back his indignant retort and kept it to himself.

His six-years-ago self really deserved to die.

His family was on high alert around him.

Compared to that, his future self was way happier.

"I'm going to marry baby in the future, so you don't have to be so nervous," he said seriously.

Qian Youyou / Jiang Yuzhou: "Haha."

You saying that just makes us more scared.

Marry you? Is that even right?

Ling Jue: "..."

...

After dinner, Qin Shuyi went upstairs to her room to grab some things she had left at the Jiang family's place last time. As luck would have it, the 27-year-old Ling Jue happened to call at that moment.

Looking at the video of a grinning, flirtatious Ling Jue asking if she missed him, Qin Shuyi's expression flickered with a hint of awkwardness.

Does he really like her? And like her this much?

Her distraction was quickly noticed by him.

Ling Jue raised an eyebrow. "Baby, what's wrong?"

He felt like she was unusually quiet today.

Although she wasn't very proactive before, she always responded when he spoke.

Qin Shuyi started, "You..."

Just as she was about to bring up the future Ling Jue, there was a knock at the door.

A man's deep, magnetic voice drifted in through the opened door, soft and cheerful: "Baby, we're heading home now."

Qin Shuyi startled, and her finger slipped, and she accidentally hung up the phone.

Staring at the black screen, she hesitated for a moment.

Forget it, she'd tell him when he comes back.

Meanwhile, the man far away abroad, his originally smiling lips turned downward, his brow furrowed in anger, and a fierce, brooding look filled his deep eyes, thick with a dark, oppressive gloom.

Baby?

Going home?

No wonder she was so distracted on the phone.

So she was hiding some other guy.

Fine. Just fine.

Had it even been a week since he'd left her?

Qin Shuyi, you're something else entirely.

Special Assistant Li, who had followed Ling Jue out from the party to the balcony where he'd gone for fresh air ten minutes ago, saw from a distance a tall, rigid figure, frozen like ice, radiating a murderous aura.

He shuddered all over, instantly panicked.

What's going on?

Before he could ask, the man strode over to him like a gust of wind.

"To the airport now. We're going back home," he ordered coldly, his rage boiling over.

Special Assistant Li: "What?"

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