After Becoming a Scummy Alpha, the Movie Queen Just Wants to Pamper Her Wife - Chapter 85.1

Early in the morning, Commander Xi paused the spoon he was using to scoop peanut soup when he saw Xi Xiaohe walk into the dining room. He turned to his wife and asked, “Professor Guan, did you wake her up?”

Professor Guan glanced up and saw her daughter dressed to the nines. She replied, “Love woke her up.”

Xi Xiaohe, who was usually a chronic late riser, beamed like a flower. “Good morning, Dad, Mom! By the way when will you finally agree to let me be with Ji Yi?”

Compared to Xi Xiaoyan’s willfulness, Xi Xiaohe was actually quite obedient to her parents.

“Maybe we’ll consider it once that little police officer gets promoted to some kind of position.”

Professor Guan knew her daughters were stubborn by nature, so she didn’t try to dissuade her. Instead, she simply said, “Do you really like her that much? Enough to wake up early every day?”

Compared to the night she came out to them, her parents’ current attitude was already quite mild. Xi Xiaohe sat down across from her mother and declared, “I can do it.”

Her answer was resolute, just like when she had defied the entire family to pursue her dream of becoming a pianist.

Throughout her life, Xi Xiaohe had rarely gone against her parents’ wishes. The two previous times had been about her life aspirations and her refusal to wake up early after graduating with her master’s degree.

And now, there was this recent matter of her AA relationship.

That incident could have been kept hidden.

But she chose to come clean, largely because she didn’t want to deceive her parents and because the person in question was Ji Yi.

“Don’t answer so quickly. Try waking up early for a month first,” Professor Guan knew her daughter all too well.

Xi Xiaohe turned to her father and asked, “Dad, is that okay?”

Commander Xi replied with an indifferent “Hmm.”

“Thank you, Dad! Thank you, Mom!” Xi Xiaohe, who had just sat down, jumped up excitedly and dashed out of the dining room.

“Professor Guan, look at your daughters.”

“Commander Xi, aren’t they your daughters too?”

Today was Xi Xiaohe and Ji Yi’s first date.

As for why the date was scheduled for the morning, and why the meeting place was Chunlu Stadium, Xi Xiaohe didn’t really care.

As long as it was a date, as long as she could see Ji Yi, that was enough.

Driver He was so startled to see the young mistress up so early and in such a good mood that he broke out in a cold sweat. Had she been possessed by some evil spirit?

Fortunately, Xi Xiaohe remained pleasant the entire ride. Even in heavy traffic, she didn’t snap at him to pack his bags and get lost, as she usually did.

When they arrived at the stadium, she spotted Ji Yi as soon as she neared the main entrance of the soccer field.

Dressed in athletic wear and running shoes, Ji Yi made Xi Xiaohe suddenly realize something.

She clattered over to her and demanded, “Ji Yi, don’t tell me you dragged me out this early to go running!”

“Didn’t I tell you to wear workout clothes?” Ji Yi eyed Xi Xiaohe’s outfit, which was completely out of place in a sports stadium, and couldn’t help but feel amused. This woman always managed to catch her off guard in the most unexpected ways.

Xi Xiaohe was so furious she nearly fell backward. This was their first official date, for heaven’s sake!

Did this infuriating woman have even a single romantic bone in her body?!

“I refuse to wear silly workout clothes on a date!”

“How are you supposed to run without them?”

“Who said anything about running with you?”

“What did you think we were coming to a stadium for?”

“Ugh! You’re such a hopelessly unromantic woman!”

“Is exercising together not romantic?” Ji Yi said while doing her warm-up stretches.

Xi Xiaohe’s hands involuntarily clenched into fists, her teeth gritted as she spat out, “So damn romantic!”

She was barely holding herself back from rushing over and giving Ji Yi a good beating.

“Hahaha!” At some point, Ji Yi had started finding Xi Xiaohe’s fiery temper not so annoying after all.

Xi Xiaohe had never seen Ji Yi laugh like this before. Bathed in the early morning light of October, she realized that without her usual stern expression, Ji Yi could actually appear quite gentle.

“Laugh all you want, but I’m not running with you.”

“Xi Xiaohe, you’re so boring.”

Ji Yi turned and walked toward the entrance of the sports field.

Grumbling, Xi Xiaohe followed, quickening her pace to walk side by side with her.

The morning sun shone down on them, one looking athletic, the other seeming entirely out of place in a sports setting. The contrast made them stand out even more.

When they reached the track, Ji Yi turned and asked, “Really not running together?”

Xi Xiaohe lifted her high heels and dangled them in front of Ji Yi as her answer.

“Then sit up there and wait for me,” Ji Yi said.

“Can’t you skip running just for me?”

“No. I’m doing five kilometers. Do you know how many laps that is?”

“Ji Yi, I hate you.”

With a faint smile, Ji Yi turned and jogged onto the rubber track without another glance.

To be fair, Xi Xiaohe had to admit Ji Yi’s running form was beautiful almost as graceful as a professional athlete. Lately, she’d been bragging to Xi Xiao Yan over the phone about how amazing Ji Yi was, how perfect she was in every way.

“Sis, that’s just your love goggles talking!”

“Would it kill you to admit Ji Yi is great?”

“I’ve been with Wu Jie for so long have you ever praised her once?”

“What’s there to praise about that rogue?”

“Different strokes for different folks. As long as you’re happy, sis!”

Anyway, just seeing Ji Yi right in front of her made Xi Xiaohe happy.

She had never been this happy in her entire life.

Though she still wasn’t entirely sure if she and Ji Yi were officially dating.

Earlier, Xi Xiao Yan had asked over the phone, “Sis, are you sure you two are really together?”

Xi Xiaohe recalled that conversation with Ji Yi, the look on her face. Xi Xiao Yan was worried her sister was getting carried away again after all, sometimes she really couldn’t tell truth from lies. Someone at Ji Yi’s level could reduce her sister to tears in seconds.

“Why do you always doubt our relationship?” Xi Xiaohe refused to admit it, but deep down, she was a little uncertain.

“As long as you’re sure. I’m really busy lately, no time to listen to you cry!”

“Get lost!”

But now that Ji Yi was here.

Even if they hadn’t explicitly said they were dating, wasn’t it close enough?

She felt they had an unspoken understanding.

But was an unspoken understanding really enough?

Last month, outside Pink Lily Bar, hadn’t Ji Yi told her not to leave?

For someone as reserved as Ji Yi, telling her not to leave probably meant she wanted to be with her, right?

Xi Xiaohe let her thoughts wander.

Ji Yi’s figure grew distant again on the track.

Xi Xiaohe couldn’t help but think back to that night. Just remembering it made her face flush.

Before that night, she had thought they’d already done everything wild.

But compared to that night, everything before had been child’s play.

In any case, that night, their joyous voices made the entire neighborhood aware of their presence.

The elderly cursed them for their lack of restraint and wild indulgence. Young couples, influenced by their sounds of pleasure, also began to revel in their own passions. Parents with children hurriedly stuffed earplugs into their little ones’ ears, muttering that those were the devil’s seductive whispers, luring people into corruption children must cover their ears to avoid being led astray.

When Ji Yi woke up the next afternoon, she scrolled through the neighborhood group chat and showed the messages to Xi Xiaohe, teasing, “Xi Xiaohe, you’ve become famous in our homeowners’ group.”

“Officer Ji’s new girlfriend is something else,” Xi Xiaohe read one of the messages aloud.

At that moment, she wanted to ask Ji Yi how many girlfriends she’d had before. But considering they had just reconciled and it would spoil the mood after such intimacy, she held back.

“Ji Yi, you really have a terrible reputation in this neighborhood!”

“Then let’s make it worse,” Ji Yi said, rolling over.

She had never met a woman as endlessly captivating as Xi Xiaohe so primal, so natural, so full of life. Xi Xiaohe made her lose interest in everyone else.

She loved Xi Xiaohe’s passion, her blunt honesty, the astonishing energy she radiated, and the way her voice always seemed to bring her joy.

That night, and well into the next day, they barely left the bed except for bathroom breaks.

Like children lost in an endless game, they forgot all sense of time.

If not for the dizziness from hunger by the second evening, Xi Xiaohe thought they might have kept going.

So, between them, was it just reckless physical indulgence, or did Ji Yi occasionally let her heart get involved too?

Today’s date was her idea. Last night, Xi Xiaohe had been thrilled all evening only to find out it was a running date.

Well, a running date still counted as a date. She consoled herself.

Watching Ji Yi lap the track again and again, her figure drawing near then receding, then near once more; watching her back and chest slowly dampen with sweat; watching her sweat-slicked face take on a different warmth under the sunlight everyone else on the field seemed to fade away. Xi Xiaohe felt as if the vast sports ground held only the two of them, and she forgot her uncertainty about whether they were really dating, deciding instead to live in the moment.

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