Chapter 40 Do You Keep Your Word?
The water temperature was just right. Qiao Susu half-lay in the bathtub, sighing comfortably.

The only sound in the empty bathroom was the splashing of water as she sat in the bathtub. After soaking for a while, she could hardly keep her eyes open. She tried hard to hold them open because her sixth sense told her that Zongfang must be watching her somewhere, but her eyelids kept fighting each other and her consciousness sank uncontrollably.

Qiao Susu fell asleep in the bathtub.

After an unknown amount of time, the man finally showed up. He walked to the bathtub and half-knelt, reaching out to smooth the wet hair that was stuck to her ears and neck, and then just stared at her, not knowing what he was thinking.

Her face was only as big as his palm, and her skin was glowing white, a little red from the heat. Her long eyelashes drooped when she fell asleep, making people's hearts soften.

The man's arm was resting on the edge of the bathtub, with half of his hand hanging in the water. He looked at her sleeping face for a long time. Then he reached out and pinched her cheek, squeezing out a piece of flesh from the girl's soft and smooth face. He let go and pinched again, repeating this seven or eight times until the sleeping person frowned slightly, and then he let go.

Zong Fang curled his lips and looked at her and couldn't help laughing. As he laughed, he didn't know what he thought of, and his face turned cold again.

"Cunning humans."

After talking to himself, he pinched the tip of her nose hard as if in revenge. Seeing her frowning and humming in pain, her little mouth opening and closing unconsciously, he loosened his grip and leaned in to kiss her.

Zongfang pried open her teeth. What was originally intended to be a punitive kiss turned into gentle and affectionate because of her unconscious obedience.

He reluctantly let go of her lips, not even able to retract the affection in his eyes. He felt the water temperature was beginning to cool, so he carried her out and wrapped her from head to toe in a bath towel. Seeing that she was still sleeping soundly despite being manipulated, Zong Fang knew that he had tortured her too much.

Without further delay, he carried the little girl in his arms to the bed, covered her with the quilt up to her chin, and then wiped her hair with a towel.

The flow of time could not be felt in this space, but Zongfang enjoyed this moment immensely and even had the thought that it would be nice if they never went out.

After drying her hair, the man lifted the quilt and checked her body. He saw bruises on her waist and inner thighs, and frowned.

He forgot about his grip so much that he didn't even remember how strong it was. Her skin was delicate to begin with, and a slight squeeze on her wrist would leave a red mark, not to mention the force he used when he was aroused.

The body is all like this, then.
The man's eyes moved to her lower abdomen, and his big hand covered the soft part in the next second, with a hint of worry in his eyes. There was no examination equipment in the space, so he couldn't be sure whether she would have a miscarriage after such an intense combination.
He lay down beside Sui Sui, and wrapped his strong arms around her and the quilt. Qiao Sui Sui lay on her side, and Zong Fang hugged her and she easily leaned into his arms. For a moment, they were back to the time when they were in Sote, when they also slept in each other's arms every night.

"Are you only this well behaved when you are asleep?"

Zongfang's chin rested on the top of her head, he bent down and kissed her forehead, then closed his eyes.

Qiao Susu had a good night's sleep. When she woke up, the light was no different from before she fell asleep, but she felt relaxed all over and her mood improved.

Just as I was about to turn over and sit up, my waist suddenly loosened and someone moved next to me.

"woke up?"

"What are you doing"

She wanted to ask, "Why are you here?", but then she thought that he would be unhappy if she asked this question, so it would be better not to anger him at this time, so she turned her tongue and said, ".Just appeared?"

Sure enough, the man seemed to be pleased by these words. Although his expression was still indifferent, he no longer looked as fierce as he did yesterday.

"I thought some heartless person was eager for me to leave."

"how come."

Qiao Susu thought to herself, how am I going to get out if you leave?

"Are you feeling unwell?"

She shook her head, her fingers unconsciously tugging at a corner of the quilt, and asked hesitantly, "When are we going out?"

Hearing this, Zong Fang's eyes darkened and he asked with a smile, "Isn't it good to stay here with me forever?" Qiao Susu's heart skipped a beat, thinking that he was going to imprison her again, and said, "But this is not reality after all, and there's no one here." As she spoke, she saw the man stop smiling and his face darkened again, so his voice became smaller and smaller, and finally he just opened his mouth but didn't make any sound.

She lowered her eyes and thought to herself: She didn't want to go to the point where both sides were destroyed, but if Zongfang really didn't let her go, she would have no choice but to stop considering other things.

Zong Fang saw that she was a little depressed. She lowered her eyes and didn't speak. It was obvious that she was unhappy, and the irritability in his heart rose again.

"Qiao Sui Sui."

"Ok?"

"Do you keep your word?"

Seeing that she didn't respond, Zongfang asked again: "You said that as long as I let you live a normal life, you will stay with me obediently. Is this true or false?"

She was stunned. She remembered this conversation, but it didn't seem to mean this. However, she looked at the man's serious eyes, her heart beating fast, and she knew that this was an opportunity, an opportunity to gain his trust, and she must seize it.

"Yes."

She blurted it out, not giving herself any time to feel guilty.

"After we get out, take me to Sote to play. I've only been in the research center before and have never seen what the outside world looks like."

Zongfang looked at her with her head tilted in fantasy, and was silent for a few seconds, then said "hmm".

He hugged her from the front, put his big hands on the back of her head, and stroked her smooth hair again and again.

"Remember what you said."

The two people hugging cannot see each other's faces. Although they are close to each other in the most intimate posture, both of them have calm expressions.

In the following time, Zong Fang simply prepared a nutritious meal for Qiao Susu. Since she had no clothes to change, she was still wearing the bathrobe when she came out.

Seeing that she had been in the bathroom for a long time, Zongfang asked, "Is everything okay?"

She shook her head and said no.

"Is there any bleeding?"

"Ok?"

Only then did she realize that he had been asking her if she was feeling unwell since she opened her eyes because he was afraid that she would have a threatened miscarriage like last time.

"No, no."

After that, both of them tacitly did not mention whose child she was pregnant with.

Her heart suddenly felt an indescribable bitterness.

This man who has always been self-centered seems to be more and more centered around her. Not only does he pay attention to her habits and take care of her almost meticulously, he is also constantly nervous because he did that kind of thing with her without knowing that she was pregnant.

She moved her lips with some hesitation, wanting to say something but swallowed it back.

I thought Zongfang would take her out after dinner, but unexpectedly, the two of them came to the containers from yesterday again.

(End of this chapter)