Chapter 435: Fake attempts to impress

Jinhai and Nana played with Jian and Nian for a while before they settled for dinner. Nana quickly cooked up some simple yet tasty dishes for them. Jinhai, as a good husband, helped her out, and they made dinner together in no time.

Jinhai asked, taking a bite of the stew, “I heard what happened in Natsukashi today.”

Nana exclaimed. “Oh, yes, I forgot to tell you. You should have seen the crowd, Jinhai. Pei Yuan’s article was like he awakened a sleeping dragon. Thankfully, he had all the preparations ready, so it didn’t take much time. But because of what happened, Natsukashi’s business has bloomed even more than before. Everybody liked the food, and we got so many pre-orders and bookings.”

He smiled. “Of course. My wife is the best, after all. But I don’t like Pei Yuan hanging around you. I told you already that he likes you.”

Nana sighed. “Well, what can I do? I will never take the initiative to meet him if he likes me. But all the time, it was he who approached me. I..you know me. I cannot be rude to anybody and just ignore them. But I refused him when he asked to drop me back here.”

Jinhai stopped and narrowed his eyes. “He did?”

“Yes. After everything got over and I closed Natsukashi, Pei Yuan offered to give me a ride back home, but I knew what you think about him, so I refused. He had already helped enough. I didn’t want to take more of it and cause a misunderstanding.”

Jinhai smirked. “What help? He is a sly man. He did everything today only to impress you and possibly change your feelings.”

Nana blinked her eyes. “Well, he said that he felt guilty of not being alert and letting the mishap happen to the twins in the mall.”

“So, he was making up for his mistake? What if he was the one behind the ‘fake’ kidnapping attempt, and he pretended as if he caught the man to score brownie points? Isn’t it convenient that he could catch him so easily, but when Xin checked his information, it seemed as if he didn’t even exist?”

Nana widened her eyes in shock. “The man disappeared?”

“To be exact, he left the country immediately an hour later after the incident. Pei Yuan must have taken the stroller back from him in an area where there was no CCTV footage, or he dismantled it so that the truth never comes out that he never ‘fought’ with that man in the first place. He just handed the stroller back to him. Naturally, Pei Yuan made some fake cuts on himself to look the part.”

“So, will that kidnapper be never caught?”

Jinhai chuckled. “Nothing is impossible for Liu Jinhai.”

Nana frowned. “But will Pei Yuan go that far for me?”

Jinhai raised his eyebrow. “I don’t want to bring this up, but have you forgotten how far I went to marry you?”

Nana was almost going to spit out the water and choked. Now that he brought the past, it did make sense.

“That..I mean, yes, you were wrong in doing all those things, but I understand your reason. We had met before, and you knew me for two years. So, I wasn’t totally a stranger to you. But I never met Pei Yuan before until that day he came to offer me a cooking show. And Meiling said that she first saw him in Natsukashi when I was like what, in my third or fourth month of pregnancy? And then I took a maternity leave. What I want to say is that I don’t see a reason for him to like me that much. He hardly knows me. We never even talked.”

“We never talked during those two years either, apart from the first time we met. Still, I fell for you so hard.”

Nana coughed in embarrassment as he said the last sentence. She lowered her head, blushing furiously.

“T-that is true too..”

Jinhai chuckled. “The point is that feelings don’t need a reason.”

“But Pei Yuan is just a food blogger. How can he have the connections to bribe the man or send him abroad or make all those preparations today?”

Jinhai raised his brow in amusement, but he didn’t answer her.

“An excellent question indeed.”

Nana observed his expression and squinted her gaze. “Is he not actually a food blogger?”

“Who knows?” Jinhai smiled as he shrugged. “Be careful. And why didn’t you call me if you needed help today at Natsukashi? Your husband is really capable.”

Nana sheepishly grinned. “Well..Pei Yuan already did most of the things so-“

“You felt that I was unneeded?” He sneered.

“I felt that it was wrong to trouble you,” she earnestly said but was actually sweating inwardly.

“Nothing is a trouble for me if it concerns you. But you always fail to understand that. You need good punishment.”

“W-what punishment? I didn’t do anything wrong!” she complained.

Jinhai got up from his seat and walked towards Nana. He leaned in and whispered as his warm breath fanned on her ear, making her tickle. “You took another man’s help even though you have such a handsome and capable husband. Say..I hope you maintained your distance from him today or..”

“I was only polite and cordial! Don’t you trust me?” she gave a wronged expression.

“How can I when you took another man’s help? I am jealous. So what if he was ready with the preparations? You should have declined it and called me in front of him for arrangements. I would have forced him to retreat.”

Nana cleared her throat. “You knew the situation, so why didn’t you come yourself?”

“I was waiting for your call.”

Her brow twitched.

“But you didn’t call me, so that calls for a punishment, isn’t it?”

“I-I understand, so I will definitely call you first no matter what happens the next time.”

Jinhai smiled. “It’s good that you learned your lesson.”

She sighed in relief.

“But, you are not escaping from your punishment.”

Nana gulped. Jinhai raised her head and crashed his lips on hers.

“Hey, bro, we are back- Oh, oh!” Jing exclaimed and quickly shut his eyes. “We didn’t see anything! Mom, Dad, and Grandma. Turn your heads the way and run for your rooms! Nothing R-rated is going on here.”