Chapter 34

TangShi held her breath as the sound of the familiar and confident steps of YuZhi strolled in, her skin goose-bumping all over at his presence. Even if she didn’t like him, her body could still differentiate between him and others in the house like a weird sixth sense, his looming aura of being nearby.

She sunk under the sheets and closed her eyes tight. She wanted to be asleep before he came up tonight, and now, she would have to pretend, given it was early for him to be up here.

She lay as still as a statue as she listened to him wander into his study, right across from the bed, after he entered the room, but he left the door open and didn’t seem intent on settling in there to work. Not that he used it much anyway. He returned a moment later, seemed to dump something like a file on the dresser, and then proceeded into the bathroom by walking past her side of the bed and shutting the door.

TangShi peeked her head out and squinted at the glimmer of light under the