Salaryman A and His Gentle Housewife E - Chapter 3

Chapter 3

After that, Rong Yu and I began running into each other more and more often.

Sometimes it was at matchmaking venues. Sometimes it was when I made one of my rare trips out to buy groceries, snacks, and supplies. Sometimes it was on my commute to or from work…

As time went on, the two of us became familiar with each other.

Then one day, Rong Yu asked me casually, “Brother Zhou, why do you want to go on blind dates?”

After hearing my reasons, he asked, “Then what do you think of me?”

I froze and looked at him.

Behind those thick, cumbersome lenses, Rong Yu was gazing at me without blinking, his eyes focused and gentle.

As if possessed…

I agreed.

From then on, I had a gentle, virtuous Beta wife.

Not long after that, Mother Zhou’s health improved as well.

I had enough energy to devote myself to my work and to managing the little home Rong Yu and I shared.

Everything seemed to be slowly getting better.

Until those ill-timed voices rang out again, and the curse that had never been broken wound itself once more around its defeated victim.

“Hey, have you seen Zhou Ci’s partner? He’s insanely good-looking. Who knew Zhou Ci was eating that well all this time?”

“Does Zhou Ci have some kind of dirt on his wife or something? Otherwise, it makes no sense.”

“If you ask me, if Rong Yu weren’t a Beta, tsk, tsk, tsk. How could he ever have looked twice at him?”

“…”

“Wife.”

It was the first time after our marriage that I called him that.

Rong Yu was pleasantly surprised, his eyes shining. “What is it, husband?”

I gave him the perfect smile I had practiced countless times in the mirror, met his eyes, and imitated his tone as I asked, “Could you quit your job and stay at home? I want to see you as soon as I come home. Can you?”

If I hid him away at home…

Then no one would see him, right?

And likewise, no one would discuss whether we were a good match anymore.

The malice surging inside me swallowed my mouth and nose completely.

The person before me twisted into something distorted and ferocious.

As if in the very next second, he would burst into curses. “How could someone like you be worthy? How dare you make a request like that?”

Until that familiar, clear voice rang out.

Rong Yu’s tone lifted, his expression excited. “Okay, husband.”

He took my hand, bent down, and nuzzled into the hollow of my neck. His voice was very soft as he said, “I’ve wanted to do that for ages.”

Chapter 5

Outside, I had to maintain the dignity of the head of the household.

I could not lower myself to argue with that rabble coveting my wife’s beauty.

But things were different at home.

On the way back, the faint trace of alcohol in me had mostly faded.

By the time we got home, and after Rong Yu personally fed me a bowl of hangover soup, my mind was clear to the extreme.

After briefly recalling how Rong Yu and I had first met, my thoughts returned to the present.

I thought of Tong Shi, the new coworker at the department dinner, whose eyes had practically been nailed to me.

Ever since Rong Yu had agreed to become a full-time homemaker husband, that long-absent irritability had surfaced again.

Why?

He had clearly promised to stay home properly and wait for me to come back.

So why did he insist on going out?

On the other side, after Rong Yu said, “Husband, what are you thinking about?”

Perhaps because I did not answer for a long while, the faint smile that always hovered at the corners of his lips stiffened. He called again, “Husband?”

Then, as if he had thought of something, his voice became even softer, so gentle it seemed it might wring out water in the next second. “Are you thinking about that coworker today? He…”

I cut him off, my face expressionless. “Why did you suddenly come pick me up today?”

Rong Yu paused when he heard that, then explained warmly, “I saw that you still hadn’t come home even though it was so late today, so I was a little worried about you.”

Fine.

As a wife worried about his husband, that was understandable.

I nodded, reluctantly accepting this explanation.

But the place where our department dinner had been held was some distance from the company.

How had Rong Yu known I was there?

Maybe I had mentioned it offhand while chatting with him?

I rubbed the space between my brows and stopped caring about the question. I said bluntly, “Don’t come pick me up on your own next time.”

Rong Yu said, “Why?”

I snapped impatiently, “Why are there so many whys?”

As I said that, I immediately remembered Tong Shi staring until his eyes went straight.

Then I looked up and saw that even a simple set of loungewear could not conceal the dazzling beauty of the person before me.

If he were not a Beta…