Chapter 144 New Year's Gift
Shen Lian took out a real estate certificate and handed it to Lin Man, "A New Year's gift for you."
Lin Man was confused: "?"
Why did you suddenly give her a house?
"Downstairs at Gu Chengyan's house, you said you don't have a home, now I'll give you one." Shen Lian touched her hair and tilted his head inside, "Go in and take a look?"
Shen Lian spoke easily, but Lin Man felt like he was hit by something, warm and dented.
"If you don't have a home, I'll give you one." Such touching words made her nose sore in despair.
She slowly moved in. Before she entered the gate, she saw several motorcycles in the garage. She couldn't walk on the road and even exclaimed uncontrollably.
Her previous motorcycles were in the garage of Nanpingshan Villa, but she didn't go back to pick them up because she was afraid of bumping into Wu Peizhen.
It has been a long time since she was addicted to motorcycles.
As she watched, she couldn't help but turn towards the garage. Her hand was suddenly held by someone. Lin Man looked up and saw Shen Lian looking at her with disapproval.
"Wait until your knee is healed," he reminded.
Lin Man nodded and followed him into the house obediently.
The villa was quite large, similar to the one in Nanpingshan. It had all kinds of functional rooms. The master bedroom was on the second floor. Lin Man took a look first and found that the layout of the cloakroom and bathroom suited her liking.
When she came out, she caught a glimpse of a quite large bedroom opposite her. Lin Man opened the door and looked around. However, she felt that the style was familiar.
She silently glanced at Shen Lian and said tentatively, "This room is similar to the layout of your master bedroom in Nanpingshan."
"Yeah, just follow the pretense over there." Shen Lian responded calmly.
Lin Man turned to look out the window, and his peripheral vision fell on Shen Lian. The corners of his mouth couldn't help but raise, but he had a puzzled look on his face: "Why are you pretending to be like that?"
"I want to stay here for a long time, is that okay?" Shen Lian's voice was low, with a hint of laughter in his voice.
Lin Man felt as if the strings in his heart were being plucked.
She no longer concealed it, raised the corners of her lips, and replied arrogantly: "It depends on my mood."
Shen Lian smiled and said "Yeah", "Then I will stay in the company lounge temporarily."
Lin Man frowned subconsciously. When she mentioned the lounge, she pictured Su Qianxin's underwear scattered everywhere in her mind, and she felt dismayed.
Even the thought of Shen Lian living there made me feel uncomfortable all over.
"No, you can live here." Lin Man changed his mind.
There was movement downstairs. She went downstairs to check. Aunt Zhang came in with dishes. Lin Man ran over in surprise, "Aunt Zhang!"
"Ms. Lin." Aunt Zhang was also smiling.
"Aunt Zhang, I miss you so much." She ran over and hugged Aunt Zhang.
Aunt Zhang patted her back and teased: "Do you miss me or the food I cook?"
Lin Man said frankly: "I want to do it all."
The days seem to have returned to the time in Nanping Mountain.
After greeting Aunt Zhang, Lin Man turned around again, looked at Shen Lian with bright eyes, and couldn't help cheering, "Shen Lian, I love you so much."
Naturally, she had selfish motives for saying this, and she didn't know when she would be able to shout this to Shen Lian openly, instead of mixing it into a joke.
What Lin Man didn't notice was that after she shouted these words, Shen Lian's eyes flashed and an obscure smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Aunt Zhang was also happy and cooked a table of meals in the evening.
Lin Man and Shen Lian sat across from each other, both of them a little absent-minded. Lin Man's excited heartbeat had not calmed down yet.
But Shen Lian was lowering his head and thinking. He knew clearly what he was doing and that it was wrong, but this sinking feeling made him unable to stop.
He seemed to be losing control of himself more and more.
Thinking too much made his head more chaotic. Shen Lian closed his eyes and put these complicated thoughts behind. He would talk about the future things later. He just wanted to maintain this state now. Lin Man was happy and didn't follow When he has a conflict, he feels good about it.
After dinner, Lin Man went to the video room to watch a drama for a while. When she came out, Shen Lian was still doing work in the study, so she didn't bother her and prepared to go into the bathroom to wash up first.
When she visited the bedroom before, she opened the cloakroom and took a look. There were a lot of clothes in it. She took it for granted that all the clothes were available. But when she came out of the bath, Lin Man was dumbfounded.
We do have pajamas, pajamas, jackets and trousers, but not the two most close-fitting items!
She thought for a moment and was about to pick up her phone to contact Aunt Zhang, but she searched the entire bedroom and couldn't find her phone. Then she remembered that she had just left her phone in the video room while watching a drama!
Lin Man scratched his hair irritably, glanced in the closet, took out a set of pajamas, and prepared to deal with it first before going downstairs to find Aunt Zhang.
After putting on her clothes, Lin Man looked at the pimples on her chest in the mirror and frowned in embarrassment.
This is already the thickest pajamas in the closet!
Shen Lian should still be doing work in the study. As long as she moves faster, she shouldn't run into him, right?
Lin Man covered his chest with one hand and opened the door a crack with the other. He peeked out first to make sure there was no one in the corridor, and then walked out quietly.
She stood on tiptoe and glanced in the direction of the study. Seeing that the door was closed, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Just as he was about to straighten his back and go downstairs, Shen Lian's voice suddenly came from behind him, "What do you want to do like a thief?"
Lin Man was startled, turned around subconsciously, and forced out an awkward smile: "You, are you out?"
Shen Lian said "Hmm" and frowned displeased when he saw her hair was wet: "Why are you running around without blowing your hair?"
"Oh, I, I want to go down and drink some water first." Lin Man pursed her lips and casually made up a reason.
"I have it there, no need to go downstairs."
Lin Man rolled his eyes, "I have something to do when I go downstairs."
Her reaction was so abnormal that Shen Lian couldn't help but become suspicious, but he didn't expose her. He just said, "If you have anything to do, dry your hair before doing it. It's cold and you can easily catch a cold."
"It's just a small thing, it'll be quick."
The more she wanted to run away, the less Shen Lian wanted to let her go. He grabbed one of Lin Man's wrists and said, "Come here, I'll blow it for you."
"No need, I'll just blow it by myself later." Lin Man tried his best to shrink back.
But Shen Lian was so powerful that Lin Man could only lose in tug-of-war with him. She also got angry and said, "Let me go!"
Shen Lian remained silent and did not answer, and his hand did not loosen at all.
"Okay, do you want to help me dry my hair?" Lin Man laughed angrily and changed the subject. She walked directly into Shen Lian's room and sat down on the sofa, "Come on."
Shen Lian walked in without taking the hairdryer, but instead asked her: "What on earth do you want to do downstairs?"
Lin Man pursed his lips and simply took away the hand that had been lying across his chest, "Because of this."
She straightened her back deliberately.
Chapter completed!