"Erxi..."
"Mm."
"I am a man."
"I know that."
Ji Yebai touched his nose, "I also have my pride."
"Yep." Ning Xixi's response was neither angry nor impatient.
She didn't tell him to kneel, nor did she say not to kneel.
Ji Yebai gritted his teeth. Dammit, it's just kneeling on a washboard, isn't it?
"Pride isn't as important as your happiness, wife. I'm going to kneel!" Ji Yebai said sternly, steeling his heart, ready to kneel down.
Ning Xixi, however, kicked the washboard away and fiercely clung to him, yelling, "Are you stupid? If I tell you to kneel, you just kneel?"
"I just want to make you happy..." Ji Yebai murmured, looking at the glimmer in Ning Xixi's starry eyes, his heart melting into a mess.
This girl... for all her outward prickliness, she was still a tender Ning Xiaozhu at heart.
She could bear even less to let him kneel on a washboard.
While Erxi was touched, from outside the door came a commotion, especially Xiao Xichen's voice that was the loudest—
