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"Wow~"
The sound of water behind him made Li Tao's body stiffen. As expected, Li Manzi was lying in the bathtub behind him.
He swallowed, his voice trembling slightly:
"Boss Li...is it convenient for me to come in..."
After a long while, Li Manzi replied in a dull voice: "It's not convenient."
Li Tao was embarrassed. He also felt it was inconvenient to come in. It was all Xiangxue's fault for misleading people with her lies. They believed her nonsense.
Just when Li Tao was thinking about whether to find an excuse to leave quickly, Li Manzi suddenly said in a crying voice:
"A wife like me who has brought shame upon her husband has no face at all, let alone the right to see her husband again."
"Why have I lost face again... No, it's not me, why did your husband..." Li Tao was frantically organizing his words, but Li Manzi behind him was obviously not in the mood to pay attention to these.
Her voice was filled with endless despair: "Yoo In Na saw me pretending to be an 18-year-old female college student. I still can't forget the disgusting look in her eyes at that time, wuwu~"
Li Tao could understand Li Manzi's psychological process. He estimated that Aunt Liu had completely become a shadow in her heart.
"Hey, you look just like an 18-year-old college student, why would you need to pretend..."
Li Manzi didn't say anything, so Li Tao continued, "And Aunt Liu's look didn't mean disgust. She treats all women who get close to me like that. She's just being cautious..."
"It's different. The look in her eyes is like I'm an old cow eating young grass. She thinks I'm shameless for pretending to be a college student..."
Li Tao opened his mouth to comfort her, but Li Manzi murmured: "Although I feel so too..."
Chapter 85 The Woman Off Work
Li Tao frowned, Li Manzi had actually reached the point of giving up on herself, this was not a good trend.
He looked around the bathroom, wondering how he could build Li Manzi's confidence.
In any case, at least she had to get out of the water first, otherwise her skin would be really damaged.
His eyes wandered around, but what could be in the bathroom?
After all, people of Li Manzi's status wouldn't pile up messy cleaning tools in the bathroom of their house.
It seemed that the only things he could pick up, apart from various bath creams and lotions, were bath towels and scrub towels.
Li Tao was in a dilemma for a moment.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Li Manzi thought that Li Tao agreed with her conclusion that it was shameless to pretend to be young.
She had a dejected look on her face, and she leaned back against the place where the bathtub met the wall, tears silently rolling down her pretty face.
"Hubby, it's all my fault that I embarrassed you..."
Li Tao looked up at the ceiling, feeling depressed and said tiredly, "Really not."
"Of course there is. I have thought it through during this period of time."
Li Tao didn't say anything, but he was curious about what she could think of in her little head.
"I'm too old. If you marry me, you won't be able to hold your head up in front of others. I don't want you to suffer that injustice."
Li Tao had his back to her and couldn't see the girl's expression, but Li Manzi's tone was decadent and lifeless, and she probably looked as pale as death from the front as well.
"Don't be so stubborn..." Li Tao vaguely felt that something was wrong.
Li Manzi suddenly interrupted him and stammered:
"It's my fault for being born too early. I'm not worthy of being your wife in this life. I hope you're willing to wait for me for eighteen years. I'll die right now so that I can bear your child on the day I reach adulthood in the next life!"
"Wow~"
As soon as Li Manzi finished speaking, there was a sound of something diving into the water.
Li Tao panicked and turned around without considering that she was naked.
Sure enough, Li Manzi’s head could no longer be seen. Her long chestnut hair was scattered on the surface of the bathtub, and her white body was completely submerged in the water.
"How come you're still superstitious..."
"Don't get carried away!"
Li Tao knelt on the ground because the height was just right for him to reach his hands into the bathtub to fish it out.
In the warm water tank, Li Tao fumbled for a while and finally found the right part to exert force.
He put his hands into Li Manzi's armpits, exerted force suddenly, and finally lifted up Li Manzi, who was "committing suicide by burying herself in the water".
Li Manzi didn't die, but she didn't give up. She struggled and shook her body, trying to bury her head in the water and suffocate herself.
"Don't shake, I'm dizzy~"
Li Tao's voice was hoarse, and he seemed to be in some extreme state.
"Let me die so I can be reborn soon~"
Li Manzi shook her little body, splashing white foam on the water surface, splashing all over Li Tao's face.
"Ah~"
Li Tao roared like a wild beast on the verge of collapse. He leaned forward and pressed Li Manzi tightly against the tiles of the bathroom wall.
His forehead was pressed tightly against Li Manzi's, and their breaths were exchanged on each other's faces.
"I said, you are not allowed to die!"
Li Manzi was stunned for a moment, bit her lip, and said aggrievedly: "I didn't think it through. It's unfair to you to let your husband hold it in for another 18 years."
Although Li Tao felt that this was inappropriate, it was also a good thing that Li Manzi could give up the idea of suicide.
He leaned back and turned his forehead away, not wanting to look at her body, or he would get cold.
Li Manzi took a deep breath, turned around and shouted towards the bathroom door:
"Xue'er!"
"I'm here, Mr. Li."
Xiangxue's voice was still lazy, and she seemed to be still resting with her eyes closed on the sofa, which made Li Tao very angry.
He was trying so hard and thoughtfully to coax her boss, and as a secretary she was quite enjoying herself.
Li Manzi's voice was solemn: "Xue'er, I ask you for a favor."
"Ah... President, you are being too polite. If there is something, it should be done by the secretary. As your secretary, Xiangxue will certainly do her duty."
Li Manzi looked at Li Tao with blurry eyes and said foolishly, "For the past 18 years, please take care of my husband. When he needs something, you can let him relieve his heat on you first. I feel uncomfortable and afraid that he sleeps with others. In return, I will transfer all the assets of the Li family to your name."
Li Tao thought Xiangxue would refuse outright, but the woman sighed deeply, and it was definitely a deliberate sigh.
"Alas, Mr. Li, it's not about money. He has no feelings for me and I'm afraid he won't use me to relieve his anger."
Li Tao: “…”
Li Tao knew that he couldn't let the two women talk any longer. His next eighteen years had been arranged clearly at this moment, so it would be useless to let them continue talking.
He pinched the soft flesh under Li Manzi's armpit with slight force to draw her attention back.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Boss Li, think about it differently. Being older is a good thing. He has rich life experience and can take care of people..."
Li Manzi's long eyelashes trembled, and she asked in disbelief, "Really?"
"Yes, for example, when a man comes home from work and his wife prepares a sumptuous meal, it makes me feel warm just thinking about it~"
"Can I buy a table? I can't cook..."
Li Tao was speechless, he couldn't continue with this sentence.
Li Manzi's pretty face also turned red. She murmured, "Forget it, I'd better drown myself and start over." and buried her head in the water again.
When the clock hand pointed to six thirty-five, Xiangxue, who had been staring at the clock in a daze, suddenly blinked.
Her pupils slowly focused, and her two long legs moved down from the coffee table one after another.
Putting on pink home slippers, Xiangxue stood up and stretched.
She said to herself in a lazy tone, "I'm almost out of the elevator~"
She pulled down her collar, deliberately leaving her ups and downs half exposed. She put her hands into her hair and scratched it a few times. Her medium-length brown hair was messy on her pretty face with a flushed look.
She hooked her index finger up the camouflage shirt that Li Tao had taken off on the chair, and walked towards the door while putting it on.
Xiangxue opened her red lips slightly: "Three~two~"
"One~"
"Crack~"
As soon as she finished speaking, Xiangxue turned the doorknob. As the gap in the door gradually widened, the plump and charming back of a woman appeared in Xiangxue's sight.
At this moment, she was bending over to insert the key into the keyhole and twisting it. From behind, one could just see that her washed blue denim shorts were arched and so tight that they were on the verge of tearing.
When she was halfway through turning the screw, she heard the door open behind her.
Feeling the other person's gaze on her buttocks, Liu Inna frowned and slowly turned around.
"It's you!"
The moment Liu Inna saw Xiangxue, she felt sick.
"Why are you wearing my Bao'er's clothes?"
Liu Renna could tell at a glance that this was the shirt that Li Tao wore when he went out to school in the morning to distribute the uniform military training.
"You're wrong, this is not Taoer's~" Xiangxue's voice was full of panic, and she tried to close the door in a panic.
"I'm not blind! Those words I secretly sewed last night, who else would have the time to sew those words except on his military training uniform?"
Xiangxue is currently wearing a camouflage military training uniform, and below her belly button, there is a line of words sewn in red thread: Liu Renna’s exclusive granary.
Before Liu Renna reached out to open the door, Xiangxue took the initiative to stop closing the door.
"Oops~ the necklace fell off~"
Xiangxue's voice was filled with panic, and then she pretended to be blind.
The necklace was clearly right at her feet, but when she bent down to pick it up, she deliberately kept leaning over, causing it to sway back and forth, so she couldn't see the necklace in front of her.
She said to herself coquettishly: "You big pig's hoof, you had to pull my necklace and it was loosened. I don't know what kind of perverted mentality you have~"