After the Divorce, My Wife and I Were Both Reborn

Chapter 91: Chapter 91: Hubby, Go For It~

About twenty minutes later, Lin Yanwan walked out of the bathroom, dressed in clean clothes and drying her hair with a towel.

When she caught sight of her underwear hanging on the balcony, she gritted her teeth in anger. She really wanted to drag that guy out and give him a beating.

’So he’s a repeat offender,’ she thought. ’No wonder he was always so eager to wash my underwear in the past.’

Walking into her room, she shot Jiang Xia a fierce glare and muttered, "Pervert!"

He nodded in full agreement. "You’re right. All husbands in the world are perverts. I just did something every married man does."

"...So, you’re proud of it?" Lin Yanwan was speechless.

Jiang Xia retorted confidently, "There’s nothing shameful about smelling my own wife’s clothes."

"You’re still talking about it!" she exclaimed, flustered and annoyed.

’All he ever says is "wife, wife," as if we’re already married,’ she thought. ’Utterly shameless.’

"Alright, alright, I’ll stop." Jiang Xia chuckled, pulling out a hairdryer and patting a stool. "Come sit, I’ll dry your hair for you."

"No, I’ll do it myself."

"It’ll be easier if I do it."

Seeing she couldn’t win the argument, Lin Yanwan grumbled a little and reluctantly sat down in front of him.

A warm breeze gusted from the nozzle. Jiang Xia held the hairdryer in one hand, his wrist moving it back and forth, while his other hand lifted strands of her hair, tousling them quickly. From time to time, he would press his fingers to her scalp and knead it gently. All he could smell was the faint scent of shampoo.

Lin Yanwan tilted her head back slightly, closing her eyes in comfort. ’It’s so nice not having to dry my own hair. Maybe next time I’ll just have him help wash it, too. A man’s hands are stronger, after all.’

As the warm air whirred, she suddenly felt a touch on her lips, and a warm, moist breath brushed against her face. She instinctively opened her eyes, only to be met with the sight of Jiang Xia’s well-defined collarbone.

’So that’s what it was. He’d leaned down and kissed her while she wasn’t paying attention,’ she thought. ’He really knows how to pick his moments.’

She sighed softly to herself, slowly closing her eyes and parting her dewy, pink lips ever so slightly.

The hairdryer had stopped at some point. After a long moment, Jiang Xia reluctantly pulled back. Seeing the blush on his wife’s face, he gently wrapped his arms around her from behind.

"Babe, you smell so good."

"It’s just the body wash," Lin Yanwan sniffed.

"No, it’s not. It’s the scent of hormones," he said.

Her face flushed slightly as she straightened up to put some distance between them. She shot him a look. "Stop whispering all this nonsense in my ear day in and day out."

Jiang Xia looked slightly abashed. "I’m not thinking about... that. It’s this body’s fault. I’m at that age... full of vim and vigor. It’s not like I want to be."

"Then don’t touch me from now on!" Lin Yanwan huffed.

’I have to stand my ground,’ she resolved. ’No matter how beautifully he talks, no matter how affectionate he acts, I have to keep things from going too far.’

"You know," he said seriously, "a man is in his prime right now. After thirty, it’s all downhill. It doesn’t matter if you chug wolfberry tea every day. You should enjoy it while you can."

Lin Yanwan caressed his face, a charming smile playing on her lips. "Actually, most women don’t have many... worldly desires at this age. We only hit our stride after thirty. When that time comes, this ’big sister’ will just kick you to the curb and find a vigorous young stud."

Jiang Xia froze, completely speechless at her counterattack.

"Well, I don’t think what other people say is necessarily accurate. Take me, for example. I’ll still be full of vim and vigor after I turn thirty."

She pursed her lips and shot him down without mercy. "Nowhere near as good as when you were twenty-two."

Jiang Xia’s face twitched violently, and his heart instantly went ice-cold.

"...I suddenly don’t have any worldly desires anymore."

Hearing this, the corners of Lin Yanwan’s mouth curled up, a smile unconsciously forming.

"Don’t you have two more episodes of animation to make? Wang Ming is slaving away for you, drawing keyframes day in and day out, but you? All you know how to do is flirt, is that it? You just signed the contract and you’re already getting carried away, aren’t you? Do you still want to do Cat and Mouse or not?"

"I’m not flirting with girls. I’m flirting with my wife," Jiang Xia corrected her with a straight face.

"All talk and no substance. Smooth-talking men are the most unreliable!" Lin Yanwan said, putting on a deliberately stern face. "When I look for a man in the future, I’ll definitely find an honest, simple one."

’She wasn’t that naive girl from back then, the one who would lose herself in his sweet calls of "wife." She was long immune by now.’

"SOB, SOB, stop scolding me! Work brings me joy!" Seeing her adopt the same authoritative air his wife had back then, Jiang Xia immediately surrendered.

’But I am an honest and simple guy,’ he thought. ’I only act like a smooth-talker in front of my wife.’

"You stay here and focus on drawing. I’ll go pick up Xiao Man myself when school gets out. You don’t go, you hear?"

"Okay."

"That’s more like it. Mwah~" Lin Yanwan stood on tiptoe to give him a peck on the lips, smiling. "A reward for you."

"However, if you can’t finish a hundred storyboard panels today, then there will be no more kisses in the future."

She gently breathed into Jiang Xia’s ear. "Hubby, do your best~"

His fists clenched!

Jiang Xia’s eyes widened, and he exhaled heavily like a bull. "Don’t disturb me! A woman will only slow down my drawing speed!"

"That’s it, exactly. Maintain this state."

Lin Yanwan smiled faintly and walked out, swaying her hips. ’This guy... I still have to use the old tricks to motivate him. It was like this in the past, and it’s the same now. He hasn’t changed at all.’

"Babe, wait a second," Jiang Xia suddenly called out to her.

"Hm?"

"That... name you just called me. Can you say it one more time?" he asked cheekily. It had been so long since he’d heard her say "hubby," he felt so euphoric he could fly.

"Hub—"

As he watched expectantly, the smiling expression on Lin Yanwan’s face suddenly changed. "Hmph! We’ll talk after you’ve completed your task!"

Then, she slammed the door and even took out a key to lock it from the other side.

Thinking back on the scene, Lin Yanwan couldn’t help but feel a little glee. Since her rebirth, she had always been the more submissive one in front of Jiang Xia. After all, she was worried they would end up going their separate ways again like in their past life, so she had let him lead her by the nose most of the time.

’But she’d forgotten that after they got married, she was the one who called the shots, big and small. Once she brought out her ’Empress’ aura, wouldn’t that guy just surrender obediently?’

"Xiao Yuyuan, your ’dad’ is such a goof. A single ’hubby’ made him that happy... so why did he always feel like he was wronging me in our past life?" Lin Yanwan murmured, stroking the cute cat’s head. She sighed softly, picking up the dirty clothes he’d changed out of and tossing them into the washing machine.

She held Xiao Yuyuan in her arms, gazing distractedly at the clouds in the sky.

’In this life,’ she wondered, ’can Jiang Xia and I really go all the way?’