Captured Hearts: The Substitute Bride's Gambit-Chapter 216 - Unable to Fall Asleep While Hugging

Chapter 216: Chapter 216: Unable to Fall Asleep While Hugging

Chapter 216 -216: Unable to Fall Asleep While Hugging

Ye Chuyi propped her chin in one hand, holding her cell phone in the other, scrolling through news, but in fact, she hadn’t taken in a single word.

She remembered when she was a child, she had begged Lin Yueqin to take a photo of her because every year on Wen Nianyou’s birthday, Lady Wen would dress her up extravagantly and hire a photographer to take lots of pictures of her.

Wen Family’s walls and cabinets were filled with photos of Wen Nianyou at various ages, and she even had many thick photo albums, each clearly documenting her growth.

Ye Chuyi envied Wen Nianyou for having beautiful princess dresses, envied her for her massive, tiered birthday cakes, and envied her ability to pose like a little model in various cute ways for photos.

But she knew that dresses and cakes were something Lin Yueqin would never buy for her, so she just begged her to let her take a photo on her birthday too.

However, Lin Yueqin still refused.

But one year, when Lady Wen found out that Lin Yueqin was not celebrating her birthday, she suggested that she celebrate with Wen Nianyou and even took a joint photo of her and Wen Nianyou.

That was the only birthday she ever celebrated.

That joint photo was also the only photo from her childhood.

Unfortunately, she never got to keep that photo, because it had Wen Nianyou in it, Lin Yueqin took it for herself and didn’t give it to her.

Time passed, and she didn’t know how long it had been until she came back to her senses from the memories.

Sheng Tingyuan on the bed had already fallen asleep, she got up, turned off the light, and crept into bed, pulling up a corner of the thin blanket over herself, ready to sleep with her back to Sheng Tingyuan.

The central air conditioning in the villa was on and since she was far from Sheng Tingyuan, there was a gap in the middle of the blanket where the cold air crept in, making her slightly annoyed.

Should she adjust the air conditioning temperature, or should she call a maid to bring another blanket?

As she was pondering, an arm reached over and drew her into an embrace.

Ye Chuyi was startled, “Sheng Tingyuan, you’re not asleep?”

Holding her from behind and smelling the faint scent coming from her body, Sheng Tingyuan finally felt content, “How can I sleep if you don’t?”

Ye Chuyi stiffened, trying to remove his arm, but the more she exerted force, the tighter he held her.

The burning heat from his skin penetrated through her silk nightgown, and she was no longer cold, in fact, she began to feel hot all over.

She tapped on his hand, “Let go, I can’t sleep like this.”

Embracing her, Sheng Tingyuan was also wide awake, “You’ll get used to it.”

Ye Chuyi struggled, “I can’t get used to it.”

Seeing that she was unwilling, Sheng Tingyuan didn’t force her and retracted his arm from around her waist.

With the warmth gone, Ye Chuyi breathed a sigh of relief.

Being held by him had made her heartbeat abnormally fast; it took a while for her heart to calm down, and then, without realizing it, she fell asleep.

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However, when she woke up the next day, she found herself unknowingly back in Sheng Tingyuan’s arms.

One of his arms was on her waist, her head nestled in his chest, one leg atop his, their position intimate and ambiguous.

Ye Chuyi’s face instantly flushed—her sleeping posture had always been good, how had it become like this?

She lifted her leg, about to move away, when she heard the man beside her say, “Didn’t you say you couldn’t sleep while being held? Looks like you slept quite well, didn’t you?”

Ye Chuyi’s face turned beet red, she pushed away Sheng Tingyuan and hurriedly climbed out of bed, darting into the bathroom.

Behind her, came the light laughter of Sheng Tingyuan.

Ye Chuyi decided that from now on, she would definitely not share a bed with him.

No, she would definitely not stay in the same room with him!

After breakfast, Ye Chuyi went to the hospital; yesterday’s surgery was delayed, so today she had to work extra hours to complete all the surgeries.

By the time she was off work, it was already past ten at night.

But she didn’t go home; she went to the Du Family’s.

The Du Family’s lights were still on, they had not yet rested, but Ye Chuyi lingered downstairs, without knocking on the door as she used to.

She had no face to knock on the door anymore.

Perhaps she had been standing downstairs too long, Du Xiaoguang saw her, and he came out.

He still wore an aggressive demeanor, impatiently saying, “Why are you here again? What do you want?”