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I Heard You Are Going to Marry Me (Web Novel) - Chapter 73: Still Working So Late? I Have My Way.
Chapter 73: Still Working So Late? I Have My Way.
This chapter is updated by NovelFree.ml
Translator: Chen Ling, Sumi Wang
Edited by White Whale
Xing Biao put the phone away and began to peel the orange. He thought, ‘There is no way that the virgin pimp is as good as my wife, or as attractive as my wife. Hum, an old man who is not married would never know how important his wife is. Playing cards and drinking wine are useless; serving my darling is the right thing to do. As long as my darling is satisfied at my service, we could do everything!”
He looked down at Little Biao and said to himself, “When my darling is satisfied with my service, you will also be happy.” Little Biao was quiet these past few days.
Xing Biao walked into the study quietly and put the fruit on the table. Su Mo was very busy and didn’t raise his head.
Half an hour later, Xing Biao brought a glass of milk.
An hour later, a bowl of millet porridge and a salted duck egg yolk was sent into the study.
And “don’t-know-how-many-hours” later, Xing Biao bumped his head on the sofa. He lost track of what the series was showing on the TV screen. He touched his head. ‘What time is it? I fell asleep while watching? Oh my God, it’s 3:30 after midnight? The bedroom is still dark. Is Su Mo still up at this time?’
Xing Biao opened the door to the study. Su Mo was rubbing his head as he looked through a thick book.
“It’s so late. Why are you still up?”
“You can go to bed first. I’ll finish this in no time.”
Xing Biao was pissed off and said, “Stop it. Just go to bed.” Su Mo didn’t eat one bite of the food on the table and he wanted to continue his work at 3:30? Up all night? He still had to go to work later.
“Why are you so annoying? Go to sleep yourself and leave me alone.”
Xing Biao frowned angrily and strode over, putting his finger on the power switch. “Are you going to sleep now or not? If you don’t go to sleep now, I’m cutting off the power and waste everything you did.”
“I dare you!”
“One more move on your laptop and I’ll turn it off. You can try.”
Su Mo banged the table and stared at Xing Biao, while Xing Biao stared back at him and didn’t surrender this time. He wouldn’t let Su Mo win this time.
Su Mo gritted his teeth.
Xing Biao yelled at Su Mo fiercely, “How dare you? I’ve really spoiled you huh? Still up in the middle of the night to work on your case when you’ve just worked for a few days? What if you’re dead tired? Even if you are healthy, you can’t keep staying up all night. I’ll do whatever you say on everything but not this. Turn off the laptop and go to sleep. Now!” Xing Biao wished that Su Mo could move fast and go to bed right away. He didn’t really want to cut off the power, but if he had to do it, he would not back down.
“I’ll revenge you for this.” Fearing that his hard work tonight would all be gone, Su Mo clicked on “save” and turned off the laptop and walked to the bedroom. After all, these files meant a lot for his first court session.
This time, Xing Biao won over Su Mo!
“Go ahead and revenge on me. I want you to live to be seventy or eighty. You can revenge on me as much as you want all your life. See what time is it? You can’t work so hard and neglect your sleep. If you continue to stay up so late, I’ll talk to Cui Xun. Is he squeezing you as if you’re a borrowed little donkey that works uncomplainingly and selflessly? He is fine with it, but I’m not because my heart aches. Quickly undress and sleep. Don’t go to the office this morning. You should get enough sleep first.”
“Shut up.”
“I won’t argue with you in the middle of the night. Still reading? Close your eyes!” Xing Biao grabbed the Criminal Law book that was thick enough to kill people and threw it to the other side. He thought, ‘It’s already 3:30am. Reading before sleeping is absolute bullshit. I tried so hard to get Su Mo on the bed, and he still wants to read? So he reads until it’s 4am? Why doesn’t he get a shower and go to work directly?’
Hugging Su Mo’s shoulder and holding him in the arms, Xing Biao was ready to sleep. Su Mo couldn’t get himself free anyhow. Xing Biao hugged him firmly like a cage. He tucked in the quilt and began to pat Su Mo’s back, trying to lure him into sleep.
“Let me go.” Su Mo felt as if he couldn’t breathe freely in Xing Biao’s arms.
“I’ll fuck you if you don’t sleep.”
“I dare you!”
Xing Biao pressed Su Mo’s buttock and put small Biao closer to him fiercely. “You dare me?”
“Rascal.”
They were lying so close to each other that Su Mo could feel that Little Biao was half erected. Su Mo turned over and turned his back to him. Xing Biao moved closer and used Little Biao to rub Su Mo’s buttock. He began to touch Su Mo freely. Su Mo thought he had made a huge mistake by turning his back on Xing Biao. It was more like an invitation, isn’t it? He laid flat and tried to stop him from fooling around.
Xing Biao kissed him and intended to slide his hand into Su Mo’s pajama to touch Little Su. When he touched the edge of the pajama pants, Su Mo murmured “So tired”. Xing Biao took back his paw immediately and put it on Su Mo’s waist, without the slightest intention to commit mischief again.
He thought, ‘It’s so late and he is exhausted today. I won’t fool around with him anymore. Darling, it is four o ‘clock in the morning, the kids are all home, and the little mouse is fed and home. There are still two and a half hours to go before the sun rises and few hours before getting up. Your husband is there, by your side. Just sleep. I’ll shut up now.’
Su Mo tittered and thought, ‘Sometimes he can be very gullible. Now that he behaves nicely, let’s go to sleep.’ He didn’t know how tired he was until laying in the bed. Closing his eyes, Su Mo fell asleep immediately.
As expected, Su Mo got up late the next day. Xing Biao did not want to wake him up sohe went out of the bedroom quietly to tidy up the study. Nine Fingers called and said the police was at the company, asking questions about the oral confession. Xing Biao left for the company after kissing Su Mo. He thought, ‘It was best for Su Mo to sleep more since he stayed up too late last night – must be very tired.’
Su Mo was awakened by the phone call. He covered his head with the quilt and tried to pretend that he didn’t hear anything. However, the phone continuously rang and he refrained himself from throwing the phone out of the window. He stretched out his hand to grab the phone on the bedside table and answered the phone, “Well?”
“Su Mo, the accuser’s mother is here and wants to meet you. Just hurry and come here. She is crying so hard and I couldn’t handle it.” Cui Xun sounded anxious and he could hear a woman crying beside him.
“Wait for me. I’ll be there in half an hour.” Su Mo suddenly remembered that he had prepared three-quarters of the indictment materials last night, and there was still work left to be done. He quickly lifted the quilt and changed his clothes while cursing, “Bastard Xing Biao! How come you did not wake me up? Don’t you know that I’ll be late for work?!”
He tidied up the bed in hurry and left the pajama on top, rushing to the lawyers’ office with the laptop in his hand. Probably he lost his image for the first time –with his messy hair.
The accuser’s mother knelt on the floor as soon as Su Mo showed up. Su Mo moved away and didn’t accept the etiquette. “Oh, aunt, you don’t have to do this. You are killing me by kneeling towards your junior like me. I promise that I will try my best to handle this case.”
“I’m begging you, Lawyer Su. My son really didn’t kill anyone. He really is innocent.” The mother wailed.
“I know. I’m looking for evidences for the trial of second sentence.”
“Lawyer Su, when is the time for the court session? You must save my son.”
” The court session will be on the day after tomorrow.”
“I’m begging you. I’m begging you. Please, help him. He’s in his twenties and he can’t spend the rest of his life in prison.”
“I’ll do my best.”
Cui Xun asked his assistant to help the accuser’s mother to another room. Facing such kind of things, Su Mo felt completely at loss. He still couldn’t deal with his interpersonal relationship so smoothly – with no social skills, complicated mind and no soothing words to offer.
“Can you manage it in in time? The judgement of the first trial was already issued, generally it’s very difficult to reverse the verdict an appeal.”
“I’m working overtime tonight to get everything ready. I think I can manage it.”
“You know, Su Mo, if you win this case, you will certainly become famous in the legal world, because many people think it’s impossible to win this case. So if you will succeed I overturning the sentence, I’ll throw a celebration party for you and also give you a promotion to celebrate your first victory.”
Su Mo smiled. “Sure.”
“So confident?”
“You can book the venue for the celebration party.”
This was the first case of his career so he had to win. The more difficult the case was, the more influential it would be. If Su Mo wanted to make a name for himself in the legal world, he had to have a good kick start. Who doesn’t want to become outstanding? Who doesn’t want to be famous? Then he had to go all out and do his best.
After dinner, Su Mo went to the study immediately. “I have to work late. You could go to sleep first.”
“Are you done or not? Working late yesterday and still working late today? What is Cui Xun doing? My wife also needs rest. Let me talk to him.” Xing Biao became furious and thought, ‘What’s happening now? Working so late all the time? Is he workaholic?’
“Leave me alone. The court session is on the day after tomorrow and I want to be well prepared. This is the first time I’ll stand up in the real court as a defense lawyer and I want to get a complete victory.”
Xing Biao grumbled. “I know you are competitive and aggressive and the court session is very important to you, but you couldn’t stay up so late every day. So, when do you plan to go to bed today?”
“Let’s see.”
“It’s eight o ‘clock now. You must go to bed at twelve o ‘clock. You have four hours to work overtime and finish your work. What do you say?”
Su Mo didn’t think carefully and nodded. All he thought about was the case. When he got immersed in his work, he couldn’t really anticipate how much time he would need.
Xing Biao clapped on the sofa and thought, “That’s typically what Su Mo would do – absolutely forget about what he has promised when he gets too involved in his work. I can’t let him do this. He doesn’t cherish his health, but it means a lot to me.” He grabbed the car keys and went out.
Su Mo had been busy working in the study and didn’t realized that his husband went out. When Xing Biao came into the study, Su Mo thought he was bringing food for him just like last night and didn’t raise his head.
Who would expect Xing Biao to bang a clock in front of him? Su Mo was bewildered and looked up at him – what is going on here?
Xing Biao frowned and pointed at the clock. He looked fierce and said uncompromisingly, “This is the countdown timer. I’ve set it up for four hours. You can see how much time you have left by looking at this. I’ll be listening outside and if the alarm goes off and you’re still working, I’ll crash your laptop.”
Su Mo took a look at the countdown timer. It was really ticking and there was only 3.5 hours left out of 4 hours.
“It’s up to you.” Xing Biao left no room for negotiation and went out. He sat on the sofa and watched TV, listening to the timer carefully. He would rush in and cut off the power the moment the alarm went off.
Su Mo found it both funny and annoying. ‘What is he thinking about? How come he got this thing for me? And from where? The sound of the clock ticking makes people feel anxious. Xing Biao is doing this for my own good. Forget about it and leave it here.’ He shook his head and continued to work and did not throw the timer out of the window as what he initially planned.
