President's Substitute Wife

Ming got in the car, too.

He drove me away.

I was in the passenger seat and through the right rear-view mirror I saw Sean standing still.

The car stopped at the parking space downstairs of Ming’s house. He got off first and opened the door for me.

He reached for me with one hand. “Be careful.”

“Thank you.” I put my hand on Ming’s and stood up.

With Ming’s help, I limped into the elevator.

In the elevator, I told Ming about the recent project.

Because my clothes were all wet. When we got to the door, Ming took out the key to my room and asked me, “you have your old clothes in your house. I’ll bring one for you. You take a bath in my house.”

Bathing was an awkward and special thing. I leaned against the door of my house. “I can go back to my house and take a bath first, and then I’ll go to your house and let you check my foot.”

As I said that, I wanted to get the key.

Ming hid the key behind him, smiled and shook his head. “I’m sorry, you can’t.”

“Why?”

“You hurt your foot so I don’t trust you to bathe alone.” Ming said. He took out the key to open my house for me. He went to change his shoes first and helped me to take my slippers. He said, “don’t worry, I won’t peek when you bathe.”

His words made me blush.

Ming brought me a chair and set it aside for me to sit down. I realized he was going to change my shoes, and I said, “I’ll do it.”

“It’s okay. I’ll do it.”

He put his hand on my hand and stopped me.

He changed my slippers for me.

When I entered my house, I found that although I hadn’t come back in five years, this house was not old.

The whole room was

The bed was covered with beige cartoon bedding, which was new at

I pointed to the bedding. “This is...”

previous bedding was washed too many times, it broke, so I bought a new one

smiling and nodding, “yes, but I’m

out and touched my hair. He looked at me with gentle and firm eyes and said,

serious and not perfunctory

at him and felt somehow secure.

room alone and looked at my clothes five years ago.

learned from Murray and got in touch with some historical knowledge. I liked classical clothes more

at first, but he gradually

I hadn’t worn these clothes in the wardrobe for a long time.

I casually took out a T-shirt and skirt and a set of underwear.

Besides these, I also took out a

there were all kinds of skin care products on the wash

And there was shampoo

couldn’t help

care products...” I shouted out.

from outside. When he saw the skincare products I pointed to, he was not surprised and explained, “I’ve been thinking

“Thank

my heart was not

Ming was really thoughtful.

“these are the new ones I bought at the beginning of this year. The

for thank you, I really didn’t know what to

skincare products, as well as shampoo, conditioner and body wash for

as I saw it years ago.

clothes. When I wiped my hair and came out, there were several bottles on the tea table. Ming was looking at one of them.

in his hand and walked quickly to my side. He helped me to sit on the sofa and said gently, “the medicine at home is not complete. I’ll help you to see it. I’ll go out and buy

knelt in front of me and held my left foot in his hands and gave me a slight twist.

I felt intense pain and couldn’t

Ming immediately reduced his strength and frowned. “You didn’t hurt the bone, but I’d better

He got up and went

was about to leave, he

“OK.”

I nodded.

move. I sat on the sofa and looked around.