CHAPTER 236: CHAPTER 238: XIA LING’S INVITATION

Su Xingyu’s pale cherry-colored lips parted slightly, too shocked to speak.

Since she met him, he had always opposed her photography. Even when he reluctantly agreed later, he was always miserly with the equipment.

She never imagined getting any equipment from him. The last time, Xie Jian’s exception with the "Shang" camera was an unexpected surprise, but its commemorative significance far outweighed its practical value. This time was different; this time, Lu Shifeng straightforwardly moved all of Blade’s best photography equipment in front of her, with all imaginable models, and even included the most cutting-edge, super-expensive models.

With these cameras, she could really capture anything as vast as the universe or as small as bacteria and viruses!

Her heart was racing with excitement, like a poor girl suddenly receiving an endless treasure, happiness almost making her explode.

Lu Shifeng looked down into her eyes, her sparkling pupils so enchanting under the light: "Do you like it?"

"Why are you suddenly giving me these?" she turned back to ask, "Didn’t you always say I should earn my own cameras?"

"Because," he said, "Your performance in the plane incident this time was worthy of a Purple Star Medal, but I only gave you a Gold Star, so this is to make up the difference."

Make up... the difference?!

"Then if I don’t want the Gold Star Medal either, what else can I get?" Su Xingyu asked excitedly.

Lu Shifeng narrowed his eyes and glanced at her, his expression unchanged: "What else do you want?"

"I..." She thought and thought, and apart from wanting Zhuang Heng to leave Blade, there was nothing else worth asking for. But Lu Shifeng definitely wouldn’t agree to that. She looked at the man with a hint of grievance, wondering how she ended up with such a domineering husband. As she kept looking, she noticed a subtle weariness on his exceptionally handsome face. Forgetting her grievances and complaints, she said, "I want you to go back to the bedroom and rest well, lie down and wait for the family doctor to come, okay?"

He slightly raised an eyebrow, a rare expression of surprise crossing his usually impassive face: "You’re exchanging a Gold Star Medal for this?"

"Can’t I?" she said confidently, "Otherwise, if something happens to you, won’t it be my problem?"

Looking at her fierce yet timid little face, he gently smiled, his voice softening unusually: "Okay."

He took her hand and led her out of the room filled with equipment.

"Hey! Lu Shifeng!" Su Xingyu was upset, struggling, "You go to sleep on your own! Let me look at the equipment a bit longer!"

"No," he firmly refused.

"How can you be like this? It’s too much!" She was almost in tears. How could he be bad to her when she was good to him?

"I haven’t been too much just for a day or two," he said calmly.

"You can’t be like this...!" she refused to give up, struggling all the way.

Despite his injuries, Lu Shifeng effortlessly tossed her onto the bed and undressed: "Stay and sleep with me for a while."

"Argghh you bastard! The family doctor will be here any moment! Ah...!"

Muffled screams came from the bedroom, the mahogany door tightly shut, and outside, the family doctor, who had intended to knock, silently lowered his hand and exchanged a glance with Mrs. Gui: "The young master seems quite spirited, his injuries surely aren’t severe." After speaking, he leisurely walked away.

Only the pitiful Su Xingyu was tormented repeatedly by a certain brute.

His shoulder was in a comminuted fracture; she didn’t dare to resist forcefully, but he was so unrestrained. As a result, she was worn out much worse than when he was uninjured...

The next day she lay nearly lifeless in bed, while a certain brute was energetic and went to the study to manage affairs.

The third day, she was still near lifeless in bed, while a certain brute was full of energy, starting to arrange the next business trip.

The fourth day...

The fifth day...

Finally, Su Xingyu couldn’t take it anymore and fought back: "I want to go out and work! I don’t want to stay home every day to be tormented by you! You mustn’t touch me at night!"

A certain brute lifted his head from the mountain of documents and looked at her calmly: "Hmm?"

The fierce little white rabbit instantly wilted...

"I... then I’ll go out to play with Xiaoling, okay." she said flatteringly.

"You’re not allowed to play with that crazy woman."

"Lu Shifeng!" Su Xingyu gritted her teeth, "If you keep forbidding this and forbidding that, do you believe I won’t secretly take nude photos of you at night and post them to all major media outlets!"

"Hmm?" the man leisurely responded with a nasal sound, "It seems the nighttime activity isn’t enough..."

Regretting it deeply, Su Xingyu once again got out of bed, clutching her waist in tears, half a month later.

Finally, when the brute—oh no, Boss—left on a business trip, she quickly grabbed her equipment bag and escaped out the door, directly taking a bus to work.

After getting off the bus, she saw the massive electronic billboard at a high-end shopping plaza at the intersection was now displaying a set of Xia Ling’s photos—a fairy-like girl leading a horse by the lakeside, every smile enchanting and full of charm. The message promoted an environmental theme, with the photographer’s signature in small letters in the bottom right corner: Su Xingyu.

It turned out to be the environmental advertisement she’d shot for Xiaoling earlier, finally released.

At the bustling intersection, many passersby would involuntarily stop to admire the advertisement. Even the hurried office workers frequently glanced back as they walked. Su Xingyu also stood at the corner to admire for a while, feeling a great sense of accomplishment. She took a real-time photo with her phone and sent it to Xiaoling, saying: [This set of photos turned out great, Xiaoling.]

Soon, she received a reply from Xiaoling, the carefree girl sending her a clean smiling face: [Of course, with my looks and your skills—perfect!]

Before she could respond, another message followed: [Didn’t you see the news these days? The junction outside your Blade and Cloud is attracting too many distracted people because of this ad. The government is asking to take it down tomorrow, what a pity.]

Su Xingyu smiled slightly: [No pity, it’ll be popular anywhere else too.]

[Right!] the girl sent a big exclamation mark and then said, [Xingyu, you’re so nice. I’m planning to go on vacation with Ziheng, why don’t you come with us? I like you taking pictures of me?]

The girl treated her as a little photography assistant?

Su Xingyu’s lips curled into a smile as she replied jokingly: [I’m not as generous as you, helping for free—I charge for photos.]

[Whatever, whatever, any price will do!] The girl didn’t mind at all, and within less than a second, Su Xingyu’s phone rang. It was the girl impatiently calling her.