Chapter 294 Lin Wanzhou’s Heart Knot
As the sky gradually darkened, lights were turned on sporadically in rows upon rows of windows in the community.
Because he had evening self-study, Lin Wanzhou did not go home.
She was afraid of running into her mother when she got home. If she was asked why she left school early, her mother would definitely find out that she had not been in school and had been fooling around with Xu Cheng all day.
I had no choice but to stay at Xu Cheng's house for the time being, and huddle with him on the sofa in the living room.
There was no light on, so the room was dark.
A day of intravenous infusion in the hospital made both of them a little tired. After lying down on the sofa, neither of them wanted to move any more.
"Xu Cheng, it's getting dark, go turn on the light."
The girl's legs that were resting on the armrest of the sofa moved slightly, and her slender, round calves rubbed lightly twice on Xu Cheng's arm that was suspended in the air.
Xu Cheng lay motionless on the sofa like a dead pig.
"I don't want to move. Besides, I'm a patient now. You should turn on the light..."
Lin Wanzhou ignored him and stared at the dark ceiling with wide eyes.
She loves to sleep in during the weekends, so she often wakes up at this time.
That was how it was then. It was already completely dark, and my parents were still working overtime and had not come home yet. I got out of bed and opened the bedroom door, and there was no light in the house.
It might have been just an hour past dinner time, and I was alone in a dark house without a single light, while outside there were thousands of lights on.
Standing by the window looking down.
There are couples who just finished their meal and took their children out, lovers who made plans to go out and play together, and office workers who just got off work with a briefcase in the left hand and a bag of vegetables in the right hand...
At this time, the darkness in the room seemed to carry a kind of loneliness that was enough to crush one's soul, making one feel gloomy and confused.
That was also the time that Lin Wanzhou hated the most.
She had to turn on all the lights in the house to feel her depression alleviated a little.
But at this moment.
Although the environment was almost the same, there was no light and everything in front of me was dark.
The girl never felt that way again.
Perhaps it was because she knew that, across the darkness, there was a pig's head lying on another sofa.
From time to time, she would rub her calves against his arms. The warmth of the boy's arms and his slight tremors in response would bring the girl enough comfort.
His existence made Lin Wanzhou feel that even if she rotted in the darkness, she would not feel the same disgusting gloomy feeling as before.
Instead, there was a sweet feeling of listening to each other's breathing, chatting about interesting things at school from time to time, and then giggling together.
The darkness before my eyes seemed to add a different kind of hazy flavor to this sweetness.
This made them like two lonely travelers, exiled into space together, but because of each other's presence, no one felt lonely, and they just stuck to the adjacent sofas without moving.
Lin Wanzhou felt that this way of resting, which allowed both body and mind to relax at the same time, was much more effective than simply sleeping alone at home.
She began to become addicted to the feeling of resting with Xu Cheng, and secretly prayed that such dusk hours would last a little longer.
"I heard from my mother that she will be going abroad for training in a few days..." the girl muttered to herself.
Xu Cheng pricked up his ears.
"Training?"
"Yes, it's an overseas training organized by the company."
"How long will the training take?"
"From what she said, it will take about half a year..."
"Doesn't that mean your mother won't be at home for the next six months?"
Xu Cheng's tone gradually became excited, as if he had untied some insurmountable constraint.
The girl wanted to step on this guy's face with her feet.
"Hey, what are you so happy about?"
"Ahem, I don't have any."
"Really? I won't be able to see my mother for half a year. Is this really so happy?"
Although the girl herself longs for a free life without her mother's constraints, she feels a little uncomfortable when she thinks about not being able to see her for such a long time.
Xu Cheng hurriedly comforted her, "It's okay, Lin Wanzhou. Technology is so advanced nowadays. Even if you are far away, you can still have a video chat with your mother. You can use any chat app to do that."
"Chatting software...is it QQ?"
Xu Cheng had never been abroad, and didn't know whether the Penguin network at that time was compatible with foreign countries. "I don't know about QQ, but MSN is definitely OK."
"What is MSN? I don't understand. You can come to my house and help me fix it when the time comes."
"Well, leave it to me."
The room was quiet for a while. Lin Wanzhou swung his calves in the air for a while. Feeling that the darkness in front of him had become extremely thick, he rubbed Xu Cheng's arm twice.
"Go turn on the light, I can't see anything now."
"I'm too lazy to go."
"Go quickly, I will reward you when you go." The girl knew that this trick was very effective. Xu Cheng always liked to be rewarded by her, so he would definitely go if she said so.
This was indeed the case. I soon heard the creaking of the sofa, then the sound of slippers rubbing against the floor, and then I heard Xu Cheng standing up from the sofa.
But he wasn't walking towards the light switch; he was walking towards her.
The girl hadn't reacted yet and could hardly see anything in front of her, she just felt herself being embraced by him. Her body instantly became warm, and she could feel Xu Cheng's hot breath on her neck and ears, which made her feel itchy.
"What, what, who allowed you to reward yourself in advance?!" The girl was surprised and delighted. A hug should be unexpected to be stimulating.
Xu Cheng's voice was low and overbearing. "You just reminded me. You cheated me out of so many rewards before. This time I want to get them all back."
"ah?"
The girl couldn't stop panicking.
If she wanted to get back all the times she had been touched before, wouldn't her entire body be rubbed raw by this guy?
"Are you trying to force me to calm down?"
The girl's sudden words frightened Xu Cheng so much that he trembled all over. He sat very straight, looking like a soldier in a summer camp.
"Lin Wanzhou, girls shouldn't talk in such a perverted way. Ahem, just tell me this, don't tell anyone else."
"I'm just worried that you might do something perverted!" the girl immediately clarified.
He is the only one who can get so close to her since she was a child. She won't even give anyone else the chance to get within one meter of her.
"No, I won't do that before you agree."
Xu Cheng gently stroked the girl's soft hair with his cheek. Her hair was clean and had a rich fruity scent, which made him unable to help but pick up a strand of it and put it to his nose to smell it carefully.
Lin Wanzhou did not resist. In fact, she did not have the strength to resist. The infusion was indeed very effective for colds. Xu Cheng, who was still weak in the morning, had become so strong now.
Just thinking this, she rubbed against him twice.
I don't know whether this guy brought the air conditioner remote control or the TV remote control. He just put it between the two of them and didn't move it away, which made her feel very uncomfortable.
So she took a lot of effort to turn over on the narrow sofa. This was much more comfortable than before, but her eyes met Xu Cheng's cheek.
Even through the darkness, the girl could see the way he was looking at her.
At that moment, she suddenly felt that turning around was a mistake, but she no longer had the chance to turn around again.
At a loss, she buried her head in his neck like an ostrich, feeling his breath and closing her eyes.
"Lin Wanzhou, you are so cute."
Listening to Xu Cheng's slightly magnetic and ambiguous words, the girl didn't know how to respond and just whimpered helplessly.
"Can I kiss you somewhere cute?"
"What's lovable about me?"
The girl instinctively said "which ones" instead of "what". Saying "where" means there is only one place, but the girl instinctively thinks that there are many cute places about her, so it is "which ones".
However, Xu Cheng's answer was more greedy, and made the girl happier.
"You are cute all over, every corner and every hair is cute."
"snort."
The girl looked up shyly, like a couple flirting with each other, and looked at Xu Cheng with pouting lips as if in protest.
Her slender fingers were still holding the little deer on his sweatshirt, wrapping it around her slender index finger.
"What did you just say to me?"
"Huh?" Xu Cheng was stunned for a moment.
"I asked you what you just said?"
"Didn't you hear me? I said you're cute all over."
"What about the previous sentence?"
"Lin Wanzhou, you are so cute..."
The girl shook her head anxiously. "That was the sentence before that. I'm talking about the one in between these two sentences."
Xu Cheng tried to recall for a while, then asked tentatively.
"Can I kiss you somewhere cute?"
"No." The girl refused firmly.
"Why?"
"Because you're greedy!"
"So you only need to kiss one place?"
When Xu Cheng was asked this, his attention was diverted, and the actions that originally restrained the girl were much relieved.
Seizing this opportunity, Lin Wanzhou slipped out of this guy's arms like a slippery little loach.
I was still thinking in my heart, Xu Cheng is too useless, just saying he is greedy, he only dared to kiss one place...
"You don't stand a chance. I'm so hungry now. Let's go eat."
The girl pushed away Xu Cheng who followed her in the dark, and the boy felt a little depressed.
"But I don't have the energy to cook."
"Then you still have the energy to bully me!"
"Unless you help me recharge." Xu Cheng looked at Lin Wanzhou with anticipation.
Having often heard Xu Cheng say shameless things, Lin Wanzhou also understood that his charging must have other meanings.
"You were dreaming."
She tapped on her slippers to turn on the living room light. The glaring light made Xu Cheng unable to open his eyes for a moment.
Then he sat down beside the coffee table, opened the fruit basket that Yan Wenwen had brought, took out a banana, and started eating it while squatting beside the coffee table.
Xu Cheng, who was a little hungry, also leaned over to get some fruit, but Lin Wanzhou pushed his hand away.
“Don’t eat it!”
"Why?"
Xu Cheng was puzzled. "This is a fruit basket given to me by someone else. Why can't I eat it?"
Of course the girl would not say that she was jealous. Just because she was jealous of him, she shamelessly hugged the whole fruit basket in her arms and even wanted to spit on it.
But when he thought that if he really spit, Xu Cheng would not feel ashamed to eat, but would have one more reason to eat, so he did not do so.
"I won't give you any. If you eat it, I'll beat you."
“…”
Xu Cheng was helpless, "If you don't give me fruit, then you should cook for me. I'm so hungry now."
“I don’t want to eat the food I cooked.”
The girl didn't care about her face at all in this matter. "Let's go out to eat. Do you have an appetite?"
"fine."
The two went out again, and because Lin Wanzhou was afraid of bumping into his parents, he went out the darker back door of the community.
Several street lamps had new bulbs replaced, emitting a dazzling incandescent light in the dim main color.
Perhaps it was because he had been cooped up at home for a long time, but now Xu Cheng was walking on the street, breathing the fresh air, and felt that his body, which had been stuffy for a long time, became much more relaxed.
Urban construction was gradually booming, and the city was gorgeous at night. The two didn't know where to go for dinner, so they walked aimlessly with empty stomachs.
Xu Cheng's hand naturally grasped the girl's small hand, and Lin Wanzhou did not even think of resisting. She felt that the feeling of these hands against the gentle night breeze was great.
"Xu Cheng, why are your hands so warm? Have they been like this since you were a child?"
Xu Cheng thought back, "I remember when I was little, my sister held my hand and took me home..."
Feeling the unfriendly gaze of the girl next to him, Xu Cheng quickly added, "She was my cousin. She had already started working at that time. We were only in the first and second grades..."
"Hmph, just say your own thing. There's no need to explain all this to me. I'm never jealous." The girl turned her head away.
"Well……"
Xu Cheng had no choice but to continue speaking obediently, "At that time, she said my hands were very warm, and she kept holding my hand. I remember it very clearly..."
"Let me go, let me go." The girl urged, and clasped Xu Cheng's palm with her other hand, preventing him from pulling her anymore.
Xu Cheng was helpless, "Don't you think you're not jealous?"
"Who is jealous...I just don't want you to hold me, it's so dirty..."
“…”
Xu Cheng tapped his fingers tighter and gripped them more forcefully, controlling the strength to just the right level so as not to hurt the girl.
"That's my cousin. Besides, if I were to name the first person who actually held my hand, other than my mother and other elders, the first person of the opposite sex who was not related by blood would definitely be you."
"real?"
"Yeah, you forgot we held hands in kindergarten..."
"I forgot. I forgot everything about kindergarten."
The girl pouted and recalled something, glaring at Xu Cheng angrily, "Let's not talk about holding hands, let's talk about something else. I remember that you were kissed by Teacher Xiaoyang when you were in kindergarten, so I wasn't the first one to kiss you!"
Didn’t you forget???
Xu Cheng coughed twice.
"…Don't worry about it. It was a long time ago. I was so young then."
"Who cares?" Lin Wanzhou said the exact opposite in the tone of "I care a lot."
Xu Cheng pulled the girl's hand and moved her arm, but the girl ignored him.
He announced as if he had made some important decision, "Okay, then I'll let you kiss me back."
"Who wants to kiss you? You are shameless." The girl rolled her eyes at him. She was not so stupid that she couldn't figure out such a confusing thing.
"Really not going to kiss? If you kiss me, you'll be even with Teacher Xiaoyang."
Xu Cheng half squatted down, controlling his height to be on the same level as the girl, and showing her his cheek.
Lin Wanzhou glanced at him a few times, was embarrassed for a while, and finally couldn't help but hold his face with her hands and turned his cheek away.
"Mr. Xiaoyang kisses the left cheek, I want to kiss the right one."
Then she looked around and found that there were no pedestrians. She quickly pursed her lips and kissed him lightly on the right cheek.
Xu Cheng only felt the warmth and dampness for a moment, and then the coolness of the wind blowing through the traces of saliva.
And beside him, the girl who never grew up suddenly felt much happier.
Most of the time she is very generous, and most of the time she is also very stingy.
So the knot in my heart and the unhappiness that had been in my mind since I was six years old were finally resolved at this moment...
