Chapter 77: Bad Posture
Seeing Xu Cheng protesting that he didn't want to play anymore, Lin Wanzhou knelt down to stop him, pouting pitifully.
"I just want to take care of you, or... do you want me to be the mother and you to be the father?"
This question hit Xu Cheng right in the heart, and he didn't know how to answer it.
Because he was too anxious just now, he realized at this moment that his current posture was quite bad. Lin Wanzhou had both hands on his shoulders, and her upper body was almost pressed against him. Her brown hair fell on his cheeks, making him feel itchy.
Xu Cheng turned his head away embarrassedly, his face slightly red, "Forget it, forget it, let's play however you say..."
"whee."
Lin Wanzhou smiled with satisfaction, then sat back down with her knees hugged, her toes wrapped in white socks swaying left and right as her calves swung.
"Baby, let's do a puzzle."
Xu Cheng looked at the narrow space and said, "This is not enough space to play a jigsaw puzzle."
"A two-hundred-piece puzzle isn't that big. Please close your legs."
Xu Cheng tried hard to retract it, but he could only maintain the current movement and could not retract it anymore.
"Try to move a little harder!"
"How can I move? I can't move, you move yourself!"
Lin Wanzhou crossed her arms in front of her chest, with one hand resting on her chin. In her mind, the sun, moon, stars, and universe flashed by...
"Spread your legs."
Xu Cheng did as she instructed and spread his legs. Lin Wanzhou blushed slightly and raised her two little feet to step on his thighs, thus creating a diamond-shaped space.
This is terrible posture! x 2
The two of them were working on the puzzle in silence, their faces red.
One felt his legs were so hard, the other felt her legs were so soft.
I put together a heroine, Nobita, a poor man, Doraemon, and a yellow-haired Shizuka...
"Do you want to eat it?" Lin Wanzhou handed over a piece of chocolate.
Xu Cheng shook his head.
"You eat it."
Put together a picture of Doraemon wearing a bamboo dragonfly, a picture of friends diving in the sea, a picture of everyone riding a hot air balloon...
"Remember that time?"
"Um?"
Lin Wanzhou raised her head slightly and said softly, "When I was in the first grade, you and I worked together on a 1,000-piece puzzle..."
"It's a pity that my mother took it away somewhere... Alas... a lot of things were lost by my mother..."
Xu Cheng was surprised that Lin Wanzhou could remember all these past events, and he pretended to have forgotten them.
“Who remembers those?”
But memories are like pieces of a puzzle, quickly pieced together in my mind, as brilliant as a colorful and beautiful oil painting.
It was an early spring with the fragrance of flowers. After school every day, he was dragged by Lin Wanzhou to her study. The two little kids sat cross-legged on the floor, trying to piece together the pieces one by one. Finally, it was a family portrait of Nohara Shinnosuke and the Kasukabe Defense Force. Lin Wanzhou was excited for a long time because of this.
The years pass by like a joke.
Now, when I look at it again, those memories are like a pot of intoxicating old wine, exuding a mellow aroma...
"Um?"
Xu Cheng's nose twitched slightly, and after confirming that it was not his imagination, he asked, "Why does it smell like alcohol?"
Lin Wanzhou didn't answer. Her little face flushed as she looked at him with a dazed look in her eyes.
Xu Cheng's head tilted forward slightly. The smell of alcohol came from Lin Wanzhou, from her mouth, and from between her teeth...
She didn't drink either.
His eyes drifted to the box of Godiva chocolates next to her.
Wine-hearted ?!
Look at the candy wrappers thrown next to you...how many did you eat just now?
Perhaps it was the effect of the alcohol that made Lin Wanzhou's emotions suddenly become fragile and sensitive.
She hugged her knees, her feet folded together awkwardly, her nose twitched slightly, and she rubbed her eyes from time to time.
"Why can't I remember... wuwu...that was something we experienced together...how can I not remember it..."
Xu Cheng quickly sat up and apologized, "Remember... I was just teasing you."
Lin Wanzhou's golden beans kept falling.
"Growing up is so annoying, Xu Cheng... I don't want to grow up at all..."
"I feel like playing house isn't fun at all anymore. I won't enjoy playing house as much as I used to..."
Xu Cheng stretched out his finger and lightly scratched the tip of her nose.
"Silly boy, this shows that you have matured. You no longer like to do things that children like to do."
Hearing this, she raised her tearful eyes to look at Xu Cheng and spoke intermittently.
"After that...will I start to hate studying, playing the piano, and wearing Hello Kitty socks..."
"Well...everyone has emotions like getting tired of the old and loving the new."
Lin Wanzhou sniffed and his voice choked.
"What if I don't like Xu Cheng anymore..."
“…”
This time Xu Cheng didn't answer. It seemed like something was stuck in his throat and he couldn't speak.
He suddenly felt a mixture of emotions. From the moment he saw Lin Wanzhou just after the summer vacation, and the moment her sight gradually overlapped with his high school days, he had an inexplicable emotion at work in his heart.
In their previous life, because they missed each other at a fork in the road early on, the two of them were like two parallel lines that had never intersected. In this life, even if they salvaged this fate again, what would be the final outcome?
Without the buff of rebirth, he is actually just an ordinary boy, one of the audience sitting quietly in the audience listening to Lin Wanzhou playing the piano, working as a social animal day after day, then getting married, maybe having a child, sometimes missing his past youth, and then gritting his teeth to face the daily necessities of life.
Although I have been working hard to become excellent after my rebirth, but about love... who can tell clearly? After all, life is always full of surprises. If the halo of childhood sweethearts disappears one day, and Lin Wanzhou no longer likes me...
It would be a lie to say that I don’t care. Just thinking about it makes me feel stuffy and blocked in the chest.
But he still forced a smile. After all, boys always have to act more generous, and mature men have to be more free and easy and graceful.
He took several deep breaths before his voice became steady enough. He smiled and comforted her, "If, if one day you don't like me anymore, I will also wish you the best..."
He hadn't even finished his hypocritical words when the girl in front of him threw him to the ground. The small and cramped cardboard castle filled with childish fantasies of his childhood collapsed, breaking into several pieces of cardboard with a "crack" and scattering around the two of them.
"Hug..." Lin Wanzhou murmured.
Xu Cheng only felt that his body was soft and warm, and his upper body was hugged very tightly. His petite and soft body was pressed against him, and his long hair spread out on his chest like flowers. Lin Wanzhou's smooth forehead was pressed against it, and his little head rubbed against it from time to time. Every breath he exhaled was so clear.
Time began to become very quiet, the beating in my chest became very violent, and the touch of my body was so clear...
Coming out of the dark environment, the ambient light looks soft and peaceful.
I remember that when I was doing sit-ups in physical education class in elementary school, I was knocked down by Lin Wanzhou once, but the feeling was completely different from now.
"Xu Cheng is not allowed to leave me..." Lin Wanzhou muttered softly into his chest.
It almost made the old man Xu Cheng's eyes tear up.
“Really…”
Only then did he slowly raise his hands, wrap them around her shoulders, and finally gently place them behind her back.
"I promised you when I was a kid, okay..."
