Chapter 31

Chapter 31

After coming out of the supermarket, the two split up into two groups.

Chen Ye went to the airport to pick up his grandmother, and Shu Yao took advantage of this time to go home and decorate the house, creating the illusion that the two of them were living together.

Although Shu Yao had been to his house several times, this was the first time he entered his bedroom.

I don’t know if someone cleans it regularly or if he is just a clean person, but the bedroom is very tidy.

The room is decorated in simple gray and white tones. Apart from a large bed covered with a gray quilt, a computer desk, and a model stand, there is nothing extra.

Sunlight shines through the large floor-to-ceiling windows onto the gray wool carpet, making the entire bedroom bright and spacious.

But Shu Yao didn't have time to appreciate the home. She rushed straight to the bathroom, took out the things in the bag one by one, and placed them next to his things.

Shu Yao then realized that he seemed to be particular when buying things. For example, his cup was black, so he bought her a white one. When they were placed together, it looked like a couple's item.

There was a white towel of his hanging on the shelf. Shu Yao moved it to the side to make up half the space, and then hung the mint green one he bought on it.

The skin care products were also bought casually in the supermarket, so they were not expensive brands. Shu Yao secretly thought, I hope grandma won’t look at them so carefully.

Or if someone asks, just say she is thrifty and manages the household well.

After arranging everything, Shu Yao left the bathroom.

She took out the last small box from the bag, opened the bedside table and threw it in, deliberately unpacking it.

Standing by the bed and looking around, Shu Yao still felt like he had forgotten something.

……clothing!

Living together, she can't possibly not have a single piece of clothing, right?

As if they were in sync, Shu Yao was searching the nearby shopping malls, wondering if he could buy a few pieces to fill his inventory, when he saw a message from Chen Ye:

Someone will deliver the clothes later.

Shu Yao breathed a sigh of relief.

Half an hour later, the clothes arrived as promised.

The staff outside the door, wearing a work badge from a luxury brand and carrying a few coats, politely handed her a piece of paper.

“Mrs. Shen, this is the clothes Mr. Shen ordered for you, please sign for it.”

Shu Yao checked and found nothing missing, so he signed. But he felt strange. Did Chen Ye let people take a few pieces at random? Why did they all take winter clothes? It was summer. If this grandma saw it, wouldn't she think it was strange?

But she still took it and said, "Thank you."

The staff member politely asked, "Do you need help putting it in the cloakroom?"

Shu Yao thought that it was not appropriate to let anyone enter and exit Chen Ye's room at will, and there were only a few items, so there was really no need to make a fuss.

"No, no, please just put the sofa in."

"Okay, this is the winter clothing section. The spring, summer, and autumn clothing are in the car. Please wait a moment."

Shu Yao: “…”

The result of trying to be brave was that Shu Yao had to go up and down the stairs almost ten times before he finished moving all the clothes.

Originally, the cloakroom was like a Go board, either black or white, but now half of it is occupied by various colors.

A thin layer of sweat broke out on Shu Yao's forehead. He put his hands on his waist and panted slightly, thinking that the cost of performing this play was too high.

Remembering that there was also a wardrobe in Chen Ye's bedroom, Shu Yao took a few clothes suitable for this season and returned to the bedroom.

Pushing open the wardrobe door, there were several shirts and sweatshirts hanging inside, with casual pants neatly folded next to them, and a sports suit on top.

Looks a little familiar.

Shu Yao took a closer look and realized that this was the same outfit he had worn on the subway.

Looking at this dress again now, Shu Yao couldn't help but sigh at the wonder of fate. He thought that these two people would never have any intersection in this life, but because of a set of clothes, countless things happened to them.

She hung her new clothes one by one in the closet, then opened the drawer to put her underwear in, and at a glance she saw the small pieces of black fabric on Mugeli.

Shu Yao's eyes drifted away for a moment, and he closed and opened the second drawer.

There was a sound of brakes downstairs, and Shu Yao realized that it must be Shen Ye and grandma coming back.

She adjusted her hair in front of the mirror, making sure there was nothing wrong with her before going downstairs to greet him.

Grandma walked into the living room with the support of Shen Ye and looked around leisurely.

Although the people watching were not nervous, Shu Yao's heart was lifted.

The cups on the table were a set, and the tissue box on the coffee table was replaced with her favorite lily of the valley flower. She also specially printed a photo of herself and placed the frame in the corner of the TV cabinet.

There shouldn't be any problem, right?

Grandma sat down on the sofa with a smile on her face, her eyes falling on a bag of potato chips on the coffee table.

"These potato chips..." Grandma leaned over and took them, then looked up at Shu Yao. "Yao Yao, I remember you told me before that you don't like seaweed flavored ones, right?"

Shu Yao thought to himself, this is awful.

She just wanted to make her home more lively, so she just picked it up from the supermarket without even checking the taste.

"I……"

Grandma suddenly laughed like a child: "Then I'll eat it? I haven't eaten since I was discharged from the hospital."

"...Please eat."

Shu Yao felt relieved and helped her open it with a smile.

I turned on the TV by the way.

They came back late and there was not enough food in the refrigerator. Shen Ye made a phone call and someone delivered dinner soon.

It was the first time that Shu Yao realized how convenient it was.

Then why did he do it himself before?

Chen Ye served the dishes and put them on plates, while Shu Yao prepared the dishes and chopsticks on the side.

Every time I came to eat, the atmosphere was very natural, but now, I was already in a state of inexplicable awkwardness, and I was always worried that my grandma would notice something was wrong, so the table was particularly quiet.

No one spoke.

Grandma glanced around and smiled knowingly: "What's going on? Are you having a quarrel?"

Shu Yao raised his eyes and glanced at Chen Ye, not knowing how to answer.

Shen Ye was calm: “Well, I did something wrong.”

Shu Yao was stunned. What was his fault? It was obviously her fault, wasn't it?

Grandma glared at him and said, "You're a grown man, what did you do wrong?"

Shen Ye helped grandma fill a bowl of soup: “Grandma, we will solve it ourselves, don’t worry.”

"Okay, I don't care. I'll let your mother take care of it." She put on her reading glasses and poked at the phone screen with her right hand.

After a while, a message popped up in the [Loving Family] group.

[Panda]: [@Director of Chen's Zoo, your son and Yaoyao are having a fight. Please teach him a lesson.]

Director of the Shen's Zoo: [Okay, Mom, I will definitely educate him well!]

Shen Ye’s phone didn’t ring.

Shu Yao's light came on first.

Director of the Chen Family Zoo: [Yaoyao, did Chen Ye really make you angry?]

When Shu Yao was hesitating about how to answer, messages popped up on the screen one after another.

Director of the Chen Family Zoo: [So I was rejected when I approached you this morning to form a team. Is that because of this?]

Director of the Chen Family Zoo: [If he provokes you, just beat him up. I'm not familiar with him, so don't take your anger out on me, TT.]

Shu Yao: “…”

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Shu Yao and Qian Manqing explained for a long time that it was not her who rejected the request in the morning, but the system automatically rejected it because she was not online.

She even played pk with Qian Manqing in a team for half an hour, and finally made Qian Manqing believe that she was not really angry with Shen Ye.

"Knock."

The door handle was pressed down and Shen Ye pushed the door open and walked in.

Shu Yao immediately stood up from the chair: "Is grandma asleep?"

Shen Ye: “Yeah.”

Shu Yao glanced at the time. It was only half past nine. He guessed that grandma couldn't fall asleep so quickly.

She lowered her voice and asked, "Where should I sleep later?"

"Sleep here."

"ah?"

Shen Ye said: "I only have two bedrooms here."

Shu Yao then remembered that it seemed to be true. When she ran around in the afternoon, she saw that although there were four or five rooms on the second floor, there was indeed nothing left after removing a cloakroom, a study, and a gym.

"Then I..." Shu Yao looked around and there was not even a sofa.

Shen Ye walked to the closet, picked up a quilt and spread it on the floor.

Obviously, he was ready to sleep on the floor.

There are reasons for this, and there is nothing that can be done about it.

Shu Yao accepted it quickly.

"How about you sleep on the bed? I often slept on the floor when I was a kid."

As she spoke, she walked towards the quilt.

Her right hand was suddenly held, and the heat and strength at her wrist made her instinctively want to pull her hand back.

It was very strange. When they were on the island, she could play games and chess with him so freely in the small bedroom.

Now, I feel like something is wrong.

Is it just because of a quarrel?

But she didn't pull her hand away in the end.

Shen Ye brought her to the bed, his right hand rested on her shoulder, and gently pressed it down.

Shu Yao sat on the bed uncomfortably.

"Go to sleep." Chen Ye said, letting go of his hand, picked up the pajamas at the end of the bed, and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

When he came out, Shu Yao had already crawled into the thin quilt. She leaned against the head of the bed with both hands in the quilt. She didn't play with her cell phone. She looked at him straight as if she was kidnapped by the quilt.

Shen Ye's hair was still half wet.

The top two buttons of her black pajamas were undone, revealing a bit of her fair chest skin.

He wiped his hair with a towel, his beautiful eyes slightly obscured by the wet hair. Perhaps noticing her blunt gaze, Shen Ye put the towel on the corner of the desk and took the initiative to speak: "If you want to talk about what happened in the studio, I was wrong that day. I'm sorry."

Shu Yao was stunned, and the "I'm sorry" on the tip of his tongue was blocked.

"What are you sorry for?"

"I forgot to consider that everyone has different personalities, and we're not the kind of relationship where we need to explain everything to each other. I won't do that again. I'll listen to what you want to say to me, and I won't force you if you don't want to."

Shu Yao pursed her lips, pulled the quilt up a little more, hugged her legs with her arms, and her eyes were watery.

"Aren't you angry?"

"There was some before, but not now." Chen Ye had short hair and the weather was warm, so he didn't even use a hair dryer. He just walked over to the floor and sat down after his hair was half dry.

Shu Yao turned her head and looked at his left hand: "But you don't wear a ring anymore."

Shen Ye looked down at his fingers and said, “I didn’t pay attention at the company that day and spilled coffee on the ring. The ring turned black, so I sent it for cleaning.”

“…” Shu Yao was speechless. It was indeed a cheap ring.

How come it turns black after just a little coffee?

"Oh." Shu Yao's right hand fumbled for a box under the quilt, "But you haven't contacted me in the past two days."

Shen Ye was silent for a moment.

He turned around, with a smile that Shu Yao was familiar with in his eyes: "Just think of it as me taking a two-day break."

Shu Yao leaned over and said, "Two days' break? What do you mean by two days' break?"

"Nothing." Chen Ye raised his hand and rubbed the top of her head. "Anyway, for me, this matter has passed. What about you?"

Shu Yao smiled and said, "Chen Ye, I'll give you a gift, and then we'll move on, okay?"

"What?"

Shu Yao pulled his right hand out from under the quilt and placed a small wooden jewelry box on the edge of the bed. There was an exquisite copper buckle on the front.

This was the first time Chen Ye had seen this kind of copper buckle. When he pressed his finger against it and it popped open, the sharp corner scratched his thumb, leaving a very thin red mark.

He didn't care at all, his attention was completely drawn to a silver filigree inlaid ring inside.

The main body is a silver hollow ocean pattern, with a semicircle in the middle and a small agate inlaid, just like... the sunrise they had seen together at the seaside that day.

The throat felt slightly itchy, and Shen Ye's Adam's apple rolled: "Did you make this yourself?"

"Yeah." After taking out the gift, Shu Yao seemed to have unloaded a huge stone from her heart. She sat cross-legged on the bed and said seriously, "The previous ring was a bit low-quality, and it's dirty, so I don't want it. After all, this one is made by me. If you think it's too cheap..."

Shen Ye raised his brows slightly, as if waiting for her answer.

Shu Yao added with great force, "I'll make a few more for you. If someone else buys one, I'll make 365 for you. You can make a different one every day."

Shen Ye let out a chuckle, "Why, do you still want to support me?"

"This may be called contracting." What is keeping a sponsor?

Shen Ye pushed the ring box back: “Okay, then help me put this on first.”

Shu Yao did not refuse. In fact, she herself did not realize that her promise just now did not take into account the fact that they might get divorced one day.

The size is just right.

Shen Ye pressed the ring with his thumb and turned it in a circle: "Why did you come up with this pattern?"

"While I was thinking about the pattern, I suddenly remembered that night."

That was the first time in Shu Yao's life that he watched the sunrise and the first time that he watched an open-air movie.

It was also the first time that I chatted with someone all night.

Although I don’t know whether it has any meaning to Chen Ye, for her, even if it is not tainted with the meaning of love, it is an experience that she will never forget in her life.

"So the design drawings you saw in the studio that day were for this?"

"Um."

"Why don't you make one for yourself?"

"These three days are only enough for me to make one," Shu Yao said. "I'll make another one when I go back in a few days."

He seemed to have a lot of questions today: "Why did you suddenly think of giving me a ring?"

Shu Yao recounted the whole story of his encounter with Zhou Beichuan that day, and, by the way, brainwashed him: "It's not about cheapness, but I think what I did is more memorable."

If you don’t finish by adding “Do you believe it?”

Shen Ye believed it.

Mentioning Zhou Beichuan, Shen Ye's expression became even colder: "Has he been harassing you these days?"

"No." Shu Yao closed the box and placed it on the bedside table. "Last time, I only deleted his WeChat and forgot about his phone number. Now his phone number is also blocked."

"If he harasses you again, tell me." When Chen Ye was cold, he straightened his back like a puppy and threatened, "The ex-boyfriend is dead, but the plastic husband is still alive no matter how plastic he is, understand?"

"Okay." Shu Yao lay down and pulled the quilt up.

In fact, she has many secrets in her heart. She never intends to tell anyone, and she feels there is no need to tell anyone.

Because once she started, there would be endless questions and she was too lazy to explain.

However, if Chen Ye cared, then Shu Yao thought that telling him would not be such a difficult thing to accept.

Seeing Chen Ye's hand reaching towards the bedside table, probably preparing to turn off the light, Shu Yao glanced at him and said sullenly:

"Actually, Zhou Beichuan and I have never been together."