Chapter 38: Taking the Initiative to Kiss Her

The two of them didn't wake up until 10:30. Su Zhiluo couldn't stay in bed and wanted to get up, but Liu Chengxu didn't want to. He pulled her along and snuggled in her arms for a while longer.

Chang Ruyin called her and asked her to come eat. Su Zhiluo said softly, "Cheng Xu is back."

Yang Jie was probably saying to Chang Ruyin, "Have we arrived?"

"Mmm." Su Zhiluo rubbed her eyes, and just as she was about to get up, she was suddenly grabbed around the waist, so tightly that she couldn't breathe.

She said to Liu Chengxu, "Move it a little."

Liu Chengxu didn't, and instead snuggled closer to her. Su Zhiluo felt ticklish from his touch, so she could only press her fingers on his head.

She quickly realized that Liu Chengxu was doing it on purpose.

Chang Ruyin let out a long "tsk" and then shouted loudly, "Wife, I want to drink tomato and egg soup again today, with lean meat, it's especially delicious."

Yang Jie heard this and smiled, giving a soft "hmm".

Su Zhiluo was about to hang up the phone when she looked down and saw Liu Chengxu's eyes. The word "wife" had a jolt to Liu Chengxu, and his eyes were filled with shock and a hint of expectation.

Su Zhiluo kept looking at her face. She wasn't quite used to Liu Chengxu's curly hair yet, and couldn't help but reach out and touch her face, tracing her features with her fingertips: eyes, nose, and lips.

Liu Chengxu looked up and asked, "What's wrong?"

"She's quite pretty." Sexy and alluring. Su Zhiluo said, "She looks a lot like those elites in TV dramas."

She curled her lips into a smile, her expression one of pride and self-satisfaction.

Liu Chengxu also reached out and tugged at a strand of her hair. In her memory, 18-year-old Su Zhiluo was very young and very beautiful. She thought her sister had good taste. She said, "I remember you came to our house and bought a lot of grapes."

She bought them herself; she remembered Liu Jinhuan saying that her sister loved grapes.

When Liu Chengxu came home from school, he was still very hostile towards her. He threw his schoolbag on the sofa with a stern face and stood in front of her, staring at her.

Liu Chengxu assumed the grapes were bought by her sister. She washed a bunch, walked over, broke off half, and handed it to Su Zhiluo, raising her chin to remind her, "Hmm?"

Su Zhiluo was surprised, accepted it, and thanked her.

That day, Liu Chengxu's parents were very angry. She and Liu Chengxu kept eating grapes. She noticed that Liu Chengxu was secretly watching her. At that moment, she mustered up her courage, wanting Liu Jinhuan's family to like her. She turned her head and smiled at Liu Chengxu.

Liu Chengxu was flustered and at a loss, so he broke off a bunch of grapes from his hand and gave them to her.

Perhaps it was fate, but after that, whenever they encountered something delicious, they would always share it with each other.

Su Zhiluo ran her hand through her hair, stroking the curls below, and said, "So beautiful."

Liu Chengxu is handsome and is often praised. But when Su Zhiluo praises him so directly, his ears still burn uncontrollably, as if the child who was trying to act like an adult in front of his sister-in-law had his thoughts seen through.

Just as she was about to speak, Su Zhiluo's lips covered hers.

Liu Chengxu froze instantly, even forgetting to breathe. Su Zhiluo was clearly inexperienced, her lips tentatively touching his—they rarely kissed, so rarely that every touch made his heart flutter.

Su Zhiluo pressed her lips against Liu Chengxu's. After a while, she felt she could make a change. She stuck out her tongue and licked Liu Chengxu's thin lips lightly, which was very ticklish. After kissing him, Su Zhiluo was so ashamed that she immediately raised her head and said, "I'm going to cook. I'm hungry."

Liu Chengxu was about to take her hand, but then paused slightly.

She touched her lips with her finger and could still feel the tingling sensation.

Su Zhiluo was about to leave, but she couldn't help turning back to look at her at the door.

Liu Chengxu stood there dumbfounded, and after touching it, he held up his fingers again.

They look especially cute.

Su Zhiluo quickly went to the bathroom to tidy herself up. She had originally planned to make a sumptuous meal for her, but recalling what Chang Ruyin had just said, she went to the refrigerator to get some tomatoes.

Frozen tomatoes are especially good at releasing their juices. She scalded them with boiling water, peeled them, and then started making tomato, egg, and lean pork soup. She also prepared some flour to make flatbread to eat with the soup.

After she finished, she turned around and called Liu Chengxu.

Liu Chengxu had already come out. She was standing in the bathroom washing up, taking a picture of herself with her phone, and posting it on her WeChat Moments, habitually hiding it from her.

When she was about to send it, she changed the settings again.

[Good morning kiss]

After tidying up, Liu Chengxu went to work on the living room. After rearranging several things, their house suddenly felt bigger.

Su Zhiluo didn't have as strong a sense of space as Liu Chengxu. During the two years Liu Chengxu spent in S City, she had her own office, which was always piled with a lot of things. She would constantly tidy up, always feeling that something was wrong. Chang Ruyin said, "Your little dog who used to help with chores isn't here anymore, so have many things become more complicated?"

Chang Ruyin told her that Yang Jie would come and tidy up her wardrobe every time, but she would mess it up again within a month. She simply couldn't stand life without Yang Jie; she really depended on Yang Jie. Su Zhiluo, while tidying up, thought to herself, "I also depend on Cheng Xu very much."

As countless small things and details piled up, she found herself to be more like Liu Chengxu than she had imagined, and the thought of it suddenly brought tears to her eyes.

Liu Chengxu went in and brought out the soup, saying, "I also have some egg drop soup." He then lowered his head to sniff it and said, "It smells so good."

Su Zhiluo said, "Don't you know how to cook?"

Liu Chengxu retorted, "But you didn't do it."

Su Zhilu handed her chopsticks and asked, "What I made isn't as delicious as what you made."

Liu Cheng asked, "Have you ever missed the meals I cooked for you?"

Su Zhiluo nodded, her voice low, "Yes, I do."

I not only miss the food she cooked, but also the figure that brought me food, and then I call out to her, "Sister-in-law, I'm here."

After thinking about it for a while, she started having hallucinations. She looked through her old chat history and found the answer there.

Liu Chengxu once said...

I love you so much that I fantasize about you talking to me.

The two finished their meal, and Liu Chengxu washed the bowl.

Even when washing hands with hot water in the cold winter, they still turn red. Su Zhiluo said, "We can buy a dishwasher later."

Liu Cheng asked, "Are both of you buying it?"

Su Zhiluo said, "Then let's buy a small one."

"good."

After dinner, Su Zhiluo led her to the supermarket. Now there are shared electric bikes. Su Zhiluo scanned a code and said, "The one before broke. The people in the community said it didn't have a license plate or something, so they took it away."

Liu Chengxu put his arm around her waist and said, "What a pity, it could have been sold for some money."

"No, the only valuable thing we have is the battery, it's broken."

“The other parts can still be used after some disassembly.” Liu Chengxu then asked, “Have you gotten your driver’s license?”

Su Zhilu hummed in agreement.

Silence fell after she finished speaking. They felt like strangers to each other after all these years; too much time had been wasted in misunderstandings, arguments, and cold wars.

Liu Chengxu buried his face in Su Zhiluo's shoulder, inhaling her scent; it had been a long time since he had embraced her like this.

The warmth of their skin touching spread over them, carrying a strange sense of familiarity—as if the years that had separated them had been smoothed out in this moment.

She couldn't help but want to call her.

sister in law.

She met many lesbians in City S, including several from her company, but most of the couples called each other "older sister".

Liu Chengxu was different from them; she liked to call her sister-in-law.

Su Zhiluo didn't say anything more and focused on driving. The road outside had become wider. Liu Chengxu looked around at the surrounding buildings. There were guardrails around them, and it looked like they were going to build a building.

After the car stopped, Liu Chengxu sent a message, and Meng Zhenyue asked her with concern if she had been kicked out of the house.

Su Zhiluo glanced at it and asked, "How did your friend's wedding go? I saw on the news last time, wasn't it his wife who died? The photo in the news looked a lot like her. They also said that he has a stepdaughter who wants to kick him out of the house or something."

Liu Chengxu couldn't understand it either. Meng Zhenyue's life was like a rollercoaster, and her stepdaughter also seemed strange.

She said, "You'll see when you get there, it'll be pretty amazing."

Su Zhiluo wondered, "Can it be as explosive as ours?"

Liu Cheng asked, "Do you have a driver's license?"

Su Zhiluo nodded, "After the exam, they provided the factory with a car, and Chang Ruyin and I took turns driving it to pick up goods."

After Liu Cheng finished speaking, she looked around and saw that it was a sales office. She asked, "Why did you bring me here?"

Su Zhiluo said, "Looking at apartments."

She said softly, "Haven't you always wanted one? Now that I have the money, I'll buy it for you."

As the winter chill crept in, Liu Chengxu's nose stung and his eyes reddened.

Su Zhiluo parked the electric scooter in the designated spot and said, "I promised you, it's just a little slow."

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