Chapter 19 Dancing Fingers He could have easily divided the noodles into two portions...

Wen Han struggled a couple of times, but felt her clothes being hooked even tighter.

"I'm sure thirty seconds have passed." Wen Han didn't understand. "Why can kissing last so long? Don't they get bored?"

“I don’t know either,” the system said. “Humans are really strange sometimes.”

Wen Ruan and Gu Cheng left, and Jing Yu finally arrived late. Wen Han cried out, "Jing Yu, help!"

Jingyu untied the thorns from the branches that were hooked onto him, one by one.

Wen Han complained, "Why did the school plant these shrubs? You can easily get scratched if you're not careful."

Jing Yu listened to his complaints, but a smile appeared on her face. The lights in the teaching building were all off, and the two of them walked out in the dark. Wen Han suddenly sighed.

"What's wrong?"

"I have to go home again. I don't want to go back." Wen Han frowned impatiently. "I wish the people I hate could just suddenly disappear."

Jing Yu asked, "What would you do if Gu Cheng got into trouble?"

"Adding insult to injury?" Wen Han asked. "What do you think about being homeless?"

Jing Yu said softly, "Even if an Alpha ends up on the streets, he won't be in a terrible state. At most, he'll just be sleeping outside."

That's true. If it were an Omega, one would have to worry about personal safety. Even in winter, people in Linjin wouldn't freeze to death.

Could it be that Jingyu has something even more satisfying to do—

Jing Yu noticed that Wen Han was suddenly looking at him with a very strange expression: "Wen Han, why are you looking at me like that?"

"You don't mean to suggest that Gu Cheng—" Wen Han glanced around quickly, then leaned closer to him, speaking mysteriously, "your family doesn't have any shady dealings, does it? Are you planning to send Gu Cheng there?"

Jingyu thought he was really cute: "How could that be?"

"Should we send him to work in the coal mines?" Wen Han thought about the scene, then changed her mind. "It wouldn't be bad if Wen Ruan married someone else."

"Then Gu Cheng became their driver. Every day when he was driving, he would look in the rearview mirror and see Wen Ruan and her husband kissing and kissing." Wen Han laughed happily as she imagined this scene.

"If this were ancient times, what would they be called, eunuchs of the Hall of Mental Cultivation?"

The system was speechless to see the two high school students discussing such things. Why couldn't they talk about studying?

When Wen Han talked about these things, she was no longer bothered or tired, and she was still talking about it even when she reached the school gate.

Fang Songxia waited for him at the school gate on her electric bike. Seeing Wen Han and Jing Yu chatting and laughing, she said sourly, "What are you talking about with him?"

Wen Han smiled: "Maybe, if we encounter trouble, should we leave our friends in the classroom?"

Fang Songxia: "......"

——

"What happened during your rehearsals?" Fang Songxia asked. "I think Yang Lanjun looked like she was about to cry."

"Isn't she playing Cinderella's stepmother? Gu Cheng, that idiot, actually took her lines seriously. Tell her to get lost."

"Huh?" Fang Songxia said in disbelief, "I thought Yang Lanjun was making things difficult for Wen Ruan again. Is it just about reciting lines?"

"I guess he's never read Cinderella, or he's just sick."

"Oh, right," Fang Songxia seized the opportunity to complain, "Didn't you give me the hamburger your dad bought today? I felt like Jingyu was watching me the whole time I was eating it."

"Because you swallowed half of it in one gulp?" Wen Han said. "He eats quite elegantly."

Fang Songxia retorted, "Why are you talking like he's watching a monkey?"

"hey-hey."

"Do you think it might be because," Fang Songxia thought for a moment, "that someone invited you to their house, so logically you should have given them food, but you gave it to me instead."

What did I give you to eat?

"A hamburger."

"A beef burger that costs five yuan," Wen Han asked, leaning on his shoulder. "Do you think there's any beef in it?"

"What's wrong with that?" Fang Songxia asked curiously. "Everyone knows that meat patties can contain anything except beef!"

Wen Han yawned: "His family is so rich, how could they possibly eat this?"

"That's not necessarily true." Fang Songxia was completely unaware of the approaching danger. "Some rich people are also very simple. I even saw Gu Cheng snatch Wen Ruan's steamed buns before."

Wen Han smiled: "You know he's a jerk, right?"

"Yeah, yeah, he's really low, he'd even steal someone else's steamed bun." Fang Songxia quickly changed the subject, "The school has been increasing its inspection efforts lately."

"Hmm?" Wen Han asked, "The school is already very strict, how much stricter can it be?"

Thinking of this, Wen Han got angry: "They do all this stuff every day, but they don't care about Gu Cheng at all. All they do is mess with us."

"It doesn't really concern us. It seems like they're cracking down on dating. There are so many couples on campus lately," Fang Songxia remarked. "I heard from the student council that couples caught doing this will have their photos taken and hung on the wall."

"They should have been disciplined a long time ago!" Wen Han suddenly forgot what she had just said, "They're always kissing and cuddling next to the toilet, getting in the way of other people using the toilet."

I wish I could get a picture of Gu Cheng.

*

When Wen Han got home, she saw Wen Ruo cooking noodles with one hand, and the rising steam made her heart skip a beat.

"Didn't Dad cook for you?" Wen Han was afraid he would burn the house down and add to the family's debts, so she shooed him aside and put the noodles in a bowl.

Wen Ruo pursed her lips, her face as cold as ice, and after a long while she finally said, "We're out of noodles at home."

Wen Han: "?"

Wen Ruo glanced at Wen Han, then turned and covered the noodles with a small cover. Seeing this, Wen Han scoffed, "Go ahead and eat. Are you worried I'll steal your dinner?"

Wen Ruo lingered at the table, then suddenly glanced towards the door. Wen Han saw that her room was dark; Wen Ruan hadn't returned yet.

"How come I never realized he was such a jerk before?"

The system protested, "That's too much! Host, you've also finished school and come back. He could have easily divided the noodles into two portions. Doesn't he know you'd feel awkward?" The host even helped him scoop out the noodles, so you should have ignored him and seen if he would burn himself.

In the past, Wen Han would have scooped up the noodles and thrown them in his face, but he had eaten so well at the Jing family's house these past two meals that he had become merciful and no longer cared about the noodles.

Wen Han raised the corners of her mouth and held up two ring fingers in front of him.

The left finger gently touches the right finger and then returns to its original position, and the right finger also gently touches the left finger and then returns to its original position.

Wen Ruo said coldly, "What are you doing?"

"What I mean is, this finger represents the Wenruan." The two fingers immediately touched together, clattering and twirling.

Wen Han hissed, "Whose finger is it? It's so hard to guess."

Wen Ruo's expression grew even colder, tinged with disbelief and shock.

Wen Han's eyes even lit up with laughter, and he said gloatingly, "Oh my god."

Two fingers touched and intertwined in a dazzling, passionate display.

Wen Han emphasized: "I'm certain that Gu Cheng stuck out his tongue."

After saying that, he happily took his pajamas to take a shower, leaving Wen Ru standing there bewildered.

Unable to suppress its curiosity, the system asked, "Host, how did you know Gu Cheng... stuck out his tongue?"

"Children shouldn't ask too many questions."

If it wasn't a French kiss, why kiss for so long? Were their lips just playing bumper cars?

——

When Wen Ruan returned home, Wen Ruo was still standing motionless in front of the table. Wen Ruan asked with concern, "Wen Ruo, why didn't you turn on the light?"

After saying that, Wenruan turned on the light. Wenruo didn't say anything, but instead handed him a pair of chopsticks.

"Hmm? Did you cook noodles for me?" Wenruan was touched. "Thank you."

The noodles were slightly lumpy, so he stirred them with chopsticks and blew on them. In the light, Wen Ruo noticed his lips were more vibrant than usual and looked away.

Wen Han was taking a nice bath when the lights suddenly went out, startling him.

The electrical wiring in this house was faulty when it was first renovated. The bathroom light and the light outside the kitchen were connected in series, so if the light outside the kitchen was turned off, the bathroom light would also turn off.

Wen Han thought Wen Ruo was deliberately retaliating against him, so he cursed loudly, hurriedly finished washing up, and then the light came on again.

"Hey, you—" Wen Han saw Wen Ruan sitting at the table, about to eat noodles.

Wen Ruan asked awkwardly, "Wen Han, do you want some?"

"No, thank you." Wen Han looked at his bright red lips and gave a mysterious smile.

Wen Ruan was somewhat puzzled when she saw Wen Han's two fingers suddenly start dancing.

Wen Han was almost dizzy from shaking her own fingers, while Wen Ruo stood there, her face growing increasingly pale.

"Hanhan." Wen Qingke returned just in time to see this scene and asked cautiously, "What's wrong? Is your finger bothering you?"

Wen Han raised an eyebrow: "It's nothing."

He went back into his room and then suddenly poked his head out again: "Maybe he wants to play bumper cars."

*

"Hanhan, Songxia still picked you up for school this morning, right?"

Wen Han stopped drinking her porridge, wondering what he was up to.

"Wen Ruo's arm is injured, can you let Wen Ruo sit behind him and ride your bicycle to school?"

"You're so shameless!"

"Wen Han, how can you talk to your father like that?"

Wen Han could only rephrase it more tactfully: "They came to pick me up because we're close, but are they close to you?"

Moreover, Fang Songxia also likes Wen Ruo, although Wen Han can't tell whether he's simply attracted to Wen Ruo's looks or something else. But Wen Ruo likes Wen Ruan, and he doesn't want his friend to be taken advantage of.

Wen Qingke said awkwardly, "Well... it's just classmates helping each other out."

Wen Han put down her chopsticks and smiled, "He and I get along so well, do you think I'm the kind of person who'd readily help my classmates?"

Wen Ruo said coldly, "It's alright, I can ride with one hand."

Wen Han mocked, "Don't ride into the gutter."

He suddenly had a brilliant idea: "Let Wenruan ride the bike and Wenruo sit in the back."

Wen Ruo hesitated for a moment, then Wen Qingke said, "Ruan Ruan isn't in good health, so carrying someone on her bike..."

Wenruan said considerately, "Dad, it's okay, I can do it."

A note from the author:

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The two little cannon fodder characters walking along discussing naughty things are so cute! [shy]

If Wen Han hadn't lost his childhood dolls, he might have taken out two dolls and recreated them face-to-face (he was influenced by his mother's taste in dramas when he was young and has a particular fondness for melodramatic themes).