Mr. Jiang's Hidden Affection

(Marriage first, then love; mutual secret crush comes true; four-year age difference; a daily-life sweet romance with no angst)

Gentle and radiant history graduate student vs. Cool, charming, and de...

Chapter 17: It's tiring to like someone

Jiang Yiyu stood outside the door and touched the back of his head. How messy must it be? He had to avoid people while cleaning up.

After Song Shengsheng entered the room and turned on the light, she looked around the room and finally set her eyes on the pillow that could make her embarrassed and die in front of Jiang Yiyu at any time.

She cleared out a large brown cardboard box that held tissues and struggled to fold the pillow and stuff it inside. Then, after searching her locker for a long time, she found a pair of scissors and some tape. She wrapped the box several times with the tape, trying to seal the pillow inside.

But before she could even stand up with the scissors and tape, there was a knock on the door behind her: "Honey, do you need any help?"

“No… no need.”

Song Shengsheng was trying to stand up by supporting the box with his hands, but he accidentally tripped over the toilet paper scattered on the ground.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Jiang Yiyu asked with concern when he heard the noise in the house.

Song Shengsheng supported the box and managed to stand up: "It's okay."

She didn't care about her knee that was hurting from the collision, and hurriedly put the scissors and tape back to their original places, found a large handbag to collect all the toilet paper rolls scattered on the ground, and hid other things that she didn't want Jiang Yiyu to see.

Then he pretended to be calm and opened the door.

Outside the door, Jiang Yiyu had just moved the last storage box to the door: "These boxes are too heavy, let me help you carry them in. If there is anything in the room you don't want me to see, you can turn off the lights. I won't look any further."

As soon as he said this, Song Shengsheng's face turned red again.

She lowered her eyes and coughed twice: "There's nothing I can't let you see. I've already said it, it's just too messy."

She stepped aside from the door and turned off the light in the utility room. "Just help me put these boxes in the open space on the left as you enter."

"Okay." Jiang Yiyu smiled and carried the box into the house. With the light coming in from the living room, Jiang Yiyu couldn't see clearly what was in the room, but it was indeed quite messy.

He stacked the boxes against the wall and said to Song Shengsheng, "My dear, some of my luggage cannot be sorted out for the time being. Can you put it in first?"

"Okay, sure." Song Shengsheng nodded. She looked around the room and pointed to the inner corner: "Put it over there."

Jiang Yiyu turned around and looked in the direction of her finger: "Why is there a box wrapped so tightly?"

What he saw was the cardboard box in which Song Shengsheng had hidden the pillow with great effort.

"Well... I bought toilet paper online before, and the shipping was rough, so the box fell apart."

"My goodness, you love to hoard things."

"It happened to be on sale, so I bought a little more. After all, it's a good deal..." Song Shengsheng felt more and more guilty as he spoke. Jiang Yiyu half-closed his eyes and glanced at the brand name on the box, jokingly saying, "Are you going to mention my name and give me a small gift?"

"ah?"

Jiang Yiyu smiled and retracted his gaze. He turned around and touched the top of Song Shengsheng's head: "It's okay, I just didn't expect us to be so frugal. Let's go and continue to clean up."

"Oh, okay." Song Shengsheng followed Jiang Yiyu out of the utility room.

Before closing the door, she glanced at the cardboard box again, thinking to herself that after Jiang Yiyu left on Friday, she would have to find a way to quickly dispose of the things in the box.

After the two of them finished sorting out the cardboard boxes piled in the entrance and tidied up the cloakroom, Song Shengsheng looked at his phone and saw that it was almost eleven o'clock.

She yawned and glanced at the suitcase spread out on the floor of the cloakroom: "Brother Yi Yu, besides clothes and toiletries, do you want me to bring you some food?"

Jiang Yiyu folded the last coat and put it in the box: "My dear, the place I'm going to is not deep in the mountains or old forests, so I won't be unable to buy food."

"Oh." Song Shengsheng thought for a moment and said, "Then should we bring some calcium tablets, vitamins, and other health supplements? You guys are filming day and night, so you need to replenish your body."

Jiang Yiyu picked up a storage bag from the suitcase: "This bag contains everything, don't worry."

"Will it not be enough? Wait a minute."

"Be good..." Before Jiang Yiyu could finish his words, Song Shengsheng trotted out. Five or six minutes later, she came back holding a small cardboard box.

Song Shengsheng squatted down beside Jiang Yiyu and showed him the contents of the carton one by one: "Take one bottle of this calcium tablet, one bottle of orange-flavored chewable vitamin tablets, and one bottle of blueberry-flavored chewable vitamin tablets. Take them all. There are instructions in the box. Take them on time every day. If you run out, tell me and I'll send them to you. There are also four bottles of effervescent tablets, all of which are orange-flavored. If you don't want to take the chewable tablets, just soak them in water and drink them. They taste sour and sweet and delicious."

Before Song Shengsheng finished introducing the things, she saw that Jiang Yiyu had opened two large boxes and there was no room for the things she had brought. "Wait a minute."

She put down the things in her hands, stood up, and took out a small suitcase from the cabinet on her left: "This suitcase can be carried on the plane. I'll pack all these things in it for you."

Jiang Yiyu didn't stop her. He just enjoyed listening to her introduce the things she needed to bring and watching her packing them. He understood that she needed to bring vitamin tablets and common medicines, until he saw Song Shengsheng take out two boxes of donkey-hide gelatin. "My dear, this is a bit of a waste for me, isn't it?"

"Don't waste it. Remember to take one every day."

"good."

"Here are a few bags of oatmeal and fruit and vegetable powder, which is about a month's supply. I will send you another one around mid-April. Jiang Yiyu, no matter how busy you are, you must remember to drink plenty of water and eat more fruits and vegetables. You can't skip meals to stay in shape."

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