With love in her left hand and career in her right, Hua Qi's life was going great.
Overnight.
Her boyfriend betrayed her, love gone; her best friend framed her, career ruined.
Tonight, I'll just lie on the wooden bed and spend the night.
Maybe she was too thin, so even lying there motionless, she felt the bed was uncomfortable.
Especially the neck and the back of the head are extremely uncomfortable.
She got out of bed and went to the closet to look for a pillow.
As I was flipping through the pages, I heard footsteps downstairs.
Her ears trembled slightly and her heart rose to her throat.
I grabbed the clothes hanger next to the wardrobe and tried to lift it, but it wouldn't move!
He looked around, tiptoed to the bedside table, picked up the white porcelain vase, raised it over his shoulder, and made an attacking gesture towards the door.
The footsteps stopped at her bedroom door, followed by a knock.
Hua Qi secretly clenched the vase in her hand and stared at the door handle.
"It's me."
A familiar voice came, and Hua Qi breathed a sigh of relief.
The moment she put down the vase, she suddenly realized: Why did she feel at ease when she heard his voice?
Is he safe?
Just now I was afraid that he would pester me endlessly, so what was going on now?
Suddenly I remembered what he said: I put a love spell on you.
"Could it be... that he really put a curse on me?" Hua Qi murmured, covering his chest.
Fu Jiusi knocked on the door again, "I'm here to bring you bedding."
Hua Qi walked to the door angrily and opened it violently.
"You came so quietly in the middle of the night. Did you do it on purpose?"
Fu Jiusi's eyes were gentle. "If I give you a heads-up, will you let me come?"
Hua Qi: “…”
He came in unobtrusively and made her bed.
While hanging the mosquito net, he stood by the bed, stretched his arms, tilted his head and looked over, "Don't just stand there, come and give me a hand."
Hua Qi crossed his arms over his chest, took a small step back, and looked up to assess, "You're so tall, I don't believe you can't reach it."
Fu Jiusi smiled. "The floor is 3 meters high. I'm 188cm tall. Please use your clever little head to calculate if it's within reach."
Hua Qi looked him up and down, then walked to the bed and asked, "What do you need me for?"
Fu Jiusi held the four corners of the mosquito net and handed it over.
Then he jumped out of bed and squatted down behind her.
The next second, his palm pressed against the back of her knees, forcing her to bend her knees and squat.
Before he could come to his senses, someone sat on his shoulders.
Fu Jiusi hugged her legs tightly and reached behind her with his other hand to protect her waist.
As he slowly stood up, childhood memories flooded into his mind.
When she was a child, her father always carried her on his shoulders and called her baby.
Dad once said that he would always carry his beloved baby on his shoulders until his son-in-law took over.
But Dad broke his promise.
She tilted her head back and blinked hard, trying to force back the tears.
But the tears were disobedient and slid down the corners of my eyes.
It hit Fu Jiusi right on the face.
Fu Jiusi looked up at the tear marks in the corners of her eyes and deliberately joked, "You're sweating before you even start working?"
Hua Qi pinched his arm and started hanging the mosquito net.
This little job looks easy, but it is really tiring when you stretch your neck to tie the rope to the hook!
When she hung the fourth corner, her neck was sore and her arms were even more sore.
He put his arms down to rest in frustration.
"That won't work?" Fu Jiusi said with a smile, holding her hand and lifting it up, then tied it up easily.
Hua Qi took two seconds to react and started pulling his hair.
"You can get it, right?"
"Playing with me again!"
Fu Jiusi let out a low laugh, doting and gentle, "Just now, I forgot to take into account the height of the bed and the ceiling."
"You did it on purpose!" Hua Qi struggled to jump off him and raised his hand to punch him.
Fu Jiusi lowered his eyes and glanced at the small fist on his chest.
"Lawyer Hua, it's late at night and you're in bed again, do you want to stretch your muscles?"