62 The Gardener's Flowerbed (9)

So you're a mimosa plant!

Seeing that he hadn't spoken, Qin Fu'an leaned closer and asked, "Are you angry?"

Feeling the presence so close at hand, Xie Yunhuai shook his head.

"Aren't you angry?" Qin Fu'an patted his hair with a mixture of amusement and helplessness. "With such a soft temper, you're easily bullied."

This was the first time Xie Yunhuai had heard someone say that he had a good temper.

His lips moved, but in the end he didn't explain.

Qin Fu'an had already stepped back a bit, and then reached out to take the can of fruit that he had been holding in his hands.

"I didn't know you were a plant before, so can you eat human food?" he asked, easily unscrewing the sealed lid of the can.

Upon hearing this, Xie Yunhuai first nodded, then shook his head.

"There are many things you can't eat."

"And this?" Qin Fu'an raised the can in his hand.

Xie Yunhuai nodded: "That's fine."

"Besides human food, what do you mainly eat?" Qin Fu'an asked, casually scooping up a segment of orange with the spoon that came with the canned food and naturally feeding it to Xie Yunhuai.

Just as Xie Yunhuai opened his mouth to answer the question, a sweet orange was fed to him.

Caught off guard, he could only temporarily shut his mouth and chew the food in his mouth.

However, after he swallowed the first bite, before he could answer, another spoonful was fed to his mouth.

Xie Yunhuai: "..."

He silently opened his mouth and ate.

Then came the third bite, the fourth bite, and so on...

The viewers in the live stream just watched dumbfounded as the two went from having a serious chat to sitting together, one feeding the other, until Qin Fu'an managed to force Xie Yunhuai to eat all the fruit from the can.

[...I shouldn't be here, I should be under your sofa???]

[Wait, weren't we just chatting? How come suddenly... huh??]

Overall, one was easy to feed, and the other ate well, but we, the ones who were hurt, weren't so happy~

[LOL, why is it that whenever Xiao Xie appears on a streamer's livestream, it's impossible to stay serious? The whole atmosphere is perfectly normal when Xiao Xie isn't there.]

[If I had to put it in perspective, it's probably the difference between having a wife and not having one?]

[No, it should be the difference between when the "love-struck" phase is on and when it isn't. When the streamer isn't "love-struck," their brain works quite well.]

[Pfft... So, being in love makes people less intelligent!]

[Bad news: The streamer is a hopeless romantic.]

[Good news: The streamer's partner is also a hopeless romantic.]

[Yay! A perfect two-way run!!]

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It's said that if you eat someone's food, you're obligated to do so. Xie Yunhuai had never eaten anything from anyone before, so he couldn't understand this saying.

But now he understands it very well.

Specifically, after eating and drinking his fill, he was unable to bring himself to say he wanted to leave.

Every time I try to say something, I become hesitant and overthink, only to swallow it back down again and again.

Moreover, after overcoming the initial awkwardness and panic, as he gradually relaxed, drowsiness seemed to silently creep in.

He sat on the sofa, suppressing the weariness that seemed to well up from the depths of his soul, and quietly turned his head to watch the boy outside the window who was bending over to tend the flowerbed.

He had just answered the question about eating canned food, and then Xie Yunhuai went out to prepare without saying another word.

Thinking of this, Xie Yunhuai took a deep breath, unable to understand why he had been so easily manipulated by this young man.

He acted like a thug, he pressed on relentlessly, and he was full of lies.

But Xie Yunhuai chose to close his eyes when kissed, to submit to force, and to not only not get angry at those hateful lies, but also, contrary to his usual behavior, secretly made excuses for the other party.

She was easily coaxed into agreeing to be fed by this boy after eating just one can of food.

That's right, it's raising.

Just like the seed plants in the flowerbed, Xie Yunhuai didn't understand why he had agreed. Moreover, when the other party pressed him for an explanation, he hadn't had any thought of going back on his word.

"Besides human food, what do you mainly eat?"

"Like those plants, I need to take root in the soil and grow as needed."

Xie Yunhuai remembered that when he gave that answer, he had absolutely no other thoughts in his mind.

But the boy leaned closer to him the next moment and offered, "Then do you need a professional gardener?"

At that moment, Xie Yunhuai stared blankly at his reflection in those light green eyes and nodded.

The next second, his head was lifted up again, and his lips, which had just eaten canned food, tasted another strong softness.

At that time, he probably became like that orange segment in the boy's mouth, being chewed and savored without any resistance.

"Xie Yunhuai, it's an honor to be your gardener." The boy's hot breath fell on his neck and ear. Xie Yunhuai's empty eyes were filled with tears, and he remembered every word of those words clearly.

Then, without even having time to eat, someone grabbed a hoe and went outside to dig a hole.

Thinking of this, Xie Yunhuai closed his eyes. He didn't understand his words and actions today, but he wasn't prepared to correct or adjust them. He just slowly closed his eyes, which were filled with the image of the boy outside the window. He then peacefully fell asleep on the sofa, hugging the pillow that Qin Fu'an had given him earlier.

There are no natural enemies here, so you don't have to worry about wind and rain.

There are no passersby here who will trample or break its branches, nor is there any fear of it being uprooted.

Outside the window, his gardener is tending to his home.

When he wakes up, the boy will plant him in that carefully tended soil.

Under the blazing sun, Qin Fu'an dug a pit that wasn't very deep, but it was definitely not shallow either.

Slightly to the right of the center of the flowerbed, in the left corner, were wheat plants that he had temporarily transplanted and were already in their growth period.

Qin Fu'an poured water into the empty pit.

After thinking about it, he simply loosened the soil in the entire flower bed again under the scorching sun. After using the sun exposure method to remove some of the insect eggs, he soaked the soil with water to ensure that the soil was as loose as possible and to prevent Xie Yunhuai's roots from being damaged as they grew and expanded in the soil.

In this process, the audience witnessed firsthand what double standards truly mean.

You should know that Qin Fu'an had never put this much effort into that yellow wheat seed from the mall before.

The entire planting process is simply a matter of digging a hole, dropping in the seeds, covering them, and watering.

Then they just left it to fend for itself, which was extremely perfunctory.

Now, in order to make room for Xie Yunhuai's plant, all the wheat seedlings that were originally in that spot have been transplanted to the corner with the worst sunlight.

The favoritism was so extreme that viewers couldn't help but both condemn the horrible nature of being obsessed with love and worry that the wheat seedlings might grow stunted from anger at the stark contrast.

It's like two children being treated differently by a biased parent at home...

Damn it, Xiao Xie hasn't even planted it yet, and they've already started to feel sorry for that wheat seedling.

However, compared to knowing the outcome of the wheat seedlings all along, everyone is naturally more looking forward to seeing Xiao Xie's true form planted in the soil, and then watching Qin Fu'an diligently tend to his plant wife every day!

After Qin Fu'an finished the preliminary work of planting the plants in the flower bed, he returned to the small house and immediately saw the plants curled up obediently on the sofa, sleeping...

It was a huge, dark mass, with every branch and leaf curled up and intertwined together, as if to minimize its footprint and then hug itself to sleep.

She looks both a little wronged and quite obedient.

It's just a bit too dark.

From a distance, it looks like an irregularly shaped black ball.

Qin Fu'an smiled and approached, gently picking up the dark clump of grass as he could. After finding its roots, he carried it to the flowerbed and carefully planted it in the small hole just before sunset.

After he planted it and let go, the awakened grass ball still had several branches and tendrils trying to wrap around his arms and knees, and even grabbing at the metal zipper dangling from the hem of his clothes.

"How do you care for it? Is it uncomfortable anywhere?" Qin Fu'an gently patted the tangled little grass that was hard to make out its shape.

The next second, a familiar, cool voice rang in my ears.

"No."

She paused, a hint of awkwardness creeping into her voice: "I'm very difficult to raise..."

I'm very difficult to raise, have you really thought this through?

Qin Fu'an chuckled, flicked his fingers to pick at the tip of the grass leaf wrapped around his wrist, and playfully pinched it.

The next second, the soft black blades of grass on this tentacle curled up shyly.

Qin Fu'an seemed to derive some enjoyment from this.

After letting go, it tried to touch the tips of other grass blades.

Then you watch as he touches it with his finger, and the tip of a slender, dark blade of grass trembles and curls up gently.

Finally, he bullied all the grass blades that had been growing obediently.

Suppressing a laugh, he looked at the dark Xie Yunhuai brand plant, which once again shrank into an irregular and easily bullied grass ball in front of him.

"So you're a mimosa plant~" The teasing laughter in the voice of the person bullying the little plant couldn't be hidden.

The clump of grass, which had shrunk into a ball after he touched it, trembled, and after a while, the young man's muffled rebuttal rang out: "I am not a mimosa."

"Hmm... then why does it turn out like this after just a touch?" Qin Fu'an teased him deliberately, reaching out to touch him again.

This time, the grass ball worked very hard to extend a single tendril that wrapped around his finger, stopping his excessive behavior.

"You, could you please stop touching me?" Xie Yunhuai, who had been bullied to the point of having nowhere to retreat, tried his best to push Qin Fu'an's fingers away with a single tentacle.

Then the entire tentacle was grasped by that warm hand.

Xie Yunhuai: "!!"

He shrank back in a flash, and this time no matter what Qin Fu'an said or how he touched him, he refused to respond to him with a single word.

Whenever Qin Fu'an teased him too much, he would back off just short of the line, never truly making him angry.

Of course, it's also possible that Xie Yunhuai is simply not naturally inclined to be angry with Qin Fu'an.

Qin Fu'an stopped deliberately provoking him, and Xie Yunhuai slowly and tentatively unfolded the grass leaves on each branch and vine.

If it's curled up, it's an irregularly shaped ball of grass.

After being planted, it stretched and grew, becoming a dense, unknown plant.

It is entirely black, with soft and slender leaves that can stretch out branches and grow upwards like a small tree, or hang down softly like a willow branch. It seems to have no fixed species or appearance, and it can grow into whatever shape it wants, depending entirely on its mood.

After planting him, Qin Fu'an did not leave. Instead, he found tools, wooden boards, and colored paints, and while Xie Yunhuai watched with curiosity as he stretched out his tentacles, he made a small, colorful wooden sign for him to stick next to him.

[Author's Note]

Anzai: Let's touch!

Yunzai: (shrinks)

Anzai: Let's touch again~

Yunzai: (shrunk into a ball)

My updates are as chaotic as my sleep schedule, I'm desperate...

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Thank you to the little angels who watered the nutrient solution:

One bottle of clear rain and a lone boat, and one bottle of sheep;

Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!