Chapter 107 Pea Heart is at the mercy of others

People cannot think too much when they are extremely nervous. Logically speaking, being hugged by such a beautiful person of the opposite sex would cause some fluctuations in their heart. However, when Zhu Yingning was held in Xu Sirui's arms, no romantic thoughts came to her mind. The only thought in her mind was: Ah, it turns out that he is not as fragile as I thought.

If he knew how she was criticizing him, he would definitely be so angry that he would throw her out on the spot.

After running a distance, she looked back over his shoulder and was horrified: "Xu Sirui, you Beijing urban management officers are really good at running."

Did they undergo some special training? Why, in such darkness, could the urban management officers see their position so clearly and pursue them relentlessly?

As he was sighing, he looked down and saw the schoolbag with a bright warning sign in his arms.

“…”

She silently stretched out her hand to cover the fluorescent mark on her schoolbag.

The urban management staff indeed slowed down.

She had wanted to pretend nothing had happened, but when she looked up, she met Xu Sirui's gaze. He lowered his eyes to peek at the fluorescent yellow under her arm, his expression unpredictable. He simply said, "Can you please stop forcing me to laugh? I'll lose my energy if I laugh. You think it's easy for me to run with you in my arms right now, don't you?"

She stammered, "...but you do look quite relaxed."

"I was just pretending," he said in a raspy voice. "My back teeth were almost broken."

"oh."

In the end, Xu Sirui didn't laugh. Instead, she couldn't hold it back. She pursed her lips and endured for a moment, but the laughter still came out from between her lips, falling to the ground in pieces, making tiny crackling sounds together with the raindrops.

He asked unhappily, "What are you laughing at?"

"nothing."

On a rainy night, she was soaked and smelled of river water. The urban management was chasing her from behind. This situation was extremely embarrassing and had nothing to do with beauty. However, her heart was blown by the wind carrying rain. The sound of wind and rain whistled past her ears, like the ancient roar of some prehistoric giant. The warm body temperature from his chest was on the side of her arm. She suddenly felt that this night should not be composed of any sadness and depression.

She suddenly wanted to laugh out loud.

Thinking of this, she really laughed unscrupulously.

"What are you laughing at?" Xu Sirui wanted to call her crazy, but before he could say anything, he found himself laughing softly.

She raised her hands high, using her palms to catch the raindrops falling on her face. She turned her head to look at him, her eyes shining brightly like stars after being washed by the rain.

She said, "Xu Sirui, come join me in forming a team to participate in the Model United Nations competition."

He narrowed his eyes warily, using his eyes to express his confusion at her sudden change of subject, as well as his suspicion of the ill intentions behind her invitation.

She said calmly, "If we can win first place, you will agree to one of my requests. If not, I will agree to one of your requests. How about that?"

“…”

He dropped his smile and silently revealed, "Can your purpose be any more obvious?"

He was just short of saying, "If I win first place, you get to go see your mother in prison, how about that?"

If you ask him, it's definitely not that good.

But the man was still playing dumb with him, with his eyes wide open, saying innocently, "I don't have any purpose."

Seeing that he was unmoved, she began to use her lame provocation again, "I get it, you think I can definitely win, so you don't dare to bet with me, right? Xu Sirui, you are cowardly before the battle, surrendering without a fight. I despise you."

He tried to hold back, but couldn't help himself. "Even if we were to bet, normal people would only treat me as their opponent. How could they bring people together to compete? What can we learn from that? Do you want me to do everything in my power to stop you and be a useless teammate? Or do you think I will do my best to help you win the game?"

She hadn't thought about this question before, and when he pointed it out, she suddenly realized, "That's right."

"'Yeah' you idiot, could you please stop being so stupid?"

She used her ever-effective direct attack: "But I just want to be on the same team with you."

“…Don’t give me that.”

"Xu Sirui, just participate. You have nothing to lose by participating. Look, if we win the championship, you will be very proud. It will bring honor to the school and be an honorable act. You will gain the love of teachers and the admiration of classmates. If we don't win the championship, you will still have the opportunity to enslave me. You can let me wash your socks."

He was speechless for a moment before he said, "...Why should I ask you to wash my socks? How could I be so disgusting?"

"And who says I didn't lose anything? You only talk about the benefits and not even the slightest bit of harm. I lost time, energy, and brain cells, and I still have to deal with this huge trouble you have."

"What's wrong with me?" She cried out that she was wronged, and brought out Zou Hao's rhetoric again, starting to chant scriptures in her old style.

Xu Sirui was so annoyed by her noise that his head hurt: "If you keep nagging, do you think I'll throw you down?"

"Go ahead and throw me. I'm not without legs. If you leave me, I'll catch up and cling to you." She rolled up her sleeves excitedly, patted her strong arms, and said, "Maybe I can even run with you in my arms."

“…”

He squinted his eyes, looking at her from the corners of his eyes. As expected, he loosened his grip with ill intentions. Her body quickly fell down, but instead of being afraid, she laughed a few times with uncontrollable joy. Xu Sirui couldn't really let her fall, so he tightened his arms again and pulled her up, feeling both resentful and helpless.

You still say it's not a hassle? Now it's already a huge hassle.

**

Xu Sirui was not active most of the time, but he was a young man after all. He ran and talked at the same time. Although his arms were sore from exhaustion, he managed to shake off the urban management officers.

At a certain intersection, he stopped a taxi and wanted to take a taxi home. When the driver saw the two of them dressed like drowned people, he immediately said rudely, "More money."

Let's add more. Xu Sirui pulled Zhu Yingning in and they swam two wet marks on the back seat.

When he got home, he quickly grabbed some clean clothes and went to the bathroom.

The master bedroom did have a bathroom, but it was used by Xu Zhengkang. Xu Sirui considered it unlucky and never set foot in it. Zhu Yingning was too embarrassed to enter someone else's master bedroom, so naturally, she never used it either.

He thought about this and realized that the two of them were now in a competitive relationship where whoever washed would have to wait outside, wet. He hesitated for a moment before stepping into the living room bathroom and said in a hypocritical and polite manner, "Why don't you wash first?"

Zhu Yingning got goosebumps from his fleeting humanity: "Don't do this, Xu Sirui, I'm scared of you."

“…”

Zhu Yingning waited until Xu Sirui finished taking a shower before she rolled up her pajamas and rushed in. She really couldn't stand the fishy smell of river water on her body.

Normally, their shower times were staggered, and quite a bit. Xu Sirui's obsessive-compulsive disorder meant he'd shower first thing when he got home, while she had to deal with things like working in the shop, so she usually waited until bedtime to shower and lie down. The same thing happened during the time they were filming the variety show in the mountains.

Technically, this was her first time using the bathroom he had just used.

The bathroom resembled the Silken Web Cave from Journey to the West, a fragrant, hot mist wafting through the air, its walls festooned with flowing water droplets. She felt a strange feeling, perhaps rooted in the obvious signs of use. It felt like crawling into a bed that had just been warmed, so intimate it was almost offensive. As she stood under the shower, her mind couldn't help but imagine Xu Sirui showering here just a few minutes earlier.

The composition of this picture has traces to follow. After all, she has seen him...

Stop, stop, stop.

Zhu Yingning stopped herself in her tracks, slapped the image in her mind, patted her flushed cheeks with both hands, and felt that she was becoming more and more weird recently.

Not a gentleman at all.

**

After coming out of the bathroom, she still felt a little guilty. She wanted to sneak back to the room to avoid direct contact with him, but she saw Xu Sirui walking back and forth in the living room rubbing his eyes.

She stuck her head out and asked him, "What's wrong with you?"

Xu Sirui put down his hand, and a few red bloodshot lines appeared in his exposed eyes.

"Are your eyes itchy? Is it because they just got wet in the river?" She said to him, showing her innate concern. "Don't rub them. I'll find some eye drops for you."

After finding the eye drops, Zhu Yingning turned around and saw that he was still rubbing his eyes. She frowned and fanned his hands away: "I told you to stop rubbing. Sit on the sofa, or squat down a little, and I'll give you some drops."

He was silent for a while, then said awkwardly, "...I'd better lie down on the bed."

Although Zhu Yingning didn't understand why he had to lie down on the bed just to put eye drops in, she still followed him to his room.

Xu Sirui slammed down on the bed like a corpse, his eyes tightly closed, as if he was giving his last words, and said in self-abandonment, "Be gentle."

"?"

What does "drip gently" mean?

It was the first time Zhu Yingning had heard such an expression. Puzzled, she climbed onto his bed and looked down into his eyes, speechless: "What's wrong with me if you close your eyes so tightly?"

He said confidently, "Just drip it normally, gently, and then wait for the eye drops to slowly seep in from the cracks in your eyes. It will be gone in about half an hour."

“……?”

She was so shocked that she was burnt on the outside and tender on the inside. "Are you sure it seeped in and didn't evaporate?"

After thinking about it, I realized something and found it funny again. "So, you're afraid of eye drops?"

"Who's scared!" Xu Sirui raised his voice and jumped up from the bed with his eyes open.

"Okay, okay, it's not that you're scared, just lie back down." She pushed him back onto the bed, feeling both amused and helpless.

The feeling of the eye drops seeping into the eyeball was indeed unpleasant. It was sour and astringent, and those with sensitive eyes would feel pain, but most people could tolerate this level of discomfort. Zhu Yingning hadn't expected him to be so delicate. After unscrewing the eye drops cap, she casually sighed, "Xu Sirui, you look like the Princess and the Pea in Andersen's fairy tale."

After saying this, I saw his face darken and quickly changed my words, "Prince Pea."

It was still black. She was embarrassed. "...peas?"

The eye drops dripped onto his closed eyes. Zhu Yingning mused, "Are you really not going to consider blinking your eyes to get the eye drops in?"

"No." Xu Sirui refused decisively, sticking to his strange method of applying eye drops. "I want to wait for it to seep in on its own."

“…”

Okay, as long as you are happy.

She slid off the bed and was about to leave. When she reached the end of the bed, an idea suddenly occurred to her. She thought that Xu Sirui was now completely at the mercy of others. Wouldn't this be a good opportunity to force him to participate in the competition?

So she walked back to him with a smile.