Chapter 55
silence.
Silence all the way.
Shi Yu looked at the scenery outside the window, holding her small bag, as if in a daze, and kept this posture.
The hovercraft was moving smoothly. In this overly silent atmosphere, the officer raised his ice-blue eyes and slightly fell on the rearview mirror.
He finally called her in a deep voice: "Shi Yu."
Shi Yu was stunned for a moment, then she came to her senses and looked at the back of the blond young man in front of her, her tone of questioning full of confusion and doubt.
"Mr. Rain," Shi Yu asked, "Why on earth would you mistake me for Susu?"
Recalling what just happened, if Shi Yu didn't know Lei Yin very well, she would have thought that Lei Yin was playing a prank on her.
After all, she'd spent so much time with Rein, and yet he was calling Susu "Shigure"...!! She and Susu were so different—and her friends were present when this bizarre scene unfolded, leaving Shigure feeling both embarrassed and a little hurt.
“…”
Lei Yin's fingertips, clad in neat, clean gloves, moved subconsciously. He lowered his eyes and remained silent for a moment before answering thoughtfully, "My facial recognition and memory aren't very strong, so I occasionally make mistakes when two people have similar features. I wasn't paying attention just now. I apologize."
At that time, they were separated by the gate of the nursing home, and the smell was completely blocked. The Omega girl with an oriental face was walking in front of Shi Yu, holding some things for him, so he could not distinguish them clearly.
From the time he wrote the self-criticism for her until now, the word Rain said to her most often was "sorry".
"...Our features are very similar, sir?"
Hearing this, Shi Yu still couldn't understand: "We have been together for so long, have you ever looked at me properly?"
Shi Yu reached out and grasped the ends of her hair, carefully showing it to him: "Susu's hair is shorter than mine, and I don't have natural curls like hers." She pointed to her forehead, a hint of anger in her expression, "Susu's eyes are very long, and her eyebrows are very curved. Look at me, Mr. Rain."
——"Do I really look like Su Su?"
Rein: “…”
She was really angry.
Lei Yin frowned slightly, his deep, icy blue eyes watching the girl's movements in the rearview mirror, his gaze then settling on her hair, face, and lips. He glanced away slightly uncomfortably, as if trying to figure out how to explain to her that would allay her current anger.
"If you couldn't tell us apart because we both had black hair and black eyes," Shi Yu asked, "why didn't you ever have any doubts when I was with Doctor Lin Yin?"
"…clothing, temperament, and speech."
The officer gripped the control wheel tightly, staring at the road ahead, and carefully avoided saying the word "height".
"You are different from her in all these aspects, so I can tell them apart."
Despite Rein's explanation, Shi Yu's mood still could not be calmed down. She got off the car in a depressed mood. At this moment, she received a call from the general.
Shi Yu glanced at Rein who was some distance behind her. The officer had stopped and was waiting quietly in the distance when he noticed the ringing of her terminal, so Shi Yu picked up the phone.
"Well... I have arrived safely at Mr. Rein's house."
Shi Yu walked forward slowly, answering the general's questions, while Lei Yin still waited with his eyes lowered, the girl's soft and small voice becoming increasingly blurred.
When facing the general she trusted, the grievance and anger in her heart seemed to be gently soothed in an instant. Lei Yin noticed that the girl's tone had become completely different from just now.
"No, it's nothing. I'm fine. Don't worry."
“…Huh?”
It seemed as if the general explained something to her, and the girl made a short sound in confusion.
The general's low and steady instructions could be faintly heard from the terminal, but due to the distance, Lei Yin could no longer hear them clearly.
After hearing what the general said to her, Shi Yu was silent for a moment, then she turned and looked at Rain in the distance.
——Two days ago, Admiral Heinrich had told Rain in a phone call that based on the attitude she showed when she took Shigure back, he would re-evaluate whether Rain was suitable to continue to be Shigure's adoptive parent.
So at this moment, facing Shi Yu's increasingly complicated gaze, Lei Yin did not show any emotion. The young man stood still calmly and upright, his military uniform was meticulous, and his light golden hair was like gold under the scorching sun.
He waited silently for Shi Yu to make the final decision.
“…” The girl paused for a long time.
After some thought, Shi Yu's voice finally rang out amidst the sudden rustle of the wind through the trees in the courtyard. "Thank you, General," she said. "Mr. Rain has been very kind to me. I have no grievances against him."
"Although he can be careless sometimes, I tell you, General..."
Shi Yu still remembered what happened just now, which made her inevitably confide in the general.
After finishing her call with the general, Shi Yu and Lei Yin returned to the villa hall. It was still empty and quiet. Shi Yu looked at the scene, which had not changed much since she left. Suddenly, she spoke softly, "Just now... the general told me to reconsider my relationship with you."
Lei Yin nodded and replied seriously, "I have indeed been quite negligent towards you during this time. As a guardian, I am not competent. If you wish to end this relationship, you can do so at any time."
"I will find it for you..."
"gentlemen."
She interrupted Rein again and said, "I've actually been thinking a lot these past few days."
Shi Yu felt uneasy, lonely, and lost in her silent interactions with Rein. But if she changed adopters, would she be able to get along well with the other adopters? This question left Shi Yu with no answer. Moreover, in her opinion, Mr. Rein had already done so much for her; their personalities were simply too different, and they needed some time to adjust.
Shi Yu tried her best to avoid the option of returning to the nursing home - once she went back, she would lose the last possibility of contacting them, so Shi Yu wanted to make some attempts.
Shi Yu raised his head and mustered up the courage to look the stern-looking young man in front of him in the eye: "I know you are very busy at work, so I won't cause you any trouble or ask anything of you. It's just that sometimes, I hope to have some time with you..."
She hesitated and said, "...a conversation? Something like that."
"I will take the issues I communicate with you seriously."
This was exactly what Rein had been reflecting on and pondering during the few days Shigure had been away. Omegas needed companionship and attention, so he calmly agreed.
Shi Yu was stunned for a moment and said, "But actually, when you are busy with work, you don't have to pay too much attention to me... It's just that it would be nice if you could take a look at the terminal."
"We can talk there. Sometimes I want to share some little things with you. It won't take you long," she suggested carefully. "You can also share them with me. If Mr. Rain needs to go to work immediately, just let me know."
Lei Yin lowered his eyes to look at her and nodded slowly: "I remember."
Shi Yu felt relieved, then she thought for a moment and said, "I've always wanted to say, Mr. Rain, you don't have to give me so many gifts..."
"Those things are valuable, and I feel pressured every time I accept them... If there's a holiday worth celebrating, you can consider the gift-giving issue then, and I'll give you a gift in return!"
She quickly added, "Cookbooks and storybooks are fine as gifts. You don't have to think too much about it. I like them all."
"And then, I have one last request."
Shigure's words became a little strange at this moment, which interrupted Rein's contemplation. He glanced at the girl and heard her take a deep breath and say, "I hope... you can remember my appearance as much as possible."
"This way," she said word by word, "if you run into someone with similar 'features' to mine again, at least you won't mistake me for someone else."
…
The next day, Shi Yu was still drowsy and had not yet woken up when he heard a faint prompt sound from the terminal.
She didn't care, turned over and continued to fall asleep. Then there seemed to be two or three more reminder sounds. When Shi Yu got up, she found that all these messages came from Lei Yin without exception.
The first one read: "I'm off." The second one was a photo of the interior of the hovercraft. The third one simply said four words: "Get to work."
The time span was from six in the morning to seven thirty. Shi Yu couldn't help but marvel at Lei Yin's busyness again, but at the same time she knew that Mr. Lei Yin had fulfilled his promise last night and was trying to communicate with her.
In order not to disturb Lei Yin's work, Shi Yu did not reply to any of his messages before noon. As soon as it was past noon, she happily sent Lei Yin a photo of her lunch: [Sir, I had omelet rice for lunch!]
Ten minutes later, Rain replied to her, and Shigure learned that his lunch was a steak rice bowl.
The feeling of being responded to put Shi Yu in a good mood! She couldn't help but tell Lei Yin a few small things between twelve and one o'clock. Lei Yin replied carefully, even though his carefully considered sentences could not keep up with Shi Yu's speaking speed. There was probably a time difference of two or three sentences between them.
At one o'clock, Rain replied to her: [I am ready to start working.]
Shi Yu had to regretfully stop typing at the speed of light.
Because of Lei Yin's work, Shi Yu still couldn't see him often, but their communication increased in this way.
This kind of interaction lasted for a week. One day, when Lei finished work early and arrived home early, Shi Yu remembered the TV series about amnesia that he had watched during the day. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and he asked as if he remembered something.
"Mr. Rain, have you memorized my face?"
The accident caused by face blindness was still fresh in her memory, as if it happened yesterday. The girl looked at him with distrust under the light, and her long, straight black hair seemed to be coated with a layer of light gold similar to his hair color by the light source.
Rein paused, his calm ice-blue eyes resting on the girl's face for a moment. For some reason, he then subconsciously looked away, as if avoiding her.
He didn't say anything, but after a moment of silence, he mentioned to her, "Tomorrow is the Holy Day."
"After get off work, I'll bring you the cooking manual you mentioned to me the other day."
Shi Yu was stunned for a moment before she realized that a week ago, she had rejected Rain's frequent daily gifts and said that he only needed to give her gifts on memorable holidays. Mr. Rain had clearly noted it down.
That cooking manual... she had forgotten about it after she mentioned it a few days ago, but it turns out that Rain also remembered it.
Shi Yu didn't know for a moment which of the two things she should be happy about. She looked at Lei Yin's cold expression, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she only hesitated and said thank you a little embarrassedly.
The previous problems were naturally forgotten.
Before going to bed at night, Shi Yu looked at the big rabbit on the bed in surprise - this was the first gift Mr. Rain gave her. Shi Yu stared at the rabbit for a long time, then suddenly reached out and hugged the rabbit and rolled around.
The furry touch seemed to make the girl feel particularly satisfied, but it seemed that she was satisfied not only for this matter, perhaps because the rabbit could not resist her ravage. Shi Yu touched the rabbit's ears and whispered vaguely, "...Good boy."
The author has something to say:
Soft Girl Dog Training Literature
Even though Rein is a bit of a jerk, I'll make him wise up! Don't be so quick to dismiss him just because you're face-blind!
...The above is just a joke, please repeat it with me... Forget it, I have to type a lot of words ()
——It’s time for others to come online!
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