Chapter 14
Shen Huaixin suddenly fell into an embrace, their wet bodies pressed tightly together, and she seemed to be able to feel the uneasiness and fear from the other party's restrained trembling.
“You…” She heard Shen Chumo’s hoarse voice, which seemed even more moist than usual after being soaked in water, wrapped in an inexplicable stickiness, “Why did you save me?”
Shen Huaixin also wanted to know why she saved him. He was just a character in a book, but not only did she suffer, she almost lost her life. But fortunately, she saved him. She only came close to death once, but she also experienced such despair. If Shen Chumo experienced it over and over again, even a sane person would go crazy.
He just won't die, not lose his sense of pain. Besides, reducing the darkening value is also her task.
Shen Huaixin snorted coldly and pushed him away: "How should I know? If I had time to think, ghosts would save you."
Shen Chumo was stunned. After a while, he ignored the obstruction and hugged her tighter, burying his head in her neck, feeling the breathing rhythm that symbolized the girl's life, and calming his mood.
There is no time to think, so save.
He couldn't learn the language, couldn't comprehend Romeo and Juliet, couldn't read through the girl's duplicity, but he felt that this answer was more sincere and moving than any poem.
At a moment that she herself was not aware of, instinct took precedence over reason, prompting her to give up weighing the pros and cons and choose him on the other side of the scale without hesitation.
That voice was wrong. Humans weren't shameless, evil, or pathetic. There were people who treated them sincerely, just as he treated his family.
"Thank you." He thanked me.
“…”
Shen Huaixin muttered something, but he didn't hear it clearly. It seemed like she was complaining. But he already understood that Shen Huaixin was wearing a mask, which made her true face like flowers in the fog. Only by starting from the details could he get a glimpse of the true appearance of a few petals.
So what is she really thinking at this moment?
Shen Chumo tilted his head and saw Shen Huaixin's pretty face tense with disgust; he listened carefully and heard her nasal humming, full of disdain; finally, when he felt the texture of the clothes on her back being torn into strips, he came to a conclusion.
——She was also afraid, just like him.
Worry, concern, fear…hidden in every wrinkle, only revealed when he closed his eyes and truly absorbed it. She was a profound and complex literature, just like the Chinese language he could never master. But compared to the latter, he was more patient and studious, willing to deliberate on her meaning between the lines.
The autumn outing incident passed without incident. The two tacitly didn't tell their parents, fearing that they would worry.
Shen Chumo's enrollment procedures had been completed, but Shen Huaixin disagreed with going to school with him and requested separate pick-up and drop-off to prevent classmates from noticing their relationship. Shen Chumo did not object, saying that he would just do as his sister wished. Seeing him so sensible, Shen's mother could not help but sigh repeatedly.
Shen Chumo was arranged to be in the third year of high school. He was originally planned to be in the second year of high school, one grade lower than Shen Huaixin, but after the entrance test, it was found that he had reached the level of a third year of high school, so he was allowed to go directly to the third year of high school.
The school's judgment was correct. In just a few days, Shen Chumo's academic performance was already among the best, except for Chinese, which he had never been good at. What made Shen Huai even more relieved was that Shen Chumo was not ostracized like Yuan Wen. Although he still seemed unsociable at times and had few friends, overall, he was much better than he had imagined.
While playing the role of the vicious sister, Shen Huaixin frantically used her phone to brush up her favorability, successfully brushing the deviation value to 59. She found that coming up with a few tricks every day was also very brain-consuming. It was hard for the original owner to work so hard but still couldn't come up with any new ideas.
“I heard that Shen Huaixin is pursuing Shen Chumo recently, Qi Yi, you are blessed.”
Qi Yi raised his head from the open textbook, raised his eyelids, and said "Hmm?" in a neutral tone, indicating that he was a little interested.
"Her confession was quite romantic. She put a butterfly in his pencil case, and when he opened it, the butterfly flew to Shen Chumo's shoulder. I heard that one of them flapped its wings on the tip of his nose, just like the Fragrant Concubine."
"I was worried he wouldn't be able to see clearly during evening study, so I lit a candle on his desk. It seemed to be an aromatherapy candle, and it smelled really nice."
"Yes, yes, I smelled it too."
"Ah, if there is a girl who treats me with such care and is so beautiful, my life will be worth it."
Qi Yi listened quietly, his finger unconsciously poking the button on the back of the black fountain pen: "That's it? There's nothing to discuss, it's just her new trick to play a prank on people."
"Qi Yi," Su Zihan walked back to the desk and continued the conversation, tilting her head curiously. "What are you discussing?"
"Are you discussing Shen Huaixin's infidelity, right?" The classmate patted Qi Yi's back teasingly. "You've finally gotten rid of this big trouble."
"...I haven't fallen in love with someone else." Qi Yi explained, then thought about it, shook his head and kept silent, without saying anything more.
He was just stating the truth. His reason was that she was still secretly filming him, enjoying it, and always using Su Zihan as a cover to monitor whether there was any spark between them. He could see all of the girl's secret thoughts, but compared to before, this non-interfering method was more acceptable to him.
Su Zihan was stunned for a moment, and waited until the classmates stopped making noises before gently poking Qi Yi with the pen cap on.
"Just now, why did you say she still likes you? Although Shen Chumo seems to dislike me, I think they are quite a match."
“…Just intuition.”
"Qi Yi, just tell me, okay?" Su Zihan felt an inexplicable sense of crisis growing stronger, and couldn't help but get to the bottom of it.
Qi Yi glanced at her and felt that Su Zihan was a little different from usual, but he should have been happy. After all, she cared about him, which was not a bad thing. He didn't think much about it, just gave a simple example.
"The pendant on the school bag she carries every day was given by me, that's all."
“…”
Su Zihan opened her eyes wide and stared at Qi Yi in disbelief, not knowing when he had sent her the gift or how long it had been going on. She even felt somewhat excluded from the subtle atmosphere between them, and she had never felt this sense of crisis before.
"I haven't heard you say that." She forced a smile and said casually.
"It's not a big deal," Qi Yi paused, "If you like it, I'll buy one for you."
"Forget it, she might mind if I use the same one as her."
Shen Huaixin finished her usual duties as the Queen of Demons today and was exhausted. She took advantage of Shen Chumo sleeping under a tree to pull his shoelaces.
She hadn't expected that even as the final boss, he had such poor vigilance as a cub. She remembered that Shen Chumo in the book rarely closed his eyes. To use her analogy, he could even catch a mayfly floating past him with his bare hands.
When he was unlacing his shoelaces, his body was relaxed and his legs were stretched just right, so it was actually much easier than he had imagined. Shen Huaixin wanted to laugh when he thought about his shoes falling off while he was walking.
He'd already done quite a bit. He'd put bugs in his pencil case to scare him, and then lit a cursed candle for him. Poor kid, he didn't deserve this. Even Shen Huaixin, the instigator, felt a little sorry for it.
Take a lunch break at noon.
"Chu Mo, this is the lunch box I prepared specially for you. It's a token of Sister Xin's love, so you have to try it." As she spoke, Shen Huaixin handed Shen Chumo a box of lunch box, which was quite heavy.
Shen Chumo felt the residual warmth from the lunch box, and his heart moved. Shen Huaixin personally cooked... I wonder how good her cooking skills are.
"Thank you, Sister Xin." He lowered his eyes to express his gratitude. The sunlight cast a shadow through his dense eyelashes, and the curve of his lips was particularly soft.
Shen Huaixin thought that she would not be able to laugh anymore later. She sat down with him and opened her lunch box.
Compared to the one she cooked herself, this one was much more luxurious and exquisite. The protein and vitamins were balanced in proportion. Taking Shen Huaixin's fat loss problem into consideration, the chicken was cooked to be both healthy and appetizing, which made people's mouths water.
Shen Huaixin suppressed his laughter and glanced at Shen Chumo secretly.
The lunch box in front of him was also opened. The first thing that caught his eye was a ball of black, burnt rice, surrounded by hot and sour shredded potatoes, stir-fried loofah with soybeans, pickled bamboo shoots, and pickled mustard greens. Except for the pickled mustard greens squeezed out of the small package, the appearance of the dishes was not very satisfactory... quite.
Shen Huaixin knew that Shen Chumo loved sweets and meat, and avoided sour and spicy food. A box of food filled with poison was like dancing in the villain's minefield. Moreover, she was also a little curious about what Shen Chumo would be like when he was angry. From Shen Huaixin's observation, he had a good temper towards her, almost indulgent.
Even with the family buff, he wouldn't be so tolerant, especially since she had already cut off her ties with him, clearly stating that she no longer recognized him as her brother. He must... absolutely loathe her.
Shen Huaixin lowered his eyes, and quickly cheered himself up.
"Try it?"
Before Shen Huaixin finished speaking, he scooped up a spoonful of black rice, chewed it carefully, and remained calm.
"It's delicious. I didn't expect Sister Xin's cooking skills to be so good."
After saying that, he took another bite of shredded potatoes. As soon as he moved his mouth, the movement stopped for a while. His eyes were visibly red, and physiological tears filled his eye sockets, making his pupils particularly moist and bright. He did not chew anymore, but swallowed and squeezed the shredded potatoes into his stomach like swallowing a whole fruit.
Shen Chumo looked at Shen Huaixin, nodded, and said "hmm" vaguely, his voice was very hoarse.
He lowered his head, studying the dish. Instead of picking up the shredded potatoes, he extended his chopsticks to the fresh, green loofah and put it in his mouth to taste. The moment he took a bite, his eyes widened and he looked much more energetic. He hummed several times and swallowed the loofah directly.
He unscrewed the mineral water bottle and drank half of it, praising the mineral water that Chen Huaixin prepared for him for being delicious and very thirst-quenching.
“…”
Shen Huaixin deeply felt the difficulty of Shen Chumo. Nowadays, even if you are a villain, you must understand the ways of the world.
After drinking the water, Shen Chumo seemed to calm down a lot. For the rest of the meal, he ate with big mouthfuls, and exclaimed in admiration from time to time, which made it look very delicious to those who didn't know.
...If Shen Huaixin's memory wasn't distorted, the rice was burnt, the hot and sour potato shreds were made with devil peppers, the pickled bamboo shoots were soaked in vinegar for a full day, and the stir-fried loofah with soybeans was salted with two kilograms of salt. Only the bag of pickled mustard greens was his last resort, preventing him from not eating anything else and giving him something to eat with his rice.
Could it be that Shen Chumo has been poisoned to the point that his sense of taste has been impaired?
Shen Huaixin wasn't sure if his acting skills could reach this level, so he asked tentatively, "Is it delicious?"
"Okay." Shen Chumo said seriously, and there was nothing unusual except that his throat was hoarse from the spiciness.
"Then I'll do it for you every day from now on?"
After saying this, Shen Huaixin stared at Shen Chumo closely, observing his reaction. Shen Chumo looked down at the unfinished food in the lunch box and paused.
"Sister Xin is still busy studying and rehearsing. You don't have to work so hard. I'll do it for you later."
Shen Huaixin smiled sarcastically: "When the art performance comes, remember to come. I don't want to rehearse so hard and have no one show up. Watch carefully. Although other performances are definitely not as exciting as mine, only by comparison can my excellence be revealed."
In fact, what Shen Huaixin wanted to say was that it didn’t matter whether you watched her or not, but you had to watch the heroine’s performance carefully.
Shen Chumo promised: "Of course."
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