Chapter 14 Why cry when you're upset? Who's going to comfort you? He won't...
Yu Chaoxian, with an unlit cigarette dangling from his mouth, picked up the lighter warmed by Yu Tang's touch, rubbed it between his fingers, and acted as if nothing had happened, his arm draped over the back of the sofa, completely unaware of the girl's flushed face.
Yu Tang didn't even bother to sit up first; she quickly pulled her pajamas down, her bare feet curling up uncomfortably. She was next to him, and the man's body temperature seemed very high, making her feel hot as well.
Yu Tang carefully moved to the side, crawled a little further away, and prepared to run off the sofa.
"Yu Tang," Yu Chaoxian said, glancing at the table after hanging up the phone. He took the cigarette out of his mouth and tossed it on the table along with the lighter. "You're being disobedient again, aren't you?"
The scope of "disobedience" is too broad. She couldn't pinpoint whether Yu Chao first said she didn't eat breakfast, ate breakfast while watching TV, watched TV for too long, or didn't go to class.
"I didn't..." Yu Tang only dared to retort softly. If she had known Yu Chaoxian would get up so early, she would have been better off going to school. "Can I go back to my room?"
Yu Chaoxian glanced at her, then casually grabbed the girl's ankle, which was still gripping the sofa, and pointed to the sandwich and milk: "Eating cat food? Hurry up and finish eating so you can put on your shoes. Also, bring me a cup of coffee and some fruit."
So many commands could be given in just one sentence.
Yu Tang instinctively tried to pull her foot back, which the man interpreted as a sign of disobedience. Yu Chaoxian tightened his grip, and Yu Tang was afraid he would break her ankle.
"I'll eat now!" Yu Tang looked at Yu Chaoxian pitifully. "Then can you let go of my foot first?"
Grabbing Yu Tang's ankle was an instinctive reaction, which, in the man's eyes, was no different from lifting a pet by the scruff of its neck. It would have been better if Yu Tang hadn't mentioned it, because once she did, Yu Chaoxian's attention was drawn to Yu Tang's ankle.
The girl's ankles were slender and fair. When he grasped them, there were still gaps in his hand. The man's fingertips casually rubbed the small protruding bones on Yu Tang's ankles a couple of times, and he unconsciously applied a little force.
"No, no!" Yu Tang thought Yu Chaoxian was going to break her ankle, and tears welled up in her eyes. "I've listened to you properly. I didn't cry to my brother or tell on him. I'll go eat breakfast right away, put on my shoes, make coffee, and cut fruit. I'll never skip class again. I'll go to school tomorrow!"
Yu Tang's ankle was quickly rubbed raw from the struggle, leaving red finger marks. Yu Chaoxian frowned and looked at it a few more times. Although he knew that Yu Tang was very weak, he thought, "This is too weak. A little squeeze can leave a red mark? If I bite her foot, how loudly would she scream?"
Yu Chaoxian glanced at her red eyes and nose, and impatiently let go of her. "Hold it back, or I'll gouge your eyes out."
Why are you crying? Who's going to comfort you? He won't. Just finish your meal and disappear from his sight to avoid getting annoyed by him.
Yu Tang quickly sat up straight after pulling her foot back, picked up the sandwich from her plate, and ate it until her mouth was bulging. After finishing, she glanced at Yu Chaoxian, who was making a phone call again.
Yu Chaoxian sat casually, and Yu Tang's gaze happened to fall on what looked like a scar on the man's right leg. The scar was strange; it didn't look like a knife scar or a burn scar. It looked like... a bite mark? There was a particularly deep mark on the left side, which should have been from a canine bite. Who was so bold as to bite Yu Chaoxian?
Yu Tang pondered for a moment, took a bite of her sandwich, and couldn't help but look up, only to meet the man's gaze.
Yu Chaoxian looked over with a cold gaze: "Next time I cook and you don't eat, I'll pull your teeth out. How about I pull out your canine tooth first?"
This was by no means a tone of negotiation. Yu Tang had no doubt that Yu Chaoxian was capable of doing it. After all, compared to things like gouging out someone's eyes or cutting off their hands, pulling a tooth seemed so insignificant.
Yu Tang quickly shook her head. She covered her mouth and showed him the clean plate, then picked up the milk in the glass and drank it all. After finishing, she showed it to Yu Chaoxian as well.
After finishing her meal and drinks, so as not to disturb Yu Chaoxian's phone call, Yu Tang quietly reported, "I'm going to put on my shoes."
Yu Tang thought Yu Chaoxian wouldn't care about her movements, but as soon as she finished speaking, the man nodded, and Yu Tang quickly fled the place of trouble.
Yu Tang went to make coffee, and Yu Chaoxian picked up a lighter to light a cigarette. As soon as the cigarette was lit, Yu Chaoxian smelled that familiar sweet sugar scent.
Yu Chaoxian frowned. Why was there still a sweet smell even after the person had left?
The hand holding the cigarette brought it to his lips, and the sweetness seemed a little stronger.
Yu Chaoxian suddenly realized that the hand that had been holding a lighter on Yu Tang's waist and had also been holding her foot.
"Boss?" Mickey called out after waiting for Yu Chaoxian's reply for a long time.
Yu Chaoxian nodded and said, "Come over here first and we'll talk."
The aroma of coffee wafted over, and Yu Chaoxian hung up the phone, stubbing out his cigarette as footsteps approached. Yu Tang brought over the coffee.
After delivering the coffee, Yu Tang called Yu Yanting while holding her smartwatch, calling him "brother" repeatedly and asking if he had taken his medicine and what time he would be home.
Yu Chaoxian listened from the side and sneered. This Yu Tang really cared about Yu Yanting.
Yu Tang's phone call didn't last long because Yu Yanting asked her why she hadn't gone to school. When asked why she hadn't gone, she replied that she had skipped class, a reason she found difficult to explain. She quickly hung up the phone.
Yu Chaoxian smiled eerily at Yu Tang. Even when she wasn't home, she remembered to remind him to eat, while he, who was at home, just drank coffee and Yu Tang never asked him if he had eaten breakfast.
"Little Aunt," Yu Chaoxian called out.
Yu Tang said awkwardly, "Just call me Tangtang. Calling me 'little aunt' is never a good thing."
"I want to eat fruit," Yu Chaoxian said, looking at her.
When Yu Tang brought over the cut fruit, Yu Chaoxian didn't even look at her. He glanced at the TV, not understanding why the female lead was crying. He continued to order Yu Tang around: "Go upstairs and get some cigarettes."
Coffee, sandwiches, fruit, and cigarettes were already laid out on the table.
Yu Tang will never skip class again.
"Come here." Yu Chaoxian switched the TV back to the videotape that Yu Tang had just been watching. "Watch it."
Yu Tang's eyes lit up. "Can I continue watching?"
Yu Chaoxian leaned back comfortably on the sofa, closed his eyes and pretended to doze off, then hummed in agreement.
Yu Tang carefully sat down on the sofa next to her, and the man on the main sofa spoke again: "Sit here."
"My brother isn't here, so why do we have to sit together..." Yu Tang could only grumble to herself.
A sweet aroma wafted over, but Yu Chaoxian didn't open his eyes, his hand resting on the back of the sofa. The Filipino maid returned, glanced at the living room, took a picture of Yu Yanting and sent it to him, along with a message reporting that the relationship between the aunt and nephew had truly recovered quite well.
"You can't be together, actually you...you're siblings!" The line coming from the TV made the man frown. What kind of nonsense was this? He opened his eyes and saw Yu Tang watching with great interest, her expression even more sorrowful than the female lead's.
Yu Tang sighed again, her voice choked with emotion, "What are we going to do?"
"Yu Tang," Yu Chaoxian looked at her, "Why are you crying?"
Yu Tang pulled out a tissue to wipe her tears and shared the plot with him: "The male lead and the female lead were in love at first, but then they were separated due to a car accident and amnesia. Now the female lead has finally remembered everything, but they are related by blood. How can they be together?"
As she continued, perhaps realizing that Yu Chaoxian wouldn't understand, she wiped her red, tear-filled eyes and said, "Forget it, you wouldn't understand even if I told you."
Yu Chaoxian glared at her. She hadn't even finished high school and already looked down on people, saying he didn't understand. Forget about whether he understood or not; even if they were related by blood, so what?
Not long after Yu Tang finished speaking, the female lead on TV slipped after taking a shower, her clothes were ripped off, and she fell directly into the male lead's arms. The two inexplicably started kissing, their kiss becoming passionate and intense, with suggestive pieces of clothing lying on the floor...
Yu Tang subconsciously glanced at the man beside her, but Yu Chaoxian's gaze never left him.
The TV screen went black the next second. Yu Tang frantically pressed the power button on the remote, only breathing a sigh of relief when the TV was off. The most awkward thing wasn't watching TV with her elders, but watching TV with them and seeing intimate scenes on screen.
Strictly speaking, she is the elder.
But then he thought that Yu Chaoxian probably felt awkward seeing such a scene with his elders and didn't know how to deal with it, so he kept pretending to be calm while watching TV.
Yu Tang felt relieved; thankfully, she had acted quickly enough to prevent Yu Chaoxian from becoming further embarrassed.
Yu Chaoxian caught a glimpse of Yu Tang's bright red ears out of the corner of his eye, and remembered that night in the bathroom when he pinched her ears, which were soft and warm. But this time, the redness of her ears seemed a little different from the redness of crying.
The living room has floor-to-ceiling windows, and when Mickey came in, he could see Yu Chaoxian and the girl's backs through the clear glass. The girl was facing the TV without looking to the side, while the eldest brother's face was turned to the side, his gaze fixed on the girl.
The eldest brother's arm was draped over the back of the sofa, and the girl was sitting right within the reach of his arm. From behind, it looked as if the eldest brother had his arm around the girl's shoulder.
To be honest, Mickey, who has carried out countless missions, is usually quite calm, but he was almost scared just now, thinking that his boss had gone to find a woman.
A sound came from the living room doorway. The Filipino maid glanced at Yu Chaoxian, who nodded. She went to open the door, and Yu Tang, who was standing to the side, was relieved that someone had come to break the awkward situation.
"Boss," the newcomer called out to Yu Chaoxian.
Yu Tang turned her head and saw a man who was just as tall and upright as Yu Chaoxian. However, judging from the color of his pupils, he seemed to be a foreigner. People of Chinese descent usually have black or brown pupils, but the man in front of her had blue eyes.
Mickey is wearing a travel-themed short-sleeved shirt with "I LOVE Thai City" printed on it. Almost every tourist has one. Below the shirt, there is a handwritten name "by Mickey" with a small heart next to it.
This short-sleeved shirt was a gift from Chen Diao. Yesterday, Chen Diao took Mickey on a tour of the tourist attractions in Taicheng. Mickey was very interested in the local customs and culture, and the fruit was delicious.
"Mickey?" Yu Tang tilted her head and tentatively called out Mickey's name, her tone a little excited, because she pictured the mascot from the amusement park, who was also named Mickey.
However, the Mickey Mouse in front of us was huge and didn't resemble the "Mickey" in the amusement park at all.
Mickey glanced down at his short-sleeved shirt, on which he had written his name. He nodded. Mickey was unaware of Yu Tang's identity at this point, but humans are visual creatures, and he had a very good first impression of this pretty and cute girl.
Yu Chaoxian looked over and saw Yu Tang staring at Mickey with great interest. Her small face was beaming with a big smile. In the TV series that this crybaby was engrossed in, the male lead who had amnesia seemed to be a mixed-race blue-eyed man.
Mickey was unaware of Yu Tang's excitement, nor did he know that the atmosphere around them seemed a bit tense. He gave the mango sticky rice he had bought to Yu Chaoxian.
Yu Chaoxian picked up the sticky rice, only to see someone's gaze quickly shift from Mickey Mouse to the mango sticky rice. That's all Yu Tang is good for; she can't take her eyes off food. Last night, she was fixated on that plate of mango sticky rice and steamed chicken feet, and in the time it took him to drink a glass of wine, she had devoured it all.
This little aunt is indeed all about eating and sleeping, and she cries and throws tantrums after just a few words. Apart from Yu Yanting, there won't be another sucker in the world willing to support her.
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