Chapter 30: What was promised to be seen, and what wasn't, all fell into Yu Chaoxian's hands...
"Hmm?" Yu Tang finally turned her head back to look at Yu Chaoxian, waiting for him to speak.
Unexpectedly, Yu Chaoxian called Chen Diao over and said, "Take her back to her room to do her homework."
Yu Tang didn't expect Yu Chaoxian to bring her homework as well. "Why? Just because I finished all the meat and only left you the pineapple?" Yu Tang couldn't think of any other reason besides that; she hadn't done anything to offend him.
However, Yu Chaoxian was already processing documents, so Yu Tang had no choice but to be transferred with Chen.
Before pushing open the door, she turned back to look at Yu Chaoxian and said, "I'll come find you after I finish writing."
Yu Chaoxian reassured her: "It's okay."
After seeing Yu Tang off, Chen Diao wiped the sweat from his brow. He had considered countless possibilities, but he hadn't expected his boss to have this type of taste. He arranged overnight to have fair-skinned, black-haired girls photographed and sent to Yu Chaoxian: [Which one does the boss like? They're all black-haired with big, fair eyes. Should I send them both over?]
Annoyed, Yu Chaoxian made a direct phone call: "Chen Diao, did you grow a head just to make up for your height? If you can't see things clearly, then get out of here!"
"Sorry, boss." Chen Diao hung up the phone sheepishly.
How could Chen Diao not understand? He understood it all too well! Chen Diao knew perfectly well that the boss had seen Yu Tang on the very first day he returned, and that very night, he had unexpectedly saved a fair-skinned girl with black hair. It's worth noting that Yu Chaoxian always hated meddling in other people's business.
Now he's deliberately choosing women who resemble Yu Tang, but Yu Chaoxian is scolding him for being clueless. As a trusted confidant who's followed Yu Chaoxian for so many years, these words feel like a knife stabbing into his heart.
Chen Diao suddenly shivered and dared not think any further.
Although Mickey arrived late, he saw things clearly. No matter how much the boss and Miss Yu argued or made a scene, as long as Miss Yu appeared, he could find the boss within two steps.
If you want to know where the boss's gaze is in the shadows, then look at where Miss Yu is.
Perhaps it was because her goal was clear—to get into medical school—that Yu Tang was doing much better on tests than before. It was as if she had suddenly grasped some formulas. She could answer cloze tests with ease, and when she checked the answers, they were all correct!
So fluent! You can write everything! All the multiple choice questions and fill-in-the-blank questions were correct. Your thinking on the essay questions was clear, and your reading comprehension answers were all spot on. How is this possible? It feels like my brain is overflowing with knowledge.
Am I dreaming...?
Yu Tang suddenly opened her eyes; it was indeed a dream. After returning to Yu Chaoxian's room, she spread out the test paper and did two multiple-choice questions, but the more she looked at the questions, the sleepier she became, so she simply lay down and fell asleep.
The week passed neither too quickly nor too slowly. Yu Tang's spirits were noticeably better than at the beginning, and she had gradually accepted the fact that her brother was sick.
The fact that her brother was still alive, but had fallen into a long sleep, was a great comfort to Yu Tang.
Fortunately, Mo Fei was still there at school. Mo Fei kept comforting her, and the two even made a promise to take the college entrance exam together. Yu Tang and Mo Fei encouraged each other and worked hard towards their target university.
On Friday evening, the setting sun bathed the campus in an orange-red hue. Yu Tang and Mo Fei walked side by side along the tree-lined path. On their way to the school gate, Yu Tang and Mo Fei briefly chatted about the plot of the TV series, mentioning that yesterday's episode featured a kissing scene between the male and female leads.
"Did you see that kissing scene yesterday?" Mo Fei suddenly lowered her voice, her eyes sparkling. "What do you think kissing feels like? It looks so romantic in TV dramas."
What does kissing feel like?
Yu Tang couldn't imagine it at all.
After parting ways with Mo Fei, she looked up and saw that the rear window of the Bentley was open, and she could see Yu Chaoxian in the back seat.
The afterglow of the setting sun bathed his sharply defined profile in a warm glow, even his eyelashes seemed to be tinged with a warm light.
Mickey was driving today. Yu Chao, who was catching up on sleep in the back seat, woke up the moment Yu Tang got into the car. However, he kept his eyes closed and knew that Yu Tang's gaze was constantly scanning his face.
Yu Tang secretly raised her eyes and looked at Yu Chaoxian, who was resting with his eyes closed, in the rearview mirror. The sleeping Yu Chaoxian looked much closer. She didn't need to meet his sharp eyes. If she looked down, she would see his lips. Yu Tang remembered that she had secretly touched them before. They were very soft. When he had a cigarette in his mouth, the cigarette butt would sink into his lips in a slight curve.
In short, it's very soft.
The feeling of kissing... Yu Tang quickly shook her head vigorously to shake away the strange thoughts in her mind.
"Yu Tang," the man with his eyes closed spoke.
"Um?"
Yu Tang's chin was turned around, meeting the man's clear eyes.
What's the point of looking at people in a mirror?
"I don't have any." Yu Tang glanced at it twice.
Yu Chao stared at her for a while, then let go of her and ruffled her hair: "Wait for me at home."
"Okay," Yu Tang replied softly, but sighed gently.
She knew that after sending her back, Yu Chaoxian would be leaving; this business trip would last for half a month. Since Yu Yanting was hospitalized, she had gradually come to understand that relying on others was dangerous, and even the closest people could leave at any time.
Yu Chaoxian caught the sigh and squinted at his side. Was he reluctant to part with him?
"I'll take you out to play when I get back," he added.
Yu Tang, however, kept her eyes downcast, showing little interest. After all, he was just her nephew, and most likely he saw her as a burden. Saying he would take her out to play was just a polite way of coaxing her; in reality, he couldn't wait to get rid of her.
The girl's sorrows, if voiced, would only be perceived as melodramatic. How could anyone in this world truly stay for her? She had no parents, and her brother was in the hospital. As for Yu Chaoxian… just a nephew, ultimately separated by blood. Perhaps right now he was thinking of how to get rid of her, maybe slipping her a card to brush her off.
The laughter of other students being picked up by their parents drifted over from the school gate. Yu Tang stared at the tips of her shoes, her heart aching with a sharp, bitter pain. The adult world was so hypocritical; if they didn't want her, they should just say so. Why make these fake promises?
Yu Chaoxian's gaze darkened, and he added, "Next time I'll take you somewhere else."
Yu Tang stared at the rapidly receding neon lights of the shopping mall outside the window, her tone indifferent: "Whatever."
Her wrist was suddenly grabbed, and a black card was thrown into her arms.
"Want to buy clothes?" he asked, noticing her staring at the mall.
Just as she expected, he tried to bribe her. "I don't want it!" Yu Tang sneered inwardly, forcefully shaking off his hand, and bringing a gust of cold air into the car as she pushed open the door to get out.
She walked into the villa without looking back, not even once. The night wind blew up her school uniform skirt, making her look even thinner and more lonely.
Yu Chaoxian frowned. In the past, he could easily win her over with a little pocket money, but now she was even throwing the card back at him.
He asked Mickey, "Who upset her?"
Looking in the rearview mirror, Mickey carefully considered his words and said, "Miss Yu... is probably just being stubborn because she doesn't want you to leave."
These words struck a chord with Yu Chaoxian. He tapped his fingertips twice on his knee and suddenly said, "Tell Chen Diao that if she wants to invite friends over, just send a car to pick them up."
After thinking for a moment, he said, "Stop the car."
The tires made short, sharp sounds as they scraped against the asphalt road.
Mickey saw in the rearview mirror that Yu Chaoxian casually loosened his tie and strode back.
In the bathroom, Yu Tang stood under the showerhead, letting the hot water wash over her face, tears silently sliding down her cheeks with the water. When she turned off the water, her eyes were slightly red, as if from the steam.
The huge villa was empty. She casually wrapped a bath towel around herself and walked out of the bathroom. Her throat was dry after crying, and all she wanted now was a glass of iced juice.
Her hair was still dripping wet, but she didn't bother to dry it and ran downstairs barefoot.
At the corner of the stairs, Yu Tang didn't notice anyone coming upstairs. By the time she spotted the tall figure, it was too late to dodge, and in her panic, her bath towel slipped to the ground.
She gasped, and her foot slipped—
"Can't you watch where you're going?" Yu Chaoxian grabbed her waist and pulled her steadily into his arms. The girl's soft body carried the fresh scent of a bath, and her damp hair brushed against his arm, sending a subtle shiver down his spine.
Yu Tang sensed the mockery in his words, but couldn't bother to refute them. In her panic, her legs instinctively wrapped around his waist, afraid of falling. As she looked up, her soft lips inadvertently brushed against the man's sharp jawline.
"Yu Chaoxian, where are you looking!" she cried, frantically covering his eyes. Her wet hair clung to her reddened neck, and she was suspended in mid-air, with steps out of her reach below, nothing to lean on behind her, and a man's chest in front of her.
She twisted her waist, trying to dodge upwards, "Where are your hands holding me? Put me down first..."
This movement of lifting her waist caused Yu Chaoxian's whole body to tense up, and the muscles in his arms supporting her legs suddenly bulged. The two were in an extremely ambiguous position at this moment, with her whole body hanging on him like a vine, and they could clearly hear each other's disordered breathing.
The two of them were in a position that looked like they were embracing each other.
"Yu Tang," Yu Chaoxian's breathing became noticeably heavier, "Are you sure it's me holding you tight, or you hooking your leg around my waist and refusing to let go, hmm?"
The final "hmm" pierced directly into Yu Tang's ear. At this moment, Yu Chaoxian's voice was deeper than usual, somewhat like the languid and hoarse quality unique to early morning.
"I...I didn't, I slipped," Yu Tang's ears burned, and she was flustered and at a loss. She explained in a low voice, "Besides, who knew you would come back? I just wanted to get some juice. I'll let go of your leg, and you can put me down first."
"Would you let me go down and walk barefoot on the ground?" He held her firmly in his arms, showing no intention of letting go.
Yu Chaoxian carried her upstairs, and Yu Tang's heart was pounding so hard it felt like it would burst out of her chest. Shame made her toes curl up, and she subconsciously tried to close her legs, but instead, she only pulled him tighter.
Yu Tang's breathing trembled, but she didn't realize that the fingers covering Yu Chaoxian's eyes were not closed, leaving a gap.
The gap between his fingers was neither too big nor too small. What he should have seen, and what he shouldn't have seen, all fell into Yu Chaoxian's eyes.
Yu Chaoxian sat down in the same position he was holding, and pulled the blanket from the bed to wrap her up tightly.
Yu Tang's back had barely touched the cool air for two seconds before it was enveloped in soft warmth. With the blanket covering her, her tense shoulders finally relaxed, but her reddened earlobes betrayed her panic.
Yu Chaoxian stared at her wet eyelashes, his Adam's apple bobbing almost imperceptibly. He casually grabbed a dry towel from the bedside table and began to dry her wet hair naturally. Yu Tang instinctively tried to take the towel, but her hands were gripping the corner of the blanket tightly, afraid that the blanket wrapped around her would slip off. Realizing that she was still nestled in his arms, she quietly brought her knees together, trying to shrink back.
"Don't move." Yu Chaoxian frowned and pressed his leg down on her knees, which she was trying to close. The dampness from the girl's skin seeped through the fabric, making him tense up even more.
Yu Tang suddenly noticed that the breath brushing against her forehead was unusually hot. She looked up, unconsciously letting go of the blanket with one hand, and placed her palm on his forehead: "Why are you so hot?"
Yu Chaoxian stared at her lips, so close to his own, red and moist. Suddenly, he grabbed her outstretched wrist, and the towel slipped from his palm, falling silently onto their intertwined legs.
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