Chapter 24: A dream in which the object of a erotic dream brings a reward is not a nightmare...
Chi Liuai had no tears to shed for Brother Yuzhi now.
It seemed that all the etiquette lessons that had never been listened to in the past had yielded results in Liuai. Meng Yuzhi had not expected that such a naughty child would thank Meng Yuzhi who closed the door like a gentleman after entering the door.
In the past, she would express her gratitude by leaning against Meng Yuzhi's arms, and would only say it when she was satisfied with the gifts she received.
Chi Liuai rubbed the ground with his toes nervously. It was a soft dark carpet with a pattern on it that looked like a hungry beast quietly wandering in a gloomy place. For no reason, Liuai remembered the dream he had last night, a ferocious dream in which he was devoured alive by the beast.
The night breeze of plum rain season was chilly, the air thick with a silky, mournful sound. Chi Liuai's dreams were filled with the piercing, cacophony of a failed signal. Intermittently, she realized she had fallen from her comfortable, soft bed onto a rough, old-fashioned, floral red and blue mattress. A half-page, yellowed poster left by the previous tenant hung precariously in her sight, rising and falling. The sense of poverty and clumsiness rubbed against her knees.
Chi Liuai felt so uncomfortable that she cried. She simply couldn't bear it and returned to her original life.
The hazy vision was pierced by the cold eyes.
It’s Meng Yuzhi.
Chi Liuai was forced to come back to her senses, her face flushed and her heart beating fast. She glanced over secretly, met Brother Yuzhi's dark eyes and quickly turned away. Every time she did something bad, she looked at Meng Yuzhi like this, it was very obvious.
Perhaps the unfamiliar environment and the presence of her brother made Chi Liuai unwilling to show any sign of trying to please Meng Yuzhi, as if she had only learned the word "shameless" today.
So she stood there awkwardly, occasionally peeking at Meng Yuzhi's work.
In fact, she still wanted Brother Yuzhi to hug her and kiss her. She judged the intimacy between the two from these actions, so that she could know whether her unbearable past had reached Brother Yuzhi's ears.
If Brother Yuzhi knew.
She would probably put her hands together and beg Brother Yuzhi to forget it quickly.
Or with tears in her eyes: "Brother Yuzhi, please spare me the ten million. You know, I have been without a mother since I was a child..."
"Come here." Meng Yuzhi's voice was cold.
So fierce!
Chi Liuai shook his head with a bitter face and rubbed his palms irregularly.
In the dream, Meng Yuzhi said the same thing while picking her up from the bed.
Chi Liuai didn't dare to admit the truth that he was about to tell.
Will be taught a lesson.
Meng Yuzhi held Chi Liuai in his arms.
There was no expression on his face, and Chi Liuai was placed on Meng Yuzhi's lap like an object.
The two faced each other in silence.
Well, Chi Liuai lost. She thought Sister Xuewei was right. Only bad kids who bravely admitted their mistakes would be forgiven and rewarded. If she had always been honest, no one would forgive her mistake.
Liu'ai was afraid of him. She looked at Meng Yuzhi with what she thought was a hidden gaze, then looked away after making eye contact, feeling so guilty that her expression became vague.
Meng Yuzhi could not deny it.
Chi Liuai felt a little aggrieved: "I think, Brother Yuzhi, you have been a little mean to me these days."
Meng Yuzhi chuckled.
"Where's the danger?"
He held the uneasy hand with his backhand. It was warm, a little different from the girl's usual cold hands.
"In my dream, I had a nightmare."
Meng Yuzhi consoled him: "Liuai, but dreams are the opposite."
Chi Liuai refused to give in: "But you are mean to me, even in dreams!"
"Really? Can you tell me what Liu'ai did to make me the bad guy in my dream?"
Chi Liuai paused, wanting to find out the truth from Meng Yuzhi's expression, but the moment she looked away, Meng Yuzhi's free hand stroked the back of her neck, and she couldn't move at all.
Her hand was also held.
My heartbeat and breathing were controlled by Brother Yuzhi's hand.
Meng Yuzhi was very forgiving towards honest children and had spent quite a bit of patience with Chi Liuai. He asked calmly, "Liuai doesn't want to be a good child anymore?"
"Okay." Chi Liuai was shy, not even daring to look at Meng Yuzhi. She closed her eyes, as the shame brought by that scandal once again surfaced on her cheeks. "I admit, there is a little thing... that I kept from you, that is..."
Meng Yuzhi held her hand with just the right amount of strength as he played with the warm little hand. The girl spoke softly about her past, so softly that he couldn't catch the exact pronunciation of the words. Meng Yuzhi slightly increased the strength of his grip.
"Louder."
Her hand was brought to Brother Yuzhi's face, to his thin lips, which her fingers had never touched before.
There was silence all around. Chi Liuai was stunned. Seeing that the scar was about to be uncovered again, her face turned red and tears were about to burst out.
"I admit that Chi Cheng is right. I feel sorry for Chi Baoyuan. But I really didn't mean to drug her. I clearly put sugar in it. It's all Chi Cheng's fault. You can't blame me..."
Even though he was crying heart-wrenchingly, Chi Liuai gave up the righteousness and integrity that he had just resolved to uphold, and leaned against Meng Yuzhi's chest, letting his tears flow onto Meng Yuzhi's clothes.
After a long time, the girl's trembling shoulders, under Meng Yuzhi's pat, slowly trembled as she recalled the past.
Liu Ai, already busty, returned to the Chi family during puberty. The delicacies she had never tasted before filled her body in those few short months. At this time, facing Chi Baoyuan, who had already started dieting and managing her figure, Chi Liu Ai was given some unpleasant nicknames by Chi Cheng.
Chi Liuai couldn't argue anymore, couldn't stop crying, and got scolded again.
In a fit of rage, many vicious plans came to his mind.
After Chi Cheng worked out, she would considerately mix Xiangpiaopiao with the protein powder prepared by the servants. Chi Cheng, who had never had the chance to taste instant milk tea in his life, would drink it all in one gulp. She would also add sugar to the meals specially prepared for Chi Cheng. She even replaced Chi Cheng's daily coffee with Isatis root.
She even had a few nicknames for Chi Cheng after he gained weight.
But unexpectedly, one day, Chi Baoyuan would get food poisoning.
Upon closer inspection, the malicious Chi Liuai was recorded indiscriminately and without blind spots by ten surveillance cameras as he sneakily dropped an unknown object.
"But it really wasn't me!"
Chi Liuai continued to defend herself naively. She herself was not sure whether it was because of her actions that Chi Baoyuan was accidentally injured, but she was indeed afraid of being punished. She did not want to be thrown into a strange country.
"You know, Brother Yuzhi, I have been without a mother since I was a child, and I have been wandering around..." Chi Liuai squeezed out tears, her eyelashes trembling, looking fragile and helpless.
She wanted to use the most useless tears to try to leave in a decent way.
Meng Yuzhi gently sniffed her fingertips and asked calmly, "No more?"
There was absolutely no concern for her, nor any accusation.
Facing this question, Chi Liuai suddenly thought of the scene in the elevator. Only then did she realize that the person she was sticking to was Meng Yuzhi, Mr. Meng.
"No, no more."
But, Liuai, I don’t like the strange smell of your hands.
Meng Yuzhi remained calm and coaxed her like a child, wiping her tears and slowly stroking her head.
"What's wrong with that? It's cowardice."
If you want to bully someone, just bully them.
Liu Ai, who was calm, couldn't help but say, "It really wasn't me, but you were so fierce in the dream. I thought you didn't want me anymore."
Meng Yuzhi patiently asked, "Why is he so fierce?"
A faint herbal fragrance lingered around Chi Liuai. The smell she smelled in her dream was not this kind of smell. It was salty and damp, like rust, and the fishy stench of a moldy rental house.
"You hit me in many places, just like you hit Meng Ran. They said you beat him to a pulp." Chi Liuai sobbed.
Meng Yuzhi remained calm: "So you are afraid of me because of Meng Ran?"
"No." Chi Liuai shook his head, "It's different. Can Meng Ran be the same as me? He is not as obedient as me and will hurt you. But I think about accompanying Brother Yuzhi every day. I am so obedient."
Chi Liuai was very distressed: "And the way of fighting is not quite the same."
Chi Liuai put it very tactfully.
Chi Liuai, who lost her mother's company in childhood, is afraid of physical desires.
When she was about to separate from her brother after she became an adult, she cried a lot.
The two have been freed from the care of their relatives and are like strangers.
Strangers without blood ties.
She still remembered sitting on her brother's lap and crying, in the same position as now.
Her brother comforted her and reasoned with her.
But late at night, Chi Liuai, wearing a thin nightgown, sat on her brother's lap, and the friction between the clothes.
She suddenly grabbed her brother's collar with tears in her eyes.
Lin Zhun put his hand on Chi Liuai's shoulder and pressed it gently.
Looking at Liuai's trembling shoulders, he consoled her, "You're crying so hard, what are you going to do tomorrow?"
That night, she stole her brother's clothes.
I was caught again, and from then on, there was a scar in my heart that was difficult to heal.
Until Meng Yuzhi gently covered the trembling face with his hand and asked, "How pitiful."
Chi Liuai is naive.
She thought she could be forgiven by admitting her mistakes.
That's not right.
Meng Yuzhi could feel that Chi Liuai was not willing to give in, but it didn’t matter, he would always get the answer he wanted.
"Liu'ai, how can such a dream be a nightmare?" Meng Yuzhi coaxed, "Haven't you ever had this before?"
Chi Liuai confessed guiltily: "Yes, I did."
"What should it be called?"
"I have no idea."
Meng Yuzhi tempted: "Who will be the target of Liuai's first nightmare?"
He added, "I like honest and good kids, Liuai."
Chi Liuai felt a vague sense of oppression. She had already admitted it, so why did the scene in her dream keep reappearing? She realized that this question was too embarrassing. Could she tell Brother Yuzhi, their brother who depended on each other for survival?
Unless she wants to be kicked out and live a life picking up trash.
Or Meng Yuzhi becomes a magnanimous husband.
Obviously the latter is impossible.
"No, Brother Yuzhi, it's just someone I knew at the time." Chi Liuai said, "I confessed everything, it's all insignificant."
Then Chi Liuai changed the subject: "Let's go home quickly, please, Brother Yuzhi, I really missed you last night, but you went to see Chi Baoyuan, and I don't like her."
She expressed her disgust like a child.
"Brother Yuzhi, please join me in disliking her, okay?"
Chi Liuai thought of how Chi Baoyuan would occasionally give her small gifts, thought of Chi Baoyuan's gentle smile, and thought of her charm in being diligent and studious for her dreams.
Chi Liuai announced: "It's not that I hate her, it's that you are not allowed to like her. Wherever she is, you must close your eyes and not look at her."
Meng Yuzhi didn't ask any more questions.
He quietly watched Chi Liuai's red lips opening and closing.
After Chi Liuai finished speaking, he called his name tentatively. He felt like he was facing a great enemy. Brother Yuzhi would not really accept the bribe of a meal from the Chi family and leave a good impression on Chi Baoyuan!
Meng Yuzhi slowly helped Liuai tuck her tear-soaked hair behind her ears.
He asked calmly, "Chi Baoyuan, who is that?"
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