Chapter 81 Coax Me to Sleep

After she finished speaking, He Tingzhou looked at her for a while with his head propped up, and then said, "Tell me a story."

"Ah?" Shuang Xu looked confused.

"You must have slept enough after sleeping for so long," He Tingzhou said, "it's your turn to coax me to sleep."

Shuang Xu complained about him with a nasal tone: "How old are you? You still need someone to comfort you when you go to sleep."

"Twenty-eight." He Tingzhou said in a lazy tone, righteously and threateningly: "Tell a story, or bring your Okamoto over. Your choice."

“…”

Telling stories is certainly much easier than sleeping with someone.

Shuang Xu asked pragmatically, "What story do you want to hear?"

He Tingzhou's eyes were already closed. At three o'clock in the morning, his voice was lazy: "Whatever."

Shuang Xu had never coaxed anyone to sleep before, especially a grown man in his thirties. You couldn't tell him about the Three Little Pigs, right?

After racking her brain for a while, she remembered the joke Xiao Liao forwarded to her when she was playing with her phone before going to bed.

"When Snow White was born, her skin was as white as snow, so she was called Snow White. The queen was jealous of her beauty, so she made her work in the woodshed to make fire. Her skin was blackened by the smoke, and she became Cinderella. When Cinderella was fetching water, she found that she was very black, so she cried, and then she found that her tears turned into pearls, so she danced happily by the river. The pearls fell into the river, and the river god held a golden axe and asked her: Did you drop this..."

He Tingzhou opened his eyes again.

"I want you to tell stories, not jokes."

Shuang Xu blushed: "This is the only one I can think of."

He raised his head again and asked her, "And then?"

"…Then she shook her head, and the river god took out a silver axe and asked her: Did you drop it? She shook her head again, and the river god praised her for being an honest child, rewarded her with a frog, and said: As long as you kiss him, he will become your prince. Cinderella asked the river god to return the pearl to her, and the river god disappeared. She kicked the frog angrily, and the frog turned into a dragon and took her away."

He Tingzhou laughed quietly.

They were lying on the same bed, less than fifty centimeters apart. The resonance of his vibrating chest came over, and the virus also infected Shuang Xu. She couldn't help but laugh.

The almond-shaped eyes were curved, and the shallow corners were filled with light.

The dog sleeping on the floor was woken up, raised its head to look at the bed, then lay down again and continued to doze off.

Shuang Xu smiled for a while before she realized that He Tingzhou was looking at her.

The light in the bedroom that was on before going to bed was turned off at some point. The light from the wall lamp was a warm orange, casting a honey-colored shadow under his three-dimensional brow bone.

There was a lazy smile in his dark eyes. In the soft halo, he raised his eyebrows and said, "You smile so cutely, are you trying to seduce me?"

The smile on Shuang Xu's face disappeared immediately.

Noticing that He Tingzhou's face was moving closer to her, she quickly reached out for her phone, opened it, and searched for bedtime stories: "I'll tell you another one."

He Tingzhou retreated.

He probably was really sleepy and didn't feel like it, so he just lay down and rested his head on his arm, urging, "Hurry up."

Shuangxu clicked on the first story he found and began to read to him: "Once upon a time there was a stupid sheep..."

He Tingzhou didn't pick and choose, he just listened.

By the third story, Shuang Xu felt his breathing become even and smooth.

As soon as they stopped, He Tingzhou said, "Don't stop. Keep going."

I don’t know if he didn’t fall asleep or woke up because of her pause.

Shuang Xu had no choice but to continue reading. He didn't know how many stories he had read, and he was not sure whether He Tingzhou had fallen asleep or not, so he didn't dare to call him.

Her voice gradually became unclear, her eyelids were almost glued together, her phone fell from her hand, and she was so sleepy that she fell asleep.

The next morning, she was awakened by the natural light shining through the window.

The bedroom was only equipped with a non-light-blocking gauze curtain. She couldn't sleep in the bright morning light, so she tiptoed out of bed.

He Tingzhou hasn't woken up yet.

She left the bedroom quietly and glanced at the bed before closing the door.

He Tingzhou's half face was sunken in the pillow, his eyelashes were long and thick, and his peaceful look in his sleep seemed less aggressive.

But it didn't matter that he had such a bad nature. He woke her up in the middle of the night to tell her a story. She was so sleepy that her mind was in a mess.

When she went downstairs, the Doberman, who had woken up early, walked in front of her, took a few steps towards the kitchen, and looked back at her.

Shuang Xu followed after him out of understanding, and Du Bin led her to his empty food bowl.

She understood.

Looking around: "Where's your dog food?"

The dog turned around and took her to a cabinet. Shuang Xu opened the cabinet, found some dog food, poured a full bowl of it for the dog, and then left the villa.

After returning to my home on Songming Road, I took a shower while yawning, changed my clothes, and went to work.

When I was leaving the house, He Tingzhou called me.

He had probably just woken up, and his voice was still low and hoarse, with a sense of laziness: "When did you run away?"

How do you run?

"I need to go home and change my clothes for work."

"I am asleep, not dead. Tell me when you die."

His tone was not good, Shuang Xu explained: "I woke up early, your light was too bright. Didn't you go to bed at around three o'clock? I wanted you to sleep a little longer."

He Tingzhou didn't say anything else, hung up the phone, sat on the bed, supported his forehead, woke up, then lazily got out of bed to wash his face.

When he went downstairs, the dog was playing with a ball by itself. When it saw him, it came over and wagged its tail.

He Tingzhou went to put food in its bowl and found that its food bowl was very full. It had only eaten the tip of the hill of dog food.

He hummed, "You are full."

During lunch, Xiao Liao asked excitedly, "Is the story I forwarded to you yesterday funny? There are seven Calabash Brothers and Sun Wukong in the back. Hahahahahaha, I laughed to death."

When Shuang Xu thought back on it now, he felt that it was just a boring mess of fairy tales, and he didn't know why He Tingzhou laughed so hard yesterday.

I can't believe that his sense of humor is as low as Xiao Liao's.

From the phone call in the morning, it could be heard that He Tingzhou was not very happy, but Shuang Xu was not sure whether he was unhappy because he did not get it done yesterday or because she sneaked away without saying hello in the morning.

She didn't expect that He Tingzhou came home so late yesterday. He was sleepy and had no interest in doing it. This time he couldn't blame her.

She held her cheek and poked the pork chop rice.

As for the morning, she really meant well and didn't want to disturb his sleep.

"Why are you so absent-minded?" Xiao Liao didn't get a response, so he moved closer and stared at her face.

"No." Shuang Xu pushed her head away and skillfully diverted her attention. "Have you finished the PPT?"

Xiao Liao immediately buried his guilty face in the bowl and said, "I'll do it when I get home."

In the next two days, He Tingzhou did not look for Shuang Xu again.

Adhering to the principle of being available when called and not unavailable when not called, Shuang Xu did not take the initiative to contact him.

After get off work on Friday, she went to the hospital to see Shu Yang and returned to No. 9 Songming Road.

Passing by the landscape pond in the courtyard, my eyes inadvertently swept across the outdoor rest area, and I saw a figure sitting on a chair who was very conspicuous because of his excessive handsomeness.