Chapter 17 You sleep very...
His eyelids were so heavy that he could hardly open them. Tao Siyun hummed unconsciously twice, and his breathing seemed to stop for a moment.
Then someone lifted her body and slowly laid her flat. Unknowingly, she once again sank into the deep sea of memories.
The overlapping dreams were so oppressive that it was hard to breathe. The cold tide made her shiver. The waves kept surging and boiling again. Time seemed to be so long that it would never end.
In this dark world, there is only suffering.
In a trance, she vaguely returned to a day when she was seventeen years old.
"Hey, I need to make a phone call. Go out and wait until I'm done. Then come back in. Don't even think about eavesdropping!"
"Brother, can't I just ask Dad for money to rent a house myself? I don't want to see that woman at all."
"You don't know, her niece lives in the same room with me, and she's pretending to be a woman. I don't like it..."
It was already late, the TV was on silent mode, and the night news was playing. Tao Siyun sat alone on the sofa, feeling a little sleepy.
When Yan Bin came out to drink water, he was surprised to see the lights in the living room were still on. "Si Yun, it's almost twelve o'clock, why don't you go to bed? You have to get up early tomorrow, go back to your room and sleep."
"Uncle, I'll go to bed after watching the news."
"Si Yun, your aunt has been very busy these days. Your uncle wants to talk to you." Yan Bin took a glass of water and sat opposite her. "Is that okay?"
"Yeah, okay." Tao Siyun forced himself to cheer up, adjusted his sitting posture calmly, and his eyes became a little restrained.
"Uncle knows you're a sensible and good child, and you know the current situation at home," Yan Bin sighed, his words filled with helplessness. "Zhiru has been living in her hometown. Her mother has prevented me from seeing her for so many years, so uncle has never had the chance to care for her. That's why she's become like this. I'm sorry for that. She was actually very obedient when she was little..."
Tao Siyun nodded gently, indicating that she understood. It was okay for her to feel a little wronged, but she was more worried about Qin Ru...
"Your aunt has already found a school for her, No. 8 Middle School. However, based on her current grades, she definitely can't keep up with the school's progress. Your aunt and I have discussed it and decided to enroll her in a cram school with tutoring on weekends. During the week, can you help her with her studies?"
Tao Siyun was a little surprised. After all, with Yan Zhiru's attitude towards her, she was afraid that she would not listen to anything he said.
"Uncle, I..."
"Oh, it's okay," Yan Bin smiled at her, "Go to bed early. When you have time, spend more time with your aunt. She's been working very hard lately."
"Yes, I will."
…
"Zhiru," Qin Ru knocked on the bedroom door, carrying a lot of shopping bags. "Auntie bought you some new clothes today, as well as skin care products suitable for your age. Come and have a look."
Yan Zhiru glanced at the logo on the shopping bag that she had never seen before, lowered her head without interest and continued playing with her phone.
"Try it on and see if it fits. If you don't like it, I'll change it tomorrow."
"I don't like it." Yan Zhiru said with disgust: "It's too conservative, has no personality, and is not suitable for me."
Qin Ru was a little embarrassed, but still said patiently: "You are still young now, some clothes are not suitable for your age, when you grow up——"
"Aunt Qin," Yan Zhiru interrupted her, emphasizing the word "Aunt," and said impatiently, "I can wear whatever I like. My own mother doesn't restrict my freedom of dress, so it seems you have no right to do so."
…
The father and daughter were talking in the room, while Tao Siyun went to the master bedroom to comfort his depressed aunt.
Yan Bin rubbed his brows tiredly. "Regarding my marriage to Aunt Qin Ru, Dad doesn't want you to keep misunderstanding her like this. It's unfair to her."
"Misunderstanding? What did I misunderstand? Isn't it true that she's a mistress? And!" Yan Zhiru pulled open the closet door and threw all of Tao Siyun's clothes on the ground. "Look for yourself, is this something she bought for me? She deliberately bought the brand her niece likes to wear, and then she pretended to buy it for me. Who is she trying to disgust?"
"Zhiru!" Yan Bin picked up the clothes one by one and hung them up again. "You're already such a grown-up child, can you please understand things? Aunt Qin is also concerned about you. What do you want your father to do?!"
"I don't need her concern at all. Tell her not to bother me in the future. Just give me the money. I will buy whatever I need myself."
“…”
"Hey, this is my territory. Don't keep that broken piano of yours in my room anymore. It's an eyesore. Move it away, okay?" Yan Zhiru, curled up in a chair playing with her phone and with her legs on the desk, warned her, "Otherwise, you'll be responsible for the consequences."
Tao Siyun paused while doing his homework and clenched his pen. Faced with her unreasonable demands one after another, he didn't even bother to explain the reason to her. "What are the consequences? Smashing my piano? Just try it, but don't go too far."
"Heh, your good girl's true colors have been revealed? You can't pretend anymore, right? I went too far, so what? You're just an outsider staying here temporarily, who do you think you are?"
Tao Siyun raised his eyes and looked at her. There was no trace of anger or shame on his face after being provoked by words. Instead, he asked, "Who do I think I am? Am I who I am? Then who are you?"
When she said this, her tone was very flat, and her expression was also very flat. From beginning to end, her tone was the same as when she was having a normal conversation.
But in Yan Zhiru's eyes, what she did was nothing but a provocation, which was really hateful.
What Yan Zhiru hated most was Tao Siyun's behavior, as if everything she did was like a clown in front of her and it was not worth getting angry about.
In other words: He doesn't take her seriously at all!
It was this one action that easily provoked a new conflict between the two.
"I didn't expect you to be so good at talking." Yan Zhiru put her phone upside down on the desk, slid the chair in front of her, and said sarcastically, "I'm just curious, has your aunt told you how she destroyed other people's families? She knows it all and can still be so self-righteous. It's really—"
"Your parents reunited more than ten years after their divorce," Tao Siyun interrupted her bluntly, pointing out the truth. "Please be objective. Don't accuse someone else of being a third party just because your parents aren't in a relationship. This has nothing to do with my aunt. You may not like her, but please don't throw dirty water on her anymore!"
Yan Zhiru's thoughts were exposed, and her temper instantly flared up. She angrily slammed the table and screamed, "If I say she is a mistress, then she is a mistress! She is the third party who destroyed other people's families!!"
Facing Yan Zhiru's slander against Qin Ru, Tao Siyun refused to give in and pushed her away. "This is something everyone knows. Don't fool yourself! If you keep talking nonsense, I won't let it go!"
“…”
"Serves her right! Your aunt is the third party who destroyed other people's families! She deserves to die!!!"
“It’s not our fault!”
"Wait for my brother to come out, wait for him to come out——"
The girl's warning echoed in her ears for a long time, from far away to near, locking her in the abyss of pain, until the moment of dawn, the sun slowly rose, the tide receded, and all the sounds disappeared.
The hands covering her ears were gently taken away, and in a trance, a voice was calling her name.
The endless sea turned into the back seat of an SUV. Tao Siyun opened his eyes and vaguely saw a figure.
Am I dreaming? she heard herself asking.
Xu Ji leaned over, his eyes gently tracing her facial features. He looked at her for a while, then called her word by word in that seductive tone, "Tao, Le, Si——"
His breath was very close to her, the scent of lily of the valley left on the clothes by the laundry detergent mixed with the faint smell of cigarettes, gently brushing her cheek: "Do you know that you are very dishonest when you sleep?"
At this moment, Li Huan's voice came from the sky like a voice-over, screaming, "Oh my god! Oh my god!! He is seducing you!!!"
Tao Siyun was bewitched by his voice and felt a little embarrassed. He reached out and pushed him away, and quickly glanced at the clothes Xu Ji was wearing.
The originally neat white shirt had been ravaged beyond recognition after a night of abuse, and was wrinkled and stuck to his body.
After a while, Tao Siyun shook his head with the remaining consciousness and said stubbornly: "But he is not wearing a suit."
As if Xu Ji couldn't hear Li Huan's voice, he moved closer, chuckled, and unbuckled her seatbelt. "Why are you wearing a suit?"
“Because, because…”
Because of what?
Li Huan immediately raised his hand and answered: "Tell him! Because when a man wears a suit, it is easiest to arouse desire! Hurry up and tell him!"
Tao Siyun followed suit and repeated, "Because when a man wears a suit, it's easiest for people to feel desire."
Xu Ji's eyes suddenly changed, becoming even more unscrupulous. He looked at her like a gangster. He supported himself on the chair with one hand and held her with the other, almost putting his hand next to her ear. He asked in a frivolous and malicious tone, "What do you mean by 'desire'? Don't you only look at the face?"
Tao Siyun stood there in a daze, subconsciously looking at Li Huan in the void: "?"
"Well... I don't know either..." Li Huan covered her red face and shook her head like a rattle. She let Tao Siyun stare at her, gritting her teeth and refusing to say anything: "I don't know, I don't know, I just don't know."
Tao Siyun said, “I don’t know.”
"Do you want to know?" Xu Ji suddenly said, "Ask me and I'll tell you."
"No--"
"If you're shy, you can send WeChat." Xu Ji forced her phone into her hand.
As Xu Ji pressed on, Tao Siyun used all his strength to push him away.
The violent movement caused her to bump into the headboard, and the pain instantly woke her up.
The scattered memories gradually gathered together, piecing together a complete and clear dream in my mind.
She even clearly remembered the subtle expressions on Xu Ji's face and every wrinkle on his skin in her dream...
This is outrageous...
Fortunately it was just a dream. It’s all Li Huan’s fault. What nonsense does he talk about all day long?
Tao Siyun touched the phone beside the pillow and was about to unlock it to send a WeChat message to complain about Li Huan, but a new message notification on the screen made her eyes widen in disbelief.
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