Chapter 53 Chapter 53
After dinner, Wen Yanxi took Chen Zhaoyue home.
The summer night breeze is slightly cool, blowing away the daytime heat.
Chen Zhaoyue walked in the moonlight, following the shadow cast by Wen Yanxi, and had a lot of fun.
"How was your first day at the clinic?" Wen Yanxi suddenly asked. "Are you adjusting well? Did you get bullied?"
Chen Zhaoyue shook his head: "No, they didn't even talk to me much."
Wen Yanxi stopped and looked at Chen Zhaoyue with concern.
Given her personality, it shouldn't be the case that no one talks to her.
unless……
"Your identity..." Wen Yanxi frowned.
Chen Zhaoyue has passed the political review and his identity is fine, so the health center shouldn't have notified him.
"They say there are many capitalists in the south." Chen Zhaoyue pouted, with a hint of playfulness in her tone, but it made Wen Yanxi's heart tighten.
In the moonlight, she had a stubborn smile on her upturned face, but a hint of sadness flashed in her eyes.
She spent the whole day alone in the clinic with nothing to do and was extremely bored.
As Wen Yanxi listened, he felt a pang of bitterness in his chest, and there was a subtle hint of heartache in his eyes as he looked at Chen Zhaoyue.
"But I can understand it. It will be fine after we get to know each other for a while." In the moonlight, Chen Zhaoyue winked cunningly.
Wen Yanxi looked at her mischievous appearance, and his tense brows relaxed unconsciously.
He originally wanted to say that he wanted to help, but the words turned around in his throat and finally turned into a low "hmm".
Wen Yanxi turned his head and carefully examined her profile in the moonlight: "If someone bullies you, remember to tell them."
"I know!" Chen Zhaoyue's eyebrows curved, and she suddenly stood on tiptoe and leaned close to his ear: "I have my uncle to support me!"
Her warm breath brushed against Wen Yanxi's earlobe, with a playful ending.
Wen Yanxi's Adam's apple moved slightly, and the fingers hanging by his side curled up unconsciously.
Under the moonlight, his stern face softened a little, and a barely perceptible smile flashed in his eyes.
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When he returned home in the evening, Shen Zhaoyue went to the bathroom first with a change of clothes.
After confirming that the door was locked, she flashed into the space with a thought.
Modern shower facilities are more suitable for her habits.
"Johnny, hurry up and wash your clothes!" Chen Zhaoyue put the clothes he had changed into the dirty clothes basket outside the bathroom and shouted into the air.
The next second, the sound of water was heard, and the rising hot steam quickly blurred the glass door.
After waiting for a while, it was quiet outside and no familiar voice came.
Chen Zhaoyue turned off the shower head suspiciously and pricked up his ears to listen carefully.
Johnny, who is usually available at any time, is silent at this moment.
Chen Zhaoyue took a quick shower and opened the bathroom door, only to see the pile of dirty clothes still lying in the laundry basket.
She looked around. The huge villa was unusually quiet. Even the charging station where Johnny usually stayed was empty.
"Johnny?" she called again, raising her voice, but the only response was an echo.
Chen Zhaoyue walked around the villa, searching upstairs and downstairs, but couldn't find any trace of Johnny.
It was not until I walked out of the villa gate that I saw Johnny squatting by the spiritual field from afar, staring at the herbs that were about to mature without blinking, like a scarecrow.
"What are you doing?" Chen Zhaoyue was puzzled.
Staring at this herb won't speed up its growth!
Johnny didn't even turn around, his voice full of seriousness: "The harvest will be in two days. I'm afraid someone will come and steal the vegetables, so I've been guarding them."
Chen Zhaoyue: “…”
Could this guy be infected with some virus?
Are we playing the stealing vegetables game from the past?
I haven’t added any friends to the space, so where did the person come from to steal the vegetables?
"This is a space! No one can come in except me!" Chen Zhaoyue helplessly held his forehead: "Hurry up and wash the clothes, I need to take them out to dry later!"
If she had known this day would come, she shouldn't have asked Johnny to help her watch over it and harvest the vegetables at the appointed time!
After being kicked by Shen Zhaoyue, Johnny reluctantly stood up and walked towards the villa muttering: "What if..."
His head kept looking back, like an old farmer worried about his vegetable garden.
At this moment, outside the bathroom door, Wen Yanxi glanced at the time and frowned unconsciously.
Chen Zhaoyue seemed to take a much longer shower today than usual.
And there was no sound at all in the bathroom.
Wen Yanxi stood outside the door, and a sense of uneasiness suddenly crossed his heart.
Nothing will happen to people in there, right?
Wen Yanxi walked to the bathroom door worriedly and knocked gently: "Chen Zhaoyue?"
There was no response from inside.
Wen Yanxi frowned and increased his strength: "Chen Zhaoyue?"
The few seconds of waiting seemed to be stretched infinitely.
Wen Yanxi's hand was already on the door handle, and his knuckles were white from the force.
Just as he was about to break in, the sound of water splashing was finally heard from inside.
Then came Chen Zhaoyue's slightly panicked voice: "I'll be right there!"
Hearing the voice, Wen Yanxi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After hearing the response, Wen Yanxi's tense shoulders finally relaxed.
"Why didn't you make a sound when I called you just now?" Wen Yanxi keenly caught the unnatural tension in her voice and asked again.
"I was washing clothes. The water was too loud so I couldn't hear it~" Chen Zhaoyue hurriedly replied. Her voice came through the door with a deliberately brisk tone: "It will be ready soon!"
Wen Yanxi narrowed his deep eyes slightly, and his slender fingers gently stroked the door handle twice, and finally retracted them.
Before hearing Shen Zhaoyue's voice, there was no sound in the bathroom, let alone the sound of water that Shen Zhaoyue mentioned.
But at this moment, there was a constant sound of water inside, but it didn't sound like someone was washing clothes.
"I'll wait for you outside." Wen Yanxi whispered, with a hint of worry in his voice.
"Okay, I'll finish washing right away!" Chen Zhaoyue agreed.
After a while, Johnny finally finished washing the clothes.
Chen Zhaoyue took the clothes in a hurry and quickly slipped out of the space.
She took a deep breath, calmed her breathing, and then pushed open the bathroom door.
Wen Yanxi was standing at the door, his tall and straight figure like an unyielding pine tree.
The dim light in the corridor cast shadows of varying depths on his angular profile, making his features appear even more profound.
Seeing Chen Zhaoyue coming out, he lowered his eyes slightly and scanned her body to make sure she was not injured in the bathroom.
"Why are you taking so long to wash?" He said in a low voice. He reached out to take the wet clothes from her arms, and his fingertips accidentally brushed against the back of her slightly cool hand.
"Clothes... there are a lot of clothes." Chen Zhaoyue felt a little guilty.
Seeing that Chen Zhaoyue was fine, although he noticed that she was hiding something, Wen Yanxi did not continue to ask.
"Go dry your hair, don't catch a cold." He whispered, his eyes fixed on the wet ends of her hair.
A few drops of water slid down her slender neck and formed a small puddle at her collarbone.
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