Chapter 202 Velvet
Xu Jiaojiao was so scared that she went offline immediately.
Su Xia's account had only been used for a few days, and all the settings were just to make the child happy. The profile picture was a selfie of her wearing a yellow skirt and holding a sign at a high school sports meeting. The background of the chat page was a dreamy pattern of stars, clouds and a small crown. Her nickname was also the very childish Princess Xia Xia.
It is equipped with a matching building and opposite is "Princess Jiaojiao".
... has disturbed the princess's nest.
Xu Jiqing curled his lips silently, not caring whether the other party was truly offline or not, and continued to speak, "Before the 20th, close your eyes and go to bed at 9 o'clock every day."
[If you disturb others again in the middle of the night, don't come during the winter vacation. ]
Xu Jiaojiao poked his head out, [OK]
[Then don’t look at Sister Xia Xia’s phone in the middle of the night anymore, or I’ll tell her.]
Su Xia hugged his waist and arched upwards. Xu Jiqing supported her shoulders and said, "You go ahead."
[Don't call her that next time.]
Xu Jiaojiao: [What is that called?]
Xu Jiqing: [Think for yourself.]
No matter how quiet your brother is, he is still your brother.
Since moving to Jiangcheng to go to school, Xu Jiqing's personality has become much gentler than when Xu Jiaojiao first remembered it.
Especially as October began this year, I was extremely generous in buying snacks for her. Every time I came home from school, regardless of the festival, I would always see the largest plastic bags from online supermarkets stuffed full, with three or four piled up at the door, like Santa Claus.
Xu Jiaojiao's courage grew along with her height. After being frightened, she recovered quickly. Like a pea shooter, she sent out a string of messages:
Little Sister Su, Mistress Xia Xia, and even a Su Lu who I don’t know if he learned it from TV or somewhere else.
Xu Jiqing: [I deleted the account.]
Xu Jiaojiao immediately gave in: [Sister-in-law]
【Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, sister-in-law, sister-in-law】
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On a late autumn night, the desk lamp in the bedroom was turned to the dimmest setting, not much brighter than a candle, just a dim light.
Su Xia was woken up by a sore throat. She moved closer to the heat source next to her. Just as she hummed randomly and tried to open her eyelids, Xu Jiqing kissed her eyelashes.
"What time is it?" The voice was hoarse than she had imagined, and she was startled and quickly fell silent.
"A little after twelve."
"It's still early," Xu Jiqing said, "If you want to sleep, go ahead and sleep."
Su Xia leaned into his neck and shook her head slowly.
Xu Jiqing lowered his voice so low that it made her ears itch. "What do you want to do?"
Su Xia refused to speak anymore. Her soft long hair rubbed into Xu Jiqing's collar. She rubbed her cheeks against his neck like a kitten, acting very coquettish.
It seems like all my age has been lost in this sleep. When asked if I want to sleep, I say no. When asked again, I say I don’t know. When I don’t want to sleep, I say no.
Xu Jiqing moved his lips downwards, kissing her cheeks and the tip of her nose, and then touched her slightly chapped lips. "Would you like some water?"
She whispered, "Drink."
"Warm?"
"Ice." She felt like her mouth and throat were on fire and she needed to cool down urgently.
Su Xia licked her lips subconsciously and accidentally touched his fingers that he had not yet taken away. Before she could withdraw her tongue, Xu Jiqing's hand pressed on the tip of her tongue and pressed it in wetly.
She felt like she was a little crazy.
Maybe she had just woken up and was not fully awake yet. What she was thinking about in her mind was biting him to protest. Her nerves were firing randomly, and the sensation was distorted when it reached her body. She licked his hand reflexively.
Xu Jiqing's Adam's apple rolled quietly, and his eyes suddenly darkened.
Su Xia quickly turned her head, supported herself on his chest and sat up, then leaned against the headboard, tilting her face upwards and pretending nothing had happened, "Hurry up."
It was pitch black outside the bedroom. Xu Jiqing pushed the door open without turning on the light and went straight to the living room.
She didn't feel cold even though the quilt was lifted up over her shoulders. She unconsciously lowered her head and looked at herself.
The messy cotton nightgown had been changed a long time ago. Last time, there was no condition, so she changed it into the loose T-shirt that Xu Jiqing usually wore. Now, she had a handful of her clothes in the closet, and Xu Jiqing accurately picked out her favorite two-piece pajamas.
Long-sleeved trousers with button-down fastening, light oatmeal color, and very soft brushed fleece, making it comfortable to turn over and over.
Su Xia seemed like a dizzy eater who had been overwhelmed by a sumptuous feast. He woke up drowsy and began to write a food review while reminiscing about the meal.
For a moment, her left and right brains were fighting each other: the diode was still a good brother, making her happy from the beginning to the end, but the other side scared her so much that she wanted to roll up the quilt and run away. She needed to buffer and save face after being too happy. Tears were already embarrassing, let alone...
After a while, I started to think that Xu Jiqing must not have been fed well when he was a child, otherwise why would he be so obsessed with eating.
When he wasn't kissing her, a cold and handsome face pressed into the snow without any effort, like a southern wolf cub seeing snow for the first time. It was not enough for him to bury his tall nose in the snow and sniff around, he also wanted to use his tongue and teeth to bite it, until the whole snowy field went from pure to unbearable. She was too embarrassed to look at it again.
The skin must have broken...
Now it still feels hot, painful and itchy when I touch it.
Su Xia was about to unbutton her clothes to check them out when the door opened slightly. She quickly put her hands down and looked up at him.
Xu Jiqing handed her the cup of water and asked, "What's wrong?"
Su Xia forced herself to remain calm, "...I'm a little thirsty."
It's not really a lie.
She took a few quick gulps, and only realized something was wrong when she finished the bottle. "Sweet?"
Xu Jiqing looked at her and said, "You lost too much water all of a sudden. Give me an extra electrolyte drink."
She was embarrassed and silently apologized in her heart for the strange association she had just had. She thought that it would be better to read less yandere girl comics, as they could easily damage her brain.
"Then how can it be room temperature?" She changed the subject. "I clearly ordered ice water. Don't try to fool me like a child."
"Only adults can compromise."
Xu Jiqing put the cup back on the bedside. Seeing that she had no intention of lying back in bed, he sat with her on the bedside. "Xu Jiaojiao said so, so you still have to drink warm water."
Su Xia snorted, "Then her brother is very bad."
Xu Jiqing smiled lightly and looked at her with lowered eyelashes, "So what do you think of me?"
This sentence makes sense no matter how you explain it.
Xu Jiqing as her brother is very bad, but what about Xu Jiqing as her boyfriend?
How is he? What about his performance just now?
Su Xia's mind was in a mess. She went through all the synonyms of "perverted". In the end, she was a little dizzy with his laughter. She returned the favor and said, "It's good."
"Well why don't you look at me." he said.
She raised her face to show her strength, "When did I... I was watching, every minute, every second, without blinking."
"It starts with your birthday present."
Xu Jiqing actually gave an answer.
"You must have seen it wrong," Su Xia's cheeks flushed with embarrassment, and she vowed to argue to the end, "It's not the first day you've known me. Not only did I look at you, I even dared to touch you."
As she said this, the pain was truly forgotten as if the wound had healed. She took two steps towards him, put her hand under the hem of Xu Jiqing's pajamas, and moved up along his lower back, touching his tight side abdomen and back muscles.
"You're still blaming me," she dug out some strong evidence from her memory and hummed complacently, "Who is so shy that you never dare to take off your clothes? It's not me who doesn't see, it's you who is embarrassed..."
She paused at this point.
From the moment she put her hand in, Xu Jiqing hadn't said a word, and her whole body was trembling.
He wanted to hide, but he held it back for her.
At first, Su Xia just thought he was shy, but his uncomfortable reaction became more and more obvious. At this time, her fingertips touched a piece of hard and uneven skin.
Touch next to the shoulder, there is more.
She couldn't help but curl her fingers, carefully choosing her words, and slowly raised her eyes to look at him, "Is it you..."
Does he have any scars?
Is it related to his father? How many marks have not faded to this day? Does it still hurt?
Is it because of this that he has been hiding like a seventeen-year-old in a long-sleeved school uniform, or even like in his previous life, too afraid that she would touch him, so he would pinch her wrist and press her behind her every time.
There were so many thoughts rushing through her mind that before she could finish her next sentence, Xu Jiqing took over and said, "Don't look."
He no longer looked at Su Xia's reaction and subconsciously moved to the side, but Su Xia did not let him go.
Xu Jiqing thought, he should push it away.
Her arms looked weak, and even when she put both hands around his waist, they didn't have much strength. He could break free with a little effort.
The healing wound tissue has no elasticity. He grows up year after year, but the scars do not. Some will gradually fade into the color of contracted flesh, while some will still retain their deep red and hideous appearance.
They still linger in that time, reminding him that he will always be the same person, and even Lin Yuezhen is sometimes afraid of them.
But Su Xia desperately reached into his clothes with both hands.
He was rough gravel, but her palms were warm and soft. She gently covered him like stroking delicate velvet, taming an ignorant wild horse, and coaxing a disobedient child to sleep.
It's okay, it's okay.
She touched his back and Xu Jiqing could no longer move.
Whatever she said was what it was, even if it was a lie, he was willing to believe it.
“It’s ugly.”
Xu Jiqing paused, "You will be scared."
He gave her, and himself, a last step out, so that the most unforgettable birthday night in his life could end at this moment and remain beautiful until the end.
"Yeah."
Su Xia didn't care, "Then take it off and show me."
"If it's like the way you showed me your arm before," she paused, as if searching for a more appropriate word, "I think it's quite broken, which is quite handsome."
She had just turned up the light of the desk lamp, and it transformed from a small candle into a full and round Lantern Festival lantern.
Xu Jiqing was silent for a few seconds.
Su Xia didn't urge him, but just sat beside him and looked at him quietly.
Until he lowered his head, raised his hands and unbuttoned his clothes one by one, exposing his entire upper body in front of her:
Xu Jiqing had a very handsome face, which greatly reduced the horror of the scars, but it increased their impact and was still shocking.
It wasn't just the marks of beatings she had imagined. They spread from Xu Jiqing's shoulders to his chest and back. There were sutured wounds, circular cigarette scars, and overly regular burns whose origin she couldn't imagine. They were like worn-out wheel ruts, crisscrossing each other, just like the path he had taken.
The bedroom was so quiet that Su Xia could only hear her own heart beating.
It was so heavy that it made her throat sore and blocked, and her eyes swollen.
"Does it still hurt now?"
She took a deep breath and tried to sound calm.
Xu Jiqing stared at her closely, wanting to turn himself into a human lie detector that could detect her most subtle and well-intentioned disguises, but he was reluctant to do so.
Until Su Xia came over and hugged him again.
First, the soft falling hair, then the warm body, her cheek, her breath.
Finally a kiss.
She gently placed it on his right shoulder, the shortest scar. "I'll kiss you, and it won't hurt anymore."
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