Chapter 44 What are you looking at? Lin Xicai took his hand,...
Lin Xicai took his hand and took gauze and medicine from the medicine box to bandage it. Her movements were very gentle. "You just kept calling for your mother."
Li Ci stared at her face, his nerves tense, not knowing what she wanted to do.
Lin Xicai didn't look up, and for the first time, she showed a soft expression in front of him, "I miss my mother too."
"She actually has a very bad temper, but she never hesitates to be mean to me, fearing that my heart will not be able to bear it."
"Her cooking is terrible, but she always loves to cook. Auntie always has to clean up after her. But she's quite good at making desserts. All kinds of desserts and cakes are delicious. She can also make coffee. No other shop sells better coffee than hers."
"She loves me very much. She's clearly worried about my health, even wiping away tears secretly. But she always smiles in front of me and never shows any expression that would make me think too much..."
Lin Xicai chattered incessantly, her expression calm and composed.
Li Ci couldn't hear what she said at all. He just stared at her face and her mouth opening and closing, with a blurred and focused look in his eyes.
She carefully bandaged the bloodstain on his arm. Her movements were so light, like a butterfly kissing his wound.
He stared at her, watching her tie the gauze and then look up at him. "Does your mother make you delicious food too?"
Li Ci opened his mouth for a long moment, then uttered two words through a dry throat: "Wonton..."
Lin Xicai smiled and asked, "What kind of filling is it?"
Li Ci stared at her motionlessly, "Shrimp..."
Yes, his last impression of that woman was that the day before she left, she was merciful enough to go to the kitchen and make him a bowl of wontons.
And then, it never appeared again.
Lin Xicai nodded without saying anything. She bandaged his wound, stretched, and left his bedroom.
Li Ci watched her walk out and subconsciously wanted to grab the corner of her clothes. Thinking of what he had done not long ago, his pale and slender hand stopped in the air and slowly dropped.
His gaze fell on the gauze wrapped around his arm, and his eyes suddenly became so sore that he could hardly open them.
What is she doing?
He made a mistake, wasn't she punishing him?
Why didn't she punish him, but instead bandaged his wound? Not only did she bandage his wound, but she even chatted with him and smiled at him. Why... why was she so nice to him?
This must be an illusion. She must have thought of some new way to torture and test him.
Yes, it’s an illusion, it must be an illusion.
But…….
So what if it’s an illusion?
Who else would be willing to give him such an illusion except her?
The bad emotions fermenting in the nightmare almost swallowed him up, and he desperately needed something to hold on to. He didn't care anymore, he didn't care about anything, he didn't want to run away, as long as she was willing to treat him like this, as long as she was willing to forgive him this time, he would be obedient and quiet in the future, he would never run away again.
There's nothing good out there, but here... here at least she is. They all abandoned him, didn't want him, but at least she was willing to take him in. She just had a bad temper, she... she was actually very good...
I don’t know how long it took, but when I was stunned, the bedroom door opened.
The man came back and walked towards him with a steaming bowl in both hands.
She came closer and placed the dishes on the bedside table, and he saw that it was a bowl of freshly cooked shrimp wontons.
Her right index finger was a little red, covered with toothpaste, as if it had just been burned. "Eat it, it's shrimp. I cooked it myself."
Li Ci stared at the bowl of wontons, his throat dry: "You..."
Lin Xicai sighed and casually fiddled with the toothpaste on her fingers. "Yes, you deceived me, hurt me, and betrayed me, but what can I do? I still can't help but be nice to you."
I still can't help but be nice to you.
These words hit his dry heart like a meteorite.
A hole was smashed there, and the blood inside flowed out, finally soothing the heart that was almost dying of thirst like drinking poison to quench thirst.
Li Ci stared at her, his eyes that were usually filled with hypocrisy, calculation and cynicism were now replaced by a strong and broken emotion. He blinked, and tears fell drop by drop on the back of his hand.
He took the bowl and chopsticks from the bedside table, lowered his head and started eating. The hand holding the bowl was shaking, and the hand holding the chopsticks could hardly hold the wontons, as if something had finally been pierced. He took a few quick bites and suddenly looked up, his face full of tears - this was the first time that Lin Xicai saw the truth on his face, without any false guilt or sadness.
His voice was choked, and he was almost out of control. He was anxious to get some kind of emotional support from her, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry... I was wrong, I won't do it again, I shouldn't have done that to you, I won't do it again, I was wrong, I was really wrong...
Lin Xicai held her chin in her hand and watched him lose control, her heart remaining calm - hypocrisy can no longer be distinguished when wrapped in sugar, you are not only bad, but also stupid.
.......
After this, Lin Xicai achieved her goal, and Li Ci became more obedient than before.
No matter how she tried to test him, or how she tried to give him the chance to run away, he always chose her unwaveringly, and even when she tried to let him go, he was afraid of being abandoned by her.
There was no entertainment, no electronic devices, no way to receive or send information. When she was not around, this man was completely isolated from the world - the result was that he became more and more dazed, more and more dull, more and more submissive, and more and more dependent on her.
Her brief appearance every day became the only hope and the only light in his entire life.
He had lost all his love and hatred, and like a humble wretch, he waited for a little company from her every day.
This did not seem to be Lin Xicai's original intention, but this pathological dependence became more and more serious.
Lin Xicai felt that it was time for her to find him something to do.
When she came back the next day, Lin Xicai had a blank notebook with a dark green cover and two black-core ballpoint pens in her hands.
She handed the two things to him. Li Ci took them in a daze, but was a little confused.
"When a person is too bored, time will seem to pass very slowly. I think I should find something for you to do." Lin Xicai's eyes slowly fell on the notebook in his hand, and she said lightly, "Write down all the bad things you have done in this notebook."
Li Ci's body froze and he remained silent.
Lin Xicai glanced at him and said, "What's wrong? You bought a thin notebook, so it's not enough to write in, right?"
Li Ci pursed his lips, his lips turning pale, “…I can’t remember clearly.”
"You have no right to forget." Lin Xicai stared at him, "Just start with Zeng Jinghuan. How did you pursue her, what tricks did you use, what disgusting things did you do to her? I want you to write it down clearly one by one."
Li Ci froze in place. He hadn't heard this name in a long time. He wanted to ask her how he knew her, but he wasn't sure if asking would make her angry. After a moment's hesitation, Ai Ai changed the subject: "She...she caused you trouble?"
Lin Xicai glanced at him, her eyes slightly raised. "You've made so many girls fall head over heels for you. Even when you've hurt them, they still think of you. Even without Zeng Jinghuan, there would still be Zeng Jingyou and Zeng Jingchou. You're so charming. Isn't it normal for women to go crazy for you?"
The mockery in Lin Xicai's tone made him a little panicked. He frowned and said nervously, "What can I... do?"
"What else do you want to do? Do you think this is their problem?" Lin Xicai asked coldly.
Li Ci looked at her, his Adam's apple rolling up and down, his eyes a little helpless.
"Are you pretending to be innocent now? Weren't you quite amused when you were trying to charm those silly girls?" Lin Xicai took a deep breath and said calmly, "Write it down. Start with her. Write down all the bad things you've done. I'll read it."
Li Ci held the notebook in his hands, his palms sweating, but he couldn't say no.
Lin Xicai didn't look at him again and disappeared from that place soon.
Li Ci stood there blankly, stunned. It seemed like he... had made her angry again.
......
The next day, Lin Xicai sat in her seat, wiped her own table with a wet wipe, and habitually wiped the empty table next to her.
Xie Shi hasn't been to school for almost a week. Whenever he looks back, there is no one around him. It's really hard to get used to it.
She seemed to have been bothering Li Ci more recently, which had a lot to do with the fact that Xie Shi was not around. When Xie Shi was around, the two of them could still compete with each other, and she would be stabbed by his poisonous little mouth from time to time, which to some extent relieved her study pressure.
After Xie Shi left, she suddenly lost several ways to relieve stress, and Li Ci became her stress reliever.
Lin Xicai sighed and thought, if you didn't come back, I would have tortured him to death.
But to be fair, Xie Shi was probably the only one in the class who felt a little disappointed when he didn't come. The others were extremely happy. Without this evil god to keep the place in check, the classroom was like a vegetable market, noisy and bustling with people doing all kinds of things.
Ever since she came back from Xie Shi's house last time, the two of them had been basically out of contact. It would be a lie to say that she wasn't worried at all. Even just two days ago, it suddenly happened twice on one day. She didn't know what had happened again, and she felt a little uneasy. She wanted to say hello, but was afraid of disturbing him, so she didn't bother to interfere in the end.
The monthly exam is the day after tomorrow, so let's wait until it's over. If he doesn't come after the exam, she will go to see her deskmate in person out of humanitarianism.
The classroom was very noisy. When a teacher came to give a lecture, the teacher would at least maintain order. But once it was time for self-study class, they would make a complete mess and would want to tear the roof off.
The last class that morning was a self-study session. Lin Xicai sat in her seat and sorted out her wrong questions. She secretly comforted herself in her heart that learning to study in the vegetable market was an ability and a virtue, and she should overcome it.
Lin Xicai was studying tenaciously in the bustling city. At a certain moment, the classroom suddenly became quiet.
The noise, laughter, scolding, and the sound of flipping books all stopped abruptly. The classroom seemed to have been paused and suddenly became eerily quiet.
After a moment of silence, there was a sound of gasps in the classroom, followed by a strange commotion and screams.
The atmosphere was too weird. Lin Xicai looked up and saw Xiang Ling in front of her also staring at the back door. She couldn't help but feel surprised and couldn't help but look in the direction she was looking.
"What's going on? What are you looking at..."
Holy crap.
Lin Xicai shuddered and froze in her seat.
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