kiss
After a second of discomfort, Ye Jia got used to it, and the pain in her tongue from being bitten earlier disappeared.
She was mesmerized by the face that was closer than ever before and looked more beautiful than ever before.
Gu Anzhou realized that this was a bit strange, and suddenly froze, not knowing where to put his hands and eyes.
"What would happen if I kissed you now?" Ye Jia asked.
"……What?"
In the quiet living room, only the computer cooler was blowing, but Gu Anzhou couldn't hear it, only a "whoosh".
Then the quiet living room became even quieter, so quiet that Gu Anzhou felt like he was starting to experience tinnitus in both ears.
Was he kissed?
Good heavens, Ye Jia didn't expect a kiss to make such a loud noise. She hoped Gu Anzhou hadn't heard it; it was a little embarrassing.
Just then, she saw Gu Anzhou touching his lips, looking as if he was pondering something or as if his mind had wandered off.
However, she really does look very innocent.
Ye Jia began to wonder if he was just as inexperienced as she was, even more naive than herself.
Ye Jia waved her hand in front of him twice, and he grabbed it tightly, their fingers intertwined. His hearing is unknown, but his dynamic vision is excellent.
"Uh, this isn't your first kiss, is it?" Ye Jia never expected that she would ask such a question.
Gu Anzhou nodded.
"ah?"
Gu Anzhou also exclaimed "Huh?", his ears turning slightly red: "Why 'Huh?'?"
“Well…” Ye Jia gestured with her other hand, indicating his entire body, “You look like this.”
"Does it matter?" I asked, puzzled.
Is it okay? Ye Jia was a little confused, but it seems that being good-looking doesn't necessarily mean you've dated someone. She had a very beautiful colleague who was almost forty and still single. She said she just hadn't met anyone she liked, so she just let it go.
Gu Anzhou asked her, "Why did you kiss me?"
No, is there any other answer to this question?
But with him staring at her like that, Ye Jia couldn't quite bring herself to say "I like you." After thinking for a moment, she replied, "Because you're right in front of me."
"Because I'm right in front of you?" Gu Anzhou repeated, his eyes unconsciously sharpening, his tone becoming more questioning and imposing. "You mean you'd kiss everyone in front of you?"
"Is that what you mean?"
Gu Anzhou's voice weakened slightly at her loud question: "No?"
“No,” Ye Jia argued with him, “the emphasis of that sentence is ‘you,’ not ‘in front of me,’ understand?”
"clear."
Gu Anzhou had a feeling that he dared not be ignorant.
Then, in a daze, he thought, "So...me?"
Yes, you.
So Gu Anzhou moved his face closer, just as close as when he was kissed earlier, to see if she would kiss him again because he was in front of her.
Ye Jia understood his intention and wanted to laugh, but when she leaned closer, it wasn't his face, but his whole body.
She moved forward, her knees touching his. He pulled back slightly, but she reached out and pressed them against his, then looked up at him. "I wanted to kiss you, but you never said whether you wanted to be kissed or not."
Even though he had taken the initiative to come closer to her.
"Yes," Gu Anzhou replied earnestly. "I really want to."
Ye Jia kissed him again, but this time she couldn't separate because the back of her head was being held.
Her head was small, and to Gu Anzhou's large hands it felt no different from a kitten's head. He awkwardly wanted to make the kiss more vivid, but apart from moving it to the sides, he didn't know what else to do.
After a moment of panic, Ye Jia suddenly took a whim and began to treat him like a precious popsicle when she was a child.
It wasn't cold at all, it was very hot, and it kept getting hotter.
Ye Jia's hand stroked his knee. Ah, what to do when she's actually a bit lecherous? Even touching his thigh muscles through his pants felt so good.
Just as her hand reached up to touch him, Ye Jia was pushed away.
She looked at his face. His evasive eyes were no longer veiled by a mist, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking. Now they were clear and transparent, revealing only panic within them.
Ye Jia glanced down again, and sure enough, gray pants couldn't be examined closely.
"I...I'm hungry."
"Oh, I'm hungry too."
"I'll go cook." Gu Anzhou said, then tumbled off the sofa, almost falling. His thighs were a little numb, as if he had lost control.
Ye Jia didn't follow. Her lips were still wet. She took a tissue and wiped them a couple of times, took a deep breath to calm herself down, finished her work, and put it away.
Gu Anzhou pursed his lips as he chopped vegetables, continuing to chop even after he had finished chopping a whole potato.
Even the cutting board was a little confused.
Gu Anzhou was even more confused. He really, really liked it, even more than he expected. He didn't find it disgusting at all. Even the sticky water sound reaching his ears was just another factor that made him react more.
Ye Jia closed her computer and walked over, only to see the back of a well-behaved husband dressed in pajamas and an apron. She stood behind him, wondering when he would notice her.
But he was so focused that Ye Jia got impatient and poked him while he was chopping vegetables.
Let's conduct an experiment and see if he will still point a knife at her.
Gu Anzhou was poked in the waist, and only stiffened for a moment before slowly turning his head: "You've come."
"Yes, I'm here." Ye Jia washed her hands and started helping.
Ye Jia's sleep schedule is so terrible that she doesn't eat lunch until 3 p.m. one day.
In her hometown, it's already 3 PM and they should be preparing for dinner.
The days have become exceptionally short.
Fortunately, the nights are longer now.
Another day spent watching the sunset together, and then night began.
Gu Anzhou, who wasn't running a shop, sat on the sofa, working alongside Ye Jia. She stared at the code on the computer, and he stared at her.
Actually, Ye Jia hadn't combed her hair after getting up today; she had just ruffled it a couple of times with her hands. But Gu Anzhou couldn't help but think she was very beautiful and wanted to do something about it.
But just looking at it made him feel like he was recharging.
"Why are your hands shaking?" Ye Jia noticed his hands out of the corner of her eye and asked. Actually, she had noticed it a few days ago, but it wasn't that serious. Today it was a bit more serious.
Gu Anzhou looked at his palm: "I'm quitting drinking."
"Quit drinking? Are you addicted?"
"I didn't think so." Teacher Lu had mentioned before that he should quit drinking, but he felt he didn't need to. He didn't drink much; it was more like a habit. There were days when he didn't feel like drinking, so he didn't drink. He didn't think he was addicted, and Teacher Lu didn't say anything more.
But a few days ago, because he was thinking about taking Ye Jia home that night, he didn't drink for several days in a row. Only then did Gu Anzhou realize something was wrong; he was addicted.
He didn't want this, especially after Ye Jia moved in. He didn't want her to think he was an addict, so he made up his mind to quit.
Ye Jia was somewhat surprised. She looked at his clenched fist and then at his face: "Are you in pain?"
"It's alright, it's not that serious."
"My student was right. You're an alcoholic and you need to quit drinking."
Gu Anzhou smiled bitterly. He remembered that he had sworn to her that he wasn't an alcoholic. But that day, as soon as he went downstairs, he seemed to lose control of his mind, and his hand automatically went to pour himself a drink. He should have realized the problem then.
Sure enough, as soon as Ye Jia mentioned students, a message popped up on the software, sent by Xia Anyi.
[Teacher, I'm home! Are you still going to teach?]
[The teachers at Lingfeng Island didn't treat me well this time. What happened to the promise of preparing ten sets of practice questions?]
Gu Anzhou rested his chin on Ye Jia's shoulder.
Ye Jia typed a reply: [I'm working in the evenings now, so I don't have time to teach. Shouldn't you be starting school soon?]
The reply came regretfully: "[Yes, does that mean we won't hear the teacher's voice anymore?]"
Ye Jia: [What's so good about my voice?]
Ye Jia: [Okay, I have to get back to work.]
As soon as Ye Jia closed the chat window, she heard Gu Anzhou say, "Your voice is very pleasant."
Although the message from the young man who had just come of age made Gu Anzhou uncomfortable, he had to accept the fact that her voice was pleasant and easy on the ears.
"My voice?" Ye Jia had never been told that before. The most common comments about her voice were that it was noisy and unpleasant to listen to. One day, someone actually told her that her voice was beautiful.
"Yes." Gu Anzhou noticed she seemed a little disbelieving and asked, puzzled, "Don't you think so?"
Ye Jia suspected that it might be because he could only hear half of it, which smoothed out the noisy part of her voice, making it sound different from what most people would hear.
Gu Anzhou pondered for a moment and said, "Could it be that I like you that I find your voice pleasant?"
Ye Jia was taken aback by the unexpected "like," but then a smile appeared on her lips: "Oh, I see. That's quite possible."
As soon as he finished speaking, the man's face turned red, as if he had just realized what he had said.
Ye Jia continued working, letting him catch his breath.
It took Gu Anzhou a long time to recover before he collapsed onto her again. The strange thing was that the closer he got to her, the stronger the energy he felt, as if she were a mountain or an ocean, encompassing everything, even his selfishness.
Ye Jia noticed that his hands were no longer shaking.
Among the customers, apart from Ye Jia, none of them had Boss Gu's contact information, so they couldn't even ask why the business wasn't open yet.
There was another person he could contact, Bai Yu, but he had no interest in contacting him; he spent all his free time on Chu Nian.
Even when Chu Nian said, "I'm on my period, so you don't need to come," he still rushed over to cook her ginger soup, which tasted so bad that she overturned the pot.
Bai Yu didn't care whether the bar was still open or not. He had already forgotten about learning from Brother Zhou. He didn't need to learn from him anymore, and he was dating a pretty girl. What was the point of learning from him?
But Chu Nian missed Ye Jia and wanted to chat about casual things between sisters.
Bai Yu was puzzled: "It's the same whether you talk to me or not."
"The moment you say that, it means you don't understand." Chu Nian didn't want to waste any more words with him, so she pushed him away and walked out. She had already called Ye Jia to say that she was coming over; this wasn't an inquiry, it was a notification.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Bai Yu reluctantly drove Chu Nian to the bar.
The moment Bai Yu saw Brother Zhou, she wasn't even happy.
You should just refuse! Don't agree to let Chu Nian come!
Chu Nian sat behind the bar, stared at the two people inside and outside the bar, then looked at the drink menu and asked, "Excuse me, Mr. Gu, what discount do I get on drinks right now?"
Gu Anzhou glanced at Ye Jia and said, "It's my treat."
"Oh, I get it." The bigger the discount she received, the closer their relationship was. Chu Nian snorted at Ye Jia. She told her everything, but she never reported to her how Boss Gu ate.
Ye Jia didn't know what she knew, and scratched his brow.
Chu Nian ordered a Margarita, which required lemon juice, but Gu Anzhou hadn't ordered any recently and only had some lemons in stock.
He said that, but Chu Nian took a sip and couldn't taste any difference; they were both delicious. She looked at him and said, "I thought you'd forgotten your skills since the shop hasn't been open these past few days, or are you mixing drinks for Jiajia on behalf of Boss Gu?"
Ye Jia hasn't been drinking these past few days. She has to work at night, and drinking in front of someone who's quitting alcohol is quite torturous.
Ye Jia didn't know if he could resist drinking while mixing drinks today.
"I won't forget," Gu Anzhou simply replied.
Chu Nian stopped talking to him, finding him difficult to talk to, and turned to Ye Jia, asking, "What about you? Have you forgotten that you still have me? Or are you saying that we've only known each other for less than three months, so you don't take me seriously?!"
She got angrier and angrier as she spoke, saying that if she had a beard, it would have flown away in the wind.
"How could that be? Aren't you busy over there?" Ye Jia looked at Bai Yu.
Bai Yu immediately chimed in, "That's right, we're quite busy."
"Shh!" Chu Nian gestured for him to shut up, sounding a bit impatient, as if to say, "Don't interrupt when adults are talking."
Bai Yu was getting a little angry, but she couldn't lash out, so she just listlessly drank water from her cup.
Just then, Ye Jia tugged at Chu Nian's sleeve and said, "Don't be so harsh on the child."
Bai Yu suddenly felt like he had become Chu Nian's son. He glared at Ye Jia resentfully, then noticed a gaze sweeping over him. He looked at Brother Zhou and buried his head in his water, drinking it down in a gulp.
Just as Chu Nian was about to say something, she heard a sound coming from the doorway.
Someone walked in, and two male voices were still wondering whether the bar was open or not. They came in and saw four people near the bar.
One of them exclaimed with delight, "Xiao Jia! What a coincidence!"
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