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No one in the family was home. Her parents were at work, and her younger brother had gone out with his friends. Jiang Yanmu was home alone and cooked herself a bowl of wontons. A crime drama was playing nearby, and the more frightening and disgusting the plot became, the more she ate. Although she was watching the show, her mind was blank; she was just focused on eating.
The five members made their first voice call. Hearing this, he asked while eating noodles, "What are you doing?" with a mouthful of noodles still in his mouth.
"My family arranged for me to take care of the kids. Ugh, kids are so annoying!" Fu Yanjin complained and cried on the balcony.
“Kids are indeed troublesome,” Shen Kuo interjected immediately.
Fu Yanjin shared Shen Kuo's thoughts and excitedly patted the balcony, "Right? Right? The kid's annoyed with you too!"
“They dare not, but they are still very annoyed.” Apart from Fu Yanjin, Shen Kuo always wore a fierce face that made strangers stay away, which frightened the relatives and children in his family.
After listening for a while, I noticed that there were still two people who hadn't said anything. "What are you two doing? You haven't said anything for so long."
When called upon, Ye Ziyi, without looking up, picked up his pen and replied, "I'm doing my homework."
"Oh, then you can continue." Hearing this, she slurped up another mouthful of noodles and turned to ask Jiang Yanmu, "Where's Jiang Xiaoyan? Don't be shy, say something." She teased her.
"Jiang Xiaoyan, Jiang Xiaoyan," Fu Yanjin patted the phone screen, trying to 'wake up' the sleeping Jiang Yanmu.
After Jiang Yanmu finished washing the dishes, she went to get the pot to wash when she heard a tapping sound from her phone. She walked over, put her face close to the screen, and asked, "Is someone calling me?"
"It's me! Jiang Xiaoyan, you finally responded," she said.
"What's wrong?"
"What are you doing? There's been no response for ages."
"Oh, I was washing the dishes, I probably didn't hear you."
After chatting for a while, Jiang Yanmu picked up her phone and ordered a fruit salad, planning to eat it while watching the game livestream later. Just then, Jiang Nan sent a message asking what she wanted to eat and adding, "What kind of milk tea do you want?"
"The same cat offering flowers as before.jpg"
"oh"
"Could you also buy some dried fish at the market while you're at it?" The cat rubbed its hands expectantly.
"Okay," the two sat on the sofa, eating fruit salad and watching a game live stream for a while. The conversation then turned to gossip about a certain celebrity.
"You know, it's that..."
"I saw it, he... hard to rate." The two chatted until they got hungry in the evening before stopping. They were so hungry they cooked a pack of instant noodles and ordered a deluxe version of snail rice noodles with all the extras. Jiang Yanmu took a bite of the noodles soaking in the broth and exclaimed, "Amazing! Delicious!" She gave Jiang Nan a thumbs-up and waved it repeatedly, telling him how good it was.
He simply replied calmly, "It's alright."
"Fine, you can't understand my happiness." After finishing her meal, Jiang Yanmu took out building blocks and asked Jiang Nan to help her assemble them. "Can you help me assemble this?"
"You can't do it yourself?" Jiang Nan said, lying on the sofa playing on her phone.
"Won't"
"..." Jiang Nan was speechless at Jiang Yanmu's answer, but she still took the building blocks from Jiang Yanmu's hand and started to assemble them. Jiang Yanmu cheered her on from the side, "Go for it!"
"...Instead of wasting time refueling, you might as well help me divide the building blocks."
"oh"
As usual, the teacher went overtime, and by the time we got to the cafeteria, there wasn't much left. Du Suisui always dragged me to the mini-supermarket to buy food, and today was no different. Since I was already there, I just grabbed a few snacks.
Time flies, and the last New Year's Eve party of high school is approaching. We lined up to get in, and the crowd was so big I almost got pushed out. After finally squeezing in, I was startled by the chairs. I didn't put the chair down properly, and when I sat down, I almost screamed.
There were all sorts of energetic dances on stage, and I even saw a boy dancing a medley with a girl.
As soon as the boy appeared, the audience erupted in excited screams of "Ahhhhhh!" Jiang Yanmu felt a little guilty for not cheering, but she couldn't bring herself to. So, like a robot, she simply clapped, silently marveling, "Wow, so amazing, he danced so beautifully."
When it was her turn to sing, she thought to herself, "So beautiful!" After the New Year's Day event, she returned to class. The homeroom teacher assigned her a reflection, and she slumped onto her desk, sighing dejectedly. She mentally grumbled as she wrote, "Another reflection!" Finally, the evening study bell rang, and Jiang Yanmu was briefly free. She immediately put the reflection down and went back to the dormitory with Du Suisui.
Every weekend, the five kids would make voice calls to discuss math problems, and occasionally go to a quiet coffee shop with a nice atmosphere. Jiang Yanmu's math was a challenge, and for the next year or so, she would always message Ye Ziyi with questions, which he never found annoying. After a while, they started discussing it via video call.
At first, Jiang Yanmu was nervous and at a loss, trying to find something. She pretended to be busy and kept making excuses to get a drink of water. "Sorry, I called without permission."
"It's nothing..." she said, her ears turning red.
Why are you always drinking water?
"I, I...I'm thirsty," she stammered nervously, realizing she'd been caught. Ye Ziyi, watching Jiang Yanmu's stammering, chuckled cutely, "Okay~"
Jiang Yanmu's face flushed even redder. She made an excuse to go to the restroom to cool off, saying, "I'll go get another glass of water."
"good"
After saying that, Jiang Yanmu immediately ran to the restroom, forgetting to bring her cup. She touched her burning face and said, "It's so hot!"
I washed my face and patted it, saying, "Don't burn yourself, don't burn yourself, please." I calmed myself down in the bathroom for five minutes before going back to sit down.
Hearing footsteps, Ye Ziyi looked up and asked, "Shall we begin now?"
Jiang Yanmu silently breathed a sigh of relief before saying, "Okay." The two of them kept the video call on and worked on the problems. When they reached a difficult point, Jiang Yanmu hesitated for a long time before finally saying, "Ye, this problem... I don't know how."
"where "
"Wait a minute, I'll send it to you."
"Okay, let me see. Look, first draw an auxiliary line G at F, and then..." They discussed it until 3 a.m., and had almost finished explaining most of it. Jiang Yanmu's math wasn't very good, so it took a while to explain.
Ye Ziyi suddenly spoke up, "I'm hungry."
Jiang Yanmu glanced at the time; it was so late, she was indeed hungry. "I'm hungry too."
"Okay, let's eat first."
After saying "Okay," neither of them hung up the video call and went to find something to eat. Jiang Yanmu carried a bucket of chicken stew with mushrooms into the house. She glanced at her phone casually, not noticing the video call was still on. She took a sip and said, "Ugh, the chicken soup tastes so strong. The noodles all taste like chicken. It's not good." Just then, Ye Ziyi came back after eating and saw Jiang Yanmu frowning as she ate her noodles and complained.
Thinking about watching the show while eating it, Jiang Yanmu's hand froze in mid-air, only then realizing that the video was still on. She assumed the other person would turn off the video first.
Seeing that person engrossed in writing, Jiang Yanmu watched him eat noodles and tried to drink the soup. Their eyes met as she drank the soup; she realized she'd been caught. Panicked, Jiang Yanmu choked, coughing and coughing until tears welled in her eyes.
Suppressing my urge to choke, I muted the video on my phone.
A voice came from inside: "What's wrong?"
"No...cough, it's nothing, cough cough." Jiang Yanmu coughed, turning her head away before turning back to speak. She clenched her fists on the table, trying to control herself, and after calming down, asked, "Have you finished eating?"
"Okay," the two then video chatted until five o'clock.
"Rounded down, it's still goodnight. Goodnight."
You're right. Goodnight.
The phone beside her rang, then hung up after a few rings because it was out of battery. "Hmm..." Jiang Yanmu fell asleep again.
As the college entrance exam drew closer, their video calls became more frequent. Jiang Yanmu saw a question type she had done a few days ago. One second she was excitedly saying, "I know this question! You explained it a few days ago!"
"Not bad, you've improved," Jiang Yanmu said the next second, completely ruining the praise she had just given. "But I forgot how to write it..."
Ye Ziyi fell silent.
"Why aren't you saying anything, Jiang?" Jiang asked, poking at the draft paper.
I don't know what to say.
...
In another video call, Jiang Yanmu ran back to her room on the weekend to video call Ye Ziyi. "Ye Ziyi, I did most of the questions you taught me for this exam, but there were a few I didn't know how to do..." Jiang Yanmu held her phone tightly, nervously waiting for Ye Ziyi's reaction.
"It's alright. There's nothing I can't do."
"These"
Ye Ziyi was helping Jiang Yanmu with her math problems, while Jiang Yanmu rested her chin on her hand and watched him work. She sighed softly, "I want to go out and play," thinking Ye Ziyi hadn't heard her.
"Um"
Jiang Yanmu wanted to test him, "But Ayan won't come with me. She said she's going to see Jiang Yin."
"Hmm," Ye Ziyi replied, still focused on solving the problem.
Jiang Yanmu continued, "Are you free this weekend?"
"Yes, what's wrong?"
"Can you come play with me?" She quietly lowered one hand to the hem of her clothes, unconsciously clenching it.
"Hmm...okay."
It lit up instantly. "Great!"
"when "
"Tomorrow at 2 PM, Luckin Coffee"
"good"
Do you want me to explain the questions?
"Yes, thank you! Please help me."
Jiang Yanmu chose a short, dark blue and white striped knit sweater with a necklace at the chest, and added a vest over it. She paired it with black and gray jeans and white shoes, tied her hair in a high ponytail, and carried a crossbody bag as she went out.
Jiang Yanmu pushed open the door to Luckin Coffee, and the bell hanging on the door rang. She tilted her head to look inside, and seeing he wasn't there, breathed a sigh of relief. "He's not here yet, that's good."
Jiang Yanmu sat by the window, a cappuccino and a matcha hazelnut cake beside her. She used to dislike window seats, but now she wanted to watch the people passing by. Ye Ziyi, dressed in a white long-sleeved t-shirt and black straight-leg casual pants, pushed open the door and came in. Jiang Yanmu, taking a bite of her matcha hazelnut cake, turned and saw him at the door, smiled at her, and apologized for being late.
"No, I'm just too early. Would you like something to drink?"
"Hmm," Ye Ziyi took the order form and placed his order with the approaching waiter. "A glass of orange juice, please."
"Okay, please wait a moment," the waiter said.
"Your orange juice," Ye Ziyi said politely with a smile to the waiter.
With a matcha hazelnut stuffed in her mouth, Jiang Yanmu said, "Let's go play in a horror escape room later!"
"good"
You shouldn't be afraid, right?
"No, I've seen it so many times, I'm used to it."
"You're really amazing," Jiang Yanmu gave Ye Ziyi a thumbs-up.
As the two left Luckin Coffee, Jiang Yanmu, with her hand on her crossbody bag strap, asked, "If I get scared, can I hold onto you?"
"Can"
Jiang Yanmu lowered her head and chuckled to herself.
The escape room game's theme is school violence. The goal is to find the cause of a girl's death and her killer, as the girl has various injuries on her body. The two players arrive at the final crime scene: a secluded restroom.
Beside it lay fragments of a bloodstained folding knife and shards of bloodstained glass, with faint drag marks on the floor. The overhead light flickered intermittently, and the broken door creaked and groaned. There was even a breeze blowing in rhythm with the creaking of the door.
Hearing this, Jiang Yanmu became frightened and moved closer to Ye Ziyi. She felt something cover her ankle; thinking someone was grabbing her foot, she froze, her hands and feet turning ice-cold. With her eyes closed, she trembled and stammered, "Ye... Ye classmate."
"Hmm? What's wrong?" Ye Ziyi, who was looking at the clues, got up when he heard the voice.
"I...no, it feels like there are hands grabbing my feet!" Her words became increasingly incoherent.
"What?" Looking at Jiang Yanmu's feet, she saw it was a plastic bag and took it away. "It's a plastic bag."
"Haha, a plastic bag," Jiang Yanmu said, moving closer to Ye Ziyi and grabbing a corner of his shirt.
Ye Ziyi turned around and grabbed Jiang Yanmu's wrist, half-jokingly saying, "Grab my clothes, I'm afraid the collar will be torn off."
"Can I grab your wrist, Jiang?"
“…Okay.” Ye Ziyi held Jiang Yanmu’s wrist and explained the secrets throughout the entire process. When it was time to leave, Jiang Yanmu grabbed Ye Ziyi’s hand that he had let go of and asked, “Can we hold hands a little longer?”
"Okay," thinking Jiang Yanmu was still scared, let her hold his hand a little longer. In reality, she was reluctant to let go.
Seeing the claw machine next to the escape room, I wanted to try my luck. I pointed and said, "I want to play the claw machine!"
"Okay," Jiang Yanmu said, reaching out to grab it several times, but it kept falling. "It fell again!"
"I'll try," she said, handing a kitten to Jiang Yanmu.
Jiang Yanmu pinched the kitten's face and said, "Wow! You're amazing! You caught it right away!"
"fine"
Afterwards, the two went to a stir-fry restaurant. "Mmm, delicious~ Ye, you should try this too!"
"good"
That evening, she took Jiang Yanmu home again. "Thank you for spending time with me today~" she said with a smile, holding the kitten in her hand.
"You're welcome"
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