Chapter 55 "I'll take you to see the first snow next year."
Lu Yu started the car, and the warm air quickly filled the cabin, dispelling the cold outside.
Lin Che sat in the passenger seat, feeling a bit warm from his scarf and the heater. He moved, wanting to take off his heavy down jacket.
When he bent down to untie his scarf, he discovered that Lu Yu's hand was still tightly holding his left hand!
From the time he came out of the mall to the time he got in the car, this guy never let go!
Lin Che: “…”
He felt helpless and wanted to laugh.
He turned his head slightly, facing Lu Yu in the driver's seat, and deliberately raised his chin, his eyes accurately falling on the two people's clasped hands.
He didn't say anything, but the look in his eyes was clear: Let go, I want to take off my clothes.
Lu Yu followed Lin Che's gaze, glanced down at their clasped hands, a knowing smile appeared on his lips, and he finally loosened his fingers.
The hand that regained its freedom carried the remaining warmth and a little bit of sweat from the other person.
Lin Che quickly and carefully untied the brand new cashmere scarf that still held her body temperature, folded it, and put it aside.
Then he neatly pulled off his down jacket and rolled it into a ball on his legs. After doing this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Almost at the moment when he put his down jacket away, a big, warm and dry hand could not wait to cover him again accurately, slipped into his fingers without saying a word, and forcefully restored the posture of clasping his fingers.
“!”
Lin Che was stunned by the lightning speed and subconsciously looked at Lu Yu.
Lu Yu also happened to turn his head to look at him. His deep eyes seemed particularly focused in the dim light inside the car. A smile of success and satisfaction hung on the corners of his mouth. He even asked with a hint of innocence, "Is it okay?"
Lin Che was choked by his self-righteous actions and raised an eyebrow in confusion: "What can I do?"
As soon as he asked, I understood - this guy was asking "Are you done taking off your clothes? Can we continue holding hands?"
Lin Che looked at the two people's hands that were tightly clung together, inseparable, and his forehead twitched. He was completely speechless.
He shook his hand, and said with a tone of laughter and tears, "How can you drive like this?"
Lu Yu looked down at their hands and said confidently, "We're not driving yet." After a pause, he added slowly, "I just want to hold your hand."
Lin Che completely gave up struggling and just held onto the boy's hand. It was quite warm anyway.
Just as Lin Che relaxed, she heard Lu Yu's deep voice, tinged with helplessness and heartache: "As a doctor, how could you take such poor care of yourself?"
"Hmm?" Lin Che's face was full of confusion. He subconsciously lowered his head and scanned his entire body, from his feet to his chest. "No?"
There was a hint of grievance in his tone, feeling wronged. "My BMI is normal, and all my physical examination indicators are also very normal."
He is a doctor and is confident in his health management.
Lu Yu turned his body sideways, and his free hand reached out very naturally, gently pinching the soft flesh of Lin Che's cheek with his fingertips covered with thin calluses.
The touch was warm and intimate.
“Hmm…”
Lin Che froze at this sudden action, and the heat on his face, which had just subsided a little, came back again.
Lu Yu pinched it seriously, with a smile in his deep eyes, "Recently... it seems like I've gained some weight."
His fingertips lingered and gently caressed Lin Che's flushed cheek.
“Bang!”
Lin Che felt both embarrassed and annoyed. Without hesitation, she raised her hand and slapped the claw that was doing mischief on her face. She glared at him and muttered softly, "Don't touch me..."
How come this person always finds excuses to take advantage of others anytime and anywhere!
Lu Yu chuckled softly, withdrew his hand and put it back on the steering wheel, his fingertips still seeming to linger on the delicate and soft touch of the other person's cheek.
The green light came on and the car glided out smoothly.
The carriage was quiet for a moment, with only the sound of the warm wind blowing softly.
Lu Yu's gaze fell on the front, and the hand holding Lin Che finally loosened.
"Too bad you have to go back to work next week."
He paused, his tone firm, as if he had foreseen the future, "I guess... I'll be thinner by then."
Lin Che was left in a state of confusion by his exaggerated "regret." He couldn't help but retort, "Mr. Lu, do you have any misunderstandings about me? I work, but I still eat well! And the hospital cafeteria..."
"How nutritious can the food in the cafeteria be?" Lu Yu interrupted him, his tone unquestionable, "It's heavy in oil and salt, and the taste is monotonous. You're so busy that it's common to miss meals. You just go back and grab a few mouthfuls of cold rice and think you're making do. Am I right?"
Lin Che was speechless because...what Lu Yu said was basically the truth.
Under high-intensity work, it is normal to have irregular diet and have to deal with it in a hurry.
He didn't think it was a big deal before, but now that Lu Yu pointed it out so bluntly, coupled with his tone of "I've seen through you a long time ago", he inexplicably felt a little guilty.
He muttered stubbornly, "...It's not that exaggerated."
"Whether it's an exaggeration or not, you'll know after you go back to work for a few days." Lu Yu's voice became deeper, and he continued, "I know everything about your little thoughts."
Lin Che: “…”
He felt that he was completely dominated by Lu Yu and was completely unable to refute.
How can this person be so sure that he will lose weight?
Although... it seems... there is indeed such a possibility.
While waiting for the red light, Lu Yu turned Lin Che's face back with one hand, pinching Lin Che's small face into the shape of a meat bun, and a low voice rang out in the car, "Take good care of yourself even when you are working."
Lu Yu said the last sentence very seriously.
Lin Che's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. When the green light came on, Lu Yu let go of his face and continued to concentrate on driving.
Lin Che, distracted, turned his head and looked through the glass at the street outside. The first snow had already begun to fall on the streets in early winter.
He turned his head to see Lu Yu's stern profile, with an innate sense of dignity and aloofness between his brows, which was the control and calmness inadvertently revealed by those who had been in a superior position for a long time.
When he has no expression on his face or speaks in a cold voice, the indescribable sense of distance about him becomes more prominent.
Lin Che's heart trembled slightly, and he subconsciously avoided her gaze.
"Have you seen enough?"
Lu Yu's low voice sounded in the quiet carriage, with a hint of understanding and a hint of imperceptible joy.
He didn't even turn his head, but just turned the steering wheel smoothly to drive the car into a wider main road, and slowly asked these three words.
Lu Yu's right index finger, which was placed on the steering wheel, tapped the leather surface lightly and rhythmically, but his eyes were still steadily fixed on the road ahead.
“!”
Lin Che was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. Her fur instantly stood on end. She whipped her head around, nearly snapping her neck. Her voice rose a few notches in a guilty conscience, her panic only becoming more apparent. "Who, who looked at you?! I was looking at the snow! It's snowing!"
Lu Yu finally turned his head and glanced at him quickly. The heat on Lin Che's face, which had just subsided, suddenly flared up again. He could only stiffen his neck and pretend to stare at the snowflakes dancing outside the window with great seriousness.
Lu Yu chuckled softly. The street scene outside the window gradually became familiar yet somewhat different. Lin Che realized belatedly that this did not seem to be the way back to the Lu family's old house.
"Aren't we...going back to Mom's?"
"Yeah." Lu Yu responded, his eyes swept across the intersection ahead, and he turned on the turn signal, "Go back to our home."
Back to our home.
Lu Yu said these three words very naturally.
The moment Lin Che heard these three words, it was as if an invisible hand grasped her heart tightly, and then suddenly released it.
A surging, hot throbbing swept over him without warning, and the inexplicable sense of distance that Lu Yu had just felt was suddenly diluted and even disappeared silently.
“Our Home”…
A space created by him and Lu Yu, belonging only to the two of them.
The snow outside the window seemed to be falling more heavily. The fine snowflakes, illuminated by the streetlights and car lights, intertwined into a hazy curtain of light. The warm air in the car blocked out the chill of early winter and the noise of the outside world.
Lin Che took a quiet, deep breath. The wildly beating heart in his chest was now filled with an unprecedented, solid, and warm sense of belonging, so full that it was almost overflowing.
The snow outside the window seemed to be falling even more heavily, fluttering in the air under the dim light. Lin Che carefully pressed the control button for the passenger window.
The car window lowered halfway silently.
A crisp cold wind carrying the unique scent of first snow instantly rushed into the warm carriage. Without hesitation, he stretched out his palms, which were warmed by the heater in the car, out of the window.
Fine, cold snowflakes immediately fell on his palm, bringing a slightly itchy and clear touch.
He opened his palms and let the snowflakes outside the window fall into his palms.
Lin Che watched intently, feeling the snowflakes melting in his palms and the remaining moisture. The curve of his mouth unconsciously deepened, revealing a childish, pure joy.
Lu Yu had been watching him out of the corner of his eye. Seeing Lin Che reaching out the cold window, Lu Yu barely paused. He simply tapped the brakes smoothly and turned the steering wheel slightly to the right. The car slowed down steadily and slowly approached the edge of the empty sidewalk on the right.
On an early winter night, there were few pedestrians on this road, and the snow scene gradually piled up under the dim light, which was breathtakingly beautiful.
The car slowed down, almost to a coast.
The cold wind outside the window became less biting as its speed decreased. Lin Che withdrew his hand and looked at the few drops of snow water in his palm that quickly became slightly warm. He turned his head and looked at Lu Yu who was in the driver's seat.
His eyes sparkled in the dim light. "Lu Yu, it's snowing. The first snow of the year."
Lu Yu withdrew his gaze from the snowy street ahead and fell on Lin Che's face, which was slightly flushed by the cold wind but was filled with lively joy.
His gaze swept across Lin Che's open, still damp palm, and finally fell back to the fluttering snow outside the window that was cut by the car lights.
"Well," his deep voice was particularly clear in the quiet snowy night, with a calm warmth, "first snow."
He paused, his gaze returning to Lin Che's face. His deep eyes reflected her figure and the snow outside the window. His tone was so natural and confident, as if he was stating a future that had already been determined:
"I'll take you to see the first snow next year."
Lin Che's heart skipped a beat, then began to beat even more vigorously again.
He looked at Lu Yu, and his own image was clearly reflected in the other's eyes, along with an understanding that needed no words.
He understood.
Lu Yu also understood.
There was no need to mention the marriage agreement that had once stood between them and had a clear deadline.
It was like the snowflakes that fell on Lin Che's palm, melting quietly and disappearing without a trace in the face of the real temperature.
The agreement may have had a deadline, but what the paper contract could not cover and could not constrain was the emotions that quietly grew between the two of them as they spent time together, gradually became clearer through testing and closeness, and became indestructible through understanding and respect.
The agreement has a deadline, but Lu Yu’s love has no deadline.
It is like the first snow, arriving as promised year after year.
The promise about "next year" carries Lu Yu's determination and enduring love, pointing to the moments with Lin Che in countless snowy seasons in the future.
Lin Che didn't say anything else, but slowly raised the car window to isolate herself from the cold outside.
He leaned back in the comfortable chair, turned his head and looked out the window at the city streets passing by, gently shrouded in the snowy night, but the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up little by little.
Returning home on a snowy night.
Back to their home.
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