71/Possibility
Two o'clock in the afternoon.
The streets were shrouded in fog, with few pedestrians on the roadside, but the number of cars remained consistently high.
Chen Mian sat in the passenger seat, glancing at her phone every now and then. Chen Yu, in the driver's seat, noticed her restless appearance from the traffic light and asked teasingly, "Does it hurt?"
Chen Mian was using navigation to find the nearest pharmacy when she heard Shen Yu's words. She thought this person had no shame and simply ignored him.
Her phone showed that the nearest pharmacy was just ahead. She looked up and saw that the pharmacy was open, so she asked Chen Yu to stop by the roadside.
Shen Yu didn't ask her what she wanted to do. When he stopped the car on the side of the road and tried to get out with her, she stopped him.
"I can go by myself."
Some of the obscure words, when they reached Shen Yu's ears, became a reading comprehension question. He didn't reply immediately, but sat there savoring the words for a while, watching Chen Mian push open the pharmacy door and go inside. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed several small advertisements posted at the pharmacy entrance, showing a man embracing a woman, with two lines of couplet-like words beside them: "Heroic spirit remains, youth is eternal."
Shen Yu immediately thought of the sexual encounters that had occurred last night and this morning. He then saw Chen Mian standing at the cashier, talking to the clerk through the glass window. He had a pretty good idea of what Chen Mian had asked him to stop so he could get out and buy. It was probably birth control pills. He had ejaculated inside Chen Mian both last night and this morning without a condom, and he knew there wouldn't be any problems, but Chen Mian didn't know that.
She didn't know, but she didn't stop him, and didn't even ask him a question afterward. She even had lunch with him in a nonchalant manner.
Shen Yu rested his hands on the steering wheel, frowning slightly in annoyance. He was all too familiar with Chen Mian's behavior. After the college entrance examination, she agreed to go to the beach with him. At that time, he thought that the two of them were in love. Only later did he realize that it was just that Chen Mian was preparing to leave him and was making amends out of guilt. It was just like when she saw the tattoo on his chest and kissed him, telling him to spend his birthday with him.
This time, what was the reason? Why didn't she go back to the dormitory? And why did she tacitly allow him to ejaculate inside her while she went to buy medicine without saying a word to stop him?
He couldn't come up with a solution.
Just then, Chi Sheng called him, asking if he still had any high school review materials, preferably complete notes. Shen Yu was still thinking and didn't answer him immediately. On the other end, the student who was making a phone call in the bathroom, who was hiding in the bathroom, was getting a little anxious. "Are you giving birth? Why aren't you saying anything?"
The words "give birth" brought Shen Yu back to his senses. He stared intently at Chen Mian's figure through the glass door of the pharmacy and asked Chi Sheng on the other end of the phone, "Although this question is a bit beyond your scope, Chi Sheng, what do you mean when you say that if you are good to someone, and that person seems to accept it on the surface, but will always find a way to repay you in other ways?"
Chi Sheng: "..."
Chi Sheng: "I asked you for high school review materials, and you asked me about relationship issues. Can you and You Huai, both love-obsessed, just stay away from each other?"
He was incredibly annoyed. He was in dire straits, while his good friend was still indulging in romantic entanglements. He wanted to continue cursing, but the silence on the other end annoyed him, and in the end, he softened.
"I give up. Let me give you an example. My dog brings me meat bones from outside every day to show his respect. He also waits for me on my way home from school. But I'm busy with my studies, so all I can give him is a little companionship. In this situation, the better he treats me, the more guilty I feel. So what can I do? Just buy him more dog toys and treats."
Chi Sheng spoke with a rather melancholic tone, feeling that not everyone can get into the senior year of high school. He hadn't walked his dog in a long time, as his father forced him to board at school and he could only go home for two days a week. The dog would wag its tail high as soon as it saw him.
Seriously, dogs are man's best friend. You Huai and Shen Yu have to take a backseat. If his dog could talk and write, he probably wouldn't even need to go to the college entrance exam; he could just lie at home and win.
When Chen Mian opened the car door, she heard people talking about dog toys and dog snacks, and she looked at Chen Yu with some suspicion.
Shen Yu hung up the phone and added Chi Sheng to his blacklist.
Once the car quieted down, Chen Mian asked him, "Are you going to get a dog?"
Shen Yu: "..."
Chen Mian is always number one at pretending to be stupid.
In the past, Shen Yu wouldn't have made things clear, but now there's only a thin veil between them, and whether they'll be together or not is just a matter of time. Shen Yu doesn't want to play that so-called unspoken understanding game like before, since it's impossible to express it openly. There are inherent differences in thinking between men and women, not to mention Chen Mian, who makes all decisions on her own and never thinks of discussing or confiding in him.
He put it bluntly, asking her, "Did you go to buy birth control pills?"
The questions they asked each other were completely contradictory.
Chen Mian took out the box of Yuting from her pocket. When the shop assistant offered to give her a bag to put it in, she refused. At that moment, she didn't want Shen Yu to see it. She was also a little shy, but more than that, she didn't want him to know that she would rather take the pill than let him use a condom. The foil was digging into her palm. She was silent for a moment before saying to Shen Yu, "I'm just eliminating the risk."
Her voice was soft, her eyes were lowered, and her gaze was fixed on her knees.
She didn't seem to have any particular reaction, but Shen Yu still got the feeling that she was aggrieved. This made him rub his hair helplessly, not knowing where to begin.
She is inherently sensitive, and she can't wait to repay any kindness shown to her, for fear of owing it to anyone. The scales in her heart must always be kept balanced for her to feel comfortable.
He was somewhat helpless, almost at a loss, so he had no choice but to compromise with her, reaching out to grasp her wrist as if in surrender, "Chen Mian, I've never done something like making you take birth control pills without a condom before, but can I do it now?"
He took a shower before going out, and his body was covered in the same shower gel that smelled like hers.
Her hands, which had never done housework, were exceptionally beautiful, with slender, fair fingers. The grip on her wrist was not strong, and the minute and second hands of the black watch face ticked away.
Chen Mian looked up at him. "What do you mean?"
Instead of answering her question directly, Shen Yu asked her, "Do you like children?"
Chen Mian was able to give an answer almost without hesitation.
"dislike."
A boisterous child, brimming with vitality, is the continuation of life in the eyes of others. It is a life created by oneself, and a part of one's personality is influenced by oneself.
She herself came from a terrible family and didn't know what a normal family environment should be like. She received almost no love from her parents and wouldn't try to make up for what she lacked by giving her children like other people do.
Why should her misfortune be compensated by the happiness of the next generation? She simply cannot be that selfless.
Shen Yu laughed.
"Coincidentally, I don't like it either. As a man, I am a beneficiary of having children. At most, I can only financially support them and occasionally help take care of the child and change diapers after get off work, participating in less than a third of their growth process. To be more direct, I could do what my parents did and just spend money to hire the most professional nannies and early childhood educators to provide the best education from a young age, but I don't want to."
“I’ve discussed the topic of children with you before, and I guess you didn’t take it seriously, but that’s okay, Chen Mian. What I want you to know is that I’m absolutely certain that even if I really have a child, my patience with it will be less than one-tenth of yours. I’ll be so annoyed by its crying that I’d want to throw it out, let alone the fact that its existence will occupy half of my life.”
“What I want is freedom, and the only person who can participate in this freedom is you. I fully understand all my selfishness, so I went to the hospital to get a tubal ligation during the summer vacation.”
"What I'm trying to tell you after saying all this is simply—"
He slowed his speech, looked into her eyes, and spoke slowly and deliberately.
"Chen Mian, there's no risk involved. I won't let you take on something like this."
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