Xu Musen was startled, "Aunt Bai, are you serious?"
"Otherwise? Didn't you tell to find a friend to play cards with? She's the only friend I have."
With a smile, Bai Xin said, "If it's inconvenient, I can take a plane."
"No, it's quite convenient."
Xu Musen imdiately chid in, knowing that if Bai Xin really did go to Zheng City for fun and he didn't accompany her, Liu Rushuang would probably give him a hard ti when he got back.
"All right, then I won't bother you guys any longer."
"Aren't you joining us for hotpot tonight?"
"No thanks, I'm old and don't want to be a third wheel."
Bai Xin laughed and then rubbed An Nannan's cheeks again.
"Goodbye, pretty sister."
An Nannan had a good impression of the pretty big sister who was generous with the snacks.
Xu Musen was serious in correcting her, "You should call her auntie, don't you know manners?"
I call her Aunt Bai, you call her sister, so are you my younger aunt or my old aunt?
"Do you even know what manners are!"
Bai Xin hit Xu Musen irritably and then smilingly said to An Nannan, "From now on, just call sister."
"Mm-hmm!"
Bai Xin looked at Xu Musen with satisfaction and greeted An Nuannuan before turning to leave.
"It's okay, from now on we'll each call our own."
An Nannan, who was rather clever for her age, ca over and patted Xu Musen on the shoulder.
Xu Musen patted her little bottom twice in response.
"Let's go, ti to eat."
Xu Musen took the two sisters to a hotpot restaurant next to the school. The pair, sharing Sichuan and Chongqing bloodlines, looked sweet but were formidable when it ca to eating spicy food.
"Hello, what kind of base would you like for the pot?"
The server asked.
An Nannan excitedly raised her hand, "Nine-grid hotpot, nine-grid hotpot!"
An Nuannuan agreed as well.
But Xu Musen, after carefully considering An Nuannuan's delicate lips, earnestly thought it over and told the server, "Bring us a Yin Yang pot, with one side being tomato soup."
"Eh? Why are we having a Yin Yang pot?"
"What does a little brat know? Eating spicy food every day is not good for your health. Drinking more tomato soup will make your lips sweeter, do you understand?"
It was a choice Xu Musen made out of serious consideration for health, truly kind-hearted indeed.
If she is well, so am I.
An Nuannuan blinked. She looked at the tomato and spicy pots. So eating tomato soup would make your lips sweeter?
She exhaled softly, but they were sweet already~
After the al, An Nannan seed to have made up for the last few days' worth of als.
In the car, she comfortably leaned against her sister and fell asleep.
Driving, Xu Musen looked at the sisters in the rearview mirror, suddenly feeling the sensation of a family of three on an outing.
As the vehicle passed by the bridge, Xu Musen stopped the car at the bench by the bridge, the place where the two of them confird their relationship.
Xu Musen exchanged a look with An Nuannuan, an unspoken understanding between them.
Gently placing her sister back in the car to rest, An Nuannuan got out of the car with Xu Musen and once again ca to the bench.
"Ti flies so quickly."
Xu Musen let out a sigh.
An Nuannuan too looked down and rembered the last ti they ca here, she had to use crutches, but now, she could walk on her own.
Finally, she could walk side by side with him.
The lights stretched their shadows long. An Nuannuan, feeling sowhat playful, liked to walk on tiptoes, their hands held tightly together, even though she hardly stumbled when walking now.
But Xu Musen still instinctively held her very tight.
Winter in Huhai might not have snow, but the bright lights and the sleepless city had a charm of their own.
"Do you still rember this place?"
Xu Musen pulled her to sit down on the bench.
"Mm..."
An Nuannuan felt a little flush on her face; after all, she had been the one to take the initiative to confess her feelings.
"Sigh, I don't know how it happened, but so bold young girl confessed to and stole my first love of this lifeti."
Xu Musen sighed, sounding plaintive like a young girl.
An Nuannuan, with her face flushed, said, " too."
"Though I really didn't expect you to be so bold as to confess to ," he said, as he used to do, cradling her legs in his and gently massaging them.
Looking at him, An Nuannuan rembered that day, and her legs shook with excitent, "Because, I have liked you for a very, very long ti."
"How long is that?"
"A very, very long ti."
Warm colors reflected in An Nuannuan's eyes, "Maybe it was from six or seven years ago when you gave yourself a cake, or perhaps during high school when you were clearly upset but still faced life optimistically every day..."
"That early on, it might have just been admiration."
Xu Musen chuckled softly. Many relationships start with being moved and reliant, and the feelings of liking soone grow slowly from there.
An Nuannuan shook her head, her voice still soft, "I never really knew what it was like to feel affection before, maybe it was like what you said, being moved, being dependent..."
"I don't know when I started liking you, but since I understood what affection was, I've found that all the traits of liking soone are all you."
As she spoke, An Nuannuan looked up into Xu Musen's eyes. Those bright eyes seed capable of lting the cold of winter.
An Nuannuan was not the type to act coquettishly, but her every word seed to penetrate directly into one's heart.
Indeed, how could one clearly articulate the concept of liking soone?
But looking back, the confession wall filled dense with soone's na, that na happened to be yours.
Xu Musen, holding her legs, felt his heart tremble, even as a grown man swayed by her words.
"Why didn't you appear in my life sooner, making miss so much ti to like you?"
If An Nuannuan had appeared earlier, everything in his past life could have been very different.
"Because back then you were still being soone else's lapdog..."
An Nuannuan pouted her lips.
"Cough cough..." Xu Musen almost choked on An Nuannuan's blunt words.
He felt a bit embarrassed, with his face turning red, being reminded so directly of his past, "...Nuannuan, could we use a different term in the future?"
The idea of being soone's lapdog again after rebirth was out of the question!
"I was actually scared... At that ti, I could only sit in a wheelchair, not knowing if my legs would completely heal. I feared you would look down on , and I feared others would laugh at you..."
An Nuannuan looked at her own legs, recalling the years she spent in a wheelchair, how could she not hear others' peculiar remarks and stares.
Even she had her vulnerability that she did not want others to see.
Xu Musen, with a pitying squeeze of her legs, said softly, "Silly girl, do you know how outstanding you are? How could I look down on you?"
An Nuannuan, even if she remained in a wheelchair, was not soone just anyone could match.
Recalling the past, Xu Musen also could imagine, during the tis he loved without reciprocation, there was this adorable girl secretly keeping an eye on him.
Xu Musen suddenly felt a surge of emotion, "Nuannuan, what if I hadn't changed my mind that day, what if she and I remained entangled like that, what would you have done?"
Xu Musen didn't know if this life overlapped with the last, if it was a parallel world, or perhaps ti had reversed.
But what would have beco of An Nuannuan after he married Yao Mingyue in his previous life?
An Nuannuan also went quiet for a mont, her bright eyes seemingly void of much thought.
"I would have kept waiting like this."
"And... what if you never got the chance in this lifeti?"
The corners of Xu Musen's mouth twitched, as if recalling his past self.
An Nuannuan's eyes, clear against the night lamp, gazed at Xu Musen; in those eyes flickered a luster never seen before.
Her stunning face broke into a sweet smile as she gently touched Xu Musen's cheek, "But in the end, I still waited for you..."
It might have been an illusion, but there seed to be an emotion in An Nuannuan's voice that did not belong to her age...
Xu Musen was a bit dazed.
She slowly withdrew her legs, slowly moving into Xu Musen's embrace, "Xu Musen, we should cherish our lifeti together."
Xu Musen too embraced her tightly, in the cold Huhai night that now felt endlessly warm.
Indeed, nothing else mattered.
What mattered was that they liked each other.
For a lifeti.
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