"..." She really wanted to bite him, didn’t she? So annoying!
He looked at her pouting lips and couldn’t help but reach out to pinch them, shaping them into a flat little duck’s bill, "Angry?"
She slapped his hand away and turned her head to ignore him.
He leaned over and gently kissed her cheek, "All right then, I’ll do as you say, everything as you say. The male lead wins over the female lead, requesting a kiss from the heroine..."
She pursed her lips, her eyes already curving into a smile, but she heard him continue, "I’ve stopped thinking about it, I’ll listen to you, let’s live together!"
What? She turned back, swung a punch at him, which he caught accurately, then lowered his head to kiss her fist, "Is that okay now?"
"What do you an okay?" she snorted.
"I kissed you twice!"
"..." She really felt like hitting him again! As if she was so eager for his kiss! Yet, she couldn’t help but chuckle.
"Okay, let’s go ho." He started the car, driving out of the parking lot.
She sat beside him, but his gentle baritone from earlier kept echoing in her ears, those simple words "All right, let’s go ho," repeated in her mind, becoming richer in aning, painting a scene before her eyes: her childhood ho, Dad working at his desk, Mom holding her on the couch, either telling her stories or letting her play while knitting a sweater. Then, the scene shifted to a hotel in Jin County, where he was typing at the desk and she sat on the bed hugging a pillow, staring at his upright back in a daze.
In her mind, the concept of ho was always associated with the night and with tranquility.
Ho was a light, a person, soone you could stare at without feeling awkward or bored.
His car suddenly stopped, and his gentle voice interrupted her thoughts, "Want so bubble tea?"
She looked outside, wasn’t that the shop of so internet-famous bubble tea place? There was a long line.
She’d heard of this shop, but to have her line up behind a hundred people for a cup of tea? She’d rather go ho and brew a cup herself with so milk! Of course, being in her profession, she didn’t have the ti or patience for that.
"So many people, forget it?" She felt daunted by the sea of heads.
"If you want to drink, I’ll go queue!" He parked the car and really got out.
She sighed, letting him line up while she stayed in the car playing with her phone.
She hadn’t slept well for several days and was still a bit tired. As she played around, she fell asleep, awakened only when soone got back in the car. It was already dark outside. How long had he been in line?
"Here!" He handed her the bubble tea.
The tea was still warm. She took a sip in her groggy state.
"Is it good?" he asked while driving.
She nodded, it was indeed delicious, "Definitely better than just throwing together a cup of black tea with a spoon of milk myself."
He laughed, "You’re sothing else!"
She glanced over and noticed he only bought one cup, "You’re not having any yourself?"
He shook his head, looking slightly amused, "A guy like , drinking bubble tea?"
True enough! She nodded, taking a bigger gulp. That mouthful of tea woke her up, prompting her to blurt out, "You seem very practiced at buying bubble tea! Even though you don’t drink it yourself, do you often queue for others?"
He froze briefly, not replying.
Ha, ha! Silence ans consent? She leaned closer, making a mock fierce face, "Queue for girls?"
Silence again...
Tu Hengsha understood, sat back, and snorted, "Queue for Su Rongxing, right?"
"Not happy?" he didn’t deny it.
She wasn’t really unhappy, just snorted, "No! It’s perfectly normal! Just like how I can also play video gas with other guys."
"Is that so?" This ti he answered quickly, and a shadow quickly clouded his eyes.
She bit the straw, snorting again, "Never played before..."
The shadow in his eyes lessened, but then she continued, "But it doesn’t an I won’t in the future."
The shadow reerged heavily, "Tu Hengsha."
Uh-oh, he called her by her full na, and though he usually did, this ti it carried a sharp edge...
"Essentially, I’m a very patient person, but there are certain things I have a low tolerance for and can’t really control my temper."
"..." Certain things... She rolled her eyes, "This is the flavor Su Rongxing likes to drink, right?"
He kept a straight face, silent.
"..." Petty man!
After a while, he said sullenly, "Tu Hengsha, it’s different."
She listened, perplexed, "What’s different?"
He paused for a mont, then said, "When you want a drink, I go queue, and I’m happy to."
"..." She bit the straw without moving. So, when he queued for Su Rongxing in the past, he wasn’t that willing? Thinking of his ten years at the Su family, doing all kinds of things that weren’t really what he wanted, and thinking that maybe Su Rongxing not only instructed him to get bubble tea but perhaps also forced him to do things he didn’t want to, her heart suddenly ached again.
Her boy, even she couldn’t bear to order around.
"Want so?" She held the straw to his mouth.
He kept his eyes on the road but lowered his head to take a big sip.
She laughed, surely he had never drunk Su Rongxing’s!
After dinner, she picked up one of his books and leaned on the sofa to read, while he hung up the clothes he bought, putting them in his closet together with his own. Finished hanging, he didn’t step away, instead, he stared at the clothes inside the wardrobe.
His books were the kind that made her head ache just to look at. She flipped through, feeling that her current position and state were a desecration to the book, and decided not to read it.
She put down the book and casually picked up a candy to unwrap and eat.
"Eating candy so late at night, aren’t you afraid of cavities?" His voice suddenly rang out.
"Aren’t you hanging clothes? You can still see eating candy!" She walked over, candy in her mouth, and stopped in front of the wardrobe.
She couldn’t describe the feeling it gave her, she’d never felt this way before. With the wardrobe stuffed with clothes of two people, it felt like her whole heart was filled.
Soon, it would be a ho for two.
His words echoed in her ears.
It really looked like a ho for two...
Suddenly, he hugged her from behind, not saying anything, just holding her. She didn’t know if his thoughts at this mont were the sa as hers...
"Xiao Xu, why don’t you eat candy anymore?" a question ca to her mind, "Is it because your mom forbids it too?"
"That’s part of the reason, another reason..." He nuzzled into her hair, "I think Grandma lied to , when your heart is truly sour, candy doesn’t help."
She suddenly turned around, looked up at him, and still had the unbitten caral in her mouth.
She stood on tiptoe, wrapped her arms around his neck, and kissed him.
She bit through it, and the chocolate ganache flowed, filling her mouth and spilling into his.
After a long while, when she could breathe, she asked him, "Sweet?"
He was still lingering on her lips, mumbling softly, "Grandma didn’t lie to , I just hadn’t found the sweetest candy."
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