Chapter 166: Obedient
Their relationship seemed to have suddenly become much closer, but the boy still kept some distance from her. This was a gap that needed to be filled with time.
This was within Su Xi’s expectations, but she still couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed.
She didn’t ask for much. She tilted her head slightly. The boy was parting the hair on her forehead, gently applying some safflower oil on the bruise on her forehead.
Su Xi secretly looked at the boy’s delicate and gentle jawline. His large Adam’s apple rolled up and down with his breathing. The other party’s expression was very serious, and his clear eyes were filled with her delicate and charming appearance. The feeling of his fingertips brushing against her skin was ticklish, as if she were sitting on a golden beach, and the cool seawater was gently rising, moistening her small and exquisite arch.
“Does it hurt?”
“Wuwu~” Su Xi slowly came back to her senses and met the boy’s downward gaze. She blinked her eyes hard. “It doesn’t hurt.”
Su Yu put away the safflower oil. The phone in his pocket vibrated. He glanced at it. It was a message from Fang Yan.
“Xiao Yu, am I bothering you? I just wanted to ask you, how are you and Su Xi getting along? If you can, can you take a picture for me? I haven’t seen Xiao Xi in a long time.”
Su Yu finished reading the message and hesitated for a moment, but he still conveyed Fang Yan’s request.
“Auntie Fang… wants to see you. She said a picture is fine.”
“…” The light in Su Xi’s eyes dimmed, and her curled eyelashes trembled and fell. A smile curled up in her dull eyes, and she was instantly speechless.
The anxiety that was overflowing from her entire body was like a nail piercing Su Yu’s heart. He hesitated and said, “If you don’t want to…”
“Okay. It’s just a picture. I was just thinking about what clothes to wear to look good.”
The girl suddenly raised her head, her cat-like round pupils narrowing into a crescent moon. She shook her head, her smile suddenly becoming bright and brilliant. “I don’t want to make things difficult for you, brother. Wait for me for a while.”
“Okay. After you change, we’ll go outside to take a picture. We can also get you a new phone.”
“Okay, you can wait for me a little longer, brother. It takes a long time for a girl to change clothes.”
Su Xi stood up and walked into the room. Su Yu’s gaze followed her. Just as the girl’s back was about to disappear through the door, she peeked out with her lively eyes and looked at him. The warning, spoken in the girl’s soft voice, became a kind of bewitching meaning. “Don’t peek.”
…
After that heavy rain, Qingchuan’s winter began to come to an end. The snow that had accumulated on the side of the road quickly melted into water. It was no longer a vast expanse of white. The snow water gathered in the potholes on the side of the road, mixed with the soil from the green plants on the side, and became a muddy and turbid mirror.
Su Yu stood downstairs. The girl had just sent him a message saying she would be down soon. He waited for a while and saw a beautiful figure bounce out from behind the door, as if she wanted to scare him.
“You’re wearing so little? It’s quite cold.”
Su Yu scanned her from top to bottom. In such cold weather, the girl wasn’t even wearing the sweater dress that had looked a little thick last time. She had changed into a coffee-colored short skirt, revealing her slender legs. The wound on her knee was hidden by a pair of dark, flesh-colored thermal stockings.
“As long as it looks good. I want style… not warmth.”
Su Xi didn’t pay any attention to his question. A brown beret was tilted on her head. She looked at him with her moist, watery eyes, as if she were a child asking for praise. She said proudly, “I came out without any makeup. I didn’t want to make you wait too long, brother.”
“Then we won’t take a close-up. Keep the phone a little further away.”
Su Yu smiled. There were too many girls who wouldn’t go out without makeup. And besides, the girl seemed to be particularly fond of beauty. The girl’s closeness to him always made him feel a little too much, but he couldn’t find any problems.
Perhaps… she just hated her original family. In essence, she was like most ordinary girls, liking exquisite cosmetics, pretty little skirts, others’ praise, and the gentle and beautiful spring…
“Okay, let’s get a little closer. Only when we look close can you report back to your brother. Let’s take the picture here.”
Su Xi’s knee was injured, so she couldn’t stand on her tiptoes. She stood on the steps and asked Su Yu to stand in front of her. She then wrapped her slender arms around Su Yu’s neck, her chin resting on his shoulder. Their cheeks were very close, and if they just tilted their heads, they could touch each other’s skin. In the camera, their relationship looked particularly intimate.
“I’m going to take the picture now. Remember to smile.”
“Oh, okay. I know.”
Su Xi raised her head and showed a bright smile. When the other party was not paying attention, she pressed her body closer, but she didn’t dare to be too much. She knew that her willfulness should have a bottom line. The boy was very tolerant of her small actions, but that was not a reason for her to push her luck.
But sometimes she just couldn’t control herself.
She knew very well that the boy’s feelings for her were not love, at most it was pity for a young girl who was suffering from a mental illness. The boy’s tolerance, smile, and gentleness… were all based on his concern for her body.
But so what? No one was invincible. She could always get him with a little effort. But now she just wanted to show the boy the deep love in her heart in a very short period of time. She couldn’t wait…
“I’m taking it now. Cheese…”
“Brother, you should say ‘dumplings’ in winter.”
“Dumplings.”
…
The main road from the neighborhood to the station was still not unblocked. They could only take a shortcut through the alley surrounded by old residential buildings. Even on a sunny day, the alley was still gloomy. The icicles on the eaves had all melted into water droplets, which fell into the puddles with no force, losing their due aggressiveness.
“I’m a little scared.”
Su Xi got a little closer to Su Yu, her eyes looking around with the alertness of a kitten. She naturally wrapped her arms around Su Yu’s arm. “Those people last time were so fierce…”
“If you’re alone in the future, don’t walk this way. There are a lot of hooligans around here.”
Su Yu turned his head away slightly, a bit uncomfortable. The girl carried a faint, pleasant milky fragrance that subtly teased his senses in the cold, damp air.
He coughed twice and asked about something else. He had thought about it for a long time, but he still opened his mouth. “How is your illness?”
“My illness?” Su Xi did not show much resistance to this question and answered directly, “If I get a certificate, I should be able to go to school.”
“You can go to school?”
Su Yu frowned and subconsciously touched the slowly fading red mark on his neck.
“Yes, actually, I’m not very serious. If I take my medicine on time and keep a good mood, I should be able to get a doctor’s certificate to go to school.”
“Then do you want to? It’s a pity to not go to Qingchuan University after you’ve been admitted. At least… it’s good to have a diploma to find a job in the future.”
“I didn’t want to before…” Su Xi looked at him and smiled, her dark eyes shining. “But now I do. But…”
“But?”
Su Xi said very seriously, “Actually, my birthday is coming up soon. I want to go after my birthday.”
“Okay, it’s good that you can return to a normal life. This is not for your parents. You have to live a good life for yourself.”
Su Yu sighed in relief, as if a stone had been lifted from his heart. He had thought that the girl would be more or less unwilling to face these problems, but he hadn’t expected her to answer so readily, as obedient as a little cat.
A drop of water from the eaves fell squarely on the back of his neck. The cold water droplet exploded on his skin, and he shivered. He seemed to have suddenly grasped something he had accidentally ignored.
Wasn’t this a little too smooth…
He glanced at the girl. Su Xi was also looking at him with a charming smile and even winked at him playfully. Her silly and cute appearance was so well-behaved and lovely. He looked down and shook off the water droplets that had rolled onto his collar. The dust that had been mixed in his thoughts was also brushed away.
