Chapter 137: Wedding
The two of them went home together, holding hands all the way. The not-so-luxurious ring on her left middle finger was warm from being held.
They opened the door, and the home they hadn’t returned to for several days welcomed them with open arms. A thin layer of dust was on the entryway. They carried their luggage and walked in, covered in dust. They both let out a sigh of relief, and the two sighs of different lengths were a little abrupt in the quiet environment. They looked up at each other and suddenly both smiled.
“You can go and take a shower. Change into some clean clothes. I’ll clean up.”
Xia Qiange opened the shoe cabinet and took out Su Yu’s shoes and put them in front of him. The bones of her left finger were gently pressed a few times, as if she were trying to keep him. She turned her head and looked at him, biting her lip as if she were angry, but the corners of her upturned eyes were smiling, and her eyes were full of charm.
She put on an expression with no deterrent force and pretended to be angry. “Hey, what’s wrong? You’re not letting me go?”
“No. It’s just that there are too many things. I can’t believe it.”
Su Yu was still holding her and wouldn’t let go. The intense joy of his proposal being accepted had overwhelmed his reason for a moment. His aftereffects had flared up again, which made him feel awkward and strange.
The smoother and more beautiful life was, the more uneasy he was. It was as if a flat and wide, flower-filled grassland had been cut in half, and a bottomless abyss was in the middle. And in the next second, he would accidentally fall in.
“But this is all real. The ring is real, the wedding is real, and I… am also real. Everything will be fine.”
“Your proposal, I like it very much, and I will never regret it. I used to be afraid of marriage and didn’t want to repeat my parents’ mistakes. I never thought that one day I would also start a family with another person.”
Xia Qiange smiled, and a faint dimple appeared on her lips. She reached out and pinched Su Yu’s cheek, and the soft flesh on his face was squeezed into a somewhat comical shape. She raised their clasped hands and lowered her head to place a kiss on the back of his hand.
Her soft lips moistened the soft flesh of his fingertips, and her sharp canine teeth scraped against the texture of his skin, a faint itch.
He stared at Xia Qiange’s smooth back neck for a few seconds, but he did not see the piety and obsession in her eyes, which were hidden by her hair.
The girl had once used a hard shell to protect herself, but now she was touching him as gently as water, and she was wrapping him up.
Xia Qiange looked up at him and suddenly smiled with a little lack of reserve. Her toes were almost jokingly rubbing against his stiff and motionless calf. “Did I scare you? I learned it from a TV show. Isn’t this very romantic?”
Su Yu suddenly let down his guard. He opened his arms and hugged Xia Qiange, and he lowered his head to smell the gardenia fragrance in her hair.
The two of them were like two small animals huddling together for warmth in a dangerous world. They had both tested each other, and in the end, they were finally willing to show their soft insides and accept each other. They no longer had to be displaced in the storms of the outside world, with no branch to rely on.
“Hey, go take a shower. You’re so dirty.”
Her cheek, which was pressed against his chest, was hot and flushed. She pinched his forearm in retaliation.
Su Yu gradually smiled. He let go of Xia Qiange’s hand without any hesitation, because he knew that as long as he wanted, the girl would always be by his side.
“Then I’ll help you after I’ve taken a shower.”
“Hurry up, hurry up. Make the bathroom a little warmer. I’m afraid of the cold…”
Xia Qiange pushed him, almost without any force. It was as if she were reluctant to let him go. The ring on her fingertip was shining brightly under the light.
He turned his palm over and pinched the dimple on her cheek, then turned and walked towards the living room.
Even the most passionate feelings will eventually cool down. Bit by bit, they will fall into the cracks of life, turning into a longer companionship that allows life to continue.
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“Ah Yu, how about February 8th?”
Xia Qiange’s dark hair was a mess, and her pajamas were full of wrinkles from just waking up. She was holding a calendar, which was covered with red marks.
Who knows what time she had gotten up to study these things? There was not a trace of sleepiness on her face, nor was there the calmness she had at work. Her movements were as eager as a child who was going on a picnic the next day.
Su Yu was woken up in a half-asleep and half-awake state. He opened his heavy eyelids and glanced at the notes on the calendar. He was a little helpless and was trying to be perfunctory, to delay his sleep.
“Do you believe in this too?”
“Which girl doesn’t want her wedding to be a little more perfect?”, she threw the calendar aside, and her dark black pupils were rolling in her eye sockets. She pounced on him like a little wild cat and shouted, her tone fierce.
“Su Yu, you’re being perfunctory with me. Am I not more important than your sleep?”
She didn’t know what had suddenly happened to her. Her best friend, with whom she used to be very close, had told her that being in love would make one stupid and silly. She had smiled at that time and hadn’t believed it at all. Not only would she not become stupid, but she would also have to be on tenterhooks and be careful with every step. If she took one wrong step, she would be doomed.
But now they were about to get married. It was the most important node of their love. But she seemed to have really become naive. She just wanted to cling to him, to hold him, to possess him…
Every girl had a princess in her heart who longed to be doted on. She thought that perhaps the little girl named Xia Qiange had not completely died. Now that love had watered her, her naivety and coquettishness had faintly sprouted.
“Of course you’re important.”
The sleepiness in Su Yu’s mind was suddenly gone, and his whole person was awakened. He sat up very properly, picked up the calendar on the side, and looked at it for a few moments, and then he nodded very seriously. “Yeah, then February 8th. I’ll listen to you.”
“Hmph, no sincerity.” She pouted, and her pink cheeks were slightly puffed out. She saw through Su Yu’s perfunctoriness at a glance. “Su Yu, are you trying to shirk your responsibility after you’ve gotten me? You men are really all bad people.”
“Qian Ge…”, he licked his thin, red lips, and his voice was hoarse from the morning.
Xia Qiange lowered her head slightly, and the calendar had long since been thrown aside by her. She tilted her head and squinted at him. “Hmm?”
“You seem to have changed…”
Su Yu felt the soft touch in his arms. He held Xia Qiange tightly and kissed the top of her head, and he gently closed his eyes.
“Changed? What have I changed into?”, the girl in his arms was a little confused. Her fair and delicate toes were playfully rubbing against Su Yu’s calf. In her dark and inky eyes, there was a longing that even she herself had not discovered. “Am I too clingy? Are you tired of me?”
“How could that be? I can’t explain it either. In short… it’s the way I like it.”
“You’re so glib. You’ve changed too. You’ve become bad…”
He looked at her very seriously. “Really. You should be like this now. This is what you’ve lost. Now someone has made it up for you.”
“Then… do you like me in any way?”
Xia Qiange suddenly restrained the smile on her lips. In the gap where she had not immediately gotten an answer, those dark and ugly things were hiding in an inconspicuous corner and were starting to bare their fangs and brandish their claws. She was breathing rapidly and was reaching for the ring on her left middle finger.
“Yeah, I like it all.”
He lowered his head, and his dry lips touched her wet eyes.
Xia Qiange’s hand had not yet touched the ring when it stopped.
“Su Yu… thank you.”
She said with a sob.
