Chapter 126: Selfish
“Qian Ge…”
Xia Qiange’s hand, which was holding the pen, paused. She looked up with the sound and saw him walking into the study with a cup of warm milk. The warm yellow halo of the table lamp was mixed with the steaming hot air, and it was blurring his features. His deep eyebrows and eyes were as if they had been exquisitely carved.
“Have some milk and go to bed early, okay?”, Su Yu put the milk on the table and bent down to look at the few rows of small characters that had already been written on the notebook. “What is this?”
“This…”
Xia Qiange twitched her nose and lightly sniffed the scent that was coming from the deep part of his loose collar. The fresh sea salt scent of the shower gel was faintly visible. She squinted her eyes and smiled very happily, like a child who had had her wish fulfilled. “It’s the wedding preparation plan. I want to prepare it well.”
Su Yu was stunned for a few seconds. He stared at the two very shallow dimples that were swirling by the corners of the girl’s lips. So this was what she was like when she was at her happiest. He had spent so long, and he had only just discovered some things that he should have noticed a long time ago.
“Isn’t it too early? Isn’t it a lot of trouble to prepare for a wedding?”
She held the pen against her chin, and her expression was unprecedentedly serious.
“It’s not early. The venue, the wedding dress, the planning… there are so many things that need to be prepared in advance. I met a friend who specializes in wedding planning at work a while ago. I’ll ask her to come and ask.”
“Okay, just do as you say. But you still have to go to bed early today.”
“But there’s still a little bit of work to finish. It will be quick. After a day or two of being busy, I can have a holiday.”
“Then I’ll stay with you. Drink the milk first.” Su Yu pushed the milk back and confiscated the other half-cup of coffee that had already cooled down. “The instant coffee in the refrigerator is about to expire. I’ve already disposed of it all for you. Drink less coffee in the future. Go to sleep when you’re sleepy.”
“Huh? You threw it all away? That was specially brought back from abroad by someone. I usually don’t even bear to drink it, and you threw it away.”
Xia Qiange suddenly became dejected. She lay on the table and was a little childish and aggrieved. The loose pajamas were on her, and she looked small. She raised her head, and her eyes, after she had taken a shower, were still wet. Her cheeks were puffed out. “You have to compensate me! How are you going to compensate me?”
“Why is your hair still wet? Didn’t I tell you? Dry your hair quickly after you take a shower. It’s cold now. It’s not good for your body.” Su Yu just smiled. He ruffled her messy, dark black long hair on both sides of her cheeks, and his fingertips were slightly wet. “I’ll blow it for you.”
The girl didn’t know if she was sleepy or what, but her reaction was always a few beats slow. She held Su Yu’s wrist and wouldn’t let him go. She frowned and was a little fierce. “No, you’re changing the subject. What about my coffee?”
“I said… you’re only allowed to drink milk in the future. Even if it’s not good and you don’t like it, you have to drink it. Otherwise… go to sleep now.”
“No! If I don’t finish my work and take a holiday early, I’ll be scolded.”
Xia Qiange tucked her messy, fluffy hair behind her ears, picked up the cup of warm milk, her delicate eyebrows locked in a frown, and gulped it down. Before she could complain, she was obediently pulled to the vanity.
The girl’s hair was soft to the touch.
Besides the ends, which were a little split from staying up too late and not taking proper care of it, his fingers could run through it almost unimpeded to the ends.
Su Yu, through the mirror in front of him, watched as Xia Qiange shrunk into her loose pajamas. He didn’t know what she was thinking when she bought them. This set of pajamas was several sizes too big. When it slipped down, it almost fell from her shoulders. A few strands of messy hair hung on both sides of her cheeks, and he couldn’t quite make out her expression.
In the mirror, her dark hair was like a waterfall, and also as soft as the dark and shiny, messy seaweed in the deep sea. A few translucent water droplets were as brilliant as diamonds under the light, and they were on her naked shoulders and neck, and they rolled into the deep part of her exquisite and three-dimensional collarbone. Her gentle and beautiful face was like a watercolor painting that had been drawn with a single stroke. It was so beautiful that it was hazy and indistinct, yet it seemed to have presented every extremely beautiful detail.
The hairdryer was plugged in and was blowing with a whirring sound, which made it more difficult for the two of them to talk. He lowered his body and asked in her ear, “Is it hot?”
“Can’t you hear me?”, he didn’t get a response, so he repeated it.
This time, she directly turned her head, and her body was also half-turned. She was puffing out her cheeks, as if she were a little dissatisfied with him.
Su Yu, feeling snubbed, continued to run his fingers through her hair in the warm air, turning the heat down a notch.
The girl’s sudden, childish action was like a soft feather brushing against his heart, completely soothing him.
He finally couldn’t help but curl his lips. He saw, in the girl’s turning away, that her fair earlobes were tinged with a faint crimson.
He saw, in this, the real her, the one she revealed after taking off her mask. The things she was missing, he should be the one to complete them.
The moisture in her hair was carefully blown dry. He then tidied her hair for her and whispered in her ear, “Alright, your hair is dry.”
This time, he had turned off the hairdryer, and his voice fell clearly on Xia Qiange’s ear. She blushed, her voice still a little resentful. “So it’s dry. I… I’m going back to work.”
She stood up with a whoosh and walked towards the study with her head down. She walked a few steps, and when she turned around and found that Su Yu was still sitting in place, she turned back and gently pulled at the corner of his clothes. “Didn’t you say you would stay with me?”
“Oh, right. I’ll stay with you. I’ll go and turn on the air conditioner for you.”
Su Yu suddenly came back to his senses. He immediately stood up and followed her, holding the hand that was hidden under her pajamas.
…
Deep night.
Su Yu lowered his head and turned up the temperature of the small heater by his feet. The warm air was filled with a warm color, and the hazy light and shadow of the two of them were flickering on the ceiling.
This small-power heater was left to them by the landlord. Xia Qiange’s body was weak and could not stand the cold. The air conditioner in the house was always on for heating. This thing was just left in the storage cabinet and had not been moved. But Xia Qiange suddenly and very seriously said that she wanted to save money, and it didn’t matter if she didn’t turn on the air conditioner in the winter.
He did not refute the girl’s sudden and naive idea. She wanted to get married, so she foolishly put this matter completely in the first place, and all the other things were pushed to the side.
Very suddenly, Su Yu felt that the wall of his heart, which had been closed for a long time, was suddenly broken. The culprit was just a small stone that had flown from somewhere, and it was rippling in his heart.
“Are you cold?”
Xia Qiange stopped her work and glanced at Su Yu. The long-sleeved T-shirt on his body was clinging to his chest and looked a little thin. And then her hand was held by the other party’s hand.
“I’m not cold. Don’t worry. I’ll watch you. You can finish your work. Don’t get scolded by your boss.”
Xia Qiange was stunned for a few seconds. Her own hand was wrapped in a patch of coldness. The other party gently pressed her palm with his thumb, and a tingling sensation crawled up her nerves. She suddenly felt her heart tremble.
“Okay.” She answered in a daze.
Su Yu let go of his hand. He was leaning against the shadows, and his long and neat eyelashes were drooping, and a fan-shaped shadow was cast. He was propping up his chin and slowly closed his eyes.
She also took the opportunity to withdraw her hand. She stared blankly at the palm that had just been pressed, and she stared at it as if she were studying it repeatedly, as if there was still a lingering coolness there.
A blush crawled up her porcelain-white neck and all the way to the base of her ears. The scorching hot temperature made her complain a little about the temperature that had just been raised by Su Yu.
The feeling of her palm being completely held just now was really hard for her to describe. It was as if she had been completely accepted. That sense of security had extended from the past to the future, and it had filled the soft but flawed inside of her heart with love.
She dimmed the brightness of the table lamp and tilted her head to look at her boy. She watched as the shadow on the side of his cheek expanded, covering his thick and curled eyelashes. His profile was as high and handsome as a mountain ridge with its ups and downs.
A faint dimple appeared by the slightly upturned corners of his lips. The warm wind brushed against his cheeks, and it was so warm that it made him feel warm. The ice and snow that had been condensed in the depths of his dark eyes had melted, and a green meadow had covered a large patch of a snowfield that had been cold and desolate for who knows how long.
So good. This is so good.
I just hope you will always be by my side.
So, please forgive my selfishness.
