Chapter 129: Hers
At night, Su Yu received a very strange phone call. The female voice on the other end of the phone was very strange, inexplicably harsh, and gave a not-so-good impression, which made his heart beat even more.
“Why is it a man? Who are you?”
“I…”
“Is this Lake Island Villa?”, the woman’s rushed voice was filled with confusion.
“What are you talking about?”, Su Yu cautiously did not reveal any information. “I’m hanging up.”
He put the phone back on the table and frowned at the strange number on the screen, which had no note. “Who is it?”
The girl’s voice suddenly brushed past the back of his neck, and all the nerve endings in his body were subconsciously tensed. His heart was beating faster. The next second, he slowly realized that it was a familiar voice.
“Oh, it’s probably a spam call. They said a lot of strange things. It’s almost the New Year. The scammers have to rush their performance.”
Su Yu picked up the phone and handed it back to Xia Qiange. His Adam’s apple rolled imperceptibly. “I saw that you were not convenient in the bathroom, and it was a phone call with no note, so I answered it for you.”
“It’s okay. Anyway, besides work, no one will be looking for me at this time.”
Xia Qiange squinted her eyes, and the corners of her eyes were deep and long. The gaze under her long, slender eyelashes looked ambiguous and hazy, like a little cat that had not woken up.
She smiled and took the phone, and then she casually threw it on the sofa. She stood on her tiptoes and wrapped her arms around his neck. Her wet hair was like a waterfall, and it was scattered and fell, and it had wet his collar. Her hot and wet breath was faintly brushing against his trembling eyelashes. “My hair is still wet. Can you blow it for me?”
“Yeah, hey… where did you put the hairdryer last time?”
“In… I think it’s in the study.”
“I’ll go and see.”
Xia Qiange stood in place without moving, and a charming smile was always on her lips. She watched as he walked into the study. She suddenly bent down and took out the phone from the gap in the sofa cushion. The call log from not long ago was still on it.
She stared at the string of numbers for a while and let out a light “tsk” with an unknown meaning. Her fingertips were on the switch and had turned off the screen. Her face was completely reflected in the dark screen.
When she was not smiling, she looked gloomy and perverse, like a painted mud doll. Her features were scraped and blurry, and she had lost the outermost layer of colorfulness and had exposed the dark black of the underlying mud.
“I didn’t find it. Did you remember it wrong?”
Su Yu’s voice suddenly came from the study. She parted the heavy hair that was on her scalp and revealed a delicate and gentle face. She rubbed her somewhat sore facial muscles, and the smile that was often on the corners of her lips was habitually put on by her.
“No need to look for it. I remembered it wrong. It’s still in the old place. I’ve already found it.”
When Su Yu came out of the study, Xia Qiange had already plugged in the hairdryer and was sitting obediently in a chair, waiting for him.
“Your hair is a brighter color than before, and it’s not easy to get tangled…”
Su Yu skillfully adjusted the temperature of the air outlet and used his hand to play with her hair. He combed it from the top to the ends, and he dried her hair bit by bit. The girl was very obedient and cooperated with him. But her body under her pajamas was still thin, and her thin spine was as thin as a blade. With a little force, it would hurt his hand.
“Is that so? I told you. You don’t have to worry about me.” Xia Qiange’s eyes were curved into a tender crescent moon. Her feet were off the ground and were swaying in the air. The fresh gardenia fragrance was coming from the deep part of her dark and smooth long hair.
Su Yu smiled and didn’t say anything. He was a little sleepy, and his eyelids were heavy. A visible fatigue was in his eyes.
“Are you sleepy?”, she could always notice even the slightest change in him at the first moment, as if her gaze had never moved away from him, and her eyes were full of him.
“No. I just yawned.”
She suddenly held his hand, which was in his hair, and turned her head to look at him. Her eyes were watery, as if they had been salvaged from the bottom of the water. “You’re lying to me. You always wait for me to fall asleep before you sleep.”
“It’s okay. I’ll just take a nap at noon.”
Su Yu smiled without much care, but his wrist was still stubbornly held by the girl, and his wet palm was cool.
She was sometimes as dazzling as a pearl. After she had taken a shower, she had absorbed enough water, and her exposed skin was full and moist and soft. Her cherry-pink lips were half-bitten and were a tender white, and she was so beautiful that he couldn’t take his eyes off her.
Sometimes she was as fragile as a sponge. Life had still left an irreversible dent on her, who was always submissive. Her words were full of self-pity.
“Do you think… I’m very troublesome? My health is so bad, and my temper is not good. I always have to burden the people around me. No wonder my mother left me, and my father doesn’t want me anymore…”
“What are you talking about? Uncle Xia, he…”
He suddenly stopped. He pinched the soft flesh of his fingertips. He had habitually substituted himself into the atmosphere of the two of them being alone in his previous life. He only now slowly realized that Xia Qiange’s family relationship had developed even worse than he had imagined in the few years he had been gone. If he had really accepted her, how could there not be a single phone call during the New Year?
“I don’t know. Maybe he doesn’t like me very much. Yeah, everyone is like this. I’m used to it…”
A pair of perfectly good eyes were wet with tears. The light was reflected in her eyes, as if it had been crushed into starlight and was sprinkled on the dark night sky.
She suddenly distanced herself from him and had built a shield between them, which she had always used to protect herself when she was with people for so many years. She would not get too close to people, and she would not hurt anyone. She was such a smart little girl, but she was surprisingly stupid in some aspects.
She was biting the collar of her fluffy pajamas for no reason. Her eyes, which were covered with a water mist, were timidly looking around. Her hands were also at a loss and were grabbing the hem of her clothes, and the fabric was wrinkled.
For a moment, Su Yu felt that he had seen the real Xia Qiange. He was happy and sad. She had not had a good life for so many years, but he had always been acting as if nothing had happened and was persuading her to look forward.
“I’m here.”
His movements were very light, and his voice was very soft, as if it were a flash in the pan.
It was as if nothing had happened.
Xia Qiange’s gaze was dazed, and her lips were moist, and her heart was in turmoil.
He clearly wanted to say something to comfort her, but she didn’t want to listen.
Xia Qiange grabbed Su Yu’s collar and kissed him back. Compared to his gentle and slow kiss, her kiss was rushed and chaotic, with a strong sense of plunder, as if she were at her wit’s end, and she was terminally ill…
Su Yu, I really like you so much.
Such a warm ray of light, it had lit up her barren and difficult life. It was like the sun shining through the bottom of the sea, and she was a wisp of seaweed that had never seen the light of day. It was so warm, so beautiful that she didn’t want to give him to anyone.
Everything about him. It was all hers.
For this, she would clear all obstacles.
