Chapter 32: Thirty-Two p2
Ten minutes later, Yu Jiang, who had just finished her shower, returned to her room to find her suitcase already full.
Chu Qingzi, who was sitting on the sofa chair, stood up and approached her.
“I took the liberty of packing for you based on my understanding of you. Take a look and see if there are any problems.”
Every time Yu Jiang went home, she would first write a list of items in her memo.
So, under Chu Qingzi’s unblinking gaze, she began to check them one by one against the list.
When the result came out, her eyes, as she looked at Chu Qingzi, were filled with disbelief.
“How did you know I was going to bring these back this time?”
After speaking, she added a joke that she herself hadn’t taken to heart, “If I didn’t know you, I would have suspected you had secretly installed a surveillance camera in my room.”
Chu Qingzi wasn’t offended by her words at all, but instead said with a smile, “Of course I wouldn’t do such a thing. This kind of behavior is probably only done by people who are not very mentally healthy.”
Yu Jiang was instantly triggered and said angrily, “That’s right. The only one who would do this kind of thing is that psycho. To be honest, I sometimes even suspect she has a camera on me! I really wish it was the New Year tomorrow so I could drag her out from behind the screen!”
Chu Qingzi comforted her, “If you’re really worried, we can ask a professional to come and check after the holiday is over.”
“That won’t be necessary. Although she has a problem with her brain, she probably wouldn’t really do something illegal like this for now. Um… secretly installing a camera in someone else’s home should be illegal, right?”
Chu Qingzi looked innocent. “Baby, I’ve never installed one in someone else’s home, so I’m not very clear.”
Yu Jiang was instantly amused. “That’s true. I seem to have asked a stupid question. Then you should go take a shower. You still have to drive tomorrow. You should get a good night’s sleep tonight.”
Chu Qingzi didn’t leave. Her gaze fell down and stopped on her slightly moist lips.
“Have you brushed your teeth?”
Yu Jiang lifted the blanket and climbed up. Only after she was leaning against the headboard did she reply, “Yes. I’m a little sleepy. It would be a bit late if I waited until after you’ve showered to wash up, so I just washed my face first. Why do you ask?”
Chu Qingzi came to the head of the bed and leaned over towards her.
“Then I’ll give you your good night kiss now.”
Her red lips were halfway there when they were quickly covered by a hand.
Their gazes met at a very close distance.
Chu Qingzi’s eyes were as gentle as water. The moment they met, a hand suddenly reached out from within, trying to hook Yu Jiang’s soul.
Yu Jiang’s soul was captured. Just as she was about to let go of her hand, the phone on the bedside table suddenly rang.
Yu Jiang was startled awake and pushed her away.
She took her phone and saw that Ms. Yu, who had “saved her life,” had already hung up. At the same time, a new WeChat message had arrived.
【Big Fish: Baby, you should be asleep, right? What do you want to eat for your first dinner at home? Remember to reply to me when you wake up tomorrow morning~】
She didn’t reply, planning to call her back directly after Chu Qingzi had left.
The action of putting down her phone was misunderstood as another meaning.
This time, she wasn’t quick enough to stop her. Before she could even raise her hand, her forehead was kissed.
Today’s good night kiss was complete.
Yu Jiang’s face was flushed red, and she was about to rebuke her, “You—”
Chu Qingzi interrupted her righteously.
“You were actually going to let go of your hand and let me kiss you just now, right?”
Yu Jiang, whose momentary thought process had been completely grasped: “…”
Yu Jiang, embarrassed and angry, told her to leave.
“If you dare to kiss me again tomorrow morning, I won’t go home with you!”
To punish Chu Qingzi for French kissing her a second time in the car yesterday afternoon, Yu Jiang immediately withheld her good morning and good night kisses for the next few days.
But in the end, withholding them was the same as not withholding them.
From last night to tonight, a total of two good night kisses and one good morning kiss.
Without exception, all were successful.
Yu Jiang secretly swore that from tomorrow on, she would definitely not succumb to this damn beauty trap again!
The car pulled into the service area.
The two of them got out of the car, one after the other.
Yu Jiang went to the restroom. When she came out after washing her hands, she saw Chu Qingzi waiting for her not far away at a glance.
She was tall and slender, standing in the bustling crowd like a crane among chickens.
Yu Jiang saw her face first, then the things in her hand.
A bowl of steaming hot oden, and a cup of milk tea held in the same hand.
Yu Jiang walked towards her. Just as she got close, her hand was held.
The second after their palms touched, her long fingers slipped into the gaps between hers, and very easily and naturally, their fingers were interlocked.
“Baby, it’s too crowded here. Let’s go back to the car to eat.”
It was indeed very crowded. In just a short time, three different groups of people had passed by Yu Jiang.
They were not big stars. Even if they really kissed in public, it probably wouldn’t attract too much attention.
—That’s what her rationality told her.
Although she knew this, the moment her left hand was tightly held by the other, Yu Jiang’s heart couldn’t help but skip a beat.
It was very normal for two girls to hold hands in public.
But to interlock their fingers, that seemed a bit too intimate.
Would she and Chu Qingzi be mistaken for a couple…
“Baby?”
Yu Jiang was awakened. For a moment, she didn’t dare to look at the other person.
She lowered her gaze, clutching her heart, which, because it already had a ghost in it, was particularly prone to worrying and struggling with such small details, and said timidly, “Okay, then let’s go quickly.”
Back at the car, away from the crowd, Yu Jiang quickly calmed down.
Chu Qingzi let go of her hand, unlocked the car, and opened the back door.
“Are you in a hurry to get home? If not, let’s finish eating in the back seat before we continue on the road, okay?”
“Okay.”
Yu Jiang got into the car and was about to move to the other side.
Before she could move her leg, she was held down by Chu Qingzi.
“Just sit here, baby. I’ll just get in from the other side.”
After speaking, she handed her the hot food.
After Yu Jiang took it, with a thud, the door was gently closed.
When the car door on the other side opened and then closed, Yu Jiang had already started to bite into the first exploding beef ball.
The temperature of the ball was just right. Even if you bit into it directly, the juice that burst out would not burn your mouth.
After swallowing the ball in her mouth, Yu Jiang lowered her gaze to Chu Qingzi’s beautiful hands—they were unwrapping a straw.
“Why did you get in from that side today?”
Every time they took a taxi in the past, Chu Qingzi would open the door for her.
Yu Jiang, on the other hand, would take the initiative to move to the other side after getting in to make room.
With a pop.
The milk tea lid was pierced.
Chu Qingzi held it up for Yu Jiang to take a sip.
Yu Jiang obediently tasted it.
While chewing on the taro paste balls she had sucked up, she listened to her explanation.
“Before, I wanted to get to our destination quickly, so I let you move directly in to save a little time.”
“And today,” Chu Qingzi chuckled, “I have a little selfish motive. I hope we can get to our destination a little slower.”
Yu Jiang felt that her ambiguous words were too teasing. Sensing that her heart was starting to act strangely again, she hurriedly raised her hand, wanting to eat the other half of the ball to suppress her chaotic heartbeat.
But she didn’t get to eat it—
The ball was bitten away by Chu Qingzi, who had suddenly come closer.
“Baby, this is a portion for two. I have to eat too.”
Her heart instantly calmed down at this scene. Yu Jiang was stunned. Two seconds later, she complained painfully, “Isn’t there another identical ball here! If you want to eat, can’t you just get a new one?”
Chu Qingzi reminded her, “Baby, we’ve already discussed a similar issue. You probably haven’t, right? At that time, you agreed to let me do this.”
Saying she agreed was also a tactful way of putting it. At the barbecue stall that day, because Yu Jiang felt bad, she had taken the initiative to feed the other half of every bite of barbecue to Chu Qingzi.
The moment she said it, Yu Jiang remembered.
But at that time, she had taken the initiative to feed her. Now, Chu Qingzi had come over herself.
Although the result was the same, in her view, there was still a fundamental difference.
What if one day she wasn’t paying attention, and her mouth happened to come close to Chu Qingzi’s…
Thinking of this possibility, Yu Jiang’s face, which had gradually returned to normal, began to show a strange expression again.
Chu Qingzi didn’t know what she was silent about. Seeing this, she proposed a seemingly mutually beneficial suggestion, “Then in the future, I won’t take the initiative to bite. You can feed it to me, okay?”
Yu Jiang felt there was nothing wrong with this suggestion. Very smoothly, she fed the second ball to Chu Qingzi’s mouth. “Okay, then you can eat it.”
Chu Qingzi didn’t bite.
She became picky. “I just ate half a piece, baby. I don’t want to eat this anymore.”
Yu Jiang nodded patiently.
Thinking that if she didn’t eat it, then she would.
But to her surprise, just as she had bitten off half a piece, Chu Qingzi changed her mind again.
Her voice was still gentle, but to Yu Jiang’s ears, it was, for the first time, so annoying.
“Baby, I want to eat it again. Feed me.”
Yu Jiang was not a fool. She glared at her with her large, round eyes, without any killing power. “Do you just have to eat what I’ve already eaten?”
Chu Qingzi didn’t defend herself, but said directly, “Yes.”
Her sincere “yes” actually caught Yu Jiang off guard.
In the end, Yu Jiang gave in and personally fed the ball into her mouth.
In her heart, she was secretly complaining.
What a stinky habit!
This person!
She looks so clean on the surface.
Could it be that she secretly has some special, niche fetish for eating other people’s saliva!
No wonder she likes to kiss me when she’s in a bad mood.
So there were signs all along!
After they finished eating, Chu Qingzi got out of the car to throw away the trash.
Seeing her walk away, Yu Jiang pushed open the door, planning to go back to the passenger seat to wait for her.
Before her right foot could touch the ground, a message from Chu Qingzi suddenly came.
【AAA Qingzi: Baby, there’s something else to do later, so don’t go back to the front yet.】
She looked into the distance through the open car door and met the gaze of Chu Qingzi, who had turned to look at her at some point.
Yu Jiang silently closed the car door and sat back in her original seat.
Chu Qingzi sent another message.
【AAA Qingzi: Good girl.】
Yu Jiang didn’t reply to anything, just rubbed her somewhat hot cheeks.
A few minutes later, Chu Qingzi got back into the car.
Yu Jiang asked her.
“Are you thinking of resting in the back seat for a while? Then I’ll just go back to the front. You’ll sleep better if you lie flat.”
She glanced at the lock screen. “It’s only a little past twelve now. It’s okay if you sleep a little longer.”