Chapter 62 p1: Fainting
“Creak.”
The bathroom door opened.
Yu Chujin, who was playing on her phone on the sofa, turned her head at the sound.
At the bathroom door, the scent of shower gel wafted from the rising steam. A person with a graceful figure walked out of the mist.
A beauty emerging from her bath?
No, no, no. What Yu Chujin saw was a woman with green hair in a messy tangle on her face, her pajama buttons misaligned, and her shoes on the wrong feet.
In short… it had nothing to do with a beauty emerging from her bath.
Yu Chujin looked at this snake with a complicated expression, sighed, and walked towards her.
Seeing her come over, Qingli grinned, “I’m done washing. I’m good. I’m a clean snake.”
Looking like this, she was still expecting to be praised.
What could she do? Yu Chujin praised her against her will, “You’re great, you’re amazing.”
After a perfunctory praise, she reached out to push the messy hair from her face behind her ear, “I told you to dry your hair, not to plaster it all over your face.”
Qingli was obedient and let her touch her hair, “Is it wrong?”
“After you dry your hair, you have to push it back. Don’t you think it blocks your vision when it’s on your face? Don’t you feel uncomfortable?”
“I know. Don’t be fierce.”
Yu Chujin was choked, “What do you mean, don’t be fierce? I haven’t even been fierce yet.”
Qingli: “I’m just saying it in advance to avoid you being fierce.”
Yu Chujin was speechless for a moment and gently poked her between the eyebrows, “You’re even saying it in advance to avoid me being fierce. What do you mean? Do you think I’ll definitely be fierce with you? Do I have to be fierce with you over such a small matter?”
Qingli nodded matter-of-factly, “Yes. You’re always fierce with me. I’m aggrieved.”
Yu Chujin was amused. As she laughed, she lowered her head to unbutton the misaligned buttons on her body and re-buttoned them for her.
“How come your buttons are always misaligned? And these shoes, you can’t even tell left from right. You can’t really be a silly snake, can you?”
As soon as the words “silly snake” were spoken, Qingli immediately looked at her with a resentful gaze.
Yu Chujin raised an eyebrow, “What? Why are you looking at me with that expression?”
Qingli puffed out her cheeks, “You’re still saying it. You lied to a snake. You said ‘silly snake’ was a compliment, but it’s actually a bad word.”
Yu Chujin coughed lightly, moved away, and changed the subject, “I’ve re-buttoned your buttons for you. Your shoes are on the wrong feet. Change them yourself.”
Qingli obediently bent down to change her shoes.
After changing, she didn’t forget to continue to accuse, “You lied to a snake. It’s too much, too much. You lied to a snake and said she was a silly snake. You lied to a snake. You’re bad.”
Yu Chujin rubbed her nose. The snake was getting harder and harder to fool. She had actually failed to change the subject.
“It’s not a big deal. A snake should be a little more broad-minded. Besides…”
Before Yu Chujin could finish, Qingli suddenly interrupted and said, “Although you’re bad and you lied to a snake, I still like you. I like you. Don’t talk nonsense. I just like you. I don’t dislike you.”
Yu Chujin was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud.
It seemed that recently, she had been constantly asking her if she liked her. After asking so many times, she would even answer in advance.
“Do you find me annoying for always asking you this?”
“Not at all.”
“Really not annoying?”
“Not annoying. I’m just anxious. You can ask, but you can’t, you can’t…”
Qingli tilted her head in thought, not knowing how to express herself accurately for a moment.
Although her speech was fluent now, she would often not be able to find the right words, just like now, stuttering for a long time without being able to say it.
“You can’t question me,” Yu Chujin said for her.
“Yes! That’s right! You can’t question me. If you question me, I’ll get angry and anxious,” Qingli explained very seriously.
Looking at this serious snake, a warm current flowed through Yu Chujin’s heart. She took a step forward and hugged her.
“I know. In the future, I’ll only ask if you like me, but I won’t question if you like me. Is that okay?” Yu Chujin rested her head on her shoulder and nuzzled her hair.
And then, she got a snake that coiled around her waist again.
Yu Chujin had summed up a pattern. As long as she took the initiative to be close to her, such as hugging her or touching her tail, she would immediately respond by coiling around her waist.
But Yu Chujin did not like this way of responding. Every time, she would educate her.
And then, she would once again get a snake that was aggrieved, pitiful, puffed up with anger, and full of resentment.
It was as if not letting her coil around her waist was such an unreasonable and excessive thing.
Before going to bed, Yu Chujin did not forget to warn her, “You’re not allowed to coil around my waist in the middle of the night.”
Qingli: “You’re bad!”
“You snake, who’s the bad one? Anyway, you’re not allowed to coil around my waist in the middle of the night. Where did you get this bad habit? You have to change it for me.”
“You’re a bad snake!”
Yu Chujin picked up the inflatable hammer on the side, “Do you believe that I’ll let you see what a bad snake is right now?”
Qingli looked at the hammer and became sensible, not speaking anymore.
Yu Chujin shook her head and smiled, then lay down to sleep.
In the middle of the night, after she had fallen asleep, Qingli opened her eyes, which were glowing with a faint light in the dark.
Her tail came out and very skillfully and naturally coiled around her, coiling tightly.
I’ll just coil her. I don’t care. I’ll coil her even if I get beaten. Bad mate.
Qingli was satisfied and closed her eyes to sleep.
The next day, Yu Chujin, whose waist was very sore, picked up the inflatable hammer and chased the snake around the house.
The snake dodged here and there, and she chased left and right.
It was lively from early in the morning.
It was already deep winter, and the weather was getting colder and colder. Unless it was necessary, Yu Chujin would not go out.
If it weren’t for the fact that she had to walk the dog every day and was forced to go out, she could have stayed in the house all winter.
When Yu Chujin was feeling lazy, she even set her sights on Qingli, trying to make Qingli walk the dog.
The result was naturally a failure. If she didn’t go out, it was impossible for the snake to go out. It was naturally impossible to let her walk the dog alone.
However, Yu Chujin discovered that the snake had been a little strange recently.
Usually, she would stick to her all the time, but for the past few days, the snake would always delay returning to her room for one or two hours without a trace.
At first, Yu Chujin did not notice anything unusual. The reason she did was because…
“It’s getting late. Go back to your room to sleep,” Yu Chujin called her.
“I know. You go back first,” Qingli said.
Yu Chujin hummed in agreement and walked towards the room. Her hand was on the doorknob, and her action suddenly paused.
That’s not right. This snake, when did she stop taking the initiative to go back to her room with me?
After all, she was usually the most active in going back to her room to sleep.
Yu Chujin turned her head and looked at the snake sitting cross-legged at the coffee table, seriously practicing her writing.
Could it be that she was so engrossed in learning that she had forgotten herself in her writing?
She was a little suspicious, but Yu Chujin didn’t think too much about it.
She didn’t think too much about it once or twice, but after four or five times, Yu Chujin felt that something was wrong.
Qingli would return to her room very late every day. In the one or two hours in between, what was the snake doing? Was she really obediently practicing her writing in the living room?
It didn’t seem likely. She was very suspicious.
On this day, Yu Chujin, as usual, called Qingli to go back to her room. Qingli, as usual, let her go back first, saying that she wanted to continue practicing her writing.
It was like this again. Yu Chujin raised an eyebrow and pretended that nothing had happened as she returned to her room.
But after returning to her room, she did not lie down to sleep immediately. Instead, she lay by the door and listened to the movements outside.
The regular “rustling” sound of a pen writing on paper came from the living room. There was nothing unusual.
Qingli was indeed writing seriously.
Yu Chujin frowned. Could it be that she had been wrong to be suspicious?
Just as Yu Chujin was about to leave and stop eavesdropping, the “rustling” sound of writing stopped.
Yu Chujin’s ear was pressed against the door, and she listened intently to the movements outside.
A “thud” sound of a pen being placed on the coffee table, a rustling sound of a person standing up, and then the sound of bare feet on the wooden floor.
The sound of footsteps grew farther and farther away, until she heard the sound of the main door opening.
Qingli had gone out?
Yu Chujin pushed open the bedroom door and looked towards the living room. The figure at the coffee table was already gone, and the main door was open.
That snake had really gone out.
Looking at the open door, Yu Chujin’s brow slowly furrowed. This snake had no other friends in the human world. She would sneak out at a fixed time every day. What could she be up to?
Or, at a time that Yu Chujin didn’t know, had Qingli made a friend? Did she sneak out every day to play with her friend?
Thinking of this, Yu Chujin’s brow furrowed even more.
It wasn’t that Qingli couldn’t make other friends, but it was just… just, a little unhappy.
If she was making friends, then she was making friends. Why did she have to be so secretive? Could it be that she wouldn’t let her make friends?
This snake was so stupid. Was the friend she had made a proper friend? She couldn’t have been deceived, could she?
Was the friend she had made a person? Or an animal?
All kinds of speculations came to her. Yu Chujin irritably clicked her tongue.
Forget it. She had her freedom. It was understandable for her to sneak out to see her friend.
Yu Chujin understood it through gritted teeth.
The sound of the bedroom door closing was even a “thump.” The door and window shook, expressing her current understanding.
She closed the bedroom door, lay on the bed, and went to sleep.
After lying down for a minute, she sat up with a whoosh.
No, she had to go and see what kind of friend she had made. Sneaking out in the middle of the night. It didn’t look like a proper friend. She couldn’t let this snake be deceived.
That’s right. That’s how it was. She just didn’t want this snake to be deceived. It wasn’t that she wanted to stop her from making friends.
She turned over and got out of bed, put on her slippers. In the middle of winter, she didn’t even bother to put on a cotton coat. She was in a hurry and came out in her pajamas.
Just as she walked out the door, she found that something was wrong. Although the main door was open, the yard gate was not open.
Did she just climb over the fence?
Before she could think too much, her gaze swept to the left. On top of the doghouse, a dark shadow was squatting.
Yu Chujin’s heart skipped a beat, and she stumbled back in fright.
She squinted her eyes and looked closely. She found that the dark mass was a person.
A person, squatting on the roof of the doghouse.
As for who this person was, just by looking at the back, just by looking at that silly behavior, it was not difficult to guess.
Besides the snake, no one else could do such a thing. Who would not sleep in the middle of the night, run to the yard, and squat on the roof of a doghouse?
She had thought she had made some new friend and would run out to play with her friend every night, but it turned out…
Yu Chujin inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief, and her bad mood also inexplicably became cheerful again.
But then again, what on earth was this snake doing? She was squatting on the roof of the doghouse. She couldn’t be bullying Da Huang, could she?
That wasn’t right either. The relationship between Da Huang and Qingli had long since eased.
