She leaned against the headboard, staring absentmindedly at the window that quickly turned dark again. She had a dream, a dream where she lay in Yin Shixiu’s arms, where his embrace was firm and warm, where he held her tightly, and in the dream... Yin Shixiu kissed her.
"Ah!" Su Xiaomeng heavily thumped her own head, "Su Xiaomeng, what’s in your head all day long?! Can’t you tell what kinds of dreams you can have and which ones you can’t? This is a spring dream, a spring dream, do you know what that is?! You’re only nineteen, dreaming about these things all day, do you think that’s normal?! Spring—"
Her muttering came to an abrupt halt, spring dream... She suddenly remembered that the last so-called spring dream wasn’t actually a dream...
"Knock knock"!
Su Xiaomeng’s wandering thoughts were abruptly pulled back by the sound of knocking.
She looked up to see Yin Shixiu standing with his arms crossed, leaning against the door with a faint smile on his handsome face. He said, "Get up and have dinner."
Su Xiaomeng looked quietly at him, hoping to find some trace on Yin Shixiu’s face. But, what trace exactly? She couldn’t say.
"Not hungry?"
"Hungry."
Su Xiaomeng bared her teeth a bit.
"Take your medicine first, then come out."
"Okay."
After saying that, Yin Shixiu closed the door, looking at his own hand gripping the door handle, which was unnaturally tight.
Yin Shixiu, are you eighteen this year or what? Just stole a kiss, what’s there to be nervous about? That girl didn’t even realize she’d been slept with!
But... his heart just couldn’t settle down, it wasn’t guilt, it wasn’t insecurity, but a lingering thought, a more greedy desire...
"Su Xiaomeng..."
"Uncle?"
Just as Yin Shixiu murmured out her name, Su Xiaomeng had already opened the door and come out. She raised her eyebrows, looking at him standing at the door with confusion.
"The door lock seems to have a problem, needs to be replaced."
Yin Shixiu said it quite naturally.
"Oh, really?"
Su Xiaomeng blinked, continuing to examine the lock that didn’t seem to have any issues.
"Come and eat." Yin Shixiu said a bit stiffly.
"Oh."
Su Xiaomeng liked having meals on the sofa while watching TV, which wasn’t a good habit, but Yin Shixiu accommodated her.
"Didn’t Meng Meng say she would come over today?"
Su Xiaomeng asked casually.
Yin Shixiu was just about to say that Yin Meng wasn’t coming, when the doorbell rang at an inopportune moment.
Su Xiaomeng’s eyes lit up and she jumped up to open the door, "Meng Meng, why are you only now... you... who are you looking for?"
Standing outside was a beautiful man, this was Su Xiaomeng’s first impression of Rong Jing, and the second was... mischievous.
The man had a pair of exceedingly mischievous pretty eyes, long and slanted upwards, much like an actor’s stage makeup, his dark shiny pupils full of a deep smile.
"Oh! Little beauty?"
Flirtatious.
This was the third impression, that flirtatious tone penetrated deep into one’s bones.
Su Xiaomeng was feeling rather awkward at the moment, and she quickly turned her head and called out to Yin Shixiu, "Uncle!"
Yin Shixiu got up, catching a glimpse of the somewhat flamboyant pink long coat of Rong Jing, revealing a quite obvious unwelcoming expression.
"Why are you here?"
"Little beauty, what’s your name? How old are you? Hold on, let your brother take a guess?"
Rong Jing paid no attention to Yin Shixiu and continued focusing on Su Xiaomeng.
At the moment, Su Xiaomeng’s feelings were extremely complicated, being called a little beauty, of course, made her happy, being complimented made her happy, but this flirtatious teasing tone... it just didn’t allow her to feel happy!
Yin Shixiu pulled Su Xiaomeng over, saying lightly, "Go eat first."