Chapter 19 Part 1

Lin Zhexia’s vision was suddenly obscured by the scarf.

All of a sudden, she couldn’t see anything, only a blurry and soft white.

The tip of her nose became more tingly, “Can you really not see?”

She couldn’t see Chi Yao’s face, she could only hear his voice that was very close to her say, “You’re wrapped up like this, you think I have X-ray vision?”

“But like this,” She said, and as she spoke, the tears that had been hovering in her eyes finally fell. “I look so stupid.”

She was already wearing an oversized jacket, and now her head is wrapped in a scarf.

Anyone who sees this would think she’s a psychopath.

Chi Yao’s lazy voice sounded again, “No one can tell it’s you, the only one who will be humiliated is me.”

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She sniffed her nose and then continued to say, “Although I’m happy for them, I’m still a bit stingy.”

“If they are really going to have a child, I feel like I might become an outsider.”

“I am afraid that I will be left behind, and that the family between the three of them will actually be the closest.”

She was hidden under the scarf and could not see Chi Yao, nor did she know what expression he had, or what kind of gaze he looked at her with.

Would he also think that she’s stingy?

But the next second——

She felt a gentle pressure on the top of her head.

It was Chi Yao’s palm.

His palm pressed lightly on her head, as if he was caressing a stray cat or dog.

“You’re not stingy.”

She heard Chi Yao’s voice saying, “You’re timid.”

His voice became very gentle, even his mocking tone became gentle, “And you said you weren’t a scaredy cat.”

Some things are clearer to bystanders.

On top of that, he was a bystander who knew Lin Zhexia inside and out.

He had long known her timidity, fear, and insecurities hidden beneath the surface.

“It’s you who’s afraid to truly accept them, yet you’re afraid they might abandon you. If you don’t open your arms to embrace them, how would you know you’re the person closest to them?”

When the voice dropped, Lin Zhexia suddenly froze.

Chi Yao continued, “When I went to your house before, I saw Uncle Wei bring you gifts a few times. Did you ever tell him that you don’t like pink?”

Lin Zhexia opened her mouth, “I…”

She didn’t.

She has always been “well-behaved”.

She never joked with Wei Ping, nor made demands of him.

All along, she has always played a “qualified daughter”, maintaining a distance.

In the early stage, it may have been because of the unfamiliarity, but in the later stages, only anxiety remained.

Because she had been abandoned before.

The unforgettable sounds of thunder and pleading.

And the blurred figure of a man who left resolutely in her memory.

In fact, Chi Yao was right, she was timid.

She always felt insecure, so she had always been running away and creating a safe distance from others.

“I don’t know,” she cried. “I don’t know why I didn’t tell him.”

Chi Yao’s hand was still on her head.

Although he didn’t say a word, the gentle pressure on her head seemed to give her a little courage, so she continued to say, “Maybe, I’m afraid that making demands will make people hate me, or reject me.”

As she cried, she stopped caring about her pride.

In the end, she admitted through her tears, “Fine, I’m afraid, I-I’m timid.”

After saying everything, Lin Zhexia’s sobbing gradually stopped, occasionally sniffing her nose a few times.

After a while.

She heard Chi Yao ask her, “Done crying?”

The head wrapped in the scarf nodded.

“If you’re done, I’m pulling down the scarf.”

The head wrapped in the scarf paused for a bit, and then nodded.

The scarf was pulled down. Lin Zhexia’s clearly reddened eyes and nose were revealed.

Although it was very humiliating.

But it was in front of Chi Yao.

Being humiliated in front of Chi Yao has never been an unacceptable thing.

And after speaking out from the bottom of her heart, there was an inexplicable sense of relief, as if this matter was no longer as difficult to face as before.

She warned him with reddened eyes, “You can’t tell anyone about me crying today.”

Chi Yao, “Bribe me, and I’ll consider it.”

Lin Zhe Xia widened her eyes, she didn’t think that he would take advantage of the situation, “You’re such a dirty person. I won’t stoop to your level.”

But after a while.

She reached out two fingers from her sleeve and lightly tugged at the hem of Chi Yao’s sweater. “Um.”

“I just calculated, I saved about 500 yuan of pocket money, is that enough?”

“So you’re,” He lowered his head and looked at the two fingers she had reached out, “deciding to stoop to my level now?”

Lin Zhexia said nothing.

Chi Yao lifted the corners of his mouth, “Just kidding. I’m not that free, I can’t be bothered to tell people even if they beg me.”

Hearing this, Lin Zhexia said, “Then pinky promise.”

She thought that Chi Yao wouldn’t play along with her.

Because Chi Yao rarely makes pinky promises with her. He finds this behavior of hers particularly childish.

But this time Chi Yao looked at her hand, then reluctantly bent his finger, hooked hers, and their pinkies touched briefly for a second.

After the pinky promise, she looked at Chi Yao’s collarbone which was exposed to the cold air, and the sweater that looked like it wouldn’t block out the wind. She realized belatedly, “Are you cold? Let me give your jacket back to you.”

Chi Yao had a fearless look on his face, “I’m not cold, no need for it.”

Lin Zhexia, “How could you not be cold in this weather?”

Chi Yao, “Don’t you think…”

Lin Zhexia, “?”

Chi Yao, “I look better dressed like this?”

“I just like showing off my style.”

Although it does look good.

But, it’s so stupid.

As the sky had completely darkened, there were not many people by the lake anymore.

Lin Zhexia suggested, “It’s late, let’s go back.”

So they walked back side by side.

When they arrived at Nanxiang Street’s street sign, Chi Yao stopped and called her name.

“Lin Zhexia.”

Hearing this, Lin Zhexia turned her head.

She saw Chi Yao take out a piece of paper from the pocket of his seemingly thin jeans.

He held the paper between two fingers and asked, “Does this dumb paper you gave me last time still count?”

On the paper were the words she had written: Wishing Card.

“If it counts,” He said, bending his fingers slightly, “I’ll make a wish, scaredy cat.”

“My wish is – for you to go home right now and tell Uncle Wei that you don’t actually like pink.”

He added, “Go and try opening your arms.”

Lin Zhexia took the paper in a daze.

This was a wish she never thought of.

When she joked and wrote the wishing card for Chi Yao that day, she thought the wishing card would eventually be used by Chi Yao to boss her around or to make fun of her.

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