Seventeen Degrees Part 1

Content Summary: Hand, Foot, and Mouth

Shi Yun was stunned, and after thinking for a long time, she realized that he was referring to the first time they had gone out to eat Japanese food. Because she saw He Sui and his girlfriend by the entrance of the place and didn’t want Wei Congying to meet them, she randomly made up an excuse of not wanting to go in due to having on a pair of mismatching colored socks.¹[1] From chapter 5. This was mistranslated this as mandarin-duck-colored socks previously in chapter 5 but now has been fixed. Later, he took her to play cards and said that he would earn some money to buy her socks. She also heard him chatting with Lin Fang in the restroom that day. Lin Fang asked him to pay the bill, but he replied, saying that the money would be saved to buy socks.

Now the ‘socks’ were brought up again.

She didn’t expect that he still remembered what she said casually, and she didn’t expect that he would actually carry out the words he jokingly spoke that time.

There was a discount on hosiery²[2] Hosiery, also referred to as legwear, describes garments worn directly on the feet and legs, thus including socks and stockings. -Source: Wikipedia sold in stores specializing in selling women’s intimate apparel in the mall.

Cotton socks that had a buy-ten-and-get-three-free sale took up a whole cabinet, and there were also bundles of ankle-length stockings that cost ten yuan per bunch.

This kind of store seems to have its own invisible barrier, as there were a few guys holding bags who were standing with their backs to the entrance of the store.

Shi Yun: “Do you want to go in?”

Wei Congying didn’t care, but he didn’t seem like the kind of person who would help his girlfriend by going out to buy sanitary napkins. He walked in with Shi Yun, very frankly: “Why wouldn’t I go when I’m paying the bill?”

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It was fortunate that she was not an ignorant person; otherwise, she would not know what he meant by feet. And it was because she understood that Shi Yun was a little embarrassed to look at those socks afterward. Feeling that her eyes were burning, she turned her gaze back. Shi Yun stared at the cotton socks in front of her, only to hear the person standing beside her laugh a little.

Wei Congying’s face was much thicker than hers, and he took all those pairs of stockings without any change in expression.

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Wei Congying didn’t send Shi Yun back to school. Instead, he said very considerately: “Your dormitory building is noisy on Sundays, so it’s not suitable for catching up on sleep. It’s quiet at my place.”

He always had the ability to say unfashionable words in an extremely considerate manner.

When getting out of the car, Wei Congying took the initiative to carry the bag of socks and also took Shi Yun’s schoolbag. He held both bags in one hand and stuffed the key into his pocket after locking the car. Walking towards the elevator, he reached behind, and within a few seconds, a pair of warm hands grabbed his.

There was no unfinished Gundam on the coffee table in the living room. Shi Yun borrowed the bathroom to take a shower, washed her underwear and left them to dry on the balcony, and finally put on one of his short sleeves and entered the bedroom unceremoniously.

Wei Congying stepped in and took a shower, came out of the bathroom wearing a bathrobe, and threw the clothes in the laundry basket into the washing machine. Standing up, he saw two pieces of underclothes hanging on the drying rack.

They were a set.

The sound of the washing machine locking and the water turning on was a bit loud. Wei Congying walked to the edge of the sofa, picked up the shopping bag that was placed together with her schoolbag, and opened the bedroom door with it in hand.

The Duke of Zhou⁴[4] Duke of Zhou is also known as the “God of Dreams”. In Chinese legends, if an important thing is going to happen to someone, the Duke of Zhou will let the person know through dreams: hence the Chinese expression “Dreaming of Duke of Zhou”. was working overtime at Shi Yun’s place. After having gone without sleep for thirty-six hours, she was unbelievably sleepy. She hadn’t slept enough even after sleeping on the sofa in the repair shop.

The temperature of the air conditioner in his bedroom was usually very low, and after covering up with the thick quilt on the bed, she was in the most comfortable state of all summer. Although he smoked, there wasn’t a very strong smell of cigarettes lingering on the bed.

A faint fragrance could be smelled from the pillow, which may be from the perfume behind his ear.

She fell asleep very quickly. Duke of Zhou invited her to talk gossip over warm wine and toast to the bright moon, but before she had time to discuss modern medicine with Duke of Zhou, and ask him the next time she was on the night shift, if he could not have the aunts and uncles sleep so deeply as their snores were a little too loud, she started to feel slightly stifled.

Shi Yun felt that the eloquent display of her skills had changed to an involuntary performance of the boulder that crushes the breast⁵[5] The boulder that crushes the breast is a kind of acrobatics, in which a large stone is placed on the chest of a person lying down, and the other person breaks the large stone with a sledgehammer. As for how this is possible and works, it relies on the principles of physics, specifically, Newton’s second law, force is equivalent to mass times acceleration, and inertia, the tendency to resist changes in a state of motion. Video explanation with English subtitles here. Baidu explanation here.. Something was pressing down on her, leaving her breathless.

Reality and dream overlapped; she opened her eyes in a daze.

What came after seeing the head buried in her neck was anger from having her dream interrupted. She was like a child throwing a temper tantrum: “What are you doing?”

Her voice grew higher as she finished her words.

Wei Congying stood up: “So you really fell asleep?”

Shi Yun closed her eyes, trying in vain to fall back asleep: “What else?”

Wei Congying took out the stockings from the bag and lightly brushed them against Shi Yun’s neck as he would a fluffy brush. The light touch tickled her skin, teasing her: “Go to bed later, you’ll sleep better then.”

He was determined to try, and Shi Yun was dragged up from the bed by him. She sat on the bed angrily, her hair was a bit messy, like a kitten with its fur standing up on end.

Wei Congying handed her the stockings that were as thin as a cicada’s wings in his hand. Shi Yun didn’t put them on immediately but got off the bed first. The stockings were around the length of her thighs. She bit the stockings with her mouth and raised her hand to tidy her hair a little. Then she used it like a hair tie to put up her hair.

His bed was not elevated too far from the floor.

Wei Congying sat on the edge of the bed with his legs bent freely. With one hand behind him on the bed, keeping him propped up, he watched Shi Yun put up her hair. She took out the stockings she was lightly biting with her mouth, and a silver thread stretched between her mouth and the surface of the stocking before it broke quickly. A low ponytail was simply tied up, a little loose and limp.

Happiness came quickly. Although she looked very calm, Wei Congying felt that it was the first time she had done such a thing.

It felt very different from what he imagined, but he enjoyed it and liked it.

Notes:

[1] From chapter 5. This was mistranslated this as mandarin-duck-colored socks previously in chapter 5 but now has been fixed.

[2] Hosiery, also referred to as legwear, describes garments worn directly on the feet and legs, thus including socks and stockings. -Source: Wikipedia

[3] This isn’t a note I want to be making, but for clarification’s sake, he’s referring to a footjob.

[4] Duke of Zhou is also known as the “God of Dreams”. In Chinese legends, if an important thing is going to happen to someone, the Duke of Zhou will let the person know through dreams: hence the Chinese expression “Dreaming of Duke of Zhou.”

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