Chapter 26

After my rare outburst, Yu Haiqiao remained silent for a few minutes. I walked towards the sofa and sat down, pulling out a few tissue papers from the coffee table to blow my nose. By the time I pulled out my fourth tissue, Yu Haiqiao started moving. He walked towards the sofa and sat down, causing the sofa to sink a little.

While I was blowing my nose, I saw Yu Haiqiao out of the corner of my eyes place his hands on his knees for a while and then move them to the side of the sofa before raising them again and shifting them on top of their knees in a behaved fashion. He brought his legs together, sitting on the sofa like a good child. I reached out for another tissue to blow my nose with when Yu Haiqiao suddenly coughed beside me.

I blew my nouse loudly and Yu Haiqiao promptly cleared his throat and spoke up like a f*cking fool, “Wifey, you hurt me——”

For a moment, I could feel my temple throbbing, and right before a critical juncture, my brain was reminding me that a normal person wouldn’t quibble with a fool but before this thought even passed through my brain, it went straight to my body and I was unable to stop myself from reaching out for the pillow behind me and holding the corners, sending it smashing towards Yu Haiqiao.

“We’re not married anymore, stupid!” I shouted out valoriously like a female swordsman from the ancient times, the words flowing out of my mouth so smoothly. I held the two corners of the pillow and smacked Yu Haiqiao with it several times.

Yu Haiqiao was originally sitting behavedly on the sofa but was now moving left and right, avoiding my attacks. He then laid down on the sofa and just as I was about to suffocate him with the pillow, this b!tch pulled the other two corners of the pillow.

Reality proved that when women had lost their mind, their strength still wouldn’t be comparable to a man’s. He grabbed the pillow and with a little tug, pulled it right out of my hands then threw it on the floor. Unable to control my strength, I cut a sorry figure, my hands pressed against his chest.

Yu Haiqiao yelped in feigned pain before blinking at me with an extremely pitiful look, “You hit my chest, wifey.”

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Yu Haiqiao didn’t pay too much attention to my half-hearted but actually sincere response. He planted a gentle kiss on my head and in order not to break the atmosphere, I didn’t tell him that I hadn’t washed my hair for three days.

Yu Haiqiao’s voice carried a weak tone of amusement, “You’ve never told me that.” He loosened his hold on me and gently placed his hands around my waist. I looked up at him and saw Yu Haiqiao’s Adam’s apple bob. His eyes narrowed and a chuckle came out of his throat. He said, “You look quite abstract from this angle.”

I then made a cold expression and he abruptly raised his head and bit my lower lip like a dog.

My words were stifled in my throat. Yu Haiqiao nipped on my bottom lip, fiercely spitting out, “You never f*cking tell me anything!!”

I glared at him but because the distance between us was too close for comfort, my glare had turned into cross-eyes.

Yu Haiqiao chewed on my bottom lip before slowly starting to suck it. The tip of his tongue swept through the area he bit and he closed his eyes for a while before releasing me and saying, “I always made you cry.” Yu Haiqiao cupped my face with one hand, his thumb streaking across the corner of my eye. He then planted a kiss at the tail of my eyes and stared intently at me.

I believe that people should always respect the truth. I slowly explained to Yu Haiqiao, “Not all the time. There were times that I cried b-because I was watching a sad movie.”

Yu Haiqiao paused before narrowing his eyes and chuckling, “Shi Ran, you always knew how to break the atmosphere. Every time I muster my courage and earnestly tell you something, you would always interrupt. Do you even have the right to say that I don’t treat you as a girl?” His eyes met mine, “If I could, I’d hold your hand in fear of you tripping, I’d put you in my mouth but I’m afraid you’d melt, but Miss Shi Ran, are you willing?”

I disdained such words, “If I hold your hand in fear of you tripping and put you in my mouth but I’m afraid you’d melt, would you be willing?”

Yu Haiqiao shamelessly replied, “That’s exactly what I’ve been waiting for.”

Leaning on Yu Haiqiao for a long time made my body turn slightly stiff. I prepared to get up from him when Yu Haiqiao tightened his hold on my waist and rested his head on the crook of my neck. He took two deep whiffs and said, “Don’t move, let me hold you like this for a while.”

I suddenly felt an inexplicable sadness. When I shouted myself hoarse a while ago, I only felt anger that threatened to burst. After I had vented it, a sense of vacantness washed over me. I didn’t know what I was saying, didn’t know what I was doing, and didn’t know what kind of ending I wanted. Yu Haiqiao’s low voice resounded in my ears, allowing me to understand what was going on between us in my daze.

According to our parents, Yu Haiqiao moved near my home when he was 3 years old. We attended the same kindergarten and when the kindergarten teacher handed out snacks, I stole his biscuits and gave him candy. When we attended elementary school, he let me copy his homework and when the teacher called on him during class to answer a question, I would secretly let him know the answer. During junior high, I was taller than him in the first year. He fell down in the middle of playing basketball and I got so worried I nearly piggy-backed him to the nurse’s office. When my period came and stained my school pants, he took off his school clothes and tied it around my waist. We then attended the same senior high and went to university in the same city.

90 percent of our life was closely related to each other. We thought we told each other everything, that nothing in the world could hinder our connection.

I couldn’t help but reach out my hand to stroke Yu Haiqiao’s head, softening my voice, I called out his name, “Yu Haiqiao.”

Yu Haiqiao let out a soft hum from his nose.

I apologized to him, “I’m sorry.”

Yu Haiqiao asked me, “Why are you apologizing?”

I answered, “Take it for having stolen your biscuits back in kindergarten.”

Yu Haiqiao chuckled while holding me in his embrace. I stuck close to his chest and chuckled along. He moved his head from my neck and trailed kisses up until my chin. I twisted my neck and seriously told him, “Itchy.”

Yu Haiqiao gently bit my neck and sighed, “Shi Ran ah, I’ve given you my heart, I hope you don’t reject it.” Yu Haiqiao’s voice dulled slightly, “I’ve never dared to ask you to notice me or my feelings, I thought you didn’t want my feelings, that you didn’t want any feelings.”

My strange side started to act up again at this moment. I asked extremely inappropriately, “Did you get a high score in writing because you used parallelism a lot?”

Yu Haiqiao heard this and his breathing paused. He then looked at me with an expression that hated iron for not turning into steel. He fiercely replied, “Sometimes when I see you acting like a fool and acting like you don’t care about anything, I just wanna bite you to death!” He then proceeded to bite my chin angrily after finishing.

I couldn’t help but yell, “Are you a dog?!”

Yu Haiqiao loosened his mouth, his soft lips pressing on the area he left a light bite mark on. He let out a low laugh, “So you weren’t pretending to be a fool.”

I thought he was going to say that I was actually a fool. He turned his head to look at me, his eyes containing mirth, “You were only angry at me.”

The hands he placed on my waist suddenly started travelling upwards until they pressed my cheeks. I was caught unprepared when he pressed my cheeks together, making me put on a puckering face. Yu Haiqiao narrowed his eyes and stared intently at me. He blinked my eyes and slowly said, “Ever since we got our marriage certificates printed, you sure can get real angry, Shi Ran.” He then didn’t even wait for me to start cursing him and immediately nipped my lips that he made pucker up.

“?” I knew you were a f*cking b!tch Yu Haiqiao!!!

After he finished biting, he pecked my lips a couple more times before letting go of my face. I left his arms and quickly shifted to the single sofa at the side, even taking out a tissue to wipe my own mouth.

Yu Haiqiao remained lying on the sofa, his eyes curved in a smile for a while. He tried to stifle his laughter but ended up chuckling out loud. At this moment, I couldn’t understand this crazy dog’s thought process and scrunched my brows. Yu Haiqiao rolled out of the sofa and crouched down beside me, Holding my face in his hands, he looked at me gently and blinked his eyes slowly, “I like you a lot. In senior high, when Chen Xie said that she was going abroad for university and asked me which university I was going to, I was thinking about going to the university that Shi Ran was going to in the same city. If I went to university in another place, I wouldn’t be able to see her for a long time and I couldn’t accept that.”

I looked at Yu Haiqiao. Even though logically, I should feel touched upon hearing this, I was too familiar with Yu Haiqiao. There was a bit of exaggeration in these heartfelt words of his, “You don’t have a lovesick brain, alright?”

Yu Haiqiao held my hand and made it stroke his face, curving his eyes, “En. You know I don’t have any ambition. Before I took the exam, I seriously considered this for a period of time and also hesitated about what kind of life I wanted. In the end, I realized that I didn’t really have anything major in life that I wanted to pursue. My family conditions are fine, my parents’ work isn’t bad, they have a pension for retirement and they didn’t need me to earn a lot of money to raise them. Moreover, I didn’t really want to be rich. To be able to clothe and feed myself was enough and having my parents, relatives and others right by my side was already good enough for me.”

I still wanted to lament that Yu Haiqiao’s verbal and writing skills were really good. Even though I didn’t want to admit it for a period of time, Yu Haiqao was indeed an able person. Even though I usually roasted him for his lack of ambition, I couldn’t deny that he had been smart since young and was filled with a sense of responsibility. Though he wouldn’t be too happy about receiving work, once he agreed to do it, he would definitely carry it out. Moreover, he would do it to the best of his abilities. He could live out the life he had planned for himself.

I wanted to sigh, ashamed of talking about Yu Haiqiao’s competence, feeling like I was a vile character with a jealous heart.

Yu Haiqiao crouched in front of me and clicked his tongue, “What expression is this? If I say I love you 100 points, you should correct me and say it’s only 75.”

I looked at Yu Haiqiao and after the gloomy clouds were dispelled, I felt that Yu Haiqiao’s appearance was quite easy on the eyes, “The passing score is 60 so it’s enough.”

Yu Haiqiao smiled, “I originally thought our relationship was too unshakeable, we could be friends for life and maybe even enter the same nursing home when we grow old.” He said, “Sometimes, I even helped determine the male friends that you have hanging around you. Is this guy alright? Would he treat you well? Would he be able to take your foul temper? Does this person suit you?”

“Idiot.” I couldn’t help but scold him for a moment, my heart feeling extremely complicated.

Yu Haiqiao said, “Yeah. Later on, I thought I was a fool. Why did I need to judge whether other men would treat you well? Why couldn’t it be me? Why couldn’t I treat you well myself?”

I blinked.

Yu Haiqiao raised his eyes and looked at me, “So then, I proposed to you. I was really nervous the day we got our marriage certificate printed. I was a little happy and a little worried. I was afraid that you were going to fall in love in the future, afraid that you would seek freedom and think that our relationship was constricting you, afraid that you would feel embarrassed asking for us to separate once you’ve fallen in love someone else, and I was also afraid I wouldn’t be able to let you go.”

There were several times in my life that Yu Haiqiao annoyed me but there were also several times he made me feel touched. There were also times where he made me feel really stupid.

Like the time when we were young and he picked a fight with me saying that I wasn’t a girl made me feel very annoyed.

In junior high, when he used his clothes to cover up my blood-stained pants, I was touched. In senior high when I argued with my mom in my rebellious period and left the house, coming across him who was eating skewers crouched in front of his house, I vented my anger at him and was about to leave when Yu Haiqiao chased after me in his bicycle. He took me around the whole city from when the sun set at 6pm to when the streetlights lit up and the stars and moon came out. The cars on the road became fewer and only yellow lights flashed in the street. The whole city became extremely extremely quiet and there was only silence in the whole world. He made me feel touched.

And there was no one else who could make me feel both touched and also made me think that they were an extremely foolish man.

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