Chapter 20

“Where’s the soy sauce?”

Su Yao’s heart skipped a beat. She quickly took off her coat to hide her guilt and said, “I suddenly remembered we have some at home, so I didn’t buy any.”

Mu Wei sat leisurely on the sofa, unhurriedly asking, “Then why did it take you so long?”

“Do you have a clock in your head? How long is ‘so long’?” Su Yao pretended to be clueless.

“Why do I remember you didn’t wear a scarf when you went downstairs? Is it a new one? Or…” Mu Wei dragged her words, “Was it a gift from someone?”

“This is my scarf.” Su Yao hung the scarf properly.

“Alright, I get it,” Mu Wei clapped her hands. “You left it at someone’s place, and they brought it back for you.”

Su Yao: “…”

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“Ps usw nsdqlpp?”

Fw Zys takvvle bla vllvb kdoyaezu. Fbl eked’v pvyav eyvkdt lyazu clnywpl pbl bye y elvlnvkhl qsa y xsx.

“R nsdqlpp.”

“Rp kv y twu?”

“Rv’p y twu.” Fw Zys bwdt vbl pnyaq yde nsdqlpple bsdlpvzu, “Zlpvlaeyu, ol nlzlcayvle Llo Zlya’p Ohl vstlvbla, bye y zkvvzl eakdj, yde R tsv y blyeynbl, ps R eked’v nsxl cynj vs pzllr. Jwv! Vzlypl esd’v vbkdj vss xwnb, dsvbkdt lzpl byrrldle.”

Yw Elk eked’v jdso oblvbla vs clzklhl bla sa dsv, cwv pbl dseele alrlyvlezu. “Gzaktbv, yzaktbv, vbyv’p tsse. Tl zssjp vyzz yde bydepsxl, pllxp alzkyczl. Rp bl yaswde uswa ytl?”

“Tl’p y qlo xsdvbp uswdtla vbyd xl.” Fw Zys rywple. “Tyhl usw tsdl esodpvykap?”

Yw Elk rwaple bla zkrp. “Kwpv nblnjkdt sd usw.”

Su Yao inexplicably didn’t want Mu Wei to know about her progress with Liang Chuyuan. “It’s too early to say anything, why are you jumping to conclusions?”

“You’re not together yet? I don’t believe it.”

Su Yao muttered, “Believe it or not.”

Mu Wei pulled her over to sit down. “Tell Mom about him, his name, what he does for work, who’s in his family, is he an only child…”

“Mom, are you conducting a census?”

“Every blind date I arranged for you, don’t I know them inside out? I’m just doing your homework in advance now. Isn’t that to prevent you from getting a bad deal?” 

Su Yao rubbed her face irritably, hesitated for a moment, then looked seriously at Mu Wei. “If, I mean if, he couldn’t speak, what would you do?”

Mu Wei’s face fell. “What do you mean?”

“The literal meaning.”

Mu Wei remained silent for a long time, so long that Su Yao thought she had forgotten the question before she finally said, “Actually, Mom feels that appearance isn’t that important. People need to be healthy and compatible. I thought that Xiao Zeng from last time was quite nice…”

Watching the scene of her own mother changing her stance, Su Yao felt a sourness rising in her nose.

She turned away and said coldly, “I was kidding you. He can speak, it’s just that you can’t hear him.”

*

Mu Wei stayed in Wen City for a day before returning to Jia City.

Before leaving, she emphasized to Su Yao, “Just be ordinary friends with that boy, got it?”

Got it?

Got it.

But Su Yao didn’t pay any attention to it at all. As soon as she sent Mu Wei off, she texted Liang Chuyuan: “I’m done with my business here.”

Liang Chuyuan: “I’ll come pick you up.”

Su Yao: “Okay.”

They arranged to have dinner together tonight.

After sending her location, Su Yao found a fast-food restaurant to sit in. It only took about ten minutes before Liang Chuyuan arrived.

“Were you nearby just now?”

“Just now I was with my brother, his company is just near Yī Fú Yǔ Dà Dào.”

“That’s quite close,” Su Yao put her phone back in her bag, stood up, “What do you feel like eating later?”

Naturally taking her bag, Liang Chuyuan held her hand, “Let’s have Sichuan cuisine. My brother recommended a restaurant, he said the food there is really good.”

“Okay, I’m not picky,” Su Yao said as she looked down at their intertwined hands, suddenly bursting into laughter.

Liang Chuyuan looked at her, “What’s so funny?”

Su Yao leaned in close to his ear and said, “Laughing at the perks of having a boyfriend.”

When they weren’t together, he was a gentleman; but now that they were, he became a boyfriend. Su Yao thought they would need some time to adjust to the change in their relationship, but she didn’t expect it to happen so quickly, with things falling into place.

Liang Chuyuan touched his ear, thinking a mismatched thought: “You smell so good.”

Su Yao hesitated for a moment, her cheeks rare warm. She distanced herself slightly from him, “Liang Chuyuan, you’re…”

Was it because they were together? That their thoughts had become so relaxed, no longer restrained, expressing everything with just a look, so straightforward that it made one embarrassed.

Liang Chuyuan felt unjustly accused, “If I could speak, I definitely wouldn’t be so direct like just now.”

“But unfortunately, I can hear what’s in your heart,” Su Yao said smugly, “So you can’t fool me.”

Liang Chuyuan looked at her and smiled, “Yeah, I won’t fool you.”

“I’ll tell you without reservation what’s on my mind.”