Chapter 06

After lunch on Saturday, it was time for leisure.

Zhao Shuming helped her move all the objects in the bedroom together to the master bedroom.

The master bedroom’s own bathroom was smaller than the outside bathroom, but it was still big enough for Jiang Yimiao to bathe alone.

Jiang Yimiao sighed as she lay on the re-made bed, she grabbed the doll on her pillow and hugged and kissed it, her emotions were too much causing her to knead her quilt into a ball.

She rolled over and tucked the balled up comforter into her arms, the tip of her nose touching the plush on the comforter, and for some reason she thought her comforter was cute too.

Generally only humans or animal cubs with big eyes and round faces were generally considered cute, how could a plain rectangular quilt be cute?

Jiang Yimiao couldn’t figure it out, so she decided not to think about it.

So now she was lying on the bed like a salted fish, gritting her teeth and squeezing the corner of the quilt tightly with one hand to relieve her strange illness.

Zhao Shuming helped her re-install a new shelf in the bathroom, and when he came out of the bathroom, he saw her hugging a doll and lying upright on the bed under the quilt, with a somewhat drowsy expression on her face.

Jiang Yimiao usually have the habit of napping, to this time inevitably sleepy.

Jiang Yimiao’s body was a bit tired after recovering from a serious illness and the week-long work shift, plus now her body was wrapped in soft fabrics, she was even more sleepy.

Only when she heard his footsteps did Jiang Yimiao raise her eyelids to look at Zhao Shuming.

Zhao Shuming wiped off the water stains you left behind when he had just washed his hands and slowly walked over to her bed, “Sleepy?”

Jiang Yimiao let out a long drawn out cry from her nasal cavity, “Uhm ……”

Every weekend, she basically spent one day sleeping, although she knew that this kind of revenge sleep rest was actually not very good for her body, but she was just too tired.

People would always die anyway, and she just wanted to sleep.

From time to time, Jiang Yimiao felt puzzled as to how on earth she managed to go to bed at eleven at night and wake up at less than six in the morning in middle school, and maintain a state of high mental concentration throughout the day.

“Rest then, there’s nothing to be busy with anyway.” Zhao Shuming pulled up the dark blue curtains by the window.

The brightness in the room plummeted, and Jiang Yimiao squinted at him.

Sleepiness swept in like the waves of the ocean, and then the whole person pressed against a plank of wood and sank, and even the soul seemed to have half of it in the body, and the other half was already suspended in mid-air.

So sleepy, so sleepy ah ……

“Sleep. I’ll just make dinner tonight.” He approached and seemed to touch her forehead.

Jiang Yimiao was already so sleepy that her consciousness was a little fuzzy, so fuzzy that the doll she had just held in her arms rolled to the side due to the loss of strength in her arms.

“Hmm.” She seemed to have answered, but also seemed to have just made an unconscious sound as she fell asleep.

Zhao Shuming didn’t expect her to fall asleep when she said she would.

But remembering that the eight minutes between classes in her middle school were enough for her to fall asleep and wake up again, this was not surprising.

If her sleep quality was a hundred percent, then his was probably only twenty percent.

Sometimes he envied her for her second-sleeping physique.

But he knew that it also meant that she had begun to adapt to his presence.

This home still had a certain level of security for her, otherwise she wouldn’t have been so relieved to fall asleep right in front of him.

Zhao Shuming laughed silently, gripping the air conditioning remote control and adjusting the sleep mode before slowly helping her cover up.

In her sleep, she seemed to have smelled the warm fragrance on the quilt, and Jiang Yimiao slept until the sun set.

The weather was very good all day today.

Zhao Shuming put down the spatula and washed his hands when he came to her room, he could still hear the birds chirping outside the window, he squatted down to the bedside, in front of his eyes, she was still sleeping peacefully.

Jiang Yimiao’s pillow is still placed on the side of her hair clip in the morning, the doll accidentally rolled to the floor, Zhao Shuming low picked up and patted the doll on the invisible dust, put it back to her side of the peace.

There was a small mole on the side of the bridge of her nose, and its color was also very light, so if she wasn’t close by or wearing glasses, the average person wouldn’t notice this small mole.

This small mole had appeared since she was very young, and one day Jiang Yimiao even took a mirror and said to him with a surprised face, “I suddenly have a mole here, people actually have moles popping up all of a sudden!”

Zhao Shuming pinched the bridge of her nose and said, “You’ve had this mole since at least kindergarten, it didn’t just pop up recently.”

Even she didn’t know about the changes in her body, but Zhao Shuming did.

Zhao Shuming poked that little mole of hers with his fingertip if anything.

“Miao Miao, get up.” He called out softly.

It really wasn’t good to sleep with a vengeance like this on the weekends, but Jiang Yimiao looked a little too tired today, and Zhao Shuming let her sleep for the entire afternoon without calling her up halfway through.

Not knowing if she was woken up by Zhao Shuming’s gaze, or if he woke her up, or if the sound of pots and pans clattering in the next-door neighbor’s room and the aroma coming from the kitchen woke her up, Jiang Yimiao suddenly opened her eyes.

The curtains in the room were very good at avoiding light, so good that when she opened her eyes, she couldn’t tell whether it was day or night.

Jiang Yimiao’s mind went blank for a moment, and the trance caused by excessive sleep made her think that it was a weekday morning.

She sat up violently, wanting to touch her cell phone to see what time it was in the morning and if she was going to be late.

“Sleepy daze again? It’s time for dinner.”

Until the voice beside her interrupted her thoughts, Jiang Yimiao suddenly came to her senses. She then realized that it was the evening of the weekend.

Jiang Yimiao unloaded a big breath and held her forehead, “Did I sleep for a long time?”

“Slept for a few hours.” Zhao Shuming returned.

She also loved to sleep on weekends when she was a child, she would feel bad if she didn’t sleep enough, and muddled if she slept too much, “Hungry, you can eat now.”

Consciousness awake after the five senses have become sharp again, Jiang Yimiao also heard the birds chirping outside the window, not far away in the construction of a school, the sound of construction is also faintly rooted to the tympanum.

She always felt that the scene in front of her now was somewhat familiar, this sense of vestigial vision hit her brain, had to make her remember something.

Only after a long time did she remember that during the summer vacation in middle school, there were only her and Zhao Shuming at home, and she always loved to oversleep in the middle of the day, and then waited for Zhao Shuming to come to her room in the evening after he had made dinner to wake her up.

He was also like now, propping up his hand and squatting beside the bed, or bending down to look at her.

Sometimes she sleeps in a daze and gets out of bed, and when she wakes up, she sits on the bed and gets angry by herself, so Zhao Shuming smoothes out her hair and makes her happy before going to dinner together.

Zhao Shuming leaned his body forward and looked at her eyes with a slight sideways glance, “Why, haven’t you gotten any sleep yet?”

Jiang Yimiao cupped her hands to her face and kneaded it several times without being gentle, “Overslept.”

She patted her face again, “But now I’m awake.”

“Sober then let’s eat together.” Zhao Shuming saw this self-awakening maneuver of hers and couldn’t help but flash a smile under his eyes.

Recently, the two of them had all eaten together, and he would revert from having three meals a day to completely seeping into her life.

Just like back then when they reunited again after two years of separation, he would still be the only person she was not related to by blood but closest to.

“What are we going to eat today.” Jiang Yimiao finally got out of bed with some reluctance.

She and Zhao Shuming were from the same hometown, and their tastes didn’t differ much, even though he had lived abroad for so many years, his tastes would still actively accommodate her.

“There’s your favorite steamed sea bass.”

“Yeah!” Jiang Yimiao finally turned from a weary face to a beaming smile.

God seems to have played a joke, the day before it was sunny, but today it started raining early in the morning.

Outside the balcony was covered by a haze, the wind wrapped the rain on the glass windows, the rain condensed into a stream of water sliding down the road. ……

Jiang Yimiao had planned to go out today to check out a nearby rental house, but as a result, her cell phone had received several orange rainstorm warning text messages in a row since last night.

She raised her head and looked at the wet window with a somewhat helpless sigh.

The dressing table in the master bedroom was large, but she wasn’t too fond of makeup, and although there were quite a few bottles and jars on the dressing table, they were all received by her in a drawer.

In the center of the table was her computer, and with her head propped up, she searched aimlessly on the web for posts about nearby houses for rent.

Although she couldn’t go out, Jiang Yimiao still found a few places online that she liked.

However, she would have to wait until next weekend before she could take a look at the houses on the ground.

Jiang Yimiao stood up and stretched, and when she walked slowly to the living room, Zhao Shuming was making dessert.

In layman’s terms it was actually a late night snack.

After living with Zhao Shuming for two days, Jiang Yimiao reacted to the fact that the university was on vacation, and he didn’t need to go to South University to work right now.

After asking him, Jiang Yimiao realized that Zhao Shuming would probably have to wait until August or September to officially start working, which would be the beginning of the next semester.

So Zhao Shuming didn’t have much to do other than reading cases and documents every day, and his days were so free that he had been working tirelessly in the kitchen at home to study cooking.

Jiang Yimiao took a deep breath and smelled the sweet and fragrant odor coming from the kitchen, and her appetite, which had often disappeared due to the summer heat, finally returned.

Zhao Shuming lived up to her stereotypical impression of an international student – very good at cooking.

Because of the rain, the sky was cloudy and dark.

If it was a sunny day, the sun hadn’t completely set at this time of the day.

Summer was obviously a warm, hot and life-affirming season, a season that seemed to be completely unrelated to dying and death.

But for Jiang Yimiao, summer was only sticky and hot.

But there was no need for a reason to hate a season, maybe it was just because she was born to hate heat, so she hated summer.

And the sadder thing was that South City only had two seasons a year – summer and winter.

Listening to the rain outside, Jiang Yimiao let out a sigh, sure enough, she hated summer.

Zhao Shuming heard her sigh and turned around, “Mint ice cream, want to try it?”

“Yes!” Jiang Yimiao ran to the kitchen and poked her head in.

Well, summer wasn’t so bad, at least it was bright enough to eat ice cream.

It just so happened that one of the TV shows Jiang Yimiao had been following lately was updating tonight, and Jiang Yimiao curled up on the couch with her ice cream bowl.

“How’s the house looking today?”

The sofa beside her sank, Zhao Shuming sat beside her, and Jiang Yimiao looked up and locked eyes with him.

“It’s not bad, I looked at a few places, so I’ll go take a field trip next weekend.” She pushed the large black-rimmed glasses on her face.

Jiang Yimiao’s degree of myopia was lower than Zhao Shuming’s, and she usually only wore glasses when watching TV and when she was on the computer.

The ice cream accidentally dripped onto her palm, the liquid nestling in her hand and glistening in the light, making her sticky and uncomfortable.

“There’s no need to be in a hurry to find an apartment.” Zhao Shuming drew two tissues and handed them to her.

“There’s still plenty of time anyway, you’re welcome to stay here anytime.”

I don’t know if he was infected by her or something else, Zhao Shuming also subconsciously pushed his glasses up, “Could it be that it’s uncomfortable to live here?”

Jiang Yimiao’s sideways head inevitably locked gazes with him, his eyebrows slightly furrowed, and his expression looked like he was simply concerned about her.

Hearing Zhao Shuming ask this question, Jiang Yimiao couldn’t help but think of the previous rental house where she had been uncomfortable.

Jiang Yimiao shook her head, “I think it’s quite good, but I can’t stay here with you all the time, how inconvenient to bother you.”

She had already said such words to Zhao Shuming many times.

She was satisfied with her current job and was ready to stay in South City all the time.

This meant that she had to find a long-term residence. It wasn’t as if her parents hadn’t mentioned the matter of financing her to buy a small house in South City before.

However, in recent years, the price of housing has become obsessive, and her location happens to be the center of the South City, and the price of housing is very expensive.

Just graduated to spend a few million to buy a house this thing for her some too extravagant ……

Compared to this, Jiang Yimiao is more willing to save money to buy a suite of rooms in her hometown in Linshi, which is more cost-effective.

Although living in Zhao Shuming’s place was indeed convenient, she and Zhao Shuming didn’t have the same kind of relationship they had when they were young.

When they were young, it seemed like the only things in their lives were studying and resting, and even when they lived together, they were like family.

But growing up a lot of things would become twisted, she didn’t know Zhao Shuming’s recent relationship status, even if he wasn’t in a relationship now, then he might talk about it later.

He will have his own life, may also start a new family.

She might just be a good friend to him at some point in his life.

When people are in a good relationship, they are like the N and S poles of a magnet, and when they are attracted to each other, they are close together.

But when the magnet turns over, it becomes the same pole repelling each other. A small change is all it takes to part ways.

Hearing Jiang Yimiao’s words, Zhao Shuming laughed, but Jiang Yimiao unexpectedly couldn’t understand his laughter.

“How could it be troublesome, Miao Miao.”

Zhao Shuming spoke slowly, I don’t know if it was because his job was related to teaching and psychological counseling, he sounded like a teacher and a doctor, holding medicine in his hand but smiling, “This medicine isn’t bitter.”

Jiang Yimiao looked at him with some confusion.

They were frankly just friends, and when they were young, they could joke that they were half-brothers and half-sisters, but in reality, they weren’t even related by blood.

No matter how nice Zhao Shuming was, he couldn’t always be unconditionally nice to her.

She touched the tip of her nose, “And I don’t know if you’re in love ah, if you are ……”

Jiang Yimiao was interrupted by Zhao Shuming before she could finish her sentence, “No.”

“What no?” She blinked.

“Haven’t been in love, haven’t been. So you don’t need to worry about that aspect.”

Zhao Shuming’s gaze fell on her face, moving from her light-colored eyes to the corner of her ice cream-stained lips.