Chapter 09

“Hmm?” Jiang Yimiao blinked, only to feel Zhao Shuming’s warmth all over her palms, “But it’s really dangerous to drive in a rainstorm.”

When she realized in hindsight that there was something in Zhao Shuming’s words, Jiang Yimiao opened her mouth, then shook off his hand and turned around, sneezing again.

Her blouse was white today, and with the wet, watery clothes stuck to her body, the skin underneath was somewhat hidden.

“Miao Miao, quickly go take a hot bath, don’t catch a cold again.” Zhao Shuming didn’t dwell on the words he had just asked himself, nor did he wait for her answer.

He should have known that he shouldn’t have taken the bull by the horns with Jiang Yimiao.

Zhao Shuming picked up her wrist and pulled her to the bathroom, where her wrist was also cold.

“I’ll get the clothes for you later, the water is hot now, you go wash first.”

Jiang Yimiao was probably hungry and cold, her brain was a bit sluggish for a moment, she really did want to hurry up and take a hot bath as well, so she nodded at Zhao Shuming before closing the bathroom door.

The sound of rustling undressing and the sound of water gushing out from the shower soon came from inside.

Zhao Shuming looked at the bathroom door and sighed.

Afterwards, he helped Jiang Yimiao find pajamas, a bath towel, and even her personal clothes in the clothing basket and brought them to her.

Jiang Yimiao quickly stretched out a hand to catch it, just like last time.

She didn’t forget to shout her thanks to Zhao Shuming outside the door.

After taking a hot bath and washing her hair, Jiang Yimiao finally felt more comfortable, and her mind wasn’t so foggy.

Zhao Shuming was standing in the kitchen cooking for her, Jiang Yimiao had just gotten out of the bathroom when she smelled the aroma of the kitchen, the roasted duck’s sauce and fragrant herbs were stimulating her like crazy, she shuffled her slippers and darted over to the kitchen, “It smells so good!”

Zhao Shuming glanced back at her, his tone remained the same, “Hungry, you can eat soon.”

She just had slightly white lips, just being wet and cold from the rain wouldn’t be like this, she must be hungry and cold. So Zhao Shuming waited for her to shower and then prepared to make some food for her.

“Hungry Hungry Hungry Hungry ……” she recited like a mantra, every time she shouted like this in the past, Zhao Shuming seemed to be able to cook a little faster.

“Your hair is still wet, go blow dry it first, don’t catch a cold.” Zhao Shuming looked at her head.

“Alright, got it.” She took the towel again and wiped her hair haphazardly, running to her room to blow dry it.

Jiang Yimiao’s hair was a bit long, but it was easy-drying hair, so blow drying it didn’t take much time.

The time it took to pick up her hair after blow drying it was probably longer than the time it took her to blow dry her hair. ……

Jiang Yimiao touched her blow-dried hot head, a little worried about whether her hairline would still be in good health when she made it to thirty-five.

She crouched under the dressing table, taking a tissue to pick up all the long hair that had fallen to the floor, and when she was about to stand up, her head hit something.

But it wasn’t the hard table bottom, it was the palm of Zhao Shuming’s hand.

“Careful, you almost hit your head.” He laughed.

“Hm? When did you come in.” Jiang Yimiao didn’t even hear Zhao Shuming walking.

Zhao Shuming unplugged the hair dryer and coiled the cord, “I just finished cooking and wanted to see if you dried your hair.”

“It’s ready to eat is it?!”

Jiang Yimiao scratched her hair with her hands, the outer layer had been cooled by the air conditioner, the inner hair was still hot.

“Miao Miao, you wouldn’t have not eaten at night, right?” Zhao Shuming narrowed his eyes and hit the nail on the head.

Jiang Yimiao fluttered her eyes and touched the tip of her nose again, “The rain was too heavy, and the company cafeteria is in the opposite building, so I didn’t go to …… takeout and didn’t dare to order it. But I ate instant noodles and cookies or something.”

“That’s just right, eat something.” He turned off the room light and went out the room door with her.

It was raining a little less outside, but the sound of the rain was still intermittently disturbing.

“Eat slowly, don’t choke. Why do you look more like Eiku Ruko than me.”

Zhao Shuming joked, he actually knew that whenever Jiang Yimiao was hungry, she would eat in big mouthfuls, eating quickly and violently, a habit that she hadn’t changed yet.

With her mouth stuffed with rice, it was inconvenient for Jiang Yimiao to open her mouth, she just gave a haphazard hmmm.

Zhao Shuming didn’t eat dinner either, because he wanted to wait for her to come home to eat, and the two hungry people swept the whole table in three tries.

Jiang Yimiao ate too quickly and braced herself, slumping back in her chair and patting her stomach to look at her cell phone.

“If it’s still raining heavily tomorrow, it’s better if I send you to work.”

She held up her cell phone and pushed it in front of Zhao Shuming, “Tomorrow’s rainstorm red alert, the administrative side just notified that they don’t have to go to work, home office hehehe.”

Zhao Shuming was stunned for a moment, then raised his eyebrows and nodded with a smile, “Well, it’s good to be at home, it’s safer.”

When Jiang Yimiao finished eating, it was nearly ten o’clock. Normally at this time she would probably already be lying in bed secretly swiping videos of cute kittens and puppies.

She stroked her dry hair and routinely said goodnight to Zhao Shuming before returning to her room.

“Bed, I’m back.” Jiang Yimiao muttered to herself, flopping down on the bed and hugging her quilt and sucking it in.

Shu Tan ……

“And you.” She grabbed the doll and squeezed both of its hands.

She rolled over with the doll in her arms and opened up a couple of pet bloggers she was following on her phone, and Cyber started sucking.

Why are kittens and puppies so cute, Jiang Yimiao does not know, she only knows that she is going to be so cute that she can not stand it, her hands began to resist trembling again, so much so that she wants to eat it in one bite ……

She clutched the corner of the plush quilt in her palms, and silently took out the chewing gum from the drawer, the chewing gum is usually an object for orthodontic patients to prevent muscle atrophy for chewing training.

But for Jiang Yimiao, it was the salvation that relieved her strange disease.

When she saw things that were cute to her as well as things she liked, she needed to bite down on objects of a certain toughness in order to alleviate the overreaction.

Today, Jiang Yimiao had been in a bit of a low mood because of the rain, but such gloom was swept away because she saw something cute.

She hugged the quilt and the doll and rolled on the bed.

When Zhao Shuming looked at the time to finish what he was doing, the light in Jiang Yimiao’s room had already been turned off.

He stood by the door and took a look, she was in a big zigzag position, only her stomach was covered with a corner, as if she was sleeping.

The air conditioning in the room was already a bit cool, Zhao Shuming softly walked to her room and tucked the covers back in for her.

Miao Miao ah, broke her promise again. He had clearly agreed that he would accompany her to watch TV tonight.

Zhao Shuming shook his head, but after working so hard today, it’s okay to break his word.

He covered the door to his room so that the light from his room wouldn’t affect her sleep.

Zhao Shuming sat back in front of the desk, looking at the solid wood photo frame quietly placed on the table, next to the photo frame is a clock pendulum, battery aging so that the clock has been placed here for several years has been slowed down for more than ten minutes.

The ticking sound of the escapement surrounded his ears, like a leaky faucet, hitting the tiles drop by drop.

Zhao Shuming sat up and took the picture frame in his hands, and he gently caressed it through the glass.

In the frame was the photo he took with Jiang Yimiao on the day of her Bat Mitzvah when he rushed back to China. At that time, she was still close to him, and in the photo, she was wearing very light makeup, holding his arm with both hands, and showing a standard eight-toothed smile to the camera.

Both of their heads were close to each other, body language does not lie.

Zhao Shuming’s hand holding the picture frame dropped to his leg as he leaned backward on the back of the chair, he hadn’t slept very well in the last two days, and his temples were vaguely aching.

He remembered that his friends had asked him no less than three times why he wanted to go back to China, and those who were familiar with him were a little puzzled by his choice, because it meant that Zhao Shuming would have to give up his nine-to-four, five-day-a-week, sixty-thousand-pound-a-year job.

The salary of a high school teacher is actually average for him, and the only benefit in the eyes of outsiders is probably the establishment.

Only Zhao Shuming himself knew that another benefit was that he didn’t need to sit on a shift, and his vacation time was freer, which could make it more convenient for him to stay with Jiang Yimiao and take care of her.

Why did he come back? The reason was simple, he came back just for Jiang Yimiao.

He gently put the photo frame back on the table and inexplicably laughed, he should have been laughing at himself.

Zhao Shuming knew that he wasn’t much of a decent person at all, he had a very abnormal feeling towards Jiang Yimiao since he was a child.

Many psychologically abnormal people blamed their mistakes on his abnormal family of origin.

But Zhao Shuming is not, although his parents divorced, but the two of them got together and parted peacefully.

From the divorce single to now, is the relationship of the New Year can still be together on the table for dinner, and both parents only have him a child, they both only love him.

Than some for bravado did not break up the family, Zhao Shuming’s childhood to be much happier.

After all, his parents were both considered good people, just a bit indifferent in their relationship, so indifferent that it was like their family’s genes were like that.

He grew up like this, except for Jiang Yimiao, he didn’t have any special friends, but because of his good grades and gentle temper, it seemed that all of his classmates were his friends.

However, his good temper is only because he is too lazy to lose his temper, and his good family education has coerced him to always treat people with a gentle face.

His affection for his parents is also a little light, the family of three harmonious but not very close.

Zhao Shuming has poured all his emotions into Jiang Yimiao, he wants to possess her, and even more so, he wants to be possessed by her.

Jiang Yimiao has always thought that her best friend since birth is Zhao Shuming.

But she had forgotten that when she was in kindergarten, there was a pair of twins of the same age in the next block of flats, and since they were both girls, they often played together.

And Zhao Shuming was the one who stood outside watching them.

If Zhao Shuming hadn’t intentionally filled the family’s toy room with Jiang Yimiao’s favorite toys, looked for her every day after school, and filled the family’s living room with her favorite snacks at the time, he wouldn’t have been the one who had the best time with Jiang Yimiao.

He began to quietly penetrate into her life, taking care of her in every detail, making Jiang Yimiao completely dependent on him in life. Even when she had a strange attack, she could bite him at will.

But Zhao Shuming was so indulgent that Jiang Yimiao grew up believing that holding hands, hugging, and even sleeping in the same bed with him was normal.

When Zhao Shuming left her, Jiang Yimiao was only sixteen years old, and even if he had abandoned all of his moral conscience and wanted to do something, there was no way he could actually do it.

Waiting for her to grow up was fine, growing up was fine.

But a lot of things become twisted when you grow up.

He was confident that Jiang Yimiao also loved him, only that this love was not the love of a man and a woman.

And now along with this kind of love had been worn away by time.

Zhao Shuming had resolved to separate for a while because he realized his abnormal excesses, and come back after he had grown enough to take responsibility for his own life.

Even her perfect education was an advantage she liked.

Unfortunately it seemed a little late now.

He was like an opulent house, gilded and gleaming. But who knew that the foundation had long ago suffered shear damage and plentiful walls.

In his line of work, there are many psychologically challenged people in his own right, and a large percentage of potential patients.

Sometimes, bringing issues is also a way they can address them.

Zhao Shuming realized early on that there were times when people had to admit that they weren’t normal.

He stood up, looked at the room where she had turned off the lights, and sighed softly.

The night was thick, and the rain didn’t stop completely until halfway through the night. The sound of the construction team had long since disappeared, but the friction of wheels still ran over the road.

Jiang Yimiao slept peacefully, the quilt covering half of her body as the doll rolled from the crook of her arm to her side. Logically she should have slept through the night, but her eyes suddenly opened in the dimly lit room in the middle of the night.

She subconsciously touched her stomach, blaming it on the fact that she had just drank a large glass of juice at dinner because of a craving. And now the retribution for drinking too much water at night had come.

Jiang Yimiao squinted her sleepy eyes as she woke up from her dream and sat up with her hand propped up on the bed, something pressed against her palm in the darkness ……

She covered her mouth before letting out a cry of shock, what she was pressing against was the back of Zhao Shuming’s hand.

Zhao Shuming sat on the floor next to her bed, his head pressed against his arm resting on the edge of her bed as he slept.

Jiang Yimiao’s shock only lasted for two seconds, she raised her own hand in a frenzy, her eyes, which had been completely unable to open due to sleepiness, opened completely, she blinked and reached out to touch Zhao Shuming’s head.

There was something marvelous about the touch of his hair sticking in her hand.

Jiang Yimiao looked down at his eyes, which were closed peacefully. He should be asleep, right, she tapped Zhao Shuming’s shoulder with some uneasiness, “Zhao, Zhao Shuming ……”

Her call was actually very soft, but Zhao Shuming still woke up.

Zhao Shuming nearly thought that he was dreaming of Jiang Yimiao, and that she was calling his name in his dream.

It was only when he raised his head and felt the scent of Jiang Yimiao’s body all around him that he realized something.

“Zhao Shuming.” Jiang Yimiao poked her head in his direction, her face was a bit grave and full of worry as she asked, “Is your sleepwalking …… disorder acting up again?”