Chapter 15

Jiang Yimiao looked down at his hand, his palm was much larger than her own and was able to cover her hand completely.

Her nails resumed pinching the muscles of his arm.

Jiang Yimiao bit her lip, obviously her brain was already persuading her to stop looking, but she still turned her head to look at the plush dolls that were placed one by one on the shelves, the baby that was being held in her arms was a girl, with two small pulls on her head, and her sparse bangs were also clipped with a small pink hairpin. Because the hair is a little short, the small pull of a very small handful, like two small horns.

She turned her head and seemed to see Jiang Yimiao’s gaze, giggled at her.

Jiang Yimiao looked at the baby’s round eyes and then looked at the doll’s eyes, both very cute …… would like to eat a mouthful.

“Puppy doll, very cute eh, do you like it?” Zhao Shuming bent down close to her ear and asked.

His entire body was like a heat source leaning over, the hot air he exhaled sprayed onto her cheeks making her a little itchy.

Jiang Yimiao bit her lip, her rapid breathing still hadn’t calmed down, she wanted to pinch that doll, and even more so, she wanted to bite it hard.

She lowered her head and tugged Zhao Shuming’s arm up the escalator, “Cute, but let’s quickly walk away.”

She couldn’t regulate the strange emotions she felt when confronted with cute objects, so a lot of the time she had to slowly wait for herself to calm down or bite down hard on the chewing gel.

But now that she was outside, surrounded by people, and she hadn’t put the bite gum in her bag, she couldn’t just find something to bite on. Jiang Yimiao could only deaden Zhao Shuming’s hand.

“You can buy one to take home if you like, you can just pinch it at home anyway.”

The elevator had almost sent Jiang Yimiao to the second floor, and she took a distant look at the pile of dolls, only able to make out the colors of the dolls in her line of sight, and she silently closed her eyes again.

For so many years her method of coping with this strange disease was to completely cut off all possibility of touching cute objects.

She bit her lip and said somewhat helplessly, “Forget it ……”

“River, this weird disease of yours, it’s still a bit serious.” Afraid that she would fall down at the escalator with her eyes closed, Zhao Shuming emptied a hand to fall behind her waist in the void.

It wasn’t until her own lips felt the painful sensation of teeth crushing through them that Jiang Yimiao slowly relaxed.

She skimmed her lips and nodded, “It’s a little bit, but it shouldn’t be as bad as it was when I was a kid.”

Jiang Yimiao lowered her head and released her hand as an afterthought, Zhao Shuming’s arm had already fallen with a few clear nail prints, she looked down at her short nails that she had already trimmed, she didn’t think that she hadn’t controlled her force for a moment, using her fingers to think about it she knew that the force she had just pinched him with must have not been small.

“I’m sorry I’m sorry, I didn’t realize I pinched so hard.” She cupped his arm, the messy marks were red and distinct on his hand.

She ran her palm over the area she had just scratched, mentally reassuring herself that the red marks would go away if she touched it like that, “Does it hurt?”

“It’s fine Miao Miao.” Zhao Shuming said in a calm tone, “It’s not like you haven’t scratched me like this before.”

“That was all when I was a kid, I didn’t know better when I was a kid.” Jiang Yimiao muttered in a small voice.

“You can also be unintelligent when you grow up.” He laughed.

Jiang Yimiao raised her head and frowned at him, a little confused, “Hmm?”

Zhao Shuming looked down at her, “If you have a sudden attack, you can treat me like you did before, I don’t mind if this can help you get relief and feel slightly more comfortable.”

She lowered if thoughtfully glanced at his arm slowly letting it go again and nodded minimally.

“Eh over there seems to be selling small kitchen appliances, didn’t you say you wanted to buy a new microwave?”

Jiang Yimiao’s gaze was quickly drawn elsewhere, completely forgetting the matter of just seeing the cute puppy doll onset.

“Okay, let’s go take a look.”

Zhao Shuming regained his grip on the handle of the shopping cart with both hands, River always made it a little difficult for him to start like this.

Zhao Shuming’s home appliances were actually very complete, but because they hadn’t been used for too long, and because of the humid weather in the southern city, some of the appliances were aging badly, and on the surface they looked as good as new, but in the end, the electricity wouldn’t even turn on.

A while ago, Zhao Shuming had already purchased some of them one after another, but in the last few days, he realized that there were also many tools in the kitchen that needed to be replaced.

At first, Jiang Yimiao had wanted to move, so he hadn’t thought that he would always live here.

Now that she’s not leaving, he’s really taken this as home.

Jiang Yimiao rarely buys home appliances, even small ones, so she doesn’t know much about it.

She basically just recognized the brand and listened to the shopper, but looking at the several rows of kitchen appliances on display, Jiang Yimiao’s selection phobia was still off.

She poked Zhao Shuming’s hand, “I don’t use the microwave much, you use them all, so it’s better for you to pick.”

“Good.” Zhao Shuming had done her homework in advance the day before, and the things she wanted to buy were memorized.

It was actually more convenient to buy these objects online, but he just wanted to go out for a walk with Jiang Yimiao.

However, because they were so well prepared, Zhao Shuming and Jiang Yimiao quickly chose the essentials they wanted to buy.

She then started walking aimlessly through the mall with Zhao Shuming.

Jiang Yimiao actually enjoyed shopping at the mall because she hated summer and the sticky, suffocating feeling of being exposed to fierce sunlight.

Whenever her back ached from sitting in the office all day and she planned to go hiking on the weekend, she glanced at the weather forecast on her cell phone, collapsed back into her air-conditioned bedroom, and resolved to go outdoors when the weather was cooler.

And the mall was cool enough to walk in a big circle without losing popularity.

Jiang Yimiao is also a very curious person, see anything new and strange things want to see, can touch will also touch.

Who didn’t have the experience of sticking their hands into piles of rice and beans when they were little.

“What is this?” Jiang Yimiao touched it and looked up before realizing it was an apron, “Apron?”

“It suddenly occurred to me that I should buy a new apron as well.” Zhao Shuming stopped behind her, “Buy one on the way.”

Jiang Yimiao flipped through the aprons hanging on the shelves, “But how come all the aprons here are so cute.”

She looked at the lace trim and floral pattern on the apron, in her impression, the one at home was a solid linen color.

The lace trim always felt like it didn’t go well with a mature male like Zhao Shuming. She looked up at Zhao Shuming.

“I think it’s quite pretty.”

Zhao Shuming noticed that she had just used “cute” to describe the apron, so she liked it.

“It’s nice to look at, but does it fit you?” She looked at the apron and then at Zhao Shuming, “It also has pink strawberries printed on it eh.”

Zhao Shuming looked at the size and took the next one, “I’m wearing it for you anyway, looking good is good enough.”

Jiang Yimiao watched as he placed the apron comfortably in their shopping cart.

Zhao Shuming had a good point, he didn’t even let her enter the kitchen on weekdays, let alone wear an apron.

But Jiang Yimiao didn’t know why she felt that his words sounded a bit strange, but she couldn’t tell what was strange.

The couple passing by seemed to look at them several times.

Jiang Yimiao touched the tip of her nose and pushed the shopping cart forward.

However, she realized that she was really wrong, Zhao Shuming looked inexplicably harmonious in this apron, and there was a feeling she couldn’t quite put her finger on from before.

She couldn’t tell exactly what the difference was.

Jiang Yimiao, who had worked for four days in a row, lay on the sofa like a puddle of water, hugging the sofa pillow in her arms and looking at Zhao Shuming, who was washing fruits in the kitchen through the glass door.

Recently, the team had a new project, Jiang Yimiao was so busy that she was dizzy, but Zhao Shuming’s recent idleness had made it much easier for her.

Jiang Yimiao felt like she was living the life of a child again.

As if sensing her gaze, Zhao Shuming exchanged a glance with her through the kitchen door.

Jiang Yimiao raised her hand and gestured in mid-air, she suddenly felt that if Zhao Shuming had another pink hair clip in his hair, it would look like it would be more harmonious.

Zhao Shuming looked at what she was gesturing, although he didn’t understand but looked at Jiang Yimiao with a look of gusto, so he didn’t interrupt her, he continued to lower his head to drain the water from the grapes, and then brought out the fruit plate.

“The grapes are washed.” He set the grapes on the coffee table in front of Jiang Yimiao, and when she thought Zhao Shuming was going to sit on the sofa, he went to take the cleaned mop out of the living room again.

Jiang Yimiao sat up and took an arrow step in front of him, “Is the floor dirty, let me mop it.”

He cooked the meals, he washed the bowls, and even the clothes were sorted by Zhao Shuming and put in the washing machine.

If even the hygiene was all done by him, Jiang Yimiao felt like she was going to turn into a rice bug if she kept lying like this and gnawed all the rice out of Zhao Shuming.

“No, Miao Miao you’re tired enough from work, take a break, that drama you’re chasing, isn’t it about to have a grand finale?” He patted her shoulder lightly signaling her to continue resting.

Zhao Shuming had a very, very slight case of OCD, not quite pathological, but he couldn’t help but clean up the house every day, the bottles and cans in the kitchen had to be arranged according to their height and weight, he had to mop the floor whenever he saw a dust cloud visible to the naked eye, and the objects in the drawers had to be arranged according to his rules.

And he was obliged to organize his and River’s home, so he was very energetic every time he did hygiene.

Seeing her still standing still, he smiled at her, “What’s the point of being polite with me?”

Jiang Yimiao pursed her lips, “I bought a sweeping robot two days ago, it should arrive tomorrow, so I don’t have to work you hard.”

Seeing Zhao Shuming’s gentle smile, she slowly sat back on the sofa and watched as Zhao Shuming bent down and started mopping the floor.

The apron he was wearing hadn’t been untied yet, and even though he was wearing slightly loose pajamas, the apron was tightly wrapped around his waistline, making it appear that his waist was even thinner than usual.

But with the movement of leaning over, the neckline of the pajamas revealed the area below his collarbone in a hidden manner.

She couldn’t help but think of the Melody hair clip she saw when she was shopping at the mall with Zhao Shuming last weekend, and it kinda matched this lace trimmed apron with strawberries on him.

Jiang Yimiao looked up at him, and the hair on his forehead was slightly moist from the shower.

There was something cute …… whether Zhao Shuming looked cute or the apron he was wearing looked cute, or the way he looked cute with his hair clips in her vision, Jiang Yimiao herself couldn’t tell.

She suddenly felt that she had some toothache, and her body shrank in the corner of the sofa, and her hands and feet involuntarily began to tremble.

Zhao Shuming subconsciously looked up at Jiang Yimiao, but realized that she didn’t look quite right, and her hands were clenching herself tightly.

He threw down the things in his hands and ran to the sofa.

“Miao Miao, are you having another attack?”

Zhao Shuming held her shoulders and squatted in front of the sofa, curling up the sleeves of his pajamas and stretching his arms out in front of her again.

Just like at the mall, there was an air of indifference to letting her do whatever she wanted.

Jiang Yimiao’s chest rose and fell from her breathing, and because she was breathing too hard she felt a little dizzy in her head.

She actually didn’t know what her definition of cute was, although since she was a child she would have fits for things that were generally considered cute by the general public, she also realized that sometimes the objects of her fits weren’t necessarily cute in the traditional sense.

For example, her soft, solid-colored quilt wasn’t really cute at all, but she would also want to hug and squeeze it for a while; for example, her mother wasn’t really cute at all, but when she smelled the warm scent of her mother’s body as well as when she saw her mother’s white arms, she would also want to take a bite out of her mother’s arms.

Another example is now seeing Zhao Shuming ……

Jiang Yimiao looked down at his arm, clear veins bubbling up on his arm, and the message of the scent of a freshly bathed body took over her entire brain. Zhao Shuming’s hands were also very pretty, his fingers were slender but not too strong.

She licked her lower lip and her hands involuntarily cupped onto his arm.

Jiang Yimiao saw a very faint scar on his arm, not the kind of scar that was cut by a blade and left obvious and due to hyperplasia, but a scar that was left by the skin accumulating through one trauma after another.

She knew that this scar was made by her, she had bitten him many times.

Jiang Yimiao’s fingertips couldn’t help but grab onto his arm again, her nails embedding themselves very shallowly into his skin.

“Miao Miao, if it’s uncomfortable, you can scratch or bite.” Zhao Shuming pressed his eyebrows, crouching by the couch he raised his head, his tone was one of suggestion, but made it completely impossible to refuse.

She looked at him, and again that gentle expression that indulged her to come as she pleased, was Zhao Shuming tempting her to do so ……

Jiang Yimiao swallowed, slightly opening her lips and burying her head towards the direction of Zhao Shuming’s arm scar.