Chapter 19

The city at night was still filled with the noise of cars scraping against the ground, and the higher the empty floors, the louder the noise. The rain rustled on the glass windows.

Zhao Shuming leaned down and lowered his head, his soft lips touched the back of his hand, and it seemed to linger for two seconds, but the kiss seemed to pass in an instant.

He had been wandering between indulgence and restraint, but Zhao Shuming still couldn’t restrain himself from landing a slapdash kiss on her hand.

Jiang Yimiao’s hands still retained the scent of the shower gel from the evening shower, and he was obviously familiar with this scent, after all, it was the shower gel she loved to use in middle school.

However, no matter how many times he smelled it, he could not suppress his feelings of love and joy.

The curtains in her room were tightly drawn, and not a bit of light from the window could penetrate, but he still looked down and stared at Jiang Yimiao’s hand for a while.

She wouldn’t blame him,…….

They had done something more intimate than this.

Zhao Shuming’s fingertips rubbed her hand delicately for a few moments, as light as a feather sweeping across her skin, and Jiang Yimiao, who was still asleep, didn’t realize it.

He carefully picked up her hand and put it back under her blanket, tucked Jiang Yimiao in, and slowly walked out of her bedroom after a long time.

As for whether Zhao Shuming had a good night’s sleep or not, even he didn’t know.

He had the impression that he was dreaming again, but he only remembered seeing Miao Miao in his dream, but he couldn’t recall anything more.

Until the alarm bell in the early morning ripped him out of his dream.

“Why is it raining again?”

Jiang Yimiao leaned on the edge of the balcony and took a look, the sky was a bit dusky, this morning’s rain was not heavy. But the air outside was already covered in a layer of water mist.

The rain pattered diagonally into the balcony in the direction of the wind, and Jiang Yimiao looked down and touched the small droplets of water that hit the back of her hand.

“It doesn’t feel like there have been many days this month where it hasn’t rained.”

She scratched her newly straightened hair and paced back to the living room.

“I’ll walk you to work after breakfast, I don’t have much work to do today.”

Zhao Shuming poured hot soy milk into a cup. Following what Jiang Yimiao said yesterday, he did not add walnuts, filtered out the dregs of the beans, and added a little sugar.

Jiang Yimiao had a very long and confusing dream during the night, in which she seemed to have experienced several months of events.

She woke up this morning with no energy and a swollen head. She blinked her sore eyes.

When she saw Zhao Shuming ask her, she wanted to subconsciously say that she didn’t need to bother.

Just thinking of Zhao Shuming’s face that worried about her every time, she nodded again.

“There is a possibility of entering a La Niña event this summer ……”

The voice of the weather station’s press conference came out from the cell phone.

Jiang Yimiao took a big bite of yakisoba and muttered, “The weather has been so weird the last two years.”

“Well, I haven’t seen a rainy season that long in a long time.” Zhao Shuming lost his smile.

Even if he grew up on this side with Jiang Yimiao even as a child, the summers he remembered would rain often, but he hadn’t seen a rainy season like this one this year.

“Eat slowly, it’s still not too late to drive to the office.” Zhao Shuming laughed and took over Jiang Yimiao’s unloved egg yolk again.

“Too hungry, I feel like I dreamed and ran all night last night, now I’m starving to death.” Saying this Jiang Yimiao even touched her stomach.

When she was hungry, her stomach was really flat, and only when she was full would she change back to the way she was when she was normal.

Jiang Yimiao remembers that there was a period of time in elementary school when she was growing up, and she was so hungry that she could eat three bowls of rice every day when she arrived at the meal time. Sometimes even she didn’t know if she was really full.

Only by touching her stomach could Jiang Yimiao guess whether she had eaten enough or not.

Hearing her words, Zhao Shuming was stunned for a moment, remembering that she was dreaming when he went to see her sleep at night.

With a sense of weakness that she was almost caught doing something bad, Zhao Shuming coughed lightly and lowered his eyelashes, and only after two seconds did his face finally pull out a gentle smile like in the past, “If you’re hungry, you should eat more.”

She bit her chopsticks and looked up to Zhao Shuming, her mood that had been ruined today because of the cloudy weather was cured again by Zhao Shuming’s breakfast, and she nodded her head with a small chicken peck.

On the way from home to the office, flurries of rain drifted down from the sky, the ground was filled with pedestrians with umbrellas, and the car ran over the wet Laos ground.

Jiang Yimiao leaned on the back of the passenger seat and took another nap, and when she arrived at the office, the sound of rainwater slamming on the ground suddenly came from not far away, and the sound came from far away.

Suddenly, it was as if the water was splashing down from the sky.

The rain suddenly became heavier.

Jiang Yimiao picked up her shoulder bag and looked down, even the ground of the underground parking lot was wet with rainwater.

“It’s raining heavily outside, so be careful on your way back and make sure to stay safe.” Jiang Yimiao said to Zhao Shuming towards the car window.

“Uh, don’t worry.” He tapped the steering wheel with his fingertips, his mood inexplicably good just because she would be worried about him.

“Then I’ll go up first, bye.” Jiang Yimiao waved her hand, grabbed the shoulder strap of her bag and ran in the direction of the elevator.

Zhao Shuming’s gaze followed her until a car drove by just in time to block Jiang Yimiao’s back, and by the time the car left his line of sight, Jiang Yimiao had already gotten on the elevator as well.

He locked his brows and sighed, he wouldn’t be able to see her for another whole day. He pursed his lips and backed the car out.

Jiang Yimiao thought that this rain would stop after two or three hours just like those days last week, but she guessed wrong.

It stopped raining for a while in the middle, and the sun popped up, and then it started to continue raining again in the afternoon.

Jiang Yimiao looked at the three screens on her desktop, and after writing the algorithm for most of the day, she was about to get stars in her eyes.

Jiang Yimiao looked down at the time, the moment she stood up, her legs were still weak, she silently walked to the office window, broke open the window a little bit to show an opening, the wind drilled in along the opening.

She felt like she was going to sit until she got moldy, her back ached after sitting for a long time, she clenched her fist and hammered her back.

[What do you want to eat tonight?

Jiang Yimiao stared at the message sent by Zhao Shuming in her cell phone screen and sniffled a little sadly, no surprise that she had to work overtime again tonight.

[Tonight again have to work overtime.] She paired it with an emoticon of a little bear crying.

The wind suddenly became stronger, and the rain outside was wrapped and blown in, Jiang Yimiao hurriedly closed the window tightly.

[Then are you going to the dining hall for dinner tonight?]

[Haven’t thought …… about it yet] Jiang Yimiao pressed down her sore temples, she really hadn’t thought about what she wanted to eat tonight.

She recently had a tuning program on her hands to hand in, although it was almost done but ddl was close, she had to hurry up and get it done, causing her to work overtime for the past few days in a row on weekdays.

[I’ll bring you food?

Jiang Yimiao touched her flat belly and actually ghostly did not refuse.

Zhao Shuming had already thought of the dishes for today’s dinner, and it didn’t take long for him to arrive at the office building.

“How did you get here so quickly, have you eaten?”

Jiang Yimiao ran to the first floor to pick up Zhao Shuming, and she again looked down like a curious baby several times at the two insulated bags he was carrying in his hands.

“I’ve already eaten some, you’re hungry.”

“Hungry hungry hungry, I feel like I’m going to be starved to paper thin.” After a whole day of brain exercise, Jiang Yimiao felt like her entire body had been emptied.

“When I was in my senior year of high school you also brought me food like now eh.”

Jiang Yimiao remembered that Zhao Shuming had gone back to his home country on vacation in May. She was still in school preparing for the exams, and Zhao Shuming was afraid that she wouldn’t be able to eat enough in the school cafeteria, so he gave Jiang Yimiao half a month’s worth of dinners in a row.

Every day, he made soup to make nutritious meals, and fed her well.

“I only came back to see you once for the school’s Bar Mitzvah in February, and as a result, when I saw you again two months later, your entire body had lost a lot of weight.” Zhao Shuming laughed helplessly.

At that time, she really did look more than a little gaunt, but luckily the two months of summer vacation had given her a chance to make up for it.

Jiang Yimiao brought him all the way up to the office.

Jiang Yimiao’s office still had two or three people at their workstations, and about half of them were working overtime tonight, but it was meal time, so most of them had gone to dinner. Most of them went to eat.

Qiu Xiaoyan from the next workstation had just picked up her takeout order downstairs, and as soon as she came up, she saw Jiang Yimiao and Zhao Shuming next to each other.

She glanced at Jiang Yimiao with a smile on her face, but Jiang Yimiao’s mind was full of fragrant dinner at that time, and she didn’t even notice Qiu Xiaoyan’s gossipy expression.

“My workstation seems to be a bit messy, haha ……” Jiang Yimiao glanced at her desktop, “There’s a small lounge in our office. You can go there to eat.”

Jiang Yimiao smoothly picked up the mug on the desktop and prepared to get a cup of warm water to drink.

“Is your mug broken here,” Zhao Shuming’s eyes sharply saw a chip on the mug, and he pointed to the location of the chip.

“Oh, it just accidentally touched it and ended up missing a mouth.” Jiang Yimiao looked down.

“Why don’t you get a new one?”

“I keep forgetting and never bought one, so I just made do.” Jiang Yimiao laughed dryly twice, this cup of hers was also a solid-colored cup with only an English word printed on it, and was only used in the office.

Zhao Shuming swept a glance at her pure black and white matching workstation and stared at the gaping hole for a few more seconds, but didn’t continue the topic.

“You’re hungry after a busy day, eat first.”

He unzipped the insulated bag and held out the lunchbox.

“Why is your lunchbox for this so cute.” Jiang Yimiao glanced at the bear pattern printed on the top of the lunchbox.

“Exposing you to more cute things, desensitization therapy.” Zhao Shuming helped her twist off the lid of the lunch cup that contained the soup.

“Cute, but I realized that I don’t seem to have a very intense reaction to pictures of such still life.”

Jiang Yimiao realized as an afterthought that she preferred things that were somewhat soft and could be touched, pinched, pinched, and bitten.

The dynamic kittens and puppies in the video were also cute enough to make her want to bite them, but the static cartoon pictures wouldn’t make her react too much, but there was still a tingling feeling in her heart, and Jiang Yimiao turned the lid of the lunchbox back on the desktop.

Zhao Shuming nodded thoughtfully.

“Taro ribs! I’ve been craving ribs lately.” Jiang Yimiao picked up her chopsticks and started eating without any politeness at all.

It wasn’t until she had taken several bites that she realized Zhao Shuming was looking straight at her.

Suddenly, she remembered that on the night of the reunion, he seemed to be sitting across from her like this watching her eat.

“You’re watching me eat, making me feel a little weird inside.” Jiang Yimiao said weird, but still took another big spoonful and took a bite.

“Why is it weird, don’t we often eat face to face.” Zhao Shuming propped up his head, the corners of his eyes curving.

What was said was a question, but the tone was a declarative tone.

Jiang Yimiao chewed a few bites and swallowed, “That’s not the same ah, usually it’s the two of us eating together, now it’s me eating by myself.”

And the meal was still made by Zhao Shuming.

If it wasn’t for the fact that he was Zhao Shuming, Jiang Yimiao felt that he was like her personal nanny, although she was already used to this kind of life, because when she was a child, their mode of getting along seemed to be the same.

But Jiang Yimiao now felt a little weirdly embarrassed.

“It’s all the same.” Zhao Shuming paused, “I’m happy to see you eating happily.”

Jiang Yimiao licked the sauce from the corner of her lips as she listened to his words, making positive feedback to the chef was indeed a necessary thing.

“That’s still because you cook the best ah.”

“Best?” He seemed a little unconvinced by her words.

“Of course, it’s even better than my dad’s cooking, you’re the best.”

Jiang Yimiao was hungry and anxious, the speed of eating was also fast, it did not take long to eat all the rice, meat and vegetables are still left some slowly eat.

You are the most delicious …… Zhao Shuming couldn’t stop the smile on his face, knowing full well the meaning of these words in Jiang Yimiao’s mouth, but he thought about it on another level.

In this world, besides her parents, she had only bitten him, and he was the only one who had been bitten the most times.

No matter what, no one could ever erase the traces of him in Jiang Yimiao’s life.

“I’m afraid that you’ve brought a small portion of fruit loaf for your appetite, so you can wait for a while before eating it.” He turned around and saw a refrigerator, “You can put it in the fridge.”

“No, I’ll want it later!” She looked at the fruit loaf through the clear box, “Okay, I want it now.”

“You’ve only just had a full meal, let’s take a break first.” Zhao Shuming softened his voice.

“Just two bites, let me have two bites first.” Jiang Yimiao blinked, her tone couldn’t be described as petulant, but Zhao Shuming was completely unable to refuse.

“Alright, eat if you really want to.”

He uncovered the lid, and the fruit loaf wasn’t something he made himself.

It was bought at a fruit store downstairs, and this fruit salvage was basically filled with what Jiang Yimiao loved to eat.

At this moment, Qiu Xiaoyan coincidentally also walked into the rest room, opening the refrigerator in search of the cola she put here.

“Ah Yan, you’re full too?” Jiang Yimiao poked her head to look at her.

“Well, ordering a pizza spiced me up.” Qiu Xiaoyan exhaled, “I even made a note that it’s slightly slightly spicy! It’s still so spicy.”

“Your friend is so nice to bring you food, huh?” She greeted Zhao Shuming in a self-congratulatory manner.

Jiang Yimiao glanced at Zhao Shuming and nodded with a wink.

“How nice.” Qiu Xiaoyan took two violent gulps of Coke.

“By the way Miao Miao, Ah Min has something to look for you, but he didn’t find you just now, so you can contact him later.”

“Ah Min?” Jiang Yimiao took a bite of her mango, “Oh oh, I’ll find him later.”

Hearing Jiang Yimiao’s voice, Zhao Shuming subconsciously frowned, his name coincidentally had the word “Ming” in it, and he realized that he had only known her for a few months as a coworker, and she was able to call her with such familiarity and intimacy, whether it was Qiu Xiaoyan or that A-Min that they had just talked about. The one they had just talked about, Ah Min.

But why had he lost such intimacy, even though Jiang Yimiao had gotten used to him being by her side again?

“Do you want to eat?” Jiang Yimiao forked a piece of apple with her fork and suddenly reached out to him.

Seeing his sudden lack of expression, Jiang Yimiao smiled and pushed the apple in front of him.

Zhao Shuming returned to his senses, and in his afterglow, Qiu Xiaoyan was still propped up on the other table drinking a Coke.

He opened his mouth to signal Jiang Yimiao to feed him, “Miao Miao, you feed me.”

Zhao Shuming lowered his eyes, the apple was stained with yogurt, and the fork was still the fork Jiang Yimiao had just used herself.

Qiu Xiaoyan was a little surprised, thinking that Jiang Yimiao had clearly said that they were just friends.

Is this something a friend could do? She felt like she was glowing like a big light bulb. Qiu Xiaoyan silently twisted the cap on the bottle and walked out with small steps.

But she didn’t know that Zhao Shuming and Jiang Yimiao had used the same pair of chopsticks, drank a bottle of mineral water together, and that Jiang Yimiao had stuffed him with a lot of things she couldn’t finish when she was little.

So Zhao Shuming was used to this.

Jiang Yimiao raised her arm and stuffed the apple into his mouth.

She raised her head and stared at him, the light illuminated Zhao Shuming brightly, his eyes were glowing, and his lips were a very healthy reddish lip color. The corner of her mouth was inadvertently stained with a bit of yogurt, which was also quickly pursed clean by Zhao Shuming.

Jiang Yimiao touched her full and slightly bloated stomach, obviously she had already eaten a lot, but why did she now feel that Zhao Shuming’s entire body looked delicious, delicious in the physical sense.

She unconsciously gulped, and Jiang Yimiao’s eyes swept over that scar on his arm. His arm was good to bite, his collarbone looked good to nibble on, and even his lips, they seemed to be good for being bitten ……