Chapter 26

The midday sunlight was fierce, shining like a spotlight on the whole world as far as she could see.

Jiang Yimiao subconsciously tried to make a swallowing motion, the tip of her tongue lifting slightly to skim over his fingertips.

As far as she could remember, Jiang Yimiao didn’t seem to have bitten Zhao Shuming’s fingers, she usually bit on tough parts like his arms and neck.

He had a standard healthy figure, and because his body fat percentage was low, his fingers were well defined.

Jiang Yimiao’s incisors bit into Zhao Shuming’s knuckles, and all she could feel was a bit of hardness.

Maybe that’s how a puppy feels when it bites a teething stick.

Outside the window, I don’t know which robin sounded a chirp, and suddenly all the robins played.

She raised her eyebrows and looked at Zhao Shuming’s face before realizing what she had done, and after her brain went down for two seconds, Jiang Yimiao swallowed the grapes in a single bound and violently loosened her teeth.

She tugged Zhao Shuming’s hand and sent it in the direction of the sink, water clattering out of the faucet and rushing over her and his hands.

“I’m sorry I’m sorry, I, I didn’t know why I bit on it.” Jiang Yimiao didn’t know if she had soiled Zhao Shuming’s hand.

From a very young age, Shen Man wouldn’t eat anything that Jiang Yimiao had eaten.

If Zhao Shuming had obsessive-compulsive disorder, then Shen Man definitely had a cleanliness fetish. She hated other people’s saliva indiscriminately, even her own daughter’s would be clearly distinguished.

That’s why Zhao Shuming was the only one who ate what she ate without a care in the world.

But times are different now. When she was a child, she didn’t mind many things, but now she’s not a child anymore.

Jiang Yimiao lowered her head and rubbed the place where Zhao Shuming had just been bitten by her.

“Miao Miao, it’s okay.” It was rare for him to see that Jiang Yimiao’s face seemed to be colored with a little blush.

She turned off the faucet and held Zhao Shuming’s hand in both hands, placing it on the side of his leg.

Jiang Yimiao touched the tip of her nose, the water on her fingertips stained the bridge of her nose making her itch a little, and she lifted the back of her hand to wipe the tip of her nose again.

“Miao Miao, are you having a strange attack again?” Zhao Shuming tried his best to hide the kind of leap in his heart, but his eyebrows and the corners of his lips couldn’t hide his true emotions.

This was perhaps a big step forward for him.

Jiang Yimiao’s gaze subconsciously glanced in the direction of the living room outside the glass door of the kitchen, those dolls she hadn’t had time to set back in their original position and were still piled up on the sofa.

“I was just playing with the dolls on the couch, and I couldn’t help that emotion again ……” she explained.

Her gaze drew back and landed on his arm again. She had just been a little too rough in her movements as she helped him wash his hands clean, and even his arms were covered in droplets of water.

Zhao Shuming raised an eyebrow, the joy in the bottom of his eyes faded for a few moments, so it was the doll that was the object of her immediate onset, she was just seeing the doll because it felt too cute and her emotions spilled over to him.

Zhao Shuming thought it was because he was cute in her eyes that she couldn’t stand it.

He lowered his eyes and glanced at the apron on his body, the waistband that was purposely tied a little tighter outlined his figure nicely, the collar that he had purposely unbuttoned cut across his lower jaw, and even his own demeanor had been maintained with a sense of sickly softness.

It seemed River wasn’t as easy to seduce when she was older.

“It didn’t bite you, did it?”

The strength of the bite Jiang Yimiao had just given wasn’t too light or too heavy, not so much as to leave a mark but felt like it would produce pain.

Zhao Shuming, however, shook his head, “It doesn’t hurt, it’s fine. “He couldn’t wait for Jiang Yimiao to bite her harder, the harder she bites only shows that she likes it more.

“Miao Miao, if you are sick and want to bite me you can always do so, you bit me many times when you were a child, it’s okay to bite me a few more times.”

Even though his voice was a bit hoarse due to the inflammation, Zhao Shuming’s tone was still gentle, but the gentleness carried an irresistible charm.

She actually just stifled her voice and nodded ……

Jiang Yimiao did also remember that she loved biting him when she was little, because when she was little, Zhao Shuming looked white with thick eyebrows and big eyes.

Even if it was an older status like her brother, she felt it was cute, so Jiang Yimiao didn’t nibble on him a lot.

But after growing up a bit, why would she still bite her, especially when she smelled the scent of his body, she couldn’t help but salivate and want to bite him a big bite.

Later she thought that it was probably because Zhao Shuming hadn’t stopped her and she hadn’t deliberately changed this habit that she loved to bite him.

Just like the current one, she couldn’t leave her most precious doll even when she slept every night.

Seeing that she seemed to be in a daze, Zhao Shuming bent down and approached, he raised the finger that she had just bitten and pointed to his own neck, “Miao Miao, you’ve even bitten my neck before.”

Perhaps because he was sick or perhaps because he didn’t sleep well last night, Zhao Shuming’s eyes looked a bit tired. Jiang Yimiao looked at the bottomless pupils of his eyes and followed his hand to his neck.

Jiang Yimiao swallowed, but she couldn’t bite his neck now. He even deliberately exposed his neck in front of her.

It was almost as if he couldn’t eat the meat even if he put it in front of her!

She gritted her teeth and was about to say something when she suddenly heard the sound of gurgling bubbling water.

“Soup, is the soup ready?” Jiang Yimiao snapped her head back to see the soup nearly overflowing, she fumbled to turn off the knob on the stove.

Zhao Shuming laughed as he saw the gaze she had just fixed on his neck, it seemed like she really did like straightforward temptation after all.

He drew on a paper towel to dry the water stains on his hands, put his hand on Jiang Yimiao’s shoulder, and pushed her out of the kitchen, “Miaomiao, sit down and wait for your meal.”

Zhao Shuming looked down at the place she had just bitten, some pity that she had just grabbed her hand to clean it before she could react.

He still remembered the touch of her tongue cutting across his fingertips just now, that feeling of a long time ago, making him want to fall even more obsessively.

Jiang Yimiao was held down by him on the chair, waiting for him to plate today’s lunch and bring it out.

In a rare moment, she felt that the two dishes she made today tasted pretty good, and there wasn’t much difference between them and what Zhao Shuming made.

It’s just that he likes to plate, even if it’s a home-cooked dish that only two people eat, he still wants to make it look excellent. And when she lived alone, the last dish she wouldn’t even pour it onto the plate, and put it directly into the pot to eat, and she could also wash one less plate.

“You drink more of this soup, it clears heat, detoxifies and reduces inflammation.” Jiang Yimiao busily spooned him another bowl of soup.

“Good.” He took the bowl, lowered his head and pretended to cough twice unintentionally.

Jiang Yimiao heard him coughing and frowned, asking with some concern, “You didn’t repeat the fever today, did you?”

He gently shook his head, “Shouldn’t have.”

Jiang Yimiao breathed a sigh of relief, “Luckily you have more free time now, it’s not time to go to work yet, so you can rest at home for a few days.”

“I think today’s steamed fish is so delicious!”

“Then eat more.” Zhao Shuming, remembering that he was still sick, purposely switched to a pair of male chopsticks to help her pick out all the fish meat.

She liked to eat fish tails, and he stripped the meat from the entire fish tail and put it in her bowl.

Jiang Yimiao smiled as she held the bowl and took it.

Eating a full meal is a very, very happy thing for Jiang Yimiao, the middle school cafeteria food for her is really too difficult to eat, so difficult that even if it has been almost ten years, she will feel sad for the first time she could not eat enough.

Overjoyed, Jiang Yimiao ate a little too much, so much so that she walked around the living room several times and placed the dolls one by one on the sofa.

She arranged the dolls one by one on the back of the sofa, “Hiss, why does it look a bit weird.”

Jiang Yimiao looked at the row of dolls and suddenly remembered that she had arranged them according to their height, weight and thinness, so she rearranged them once again.

Zhao Shuming was also cleaning up the kitchen, arranging all the condiments and other bottles and jars in the cabinet one by one according to their height and weight.

He could occasionally see Jiang Yimiao’s silhouette in the living room, but after he finished organizing the kitchen, she was nowhere to be seen.

Zhao Shuming glanced at the neatly arranged dolls on the sofa and the LCD screen in its off state, “Miao Miao?”

The only thing that responded to him was the noise of the air conditioning unit.

“Miao Miao, are you at home?”

He frowned as he walked to her room, and she wasn’t in it either.

Zhao Shuming’s eyebrows jumped, he didn’t know why, but he was always afraid that Jiang Yimiao would disappear in front of his eyes, and if he didn’t know where she was, he would inexplicably panic.

It was as if she would gradually move away from him.

He couldn’t accept her distance again, even in a physical sense.

Zhao Shuming clearly knew that Jiang Yimiao had refused the invitation to go out with Guan Zhengyu today because of him, and his reasoning told him that Jiang Yimiao definitely wouldn’t be going to see any other men right now.

But he was just unconsciously nervous as he picked up his cell phone and called Jiang Yimiao.

“The number you have dialed is temporarily unavailable ……”

He called several times in a row, and then called her on WeChat, and it took two minutes for Jiang Yimiao to get through.

The concrete floor of the neighborhood outside the first floor bubbled with white mist-like heat.

Jiang Yimiao held an umbrella in one hand and a pile of courier in the other, tucked in the pocket of her pants, the phone vibrated non-stop, but she really did not have a free hand, until she walked into the elevator when she just took out her cell phone.

“Scared me to death, thought it was the company who called me.” Jiang Yimiao let out a breath and called Zhao Shuming back.

“What’s wrong?”

“Miao Miao, where did you go, why did you suddenly disappear.”

“Ah, I went downstairs to get an express, there were a bit too many expresses, I just didn’t have the hands to answer the phone.”

Zhao Shuming’s sanity instantly returned, what could she go do at home on the weekend, either to get an express delivery or go downstairs to the convenience store to buy snacks, “Oh, okay, I just didn’t see you, I was a little worried.”

“I’m all the way back in front of the house, hang up ha.”

Jiang Yimiao picked up the courier and walked out of the elevator, Zhao Shuming had even walked to the front of the house to wait for her.

“So many expresses, why don’t you ask me to get them together for you?” Zhao Shuming took the things in her hand.

“Weren’t you just doing hygiene in the kitchen, I just happened to receive a text message that the last express was delivered, so I couldn’t help but pick it up.” Jiang Yimiao threw the rest of the express onto the floor and exhaled.

The summer in South City was either soaked to the point of mildew by the rain or sunburned into a raisin by the hot sun.

After taking two steps out of the house to pick up a courier Jiang Yimiao was sweating, she sat on the sofa and blew on the air conditioner for a while to rest.

“Miao Miao, did you buy a lot of clothes?” Zhao Shuming helped her take the express to the living room.

“Yeah, didn’t you say before that the desensitization treatment can also try to change the style of dress, buy some cute clothes and so on and so forth……. It’s just the shopping festival, so I bought a lot of clothes. ”

She looked down at the home clothes she wore today, black on top and white on the bottom, and Zhao Shuming’s white on top and black on the bottom just the opposite.

Jiang Yimiao patted her thighs, “I’m going to try on clothes, you help me counsel.”

“Good.” Zhao Shuming helped her unpack the other couriers one by one.

It took a long time before Jiang Yimiao changed into her first dress and walked out, she dragged out the full body mirror that was placed in the room.

“I really like the style of this one eh, but its shape doesn’t work and the size is too small right!”

Jiang Yimiao looked at her front in the full body mirror.

Physical problems, she ate fast digesting and absorbing on the small side. So Jiang Yimiao belonged to a relatively slim figure since she was a child.

But she couldn’t have imagined that the S size she bought actually didn’t fit her, and the zipper behind her looked like it was filled with a thousand pounds of cement, so she couldn’t pull it up even if she tried hard.

Jiang Yimiao mechanically turned around in front of the full body mirror and sighed somewhat helplessly.

Hearing her voice, Zhao Shuming raised his head and looked over, only to find that the zipper on her back was only halfway up, and it was just stuck in the position of her underwear buttons.

And the neckline of this dress was a little too big, so big that her shoulder blades were exposed to the air.

He sank back a breath, skimming his head without looking at her again, “If it doesn’t fit then return it.”

“I’ve already requested a return.” Jiang Yimiao said when it was too late and had already completed the return application on the shopping software.

“It’s fine, I’ve bought several other sets, I don’t believe there’s no suitable one.”

This was only the first set she changed, Jiang Yimiao shuffled back to her room with her slippers and continued to try on clothes.

“This one is also a skirt, it feels as if it fits, it’s just a little too cute ……”

Jiang Yimiao looked into the mirror twice, she turned around and turned to Zhao Shuming, “What do you think of this one?”

In fact, when she was very young, she had worn that kind of cute and ornate looking princess dress.

Later on, since no princess dresses were black, white, and gray in color, she didn’t wear them anymore.

In fact, her aesthetics is also very peculiar, a lot of things she really think look good, she for good-looking things do not have much subjective, or retro or simple or cute or busy for the She has no opinion about what looks good, or vintage or simple or cute or busy for her may be good-looking.

The most important reason why she only liked to wear black, white and gray was her unusual cute aggression, but there was another reason why she was too lazy to choose a variety of styles.

“It looks good.” Zhao Shuming said sincerely.

In fact, in his eyes, whatever Jiang Yimiao wore should look good, it was only because he could now see that she liked this set of dresses that he purposely emphasized looking good.

Moreover, she wore clothes to please herself, and what she felt looked good was the most important thing.

“I also think it looks good, I feel like the fabric is also quite comfortable, I haven’t bought this kind of bright-colored clothes in a long time.”

Jiang Yimiao changed a few more pieces one after another, except for the first one she kept all the others.

She folded the first piece of clothing and put it back in the bag, wearing the last set of clothes she tried on her body, a bright colored casual outfit.

The t-shirt had a puppy printed on it, it seemed to be a co-branded IP that was quite hot lately, she bought it simply because she thought it was casual and cute.

But found that there is a courier box in the living room, “Ah? I don’t think I’ve taken this delivery ah, what’s this?”

She looked down with some suspicion before realizing that the recipient was Zhao Shuming.

“You also have an express delivery ah?”

“Well, it’s for you.” While Jiang Yimiao was changing her clothes and packing the express bag, Zhao Shuming also went downstairs to get an express.

“For me?”

She took the scissors and opened the courier box, there were two more boxes in the carton, Jiang Yimiao pulled them out, “Two cups?”

Jiang Yimiao turned the patterned side of the cups in front of herself, a pair of very conventional minimalist style mugs.

“I saw that the cup in your office was missing a mouth before, so I thought I’d buy you a new one.”

“But you bought two eh, one black and one white, is this a couple mug?” She asked subconsciously.

“Well, couple’s model, one for you and one for me.” He propped his head up, his gaze didn’t fall on the cups, but looked straight at Jiang Yimiao.