Chapter 40

The curtains on one side of the room covered the window, while the curtains on the other half were tied up.

Jiang Yimiao was facing the window of the room, the neon lights and the lights of the buildings in the distance were flickering in front of her eyes, and when she looked up slightly, she could see the light of the airplane’s navigation lights hanging in the darkness of the night.

The air was silent for a few seconds, so quiet that Jiang Yimiao could feel the sound of Zhao Shuming’s breath behind her ear, and even the touch of his warm breath on her neck was so obvious.

She maintained the position of placing her hand on Zhao Shuming’s shoulder, and from the side view, their position was a bit like hugging each other.

“Huh?” Jiang Yimiao was a bit puzzled.

In fact, she would occasionally feel some kind of scent on her body, but these scents all originated from shower gel or laundry detergent, especially at night when she had just taken a shower and changed into the pajamas that she had washed yesterday, and it was as if her entire body was wrapped in a circle of scent factor.

“What you are smelling is not the smell of laundry detergent, is it?”

The laundry detergent used at home is a very classic brand of the most classic flavor, mediocre but also smells comfortable.

But Zhao Shuming and she used the same laundry detergent, he should be able to smell a similar odor from himself.

Zhao Shuming’s head was pressed against the side of Jiang Yimiao’s face, and he hugged her and shook his head, his cheek almost pressing against her head, “It’s not the smell of laundry detergent, it’s the smell that’s unique to you. “It’s not the smell of laundry detergent, it’s unique to you, no one else has this kind of smell.”

“Unique?” Jiang Yimiao was stunned, and when she subconsciously wanted to lower her head to smell her own scent, she realized that the two people’s movements were a bit awkward.

“Miao Miao, can I smell it?” He lowered his voice, his voice melting into the night room.

Thinking about how she always coldly went up to sniff Zhao Shuming’s body odor, Jiang Yimiao ghostly hmmm’d, and just as the sound came out of her nose, he had already come over.

The high bridge of his nose seemed to scrape across her ear, and the tip of his nose touched her shaggy hair.

Jiang Yimiao felt like she even heard the sound of Zhao Shuming inhaling, she didn’t dodge, she was just subconsciously stunned in place.

She liked soft things, she liked scented things, and she liked warm things even more.

That’s why she loved her plush quilt, but Jiang Yimiao now seemed to realize that Zhao Shuming’s embrace felt the same way, and was somewhat similar to the way her mother had hugged her.

So Jiang Yimiao wouldn’t care about the overly intimate physical contact between the two, after all, it didn’t just seem like something she had gotten used to a long time ago, but because she liked doing it.

“Miao Miao.”

“Hmm?”

“Very much like ……”

Very much like you, but Zhao Shuming still didn’t get a whole sentence out.

She grabbed the pajamas on Zhao Shuming’s shoulders, “Like the smell? Then you smell it more?”

She probably wouldn’t be able to smell it later anyway. Jiang Yimiao silently thought in her heart.

She felt the body of Zhao Shuming, who was pressed underneath her, stiffen for a moment, and then he tentatively asked, “Is it okay? Miao Miao, I still want to hug you.”

“Hug?” Jiang Yimiao gently pushed away the person in front of her, sat up and straightened her back, stretching her arms out in midair, “It’s okay.”

Jiang Yimiao thought that he was just bending down to gently hug her like before, but she didn’t expect Zhao Shuming to stand up from in front of the bed and then bend down to hug her entire body from the bed.

Jiang Yimiao, who hadn’t reacted yet, subconsciously let out a soft cry, and her hands subconsciously hooped Zhao Shuming’s neck, “Brother, what are you doing?”

She was so scared that she directly subconsciously called out to her brother.

“Miao Miao, didn’t you used to like it when I hugged you like this, just like this, and then spun around twice.” Zhao Shuming raised his head and looked at her.

His tone somehow sounded a bit aggrieved, and Jiang Yimiao recalled that in the past, she did like to suddenly jump onto Zhao Shuming’s body, sometimes by sneaking directly from his back, and sometimes by directly rushing at her from in front of him.

But they hadn’t hugged like this for a long time, after all, she had grown up too, and her weight couldn’t be compared to her childhood.

Jiang Yimiao loved this sudden feeling of being airborne and then spinning around in the air.

That’s why she loved riding the carousel when she went to amusement parks since she was a little girl, even though all the other kids ran for the most exciting items, she just loved sitting on the carousel and going up and down and up and down.

“That was all when I was a child ……” she whispered, but her legs couldn’t help but clamp down on his crotch, which was her signature move of urging Zhao Shuming to hold her in a circle.

Zhao Shuming let out a laugh and obediently spun around in place twice.

Afraid that she would fall off, Jiang Yimiao firmly lay on top of him.

Only then did Zhao Shuming carefully set her down, and Jiang Yimiao sat back down by the edge of the bed, her hands propped right up on her plush quilt, and she only felt as if her heart was beating a little faster now.

“Isn’t it a lot heavier than when I was a child.”

“No, you’ve grown up and I’ve grown up along with you, how could it be heavy, if I can’t even hold you, then this height has grown for nothing, and these muscles have been practiced for nothing.”

Zhao Shuming didn’t expect the first thing she said when she sat back on the bed to be this.

Jiang Yimiao lifted her legs back onto the bed and Zhao Shuming’s quilt reappeared in her line of sight before she remembered her purpose from the start.

She had been thinking about how to open her mouth and tell Zhao Shuming to go back to bed.

Jiang Yimiao looked down at his pillow for a moment before raising her head to look at him again, “How have you been sleeping at my place lately?”

Zhao Shuming frowned, sensitive to her sudden topic, “Sleeping here in Miao Miao seems to be really better, probably because I can feel your presence, hear your breathing and even feel the scent of your body , so it would sleep a little better.”

His eyebrows were furrowed into a ball in the middle and his tone could have sounded a bit more aggrieved, which was really a bit hard for Zhao Shuming, after all, he hadn’t been good at pampering since he was a kid, even his mom and dad had never seen his pampered look.

“It’s too insecure to sleep in my room.” He slightly tilted his head sideways, his long eyelashes sweeping down, unspeakable aggravation spilling out.

Jiang Yimiao kneaded the quilt into a ball and stuffed it into her arms, her fingers unable to stop poking at it.

His words sounded a little sad, so sad that she didn’t even realize how many nights Zhao Shuming had spent alone on his own without her, and how insecure it was for someone his age to sleep.

The words that were meant to make Zhao Shuming go back to his room to sleep were swallowed back into his stomach, “Ah, so ah, then it’s good that your insomnia isn’t that bad if you sleep here ……”

Zhao Shuming’s eyebrows instantly unfolded, he didn’t go around to the side of the bed he was sleeping on like usual, but instead sat directly on Jiang Yimiao’s side, sitting side by side with her.

His large hand picked up that old doll of Jiang Yimiao’s, “Does your doll need to be washed lately, I can hand wash it for you when I’m free.”

Because the doll was too old, it really couldn’t carry the spinning speed of the washing machine.

Last week the weather was good, Zhao Shuming washed all the bedding in the house, including her plush comforter.

Jiang Yimiao had a bit of a fetish, and a fetish complex would make her prefer things with familiar scents, so if the item was washed instead, it would make her love for the item subside.

However, Jiang Yimiao wasn’t a child who didn’t know any better. Although it would make her sad every time she took the quilt that had a familiar smell to the wash, she also loved cleanliness, and when it was time to wash it, she had to wash it.

Jiang Yimiao let go of the quilt in her hands, and grabbed the doll’s cotton filled hands with both hands, then she bent down closer to sniff at the doll’s nose, and the doll also had a very mild and comfortable smell.

During the day the doll was lying on the bed, and at night it was held in her arms, Jiang Yimiao somewhat wondered if the smell she was smelling now was the same as the smell on herself.

She looked up at Zhao Shuming, who was sitting sideways on the edge of the bed, his freshly bathed body a little more powdery than usual.

His slender fingers passed underneath the doll’s arm to press on its bulging stomach, and his hair, which he would normally comb up when he went out, naturally fell down to cover his forehead, the shadow of his bangs faintly obscuring Zhao Shuming’s eyes.

Jiang Yimiao actually inexplicably felt that he now looked somewhat cute …… Everyone has a different definition of cute, and many ugly and dull things are also cute in Jiang Yimiao s eyes. Cute.

But she didn’t think that someone like Zhao Shuming, who exuded the temperament of an adult male and a husband, would also be cute.

Perhaps it was just because he was holding her favorite doll with tenderness in his eyes that made her think that both the doll and he were cute.

Jiang Yimiao’s fingertips gripping the doll’s small hand couldn’t help but clench the pile of cotton with some force.

And while exerting her strength, her fingers seemed to be trembling uncontrollably, and the excitement that came inexplicably from her heart took over her entire brain.

“River? Do you want to wash it, if you don’t want to wash it yet, it’s okay, I’m looking at the recent better weather before I want to wash it, and next month it might going to be typhoon days.”

Zhao Shuming lowered his head and swept over Jiang Yimiao’s hand, moving a little closer in her direction.

Jiang Yimiao raised her head and swept a glance at him, his dark eyes were full of tenderness, as if they were filled with a pool of clear water.

She felt her breath catch a little, Jiang Yimiao leaned her whole body towards the doll’s direction, “Let’s not wash it first, it seems like I’m having a strange attack, let me slow down for a while.”

“Feeling uncomfortable, Miao Miao you can hold onto my arm.” Zhao Shuming held one of her hands to cover his arm.

Both of Jiang Yimiao’s hands were gripping hard, one hand gripping the soft doll, and one hand gripping the somewhat tougher arm.

She wanted to take a bite out of the doll, and as she thought this, Jiang Yimiao’s sanity briefly left the house, and her entire body fell towards the front as she pleased. The big deal was to let Zhao Shuming catch her.

Zhao Shuming watched her fall over and was already prepared, but instead of firmly catching Jiang Yimiao, he caught her and fell over with her in the direction of the end of the bed at the same time.

The whole scene looked as if Zhao Shuming hadn’t been prepared and had been pounced upon by Jiang Yimiao’s sudden movement.

At least that’s what the current Jiang Yimiao thought, after all, Zhao Shuming had a lot of strength in her eyes and wasn’t so strong that he could be pushed over by her with such vigor.

The doll was pressed in the middle of the two people’s bodies, Jiang Yimiao’s hands were busy pulling the doll out of the two people’s arms, and in a somewhat flustered tone, she asked, “Is everything okay, I didn’t press you, did I. ”

“It’s fine.” He smiled and shook his head.

Jiang Yimiao gulped, the sour feeling in her teeth that came from her intention when the strange disease struck hadn’t yet faded, and she pressed one hand right onto Zhao Shuming’s chest, a little soft and a little hard.

Zhao Shuming’s pajamas were crumpled a bit because of her movements, I don’t know if it was because of her movements or not, and even the neckline was torn open a bit by her.

Zhao Shuming’s collarbone was straight, as straight as his shoulders.

Shoulders could be practiced, but collarbones were natural.

Jiang Yimiao felt her head get a little dizzy, and she wanted to get out of bed and take out the bite gum from the drawer.

She looked at Zhao Shuming who was only a palm’s distance away from her face, and right in front of her eyes was none other than his neck and his clavicle as well as the area below the clavicle.

Zhao Shuming raised his hand and lightly patted Jiang Yimiao’s back, “Miaomiao, are you still not slowed down and want to bite?”

“Want to bite.” She repeated Zhao Shuming’s words.

“Bite it Miao Miao, I just took a shower, my body is clean.” Zhao Shuming knew that she had always been a soft eater, so only a gentle, warm voice would be most useful to her.

Jiang Yimiao blinked, her mind filled with “pinch pinch pinch bite bite”.

When her reasoning went out the window, she just wanted to explode her emotions, and she lowered her head and suddenly bit on Zhao Shuming’s collarbone that was exposed in the air.

Being pressed underneath, Zhao Shuming subconsciously then let out a sigh from between his nostrils, more like spitting and gasping for air.

The collarbone was hard, biting it was just hard, nothing special. It wasn’t as comfortable as a neck bite, but it was a place she hadn’t bitten even as a child, and curiosity drove her to want to do just that.

Zhao Shuming’s hand held on her waist, she bit very gently, or maybe the force used was a bit small because she hadn’t bitten here before.

His fingertips gently rubbed the fabric of the nightgown behind her waist.

Jiang Yimiao buried her head, her body was filled with familiar scents, but she felt that the oxygen concentration around her was getting lower and lower, so low that she was about to lose her breath.

The tip of her tongue seemed to skim over the small mole on his collarbone.

“Miao Miao, only you can touch me, only you can bite.” Zhao Shuming’s words from the past surfaced in her mind.

“He’ll be close to other girls in the future.” But what Cheng Wen Yao said to her in the morning also floated in her head together.

Someone else would touch him and bite him in the future. She wasn’t the only one.

Jiang Yimiao suddenly came to her senses, the biting force of her teeth disappearing instantly, bracing herself on the bedsheets to climb up from Zhao Shuming.

“Miao Miao, are you done biting?”

She moved her body back several times until her limbs had no contact with Zhao Shuming at all she sat down.

“Uh, finished biting.” After her teeth were satisfied that symptom of having an attack due to a strange disease also disappeared.

Jiang Yimiao looked at the teeth marks left by herself on Zhao Shuming’s body, “Did my bite hurt?”

“It doesn’t hurt.” He shook his head and wanted to get closer to Jiang Yimiao when she suddenly got off the bed and drew a few wet wipes and paper towels.

“I’ll wipe you clean.” She didn’t have much expression on her face, she just moved over again to help him wipe the area of his collarbone clean, she didn’t bite very hard, but there was still a red teeth mark left on it.

However, she figured that it would go away in the morning, and Jiang Yimiao just lowered her head and quietly wiped it off.

Zhao Shuming narrowed his eyes, his intuition made him feel bad because Jiang Yimiao would usually be very pleasant after a strange attack of biting, but she actually didn’t show any pleasure at all today.

“Miao Miao, what’s wrong with you, are you not feeling too well?” She had only recently finished her work and was slightly relaxed for two days, could it be because she was tired from giving busy before ……

“Ah, me? I’m fine.” Jiang Yimiao kneaded the tissue into a ball and threw it away.

“It always feels like you haven’t been in the right state today.”

“Is that so? Haha, no I guess.” Jiang Yimiao pursed her lips, she almost forgot how well Zhao Shuming knew her, but he was able to guess just by looking at her that she would tonight wanted to drink some kind of sugar water.

“Miao Miao, if you’re uncomfortable or unhappy, you can talk to me. Didn’t you say we are best friends?”

Best friends, Jiang Yimiao did say that.

But would we still be best friends in the future?

Jiang Yimiao remembered something that was nagging at her, her memory had always been average, and she had nearly forgotten everything before second grade.

But she still remembered an incident in first grade, when she was only five or six years old.

At that time, Jiang Yimiao felt that her mom and dad were a bit strange, as if they were always whispering behind her back, but they looked as if they wanted her to hear their whispers.

Until one day at dinner, mom and dad asked her if she wanted a younger sibling.

Jiang Yimiao threw the biggest tantrum at her parents in her life.

Originally, because the teacher gave her an extra small red flower happy all day she immediately boarded a face down, “I do not want, I do not want younger siblings I do not want older siblings, I do not want anything.”

She didn’t know why she was so angry at that time, she looked brutal and unreasonable and dropped her chopsticks.

Although she had some regrets afterward, Jiang Yimiao was still very sad.

Because in her perception mom and dad could only be her mom and dad, they could only have one child, her. She couldn’t accept that her parents had to separate their love for another person no matter what.

Jiang Yimiao has been very obedient since she was a child, so obedient that her parents wanted her to enroll in whatever interest classes she happily went to.

Although it is not yet the age of understanding, but Shen Man and Jiang Zhixue have never seen her look like this, they were silent for a long time, after slowing down immediately squeezed out a smile and said it was a joke.

However, Jiang Yimiao did not listen, even angry after eating a full meal to run next door to Zhao Shuming’s house.

The company also hugged Zhao Shuming and cried for a long time, even Zhao Shuming can not coax back, crying and crying directly in his room to fall asleep, the night mom and dad to pick her up, she refused to go home.

Then Jiang Zhixue went to the ligation, but Jiang Yimiao will be too small still do not understand, such as growing up unintentionally from the mother’s mouth only to hear about it.

It is normal for people to be possessive of things they own, but some people are more possessive and some are less so.

And this kind of mentality will make her think that the person closest to her only belongs to her, and can only be closest to her. However, when she finds out that the person close to her is also close to other people, Jiang Yimiao will not be jealous, she will only think about staying away, big deal, don’t want it.

In math, triangles have stability.

But in Jiang Yimiao’s conception, she could only ever accept a two point one line relationship.

That’s why she couldn’t accept that Zhao Shuming would have friends who were closer than her.

Jiang Yimiao had one advantage that wasn’t really an advantage, and that was that she hardly ever had a withdrawal reaction.

Whenever she wanted to quit a habit or leave someone, she had the determination to do it immediately.

Not being able to possess it alone would be enough for her to abandon it and then cut off the bundle of spaghetti that held the two of them together.

Jiang Yimiao came back to her senses and looked at Zhao Shuming with a worried look on her face, she picked up the doll that had fallen on the pillow, exhaled, and still said in a determined general manner, “That …… can you go back to your room to sleep again.”

Zhao Shuming’s expression seemed a little stunned, the fact that she was now placing the doll in front of her body implied a defensive stance, which shouldn’t be something Jiang Yimiao would show in front of him.

“Miao Miao, what’s wrong, is, is it because I made you sleep badly?” His hand trembled slightly.

Jiang Yimiao clasped the doll’s soft little hand and whispered, “Well, I’ve just been feeling a little uncomfortable lately.”