Chapter 41

The tranquility of the night was broken by the roar of airplanes wandering in the night sky. There was a large airport in the southern city, and as the airport with almost the highest passenger throughput in the country, there was always the sound of airplanes circling over the southern city.

The lights from the wings of the airplanes flickered in Jiang Yimiao’s afterglow, something like the stars that you could only see in your grandparents’ house when you were a child, shining in the summer night sky.

The doll’s small hands were almost folded in Jiang Yimiao’s hands, and she wanted to avoid Zhao Shuming’s gaze, but she couldn’t.

Zhao Shuming looked at her with some confusion and frustration. Jiang Yimiao had just held him down and nibbled on his collarbone, and he couldn’t forget the warmth of her sharp teeth on his skin and the warmth of her lips and tongue.

But before she could enjoy her bite, she suddenly interrupted her movements.

His heart became more active because of her close proximity, and the thumping of his heart seemed to tell him that he really liked her. He liked Jiang Yimiao’s closeness and her nibbling, as long as it was related to her, he could like it.

Having known each other for more than twenty years, Zhao Shuming knew Jiang Yimiao, but in the same way, Jiang Yimiao also knew Zhao Shuming very well.

It was hard for him to hide his emotions in front of her, and Jiang Yimiao didn’t fail to notice the disbelief that flashed through Zhao Shuming’s eyes right now.

Jiang Yimiao still broke the doll’s hand, she pursed her lips and explained: “I’ve always slept alone, one more person is still a bit uncomfortable. And we can’t always sleep in the same room together, so what will you do later?”

Jiang Yimiao had already tried to use euphemistic language to express her heart’s true thoughts, she would still treat Zhao Shuming as her friend like a family member, they are now just because of their own life choices will drift apart again.

That’s why she can’t say harsh words, can’t completely cut off the relationship between the two. After all, Zhao Shuming just wanted to get married like a lot of other guys, or had another girl he liked, so she had to avoid suspicion, and couldn’t rely on him like she used to.

In any case, their past had become memories accumulated and preserved in the brain, and an eraser couldn’t erase those memories stored in the amygdala of the brain and related to emotions.

Zhao Shuming looked at her with unblinking eyes, and that feeling of stomach churning discomfort immediately came out.

The stomach was an emotional organ, and when it was too anxious or uncomfortable, it would naturally feel uncomfortable. Zhao Shuming was too familiar with this feeling.

Instead of covering his abdomen like before, he tried to make his hands stop trembling, “Miao Miao, I’m sorry, it’s because I didn’t think about this before.”

“Ah, I don’t mean to blame you.” Jiang Yimiao waved her hand back and forth as she grinned a bit embarrassedly, “It was still me who suggested that we sleep together before.”

She raised her head slightly to look at Zhao Shuming, and she didn’t know if it was because the light in the room was white, but his face reflected a bit pale.

Zhao Shuming tried to stabilize the expression on his face, even though he realized that Jiang Yimiao seemed to be deliberately distancing herself from him now, he still wore a gentle expression.

He felt that Jiang Yimiao’s state towards him was somewhat like when he first returned to China.

Zhao Shuming wondered if Miao Miao had misunderstood something, or if some other bitchy man had appeared beside her to seduce her, causing her to suddenly have that sense of boundaries with him that shouldn’t exist.

Seeing that his gaze was as gentle as ever, Jiang Yimiao’s fingers finally stopped tormenting the doll’s little hand, and she put the doll back on the pillow behind her.

Perhaps it was the night that set the person off softly, Jiang Yimiao uncontrollably remembered Zhao Shuming’s somewhat haggard appearance from not getting enough sleep, “Well …… if you sleep on your own or if your insomnia is still very serious then after that, think of another way, or try sleeping in the same room again! .”

Zhao Shuming raised his eyebrows and relaxed a little, he knew he still had a chance because Jiang Yimiao was giving in to him.

It was true that pampering was both not shameful and useful.

“Okay, Miao Miao you’ve probably been working too hard lately, you still need to rest more, if I’m here and it affects your sleep quality, I’ll move back to my own room right away.” He paused.

Looking at her nightgown that was curled up because of her sitting position, Zhao Shuming knew that Jiang Yimiao’s subconscious mind was used to being close to him in the end, and how could his carefully maintained relationship of more than twenty years change just because he said so.

Zhao Shuming stood up from the bed and pulled up her quilt to cover her legs, “Miao Miao, you sleep and rest.”

“So are you going to carry all of this back to your room?”

Jiang Yimiao bent down to cross her body over to the side where Zhao Shuming was sleeping, placed the folded quilt on his pillow, and folded the other pillow that belonged to him that was placed in the center of the bed.

Subconsciously, she then patted the pillow that was folded like a hamburger.

“Hmm, I’ll just clean it up.”

Jiang Yimiao moved the pillows and quilt in front of him, but seeing that Zhao Shuming had absolutely no intention of wanting to leave her room, Jiang Yimiao tugged on the hem of his pajamas and asked in a small voice: “It’s not too early, aren’t you going back to your room now?”

Zhao Shuming swept his head down and glanced at his bedding, then locked eyes with her again, “Miao Miao, will you sleep first? I’ll watch you sleep before I can go back to my own room in peace.”

When she looked at him, Jiang Yimiao nodded her head, she remembered that when she was a child in elementary school, her parents bought her a lot of storybooks, but she couldn’t read them all and couldn’t understand them, so before she went to bed, she would always pester Zhao Shuming to give her a collection of stories from the Thousand and One Nights. The first day he watched her fall in love with her was not the first day he saw her. It wasn’t the first day he watched her fall asleep.

She took the doll in her arms and lay back on her pillow.

Turning off the lights and closing the curtains the room was dark, only from the living room corridor came extremely weak light, and this light also came from the balcony side, weak to almost no brightness.

The body could feel the warmth of the bedside belonging to Zhao Shuming, but his figure became blurred.

After exercising all day this morning, not taking a nap at noon, and then shopping with Cheng Wenyao at the mall in the afternoon, Jiang Yimiao was already sleepy and her eyes were a little misty, especially since she had just vented to the dolls and Zhao Shuming, and that feeling of comfort after her physical and emotional satisfaction made her feel very comfortable. The feeling of comfort after being satisfied made her want to fall asleep.

Jiang Yimiao covered the doll with the quilt and seemed to fall into sleep as soon as she closed her eyes, not even starting to count the sheep. She also didn’t know when Zhao Shuming left her room.

Zhao Shuming had a bit of a headache, Jiang Yimiao was just too abnormal today, according to his understanding, the last few days weren’t her physiological period, and her emotions shouldn’t have been subjected to hormonal fluctuations and changeable.

There must be some kind of conflict between her and him due to the difference in information.

It wasn’t until Jiang Yimiao fell asleep that Zhao Shuming’s stomach felt better, and he drank a glass of milk to rinse his mouth before moving his belongings out of Jiang Yimiao’s bed with a lack of interest. He was so excited that he moved his belongings out of Jiang Yimiao’s bed.

The good thing was that the pillow placed beside her, separating the two of them, was already covered with Jiang Yimiao’s scent, and the scent on her nightgown hadn’t completely dissipated, so it wasn’t too difficult for Zhao Shuming to sleep tonight.

Just halfway through the night, he seemed to have nightmares, dreams also have Miao Miao, as long as there is her in the dream, not extreme beauty dream, that is a nightmare …… He seemed to dream that Miao Miao again do not want him He seems to be dreaming that River doesn’t want him anymore.

With him but a wall away from the Jiang Yimiao fell asleep very heavy, so heavy that even if they have no dream do not know.

The next day belongs to the beautiful Sunday sunshine through the curtains, the light of the living room to the corridor in front of the room, because sleep early, Jiang Yimiao’s biological clock also early to wake her up.

Jiang Yimiao stayed in bed for a while, and when she turned over without touching Zhao Shuming’s pillow, Jiang Yimiao was a little less accustomed to it. She didn’t realize that she had even gotten used to Zhao Shuming sleeping with her.

She tossed and turned in her bed with some concern, it was true that it was easy to get emotional at night, she still couldn’t completely refuse to be close to Zhao Shuming, she was already too used to this kind of relationship.

Jiang Yimiao rolled over with her phone, which still had ten percent battery power left, and the rental website was actually still sending her information, so she subconsciously closed the pop-up window, but suddenly realized that the most straightforward way to reduce contact and exposure was to not live with Zhao Shuming!

She looked around the room where she lived comfortably, and remembered the food that Zhao Shuming cooked for her every day, and although she was a little reluctant to part with it, Jiang Yimiao knew that none of it should belong to her.

Jiang Yimiao rolled over and threw her cell phone, which was running out of battery, to the other side of the bed, “So I’m looking for a new house again.”

She let out a long, leisurely sigh in order to recharge her battery before getting up gracefully.

Good news today was a Sunday when she didn’t have to work, bad news this whole day she had to stay at home with Zhao Shuming to spend time together.

And today’s Zhao Shuming was particularly strange, his gaze always seemed to fall on Jiang Yimiao, trying to find out something from her expressions and movements.

Jiang Yimiao remembered that he was an expert in psychology, so he couldn’t have some kind of micro-expression analysis or something like that. She couldn’t help but move her butt on the sofa, separating herself from Zhao Shuming.

She had worked overtime last week to the point that she had six episodes of the TV series that she hadn’t finished watching, and she was going to make up for all of them today at 1:00 five times speed, so that’s why she was sitting in the living room, sitting next to Zhao Shuming.

“Miao Miao, what’s wrong, is something wrong?” Zhao Shuming narrowed his eyes slightly to take in her movement to move away from her, his tone sounding like a doctor and a teacher, causing her to subconsciously gulp.

“We’re sitting too close together, it’s a bit uncomfortable.” She didn’t beat around the bush; she was afraid of the heat in the summer, and her biggest fear was holding hands or being arm to arm with someone.

“The living room is a little hot.” She looked up at the air conditioning fan nestled in the corner.

“I’ll turn it down then.” He stood up and turned down the temperature of the air conditioner, and when he sat back down on the sofa he was next to Jiang Yimiao again, who was now trapped in the corner of the sofa, with absolutely no room to retreat to the side in order to As for her, she was forced to accept being close to Zhao Shuming.

At lunchtime, his movements of spooning soup and vegetables to her were becoming more and more familiar and frequent, simply more intimate than when she was a baby and was being fed complementary food by her mother.

Jiang Yimiao always felt that there was something strange, even the clothes for tonight’s shower he helped her pick out and put on the bed.

Jiang Yimiao usually wears underwear that is usually taken wherever she gets it, for example, she often appears to be gray on top and black on the bottom,…… even though she actually buys each set of underwear in two matching pieces.

But Zhao Shuming would help her separate them by color when he was around her, and even the underwear she chose for tonight’s change of clothes was the underwear that was meant to be a set.

Jiang Yimiao hugged her pajamas and underwear and dizzily ran to the bathroom to take a shower.

The steaming hot water was like cleaning out her brain, and Jiang Yimiao realized that if she continued to allow Zhao Shuming to take care of her with excessive care, then her life would be completely inseparable from Zhao Shuming.

After a full day of watching TV and cell phones, Jiang Yimiao finally decided to start looking at houses tonight.

It’s a good thing that I had favorited so many posts before looking for a house, and the browsing records of those websites are still retained in the browser’s history.

The screen of the cell phone is really too small, Jiang Yimiao is still used to the computer, she used a dry cap to wrap up all the hair, and did not blow-dry, but opened the laptop on the dresser table.

She lowered her head to use her cell phone software while looking up again to browse the website’s pictures, but after looking for a while, Jiang Yimiao couldn’t find anything that fit her eyes.

Jiang Yimiao felt that it was really hard for her to go from luxury to frugality. Trying to find a comfortable and cost-effective house was a bit difficult for her.

She wiped her wet hair and sniffled.

She didn’t know that living in Zhao Shuming’s house was the most comfortable, but she also knew that her living in Zhao Shuming’s house would definitely affect his search for a partner.

Jiang Yimiao had no choice but to continue carefully comparing the conditions of the various houses, and even pulled up an Excel spreadsheet of the few houses that were slightly more desirable.

The hand that was rubbing her hair was also put down, and she just focused on concentrating without noticing that someone had entered the room at all, and it wasn’t until a burst of hot air came from beside her ear, and even her face felt as if it had been scalded by an iron for a split second, that she realized that Zhao Shuming was standing behind her.

A familiar voice came quickly, but the tone was extraordinarily unfamiliar, like ice, “Miao Miao, what are you looking at, why are you looking at the rental information again?”

Jiang Yimiao was so scared by him that she turned half of her body to face him, “You, why don’t you walk without a sound ah ……”

His hands were holding the back of her chair, his entire body was bent over towards Jiang Yimiao, his head was hanging over her shoulder, and when she turned around like this, she was close to touching his face.

Zhao Shuming looked at Jiang Yimiao with a slight sideways glance, but his eyes flashed for a moment of helplessness, he didn’t answer Jiang Yimiao’s question, but stubbornly asked: ”Miao Miao, is it because of what I’ve done wrong to make you unhappy, that I want to separate from me? that you want to separate from me?”

Jiang Yimiao furrowed her brows for a moment and finally spoke, “Didn’t Auntie say that you want to start a family and fall in love and get married, and you are indeed of marriageable age. How can I say that I’m a friend of the opposite sex, wouldn’t it be strange to keep relying on your house?”

She blinked her almond eyes and asked rhetorically.

Zhao Shuming subconsciously wanted to say no, but she interrupted, “And you should be thinking this way because you have someone you like, right?”

Hearing her words like this, Zhao Shuming but lowered his head and let out a laugh, the hot air he exhaled fluttered onto her body, wrapped in the fresh scent of his bathed body, tickling her neck.

He was really a bit of an authority figure, actually not guessing Jiang Yimiao’s brain circuits in the last two days.

He laughed because Jiang Yimiao still cared about him, Zhao Shuming lifted his head back up and stared tightly at her light pupils, “Miao Miao, I don’t like anyone else.”

The only one I like is you.

But now wasn’t the time to say this, he could only skillfully use language to speak the ambiguous truth.

“Huh?” Jiang Yimiao froze in bewilderment.

Zhao Shuming lifted his hand and lightly touched the tip of her nose, “Don’t guess wildly, the opposite sex around me is my mom besides you, I don’t have anyone else I like, and getting married and starting a family isn’t considered a near-term pursuit.”

Zhao Shuming thought, his life would only be influenced by Jiang Yimiao, so the matter of getting married would only be influenced by her, he wasn’t even with her yet, so he also didn’t have the luxury of getting to this step of becoming legally family with her.

He hung his head, his tone sounded a little sad, “You won’t bother me no matter what.”

Jiang Yimiao choked, the words reached her mouth but couldn’t be said, “But ……”

“There’s no buts, Miao Miao, I’ve always treated you as the most important person, I do hope that you can rely on me more, and when you’re unhappy you can let me share your sadness, and if there are any difficulties I can stand by you. I can also stand by your side and support you in any difficulties.”

His eyes seemed to be colored with a little bit of moisture, “I know that you actually still resent me for separating from you for so many years when I was in college. But I never thought those years would separate us.”

“I’m sorry, if I could do it all over again, I would definitely study with you at South City University. You wouldn’t have to count the time difference between us at night when you want to contact me, and you wouldn’t have to lie in the dormitory by yourself when you’re too stressed ……”

Their grades were similar, and if Zhao Shuming hadn’t gone abroad, it was extremely likely that he would have studied at the same university as her.

Jiang Yimiao bit her lower lip lightly, knowing roughly that he had probably been sad today.

“If it’s because you have someone you like, or want to fall in love with someone else, and think I’ll affect you, Miao Miao you can talk to me.” Zhao Shuming softened his gaze, his tone all a little heavy.

She waved her hands repeatedly, “Ah, that’s not true, I currently have no desire to fall in love.”

Zhao Shuming breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, now he at least knew that Jiang Yimiao shouldn’t have any men around her who were fervently pursuing her or who she saw eye to eye with.

Even if she didn’t want to fall in love, as long as he could keep Jiang Yimiao, that would be enough.

He simply squatted in front of her and raised his head to look at her, “Miao Miao, I’ve only just returned to China, and you’re the closest thing I have around me. South City is also unfamiliar to the current me.”

Zhao Shuming held her hand, Jiang Yimiao didn’t break free, after all, she was held by him until she was old enough, and had long gotten used to his hand, which was quite a bit larger than hers, holding her.

“Miao Miao, at least, don’t think about suddenly separating from me now, okay?”