Chapter 58

Jiang Yimiao’s tone sounded vicious, as if she really wanted to eat Zhao Shuming, but as soon as she spoke, she tilted her head and yawned.

Zhao Shuming looked at her yawn and pursed her lips, he frowned and straightened her bangs, “Miao Miao, you’re obviously a little sleepy, aren’t you? ”

He discovered that Jiang Yimiao liked to talk big in this area, and every time she wanted to start, she was the one who said she wanted to hurry up and finish.

Perhaps it was because it was Jiang Yimiao’s first time being exposed to such intimate relationships and behavior.

For a while, she would be caught up in enjoying the pleasure and reward brought about by the release of dopamine, and her brain’s reward mechanism made her a little addicted, and being addicted would drive her to want to keep asking for more.

“A little.” Jiang Yimiao blinked her eyes to see, feeling her eyes a little sore, she reached up to rub her eyes and let out a long drawn out cry.

“Your body still needs to recuperate, don’t even do it this week.” Zhao Shuming tugged the hem of her curled-up nightgown down, covering her otherwise exposed posterior.

“……” Jiang Yimiao narrowed her eyes and looked up at Zhao Shuming.

“Other than this, you can wear whatever you want me to wear and play with you however you want, but I have to work tomorrow, so it’s good to go to bed early tonight.” He smoothed the hair on the back of Jiang Yimiao’s head.

“I seem to be a bit tired.” Jiang Yimiao said and turned her ankle, the soreness hadn’t completely dissipated.

Jiang Yimiao’s head rested on his chest, her fine soft hair directly touching his skin.

“Sleep then?” Zhao Shuming certainly wanted to let Jiang Yimiao enjoy and indulge in his physical pleasure. . physical pleasure.

But she was really sleepy in her current state, and even the words that she had just said that she wanted to eat him were as if she had been high on something, and she had forgotten about them after saying them.

It was more important to let her rest than to let her enjoy the short-lived pleasures of lust.

Anyway, he had already used his body to keep her for the time being.

“Hmmm ……” Jiang Yimiao pulled the plush quilt over and covered her navel area, holding the edge of the quilt in her hands, the feeling of filling her palms made her very comfortable.

She then broke away from Zhao Shuming’s embrace and lay upright on the bed, her right leg snapping onto his body.

Jiang Yimiao’s breathing became calm and even, and before Zhao Shuming could react, she seemed to have fallen asleep.

“Miao Miao.” Zhao Shuming stuffed the doll into her arms.

“Get up and brush your teeth again, you just ate what I put on your body.”

Jiang Yimiao’s eyelids twitched, and after a long while, she shook the leg that was pressed against Zhao Shuming, “But I’m so sleepy, I don’t want to move.” Her leg shook, then drooped down to continue playing dead.

Zhao Shuming turned sideways and pinched Jiang Yimiao’s face, his fingers breaking her lips and teeth apart, “Let me see if your teeth have cavities.”

Jiang Yimiao opened her mouth and said vaguely, “Only no.”

“The teeth are very healthy now.” His fingertips rested against her tiger teeth, and the pointed teeth rested against Zhao Shuming’s fingers, such a touch was somewhat marvelous for Zhao Shuming.

“You loved candy too much when you were little, and all four of your big teeth had cavities during your milk teeth period. When I was little, I often cried at night when my cavities hurt.” Zhao Shuming remembered what happened when he was a child, probably because he was scared of the pain, after that, Jiang Yimiao didn’t dare to eat candy indiscriminately, and brushed his teeth carefully in the morning, noon and night.

“Really don’t want to move, I’ll carry you to brush, okay?”

“Uh-huh.” She answered again breathlessly.

Jiang Yimiao used an electric toothbrush, the good thing about it was that it didn’t require her to hold up much strength to brush her teeth clean.

The whole process of brushing her teeth and washing her face was a bit confusing, so confusing that in the end, how she fell asleep, Jiang Yimiao didn’t remember, but she vaguely felt that there were lights on outside the corridor, and there was a small sound of water coming from the big bathroom. The sound of water is coming from the big bathroom.

Later, she only felt her body lying on a wooden canoe, rocking in the endless sea water.

She didn’t remember falling asleep and grabbing Zhao Shuming’s thumb, holding his finger as she continued to fall asleep. ……

The alarm bell woke her up, Jiang Yimiao rolled over, her arm threw out and pressed Zhao Shuming’s pillow, and he was long gone from the bed.

Jiang Yimiao patted her head and felt out her cell phone to look at the time. Reluctantly, she sat up, “Why did the weekend go by so fast?”

Jiang Yimiao hugged the quilt and buried her head on the soft quilt, these past few days felt amazing for her.

She felt like her brain was strange at times, always feeling like the world was fiction, and whether her life would go on according to a set story and destiny as it was programmed to do.

Sometimes Jiang Yimiao would think about questions like who I am, where I came from and where I am going from time to time.

But now Jiang Yimiao feels that everything is just her own decision, out of her own heart’s truest thoughts.

The past few days were like a dream filled with bubbles and colorful bubble phantoms.

Jiang Yimiao looked down at her right hand, the ring on her middle finger was still securely on, it was an 18k rose gold ring, and Zhao Shuming’s one was an obvious couple’s ring, and there were three small diamonds on her ring.

Looking at the ring on her hand, she realized that she seemed to really be with Zhao Shuming.

“Miao Miao, awake? Then hurry up and wash up for breakfast.”

Zhao Shuming’s voice suddenly came, and looking at the apron on him that hadn’t been untied, Jiang Yimiao raised her head in confusion, “Okay.”

As usual, Zhao Shuming still drove Jiang Yimiao to work, he had recently started running towards the school to prepare for work.

The car slowly stopped, Jiang Yimiao checked to make sure she had all her belongings, and when she picked up her bag and prepared to get out of the car, the door was still locked.

She turned her head to look at Zhao Shuming with some suspicion.

Zhao Shuming sat on the main driver’s seat and leaned the upper half of his body towards Jiang Yimiao’s position.

“What’s wrong?” Jiang Yimiao froze in place.

He let out a light laugh and pointed a finger at his cheek, “Miao Miao kissed me.”

This morning, she was probably a little out of bed because she hadn’t been awake yet, and she had been in a state of dropping out, her entire being cold and aloof.

It was as if the weekend and the weekday were a dividing line, and there wasn’t even a cuddle to be had.

“Kiss?” Jiang Yimiao froze again, her gaze subconsciously swept out the car window, “It won’t be seen by others, right?”

“It won’t.” Zhao Shuming’s hands holding the steering wheel couldn’t help but tighten, “Miao Miao you wouldn’t want to be responsible after you’ve eaten your way dry, would you, you wouldn’t even give a kiss.”

He was half crooked, a position that would cause the collar of his shirt to be crooked in one direction, and in the afterglow was a body she was too familiar to be familiar with, and in front of her was Zhao Shuming’s face.

Jiang Yimiao subconsciously gulped and propped up her hand to quickly boop him on the cheek.

Zhao Shuming raised his familiar smile, but before he could sit upright, Jiang Yimiao cupped his face and gave him another peck on the lips.

Jiang Yimiao didn’t know why, but she was still prone to kissing her mouth crookedly, always unable to find the right position, and because she kissed a little too hard, she was also pinched by Zhao Shuming’s eyeglass frames.

“I’m going up to the office, if I’m late I’ll lose my full attendance, there aren’t many days left in the month!”

“Good, remember to put the cupcakes and egg tarts in the fridge and heat them up in the microwave when you’re hungry.” Zhao Shuming reminded.

Jiang Yimiao would often get hungry before meal time, Zhao Shuming would make her some portable snacks to bring to the office, only the weather was hot and easy to spoil, so she still had to put them in the fridge to store them, and get them warmed up again when she was hungry.

“Send me a message when you get to your workstation, I’m going to school first.”

“Bye.” Jiang Yimiao waved her hand and trotted towards the elevator.

As soon as she got close to the workstation, Jiang Yimiao smelled the scent of barbecued pork buns, she glanced over her head and watched as Qiu Xiaoyan put her bag down while nibbling on the barbecued pork buns in her hand.

Feeling her gaze, Qiu Xiaoyan and Jiang Yimiao exchanged a glance, “Your bamboo horse came to send you to work again, so considerate ah. But isn’t this weather quite nice today?” Autumn Xiaoyan unintentionally joked.

Previously, Jiang Yimiao and Autumn Xiaoyan had explained that on a rainy day, it was inconvenient for her to walk to the subway, which was why Zhao Shuming had sent her to the office.

“He recently had to go to work in the morning as well and dropped me off on his way.” Jiang Yimiao laughed dryly for a couple of times, somehow feeling a little weak in her heart.

But in reality, Zhao Shuming wasn’t very much on his way, it was just that he insisted on giving Jiang Yimiao a ride to commute.

Jiang Yimiao looked at the lit up computer screen before reacting to the fact that Qiu Xiaoyan must have seen Zhao Shuming’s car, otherwise how would she know that he sent her to work, “You saw his car?”

“Yeah, black Audi, the license plate I almost remembered, it feels like if I take a ride or carpool every day, I can see your family’s car.” Autumn Xiaoyan is a native of Nancheng, has a room in Nancheng, but lives a little far from the company, take the subway and bus is not convenient, she is usually a taxi to work, every day is almost and Jiang Yimiao almost a time to the company.

“It’s not my house, it’s his own car.”

“Didn’t you say he’s your ‘own brother’, how come his own brother’s car isn’t yours.” Qiu Xiaoyan threw a bag of cookies to Jiang Yimiao.

Jiang Yimiao’s hands were busy catching it, just as some of the cravings, lowered his head and tore open the bag of cookies, the bag was only torn open a mouth, Jiang Yimiao violently raised his head again, “Wait a moment, you just saw me and Zhao Shuming?

Jiang Yimiao fiercely recalled the image of Zhao Shuming just asking for a kiss in the car, the front window of the car was able to see the image in the car.

Autumn Xiaoyan wouldn’t have seen the image of her kissing Zhao Shuming, right? If she had known, she would have refused, what she was most afraid of now was letting Qiu Xiaoyan know about the two of them, after all, whenever Qiu Xiaoyan poked fun at the two of them in the first place, she had retorted very firmly.

“Yeah, how else would I know that he sent you here again. I was going to say hello to you, but as a result, you just got off the bus and ran so fast that I couldn’t even call you.”

Seeing Qiu Xiaoyan’s expression, which was completely devoid of any gossip-eating, Jiang Yimiao was relieved that she definitely didn’t see the image of her kissing Zhao Shuming.

“Eh! Your new ring?” Qiu Xiaoyan grabbed Jiang Yimiao’s hand and looked at it.

Jiang Yimiao occasionally wore decorative rings, but they were all silver. This rose gold ring on her hand now did look a bit abrupt compared to the previous ones.

“Ah, right, I heard that wearing it on the right middle finger attracts wealth.”

“Attract wealth? This ring of yours shall not cost a month’s salary ah, this has not yet attracted wealth and then broke the wealth.” Autumn Xiaoyan joked, “But it does look pretty good haha, your hand is thin and long, very suitable for wearing a ring.”

The ring was a relatively famous brand, and it wasn’t surprising that Qiu Xiaoyan could guess its price.

“I also think it’s quite pretty.” Jiang Yimiao withdrew her own hand and somewhat sheepishly touched it on her leg.

Could it be that the first time you fall in love will be so vain, she is obviously in her twenties, there is always a feeling that she is secretly falling in love early and doing bad things.

Until she saw the three screens in front of her, Jiang Yimiao shook her head, shook all those chaotic thoughts out, or hurry to work for not working overtime tonight!

The result Jiang Yimiao crows, she still have to work overtime today, and so busy to almost seven o’clock before marking time to go.

Fortunately, it’s not very late, the sky outside is even still bright, but a look at the bottom of the sky is divided into two pieces, a bright blue and the other is covered by a thick swath of clouds, the cloud gap reveals the light of the setting sun.

Zhao Shuming learned that she had to work overtime again tonight, and also late to make dinner, so that she came back to eat together.

That’s why Jiang Yimiao heard the sound of the kitchen hood wind as soon as she opened the door to her home.

She guessed that Zhao Shuming must be preparing dinner at home right now, and Jiang Yimiao shouted towards the house, “I’m home.”

She reflexively took off her shoes first, only to realize that Zhao Yanlan was also at home, sitting upright in the living room watching TV.

“Auntie Zhao?” Jiang Yimiao froze for two seconds before changing her shoes.

“Eh, Miao Miao, working overtime again tonight?”

“Well, the group has been busy lately, overtime is the norm.” Jiang Yimiao hung up her bag and caught the ring on her hand in her line of sight, she violently put her right hand behind her back.

“Auntie Zhao why did you come back here at this time?”

“I was packing up in the other house and found two very thick photo albums with pictures of Shuming when he was a child, and a lot of pictures of you, thought he might need them so I brought them over for him, and by the way, I came to rub dinner together, and I’ll leave later.”

Zhao Yilan had promised Zhao Shuming that she wouldn’t come back here for a while, so she definitely kept her promise.

Although she didn’t know what kind of medicine Zhao Shuming had in his gourd right now, and how far his relationship with Miao Miao had gotten, she still wanted to let him come as he pleased.

If River doesn’t like him, then it’s not meant to be.

If River liked him, then he got what he wanted.

“Album?” Jiang Yimiao’s eyes quickly caught the photo album on the table, it was really as Zhao Yanlan said, it was thick and a big one.

“Yeah, I didn’t even remember that there were so many photos hidden in the house.” Zhao Yanlan laughed.

“Miao Miao, you can wash your hands and get ready to eat.” Zhao Shuming glanced at the two of them and came out with the last plate of food, and Jiang Yimiao saw with her sharp eyes that he was still wearing his ring.

Jiang Yimiao hurriedly and quietly put her left hand behind her back as well to remove her ring.

“Okay.” Jiang Yimiao purposely pulled her voice back and quickly ran back to the room to put the ring away and washed her hands again.

Zhao Shuming and Zhao Yannan were usually usually very quiet during dinner, basically not talking much, and she had to watch TV dramas or variety shows for dinner, so Jiang Yimiao didn’t talk either.

However, Zhao Yannan probably hadn’t spent time with Jiang Yimiao for too long, and talked to her about a lot of family matters, although she had long ago talked to Shen Man as well in such words.

Zhao Shuming, on the other hand, sat across from Jiang Yimiao without saying a word, occasionally giving her a dish.

When dinner was over and the sky outside turned dark blue, Zhao Yannan was also ready to leave, only before she left she glanced at Zhao Shuming who was doing hygiene in the kitchen, and pulled Jiang Yimiao over to the balcony to talk.

“Miao Miao ah, did you have a falling out with Shuming recently?”

Jiang Yimiao opened her eyes wide, not knowing where Zhao Yanlan had gotten her conclusion, she waved her hand violently and shook her head straight, “No ah, we’ve always been quite good.”

Good enough to have gotten into bed ……

“That’s good, look at Shuming giving you food, you always tell him not to clip, spoon soup and rice or whatever and refuse to let him help, I thought you guys had a falling out.”

Jiang Yimiao lowered her head a little embarrassed, she was just deliberately avoiding suspicion with Zhao Shuming, she was afraid that Zhao Yannan would see something, but it turned out to be a good thing, avoiding too much instead made her feel awkward.

“Let him do whatever he wants, he’s happy to do it, it’s not like you don’t know, Shuming has had the best relationship with you since he was a kid, it’s more intimate than with us as mom and dad.” Zhao Yanlan lowered her eyebrows and said softly.

When she was young, she was busy doing scientific research and leading projects, and Zhao Zhengcheng was too busy to leave even though he was a doctor. Jiang Yimiao spent far more time with Zhao Shuming than he did with his parents.

Anyone with eyes could tell that Zhao Shuming didn’t know anyone in his family well, and wasn’t as close as he was to Jiang Yimiao, a person who wasn’t related to him in any way.

If it was possible, Zhao Yilan would have known better than to arrange for him to study abroad, but now she had a grudge in her heart.

Jiang Yimiao nodded dully, always feeling that Zhao Yannan was a bit strange, her eyes seemed to have some sadness in them, but they also seemed to be joyful.

“You’re busy and tired from work, take an early rest, Auntie won’t bother you.” Zhao Yanlan patted her hand, picked up the fruit she had just bought for herself downstairs and left.

There was also another bag of fruit she left on the table, leaving it for Jiang Yimiao and Zhao Shuming to eat.

There were only two people left in the empty room.

Jiang Yimiao sat down on the soft sofa and held up one of the photo albums and flipped through it, the first one was Zhao Shuming’s baby picture, Jiang Yimiao hadn’t even been born yet.

“You were so cute when you were little!” Jiang Yimiao turned the baby photo towards Zhao Shuming and said cheerfully.

“So I’m not cute now?”

Jiang Yimiao felt the sofa beside her sink in, and there was an additional heat source beside her.

“It’s cute now too!”

She made a rare sweet comment in front of Zhao Shuming and lowered her head again to continue flipping through the photo album.

“What did my mom just say to you in a sneaky way?” Zhao Shuming asked coldly.

“Ah, didn’t say anything, she thought I was messing with you.” Jiang Yimiao pouted.

“I don’t know how Auntie Zhao thought we were messing around hahaha, she told me to rely on you and trouble you more.”

Zhao Shuming was stunned and bowed his head.

“Eh, this time you have me in your photos eh!” Jiang Yimiao flipped to a photo of Zhao Shuming and Jiang Yimiao, who was still sitting in the baby walker.

“That’s for sure, I’ve seen you since you were just a month old.” Zhao Shuming laughed, “No, I’ve seen you since you were a baby in your mom’s belly.”

He even went to Jiang Yimiao’s full moon banquet with his parents when he was little.

“And this, is this kindergarten, or elementary school ah, I don’t remember ……”

Jiang Yimiao flipped through the photo album, and whenever she said a sentence, her left hand would subconsciously slap Zhao Shuming’s arm. As she flipped through it, she rattled off a bunch of words.

It was only when she realized that Zhao Shuming had been staring at her that she stopped her mouth, “Why do you keep looking at me like that? Is there something on my face?” Saying that she even touched her face up and down with her right hand.

Zhao Shuming stared at her hand that had taken off her ring, he didn’t know when she had taken it off, Jiang Yimiao was still wearing it when he had sent her to work this morning, but after she had gotten home he had seen her fingers empty.

Especially at the dinner table, her right hand had been on the table, and her empty hand was always reminding him of something.

Zhao Shuming had purposely and quietly measured all of her fingers before and bought the right ring size, even if Zhao Shuming wanted to find an excuse now to say that the ring might have fallen off, he couldn’t convince himself.

Zhao Shuming held her hand and gently rubbed it, but the look on his face was disillusioned.

“Miao Miao, when can we tell mom and dad about our relationship?”

“Why, why are you suddenly asking this, didn’t you say before that you would adapt for a while, it’s only been two days now ah.” Jiang Yimiao was a bit puzzled, her eye lashes fluttering straight up.

“It’s just that I don’t feel the need to keep it hidden from them all the time.” Zhao Shuming suddenly moved his body a little closer, and Jiang Yimiao’s body was close together.

“It’s still a little too early right ……” Jiang Yimiao clasped her index finger and thumb against each other, somewhat puzzled. She hadn’t adapted to the shift in her relationship with Zhao Shuming until now.

Even she herself realized that she seemed to be running away from something.

“Or maybe you can come up with some kind of assessment standard, and if I meet it, I’ll make it public?” Zhao Shuming tried to give in.

“Assessment standards?” Jiang Yimiao narrowed her eyes, her fingertips touching the tip of her nose again, “But it feels like someone like you might be able to fulfill the assessment criteria right away?”

No one was perfect, but Zhao Shuming was indeed too good for her, any request Jiang Yimiao could think of Zhao Shuming could fulfill her. So Jiang Yimiao couldn’t think of anything that could be difficult for Zhao Shuming.

“Then why hide it from everyone?” Zhao Shuming gripped her right hand tightly, the ring he had never removed choking her hand.

“I, I just think it’s a little too fast …… “It’s only been three months since Zhao Shuming went back to China, and Jiang Yimiao felt like her head had a little heavy, “I forgot to tell you, Cheng Wenyao knows about the relationship between the two of us.”

“To be fair, you can also tell your best friend about our relationship.” Jiang Yimiao pursed her lips and smiled.

“My best friend, closest person, and favorite person is you.”

The sky outside the balcony was completely dim, and the evening breeze of the summer night drilled through, the clothes hanging on the balcony fluttering gently. Zhao Shuming felt like he could even hear his own breathing.

“Miao Miao, I know that you’ve never actually gotten into a relationship yet, afraid that we won’t last long, and that you might make your parents feel awkward after we separate.

I don’t know if you don’t have confidence in me or in our relationship, but River, I’ve thought long and hard about everything I’ve done.

You may be thinking that it’s best to be happy in time and settle for the status quo, but from the beginning I’ve been aiming to spend my life with you.”

The light from the chandelier in the living room gathered in his eyes like a lake with specks of light.

“River, I probably made that decision before I was twenty.”