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Chapter 23. Pity
"Wow, it smells so good."
"How is this made? It's magical."
"You are so virtuous. Let me touch you and see if you are a cute little girl." The woman behind him was chattering non-stop, and her hands were unscrupulously stroking the man's body up and down.
Shen Xi gently patted the woman's naughty hands and said with a smile, "Stop making trouble and sit on the chair."
"No, I want to help you. I'll go get the food!" As she said that, Yi Ruo smiled and put the plates and bowls in place, took out rice from the rice cooker, and the two of them went in and out of the kitchen one after the other to set the table.
Shen Xi looked at the busy figure of the woman and was confused for a moment. It seemed that he had not cooked with others for a long time, and he had not had such a lively morning for a long time.
He rubbed his fingertips slightly, trying to wipe the throbbing in his heart away.
After a moment, he picked up the chopsticks and was about to put them on the plate and bowl, but they were snatched away halfway. Yi Ruo picked up the chopsticks, picked up a tomato from the bowl and took a bite. The sauce remained in his mouth. His small tongue quickly licked the sauce away, leaving only his lips wet.
She looked at the man with a smile and stuffed the half of the tomato left on the chopsticks into the man's mouth. After the man ate it, she suddenly stood on tiptoes and kissed the man's cheek hard, then fell into the man's arms and laughed heartily in his arms.
The moist touch, the soft body and the clear laughter in the ear all caused ripples in the man's already calm heart. He lowered his eyes slightly and looked at the girl with a different kind of waves in his eyes. He touched the girl's hair and said gently: "What are you doing? Sit down and eat!"
Yi Ruo snorted and sat down obediently.
"What do you like to eat? I'll pick it up for you!" the woman said coquettishly in her ear.
Shen Xi turned his head to look at the girl and said with a smile: "Let me pick it up for you. What do you like to eat?"
"Hehe, I like this, this, and that!!" The girl signaled the man with her eyes.
Shen Xi laughed in his heart, she was so delicate, if he really let her pinch it for him, he would be upset. While thinking about it, his hands kept carefully picking up the dishes on the table and putting them on the girl's plate.
In fact, he was a little unable to resist her. Sometimes she was gentle and generous around him, sometimes she was helpless and pitiful, sometimes she was naughty like a child, and sometimes she turned into a fairy and moaned and seduced in his ears, which was extremely bold.
But he liked every side of her, and he felt that she seemed to be like this only in front of him. She was polite, gentle and well-behaved to others. She would never act like a spoiled child to him like she does now, leaving him no energy to think about anything else.
After dinner, Shen Xi sat on the sofa with Yi Ruo, carefully sorting out the information in the file, while Yi Ruo lazily leaned on the man's shoulder and watched TV.
The rhythmic sound of the keyboard in her ears suddenly slowed down inexplicably, and even stopped. She raised her head slightly as if inadvertently, and saw the man's slightly dazed eyes. She lowered her eyes and realized that the man was about to speak.
Before the man could say anything, she smiled and said, "My birthday is tomorrow!" She hugged the man's arms with both hands, looking at him with curved eyebrows, her eyes unable to conceal the expectation.
"Hmm?" Shen Xi reacted and turned around, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Yi Ruo with a smile in the corners of his eyes.
Looking at Shen Xi's playful eyes, she muttered guiltily: "Well, it's indeed not that coincidental! But my birthday was last week, and I celebrated it alone. I wanted someone to accompany me."
"Last week?" Shen Xi raised his hand to hold the girl's waist, lowered his head and asked the girl who was suddenly depressed.
"Yeah." Yi Ruo lowered her head, as if to hide her inner melancholy, but inadvertently revealed a little bit of her side face, allowing the man to peek into her mood.
The man picked up Yi Ruo, put her on his lap, couldn't help but kiss her forehead and said soothingly: "Why are you suddenly unhappy? If you want me to help you celebrate, let's go celebrate."
Yi Ruo's eyes were filled with tears. She leaned her forehead on the man's shoulder and murmured dejectedly: "No, actually I'm used to it."
"Buying a cake alone, celebrating alone, being forgotten and so on, I don't seem to have had fun in my memory. So if you have something to do, don't worry about me." Yi Ruo leaned quietly on the man's shoulder.
Shen Xi frowned, feeling the wetness on his shoulder, he held the girl's cheek and forcibly lifted her up, and seeing the girl's tears streaming down her cheeks, he felt a little uncomfortable.
He wanted to say something comforting, but in the end he just lowered his head to suck the girl's tears, gently hugged the girl with both hands, and gently patted the girl's back to comfort her.
"Aren't you going to ask me why?" The girl looked at Shen Xi with confused eyes, her fingers tugging at the man's clothes nervously.
The man rubbed the girl's cheek and said, "If you want to talk, I'll listen. If you don't want to talk, I'll..."
Yi Ruo looked up at the man, wanting to know what he would say.
Shen Xi smiled softly, and said to Yi Ruo's urging eyes: "I will help you think about how to celebrate your birthday, and then help you pick a cake you like."
Yi Ruo smiled and punched the man's chest, sweeping away her previous depression, and smiled with tears in the corners of her eyes: "I want a big cake! And a gift!"
"So greedy!" The man pinched the girl's nose and said.
"I'm not greedy. I haven't received any gifts or big cakes in a long time!" Yi Ruo retorted dissatisfiedly.
After saying that, Yi Ruo hugged the man and lay peacefully in his arms. After a moment of silence, she slowly said:
"Yesterday, I was very scared. Not just because I hit that girl."
"I had forgotten it a long time ago, but when I saw the ground covered in blood, I felt like I was back in the nightmare that I couldn't escape from." Shen Xi hugged her and listened quietly, his hand gently stroking her back.
"When I was 19, I remember I was at my uncle's house in the countryside. It was a vacation at the university, and I went back to live for a while. I had planned to tell my uncle in a few days that I would live in the dormitory and would not come back often."
"College life is wonderful. It's what I've always dreamed of."
"Then, my cousin had an argument with someone one night and accidentally cut the person with a kitchen knife."
"I opened the door and saw blood sprayed in the air. The liquid was still hot and very thick. I guess it hit the aorta and soaked everyone."
"The man was lying next to my door, staring at us, as if he died with his eyes open." Yi Ruo grabbed the man's clothes tightly and buried her head and body in the man's arms.
She never told anyone about this.
"I felt everything in front of my eyes was blood red. I don't remember what happened afterwards."
The man comforted Yi Ruo's trembling and cold body, trying to warm her with his body temperature.
"And then?" the man asked.
Yi Ruo raised her head, her eyes were red and swollen, and tears were still flowing. She said absentmindedly: "I can't remember, and then I hurried back to the city. At that time, my uncle's family was in urgent need of money, so I had no time to finish my studies. Until now, I have never been back."
Shen Xi kissed the girl with pity, pressed her head into his arms, hugged her tightly and coaxed her: "It's okay, it's all over, don't be afraid."
Until the girl's emotions gradually stabilized, he held the girl's head and gently wiped away her tears bit by bit.
Looking at the girl leaning on him, like a sloth lying on him, Shen Xi smiled lightly and said:
"Wipe your nose quickly. I never realized you were so crybaby before. Little crybaby." As he said this, he folded his index finger and scratched the tip of the girl's nose again.
"Then you have to stay with me."
"Okay."
The girl said softly with a nasal voice: "Thank you."
The man did not answer, but hugged her, and they sat quietly on the sofa hugging each other.
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