Chapter 32
By the second class of the morning, Han Shuangshuang finally saw Yan Huan arrive late.
Looking at Yan Huan, who was so exquisite from the tips of her hair to the tips of her toes that it was as if she wished every strand and nail to sparkle, Han Shuangshuang was rather surprised. “Sis, were you reincarnated from a peacock? This outfit is way too flamboyant. Could it be… yesterday’s date went smoothly?”
Han Shuangshuang copied Yan Huan’s usual manner and wiggled her brows gossipingly.
Yan Huan lifted her chin, leisurely brushed back her long hair, which had been curled into waves, and stretched out an index finger, shaking it in front of Han Shuangshuang.
“It can only be understood, not spoken.”
Han Shuangshuang directly called out in amazement.
“Then hurry, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me!”
Yan Huan covered her mouth with her hand, turned her head, and whispered to Han Shuangshuang, “Yesterday, I found a French restaurant with a very quiet atmosphere. The two of us quietly ate dinner together. And I realized Yun Yun seemed to have something she wanted to say to me while eating, but that restaurant was too quiet. Basically no one spoke, so in the end, I still didn’t know what Yun Yun wanted to say to me. But I thought, since Yun Yun left those words in her heart, she’ll still have to say them eventually. Then wouldn’t we still have a topic for the next time we meet?”
In reality, Yun Yun had eaten with Yan Huan because she wanted to find out what thoughts Han Shuangshuang held toward Shen Yuru. But after eating for the whole night, she never found a chance to speak.
And as Yan Huan ate, she kept looking at Yun Yun with a delighted smile, smiling so much that Yun Yun’s heart went furry.
Listening to Yan Huan’s vivid description, Han Shuangshuang kept feeling as though something was strange somewhere.
But seeing her own sis this happy, it was not convenient for her to say anything more.
Yan Huan patted Han Shuangshuang’s shoulder. “Thanks to you, lunch is on me.”
Han Shuangshuang raised her brows.
Yan Huan said, “The day after tomorrow is Shen Yuru’s birthday. Have you thought about what gift you’ll give her? After all, this is Shen Yuru’s first birthday after the two of you got to know each other. You still need to be a little careful. And… I know people like her are all super tsundere. They don’t say it out loud, but in their hearts, they’re actually very expectant.”
Han Shuangshuang felt that Yan Huan’s words made sense.
But her pockets were empty. She was a poor ghost.
Han Shuangshuang said, “Where around our school can someone do temporary work? Why don’t I go do a part-time job for two days?”
Yan Huan thought about it carefully too. “The dessert shop near school is recruiting part-timers. If this were before, I definitely wouldn’t recommend you go, but your cooking skills are so good. You should also know how to make desserts, right? The hourly pay there is pretty high.”
Yan Huan respected Han Shuangshuang, so naturally, she would not say something like directly transferring money to Han Shuangshuang, or lending money to Han Shuangshuang so she could buy Shen Yuru a gift.
Han Shuangshuang looked at her class schedule for the next two days. She had no classes in the afternoon, so they hit it off immediately and decided she would go work at the dessert shop.
It just so happened that the dessert shop’s tools were fairly complete. On Shen Yuru’s birthday, she could make Shen Yuru a big cake.
[System: Warm reminder to Host. The system has detected fluctuations in Shen Yuru’s mood. Please investigate Shen Yuru’s mood as soon as possible. If Shen Yuru is in a bad mood, please soothe her in time.]
Han Shuangshuang picked up her phone and sent Shen Yuru a sticker.
The text on the sticker read: Pat the puppy’s head, and all worries disappear.
Sitting in the classroom, Shen Yuru was already irritated when she suddenly heard her phone vibrate.
She opened it and saw that the person saved as “Central Air Conditioner” had sent her a sticker.
The doggo on the sticker had round cheeks and two big, glossy black eyes. It smiled silly and honestly, revealing little canine teeth. It even held its paws together in a pleading gesture, looking as if it was saying please, please. The caption read: Pat the puppy’s head, and all worries disappear.
Looking at this dog head, Shen Yuru somehow felt it resembled Han Shuangshuang very much.
Shen Yuru’s hand shook, and she accidentally tapped a sticker of someone angrily rubbing a dog’s head and sent it out.
After sending it, she immediately turned off her phone and placed it face down beside her, no longer paying attention to Han Shuangshuang.
She was not angry. She was not angry. She was not angry. Important things had to be said three times.
Seeing that the bad woman had replied with a sticker, Han Shuangshuang felt relieved.
The system also did not issue another warning, so after class ended at noon, she ate with Yan Huan, then hurried to the dessert shop.
Shi Nianxue had been secretly following Han Shuangshuang from behind the whole time.
“Shuangshuang.”
Just as Han Shuangshuang was about to push open the dessert shop door, she heard a familiar voice behind her.
Han Shuangshuang instinctively turned around and saw Shi Nianxue standing there with both hands behind her back, smiling sweetly at her.
A bad premonition rose in Han Shuangshuang’s heart again, because the last time Shen Yuru quarreled with her, it had been related to Shi Nianxue.
Han Shuangshuang instinctively did not want to have any interaction with Shi Nianxue.
Shi Nianxue said, “What are you doing here? Do you want to eat cake? I’ll treat you.”
Shi Nianxue had an exquisite doll-like face, with large eyes. When she smiled, her eyes curved into crescents, looking sweet.
However, Shi Nianxue smiled too forcefully, and Han Shuangshuang always felt that Shi Nianxue did not seem to harbor good intentions.
Han Shuangshuang said, “How would I have money to buy little cakes? I’m here to work, to do a part-time job and earn some tuition and living expenses. Of course… let’s make this clear first. I don’t need your help. I can support myself. I also don’t need your sympathy or charity. I already made myself very clear before. If there’s nothing else, don’t come looking for me.”
The smile on Shi Nianxue’s face froze. She frowned and looked at Han Shuangshuang seriously. “Are you very short on money? Why come here to work and suffer like this? You’re the eldest young miss of the Han family. Or is it… Shen Yuru is making you spend money on her?”
Han Shuangshuang hurriedly waved her hands and glanced at the time. It was almost two thirty. She had seen the dessert shop’s sign saying part-time workers earned twenty-five yuan an hour. If she delayed any longer, she would lose five yuan.
“No, no. Don’t imagine things randomly. I just want to have a little more money on hand.”
Shi Nianxue suddenly thought of something and sneered. “The day after tomorrow is Shen Yuru’s birthday. Don’t tell me you want to work part-time to earn money and buy her a birthday gift?”
The invitations for Shen Yuru’s birthday had long since been sent out by the Shen family. Every year, when Shen Yuru celebrated her birthday, the Shen family would make a grand display of it.
Shi Nianxue said, “The Shen family is celebrating her birthday for her. She won’t look favorably upon cheap things you give her.”
Hearing this, Han Shuangshuang became even more unhappy. “What I want to do is my freedom. What gift I want to give is also my freedom. Whether she likes it or not is for Shen Yuru to decide. Also, I hope you won’t go to Shen Yuru and say random things.”
After all, she wanted to give Shen Yuru a surprise. If Shi Nianxue told Shen Yuru in advance, then the surprise would be gone.
Shi Nianxue let out a scoffing laugh and crossed her arms, as if she had caught Han Shuangshuang by the pigtail. “It’s fine if you don’t want me to say anything. Unless you promise me one thing.”
Han Shuangshuang was already getting anxious. There were only three minutes left before time. “What is it? Hurry and say it.”
Shi Nianxue picked up her phone and waved it in front of Han Shuangshuang. “Add my contact information back.”
Han Shuangshuang clicked her tongue. She had thought it was something serious. Wasn’t it just adding her on WeChat? That was simple.
“I’ll scan yours. Hurry. I’m in a rush.”
After Han Shuangshuang scanned the code, she immediately entered the dessert shop.
Shi Nianxue looked at the phone in front of her with satisfaction.
Not far away, Yun Yun saw this scene and pushed up her glasses.
Behind Yun Yun, Yan Huan hid beside a large tree and quietly poked out half her head.
Could her sis be in trouble?
This scene really could make people misunderstand.
But she could not let her own sis suffer a loss.
……
A dessert chef at the dessert shop had taken leave for the next few days, and they were short-staffed, which was why they urgently needed an apprentice.
Han Shuangshuang demonstrated her skills at the dessert shop. Her technique was refined and efficient, so the dessert shop gave Han Shuangshuang a wage of thirty yuan an hour. Han Shuangshuang smilingly agreed at once.
There were still two days. She had no classes in the afternoons for those two days. If she worked from two thirty all the way until ten at night, that would be eight hours. Two days would be sixteen hours. Altogether, she could earn four hundred and eighty yuan in two days.
Although buying a large cake from the shop was still impossible, the shop manager told her she could use the shop’s ingredients to make a cake, and they would only charge her some ingredient costs. This amount of money was just enough.
A high-end dessert shop used very high-quality ingredients, so the cake she made would be even sweeter and more fragrant.
[System: Warm reminder to Host. Host has not had contact with Shen Yuru today to increase Shen Yuru’s heart healing progress. Please do not forget that you must have contact with Shen Yuru every day, or else an extremely terrible plot will be triggered.]
By the time Han Shuangshuang returned to Shen Yuru’s residence, it was already ten thirty. Han Shuangshuang knocked on the door.
Because she had been busy all afternoon and had not looked at her phone, she had not replied to Shen Yuru’s message at six o’clock asking when she would be back.
Although she was preparing a surprise for Shen Yuru, Han Shuangshuang did not know why she suddenly felt somewhat guilty.
The door opened, but inside the door was a rather cold face.
Shen Yuru’s beautiful face was indifferent, and those phoenix eyes quietly looked at Han Shuangshuang, who stood outside the door carrying the cool night air.
Han Shuangshuang immediately lifted a smile. She raised a hand and scratched her head, planning to find an excuse to muddle through. But just as she was about to speak, Shen Yuru had already turned around, as if she did not want to ask anything.
Han Shuangshuang said, “Sister Shen, I already ate dinner tonight.”
Shen Yuru said, “Mm.”
Han Shuangshuang asked, “What did Sister Shen eat tonight? Hurry and tell me.”
Shen Yuru said, “I ate something casually. I haven’t starved to death yet.”
Han Shuangshuang placed her bag on the sofa and followed behind Shen Yuru’s butt, wandering around as she asked this and that, chirping nonstop. She was like a doggo that had waited for its master all day and finally saw its master come home.
Shen Yuru frowned and sat back in the study. Suddenly, she spoke coldly, her voice calm with a trace of distance. “I don’t care what you want to do, and I don’t care what kind of people you interact with. But next time you come back late at night, say something in advance. Reply to my message out of basic politeness, and I won’t have to save food for you.”
Han Shuangshuang tilted her head and glanced at the kitchen. She saw some prepared dishes covered in plastic wrap. They were probably dishes Shen Yuru had asked the auntie to make.
Han Shuangshuang said, “Sister Shen, you haven’t eaten yet?”
A trace of guilt rose in Han Shuangshuang’s heart.
Shen Yuru put on her glasses and looked at materials in front of the computer. “I’ve eaten. I’m not hungry. If there’s nothing else, go sleep first. I’m going to keep reading for a while.”
Han Shuangshuang pouted and wanted to say something else, but Shen Yuru had already formed an invisible aura. With her current ability, Han Shuangshuang could not get a word in at all.
Moreover, it was already very late. She had worked for the whole afternoon, and her body truly was a little exhausted. After washing up briefly in the bathroom, she ran to Shen Yuru’s bed and fell deeply asleep the moment she touched the pillow.
After Shen Yuru heard Han Shuangshuang go upstairs, there was no more movement. She took off the glasses on her face.
She sighed, then turned off the computer and the study light. She walked up the stairs slowly to the second floor and looked at Han Shuangshuang, who was sleeping on the bed like a dead pig.
Shen Yuru reached out and placed her hand on Han Shuangshuang’s face. Then she used her thumb and index finger to pinch the soft flesh on Han Shuangshuang’s face, as if venting her anger. “Your personality is like a dog’s, and you even sleep like a dead dog. How are you so impossible?”
After saying that, her hand shifted slightly, and she pinched Han Shuangshuang’s mouth with her fingertips, making Han Shuangshuang’s lips form a duck-mouth shape.
In her sleep, Han Shuangshuang unconsciously kicked her legs, as though sensing someone was holding her mouth.
She instinctively mumbled something.
Shen Yuru immediately let go.
Han Shuangshuang had her eyes closed. She raised her hand and hugged to the side, hugging the blanket. She rubbed her cheek against it affectionately, then muttered, “Sister Shen, Sister Shen.”
“I really don’t know whether you’re pretending to sleep or truly sleeping.” As though venting her anger, Shen Yuru pinched Han Shuangshuang’s little nose again.
After pinching it, she seemed to deflate and sighed. “Forget it. Who would bother arguing with a doggo?”
After saying that, she withdrew her hand, lifted a corner of the blanket, turned off the bedside lamp, and lay down.
Without even needing to think, she was immediately hugged by Han Shuangshuang.
Shen Yuru did not sleep in the next morning.
Her routine was very regular. Although her heart had always been uncomfortable before and her sleep quality was poor, she still went to bed early and woke early.
Ever since Han Shuangshuang had been by her side, she had enjoyed two days of experiencing what it felt like to have enough peaceful sleep.
But after that enjoyment passed, she immediately began stabilizing her routine again.
At seven o’clock, Shen Yuru slowly woke. She thought Han Shuangshuang was still sleeping in beside her, so she planned to reach out and push Han Shuangshuang, this little lazy bug.
But unexpectedly, when her hand landed on the bedding beside her, the spot next to her had long since lost its warmth.
Shen Yuru sat up lazily and unhurriedly brushed her hair back.
She assumed Han Shuangshuang had gotten up on her own to wash up.
But Shen Yuru sat quietly on the bed and listened, only to discover that whether it was the bathroom or the kitchen downstairs, there were no rustling sounds from Han Shuangshuang.
Shen Yuru frowned slightly.
She got up and put on her slippers. She did not wash up first, nor did she pull open the curtains according to her usual habit.
Instead, she immediately went downstairs to check the living room and kitchen. She discovered that breakfast had already been prepared in the kitchen.
A sticky note had been placed beside the breakfast.
(Sister Shen must eat breakfast on time. I was afraid it would get cold, so I already put everything in the warming box. The milk is warming in there too. Remember to drink it. Love you, Han Shuangshuang.)
Han Shuangshuang’s bag and books had already been packed away, as if she had already gone to school.
Shen Yuru leaned against the kitchen doorframe, her brows furrowing even deeper.
She let out a long breath in her heart. Instead of continuing to look at the kitchen, she turned around, those phoenix eyes沉稳ly looking at the sofa in the living room.
Her sleep had always been very light. The moment there was any movement, she would wake.
How had she slept so deeply last night?
This morning, when Han Shuangshuang got up, Shen Yuru had not heard the slightest movement. She had actually had no defenses at all.
A slight discomfort came from her chest.
Shen Yuru raised her hand and pressed it over her chest, calming the uncomfortable feeling in her chest.
In the past, even when her chest was stuffy and swollen with discomfort, she could endure it silently without changing expression.
But unexpectedly, after being comfortable for a few days, now that she had this slight feeling again, she actually found it somewhat difficult to adapt.
Sure enough, she could not indulge herself.
And Shen Yuru suddenly felt that Han Shuangshuang seemed to be hiding something from her.
Shen Yuru glanced at the time, then walked up to the second floor to wash up. Looking at herself in the mirror, at her slightly messy, long, straight black hair that fell like a waterfall, she drove the three words “Han Shuangshuang” out of her mind.
What Han Shuangshuang liked was nothing more than this face of hers.
She knew this kind of shallow liking could not last long.
She allowed Han Shuangshuang to stay by her side only because she felt that Han Shuangshuang approaching her could make her body more comfortable.
Once her psychologist determined that her body had recovered, and once Han Shuangshuang had looked enough at this face of hers, the two of them would definitely part ways with a single clap.
Shen Yuru picked up the couple toothbrush, squeezed on toothpaste, and began brushing her teeth unhurriedly.
This situation would arrive sooner or later. It was only a matter of whether it came one day earlier or one day later.
She did not need to place her thoughts on Han Shuangshuang.
After Shen Yuru finished washing up, she felt her mind had become much clearer too, driving away all the things she did not need to and should not think about.
She sat at the dining table and ate breakfast in small bites.
In the past, her heart had been uncomfortable, she had not slept well at night, and when she woke in the morning, she had been muddled and dazed. Although she worked hard to make herself appear calm, because she had not rested well, she had no appetite at all after waking. Even if she put food into her mouth, she could not swallow it and would always feel faintly uncomfortable.
Ever since Han Shuangshuang moved in and slept beside her, her sleep had improved. And Han Shuangshuang had actually been able to persist in making her breakfast every morning without missing a day. Her stomach also felt much more comfortable.
Shen Yuru realized she seemed to have gotten somewhat used to these kinds of days.
Shen Yuru discovered that the three words “Han Shuangshuang” had surged into her mind again.
Forget it. She really had gone mad.
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