Daily Life Of A Socially Anxious Scumbag Alpha Raising Flowers - Chapter 4

Wen Xin’s sleeping posture really could not be called well-behaved. Over the course of the night, her limbs had wreaked havoc on Dong Xun several times without her being aware of it at all.

Early in the morning, when Wen Xin woke up and discovered that she was wrapped around Dong Xun like an octopus, her entire face instantly flushed bright red.

She hurried to let go of the other woman and cover up the “crime scene,” wanting to pretend nothing had happened. Because of her panic, she did not notice that Dong Xun’s eyes were tightly shut, and her curled lashes were trembling lightly.

After fleeing to the bathroom at lightning speed and splashing her face with cold water, Wen Xin finally calmed down a little once she was fully awake.

“Did I sleep hugging Dong Xun like that all night?”

“Aaaaaah, I forgot my sleeping posture is bad!”

“Even when I used to sleep with Mom, I wasn’t this outrageous! Damn it!”

After biting her lip and silently screaming a few times in her heart, Wen Xin then began to give up on herself in front of the mirror.

“It’s all because you’re a scumbag!”

Wen Xin looked coldly at the mirror and could not help cursing again.

Just like that, she stared blankly for quite a while. Then, no one knew what she suddenly thought of, but her face, still damp with water, turned even redder.

Dong Xun smelled…

so good…

After dawdling in the bathroom for a long time, ostrich Wen Xin finally gathered the courage to step out that door. When she saw Dong Xun, her expression was still a little unnatural, but she still forced herself to act calm and greeted her.

“Good… good morning, Dong Xun.”

“Good morning,” Dong Xun replied, her voice soft and gentle.

“How did you sleep last night?” In order to make the atmosphere less awkward, Wen Xin asked casually with an empty head. In fact, even she did not know what words had come out of her mouth.

“Very well,” Dong Xun said.

In reality, it had not been good at all. Last night, Wen Xin had kept burrowing into her arms like a koala. It had been very hot. Wen Xin’s head had also kept rubbing against the hollow of her shoulder. It had been very ticklish. After the two of them pressed together and sweated, it had been very uncomfortable. She had basically not slept much last night.

But Dong Xun would not say any of this in front of Wen Xin.

“That’s good.”

Hearing her answer, Wen Xin felt as if she had been granted amnesty. Her heart relaxed, and she happily felt that Dong Xun truly had not been affected.

She had actually only changed into that sleeping posture when dawn was almost breaking. Last night, she must have still been very well-behaved.

After thinking this, Wen Xin even nodded very affirmatively to herself.

Her worries instantly scattered, and even her voice when she spoke was clearly lighter.

“I’ll go make breakfast.”

Wen Xin was serious about not letting that damned nutrient fluid replace any meal of the day.

But because last night, Dong Xun had only been out of her sight for a little while and then a frightening incident had happened, this time, she carefully invited Dong Xun to join her. “I might need some help. Emmm, I mean, a kitchen assistant. Are you willing to help me?”

Dong Xun nodded.

Today’s breakfast was a classic Chinese-style breakfast: steamed egg with goji berries, fresh pork soup dumplings, and three-color soy milk.

“Dong Xun, could you help me wash the beans that are soaking? Wash them a few more times, okay?”

Dong Xun answered, “Okay.”

Wen Xin assigned Dong Xun the easiest task, then quickly and methodically began preparing breakfast. After placing the steamed egg in the pot, she started mixing the fresh pork filling. The wrappers had been prepared last night and stored in the refrigerator, so she could take them out and use them directly.

One thin wrapper after another, once wrapped around the meat filling, turned in Wen Xin’s nimble hands into adorable, plump little buns with pleats.

Finally, she put the soybeans, red beans, black beans, and large red dates that Dong Xun had washed into the high-speed blender.

Breakfast was soon complete.

Dong Xun stared blankly as dishes were quickly placed on the table.

She had not helped much at all. It was basically Wen Xin doing everything beside her.

Wen Xin’s movements were fast and smooth, as if she had done this thousands of times and did not need to think.

Dong Xun usually cooked, but her methods were all very simple. Basically, she would boil the vegetables, meat, eggs, and whatever else she bought, or simply roast them a little, then add ready-made seasoning sauce from the supermarket. The taste would basically be passable. Most ordinary families could not afford to have the whole family drink nutrient fluid every day, and most would occasionally cook at home to fill their stomachs.

But from childhood to adulthood, other than soy milk, Dong Xun had never seen food made this way.

“Hurry and taste it. Tell me if it’s good!”

At the dining table, Wen Xin looked at Dong Xun eagerly, exceptionally looking forward to feedback. But considering that this household’s past eating habits mainly revolved around nutrient fluid, she urgently gave another reminder.

“This kind of freshly made hot food is quite hot. Before you eat it, you must blow on it first, then carefully test the temperature with your lips. Only eat it after making sure it isn’t scalding. Eating food that’s too hot damages the esophagus and isn’t good for the stomach either.”

Grains and legumes were just right for Dong Xun. Even the steamed egg had goji berries added specially. The main focus was health preservation.

“You didn’t know how to make these before…”

Dong Xun’s one sentence made Wen Xin go dumb.

Right. Forget the fact that the original owner had never known how to cook before—even if she had, she had lost her memory, hadn’t she? She had forgotten her own wife, yet still remembered how to cook. It really was a little ridiculous.

But the current situation did not allow her any other reaction, so she could only brace herself and say, “Maybe I knew how to make them before too, but just didn’t have time. After all, I had to work and all that… Now that I’ve lost my job, I don’t have anything to do at home, and your health isn’t good either, so I wanted to make you something tasty. I don’t know what’s going on with my brain either. Maybe it’s muscle memory. I forgot everything else, but the moment I walk into the kitchen, I automatically remember how to cook.”

Wen Xin laughed awkwardly and brought the topic over. “You should hurry and taste whether the food I made is good. Although it’s not good to eat it when it’s too hot, it won’t taste good once it gets cold either.”

Dong Xun asked no more. She lowered her eyelids and bent her head, gently biting into the skin of a soup dumpling. The thin wrapper broke at the slightest touch, and the fragrant meat filling and soup slid out, instantly filling the tip of her tongue.

Paired with the freshly blended three-color soy milk, which was delicate, smooth, fresh, sweet, and delicious, along with the soft, tender steamed egg—every single thing was a delicacy Dong Xun had never tasted before. It tasted even better than the best nutrient fluid she had ever drunk.

“It’s delicious…”

After receiving Dong Xun’s approval, a super huge, satisfied smile bloomed on Wen Xin’s face. “If it’s delicious, eat more! You’re too thin!”

When they had been eating earlier, she had secretly noticed it. Dong Xun’s arms, with their protruding wrist bones, did not have the slightest bit of flesh on them. She clearly looked malnourished.

Aside from celebrities Wen Xin had seen in real life in her last life, this was the first time she had ever seen someone so thin they looked like a skeleton.

“If your family saw you like this, who knows how heartbroken they’d be…”

Halfway through her rambling, Wen Xin awkwardly scratched her head. “Of course, it’s all actually my fault. But I won’t do it again in the future. Really, I promise!”

Dong Xun saw the person across the table lift three fingers to swear. Her bright little deer eyes were open wide and round, her expression serious.

As if afraid Dong Xun would not believe her, Wen Xin had already made this kind of promise countless times in just two short days.

Unfortunately, she had lost her memory.

So she had forgotten that Dong Xun’s family had married her off back then as if sweeping out garbage. They would never feel heartbroken for her.

Dong Xun lowered her head. Her long lashes covered the thoughts in her eyes.

The atmosphere at the dining table was quiet for the most part. Both of them ate quietly.

Wen Xin bit into a bun with thin skin and fresh meat. The enjoyment brought by her taste buds made her unable to help narrowing her eyes.

This was what eating was! Nutrient fluid or whatever was simply strangling the natural instincts of the human mouth!

And besides, it looked like nutrient fluid was not necessarily all that nutritious either. Otherwise, how could Dong Xun be so thin?

Wen Xin did not know that even the cheapest nutrient fluid at home was not something Dong Xun had the right to drink as she pleased. Besides that, every few days, she would be abused and forbidden from eating by the former Wen Xin…

But for a cook who loved making food, being thin itself was already an important enough reason.

Wen Xin absolutely would not allow anyone under her nose to go hungry and become thin!

Within a few short breaths, the thought rose in Wen Xin’s heart, and she had already begun planning in her mind how to supplement Dong Xun’s nutrition and fatten her up.

Of course, this was something that needed to be done slowly over the long term.

The urgent matter at hand was still to take Dong Xun to see a psychologist first.

Wen Xin had already made an appointment in advance for the morning with the psychologist Qiao Yimu had introduced.

Seeing Dong Xun eat her portion of breakfast cleanly, Wen Xin silently felt relieved for two seconds. She was just about to stand up and do some simple cleaning when Dong Xun, sitting across from her, had already skillfully and efficiently gathered the plates first and entered the kitchen.

Wen Xin stretched out an Erkang hand. “…”

She wanted to say that she could clean up, but did not know how to open her mouth. In the end, she simply braced herself and followed into the kitchen to help Dong Xun wash the dishes.

The narrow kitchen was already cramped. Wen Xin could only stand on the other side of the cabinet. She reached out, wanting to go around in front of Dong Xun to take the cup that had held the soy milk. But the moment her hand lifted, Dong Xun overreacted and instinctively dodged backward.

The ceramic plate fell to the floor with a crisp shattering sound, especially piercing in the silence.

Wen Xin froze.

Dong Xun’s fingers stiffened in midair, trembling uncontrollably.

But she reacted very quickly. Her voice was dry as she apologized, “I’m sorry. I’ll clean it up right away.”

Dong Xun crouched down at once to clean up the mess, not caring at all that her fingers were pierced by the sharp shards and had begun bleeding.

Wen Xin grabbed her wrist.

Without saying a word, she pulled Dong Xun to the living room and helped bandage her.

Panic and anxiety instinctively rose in Dong Xun’s heart.

She had been so careless. According to how things usually went, Wen Xin would definitely be angered and then hit her.

Wen Xin’s temper had always been very irritable. Any tiny little thing could make her suddenly change face.

Dong Xun did not know what to do. She also could not judge whether Wen Xin was angry or not. At this moment, the only thing her mind remembered was to keep apologizing like usual.

“I’m sorry…”

“It’s okay. It was only a plate. Your wound is more important.” Wen Xin bandaged her while gently soothing her emotions. “Just remember next time not to touch those shards with your hands again. It’ll really hurt if you get injured.”

The fact that she was so nervous and uneasy just from breaking a single plate was enough to show that in the past, the original owner must have often beaten and scolded Dong Xun at the slightest little thing.

Poor beauty. She had met the wrong person.

It was really hard for Wen Xin not to feel pity and sympathy for Dong Xun. Her finger had been pierced and bled so much, yet she had not even furrowed her brow. If it had been Wen Xin, she would have cried from the pain long ago.

She herself was the type who was very afraid of pain and did not even dare look at the needle when getting vaccinated…

Thankfully, she was only faint around needles, not blood. Otherwise, she would not even be able to help Dong Xun bandage her wound now. Wen Xin could not help secretly feeling grateful in her heart.

After stopping the bleeding, she stuck a bandage over the small wound on Dong Xun’s finger. There was a slightly larger cut across her palm, and after helping bandage it, Wen Xin finally tied a pretty bow on the back of her hand to finish.

“Your hand is injured, so it can’t touch water. I’ll go wash the dishes. Can you sit here and rest for a while by yourself?” Wen Xin now treated Dong Xun as if she were a fragile item, wishing she could bring out twelve full measures of patience. Her tone was even lighter and gentler.

Dong Xun nodded. Because her emotions were no longer tense, her fingers, which she had subconsciously clenched tightly, finally loosened.

There was also a trace of color on her pale face.

Her gaze did not move away as she watched Wen Xin walk into the kitchen. For the first time, something other than fear and numbness appeared in her eyes, though that extra emotion was only confusion.