You Should Have Told Me You Don't Like Sweet Girls - Chapter 42
Chapter 42
“…you’re really playing hard to get.”
“I’m not!” Shi Xueqian’s voice broke at the end in a panic. “I’m just wondering why you still have so much energy…”
“Is that so?” Su Yu’s face was full of doting affection. Her eyes were filled with the image of the person beneath her. Her fingertips lightly tapped her little head. “So, have you figured out the reason, senior?”
“I have,” Shi Xueqian’s hand was being naughty again, poking her beautiful mermaid line. “I don’t usually exercise, so…”
Because of that, she was not only weaker than Su Yu, but she also had less energy than Su Yu.
Su Yu was still full of life at this moment, while she was like a puddle of mud.
“Senior, you do lack exercise,” Su Yu’s lips curved up. “So, let’s continue to exercise. It’s good for your health.”
Shi Xueqian: “…Really, good girl, how about next time? I’m really tired. If we do it again, I’ll really die here…”
Just then, there was a knock on the door, and Duan Qing’s voice came from outside. “Su Yu, are you in there?”
A lifesaver!
Shi Xueqian’s eyes instantly lit up, like the brightest star in the night sky. Even without saying anything, her expression showed what she was thinking.
Su Yu raised her hand and scraped her nose. “You little ungrateful thing.”
Shi Xueqian stuck her tongue out at her and urged her to leave. “Quickly, Auntie is calling you. It might be something urgent. Go, go…”
Her words just now were meant to coax her. Su Yu just wanted to hear Shi Xueqian’s soft pleadings more.
The feeling was like a kitten revealing its softest belly, begging for a rub. It was an indescribably wonderful feeling.
“I’m going, I’m going,” Su Yu stopped her from pushing her. She stopped teasing her, lowered her head, and lightly kissed her nose. She instructed her, “Aren’t you tired? Be a good girl and rest for a bit.”
Shi Xueqian nodded obediently.
Su Yu covered her with the blanket, kissed her forehead, and then put on her clothes and left the room.
Duan Qing pulled her aside and whispered, “Your sister told me that Little Shi wasn’t feeling well and told me not to disturb you for a while.”
“How is Little Shi now? Is she better? Do we need to call the family doctor to come and see her? Or should we just go to the hospital?”
“No need. She’ll be fine after resting for a while,” Su Yu said.
“You young people, you can’t think that a small illness is a small problem. Big problems are caused by not taking small problems seriously.”
“It’s really fine, Mom. You don’t have to worry,” Su Yu changed the subject. “Is dinner ready? We can just call her when we’re ready to eat.”
She held Duan Qing’s shoulders and pushed her downstairs.
“Are you sure we don’t need to get the family doctor to take a look?” Duan Qing was still a little worried.
“Really, no need,” Su Yu said, pushing her forward. “Go, go. Dinner is already being made, right? I can already smell it.”
“Yes. Your dad is personally cooking today. There are only two dishes left,” Duan Qing said with a smile. “Your dad is being very serious today, taking out his best dishes.”
Su Yu’s eyes scanned the living room. She asked, “Where’s my sister? Hasn’t she come down yet?”
“She’s in the room with Little Han. She said she has work.”
Su Yu raised her eyebrows slightly and didn’t say anything else.
Su Yu stayed in the kitchen with Mr. and Mrs. Su for a while until Su Tiancheng said that the last dish was almost ready and told her to go call them. Only then did she leave the kitchen.
She first went to Su Yao’s room, knocked on the door, and heard Su Yao’s suppressed gasp from inside. “What’s wrong?”
Su Yu: “Sister, dinner’s ready. Mom and Dad told me to come get you.”
“Mmm, we’ll be right down.”
Su Yu tactfully didn’t disturb them anymore and walked towards her own room.
When she opened the door and went in, the person on the bed was gone again.
This time, the bathroom was very quiet. Su Yu walked towards her small study. As expected, she saw Shi Xueqian.
She was fully dressed and was standing in front of the bookshelf, holding a book.
She quietly walked over, wrapped her arms around her from behind, and rubbed her nose against her neck. “Dinner’s ready.”
Shi Xueqian closed the book, turned her head, and kissed her on the cheek. “Let’s go. We shouldn’t keep your family waiting.”
When they got to the stairs, they happened to run into Su Yao and Han Youdi.
The two sisters looked at each other with a knowing look and quietly followed their girlfriends downstairs.
At the dinner table, Duan Qing used a serving spoon to continuously put food on Shi Xueqian and Han Youdi’s plates. She said seriously, “You two eat more. You’re both too thin.”
Their respective girlfriends nodded in agreement.
After dinner, everyone sat on the sofa together and watched TV, just like a real family, laughing and talking.
When the hour hand turned to nine, Shi Xueqian secretly poked Su Yu’s thigh.
Su Yu understood. She stood up and said, “Mom and Dad, it’s getting late. I’ll take senior back now.”
Duan Qing held Shi Xueqian’s hand and asked, “It’s so late, and you have to film again tomorrow, right? Can’t you just stay the night here? It’ll save you from having to travel back and forth.”
Shi Xueqian told the truth. “Thank you, Auntie, but my family doesn’t allow me to stay out.”
Duan Qing looked at Su Yu. When she saw her nod, she didn’t try to keep her anymore. “Okay, then be careful on your way back.”
Su Yu didn’t take Shi Xueqian directly home. Instead, she took her back to school.
In a sense, Shi Xueqian had snuck out of school. When she was in her first and second year, Xu Zhicheng was afraid that she would go “bad,” so he had people watching her on campus. During specific times, she could only be in the classroom, the library, the teacher’s office, or the cafeteria. She couldn’t go anywhere else.
It wasn’t until her third year, this year, because of Xu Yan’s promotion and her good behavior over the years, that her restrictions were loosened.
Since then, at least on campus, Shi Xueqian was free.
At first, when Su Yu asked her to film off-campus, she was a little hesitant, but in the end, she only asked that they walk separately when they went back and forth to school, and that she had to be back at school by 9:30 PM at the latest.
Su Yu readily agreed and kept her promise. Even the car she used to drop her off was the most inconspicuous and low-key one in the garage.
The car stopped in an unnoticed corner. Su Yu turned her head to look at Shi Xueqian right away.
Shi Xueqian’s hand, which was unbuckling her seatbelt, paused for a moment. With a click, she unbuckled it, leaned over, and pinched Su Yu’s cheek. “Don’t be sad. See you tomorrow.”
Su Yu held her hand and rubbed her cheek against her palm. “I don’t want to be separated from you.”
This one sentence touched a nerve in Shi Xueqian. She was also very reluctant. She couldn’t even stand this short separation now. Could she really bear a long-term separation a month from now?
Shi Xueqian shook her head. Separation would only be temporary.
Her lips curved up. “We’ll see each other tomorrow.”
As for the time Shi Xueqian had set, Su Yu didn’t want to break her bottom line. She stopped acting shamelessly. She watched her safely enter the school gate from the car, got out of the car, and quickly ran into the campus, secretly escorting her to the library until the self-study room that belonged to Shi Xueqian lit up. She took out her phone and sent a message to Shi Xueqian: Senior, have you arrived at the self-study room?
Shi Xueqian: Just arrived.
Su Yu: Good girl~
A cute little girl hugging another cold little girl and kissing her.jpg
Shi Xueqian saved the sticker and sent it back to her: Be careful on your way back.
Su Yu: Senior, you should use this sticker.
A cold little girl pointing at her cheek and asking for a kiss.jpg
Okay, I’ll definitely be careful~ I’ll let you know as soon as I get home~
Shi Xueqian saved the new sticker she sent and sent it back. She then found another sticker and sent it: A little cat patting a little dog: good.jpg
Su Yu sent a sticker of her pouncing and then left the school.
When she got home, Su Yao was no longer there. She had gone back to her own residence.
“Honey, come here.”
Su Yu obediently went over and sat close to her mother. She rested her head on her shoulder. “Mom, what’s wrong?”
Su Yu was wearing a milky white short T-shirt with some red butterflies on it, paired with a pair of milky white loose floor-length pants that also had butterfly elements. The overall look was very sweet and youthful.
Duan Qing touched the butterfly pattern on her shirt. After hesitating for a moment, she said, “Honey, you’re dressed up like this because you said Little Shi likes sweet girls, right?”
Su Yu nodded.
Duan Qing thought for a moment. “But why do I feel like that’s not the case?”
Su Yu sat up straight. “What’s not the case?”
“Little Shi likes sweet girls,” Duan Qing said, recalling. “I don’t see anything strange about your outfit, but occasionally, occasionally, when I see her look at you, it’s a little strange. It’s a feeling I can’t describe.”
There was love, but there were also other indescribable emotions.
“I feel like she doesn’t like sweet girls.”
Su Yu nodded in agreement. She had also had that suspicion before, but Shi Xueqian had told her herself. “Senior told me herself that she likes sweet girls.”
“Is that so?” Duan Qing said thoughtfully. “But sometimes, people will lie to themselves to achieve a certain goal.”
Su Yu frowned slightly. “Mom, what do you mean?”
Duan Qing sighed. “Nothing. I just feel that Little Shi is a child who will always choose to wrong herself when faced with a choice.”
Su Yu couldn’t deny it. She also had that same strange feeling as Duan Qing, but the feeling had just flashed by, and she had ignored it.
Duan Qing instructed her, “Honey, when you’re with her, you must pay more attention to her emotions and try to get her to open up to you completely.”
Su Yu nodded.
Her mother was right. She didn’t doubt that Shi Xueqian liked and loved her, but she also couldn’t lie to herself that Shi Xueqian hadn’t completely opened up to her.
As for the reason, she didn’t think she had done anything wrong, so the reason must be with Shi Xueqian herself.
When Shi Xueqian got home, Xu Yan blocked her way. “Sister, have you been in the library all day today?”
She looked her in the eye and nodded without changing her expression.
Xu Yan said slowly, “I went to the library on a whim today. Sister, you didn’t even come out for dinner?”
Shi Xueqian: “Mmm, I’m usually like this anyway.”
This was a fact. It was common for her to be so engrossed in the library that she lost track of time.
Xu Yan scrutinized her. Her clothes were neat, without any strange wrinkles. It was the same outfit she had worn this morning. She narrowed her eyes slightly. “Sister, you’d better be as obedient as you were before.”
“Always remember, you can’t hook up with Su Yu.”
She left with her nose in the air.
Shi Xueqian went back to her room and used all her strength to pinch her thigh. Xu Yan didn’t treat her like she used to. Maybe she listened to Xu Zhicheng, but for some reason, every time she met Xu Yan, she felt even more disgusted, as if she was covered in something sticky and smelly.
In fact, she had realized that it wasn’t just when she saw Xu Yan. When she saw any member of the Xu family, or even just thinking about going back to the Xu family, she felt extremely disgusted, and her body couldn’t stop trembling.
Her body and mind seemed to be spiraling out of control in an unknown direction, but she didn’t know what to do.
If Su Yu was by her side, everything would be fine.
Su Yu seemed to be a medicine for her. She could even work from a distance, but Su Yu was her own person first.
A sharp pain came from her thigh. Her body slowly calmed down. Shi Xueqian stared blankly out the window for a moment, then got up and went to the bathroom to wash up.
When she came out, her phone was vibrating.
Unsurprisingly, it was a video call from Su Yu.
She waited for the call to end naturally before picking up her phone: What’s wrong?
There was no reply. A video call invitation immediately popped up.
Shi Xueqian hung up: I’m a little tired today. I’m going to rest now. You should also rest early.
Su Yu:
Senior, I won’t bother you. I’ll just coax you to sleep.
With Su Yu’s coaxing, Shi Xueqian did fall asleep very quickly, very well, and very peacefully, without a dream until morning.
But she couldn’t get used to it. She couldn’t become dependent on it. Even if they really got together and lived together in the future, Su Yu couldn’t possibly coax her to sleep like this every day.
That would be too demanding.
Su Yu: Senior~ Didn’t you say I coax you to sleep better?
Shi Xueqian didn’t reply. She just quietly looked at the messages Su Yu sent.
Su Yu: Senior?
Are you asleep?
She would just pretend she was asleep, even though she knew she wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight.
She got into bed and tried to fall asleep. As expected, she failed.
Since she couldn’t sleep, she thought about how to move her grandmother.
She definitely couldn’t tell her grandmother the truth.
So what should she tell her grandmother?
After much thought, it was impossible for her to move her grandmother on her own, but it would be much easier if she asked Su Yu for help.
It seemed she could only tell Su Yu the truth.
The two-day filming on the weekend went very smoothly. The next two weeks of filming were also filled with laughter and joy. After spending time with them, Shi Xueqian’s biggest feeling was:
How nice. Su Yu is surrounded by good people. Even without her company, she won’t be lonely.
As the season quietly changed to winter, the filming of the short film was also successfully completed.
Duan Qing pulled Shi Xueqian to sit on the sofa and said with a smile, “Little Shi, you’ll be at Su Yu’s birthday party tomorrow, right?”
So tomorrow is already December 8th?
Time had passed so quickly. More than half a month had already passed. There was less than half a month left.
She couldn’t hesitate anymore. She had to tell Su Yu the truth.
Su Yu would understand, right?
“I have something to do tomorrow. I probably can’t make it.”
The feeling of anticipation instantly sank, but Su Yu didn’t show it on her face. She still looked at Shi Xueqian with a smile.
Shi Xueqian knew the scale of Su Yu’s birthday party. To put it simply, it was a personal birthday party. To put it more grandly, it was a networking event for top wealthy families to exchange resources.
The Xu family would definitely find a way to attend.
If that was the case, Shi Xueqian absolutely could not attend.
Qin Shuangyuan looked at her. “It’s okay if you don’t come tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, we’ll have a private birthday party for Su Yu with just her friends. Will you come, senior?”
Shi Xueqian didn’t give a definite answer. “If I can, I will.”