SYLM Chapter 41
by VolareChapter 41 “Are you so hard to coax when you’re angry?”
Meituan delivering medicine?
Gu Wan Jun’s pair of moist peach blossom eyes flashed through Chen Lu’s mind.
Could it be Gu Wan Jun who bought the medicine?
There are so many households in this building, it shouldn’t be such a coincidence, right?
Chen Lu comforted herself this way, but the nerves in her brain were still subconsciously tense.
The sound of the delivery guy’s footsteps on the stairs had disappeared for a while, but she was still looking up at the direction of the stairs.
Being soaked by the rain like that, it would be strange not to get sick…
What happened at the fortress yesterday was still vivid in her mind. Chen Lu bit her lip, lowered her slightly sore neck, and stopped looking in the direction of the stairs.
But even if Gu Wan Jun is sick, what does it have to do with her?
Didn’t Gu Wan Jun want to keep her distance from her?
……
——
Outside the door of 302.
The door wouldn’t open, and no one answered the phone.
The delivery guy almost had the word “anxious” written on his face. Just as he was about to leave the package at the door, take a picture, and leave, a burst of hurried and light footsteps suddenly sounded on the stairs from below, stopping by his ear in just over ten seconds.
The person who came looks a bit familiar…
Oh! I remember! It was that pretty girl he met downstairs just now!
……
Running up three flights of stairs at the speed of a 100-meter sprint, Chen Lu put one hand on her hip, trying to calm her disordered breathing as she looked at the bewildered delivery guy:
“Hello.”
“Hello?”
“Are you delivering medicine to 302?”
“Yes.”
The delivery guy nodded, he looked up at the door number on the door, and then looked down to check the delivery order on the package in his hand:
“Isn’t this Unit 6, 302, Rose Garden? No one answers the door, and no one answers the phone.”
“Give me the medicine, I’m her neighbor across the hall.”
Afraid that the delivery guy wouldn’t believe her, Chen Lu took out her key and walked to her door while speaking, opening the door of 301 as quickly as possible.
A minute later, as a series of descending footsteps faded away until they could no longer be heard, the disordered breathing gradually calmed down. Chen Lu knocked on the door of 302 with the medicine in one hand.
Just as the delivery guy said, Chen Lu knocked on the door seven or eight times, but no one came to open it.
Seeing that the delivery order said it was antipyretic medicine, and thinking about the dangerous situation Gu Wan Jun might be in at the moment, Chen Lu was almost about to call the police to break down the door to rescue her!
However, just as Chen Lu took out her mobile phone from her coat pocket, the door of 302 suddenly opened a crack—
Chen Lu saw Gu Wan Jun, wrapped in a blanket, coming to open the door, looking listless.
The eyes that were usually soaked in a gentle smile now revealed a bit of pitiful vulnerability, and the fair and clean cheeks were flushed, even the bottom of those peach blossom eyes were burned with a moist red glow…
This touch of red burned directly into Chen Lu’s heart.
……
Seeming to not expect the person outside the door to be Chen Lu, Gu Wan Jun’s eyes were startled. Not knowing whether she was afraid of passing on her illness to Chen Lu, or feeling that she couldn’t be seen in this state, she immediately used the blanket on her body to cover the lower half of her face, took half a step back, and whispered:
“Why are you here?”
“……”
The heavy nasal voice was enough to tell how sick this person was.
It was clear that concern was the dominant emotion, but Chen Lu subconsciously grasped the unique charm of Gu Wan Jun’s low and hoarse voice in a very off-topic way.
Thousands of words of concern swirled to her lips, but Chen Lu secretly pinched her palm with her fingernails to wake herself up. She tried her best to calmly tell Gu Wan Jun about the delivery guy delivering the medicine just now.
“So you were going out to buy breakfast just now?” Gu Wan Jun seemed to have grasped the main point.
“Yes.”
Chen Lu nodded truthfully, but soon, she suddenly realized what if Gu Wan Jun asked her why she went down to the first floor and came back?!
Right, just say you forgot something and came back to get it!
Chen Lu was about to say this, but then she heard Gu Wan Jun’s weak voice:
“So, you went down to the first floor and ran back because you were worried about me? I’m not being presumptuous, am I?”
Gu Wan Jun bent her bloodless lips, her tone filled with a bit of self-mockery and grievance:
“I thought you were still angry with me and planned to ignore me all the time.”
“……”
The well-thought-out excuse could no longer be said.
As their eyes met, Chen Lu felt as if her heart was being clenched by an invisible hand. She suddenly felt that the more cruel person during this period seemed to be herself.
……
Seeming to notice Chen Lu’s stagnant expression, Gu Wan Jun nodded and thanked her, taking the initiative to end the topic:
“I received the medicine, thank you, I’m sorry, I delayed your time to buy breakfast, go do your thing.”
Gu Wan Jun’s slender body wrapped in a blanket seemed to be blown away by a gust of wind. She reached out to take the medicine from Chen Lu’s hand, and then was about to close the door.
Leave? Or not?
Without hesitating for even a second, Chen Lu directly reached out and held the door panel, looking fixedly into Gu Wan Jun’s eyes:
“Have you eaten?”
“……”
——
302.
In the living room.
In the fish tank on the table, probably because they were full, two small goldfish were swimming slowly, occasionally looking around at the movements outside the fish tank.
“39.1℃.”
Seeing the reading on the mercury thermometer, Chen Lu frowned. She opened the antipyretic medicine, then turned around and poured a glass of plain water, and handed it to Gu Wan Jun, who was wrapped in a blanket and had a fever patch on her forehead, sitting on the chair in front of the table.
“Take the antipyretic medicine first, the millet porridge will be ready in twenty minutes, take the cold medicine after eating.”
Gu Wan Jun reluctantly took the medicine. Not knowing if it was because she was sick, she stared straight at Chen Lu, and her mumbling voice seemed to be acting like a spoiled child:
“This medicine sticks to the throat, it’s so bitter.”
“Huh? What?” Chen Lu, who was busy packing up the medicine box, didn’t hear clearly.
“This medicine sticks to the throat when I swallow it, it’s so bitter.”
“I poured you cold water, try tilting your head back when you take the medicine.”
“It’s still bitter.”
“Um… wait for me.”
Seeming to have thought of something, Chen Lu turned and went out, and after a while, she came back with a small jar of honey.
Needless to say, she found this from her own home again.
“I’ll make you some honey water, it won’t be bitter after drinking it, but you can’t drink too much, we’ll just drink a small cup, okay?”
Chen Lu discussed with Gu Wan Jun while going to the kitchen to get a spoon and a cup to prepare honey water.
Someone actually took her joke to heart.
So this is what it feels like to be taken seriously.
Looking at Chen Lu’s slender back, Gu Wan Jun tilted her head and rubbed the blanket on her body, her heart seemed to be filled with the exploding sweetness of a baked marshmallow.
……
In the kitchen, millet porridge was cooking in the pot. Chen Lu, who was next to it, was watching the porridge while also thinking about making two light dishes during this time.
Before cooking, Chen Lu thought that there were still some vegetables in her refrigerator, so she could just bring them to cook. At the same time, Gu Wan Jun, who felt uncomfortable wearing a blanket, was changing into thick pajamas in the bedroom.
——
After changing into thick pajamas and coming out of the bedroom, Gu Wan Jun found that Chen Lu was not in the living room.
“Chen Lu? Chen Lu?”
Gu Wan Jun called out softly twice, but no one answered.
As if thinking of something, a trace of panic appeared on her face that had not yet recovered from the flush. Gu Wan Jun quickly ran to the bathroom, opened the door, and saw that Chen Lu was not in the bathroom.
Fortunately.
The heart that was hanging in her throat slowly came down. Gu Wan Jun walked into the bathroom, glanced at the bathtub, and then directly pulled the curtain in front of the bathtub.
When Gu Wan Jun came out of the bathroom, Chen Lu, who had gone home to get vegetables, had just returned.
“Where did you go?” “Why don’t you lie down on the bed and rest?”
The two spoke almost at the same time. Their eyes met. Chen Lu shook the vegetables in her hand, answering first and then asking:
“There are still some vegetables in my refrigerator, I’ll bring them over and make them together. Why don’t you lie down on the bed and rest?”
“I want to see what you’re doing.”
Gu Wan Jun said as she followed Chen Lu, who was carrying the vegetables, into the kitchen.
“I’m just making two simple dishes, there’s nothing to see. You’re a patient now, you need to rest well.”
“No.” Gu Wan Jun shook her head and sat directly on the chair next to the small dining table: “I want to watch you.”
“……”
Chen Lu couldn’t resist Gu Wan Jun, and she couldn’t understand Gu Wan Jun even more.
Why?
Why say that?
Wasn’t it you, Gu Wan Jun, who said to keep your distance before?
Could a cold and fever change a person’s personality?
……
Seeming to see through what Chen Lu was thinking, Gu Wan Jun suddenly said: “I was very angry before.”
“Huh?” Chen Lu came back to her senses.
“That time with the math slip, I was very angry.”
Mentioning the previous matter again, Gu Wan Jun looked fixedly at Chen Lu, her tone serious:
“I was angry with you, and even more angry with myself. I felt that as a teacher, I didn’t guide the students to take the right path, but instead almost led the students astray because of me, and this student was still my favorite student, so I was angry.”
Gu Wan Jun paused. She observed Chen Lu’s expression, and seeing that the other party was just listening quietly, with no intention of answering, she had to continue:
“I haven’t encountered this kind of problem before, I don’t know what to do. I thought the problem was that I didn’t grasp the sense of proportion when I was with you, so I wanted to keep my distance from you, but after I calmed down—”
Gu Wan Jun raised her voice a bit, her tone quite meaningful with some desperate explanation:
“After I calmed down, I felt that this kind of handling was very inappropriate, so I always wanted to find an opportunity to talk to you about this matter, but you didn’t give me the opportunity.”
Gu Wan Jun slightly curled the corner of her mouth almost imperceptibly, and sighed a long breath:
“I know you’re angry with me, but I haven’t been feeling well during this period. Every morning when I go to school, the older sister at the breakfast cart at the school gate will ask me where you’ve gone. I’m already uncomfortable that you’re ignoring me, and I have to be asked this every day, I—”
Two gazes collided in the air. Gu Wan Jun smiled helplessly. She pursed her lips and softly asked Chen Lu:
“Can you say something?”
“……”
Chen Lu, who was cued, blinked her eyes. She walked to the small dining table, moved another chair to Gu Wan Jun’s face, then sat down, her calm tone surged with some secretly aggrieved feelings:
“It was you, Teacher, who wanted to keep your distance from me first.”
“But I regretted it later.” Gu Wan Jun defended herself.
“Did you?”
“Yes, the next day at noon when we were returning to the teaching building from the cafeteria, didn’t I ask you to go to the office with me? But you said you wanted to go back and do math problems, and directly rejected me.”
“……”
Like being wronged, like acting like a spoiled child.
Her flushed face was close at hand, and every breath was filled with the pleasant scent of white tea.
Her long eyelashes fluttered. She was originally talking about serious matters, but at this moment, Chen Lu suddenly didn’t know where to put her gaze. She silently moved the chair back a bit.
This action was seen by Gu Wan Jun. Thinking that Chen Lu was going to avoid the topic, Gu Wan Jun imperceptibly grinded her back molars. She reached out and pulled the chair and the person directly towards her, her low and hoarse voice adding a bit of dominance:
“I haven’t finished speaking yet, where are you moving to?”
“……”
This pull shook Chen Lu’s heart again and again. Gu Wan Jun’s voice was almost touching her ears:
“After that, I tried to run into you every day when going to and from school, but you intentionally avoided me.”
“…Did I?”
“How could you not?!”
“I was angry at that time.”
“Are you so hard to coax when you’re angry?”
“…You didn’t coax me either.”
“So you held a grudge against me, and kept ignoring me, making me sad for several days?”
“……”
The two were too close, almost face to face. Chen Lu didn’t dare to breathe loudly, and almost bit her lower lip to shreds.
How did it end up becoming her problem?
Are all Cancers like this?
……
Her brain was running at full speed, Chen Lu tried to defend herself, but in the next second, Gu Wan Jun suddenly reached out and pinched her face…
The warm fingertips seemed to burn Chen Lu whole. She heard Gu Wan Jun’s faint voice lingering in her ear:
“You’re not very old, but you have a big temper. Then I’ll admit my mistake now, are you still angry with me?”
“……”
The problem was put on fast forward. Gu Wan Jun didn’t care about anything else, she only cared about whether Chen Lu would pay attention to her in the future.
Chen Lu, whose face was pinched, was stiff all over, and even her tone sounded inexplicably obedient:
“I’m not angry anymore.”
“Really?”
“Yes, really.”
How could she really be angry with Gu Wan Jun?
Hearing Chen Lu say that she was not angry with her, Gu Wan Jun was satisfied and let go of the little girl’s face.
The distance widened, Chen Lu quietly breathed a sigh of relief, but in the next second, her head, which was not tied in a ponytail, was gently rubbed. Chen Lu’s body stiffened, and then she heard Gu Wan Jun’s smiling voice:
“You’re so good and so cute, I wish you were my own sister.”
“……”
Own sister??!!
Chen Lu’s pupils instantly dilated, uncontrollably blinking several times in a row, and the light of hope in her eyes was fanned out by her thick eyelashes.
And Gu Wan Jun, who was immersed in the fantasy of “having a cute younger sister”, didn’t notice anything wrong.
——
Probably because her body was in good shape, after a meal, Gu Wan Jun’s fever subsided, and she looked much better.
After eating, according to routine, Chen Lu left after washing the dishes and cleaning the kitchen.
Before leaving, Chen Lu repeatedly told Gu Wan Jun not to forget to take her medicine. Gu Wan Jun repeatedly assured her that she would not forget, and said that she would send Chen Lu a WeChat message every time she took her medicine.
After watching Chen Lu leave, Gu Wan Jun found her phone, which she hadn’t touched much all morning, and immediately tipped the Meituan rider who delivered the medicine in the morning. Then she came to the bathroom and pulled open the curtain in front of the bathtub.
There was more than half a tub of water in the bathtub, and the ice cubes floating on the surface of the water had almost melted.
Fortunately, she moved the ice cubes frozen in the refrigerator to the bathtub in advance, otherwise Chen Lu would have found out.
Gu Wan Jun reached out and stirred the surface of the water with the floating ice cubes. It was the first time she felt that being in good physical condition was also a burden.
That’s right, yesterday’s rain was not enough to give Gu Wan Jun a high fever. She could only come back and use the ice cubes frozen in the refrigerator to make her own ice bucket challenge, and then trouble the delivery guy to deliver the medicine. As long as she knocked on the door a few more times, Chen Lu, who was used to getting up early, would definitely hear it, and she would definitely not ignore her.
To put it bluntly, she was just sure that Chen Lu still cared about her.
It was just a close call. If the delivery guy had come later, she would have had to wait for Chen Lu to come back from buying breakfast to see the medicine placed at her door.
That would have made the fever even worse.
Gu Wan Jun smiled and shook her head.
In order to make up with Chen Lu, she had gone crazy once.
Just now, she said that she wanted Chen Lu to be her own sister from the bottom of her heart, but would a real sister do this to her own sister in order to make up?
Gu Wan Jun didn’t know.
But as long as she could make up with Chen Lu, she would do everything she could.