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    Chapter 29 Itchy Heart Ruan Siyu’s heart felt like it was stabbed lightly, no…

    Their dinners were delicious, Maria specializes in Mexican food, and the beef tacos and chowder were amazing.There was chili seasoning in the dish, and Ruan Siyu couldn’t help but eat more.

    After taking a shower, he occupied Schneider’s big bed and pondered the new design draft.When the pointer reached twelve o’clock, Schneider pulled away the blanket and lay down. The lights dimmed automatically. Ruan Siyu put the tablet aside, rolled over and rolled into Schneider’s arms.

    His body is warm, his stomach is full, and even his thinking is slow and relaxed.There is an oaky smell about Schneider, which may be related to the cologne he often uses. It is not too aggressive but cannot be ignored.

    Ruan Siyu has no special research on smells, but the brain associates smells with scenes to form sensing pathways.The smell of Schneider is associated with a strong sense of security, making it a powerful sleeping pill.

    Ruan Siyu hugged the blanket, buried her nose into the side of Schneider’s neck, and fell asleep soon after feeling full.

    In the darkness, Schneider seemed to want to say something, but under Ruan Siyu’s steady and shallow breathing, he tightened his lips again.After a while, he was sure that Ruan Siyu was asleep, and then he reached out to pull up the blanket and cover Ruan Siyu’s arms.

    *

    Fullness and warmth did not bring about a good night’s sleep. Ruan Siyu’s torso was trembling, cold sweat covered her face, and she stared at the dome in the darkness with a pair of crazy deer eyes.

    He suppressed his breathing to the extreme to extinguish any screams and shouts coming from deep in his throat.This made his face shockingly white, and slightly bluish due to lack of oxygen.

    Panic attacks in sleep were no different from when they were awake. Ruan Siyu suppressed all screams and sounds.

    Jacqueline once said that his reaction to being frightened was so funny that you could never tire of watching it, like a stupid young deer.For this reason, she also enthusiastically found a zoologist’s popular science video, which said that young sika deer have white spots on their backs, like the spots of sunlight falling in the deep forest, used to hide and confuse predators.

    When young deer are extremely frightened, they will remain in one position for a long time, and their body muscles are firmly locked. Even if their bodies lose strength and tremble, and their muscles cannot support a posture and spasm, they will not dare to move easily or make a sound.

    Ruan Siyu still remembered that her fingers with delicate nails scratched his eye sockets, and her fingertips were almost pressed against his trembling but unblinking black deer eyes, with a sweet smile of joy on her face.

    She called him, my fawn, the cute little pumpkin.

    After that, he was released from Carroll’s kennel, no longer as a dog, but as a deer calf, a prey that was more harmless, pure and beautiful.

    Ruan Siyu didn’t know why she suddenly dreamed about what happened when she was nine years old.

    It took him a long time to realize that it was a dream, and the people and things in the dream would not be disturbed by the sound of his breathing in reality.

    He opened his mouth reflexively and choked on the sudden influx of air.But even so, he still swallowed big mouthfuls of air and tried his best to stuff the invisible oxygen he needed for survival into his throat.

    As the air poured in, the surrounding environment gradually became clearer. He realized that he was being held by a mixed-race man in a hurry. The sensor light in the bedroom had been turned on, and the suite of more than 100 square meters was brightly lit. The silent vents made a subtle noise. The dry warm air, together with the man’s big hands hurriedly soothing his back, clearly fell on his skin.

    Her throat was so dry that Ruan Siyu raised her face and felt two tears suddenly slide down her cheeks and hit Schneider’s exposed chest.The man’s light blue eyes suddenly widened. He looked completely lost in the gloom and sharpness of the past. Instead, he looked a bit panicked and befitting his age.

    “Ruan Siyu.”

    The man called him and kept following his back. Ruan Siyu lowered her head and looked at the man through the water in her eyes. Inexplicably, she felt that the man looked like a big dog that had been beaten by its owner but couldn’t figure it out. It looked very pitiful.

    He raised his free hand and put it on the man’s broad back, burying his face in the man’s neck, still breathing quietly and greedily, but not as embarrassed as before.His lips trembled, wanting to tell the man that nothing was wrong, but the words failed to form.

    He just breathed and used the last bit of his strength to hug the man back, thinking of a stray cat whose fur was soaked by the snow.

    “Shh…”

    The man shushed him awkwardly, wrapped him in a blanket and picked him up, moving him to the bathroom and wiping his face and back of neck with a warm towel.Ruan Siyu’s body was still very stiff and no longer as flexible as before. Schneider rubbed his stiff muscles with a hot towel. After about 15 minutes, Ruan Siyu completely relaxed.

    He was still limply held in Schneider’s arms, as if there was no other way out.

    He was carried back into the bedroom, surrounded by blankets and the man’s body.

    “I can explain.”

    He said lazily, almost softly.He admits that telling Schneider he’d only had three panic attacks was a lie, but you can’t blame him, can you?He is a soft-spoken and short-handed man who cannibalize others. Of course, he has to make his sugar daddy feel useful, not a dynamite barrel that makes him hysterical at the slightest touch.

    What Ruan Siyu was more afraid of than what was being done was that he had no self-control when being done. He panicked, fled and suffocated like an animal without the ability to think.He was afraid of losing control.

    “I don’t need you to explain, Ruan Siyu, you haven’t recovered. What exactly stimulated your attack? The sound, the work environment, the school, or the phone call with Wu Anqun?”

    Schneider’s voice was tight, and his chest resonated wonderfully, indicating the man’s beast-like power.

    “…Or is it me? Did my touch give you a panic attack, Ruan Siyu? You can tell me that this will not affect the deal between us-”

    “Don’t leave.”

    Ruan Siyu swallowed and scratched Schneider’s chest with her fingers, but she couldn’t find any focus.

    “It’s not because of you. If I said your embrace made me wake up quickly from my nightmares, it would sound like I was deliberately trying to please you. But it’s true, you caught me.”

    He raised his face, exposing the expression in his eyes to Schneider’s scrutiny.The smart light in the bedroom had automatically dimmed the light after detecting that the person on the bed was not making any significant movements, but Schneider could still clearly see Ruan Siyu’s eyes that shone in the light.

    He was almost captured, thinking of the sirens in myths and legends, guiding mediocre crew members to their fate in the unpredictable seas.

    There is nothing unacceptable about that. Death in the hands of a legendary thing, even if it is dripping with flesh and blood, is an interpretation of romanticism.

    But Schneider still held Ruan Siyu’s shoulders tightly and held him firmly in his arms, like a crew member desperately raising the sail in the storm.

    “Is it because of Wu Anqun? I will make his next phone call only through the isolation window of the prison. I-”

    “Sir, don’t do this.”

    Ruan Siyu regained some strength and raised her hand to stroke Schneider’s lower jaw, which had sprouted a little green beard after a night.

    Europeans and Americans are always hairy, especially men in their twenties like Schneider.However, I heard that Germans suffer from serious hair loss in middle age. I wonder if Schneider’s other half of his bloodline can save his hairline.

    Ruan Siyu thought endlessly and said softly:

    “It’s useful for me to keep him. He is incredibly stupid, but he will reveal all the information as soon as he is tested. As for you, I don’t remember agreeing to you to monitor my phone calls, sir.”

    After being accused of illegal behavior, Schneider calmed down a bit, but he still didn’t feel that he was at fault:

    “This is necessary behavior. Your panic attacks are becoming more and more irregular. You cannot act alone until you find the crux of your problem. My monitoring will not stop.”

    His righteousness left Ruan Siyu speechless. After being quiet for a while, he said, “Keep your voice down. Isn’t this glorious?”

    Schneider didn’t speak, Ruan Siyu pushed him back onto the pillow and found the familiar position in the crook of his neck again:

    “If cardiogenic problems were that easy to solve, psychiatrists and neurologists wouldn’t exist, Mr. Arrogant Capitalist. Nothing can trigger my symptoms exactly, and believe me, if I knew how to time them, I would have them clustered on my deathbed, haha.”

    He chuckled, but Schneider didn’t find the joke funny.Ruan Siyu curled her lips, a little unable to stand Schneider’s seriousness and boredom like an old man:

    “I’m fine, sir. It’s especially good when I’m with you. This kind of problem needs time to adjust, that’s all.”

    His understatement made Schneider’s chest muscles tighten, and Ruan Siyu naturally felt it, but Schneider seemed to be afraid of irritating him, so he actually held back his doubts.

    Inexplicably, Ruan Siyu’s heart felt like it was stabbed lightly. It didn’t hurt, but it was just numb and itchy, which made people irritated.

    “I’m really fine. Tonight was an accident. I’ll stay with you more these days, okay? We’ll go to Jessica’s party on the weekend, and then I’ll accompany you to the company after class tomorrow, okay?”

    Schneider didn’t reply. He pulled Ruan Siyu’s blanket higher. In the last two hours before dawn, the two adults entangled their hands and feet under the blanket, hugged each other tightly, and fell asleep like very young children.

    *

    The next morning, Schneider drove Ruan Siyu to school.The discussion class is held from nine o’clock to twelve thirty, and it is only held once a week. Because it is a seminar related to the art appraisal major, there are only a dozen students in the class, most of them are graduate students and Ph.D.s, and the teacher is allowed to answer each student’s questions.

    The teacher explained it very carefully.With the rapid development of distressing crafts and technology, more and more factors need to be considered when appraising works of art, and it has even reached a level that requires people to be proficient in various fields of knowledge. Ruan Siyu is well-informed and is actually the best student in the class.

    The professor was very interested in him and asked him after class if he wanted to join the group, but Ruan Siyu declined politely.

    There was an unexpected person in class, the girl who applied ice cubes to Ruan Siyu in the Chinese restaurant that day.

    Ruan Siyu didn’t expect that she went to school in Boston, so he smiled at her and said hello when he introduced himself in the first class, but the girl quickly looked away this time.

    Ruan Siyu’s smile remained unchanged and she didn’t take it too seriously.He had met the girl by chance, and the girl’s chivalry and help made him feel a long-lost warmth, but he would not take the initiative to stick with her when he had no energy to repay her or when the girl avoided him.

    That would be too intrusive.

    But by coincidence, for the first group assignment, he was assigned to a group with a girl and a white man named Aaron.Ruan Siyu knew the girl’s name, Christie.

    “Hi.” He took the initiative to greet the girl:

    “I didn’t expect to meet you here. It was so embarrassing that day. I didn’t get to know you properly. I’m sorry for… my boyfriend’s behavior. I hope you won’t mind what he did.”

    After class, Ruan Siyu and Christie walked outside the teaching building together. He politely helped the girl open the doors without urging the girl to respond to his words.

    In fact, he still had a decent smile on his face and didn’t mind the embarrassment of being ignored by the girl at all.

    The two walked outside the teaching building, bypassing the landmarks of the teaching building and a few bare trees. The girl stopped and said:

    “Your boyfriend? No, I don’t care about him, whether he is Schneider or someone else. I just… know who you are, Ruan Siyu, it’s embarrassing to say this, but… I think you also know that your online reputation is not very good.”

    “Of course, neither Yuanyuan nor I regret trying to help you that day, even though we were quite stupid, right? Because Schneider is a big shot.”

    She glanced at Ruan Siyu quickly, then changed direction and walked to the other side of the small square:

    “Also, even if I don’t care how great Schneider is…please take care of your boyfriend, his eyes are tearing me apart. We can chat online about homework.”

    By saying this, she was sending a friendly signal.Whether it was for business or out of pity, the girl ultimately chose to trust her own judgment instead of online rumors. Ruan Siyu never expected that she would smile sincerely because of Christie’s kindness.

    He thought he didn’t care about other people’s opinions at all, but he might need to be believed more than he thought.

    Intrigued by his smile, the man wearing sunglasses standing at the edge of the small square tensed his body and suddenly took steps towards him.

    ———————–

    The author has something to say: The bad cat is actually tempted, but he doesn’t understand this. He is just a bad cat.

    The dog seemed to be jealous of the manager. After he was jealous of you, he was jealous of you. When he saw the bad cat communicating with the Chinese girl, he became stressed again.

    Banxia novel, a lot of fun

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