SWG Chapter 80

Chapter 80

Today was a rare good day in the winter. The chill brought by the melting first snow receded with the sun, and the warmth allowed people to reach out and gently hold hands with those beside them as they walked.

Xiao Wenyu exhaled a puff of white mist, and said helplessly, “It’s going to snow again in a couple of days. Winter is really frustrating.”

Winter meant that the outdoor ground would cycle between snow and ice. Occasionally, one might encounter clean, dry ground, but even then, the cold wind would discourage people from going out.

Xiao Wenyu said, “It’s not even the ninth day of the ‘Nine Cold Days’ yet, and it’s already this cold. I wonder how cold this year’s ‘Nine Cold Days’ will be.”

Ruan Shengyi squeezed her hand and tucked it into her own pocket, saying, “That’s perfect. I asked around, and the winter break for several universities in the northern city starts around mid-January. Schools here are about the same. We can shorten business hours once the break starts, how does that sound?”

Xiao Wenyu squeezed her fingers and smiled, “Hasn’t Boss Ruan already arranged everything? I have no objections. I’ll listen to all your arrangements.”

“Then eat more today,” Boss Ruan followed up with a swift move.

Boss Xiao sighed dramatically, “…Don’t focus on fattening me up, I used to weigh just this much before.”

“You’re still in the apology period, you have to listen to me.”

“…”

Ruan Shengyi watched the shocked expression on a certain someone’s face, and a touch of delight rose in her heart.

Counter-attack successful! She would use this leverage of the apology.

She raised the corner of her eye, and Xiao Wenyu retracted her widened eyes, full of warmth and smiles, her eyes twinkling gently.

So, this is how we’re playing, huh? Okay, very well.

*

In the evening, Li Wan was packing up to leave work when she saw her boss dressed neatly, ready to leave with her.

Li Wan looked at the door in shock. Boss Ruan’s car hadn’t arrived yet, so her boss was going home alone today? Although it wasn’t too cold today, her boss was going home alone??!

Had they argued again?!

Li Wan asked cautiously, “Teacher, how are you getting home?”

Xiao Wenyu was surprised, “I’m waiting for Boss Ruan, what’s wrong? Couldn’t you get a ride?”

“Oh, no, no, no, I got one, so I’ll go first.”

“It’s okay, let’s go out together, you can turn off the lights.”

Even after getting in the car, Li Wan kept looking back at the lonely figure standing by the roadside waiting for a car. The woman wore fleece gloves, and occasionally brought her hands to her mouth to breathe warm air, the white mist rising and dampening her long eyelashes, drawing a long shadow in the light of the taillights.

The driver, wearing a pair of clean white gloves, reached over and adjusted the air conditioning vent, teasing her, “Saying goodbye to your sweetheart? I can wait a little longer for you.”

“No, no, that’s my boss, and she’s the one waiting for her lover.”

The driver laughed and said, “Okay.”

Li Wan tapped on her phone, asking Xie Yu: Where’s Boss Ruan? My teacher is waiting for her, standing in the cold wind.

Xie Yu: On her way, don’t worry.

Li Wan breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the two lovebirds were playing some little game again. Incomprehensible. She chose her career.

It was indeed a little game, but one that Xiao Wenyu had thought up on a whim, without notifying the other person or giving her a chance to prepare, so that when Boss Ruan drove over, she rubbed her eyes in disbelief.

But Xiao Wenyu opened the car door with a smile, not saying much, only silently fastening her seatbelt, leaning her arm on the car door, supporting her head, and raising her eyebrows, “Let’s go, aren’t we going home?”

Ruan Shengyi only felt her heart beat rapidly for a moment, almost instantly alerting her, and she asked anxiously, “Why did you come out? Are you unhappy? Or did something happen?”

Xiao Wenyu straightened her clothes, and said slowly, “I’m still apologizing, how could I let Boss Ruan wait for me?”

“…” What a petty and vengeful person.

Ruan Shengyi smiled helplessly.

What else could she do? Now, who could tell who had started it, she could only endure it for now, and things would be better when they got home.

…As if.

Being petty and vengeful wasn’t just limited to this. After dinner, Xiao Wenyu snatched the dishes from her, took them into the kitchen, put on her gloves, and silently washed the dishes.

Ruan Shengyi bit her lip, leaned over, rested on the person’s shoulder, gently rubbing her hair, messing up her temples, and softened her voice, “I was wrong.”

“What? Isn’t it me who’s apologizing now?”

The temptation in her words was almost overflowing, but Boss Ruan had no choice but to follow her words, enduring it again and again, saying, “Then I forgive you, okay? I don’t want to play anymore, it’s not fun.”

“I haven’t forgiven myself yet.” Xiao Wenyu lowered her voice, carefully washing the last plate, sniffing, and said, “I really shouldn’t have hit you right there that day.”

Ruan Shengyi: “I don’t mind anymore.”

“I mind.” Her voice was even lower, adding a bit of vulnerability.

Ruan Shengyi was slightly startled, and when she put down the dishes and washed her hands again, she turned the person around before she could dry them.

She held her breath, afraid of seeing Xiao Wenyu’s vulnerable look with slightly red eyes, because now that she thought about it, they both had problems that day, how could it be simply attributed to one person?

She had reflected for a long time. They were both too nervous during that time, too eager to protect each other. Actually, it was normal to make mistakes. If there were mistakes, they should just deal with them. There was no need to be sad for so long, to drag it out for so long… right.

Unexpectedly, yet also seemingly not unexpected at all, was that a certain someone showed no signs of crying at all, not even a bit of redness in her eyes, only looking at Ruan Shengyi’s nervous appearance with a smile.

Ruan Shengyi: …Enough, really enough.

Boss Ruan waved her hand, “I’m not playing anymore, I really don’t want to play this apology game.”

She sat back at the dining table, grabbed the glass next to her, took a big gulp of water, and after a while, said sullenly, “It’s not fun at all.”

Xiao Wenyu followed her out, stood in front of her and gently hugged her head, acting spoiled, “Are you really angry?”

“Then I’ll sincerely apologize to you, okay?”

Ruan Shengyi looked at her suspiciously, “What are you going to do again? I’m not playing the apology game anymore!”

She had been playing for several days, and it had almost scared her heart out.

“I’m not playing, of course I’m not playing.” Xiao Wenyu smiled and patted her head, “Go take a shower, tonight, this elder sister will spoil you.”

Boss Ruan narrowed her eyes slightly, bit her lip and looked at her, and after a moment, stood up and went into the bathroom without looking back.

This resolute look made Xiao Wenyu laugh so hard she couldn’t stop.

How could she be so cute?

After a while, in the bedroom—

It had been a long time after Ruan Shengyi completely dried both of their hair, and some of the subtle flames that had been ignited after understanding Xiao Wenyu’s meaning had cooled down and weakened. She simply lay half-prone in Xiao Wenyu’s arms, closed her eyes, and slowly exhaled.

Xiao Wenyu leaned against the headboard, tied her hair up, patted her cheek, “What’s wrong? Don’t want elder sister to apologize to you again?”

“…No, it’s just…” Ruan Shengyi bit her lip, not knowing how to say it.

She was still afraid.

When watching Xiao Wenyu being happy, when bringing joy to her lover, she could temporarily let go of a little bit of fear in her heart, and throw herself completely into the thing that she could work hard for, overcoming her fear.

But essentially, she was still fearful. The reason why she hadn’t taken the next step for so long was less because Xiao Wenyu was preparing, and more because Xiao Wenyu was waiting for her to be ready, to be ready to give herself completely.

Xiao Wenyu understood her too well, she had too clever a mind, so that’s why she stopped specifically to wait for her, and then wait for her again.

Xiao Wenyu naturally understood all of this, gently patted her back through a layer of cotton pajamas, lowered her head and gently kissed her earlobe, and then little by little, kissed the scar behind her ear, feeling the breath in her arms gradually becoming hot, and smiled.

She said, “Don’t be afraid, elder sister’s technique is very good. Although I don’t have Boss Ruan’s shaking skills, the most basic techniques are beyond doubt.”

Ruan Shengyi blushed, “I’m not afraid of that.”

Xiao Wenyu hugged her, made her raise her head, touched her forehead, and said softly, “You put in so much effort to help me overcome my past pain, now you don’t trust elder sister anymore?”

Xiao Wenyu simply didn’t waste any words, folded her hands and pressed them on top of her head, slightly using force to reverse the position. She sat on the bed, and the rarely passive Boss Ruan was pressed against the headboard by her, staring at her with slightly red eyes.

Xiao Wenyu looked at her with pity, her empty fingers gently pressed against the corner of her lips, slowly rubbing them, and suddenly, she laughed.

Ruan Shengyi: “…What are you laughing at?” Her voice was already dyed with hoarseness, like a fire slowly crawling out of the darkness, burning away all reason bit by bit.

“Suddenly I remembered that Boss Ruan doesn’t seem to have any taboos, but unfortunately, I can’t shake non-stop for more than ten minutes.”

“…”

Xiao Wenyu simply parted her legs and knelt in front of her, her fingers sliding down from the corner of her eyes, gently touching her chin, and said softly, “It’s okay, let’s take it one step at a time, see how far we can go, okay?”

Half of Ruan Shengyi’s mind was blank. Suddenly, she thought, she seemed to have dreamed of this scene.

The woman’s fingers were warm and smooth, her knuckles slender, holding her chin and kissing her, very fine and dense kisses falling on the corners of her lips, taking away the broken breaths in her mouth little by little.

Patience, benefited from the experience of having to hold the camera for a long time again and again in order to wait for the best shooting opportunity, Xiao Wenyu also had a lot.

She could even spare the energy to look at Ruan Shengyi, watching her breathing become completely disordered, and she couldn’t help but whimper, like a kitten’s soft cry, her head weakly leaning forward, resting on her shoulder, her whole body was trembling, her whole body was accumulating the power waiting to burst forth.

They rose and fell in the waves, until they stepped into happiness together.

*

Xiao Wenyu simply cleaned up and came back, sat on the bed and patted the person who was almost curled up, “Go take a shower.”

She wanted to laugh at Ruan Shengyi’s movements. She was curled up like this, and anyone who didn’t know better would think she was a innocent girl who had been bullied by her.

But when she thought of the deeper meaning of that action, and the remaining throbbing that had just subsided, Ruan Shengyi, from her scattered breaths, struggled to piece together a sentence and asked her—

“Was I very crazy?”

Xiao Wenyu kissed her temples, and said in a low voice, “Of course not, I love you.”

Behind the curl, perhaps the abyss from the past was secretly influencing her boss again, trying to drag her boss over.

This was definitely not allowed. They had put in so much effort to pull each other out of the mud, and they would not easily let go, let alone let each other return to the former mud.

Thinking of this, she realized that the person who had gone to the bathroom for so long had not turned on the water yet, and the silence in the bathroom was frightening.

Xiao Wenyu’s heart skipped a beat, and she quickly slipped on her slippers and walked to the bathroom, opened the door—

The person who should have been taking a shower was now sitting silently on the toilet, hugging one of her knees, her eyes were red, and she was silently shedding tears.

She didn’t even hear the sound of the bathroom door being opened, and after a moment of being stunned, she slowly turned her head to look at her, and hooked her lips, “Why are you here? I can take a shower by myself.”

Xiao Wenyu breathed a sigh of relief, walked over silently, gently hugged Ruan Shengyi’s head, leaned it in her arms, and then gently patted her shoulder.

“It’s okay, you can say anything you want.”