MTMIO Chapter 73

Chapter 73: I Miss You a Little

As expected of someone who’s lived abroad for a long time, she was just making a joke, but Teacher Zhong really understood.

What a boomerang, it almost sent her flying.

Lu You’s face paled a bit, and she quickly clarified, “No! It’s just a simple, ordinary! Relationship.”

Perhaps because of the shocking lead-up, Zhong Shuyun wasn’t surprised by this answer. “Oh, does your grandmother know about this?”

“No,” Lu You said, walking towards the piano. “I’m afraid she won’t accept it, so I want to tell her later.”

“What’s there to not accept?”

In an early interview, Zhong Shuyun mentioned her own family. Her parents divorced when she was young, but she was lucky to have her good mother.

Grandma Zhong had very progressive and unrestrained ideas, which is why she raised a daughter with such a passionate and unrestrained playing style.

Lu You completely understood Zhong Shuyun’s matter-of-fact attitude, just as she understood her grandmother’s traditional stubbornness.

“She’s not as open-minded as you,” Lu You explained with a smile.

“The environment she grew up in, the people she knows, and the things she’s experienced have made many old ideas deeply rooted in her mind, and it’s hard to change them.”

The old generation’s feudal and solidified thoughts are like a plaster, firmly stuck to their ideas. Even if you try hard to tear it off, there will still be residue.

For example, even though she’s already come out, her grandmother will still stubbornly believe that she just hasn’t met the right opposite sex yet.

Being with her ex’s sister is probably a bit beyond the old lady’s comprehension.

Zhong Shuyun leaned against the piano and looked at her, or rather, she was looking at another person through her. When her gaze focused, she smiled and said, “You really are alike.”

Lu You asked, “What?”

“The purpose of our education is to enrich ourselves, be strict with ourselves, be tolerant of others, respect, understand, and allow every different existence, not to arrogantly discriminate and criticize others.” Zhong Shuyun picked up the sheet music and flipped through it, as if flipping through a book of memories, and said with a smile, “A… friend of mine used to say that to me. You two are very alike.”

Lu You said with a smile, “Sounds like a gentle and powerful elder.”

“Mmhmm.” Zhong Shuyun paused. “Not very gentle, at least she was quite fierce when she said those things to me.”

Lu You pursed her lips and held back a laugh.

“Let’s tell your grandmother later.” Zhong Shuyun leaned against the piano, picked up the sheet music and flipped through it, and said meaningfully, “Later, when everything is laid out and said, she’ll agree to whatever you do.”

Lu You just thought Zhong Shuyun was talking about coming out, didn’t think too much about it, and didn’t say anything more.

“Alright, enough chatting.” Zhong Shuyun closed the sheet music in her hand, ended these irrelevant topics, and snapped her fingers. “Debussy’s Clair de Lune, start your performance.”

Whether it was the topic of dom and S that stimulated some aspect of Zhong Shuyun’s personality, today’s teaching was particularly strict, and she was practically nitpicking Lu You’s performance of the cadenza.

Lu You repeatedly played the same part for a long time.

When she was a child, watching “The Legend of 1900,” she often imagined herself as a pianist on the sea, enjoying herself on a limited piano.

At this moment, that feeling was very strong, not so much in the “enjoying” part, but in a kind of swaying feeling on the sea. She felt a little nauseous on a physiological level.

Lu You asked Zhong Shuyun for a ten-minute break.

“You even told me to torture you more, but you need a break after this little bit, this little time?” Zhong Shuyun was texting someone on her phone, and said to Lu You, “I think you should buy this house, teacher-student price, it’s a bargain.”

“Teacher, it’s been two hours!” Lu You collapsed her shoulders wearily, and brought out her trump card, “People have three urgent needs.”

“Go, go.” Zhong Shuyun waved her hand and put away her phone. “Continue in ten minutes.”

Lu You set an alarm, got up from the stool, and went to the bathroom.

The design separated the wet and dry areas, with the sink outside the sliding door.

Lu You washed her face, took a facial tissue, wiped it casually, and threw it in the trash before grabbing the door handle and opening the door.

As soon as she walked out, the sound of soft-soled slippers kissing the floor grew closer and closer.

Lu You’s ears twitched, and she immediately recognized that it was Yue Yunxi’s footsteps.

She stopped in place, looked up, and saw Yue Yunxi turn from around the corner, a dignified and elegant face, floating with a gentle and warm aura.

But what she did was completely inconsistent with that face and that aura.

Walking up to her, Yue Yunxi suddenly grabbed the braid of her side-braided hairstyle today, and tugged it lightly.

Lu You turned to face Yue Yunxi.

Yue Yunxi stared at her intently, holding her braid, slowly retreating backwards. “Come.”

That expression was like a siren, emitting an indescribable charm. Lu You couldn’t help but follow her forward, back into the bathroom.

She closed the door behind her and locked it.

At the moment the lock clicked, the force on the braid paused.

Yue Yunxi’s eyes were smiling but not smiling as she looked at her.

Lu You looked away, hissed, and was pulled back by Yue Yunxi by the braid.

Yue Yunxi continued to pull her backwards.

Single-syllable “instructions,” such control, such traction.

Lu You inexplicably thought of the relationship Zhong Shuyun had guessed.

It was crazy, and what was even crazier was that she was willingly cooperating.

It wasn’t until Yue Yunxi’s back pressed against the sink that the force on the braid was released.

Lu You’s hands supported the edge of the vanity, like an animal marking its territory, framing the prey that had willingly walked into the trap.

In her lowered gaze, Yue Yunxi let go of her braid, pulled and tugged at her hair, and helped her tidy it up.

The more she tidied, the messier it became.

Lu You raised her eyes and focused on Yue Yunxi’s slightly curved red lips, skimming over them like a dragonfly skimming the water, meeting her gentle and somewhat bewitching gaze.

She asked with amusement, “What did you pull me in here to do?”

“To do,” Yue Yunxi put her arm around her shoulder, pressed her closer, tilted her head and whispered in her ear, “I…”

Lu You’s eyes widened slightly.

It was really too much. Her face was reflected in the mirror, clearly feeding back her own expression.

There was a moment of surprise, but also a moment of desire that was hooked up.

But she couldn’t see Yue Yunxi’s face.

What she was circling was not prey, but a hunter disguised as prey.

When Lu You lifted Yue Yunxi and sat her on the marble countertop, Yue Yunxi couldn’t help but laugh softly, stroking the broken hair on both sides of her forehead like teasing a small animal.

“Why so anxious? I haven’t finished speaking yet,” Yue Yunxi said.

“…I’m not anxious,” Lu You squinted. “I just want to see your expression. I always feel like you’re teasing me again.”

“Where’s the teasing? I haven’t finished speaking. What are you thinking about?” Yue Yunxi flicked her forehead.

“Hiss—missing you!” Lu You rubbed her forehead. “So what were you going to say just now?”

“What to do? You said it first.” Yue Yunxi wrapped her arms around her neck, rubbed her nose lightly against hers, and said against her forehead, “If I say now that I miss you a little, will it still move you?”

“Just a little, not a lot, intermittent. When I miss you, I always have the urge to come and find you, but I’m worried that it will distract you.” Yue Yunxi chuckled lightly. “It will subside temporarily, and then at a certain point in time, it will rise again.”

“I don’t like waiting for people, but the process of waiting for you is like the ebb and flow of the tide. I look forward to and enjoy the feeling that each high tide brings me, so that I can fill the emptiness in the time of low tide.”

I don’t miss you very much.

Just a little bit, corresponding to these short two hours, not too much, not too little, just right.

I haven’t liked you for a long time.

Just falling in love with you again and again.

How could it not be moving.

Lu You raised Yue Yunxi’s chin and gently kissed her lips, like the feeling of missing her a little that she had described.

Like the tide kissing the beach.

In the intervals of the kiss, she grabbed Yue Yunxi’s hand and pressed it against her heart, intimate murmurs overflowing from their intertwined lips and teeth: “Can you feel it?”

There, it was surging and pulsating, like the sea breeze pouring into an empty valley, filling the gaps with salty, belonging to the sea’s throbbing.

The kiss started with a gentle touch and ended with Yue Yunxi sucking her tongue numb.

“Mmm!” Lu You could still feel the faint stinging pain when she pulled away.

“Couldn’t help it.” The culprit was very innocent. “Soft and chewy, too easy to suck, like jelly.”

Lu You covered her mouth and said indistinctly, “You don’t need to describe it in such detail!”

Yue Yunxi’s light laughter breathed into her palm, and at the same time, her index finger gently touched her lips, suddenly probing inside.

Lu You’s eyelashes trembled, feeling her fingertips in her mouth, like the tip of her tongue during a kiss.

“Does it hurt a lot?”

Lu You murmured a “mmhmm.”

It hurt at the base of her tongue, that position that was neither up nor down, making her uncomfortable.

“That’s good too,” Yue Yunxi said.

“?”

“Next time you come here, you’ll remember that we kissed very passionately here.” Yue Yunxi slowly withdrew her index finger, the moist fingertips staining her voice with a decadent feeling.

Lu You really wanted to bring up the big orange cat’s emoticon pack: How many surprises do you still have that I don’t know about?

“Jiaojiao,” Lu You said when Yue Yunxi looked up, “You’re actually a black-bellied dark moon.” (White cut black refers to someone who seems pure and innocent on the outside but is actually cunning and manipulative)

“Then do you like it?” Yue Yunxi asked.

Lu You didn’t even think about it: “I like it.”

“How black, do you like it no matter how black?”

“How black?”

Yue Yunxi smiled and naturally changed the subject: “We’re so clingy, isn’t this not very good?”

“Being so clingy in someone else’s bathroom is probably not very good.” Lu You thought, luckily no one has come over yet.

If Grandma saw it, I don’t know what the consequences would be.

If Zhong Shuyun saw it, I don’t know what she would think.

Her chin was itchy, Yue Yunxi was tickling her, and Lu You couldn’t help but think, this person is really calm and composed, not worried at all.

As if she was sure that no one would come over.

Yue Yunxi liked to touch her, sometimes her temples, sometimes her cheeks, sometimes her chin, like she was rua-ing some kind of small animal.

“Buy it, and it won’t be in someone else’s bathroom anymore.”

As she said this, Yue Yunxi was rubbing her earlobe.

Like she wanted to soften her ear roots.

“How much did Teacher Zhong give you to help her promote this so much, you’re even using a honey trap.”

Yue Yunxi chuckled: “I don’t think you want to know.”

“Did she really give you something?” After the surprise was strong curiosity, Lu You asked, “What did she give you?”

Yue Yunxi asked her in return: “I’m more curious to know what you talked about with her? That made her say she wanted to give me those things.”

“?” Lu You was even more curious. “What things? Tell me.”

Yue Yunxi didn’t answer her.

So she leaned closer to Yue Yunxi, kissed her lightly, coaxing her to urge her: “Tell me, tell me quickly.”

Yue Yunxi turned her head and whispered a word in her ear: “Toys.”

Lu You’s first reaction was the pile of dolls she caught for Zhong Mi, and she wanted to laugh at Yue Yunxi, that a pile of dolls had bought her off.

But before she could say anything, Yue Yunxi bit her ear. That kind of numb and blurred feeling was like a soap bubble splashing in her ear.

In the moment of bursting, those implicit and indescribable signals were transmitted to the brain by the ear nerves.

Lu You didn’t know whether to cover her ears or her face.

Instinct gave her a choice, she covered her face, and sighed in the lingering touch on her ears: “Teacher Zhong is amazing! A role model! Disrespectful to elders! Doing whatever she wants!”

Can these words be used together like this?

Yue Yunxi was so amused by her that she almost couldn’t sit still, so she simply stood up from the countertop, rubbed Lu You’s head, and got back to the point: “Grandma is quite satisfied with this house, I think it should be settled today.”

Lu You opened her fingers and looked at Yue Yunxi through the gaps, asking, “Really?”

“Mmhmm,” Yue Yunxi said. “She also said that after we move, I should come and live here for a while, saying thank you for freeing up the house for you to live in, and has already decided which room to sleep in.”

“Which one?” Lu You asked. “Aren’t you with me?”

She lowered her hand, looked at Yue Yunxi’s increasingly raisedcorner of the lips, realized that she had been tricked again, and unhappily lowered her head to poke Yue Yunxi with her non-existent deer antlers.

“Grandma said you sleep badly, if I don’t want to be with you, sleep in the third room upstairs,” Yue Yunxi said with a smile.

Lu You chuckled and said, “She really is my dear grandmother.”

Not continuing to be clingy in the bathroom, Lu You wanted to ask Grandma about the house, if there were no problems, it would be easier to settle it today.

Leaving the bathroom and heading towards the stairs, halfway there, even before reaching the staircase, the alarm she had set in advance went off.

“Time for class?” Yue Yunxi asked.

“Mmhmm.” Lu You shrugged, and could only put this matter aside for now. “I’ll ask after class.”

Her footsteps turned towards the piano room, Yue Yunxi followed beside her, saw her to the door, and said before she opened the door, “In the future, if I don’t have class, I’ll come and take piano lessons with you, okay?”

Lu You let go of the doorknob, turned around and looked at her with a smile: “I couldn’t ask for more.”

Yue Yunxi smiled: “Go to class.”

Lu You told her to go back to the second-floor terrace to chat with Grandma and them.

Yue Yunxi nodded and continued to walk a little further upstairs.

The second alarm went off.

Lu You turned off the alarm and entered the door, turning around to close the door, her eyes unconsciously searching for Yue Yunxi’s figure.

Inadvertently, she caught sight of someone standing at the door of the third room on the second floor, a green velvet dress, long hair in a low bun, the person was facing away from Lu You, seemingly locking the door.

Teacher Zhong’s nanny has a good sense of style.

The dress is very pretty.

Thinking this, Lu You closed the door, and in the final gap, that piece of green floated into the depths of the corridor.

And this scene, that night, in the time of brewing sleep after waking up from a dream, inexplicably appeared in Lu You’s mind.

She was thinking about that green velvet dress, feeling that the texture was very good, and just couldn’t fall asleep, so she searched on the orange app for dresses of the same color and material, to see if there were any styles suitable for Yue Yunxi.

Perhaps because she had seen too many, her mind was full of green dresses.

The word lǜyīnyīn – lush green popped out without warning.

Lu You was stunned, closed her phone, and didn’t continue to search for any green dresses.

All around was darkness, behind her was Yue Yunxi’s even and long breathing, she listened to the breathing, closed her eyes, and eliminated distractions to brew sleepiness.

But sometimes it’s just very magical.

The more she tried not to think about it, the more those chaotic things actively and uncontrollably drilled into her mind.

In a jumble of thoughts, the leaf that caught her eye at the birthday banquet was wrapped by the wind of memory to the forefront of her mind, it floated into the alley in the corner, where a small piece of green was also visible.

Was that Teacher Zhong’s nanny that day too?

Who would bring the nanny from their house to someone else’s birthday banquet?

Zhong Mi said she was going to bring her mother, but she hadn’t seen that mother the whole time.

The three words “nanny” shattered into pieces in Lu You’s mind, and suddenly evoked another memory.

The time she went to Zhong Apo’s house, someone broke a plate in the kitchen, she glanced over when she heard the sound, and it was also a small piece of green.

This person really likes to wear green.

Speaking of which, Zhang Wenyin also liked green a lot before.

The more she thought about it, the more chaotic it became, feeling like she was falling into a whirlpool, struggling not to continue thinking about everything related to Zhang Wenyin, but she couldn’t help but always associate Zhang Wenyin with the green dress.

Even though they were completely unrelated.

There were many people who liked to wear green.

Why think about her, why think about someone who doesn’t want her and doesn’t care about her.

She had a kind of despair of drowning, tossing and turning painfully, and suddenly touched something soft, and was stunned for a moment.

All of those things that werechánrào – entangling her thoughts were pressed with a delete key, becoming a blank page.

Yue Yunxi moved closer to her, her forehead against hers, and murmured half-asleep: “Youyou… having a nightmare?”

“No…” Lu You burrowed into her arms, like a person floating on the sea grabbing a piece of driftwood. “Did I wake you up?”

Yue Yunxi kissed her forehead, her voice still sleepy, without much strength: “I’m just afraid you won’t bother me, be good, don’t think about it, go to sleep.”

Lu You buried her head in Yue Yunxi’s arms, didn’t speak, she didn’t want to wake Yue Yunxi up completely.

Yue Yunxi’s breath lingered at the tip of her nose, she sniffed it almost greedily.

This feeling of dependence was too obvious.

So that she couldn’t ignore it, mixed with a sense of insecurity.