MTMIO Chapter 96
by VolareChapter 96: She Was Hit Head-On by Softness
“Conto fino a tre, Conto means count, fino means until, tre means three, due is two, uno is one.” Elena also taught her Italian numbers from 1 to 10, “I’ll teach you another nursery rhyme, called, ‘I have ten little dogs.'”
Elena hummed it to her once.
The melody was cheerful, and most of the lyrics were repetitive.
But before she could learn two lines, Lu You got stuck on the trilled “r” sound.
She tried to imitate, “De le la~ de er la la la…”
A low chuckle came from beside her, so soft it was almost just air, and she could tell it was being restrained, but her hearing was too sensitive.
Lu You’s ears instantly burned.
Laughing at what!
At the same time, Elena patiently demonstrated the trilled “r” sound for her again.
Lu You took a breath, then immediately let it out, waving her hand in surrender, “My tongue is probably dead, it won’t move even a little.”
Before she could finish speaking, Yue Yunxi couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Elena: “Oh my god! You need to see a doctor.”
Lu You: “…It doesn’t need to go that far.”
Out of the corner of her eye, Lu You saw Yue Yunxi’s hand hovering over her wound.
She wondered if laughing had pulled at the wound.
Just as Lu You was about to ask, Elena suddenly moved her rocking chair closer, startling her.
Elena said seriously, “Let me see your—”
“Elena, ‘tongue is dead’ is just a figure of speech,” Yue Yunxi interrupted.
Realizing that Elena wanted to check her tongue, Lu You covered her mouth and said, “Yes, it’s just an exaggeration, meaning I’m stupid and slow to learn. But it’s okay, she will teach me.”
She took the opportunity to look at Yue Yunxi, whose hand was no longer covering her wound, so it probably didn’t hurt anymore, but the sickly pallor on her face was a bit deeper than before.
Their eyes met, and Yue Yunxi snapped out of her slight daze, curving her lips into a gentle smile.
Still smiling.
Lu You glared at her.
Yue Yunxi froze again.
When Lu You turned her face away, Elena had already retreated to her original spot with her rocking chair, muttering that Chinese was too difficult.
Noticing that the time on her wristwatch was already past nine, Elena exclaimed, “Oh! I have to go back and take a bath.”
“I’ll take you downstairs,” Lu You said, turning to Yue Yunxi, who was also getting up. “You go back to your room and check on your wound.”
Yue Yunxi’s eyes shimmered, and she softly replied, “Okay.”
After Elena packed up her violin, Lu You went downstairs with her, watched her leave, then went to get the suitcase. Sensing someone watching her, she looked up.
Yue Yunxi was standing in front of the railing on the second floor, looking down at her.
Lu You asked, “How’s the wound?”
Yue Yunxi: “Haven’t looked yet.”
Lu You tilted her head, “? ”
Her bewildered expression was too cute.
Yue Yunxi smiled, her voice soft, “Going now.”
Seeing Yue Yunxi leave the railing, Lu You dragged her suitcase toward the stairwell, grumbling amidst the rolling sound, “Doesn’t listen at all.”
Do the little lesbians who love their sister know that when a sister gets willful, she’s even more childish than someone younger?
Muttering to herself, Lu You carried the suitcase upstairs.
Back in the room, the shower was on, and the sound of water could be heard from inside.
She walked over and knocked on the bathroom door.
The sound of water stopped, and then Yue Yunxi’s voice came from inside, “I’m okay, don’t worry.”
Relieved, Lu You set about unpacking her suitcase.
As she placed the two little deer plushies side by side in the middle of the pillow, Yue Yunxi came out of the shower.
Lu You pulled over the small trolley, squatted down, and prepared to change her dressing.
Yue Yunxi cooperatively lifted her shirt.
The refreshing scent of citrus and orange leaves filled the air, similar to the scent of the shampoo at home, but more fragrant.
Lu You confirmed that the fragrance was coming from Yue Yunxi, “So fragrant, what did you use?”
It was really fragrant, the more she smelled it, the more she became addicted to it.
Yue Yunxi couldn’t stand her animal-like, somewhat innocent approach, and unconsciously tightened her abdomen, tilting her head slightly, her hair concealing the shyness that had crept onto her cheeks, “Scented body lotion.”
“Provided by the hotel? Or did you buy it specifically?”
“Of course it’s—” Yue Yunxi deliberately left her hanging, “Bought it. The hotel provides an iris scent, which is also quite nice, you can try it.”
“Why don’t you use it?”
“Can’t sleep if I use it.”
“Then why do you want me to try it?”
“You can try it when you’re not sleeping.”
“…”
During their chat, Lu You changed her dressing.
As her nerves relaxed, fatigue invaded, and as she applied the last two tension-reducing strips, Lu You was already yawning repeatedly.
“Go wash up,” Yue Yunxi glanced at the small trolley, “I’ll take care of putting this away.”
Lu You moved the small trolley away, glancing at her, “Can you be a little more aware of being injured?”
“Before you came, I was changing my own dressings and cleaning up,” Yue Yunxi said dismissively, “It’s not that delicate.”
Lu You pursed her lips, “You said ‘before,’ now that your You is here, you can be delicate.”
Finally, she raised her hand, pressing her thumb against her index finger to make a heart.
Yue Yunxi was so amused that she laughed, which caused her wound to hurt, and she hissed with a frown.
Lu You hurriedly checked her wound, confirmed it was okay, lowered her clothes, and said unhappily, “It just hurt, and you already don’t know to take it easy.”
“Next time, definitely! Take ~ it easy.”
Yue Yunxi softly drew out the “you” sound, as if saying another “You.”
Lu You “heh”-ed, dissatisfied, “Next time, next time, it’s always next time.”
Yue Yunxi gently shook her hand that she was holding, “There’s really no way to guarantee there won’t be a next time, what if you again…”
“Me?” Lu You grabbed her hand to stop her from shaking it, “What about me?”
“Make such a touching thing sound so—” Yue Yunxi chose her words carefully, “funny.”
“I think you want to say so greasy.”
“It’s not that bad,” the laughter in Yue Yunxi’s voice rippled lightly, like soft light on the surface of a lake, “Someone else saying that might be greasy, but not you, you’re too clean, like… Safeguard soap.”
Lu You blinked her eyelashes, embarrassed by the compliment, turned her face away, and cleared her throat, “I said that because I was afraid you’d be too touched, and say something sentimental, and make me cry again.”
Pushing the small trolley back to its original spot, she turned sideways and pointed to her eyes, “My eyelids are tired and heavy from crying, and I didn’t bring eye masks, so tomorrow they’ll definitely be swollen like a sad frog.”
“Oh no, it’s going to mutate, this is terrible.”
“Yue, Yun, Xi!”
Yue Yunxi smiled and opened the bedside table drawer, “Come and get the eye masks.”
Lu You stepped forward, saw two whole boxes of unopened eye masks inside, her mood brightened, humming the nursery rhyme she had just learned, she grabbed a box and placed it on her own bedside table.
“Oh, right, are there any extra pajamas?”
“There are pajamas in the closet,” Yue Yunxi guided her to take a beige wrap-front nightgown, casually asking, “How did you even forget to bring pajamas?”
“It’s all because Yun Zhu was talking to me about your affairs while I was packing, I was so busy listening to her that I didn’t bring many things,” Lu You took a pair of underwear from the storage bag she had previously put in the closet, regretting, “I should have had Elena teach me how to say common phrases for grocery shopping.”
Closing the closet door, she turned around and saw Yue Yunxi waving at her, “Come here.”
“What’s wrong?” Lu You walked over, “Is there something wrong with the wound?”
Before Yue Yunxi could answer, Lu You placed the clothes aside, put one hand on the bed for support, bent down, and directly went to grab Yue Yunxi’s hem, about to lift it up to check.
Yue Yunxi suddenly reached out, pinched her chin, using force to make her raise her face.
Lu You was confused, “?”
Before she could ask more, Yue Yunxi wrapped her arms around her shoulders, encircling her neck, and suddenly closed the distance.
“I knew you wanted Elena to teach you, am I just for show? Hmm?” Yue Yunxi whispered in her ear.
Her breath caressed her ear with each word, tickling.
“Oh, I didn’t think of you knowing it too,” Lu You passed the buck, “Who told you not to say it directly?”
“Who was it that wanted me to teach them how to trill their tongue a few minutes ago?”
Lu You’s eyes darted around, “Knowing how to trill my tongue doesn’t mean I know Italian.”
Yue Yunxi was speechless for a few seconds, “Sharp-tongued.”
Lu You smiled happily.
Soon, she couldn’t laugh anymore. Yue Yunxi tilted her head and gently bit her earlobe, then enveloped her entire ear.
Lu You couldn’t help but groan softly, wanting to dodge, but she was afraid of touching Yue Yunxi’s wound, so she could only endure it, pleading for mercy, “I was wrong, I was wrong…”
Yue Yunxi didn’t continue, but she didn’t let go either, just holding her like that, listening to her breathing softly in her ear.
After a moment, Yue Yunxi suddenly asked, “How are you so sure I know how.”
“Know what?” Lu You belatedly realized, “Oh, you mean trilling? If you didn’t know how, would you dare laugh at me?”
“I wasn’t laughing at you.”
“I clearly heard you laughing, don’t try to deny it.”
“It wasn’t laughing at you,” Yue Yunxi explained softly, “It’s just that I thought you were a little too cute.”
Lu You: “Where am I cute?”
Yue Yunxi thought for a moment: “Cotton-fluffing cute.”
“…”
Yue Yunxi chuckled.
“Okay, okay,” Lu You said in a huff, “Others forget the pain once the scar heals, you forget the pain before the scar even heals, don’t you?”
Yue Yunxi immediately restrained her laughter.
Lu You suddenly remembered to ask, “What did you mean when you said that sentence when Elena urged me to leave you and go out to eat with her?”
Yue Yunxi bit her again, “Shut up.”
?
Lu You said in a muffled voice, “I’m going to take a shower.”
Yue Yunxi reluctantly let go.
Lu You took her pajamas, walked a few steps away, turned her head and made a face at Yue Yunxi, “Nyah~ I won’t shut up.”
Turning around, she hadn’t taken two steps when Yue Yunxi coughed lightly behind her, slowly reminding, “Whose underwear did someone leave behind?”
Lu You stopped in her tracks and made a sharp U-turn.
Yue Yunxi was sitting cross-legged on the bedding, stretching out her arm towards her, a black thong tied with side straps hanging on her slender index finger.
The black fine rope was wrapped around her moist white skin, creating a strong visual contrast.
“Aren’t you coming to get it?” Yue Yunxi’s voice was smiling, with a bewitching undertone.
Her index finger, as if boneless, beckoned to her through the thin rope, causing the fabric to sway.
Lu You, her face flushed, walked over and snatched the underwear back, stuffing it haphazardly into her pajamas.
Immediately, she heard Yue Yunxi’s light laughter, which was particularly captivating, “Stai zitta, means shut up.”
Lu You froze in place, feeling like her whole body was burning, and after a few seconds of hesitation, she responded with, “Oh.”
Yue Yunxi softly said, “Go take a shower, I’ve gotten your toothbrush ready, it’s in the mouthwash cup, the dry one on the towel rack is yours, the slippers are under the sink, wear mine first.”
“Oh.” Lu You forced herself to remain calm as she turned her back and walked towards the bathroom.
“Just put the clothes you want to wash in the laundry basket, wash them tomorrow, there’s a washing machine on the first floor.”
“Oh.”
“I’ll be waiting for you in bed.”
“Oh.”
Behind her, she heard a triumphant laugh.
Lu You’s steps, which had been halting before, finally became smoother, getting faster and faster.
Entering the bathroom, closing the door, she paused, then turned around. Looking around, she moved to the sink.
On the two identical mouthwash cups, a moon and a deer were drawn with eyeliner.
The toothbrushes were one black and one white, the same style.
Opening the drawer, there was a stack of different styles of spare toothbrushes, and several different patterned spare towels.
And the two towels on the towel rack, the patterns were exactly the same, only the colors were different.
Lu You hooked the corners of her mouth, smiling silently.
Really, such obvious intentions.
–
When she came out of the shower, Yue Yunxi was sitting on the head of the bed fiddling with her new phone. Hearing the sound, she immediately looked up and said with a smile, “That nightgown looks great on you.”
“Really, then it’s mine from now on~”
The upward curve of Yue Yunxi’s mouth was full of indulgence, “With me, everything you like is yours.”
Lu You joked, “People too?”
“What do you think?” Yue Yunxi asked back.
“I think~” Lu You lifted the sandwich quilt, “First it’s yours, and then it’s mine.”
The gaze that Yue Yunxi landed on her was soft, silently curving her lips, “I really like that sentence.”
Lu You hummed triumphantly twice and lay down.
Yue Yunxi softly asked, “Do you want to turn off the lights now?”
“Not yet,” Lu You asked, “Can the brightness be turned down a bit more?”
Yue Yunxi dimmed the brightness of the lamp a little.
The dim yellow light poured down from the head of the bed, and the misty air was filled with the citrus fragrance of bathing.
A thin layer of sweet warmth, a flavor unique to their time together.
Lu You lay on her side, facing Yue Yunxi, her head resting in the crook of her arm, and as before, she started a casual conversation, “How do you say ‘normal comforter cover’ in Italian?”
“copri piumino.”
Lu You followed along and read it twice.
Seeing that she didn’t hug the little deer doll, Yue Yunxi asked with a smile, “Not sleepy again?”
Lu You also smiled, “While I was taking a shower, a lot of questions suddenly popped into my head.”
“What questions?”
Lu You used her index finger to flick a strand of Yue Yunxi’s curly hair, casually asking, “Is Lonicera Yun Zhu?”
“Yeah.” Yue Yunxi asked, “What did Elena tell you? Mentioning Yun Zhu.”
Lu You slowly raised her eyelashes, squinted her eyes and asked, “How did you know it was Elena who mentioned it?”
“Otherwise, who else would mention Yun Zhu’s English name for no reason.”
Lu You curved her lips and smiled, that’s true.
“She didn’t mention Yun Zhu when we were chatting during dinner,” Yue Yunxi guessed, “So you mentioned it when you took her downstairs?”
“Yeah~” Lu You denied, staring at her, slowly and deliberately saying, “It was when we went upstairs, she talked about your and her history of affairs, mentioning it in passing.”
Yue Yunxi raised an eyebrow, “What did she say to you?”
“What she said doesn’t matter,” Lu You pinched the end of that strand of hair, lightly sweeping it across her cheek and said, “I’m more concerned about what you have to say.”
Yue Yunxi grabbed her hand in one fell swoop, and when she let go of that strand of hair, she pressed her cheek to her palm, “Then, girlfriend, where do you want me to start my confession?”
The skin on her cheek was warm and delicate, while the palm was cool and soft, with thin calluses from the tuning tools.
Lu You was slightly stunned, and the little bit of stubbornness in her heart was smoothed out by the soft touch.
“From—” her voice was low, “How did you two get together?”
“Hmm…” Yue Yunxi dragged out the tone, recalling, “After the first collaborative performance, she asked if there was a chance to develop our relationship further.”
“And then you agreed?” Lu You asked.
Listening to her tone, Yue Yunxi didn’t answer, but instead asked, “Unhappy?”
“No, I’m just… gossiping,” Lu You withdrew her hand and rubbed the tip of her nose, “Elena is talented, capable, outstanding, dazzling, passionate, sincere, cheerful, and bright, like the sun, it’s normal to agree.”
Yue Yunxi laughed softly, and curled her index finger to scrape her nose, “But someone like me needs and loves the moon more. It has a warm and gentle luster, just the right amount of brightness. Regardless of rain, snow, wind, or frost, it is always there, with all kinds of appearances. If you look up, you can see it, even when it is very far away, it makes me feel close to my heart.”
Lu You propped herself up and leaned over to kiss Yue Yunxi, but just as she was about to touch her, she suddenly stopped her momentum and buried her head in Yue Yunxi’s shoulder.
Her nose was very sore.
She felt touched by this confession.
She also felt sad for the beginning of this confession.
What kind of person?
Someone who lives in the darkness, is used to the darkness, and fears and yearns for the light.
Yue Yunxi’s fingers lifted her chin, seeing her slightly trembling eyelashes and misty eyes, “Crybaby.”
Saying that, she lowered her face to kiss her.
A kiss that was more heart-palpitating than the kisses she had received in the daytime, whether as light as the morning dew in the evening wind, or as heavy as the overturning clouds and rain.
She was hit head-on by softness.
Yue Yunxi stroked her cheek, pulled away slightly, breathing heavily, her voice very light, “During the time before Elena asked me if we could develop things further, I was conflicted every day. I couldn’t let go, I was unwilling, and at the time, I even thought about ruining you two.”
Lu You raised her eyes, meeting Yue Yunxi’s candid gaze.
“Just thinking about it,” Yue Yunxi smiled, with a hint of self-deprecation and helplessness, “Then again, maybe she was sincere, maybe you were moved during the time you were together, maybe… you two were a good fit.”
With each “maybe” she said, she shifted her gaze an inch. In the end, her gaze fell on the void between the two.
“I kept telling myself that no relationship is the entirety of life, gaining it is my fortune, losing it is my fate. Life goes on, and I want to make it more colorful. By the time Elena brought it up, I had been brainwashed by this logic.”
Lu You’s eyebrows, which had been tightly furrowed with heartache, also relaxed, and she couldn’t help but smile.
“At the time, I didn’t like you anymore.” Yue Yunxi’s gaze was deep, fixed on her slowly straightening mouth, stopping her voice.
Lu You cleared her throat and asked, “Why not continue?”
“To see you show a sad expression for that sentence.” Yue Yunxi’s voice was unbelievably soft, “I was very unethically happy about it.”
“…” Lu You was silent for a while, moved closer to her, her gaze and voice both meaningful, “I only knew that the moon was a filled soft candy, but I didn’t know what kind of filling, now I know.”
Yue Yunxi calmly returned her gaze, asking in a flat voice, “After eating it so many times, you still don’t know?”
Lu You: “…”
“What kind of filling?” Yue Yunxi’s breathy voice was pulled with a vaguely delighted meaning.
“Black-hearted!” Lu You’s face was burning, “Yellow-skinned!”
The smile climbed into Yue Yunxi’s eyebrows and eyes with the light, becoming overly bright.
Lu You looked at her expressionlessly.
Yue Yunxi restrained herself a little.
Lu You returned to the main topic, “Hearing that sentence, I was a little sad, but you did the right thing… wait, no! You were brainwashed by such reasonable words, shouldn’t you have been focusing on your career, how did you agree to Elena?”
The air turned sour.
Yue Yunxi laughed again, and after a while, she managed to control herself.
“Because she almost directly expressed her feelings every day, asking if I wanted to try. Gently refusing was useless, directly refusing was not good, after all, we still had to perform together.”
“Oh~ a good girl is afraid of a persistent suitor.” Lu You’s voice twisted, like the bubbles gurgling in a lemonade with lemon juice, filled with sourness.
Yue Yunxi found it funny, “Do you want me to continue?”
“Of course,” Lu You adjusted to a normal tone, “If I didn’t react at all, that would be terrible.”
Yue Yunxi nodded in approval.
Lu You: “And then?”
“As you said, she is a very outstanding person. So I thought, maybe I could give it a try.” Yue Yunxi changed the subject, “I used to think this was the main reason that prompted me to agree to her, but later I found out that this should be considered secondary.”
“…Then what is the main reason?” Lu You asked.
Yue Yunxi closed her eyes: “There is not a single place on her that I could find a slight similarity to you.”
The long eyelashes fluttering with the voice were like moth wings fluttering under the orange light.
There was an invisible moth, plunging into the raging fire, which was Lu You’s heart.
There is a popular saying on the Internet, “Later, everyone I met was like you”, to flaunt deep love and dedication.
Lu You didn’t like this saying, because Lu Huai’an was such a person. After Zhang Wenyin left, every one of his partners had more or less the shadow of Zhang Wenyin, either similar in appearance or the same in personality.
As if they didn’t love a complex and changeable person, but a fixed template.
Anyone could do, as long as one aspect fit the template setting.
Therefore, she stubbornly believed that those who are truly deeply in love should find the person in their heart irreplaceable.
Yue Yunxi didn’t explain this sentence, and Lu You’s expression, from surprise to emotion, let her know that there was no need to explain.
Lu You swallowed and asked in a hoarse voice, “…Then what?”
Yue Yunxi said, “Then, we only tried it for two days, and on the third day we broke up.”
Lu You was surprised, “So fast?”
Yue Yunxi said softly, “The first day we confirmed our relationship, the second day was the orchestra’s celebration banquet, and we played a game similar to Truth or Dare. She asked me about you.”
Lu You quietly waited for the following text.
After a long pause, Yue Yunxi sorted out the events of that day before opening her mouth again, “I drank a bit too much that day, and in the heat of the moment, everyone picked up the instruments around them and played their favorite music, whether it was classical, jazz, rock, or pop. The atmosphere was very good, which led to drinking even more.”
Lu You imagined the hustle and bustle and joy of the scene, and asked with great interest, “What song did you play?”
“Shi Ye, the chorus part.”
Lu You felt like her heart was grabbed.
“Perhaps it was the alcohol talking, but the moment Elena asked about you, it made me feel like the suppressed emotions had an outlet. I told her a lot, about you as a person, about our affairs, about how meeting you was like a three-line staff meeting a G clef, and every sharp and flat I played in my heart was for you.”
Lu You lay there on her side, motionless, but her body felt like she was swimming in a staff, with notes clustered around her, each piece filled with Yue Yunxi’s affection.
“In Elena’s country, same-sex marriage is legal, and in her upbringing, everyone around her will warmly express their love for people and things. So she couldn’t understand such obscure feelings as unrequited love, and extremely disapproved of secretly infatuated, uncompetitive behavior.”
“Elena said you two argued about it, but didn’t reach a conclusion,” Lu You continued, “I’m very curious, how did you argue with her?”
“Like a broken record, emphasizing that this is a cultural difference.”
Lu You said with a smile, “You’re a little annoying like that.”
Yue Yunxi admitted, “She was so annoyed that she couldn’t sleep, and called me in the early hours of the morning to say that when you and Tao Xin broke up, she would pursue you, so that I would know what regret feels like.”
Lu You was stunned for a moment, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
“She rarely jokes, and I could feel that she was very curious about you. I’m also very sure that if you two had contact, she would have fallen in love with you.”
Lu You’s eyelashes trembled heavily, and she suddenly understood why Elena’s desire to invite her out to dinner would arouse Yue Yunxi’s possessiveness towards her.
“We met the third morning, and we both offered to break up with each other at the same time.”
It was simply a case of come and go quickly.
The incredible expression froze on Lu You’s face for a few seconds before being reined in.
She pulled the plush toy next to the pillow and hugged it, only sighing in her heart, without saying a word.
Seeing this, Yue Yunxi softly said, “Have all the questions been asked? Ready to sleep?”
Lu You mumbled an “mm.”
“Then I’m turning off the lights.”
“Okay.”
Yue Yunxi turned around and rotated the lamp switch, and like a receding tide, the dim yellow light gradually shrank, and the brightness gradually dimmed.
Until the darkness covered the entire space.
It was too similar to the scene when she opened her eyes in the middle of the night some time ago, but at that time, Yue Yunxi was not by her side.
“Yue Yunxi.” Lu You perked up her ears to listen to the movement.
“I’m here.”
Amidst the rustling sounds, Lu You captured the approaching breath, the lightened breathing, and the citrus fragrance.
A soft, cool kiss landed on the tip of her nose.
Lu You smiled and raised her chin, groping for Yue Yunxi’s lips in the dark, and sent her own lips up, “Here.”
Yue Yunxi held her lower lip, kneading and lightly sipping.
In the gap between the caresses, Lu You confirmed to her, “Are you kissing my nose on purpose, or did you not find the place?”
“Didn’t find it,” Yue Yunxi changed the subject, “But, Pinocchio’s nose is also worth a kiss.”
Lu You rubbed her cheek haphazardly with the tip of her nose, “Where’s Pinocchio, where’s Pinocchio.”
The tip of the nose was cool, the lips that occasionally touched her face were moist and soft, and the breath that brushed her face was warm, like feathers, tickling a little.
Yue Yunxi smiled and said, “I heard that in Piazza di San Lorenzo Square, there are roadside stalls selling handmade wooden Pinocchios.”
Lu You raised an eyebrow with interest, but pretended to be reserved and asked, “And then?”
Yue Yunxi softly suggested, “When I get better, shall we go buy one? They’re very cute.”
Lu You almost couldn’t pretend anymore, “Then you better get better quickly.”
Yue Yunxi seemed satisfied by her promise, or seemed to have seen through her, and chuckled softly.
In the silent night, there was a kind of teasing abruptness.
The fragrance baked by body temperature seemed to have a soothing effect, but the low laughter was captivating.
Lu You felt her heartbeat leaping in her sleepiness, struggling to find a track that was reluctant to sleep.
“Tell me about the funny things you’ve experienced in the orchestra.”
“Hmm—” Yue Yunxi dragged out the sound, thought for a while, and began to narrate.
She intentionally said some very warm everyday things that would not arouse emotional fluctuations, and her gentle voice was like a clear spring flowing in her ears.
The clear and smooth tone made her sleepy.
Lu You’s eyelids drooped down, but were laboriously lifted up again, and gradually, she was more and more unable to lift them.
Seeing this, Yue Yunxi tore open a bag of eye masks and put them on her.
The rustling sound slightly pulled back Lu You’s consciousness, which was on the verge of dissipating.
She hugged the doll tightly, suddenly remembering the forgotten question, “By the way, recording… When is it, considered, to be used on the blade?”
After a long while, she heard Yue Yunxi’s voice, very light, and the content and even the punctuation marks were filled with a moist weight.
Like the sudden drizzle falling outside the window, pattering down, straight into her heart.
“When I feel that you no longer love me, and I am selfishly unwilling to let go.”
Lu You was sleepy and didn’t think much, hummed and laughed, casually joking, “Twisted melons are not sweet.”
“Maybe, but they must be thirst-quenching.”
Lu You briefly separated from the state of almost falling asleep.
Yue Yunxi pressed against her forehead, her tone pious and apologetic, but what she said was, “I’m sorry, you don’t have to forgive my baseness.”
Lu You vaguely thought, it really became forced love.
She wasn’t averse to it, just a little surprised, on the one hand feeling that Yue Yunxi’s dark side was blacker than she had imagined, and on the other hand being wrapped in a soft emotion.
Because she knew that this trump card was made up of Yue Yunxi’s low sense of security and low sense of worth.
Even more so, the word “willful” was a luxury for Yue Yunxi.
Before completely losing consciousness, Lu You grabbed Yue Yunxi’s hand, groping to make her spread her palm, and then put her own hand on it.
It was a response more powerful than any words.
——I give myself to you, acquiescing to and condoning your willfulness.