Chapter 311: Invisible Accessories 310
While washing the bowls and plates, Ye Xun deliberately closed the kitchen door to avoid the sound of running water and clinking bowls and plates disturbing the person napping on the sofa. Even so, her movements while washing were lighter and quieter than usual.
After washing the bowls and plates, she walked out of the kitchen and tiptoed to the sofa, sitting down.
The space on the sofa was limited, but fortunately Wang Heng was sleeping on his side, leaving a small gap at his waist area that allowed the petite young girl to sit down.
Lowering her head and gazing at Wang Heng’s profile, after a long while, Ye Xun’s fingertip lightly touched the back of his hand. Very lightly, very briefly, like a dragonfly skimming water.
He had no reaction.
Ye Xun finally couldn’t hold back and spoke, her words so faint they were like a whisper: “Are you asleep?”
Still no reaction.
His breathing was very long, with a faint snoring sound.
The young girl clutched the hem of her skirt with both hands and whispered: “Thank you for the gift, I really like it a lot. But the key isn’t the gift, it’s… um, anyway, I understand what you mean, and I’ll always wear it.”
However, Ye Xun didn’t know that at this moment, Wang Heng wasn’t actually asleep—he was just very experienced at pretending to sleep, making his acting exceptionally realistic.
But suddenly, his heart skipped a beat, almost breaking his performance.
Ye Xun took his hand and placed it on that ring.
This touch…
Fortunately, although his heart rate had changed, his breathing and faint snoring still maintained their original rhythm.
After a long while, Ye Xun said softly again: “There are so many times when I really… can’t guess what you’re thinking, why do you do this? There are too many incomprehensible things in the world, and you, you’re the biggest mystery.”
Then she removed Wang Heng’s hand and slowly stood up.
“Rest well…” After pausing for a few seconds, she didn’t call him senior as usual, but said in an even lower and softer voice, “Darling.”
The young girl turned and walked away, returning to her bedroom and slowly closing the door.
Wang Heng opened his eyes and looked at his left hand that had just been moved around, silently pondering a question—this girl, did she know or not that he was pretending to sleep?
What she said just now, was it self-talk revealed only because he was asleep, or a confession meant for him to hear?
He fell into contemplation.
Of course, if he could have opened his eyes just now to see Ye Xun’s expression and gaze, he probably could have guessed the answer, but unfortunately he couldn’t see.
If he could have seen… she must have looked very cute, right?
Wang Heng closed his eyes and imagined, unknowingly falling truly asleep.
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If a nap lasts too long, there’s a special feeling of wasting life—before sleeping it was a sunny afternoon, but upon waking it’s already dusk with the setting sun. What had he done all day? Just thinking about it made him uneasy.
But for Wang Heng, although today’s nap was exceptionally long, upon waking he completely forgot about reflecting on whether he’d wasted time. Because as soon as he woke up, he saw Ye Xun not far away.
The young girl sat in a place untouched by the sunset, holding an arts stream tutoring book, with a floor lamp beside her emitting gentle light. Under the top-down lighting, the young girl reading attentively appeared even more serene than usual.
She was still wearing the JK dress from noon, but perhaps because the temperature had dropped a bit, the knee socks had been changed to skin-covering warm stockings. And the leg ring from noon was now slightly narrowed, turned into a collar around the young girl’s neck.
Wang Heng sat up and only then noticed a jacket draped over him.
It wasn’t the jacket he’d worn there, but a light apricot-colored long jacket. Lowering his head slightly, he could still smell a faint fragrance—it was obviously Ye Xun’s clothes.
Wang Heng lifted the coat covering him and indeed, the temperature was a bit lower than at noon.
Ye Xun heard the sound, looked up, and smiled as she asked: “Senior, you’re awake? Any arrangements for dinner?”
Wang Heng rubbed his still-drowsy eyes: “No arrangements, what do you want to eat?”
Ye Xun: “I’m too embarrassed to have senior cook again, how about we go out to eat?”
Wang Heng stood up and stretched, moving his body, feeling much more awake.
Then he said: “No need to go to that trouble, how about I cook you some noodles again?”
Ye Xun cupped her little face, her gaze full of expectation: “Sure!”
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For Ye Xun, the beauty of Sunday was just a brief interlude in life. The main theme for a third year of senior high school student was, of course, to study hard and diligently do practice questions.
New Monday, in the classroom, the class dismissal bell finally rang.
The teacher at the lectern dragged on for nearly five minutes before finally finishing and leaving.
“At least he left us five minutes, not easy…” The deskmate girl sighed, turned her head to look at Ye Xun, feeling a hidden sense of frustration.
This Ye classmate was good-looking, that was one thing, but she studied so seriously, her grades improving so quickly—did she even leave a way out for her classmates?
Looking around again, several boys seemed to be secretly glancing this way… The girl naturally understood their attention was definitely on Ye Xun, not her.
She was accustomed to this kind of thing long ago, and had no jealousy about it. She just patted Ye Xun’s leg and sighed: “Little Ye, impressive, I admire you.”
Ye Xun: “?”
“Nothing, huh…” The girl suddenly noticed the feel was a bit off. Ye Xun’s legs never had any excess fat, and patting them felt firm—that she knew. But today’s Ye Xun’s leg seemed to have something extra?
Inside those plain dark sports pants, what exactly was it?
Ye Xun: “What’s wrong?”
The girl touched it again, her mouth slowly opening. She glanced around and lowered her voice to ask: “Do you have something on your leg?”
“I don’t have anything on…”
“Little girl still denying it, what’s this?” The girl tried to touch again but was blocked by Ye Xun.
Then, Ye Xun seriously explained: “This is something for exercise. Sometimes the muscles get overly fatigued, so you need to bind it to provide support and protection.”
The deskmate girl was a bit surprised: “You know about exercise too?”
“It’s just from exercising since childhood, actually I don’t know much.”
Ye Xun was still hoping this explanation would muddle through, but looking at her deskmate’s expression, she saw a hint of deeper meaning in her eyes.
“Little Ye’s exercise gear is really something, heart-shaped hollow…”
Ye Xun’s face turned red and she froze.
Fortunately, the deskmate didn’t press further, just sighed: “So Little Ye is really impressive, not only good at studying, but also so good at playing…”
Ye Xun: “Playing what? I don’t play!”
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