Chapter 213: Chapter 213 Because she likes you, so she has to pretend to dislike you
The intermittent drizzle has been making trouble all day. In the evening, however, the rain was getting heavier and heavier.
“Elder Brother, why didn’t Sister b.o.o.by come today?”
“Uh!” Panicked, I bit my tongue accidentally and said, “How do I know? Didn’t you call her?”
I felt very guilty. Of course, I knew that it was not that Chu Yuan hadn’t tried to call her, but the minx’s phone had been off for the whole day. Unable to find her, I had also called Sang Yingjie to ask about the situation. Only after I found out the minx had already gone home, did I finally let out a sigh of relief. But I didn’t expect that during the dinner, Chu Yuan asked me this again.
This girl needed Xiao Yike’s guidance in writing. If she knew that Xiao Yike didn’t come because I made her angry. . . The consequence would be unimaginable!
Sure enough, Chu Yuan frowned, bit her chopsticks, and said, “She turned off her mobile phone, and I don’t know where she is.”
“Is that so? Maybe she needs to do something, so she went home? Or probably it just happened that her phone ran out of battery, so she didn’t call you.” This kind of possibility was really far-fetched. In order to make it more believable, I said, “This has happened to your elder sister Cheng before, hasn’t it. Hehe.”
Chu Yuan slapped the table fiercely, and said angrily, “Why do you need to mention her?”
I was startled. This girl, I just casually mentioned her. Why was she so angry? This problem was very serious. I couldn’t help but put down my bowl, and said seriously: “Yuan Yuan, you don’t like Liusu, is it really because of me?”
Chu Yuan blushed, “You, why are you asking this? What, what if I say yes? ! You are a fool, and she is more foolish than you. Not to mention that she is too careless and noisy. If you marry her in the future, how will she take care of you?”
“If it’s just for this reason, then you should stop treating her like that in the future. . .”
“Hmm?” Chu Yuan was stunned, and immediately said with a surprised look: “You didn’t plan to marry her? ! Yes! Ahem… I mean people often say that first love is fruitless, haha, haha.”
“First love?” When I heard the words, I felt a little bit of bitterness flowing past my heart. I sighed casually, “Liusu is not my first love, it is not like you didn’t know. . .”
Suddenly I realized that I had just spilled the bean, I closed my mouth and hurriedly looked at Chu Yuan. But I didn’t expect that this bratty girl had the same awkward expression as me. Moreover, there was a faint of guilt on her face. But the complicated expression just flashed past her face quickly. What she cared about more was why I would refute what she said, “even if she was not your first love, then what? Elder Brother, what exactly do you want to say?”
“What I want to say is, if you don’t like Liusu just because of me, then you have to change it,” I smiled, picked some vegetable into her bowl, and said earnestly: “Yuan Yuan, when two people get together, it is because they like each other, trust each other, care for each other, understand each other, and tolerate each other. It is not because it will make life easier for one of them. If this is the reason why people stay together, it would be much better to hire a nanny. No one is perfect. Just like you said, your elder brother is a fool; but does Liusu mind it? The person that you need to share your life with doesn’t have to be perfect. Holding each other’s hands, staying by each other’s side till old age should be the ultimate goal when two people get together. Only in this way can the affection between two people be reflected. If they don’t need to rely on each other, then what is the purpose of a man and a woman holding hands and getting together? The so-called relationship is both very complicated and very simple. It is just a word ‘like’. If you like a person, you must like everything about her, including her shortcomings. How do you know that I am unwilling to take care of her? So, please don’t dislike Liusu because of me, okay?”
Chu Yuan’s chopsticks suddenly fell on the porcelain bowl, and then fell to the floor. The little girl’s face was pale, her lips trembled. She seemed to want to smile, but she also looked very angry. With a shaking voice, she said, “you. . . Why are you telling me this? Are you telling me that you two have already started to date each other? Are you trying to tell me that you plan to marry that woman?”
My old face flushed and replied shyly, “we haven’t officially started dating each other. But when two people have been together for a long time, it is impossible not to have feelings for each other. . .”
The relationship between Liusu and I only lacked one sentence. Since the last time the girl refused me in the name of ‘I will make you like me’, I have not had time to confess again. But now that we clearly knew each other’s feelings, so sooner or later, we would start to officially date each other. Especially now that I had left Fengchang and broken off relations with Mo Fei, the little barrier between me and Liusu had vanished. I had a feeling that that day would come very soon, so when thinking of this, I couldn’t help but want to change Chu Yuan’s mind. After all, it was for a peaceful future, right?
Chu Yuan said sharply: “You want to chase her? !”
“It is not much chasing. When it is natural for some things to happen, I will just go with the flow. . .” Then I changed my tone, and stopped talking in an embarra.s.sed manner, and said, “Yuan Yuan, I am happy that you care about your elder brother, but I really hope you can get along with Liusu. Don’t act one way to her face and another behind her back, okay? If it is because of me that you dislike Liusu, it will be very difficult for me. . .”
“If I have other reasons to dislike her, do you still want to date her?” Chu Yuan’s face was very cold. Those bright eyes seemed to be two pools of calm night lake water, without the slightest fluctuations, and the indifference made my heart tighten uncontrollably, “Even if it is for other reasons that you don’t like her to be your elder sister-in-law… If It’s for me, can you not accept her?”
After getting along for a period of time, my relationship with Chu Yuan had improved rapidly. Not only did we have more and more topics with each other, but we also occasionally joked about each other, becoming more and more like siblings. I thought I started to understand her, but at this time, the look she gave me made me feel very strange. Yes, just like before we lived together, I couldn’t see through her, and I didn’t know what she was thinking.
There seemed to be something growing in my heart, like seeds germinating in the soil. It kept growing while causing pain to me. I felt fl.u.s.tered and was unable to figure out this inexplicable feeling. I just subconsciously feel that this was an unusual signal, a kind of early warning similar to the queuing ants and low-flying swallows.
Could it be that Chu Yuan didn’t dislike her because she cared about my future? It was not that she thought that Liusu was not a good match for me?
That was right. Since when did my elder sister care about me? She has always disliked me, and her att.i.tude towards me only got better after we lived together.
Seeing that I hadn’t spoken for a long time, Chu Yuan frowned. She then blushed and asked in a deep voice, “If it’s because I don’t like her, can you not date her?” Although still indifferent, there was a hint of pleading in it.
“Since it’s not because of me, then you have no reason not to like her, right?”
Chu Yuan’s expression suddenly became stiff. I couldn’t help but laugh secretly. This bratty girl always liked or disliked something for no reason. The number of times she met with Liusu was less than five. For someone who she barely knew, what reason could she possibly have to dislike Liusu?
I got up and walked around the table and arrived next to Chu Yuan. After picking up the fallen chopsticks, I went to the kitchen to change a pair of clean ones before continuing with a smile, “Yuan Yuan, you have too little contact with Liusu, so you don’t know her. Once you meet with her a few more times. I promise you that you will like her. Just like how she likes you.”
“It’s not me who she likes, it is you!” Chu Yuan suddenly waved her arm to knock away my hand. Seeing that I was shocked, she seemed to be afraid that I would get angry. She hurriedly took the chopsticks in my hand, changing her expression quickly, and said with a smile: “Elder Brother, let’s eat. Let’s stop discussing this unpleasant topic.”
Why did I feel that she was the only one who was not happy about this topic? I couldn’t help but think like this. . . Chu Yuan’s rejection of Liusu also made me a little unhappy. What was wrong with this girl? Just like the minx in the morning, her mood changed so quickly. . .
“Yuan Yuan, if, I mean if, if elder brother likes Liusu, will you support me?”
“No!” Chu Yuan lowered her head and speeded up eating while replying with a m.u.f.fled noise, “Except Dongfang, I don’t want anyone to be my elder sister-in-law!”
In the past, I thought that she was joking with me when she mentioned that she wanted to fix me up with Dongfang, but I was pretty sure at the moment, she was serious, “Why?”
Could it be that Chu Yuan was suffering from severe autism, except for her relatives and only two friends, she could no longer accept other people into her life? A ridiculous thought even flashed in my mind—should I take her to see a psychologist?
Chu Yuan swallowed the rice in her mouth with difficulty and then wiped the corners of her mouth. Turning her small face, she muttered without looking at me, “Because only Dongfang will not laugh at me. . .”
“Huh? Laugh at you? Why would people laugh at you?”
“It’s nothing, you won’t understand it even if I told you,” Chu Yuan’s cheeks flushed. She pulled me to sit down beside her, and said seriously, “Elder brother, is Dongfang not better than Cheng Liusu? She is younger than her, prettier than her, and has a better figure than her. Just wait a few more years until Dongfang is twenty years old, then you two can get married. She likes you very much, otherwise. . . She wouldn’t have gotten up and kissed you in the middle of the night, right?”
The last sentence was like a mosquito noise, and her expression was a bit weird. She clearly had no confidence when saying it. After all, when her friend kissed her elder brother secretly, she was the one that felt conflicted the most, right?
Kiss me in the middle of the night. . . Something flashed in my mind, but I didn’t catch it. I just felt a little bit strange.
“Liusu is only twenty-three years old, a few months younger than me. She is also very young, right?” I flicked Chu Yuan’s forehead, “Besides, does Dongfang like me? I think it is more appropriate to say that she hates me, right? Kissing me in the middle of the night was simply a prank to make you and Yike hate me.”
“It was indeed a prank, but have you ever thought about why she doesn’t do it to others? Why did she want to do it to you?” Chu Yuan’s words dazed me. Then I saw this girl rolled her eyes at me and said reluctantly, “She is a girl, and girls are usually very shy. She wants to get closer to you, but she is scared that you will be able to see through it immediately. So she can only pretend that she dislikes you, at least, in this way, she can talk to you. . .”
I thought about it carefully, Chu Yuan’s words made some sense. I think I had a similar experience when I was in elementary school. Actually, even in high school, I also did similar stupid things. In order to get the attention of my first love, I even intentionally flicked her skirt or pulled her hair and used some other methods that were absolutely hated by her. . .
Then a young and immature girl’s face flashed in my mind. I immediately shook my head to stop thinking about it. I couldn’t help but glance at the red-faced Chu Yuan. Eager to change the subject, I suddenly said without thinking it properly, “So, the reason why you disliked me in the past was that you liked me, but you felt embarra.s.sed to say it?”
As soon as I said this, not to mention Chu Yuan, I was also stunned. . .