Then do you want to sleep at my house tonight?
After the meal, Jiang Shen managed to start a conversation with Yi Wanyue only a few times, countable on one hand.
Because Qiu Baiyu was present.
Every time he wanted to say something, she would always seriously say, “Speak not during meals, talk not during sleep.”
She blocked his words from continuing.
Thus, the meal finished, and Jiang Shen’s plan to develop a relationship with Yi Wanyue made no progress.
This left him rather depressed.
It was time to part ways.
At this moment, it was still raining outside, though the thunder had stopped, as if knowing Yi Wanyue was about to go home, giving her an opportunity to get in the car.
All three people had driven there.
When Jiang Shen came, it was not yet raining, so he didn’t bring an umbrella.
Thinking of this, he came up with a plan and called out to Yi Wanyue, who was about to open her umbrella: “Xiaoyue.”
Yi Wanyue turned to look at him.
He immediately displayed a gentle, pleading expression: “I didn’t bring an umbrella.”
As long as Yi Wanyue could hold the umbrella and walk with him for a while, how could he worry about not having a chance to talk to her?
At this moment, a sudden umbrella was stuffed into his arms.
He looked at the person who shattered his beautiful dream.
Qiu Baiyu was just pulling back her hand: “It’s for you, no need to return it, just consider it a thank you for inviting us to dinner. Go, hold it yourself.”
Jiang Shen was momentarily speechless: “…”
Yi Wanyue smiled and opened her umbrella: “Leaving, bye-bye.”
Then Jiang Shen was forced to watch Yi Wanyue and Qiu Baiyu share an umbrella as they walked away.
“…”
Qiu Baiyu’s position should have been his!
Qiu Baiyu held Yi Wanyue’s hand as they walked towards the parking area.
She could clearly feel Yi Wanyue’s pace quicken, as if she was afraid the thunder would start again.
She suddenly recalled the meal they just had.
While they were eating, there were occasional sounds of thunder outside. Each time this happened, Yi Wanyue’s eating would slow down. Although her expression didn’t change, her other hand would secretly grip the corner of Qiu Baiyu’s clothing under the table.
She is really very afraid of thunder.
Being so afraid of thunder, would she also be very scared staying alone at home?
Qiu Baiyu thought of this, and while keeping up with Yi Wanyue’s pace, she asked, “There might still be thunder tonight; is anyone at your home?”
Yi Wanyue replied, “No.”
That is her house, and Yi Aiyun only occasionally comes over to stay, not for long, so she is living alone again now.
The next second, she heard Qiu Baiyu ask, “Then do you want to sleep at my house tonight?”
Yi Wanyue’s pace slowed for a few seconds.
She turned her head to look at Qiu Baiyu.
Qiu Baiyu calmly said, “With Xiaomin and me there, you won’t be afraid.”
Yi Wanyue did not immediately respond.
Returning home can reduce her fear of thunder, because as long as she draws the curtains and hides under the quilt, isolated from the world, she will be fine.
But having someone she trusts to accompany her… the fear will decrease even more.
“Okay,” she smiled, her eyes curved, “then I will trouble you.”
“Auntie!”
Qiu Zimin happily rushed up to hug Yi Wanyue’s waist.
Qiu Baiyu was sending the aunt out the door.
At this moment, the rain had just stopped, and the aunt wanted to take advantage of the rain stopping to go home.
Qiu Baiyu sent the aunt away, returned to close the door, and saw Qiu Zimin sharing her snacks and candies with Yi Wanyue.
As Qiu Baiyu walked into the house, she said, “Auntie Wanyue will be sleeping at our house tonight.”
Upon hearing this, Qiu Zimin was extremely happy: “Really?!”
“Auntie will sleep with me!”
Qiu Baiyu walked over and poked her face: “No, your bed is small. Auntie will sleep with me.”
Their home has three rooms, but the remaining room has already been converted by her into a study and Qiu Zimin’s craft room, with no place for sleeping.
The main reason is that at the time, she didn’t think anyone would come to stay overnight, as her friends here were originally not many.
Letting Yi Wanyue sleep on the sofa was certainly not okay, so she would sleep with her.
Qiu Zimin scratched her head: “Why is my bed small?”
“Auntie, give me a very, very big bed!”
Qiu Baiyu patted her head: “When you grow up, then I’ll get you one.”
Yi Wanyue also smiled and patted her head.
It was bedtime.
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Qiu Baiyu prepared pajamas, a toothbrush, and a towel for Yi Wanyue.
The toothbrush and towel were bought from the convenience store downstairs, and the pajamas were her own, all for Yi Wanyue to make do with.
Yi Wanyue was not polite with her and even joked after brushing her teeth: “I might need to keep this, perhaps I will come again next time.”
Qiu Baiyu was on her phone confirming that the aunt had arrived home. After hearing her words, she replied with a smile in her voice: “Okay, Miss Yi can come anytime.”
When they returned to the room, they discovered that the bed’s quilt was suddenly bulging in one spot, even lightly moving, as if someone was hiding underneath.
Qiu Baiyu went to Qiu Zimin’s room to take a look: no one.
She returned to her own room.
The answer to who this person was became very clear.
Qiu Baiyu and Yi Wanyue exchanged glances.
Qiu Baiyu looked toward the small hill arching up on the bed, and calmly raised her voice: “Where did Xiaomin go?”
From underneath the quilt, two sounds of proud laughter quietly emerged, and then the quilt was suddenly thrown back, revealing Qiu Zimin grandly: “I am here!”
She lay on the bed laughing, not leaving.
She wanted to stay and chat with the aunties.
Seeing the situation, both aunties also lay down.
“Once you’re sleepy from chatting, you must obediently return to your room to sleep,” Qiu Baiyu said.
Qiu Zimin nodded obediently.
“Boom——”
Suddenly, a thunder sounded outside.
Yi Wanyue was unexpectedly startled, trembling and unconsciously shrinking into the quilt.
Not only did Qiu Baiyu notice her reaction, but Qiu Zimin also did.
She moved closer to Yi Wanyue, softly asking, “Auntie, are you afraid of thunder?”
In front of the child, Yi Wanyue was very honest: “A little afraid.”
Then her arm was hugged by the child.
“I’m not afraid of thunder, I’ll protect you!” Qiu Zimin said very reliably, “I’m very powerful now, my Sanda skills are getting better and better!”
At least now, taking down someone like Liu Jianhui is definitely no problem.
Yi Wanyue couldn’t help but laugh, raising her hand to pat her head: “Good, with Xiaomin here, Auntie won’t be afraid.”
Qiu Zimin wanted to stay and accompany Yi Wanyue until Auntie fell asleep and was no longer afraid of thunder.
As a result, she was the first to fall asleep.
She nestled beside Yi Wanyue and entered dreamland just like that.
Qiu Baiyu glanced at her, smiling helplessly.
“I’ll carry her back to her room to sleep,” Qiu Baiyu softly said to Yi Wanyue.
Yi Wanyue nodded, gently pulling out her hand that was being held.
Qiu Baiyu carried Qiu Zimin back to her room, tucked her in, closed the doors and windows, then returned to close her own room’s door.
The aunties’ rest time had also arrived.
Qiu Baiyu lay down and turned off the light.
The room suddenly plunged into dark silence, with only the faint sound of the air conditioner exhaling cold air.
Suddenly, thunder roared, and lightning illuminated the window, bright as daylight.
Beside Qiu Baiyu’s ear came a rustling sound.
Her clothes were gently grasped by someone.
Without thinking much, she immediately moved toward the person beside her, holding her hand and soothingly patting it again and again, silence speaking louder than words.
The thunder outside the window sounded a few more times, calming down after quite a while.
Then, the sound of rain poured down loudly, drenching the city thoroughly.
The room became even quieter.
Qiu Baiyu was still gently patting Yi Wanyue’s hand, filled with a sense of safety.
After a while, Yi Wanyue’s voice softly sounded in the darkness: “Are you sleepy? Do you want to chat for a bit?”
Qiu Baiyu indeed wasn’t sleepy, so she agreed: “What should we chat about?”
Yi Wanyue: “I don’t know, just chat casually.”
Qiu Baiyu thought for a moment and said: “Then you turn that on.”
Yi Wanyue instantly understood.
Beside Qiu Baiyu’s ear, the faint sound of an electric current sounded again.
This sound was very annoying at first, but thinking that once it’s on, the conversation would be freer, Qiu Baiyu slowly didn’t find it annoying anymore, and even became accustomed to it.
“Can you hear?”
“Yes.”
“Good.”
Qiu Baiyu started a topic: “Jiang Shen seems still unwilling to give you up.”
“Useless persistence,” Yi Wanyue commented.
Qiu Baiyu looked in her direction: “Actually, I’ve always been very curious about one thing.”
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Yi Wanyue also looked in her direction: “Go ahead.”
Qiu Baiyu straightforwardly asked: “Your system’s task for you is to be a good white moonlight, and you said you already have a way to complete this task… so what is your way?”
A light laugh came from beside her, followed by Yi Wanyue’s voice.
“Do you know why, for men, a white moonlight remains as a white moonlight?”
Qiu Baiyu thought for a bit: “Because they cannot obtain it.”
Yi Wanyue said: “Correct, because they cannot obtain it.”
Because it cannot be obtained, it seems extremely precious.
White moonlight and the cinnabar mole, both are like this.
In the novel’s plot, after they got married, they were not always loving; they had conflicts and quarrels, and Jiang Shen even said things like “you’ve changed a lot.”
Although they would eventually reconcile, the love was too superficial.
Jiang Shen just likes her in this beautiful form, the more he can’t have it, the more he loves it.
Since that’s the case, why not let it naturally develop, letting him never be able to obtain her heart in this life.
The moon must always hang in the sky; it’s beautiful because it cannot be touched.
Qiu Baiyu said: “Although this is the truth, can you just let him bother you for a lifetime?”
Yi Wanyue said: “Of course, that’s not okay, so I must let him give up on me.”
“Because he knows he cannot obtain me, he gives up.”
“In this way, a part of his heart will forever have my name due to unwillingness.”
People are just like this.
Especially men.
To them, unattainable women are always the best.
Qiu Baiyu understood: “You reject his approach and clearly show you don’t like him to force him to give up?”
Yi Wanyue said, yes.
Qiu Baiyu frowned: “But he doesn’t take no for an answer.”
Yi Wanyue has countless times shown they are only friends, yet Jiang Shen still persists in pursuing her, wanting to change this friendship.
Yi Wanyue clearly said she doesn’t like him, yet he still persists.
His ears seem to only hear good words, making people really want to give him two punches.
“This aspect is very annoying.”
Yi Wanyue turned to look at the ceiling.
“Even if rejected, he still thinks that as long as I’m single, he can pursue me. He’ll probably only back off when he sees I have a partner.”
As the words fell, Qiu Baiyu’s tone beside her suddenly became serious: “You absolutely cannot sacrifice your own happiness for him, or find someone just to wrong yourself.”
Yi Wanyue paused for a moment, then couldn’t help but laugh.
“Rest assured, I’ve never had that thought.”
She rejects, she does not agree, she does not meet with him, and Jiang Shen cannot do anything to her.
If the female lead and male lead cannot be together, this world will not be destroyed.
The fate of supporting characters can be changed, and so can the main characters’.
So just let it develop like this, let nature take its course. Anyway, the one hurt by love won’t be her.
Qiu Baiyu then felt at ease.
Fortunately, their female lead wasn’t confused.
“Boom——”
Thunder started again.
Yi Wanyue was scared and instinctively hid toward Qiu Baiyu’s side.
A sudden thunder caught her off guard.
Then she was hugged by Qiu Baiyu.
Qiu Baiyu pulled her into her embrace, the movement very light and gentle, just like how she held her hand in the restaurant.
She gently patted her back, with a tone of gentleness she had never heard before: “Alright, don’t be scared, don’t be scared, I’m here, I’m here.”
Yi Wanyue, in Qiu Baiyu’s warm embrace, didn’t know what to do.
The scent of Qiu Baiyu’s body lingered at the tip of her nose, a light fragrance of shower gel, very pleasant.
This scent slipped into her heart, giving it a little bump, making her heartbeat suddenly quicken.
Before she could react, another thunder sounded outside.
Qiu Baiyu hugged her tighter.
Each time thunder sounded, she would hug her tighter.
She also pulled her quilt up higher and higher, hiding her under the blanket, as if helping her build a fortress to resist the cold wind and storm.
Yi Wanyue blinked her eyes, then lightly laughed.
She wasn’t so scared anymore.
Qiu Baiyu heard this laugh and curiously asked: “What are you laughing at?”
With a smile on her lips, Yi Wanyue leaned into her embrace, gently encircling her waist and said:
“I just feel… it’s really nice to have you here.”
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Fortunately, it is this Qiu Baiyu.
The incomparably precious Qiu Baiyu.
The arm around her waist slightly tightened, like returning a hug.
Qiu Baiyu realized, her lips curved slightly, gently touched Yi Wanyue’s head.
“Sleep.”
“Good night.”
“Good night.”
That night, the booming thunderstorm sound covered the sudden beating of a heart.
During the June thunderstorm season, Yi Aiyun came to stay with her younger sister again.
Her younger sister has been afraid of thunder since childhood, and having one more person at home makes her less afraid.
Yi Wanyue was happy to see this and was very welcoming.
When their free time coincided, they would eat together, chat together, and talk about everything.
Yi Wanyue talked to her elder sister about Qiu Baiyu.
She talked about her many times.
Almost every sentence would include the words “Qiu Baiyu.”
Yi Aiyun sat at the small bar, calmly drinking warm water, while listening to her younger sister talk about Miss Qiu.
She saw that her younger sister’s eyes and lips were full of a satisfied smile.
It was a smile that appeared whenever Miss Qiu was mentioned, a smile she had never seen before.
After Yi Wanyue finished, Yi Aiyun calmly put down the cup in her hand, leisurely pointed out a question: “You mention Miss Qiu more and more.”
“Do you… like her?”
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