Chapter 120: Can You Give Me a Home?

The late autumn night was as quiet as a pool of water, the temperature outside was a little cooler, a thin mist filled the air, enveloping all the scenery, the moon, the stars, the houses in the distance, it had a dream-like feel.

The room is heated and it should be time for a peaceful sleep, but now Shen Yu and Li Xiang are both having trouble sleeping.

"Your Lordship ...... Your Lordship? Are you asleep ......"

Li Xiang hides under the blanket and pokes her little head out to shout softly at Shen Yu.

Shen Yu's back was to her, but he was not asleep, his eyes were open, and as his vision adjusted to the darkness, he could make out the outline of the room.

The young girl behind her tossed and turned and did not sleep well, and every time she twisted and turned, the sound of her soft body against the bed disturbed Shen Yu's mind even more.

At the sound of her shout, Shen Yu reached out and turned on the bedside lamp with a clatter.

The dimly lit room immediately brightened up and felt a little blinding.

Like a frightened rabbit, Li Xiang pulled up the blanket again and wrapped herself up as if she had not just called out to Shen Yu.

Shen Yu looked at this pile of snails Li Xiang in the next bed, ignored her and got up to go to the toilet.

When he came out, he saw Li Xiang with her little head out looking at him, only to shrink back once she saw him.

A strange thought crossed her mind, a desire to pounce on her bed, lift the covers and break her snail shell to see if she still dared to be naughty!

Shen Yu laid back down on his bed and left the lamp on and just faked sleep with his eyes closed.

Snail Li Xiang was quiet for two minutes, probably sensing that there was no movement outside, so she peeked her little head out again, still rolled up in her blanket, and slowly wormed her way towards the bed, reaching out her little white hand and clicking out the desk lamp with a clatter.

With the room back in the dark, Li Xiang feels more at ease.

She lay on her side with the sides of the covers tucked in on either side of her neck, and lifted one leg to crush one side under her, then twisted the other side to roll the other under her, covering herself up like a meat roll.

Having done her security and turned off the lights, she was arrogant again.

"Master?"

"I can't sleep ...... let's talk shall we ......"

She actually wanted to call out 'husband' or 'husband-in-law', but always felt it would be dangerous to do so.

Shen Yu breathed heavily as he turned on his side and reversed his direction so that he was sleeping on the side facing Li Xiang.

Li Xiang is a little nervous, pulling the edge of the quilt up to her nose, showing only her big eyes staring nervously at him.

In the dimness, she could faintly see the outline of Shen Yu's face; he did not open his eyes.

Li Xiang's heart was like a deer in the headlights, and this time he didn't hide under the blanket, but subconsciously pulled it tighter.

"What are you doing out of bed in the middle of the night?"

"I can't sleep. ......"

"I'm about to fall asleep!"

"You lie ...... you ...... you sound very spiritual ......"

"Keep disturbing my sleep and I'll lift the covers off you."

Li Xiang was startled and hurriedly closed her eyes, not daring to speak.

Five minutes later.

"Shen Yu, what do you think Yage and Liangji are doing?" Li Xiang couldn't sleep, but he couldn't help talking to him.

Shen Yu didn't answer her for a long time, and only when she thought Shen Yu was really falling asleep did he say in a deep voice, "What else can you do but sleep?"

"So do you think they'll stay together?"

"I don't know."

After a couple of words, the two men were even more sleepless, both looking at each other with their eyes open.

There is also a telepathic feeling that you cannot see yourself from the other person's perspective.

Shen Yu looks at Li Xiang's small face and sees the lightness of her eyebrows when they are unpainted, and can even see the long, fan-like lashes on her large eyes.

"Shen Yu, can you see me?"

"It's pitch black, who can see you. Can you see me?"

"Mmmmmm, I saw you sleeping with your eyes closed."

After confirming that the other party couldn't even see themselves, they were even more indulgent in sizing each other up.

Li Xiang is actually really good looking.

Her eyebrows were clear and bright, and she liked to smile, and when she smiled, she had a witty and naughty energy. Probably because of her thin skin, she blushed particularly easily, like now, even though the light was dim and he couldn't see her face, he knew at a guess that her little face must be flushed, because every now and then she used two fingers to pull down a bit of the edge of the quilt to cool her cheeks, Shen Yu had never seen a girl as Shen Yu had never seen such a lovely girl.

"Shen Yu ......"

"Hmm?"

"What do you, what do you think of me?"

"It's not like I'm looking at you."

"It's not that, it's just opinion."

Shen Yu looked at her quietly for a while, as if he could see the anticipation in her eyes, and he was silent for a while before answering her question.

"The first time I picked you up at the airport, you were ridiculously silly."

"Hmmm ......"

"You say you're wayward and silly, and you dare to come so far away by yourself, what if there's no one to look after you?"

"So Shen Yu is worried about me?"

"Who would worry about you ...... I wouldn't care about you if Dad hadn't told me to ......"

"I've always been super lucky, that's why I didn't get sold into the ravine thanks to Shen Yu."

"And you're proud of it!"

Shen Yu wanted to take a small bamboo stick and smack her on the ass, but he couldn't leave her alone, it was like she had some kind of magic power that made him inexplicably hang on to her and worry about her getting hurt.

"You're not like other girls."

Shen Yu continued, "You don't know anything, you're like a child, you do what you want without thinking about the consequences, you're the same age you were when you went out to buy your favourite doll and got lost, you haven't changed in all these years."

It is probably because she is like a child that this simplicity is all the more precious and makes her unique.

"Shen Yu You remember ......"

Li Xiang felt a warmth in her heart, not realising that he remembered all the things she had said in passing when she was a child, even though he had never seemed to listen to her seriously.

"I just have a good memory, it's not like I remember things about you specifically."

"Mouthing off ......"

"What did you say?"

"No!"

Li Xiang whispered, "Because I know Shen Yu will take care of me, you won't leave me alone, that's why I'm so relieved, mum and dad always say I have no opinion, I want to change, but I can't, with Shen Yu around, it's okay ...... "

"What if I'm not there?"

"I'll stick to you. You can't get rid of me."

"What if I suddenly disappeared?"

"Then I will sit where I am and cry until you come back to me, and you will come back to me."

She always has this wishful thinking that the dolls she likes are the best, the places she wants to go are the most beautiful, and the people she likes are the best.

Simple-minded and stubborn as a thread, she can close her eyes and not see the way when she gives Shen Yu the other end of the thread and lets him lead her along.

Even if Shen Yu had dropped her and run away, she would have stood her ground, confident that he would come back for her.

Shen Yu was initially given the task of just taking care of her, but he could never have imagined that it would be such a heavy care. She hung her whole life on him because she trusted him, and this kind of persistent trust and fondness made it impossible for Shen Yu to be cruel enough to leave her alone, like a blank sheet of paper, so that one could not bear to betray this unreserved trust and fondness of hers.

At the beginning, Shen Yu thought that this dependence was just because she was new to the city, unfamiliar with it and her social circle was too narrow, so she had to rely on him.

"Why don't you make more friends? Even if I don't have time to take you out during the week, you can still go out with your friends, right?"

"I don't like ......"

Li Xiang pursed her lips, the more people she met, the better she found Shen Yu. She couldn't say why Shen Yu was special, but compared to others, he was special, someone she couldn't help but want to be close to and jump into his arms.

When she is with Shen Yu, she doesn't have to worry about anything else at all, she feels so safe and secure that she can't wait to be with him all day.

"I don't always have to go out to play, I'm happy at home painting, doing chores and cooking." As long as I'm with you.

Shen Yu lay on her side, looking into her eyes, still happy as she said these boring things, and twisted under the covers as if she wanted to get up and cook for him right now.

"Shen Yu is a very different person from me."

She dutifully lay under the covers, and pulled the pillows and covers, leaning closer to the side of the bed near Shen Yu so that she could look at his face more clearly.

In the dim light, she scowled recklessly at the favourite boy across the room.

"When I first met Shen Yu, I was actually very scared, you looked super mean and I thought you were going to bully me and leave me alone, but later I found out that Shen Yu never left me alone, he was super nice to me and I loved it when he was mean to me."

"You're a very different person from me, I'm silly and you're smart, and then I have no opinion and you're independent, Shen Yu is a person with a goal, my things are actually very small, but you always put aside your own things to take care of me."

"I'm afraid I'll cause you a lot of trouble, and I'm afraid I'll make you hate me one day. I'm trying to remember the way to the grocery store so that I can go home and get my own groceries, you love spring onions, I'll put more spring onions in my cooking, you don't eat coriander, I'll leave out the coriander, luckily I can still draw, I just want to try to be of some help to you so that you don't hate me, I really feel very lucky and happy to live with you ......"

She chattered on about her feelings for Shen Yu, her voice soft and gentle, as if she was talking to herself, but in the quiet, dimly lit room, Shen Yu heard every word and every sentence with remarkable clarity.

For a moment, he wanted so badly to hug her and call her a fool.

She finished for a long time without waiting for any response from Shen Yu and asked in a small voice, " Is Shen Yu asleep ......"

"I'm listening."

Shen Yu didn't know what to say back, she just expressed what was in her heart towards him, simply expressed.

There was not a single 'I like you' in a large paragraph yet vaguely every word said 'I like you', even if he wanted to take it as her confession, he didn't know where to reject it, there was no way to reject it.

The frog in the pot senses that the fire is increasing, but there's no pressure point for him to jump out, and the water temperature is really really comfortable ......

He even wondered if he could really reject Li Xiang without hesitation, as he imagined, in case she suddenly confessed to him after saying these words.

Similarly, Li Xiang is restraining herself, she really wants to tell Shen Yu 'I like you', but she is not sure, Shen Yu may still reject her, there is no turning back if she really says it, either 30 together on the spot, or 70 Shen Yu now go to the living room sleep.

People are always emotional late at night, and any decision at this time can seem impulsive.

Luckily, this confession of desperation did not happen and the two were silent for a while, each adjusting to the stirrings of love that come with late-night heart-to-heart talks.

Of course, the effect is definitely there, if the water temperature was fifty degrees before, it is now sixty degrees, Shen Yu has not jumped away, he will stay in the sixty degree water temperature, warming up is a technical work.

Li Xiang rolled up his blanket and looked at him and asked.

"Is there anything that Shen Yu wanted to do as a child?"

"As a child?"

"Uh-huh."

Shen Yu thought for a moment and said, "I want to build a house."

She had expected Shen Yu to say he would be a scientist, an astronaut, or a computer scientist as he is now, but she never expected him to be an ordinary house builder as a child.

"Is the idea to build very, very tall skyscrapers?"

"No, I built myself a home, brick by brick. When I was a kid, there was a lot of construction around, and I used to watch outside the construction site after school, watching the diggers grab the dirt, watching the workers build it brick by brick, and I went every day to watch, and before I knew it a big house came out. I also drew up plans for a small three-storey building with a skylight in the attic so I could look at the stars on summer nights. I used to love looking at the stars and wanted to be an astronaut, but my parents wouldn't, they wouldn't even let me study abroad, they thought I wouldn't come back if I flew up into the sky."

Li Xiang was amused by him, covering the blanket and giggling, suddenly finding Shen Yu particularly cute.

"Is that funny."

"Shen Yu must have been really cute as a kid."

"I didn't really think so."

Shen Yu's memory is very strong, probably because he has been smart since he was a child. I remember that when he was Puffs' age, he was like a little adult, and he thought his classmates were silly, not knowing what 75+48 equals.

Li Xiang was the first person to compliment him on how cute he was when he was a child, when everyone said he knew how to behave and how smart he was.

"Does Shen Yu still have the drawing he made?"

"There is."

"Can I see it when we get back."

"No."

Shen Yu looked at her and asked, "What about you? Don't you have any aspirations? Just keep being a salted fish?"

"It's my ambition to be just like my mum."

Li Xiang thought about it and said, "My mum and dad are very close, she gets up every morning when he leaves for work and makes him breakfast. It became something great, just like building a house."

"So you want to concentrate on being a good wife."

"Hmmmmm, are my ideals so small? Shen Yu Don't laugh at my lack of ambition ......"

"It's pretty good."

Shen Yu rolls over and stares at the ceiling in disbelief.

"What's on Shen Yu's mind?"

"Nothing ......"

Li Xiang also rolled over and looked at the ceiling like he did, continuing to talk about the ideals she had just left unsaid.

"The life I want is actually very simple, I don't eat much, I can eat less because I want to lose weight, buying a house is so expensive now, we can go to a small city together and rent a shop, every morning you drive a small pickup truck to buy goods, I will be the boss's wife, we save money together, then build a small building by ourselves, the attic has a big skylight, at night when we are not busy When we're not busy at night, we'll lie in the attic and watch the stars!"

With that, she turned to Shen Yu and asked him, "Shen Yu, don't you think this is a good way to live?"

Shen Yu was about to say, 'That's good', when he realized that something wasn't quite right.

He said breathlessly, "Speak for yourself and leave me out of it."

Li Xiang argues, "I, I didn't say I was with you ......"

"The loft with the skylight is mine, you are not allowed to live with anyone else."

"I can build it myself."

"Go to bed, I don't want to talk to you."

"Hm...I don't want to talk to you either."

The two tugged at the covers and flanked each other back to back.

The room fell silent and Shen Yu could hear his heart beating as if he had closed his eyes, and a house appeared in his mind, a small three-storey building that he had built with his own hands, a childhood dream that was still clear when it was brought up tonight after so many years.

Then I thought of Li Xiang's dream, so I imagined her as the mistress of the house, just as she wished, always keeping everything in order when he was not at home, and watching the stars in the attic at night together, and the picture was so harmonious and not at all out of place.

Uncharacteristically, the two rolled over again and fell asleep facing each other.

Shen Yu opened her eyes and watched her sleep, she was quiet and looked like a good sleeper.

Li Xiang is not a good sleeper at all and she can't sleep without her coat to hold her tonight.

After Shen Yu had watched her for a long time, thinking she was asleep, Li Xiang opened her eyes surreptitiously and called out to him in a whisper.

"Your Lordship ...... Your Lordship?"

"I can't sleep. ...... Shall we talk?"

"If your house is built, can I go and live there, I just need to live in the little loft ......"

Shen Yu: "......"

Do you want to sleep tonight?