Chapter 153: Li Xiang was super cute when she was little

" Shen Yu you've run out of flavour so quickly!"

"What do you mean you ran out of flavour so quickly, is that how you can describe the flavour?"

Shen Yu was a little embarrassed, and was uncomfortable with Li Xiang's eyes. The smell would evaporate naturally, and could be described with such a strange word as 'used up'.

Anyway, if Li Xiang says it's smoked with spices, then Shen Yu assumes it's smoked with spices, unless she denies it herself, after all, his request is too legitimate.

"Or you give me the spices and I'll sleep with them in my arms."

"You wish!"

Li Xiang took his scarf and turned her back to sneak a sniff. She couldn't smell her own scent, but Shen Yu's was already strong, or at least much more fragrant than the jumper she had brought over.

"Then, then I'll take the time to smoke it for you ...... spices are expensive ...... you have to save them ......"

"Can you stop using the word 'use'."

Shen Yu rolled her eyes, feeling that Li Xiang had returned to her mother's house for a few days and seemed to have become even more perverted, and if things continued like this, she would lead her upright self astray.

"Shen Yu will be cold without a scarf ...... "

"I'm not cold at all."

"Luckily I brought your jumper with me, it was packed in my luggage and I accidentally brought the wrong one, just wear it for now and give it back to me when you get back ......"

With that, Li Xiang bravely lifted the blanket and took out the jumper he had just hidden and handed it to Shen Yu, who felt his reason was justified, unless Shen Yu was weak!

Shen Yu holds his jumper with a stony face.

What a lie! The jumper is on the bear, you accidentally peeled it off and then accidentally packed it in your suitcase, even your Martian lord doesn't believe you!

His nose twitched and he smelled the same ghostly, faintly milky scent on his jumper as on his scarf ......

"OK! It's a bit cold now!"

Shen Yu took the jumper down with a sense of security.

Both men reaped what they wanted, for justifiable reasons.

After coming out of Li Xiang's room, Li Xiang took Shen Yu to the room where he was staying.

It is a guest room next door to Li Xiang's room, but it is very neatly tidied up and Miori usually cleans the room with her.

There are no beds, only tatami mats, which are now covered with mattresses and are quite a bit bigger than when you get up.

"Shen Yu, your suitcase is here and the wardrobe is here ...... pull it open and you can put a lot of stuff in it!"

Li Xiang pulled open the wardrobe, which was really big, and said, "If Shen Yu wants to be warmer, she can sleep in the wardrobe! I used to sleep in the wardrobe all the time!"

It is normal to sleep in a wardrobe. When I watched Doraemon as a child, the blue fat man was the one who slept in the wardrobe, after all, it was really big and spacious and felt very safe.

And I don't know what came to mind, but her big eyes bounced around a little, thoughtfully.

Shen Yu could see what was going through her mind and warned, "You go to your own room and sleep, don't sneak into my closet and sleep! Don't scare me in the middle of the night and knock you out with a hammer."

"I didn't think so!"

Li Xiang's voice was raised to a higher pitch when she was told what she was thinking, and she denied it.

"Your eyes tell me that's what you think."

"It's not like my eyes can talk. ......"

"Not anyway."

"It must be Shen Yu himself who thinks this way ......"

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

So Li Xiang didn't say anything and just looked at him with big eyes.

It's clear she's not saying anything, but Shen Yu just magically knows what she's saying from her eyes: 'I like you' 'I like you' 'I like you' ......

Shen Yu couldn't reply to her, so she turned her head away and opened her suitcase and took her time to sort it out.

"Hmm."

Li Xiang pursed her lips and ignored him. When she saw Shen Yu unpacking, she ran outside and brought in a soft quilt, pink and white, in no time.

It was her quilt, but not the one she was using now. This one was usually kept in her cupboard and was of better quality than any of the quilts given to the usual guests, it had goose down in it and covered like a cloud, it was very comfortable.

Li Xiang climbed on the mattress on the tatami mat and helped him to spread the covers, then also lay down and got under the covers himself.

"What are you doing?"

Shen Yu looked back at her, covering herself up so tightly that only a small face was showing to look at him.

"Warm up your bed. ......"

"It's not like I'm sleeping right now."

"Shen Yu sure is thinking strange things, you should have said 'I don't need to' not 'I'm not sleeping right now'!"

Probably feeling satisfied with the results of his tryst, Li Xiang rolled under the covers again before getting out from underneath them and helping him smooth out the bed again.

Just not willing to get up from his bed yet, he hugged his pillow and looked at him and asked, "So Shen Yu don't contradict me ......"

Shen Yu ignores her, and the more she is ignored, the more aggressive she becomes, especially if she gets the upper hand.

The two men just stayed in this room in peace and quiet, not talking or feeling awkward, probably feeling each other's presence and in a somewhat pleasant mood.

Li Xiang loved to watch him. With her legs crossed and his pillow in her arms, she watched Shen Yu pull her clothes out of her suitcase one by one and hang them on top of her wardrobe, and had the feeling that he had entered her world.

It's really amazing then, she grew up in this house and never thought the boy she liked would come here, making her want to hug him from behind and feel this real.

"I lived in this room as a child and only moved to another room when I started secondary school."

Li Xiang talked to him and pointed to the wardrobe and said, " Shen Yu opened that sliding door on the left and there was a drawing I had done behind the door, which was even commented on by Ma at the time."

Shen Yu then opened the wardrobe door over there to look and sure enough there was a water brush drawing of Hatsune Miku on it, and the brushwork was quite childish.

"I used to be super into Hatsune! I still had a double ponytail and my hair was long!"

"Is there a photo?"

"There's wow!"

When Shen Yu was interested, Li Xiang ran to his room and came back with several albums.

She sat cross-legged with the album on her lap, flicking through it one by one, and Shen Yu sat curiously beside her, looking at the pictures she had taken as a child.

"Photo" "Photo" "Photo" ......

It's so cute!!!

Shen Yu was Kawaii'd by her as a child, such as in this picture of her on the swing, wearing a bean-green dress, her little legs dangling in the air, her head tilted over her right shoulder in a double ponytail, her big watery eyes looking as if they were talking, and then smiling happily, a self-effacing and mischievous look.

"How old was this taken?"

"Well ...... seven years old!"

There was this one, she was doing her chores, the sun was shining in the courtyard, in front of her was a small wooden basin with dirty clothes in it, she was soaping them up, humming and snorting, little bubbles of soap were rising from them, even her little face was covered in white foam, her little arms and legs were short and she was washing them very carefully.

"Your mother took this for you?"

"Yeah, it's my first time doing laundry oh! Mum loved taking photos, she would record so many moments and then look at them now and it's extra tasty, I feel like I've grown up all of a sudden."

The album was made with great care and is made from photos taken by Miori and captures all the moments of Li Xiang's growth.

There is also a message from Miori on the title page: I wish Li Xiang a happy and prosperous life!

Shen Yu took her photo album and slowly flipped through it, page by page, gently and softly. Even though Li Xiang did not say so, he knew that these albums were very precious to Li Xiang and were a token of Miori and Asaba Kazuo's love for her.

In these photographs, Shen Yu sees all the details of Li Xiang's development, starting with her birth, lying warmly in Miori's arms, her two little fists clasped, as Miori and Asaba Kazuo look on happily.

She treads puddles in her green rain boots, she dresses her beloved dolls, she picks up a chick that has fallen from a bird's nest, her favourite balloon pudding, her fifth birthday, she cries on her first day at school, she likes to be carried on her father's back, she holds a pen between her lips and nose to be cute, she won the best prize in the school for her drawing... ...

So the Li Xiang in his eyes becomes more and more real, and Shen Yu seems to see her whole life, and finally marvels at the presence of such a lovely girl.

There was a sudden feeling of luck in my heart, and in this moment, Shen Yu believed in fate.

He looked silently at the timeline in the photo and thought back to what he was doing then. If he went back in time, he probably wouldn't have thought in any way that there was such a little girl in the world who would be there for him, many years later.

"That's nice."

Shen Yu doesn't know how to comment on it, so I'll just use the two words she always says, it's so nice.

"Shen Yu just had such gentle eyes ......"

As Shen Yu looked at the photo, Li Xiang was looking at him. It was the first time she had seen Shen Yu looking at a photo so intensely, and she was happy to think that she was the main character in the photo.

"That's because you were cute when you were little."

Shen Yu complimented her for the first time ever, and used an adjective he would never use, but he couldn't really find any other adjective other than cute.

"And now what?"

"Pigheaded."

"Slightly, slightly, slightly!"

Li Xiang spat her little tongue at him, grunted, took her album back and ran to her room to put it away, not to show it to him.

When she came back, she brought Shen Yu a New Year's card with a design she drew and handwritten with great care!

"Shen Yu, here's a New Year's card for you!"

Shen Yu was curious to receive it. The design depicted a very cute Chinese zodiac animal, a red lantern and red plum blossoms, symbolizing the auspiciousness of the New Year, and the greeting was simple: "Happy New Year - Shen Yu!

"Did you do it yourself?"

"Yes, yes! I've made dozens of them and my dad asked me to help with the artwork, Shen Yu, can you come with me later to deliver the New Year's cards? I have some friends and relatives who need to deliver New Year's cards to their homes. ......"

"Do you know your way around ......"

"I have the address in my memo, Shen Yu knows it."

Shen Yu is speechless, I feel that I have to show you the way when I come to your house!

"Let's get going, it's going to be late ......"

"Wait ......"

He put away the New Year's card Li Xiang had given him and took a cherry-pink knitted hat with a little fluffy ball on top out of his suitcase.

From the moment he pulled out his knitted hat, Li Xiang's eyes started to light up and before Shen Yu could say anything, she pointed to the gift in his hand and asked, "Is this for me?"

"Well, I just picked it at random ......"

"Shen Yu you are so nice!!!"