Chapter 166: Not a bad little life

Li Xiang is a virtuous girl.

Seeing that Shen Yu liked eel rice, she made a mental note of it, thinking that she could learn to make it for him when he wanted to eat it one day when she returned to Sunan.

After a satisfying lunch today, Shen Yu left the restaurant looking refreshed.

After a night of rest and adjustment, he has gradually come to terms with the fact that he has a trainee girlfriend.

He was less resistant to things like Li Xiang's tendency to tuck her little hand in his coat pocket, and even quietly loosened his clenched fist a little so that she could slip a finger in.

After noticing the strange sensation in her palm, Shen Yu glanced at her breathlessly as she walked with her head down, looking preoccupied.

In fact, in a pocket invisible to passers-by, the girl got an inch and tried to dig a second finger into his palm as well.

Shen Yu, of course, wouldn't let her get away with it, so he tightened his fist firmly, leaving her with no way to get in, and likewise, her finger, which was already in, couldn't be withdrawn.

"Hmmm ......"

Li Xiang tried many times without success and, annoyed, lifted his little head and grunted at Shen Yu, spitting out his little tongue slightly.

"Childish."

Shen Yu ignores her as the two walk slowly down the street.

There was no destination either, so we just walked anyway, the sun was just right, it was warm on our bodies and it was still something special in this foreign country.

Shen Yu rarely travels, not because he doesn't like to travel, but because he feels he doesn't have the time. He actually likes the feeling of being on the road, seeing a lot of different landscapes and people who live in a variety of ways and have different values, making the world look colourful and interesting.

His mind never stops thinking, it's just that the things he thinks about now are so different compared to what he used to do.

Shen Yu began to feel, as Li Xiang did, that fate was clever, for after all, the two lived 2,000 kilometres apart, and that if not for these subtle coincidences, he might never have met her in his life.

"Shen Yu, let's go shopping for lucky bags! It's super affordable!"

When he came to a large shopping mall, Li Xiang's eyes lit up and he grabbed Shen Yu and ran that way.

"It's all down to luck, how can you buy that much good stuff ......"

"Go on, go on!"

Shen Yu just had to go along with her.

The most lively place for New Year's Eve in Japan, apart from the major temples, is these supermarkets that give out lucky bags, which are actually a lot of goods put into a bag and sold to customers at an affordable price, and there are many different kinds, including clothing, beauty, electrical appliances, daily necessities, food and so on.

It's like smashing golden eggs, you basically can't lose and you might even get a surprise goodie bag.

Li Xiang dragged Shen Yu around the mall and when he came out, Shen Yu was carrying a red gift bag full of festive goodies.

"Won't you open it up and have a look?"

"Wait until you get home before you unwrap it! I'm going to have a good prayer with Lord Mars!"

"Aren't you afraid you'll buy a lot of things you won't use?"

"It won't happen, I'm super lucky."

When she said that, Shen Yu shut up.

Li Xiang spent more than 60,000 yen on this trip, and all the purchases were made from brands with surprise lucky bags, so if you win one, you can make a fortune on the value of the contents.

It was already a little after 4pm, so the two of them took the underground back together.

Li Xiang was surprised when he saw Shen Yu take his transport card out of his pocket.

"Shen Yu You bought the transport card!"

"Just a random purchase."

"Then you can come and keep me company every New Year's Eve from now on! And the fireworks display, it's super lively! We'll go and watch it together!"

"You'd think you'd have to travel every year."

"But I'll be bored if Shen Yu doesn't come and keep me company ......"

"Then why don't you just stay at Sunan ......"

Shen Yu thought of something and asked her, "When are your finals?"

"January 18th!"

"That's the same as mine."

After the final exams, it's winter break, and Shen Yu is planning to take advantage of it to officially open her company.

"So you're not going back to Yokohama for winter break, are you ......?"

Shen Yu pretended not to care and said, "Airfare is expensive too, you've only been back for half a month and running back again, it's a lot of work ......"

Li Xiang blinked his eyes at him and Shen Yu looked away from her.

"Well, I haven't thought about it yet, after all, winter break is a long holiday, my mum and dad definitely want me to come home to stay, but my aunt and uncle have invited me home for New Year's Eve, so I don't know what to do, Shen Yu, what do you think?"

"Then let's not go back."

Shen Yu said, "When the company opens, you'll be employee number one, and if you go back, your number one is going to be taken."

"Then I'm not going back! I want to be employee number one!"

Shen Yu is at ease.

When they got home, both of them sat on the sofa a little tired, not wanting to move at all after such a long walk.

Li Xiang had to lean on Shen Yu's body instead of the sofa, and when Shen Yu moved a little to the side, she moved a little with him until Shen Yu had no more room to move, then she finally rested her head comfortably on his shoulder.

"Shen Yu can you press my leg, it's sore ......"

"Why don't you press it for me?"

"Yes!"

Li Xiang then sits up and gently pounds Shen Yu's legs with his little fists and then gives him a gentle squeeze, which is quite comfortable.

"How's that, comfortable?"

"Mmmm ...... a little bit up ...... that's it there ...... use a little bit of pressure ...... Whew ......"

Seeing Shen Yu's comfortable expression, Li Xiang also felt satisfied, so he pressed his legs even harder.

Her eyes accidentally turned to where she shouldn't have been looking, where the height didn't seem quite normal, she froze and suddenly her face turned swish red and her small hand slapped Shen Yu's thigh in shame, " Shen Yu is the pervertedest!!!"

Li Xiang is not going to press his leg anymore, why do boys always think of those weird things!

Shen Yu came back to his senses, a little embarrassed, and pulled a pillow aside to cover him, without saying anything.

Li Xiang, already well rested, gleefully took the pile of lucky bags next to her and started opening them.

Shen Yu wanted to help with the dismantling, but remembered his bad luck constitution and decided not to add to the family's mess.

She first unwrapped the beauty lucky bag, which is a well-known brand in Japan, and this one is priced in yen.

Li Xiang's eyes light up as the cosmetics inside are taken out.

She takes out her mobile phone to check the price information of the cosmetics in her hand one by one, and then adds them one by one with a calculator.

"You need a calculator to do addition, you're dumber than Puffs."

"Shen Yu! We seem to have made a fortune! This is a surprise bag! Do the math for me!!!"

"How much is this?"

"This is White Knight Beauty Lotion, six thousand yen, and this ...... five thousand three hundred yen ...... this this ...... "

"Thirty-eight thousand six hundred and two in total, how much did you make?"

"We bought it for ten thousand and eight hundred!!!"

Shen Yu was also excited to hear her say this, and it was really Li Xiang who was the best at getting a surprise lucky bag.

She then went on to open the daily necessities bag, which was a little more ordinary, with items worth little more than the bag price, but containing just the right amount of daily necessities that the family could use.

The foodie goody bags were similar, not making much money but they were all a variety of small snacks that she liked to eat.

"You still have snacks you don't like?"

"Yes, I don't like dried meat because it makes me fat if I eat too much."

Li Xiang's eyes lit up again when he finally opened the lucky bag of electrical appliances.

"This razor alone is worth over 7,000 yen!!! And I'm thinking of buying a razor!!!"

"What do you need a razor for ...... to shave your armpits?"

Shen Yu looked at Li Xiang's arms with an odd expression on his face, her body hair was minimal, almost invisible, and when she wore a t-shirt in the summer, she didn't see any armpit hair.

"I don't have armpit hair ...... Shen Yu Isn't it a shame to say that?"

"I can't believe they don't have armpit hair? And does leg hair grow?"

"Neither!!!"

Li Xiang blushed and handed him the razor, "When I came back, I said I'd give you a razor, now it's just right, Shen Yu try it out!"

The disposable razor we used at the hotel this morning was not working well, so Shen Yu tried this out and it was silky smooth and clean afterwards.

Also of high value is a hairdryer, worth about 5,000 yen, and a scattering of high-quality small electrical appliances, some larger ones such as fans, which can be redeemed by placing an order online with the voucher.

"How much did we make on this electrical goodie bag?"

"Hee hee, bought for 20,000 yen and the contents are worth over 40,000!"

"Next time let's go buy a lottery ticket."

Shen Yu thought for five seconds and suggested without hesitation.

"I can't ...... I've never won a lottery ticket ......"

Li Xiang pouted and was counting on her fingers again when Shen Yu said, "No need to count, we spent 60,000 and probably unwrapped about 105,000 in gifts."

Just hearing that number makes Li Xiang happy!

Winning a hundred dollars in the lottery is a completely different feeling from working for a hundred dollars.

Li Xiang carefully divided up the unpacked items, as many of them were at home, so most of them could be taken back to Sunan, and it was a good thing that Shen Yu's suitcase was big and his things were small.

When Asaba Kazuo and Miori were not at home, Li Xiang cooked for Shen Yu.

She prepares the food in her mother's apron in the kitchen, while Shen Yu sits on the sofa watching TV like Asaba Kazuo.

After they ate together, Li Xiang sat down on the sofa and watched TV next to Shen Yu.

There's really nothing to see on TV, after all, watching TV together is reason enough to stay together, otherwise they'd all go to their respective rooms and not be next to each other as they are now.

"Are your parents usually like this?" Shen Yu wondered.

"Mmmmmm, but Daddy is usually busy with work and comes home late, and most of the time I'm the one watching TV with Mummy, and when he comes back, I'm driven to my room."

Li Xiang said, "Heck, I've even seen them kissing on the couch."

Shen Yu looked down at her and could see her little face slightly flushed as she leaned against his shoulder, and Shen Yu could clearly see the hair scattered around her ear.

It was probably because Li Xiang had just said something about Asaba Kazuo and Miori kissing on the sofa, so both of them on the sofa became a bit uncomfortable.

"I, I'm going to take a shower!"

Li Xiang gets up and runs away in a huff.

Shen Yu continues to watch TV.

Forty minutes later, she came out of the wash.

After her bath, her face was flushed, she must have just washed her hair, and it was a little damp. She cocked her little head, rubbed it gently with a towel, and then walked towards Shen Yu with the hairdryer she had just gotten from opening the lucky bag.

"Shen Yu, help me blow-dry my hair ......"

"You don't know how to blow it yourself."

"Just help me, just once. ......"

Shen Yu then took over the hairdryer to blow-dry her hair.

Li Xiang sits in a chair with an oversized dressing mirror in front of her, Shen Yu standing behind her, a hairdryer in one hand and her hair cupped in the other.

Her hair is soft and smooth, with a natural light brown colour and smells of freshly shampooed hair.

Shen Yu is clumsy, he usually blows out his own hair in a messy way, so he looked a bit overwhelmed when he blew out Li Xiang's hair for the first time.

Li Xiang was also a little shy, her legs together, her hands under her belly, her eyes wide and nervous as she looked at Shen Yu in the mirror.

I can't feel my hair, but when I see him holding it, I feel tingly inside.

"I'm not very good at blowing, you can blow yourself if you're not good at it ......"

"It's okay, a few more times and Shen Yu will get it! Other boyfriends blow-dry their girlfriends' hair!"

"We're interns, it's against the rules!"

"Just once. ......"

Shen Yu turned on the hairdryer, the fan clattering, and blew on his palm first to adjust the temperature, then gently ruffled Li Xiang's hair with one hand while holding the hairdryer in the right place and blowing slowly from top to bottom with the other.

A girl's hair doesn't dry easily and when she blows it out herself, she always gets tired of blow-drying her hands.

Shen Yu doesn't know much about it either, but anyway, he eases his movements and just blows very, very softly and gently.

Every now and then he raises his eyes to peek at Li Xiang in front of the mirror, and then he finds Li Xiang looking at him in the mirror too, and they lock eyes for a moment and then immediately dodge away.

Although it was just a small matter of blow-drying their hair, it made Li Xiang and Shen Yu feel included in each other's lives, and there was a quiet and warm atmosphere that was very comfortable.

As the moisture is slowly blown out, the hair flutters gently in the wind, soft and silky like waves.

As she blew her head into position, Shen Yu customarily gave her a gentle pressure and squeeze.

Li Xiang closed her eyes comfortably and was as good as a kitten.

"Shen Yu still says she can't blow-dry her hair when she's so good at it ......"

"I usually blow on Bai Xiaomeng like this after I've given him a bath."