Oh, dear! Fish me again

Around two o'clock in the afternoon is the time when the cicadas hanging around in the family compound are the most arrogant.

Tang Shu stayed in the quiet villa area for two days. When she came back here, she was immediately annoyed by the noise as usual, but she felt very at ease.

She was half wet and immediately went into Zhang Li's bathroom to take a shower.

The toilet and bathroom are connected and there is not enough space to separate them.

Black floor tiles, black wall tiles, black shower faucet, but all the towels and supplies are bright white.

Tang Shu stood in this small space composed of black and white, surrounded by gray mist.

The surroundings were filled with the strong scent of Zhang Li, and in a trance, it seemed as if I had entered his most real world.

*

Knock, knock! There was a knock on the bathroom door. She turned off the shower and walked to the door.

Frosted glass cannot completely block the view. If you look closely, you can still see faint outlines.

Tang Shu's fingers were heated up by the hot water, and when she gently placed them on the glass, a circle of water vapor immediately appeared.

From the outside, it seems a bit ambiguous.

Zhang Li lowered his eyes and coughed.

"Your...clothes, here they are."

Tang Shu had not yet moved out of the house upstairs, so although there was nothing left in it, there were still some clean underwear for changing.

Zhang Li was assigned to go up and help her get this.

Tang Shu opened the door a crack.

The moment the water vapor escaped, a pleasant fragrance also happily emerged.

Of course Zhang Li knew that it was Tang Shu's scent, and he reached out and closed the door almost immediately.

"I'll put it on the stool at the door. When I get out...you can open the door and get it..."

Tang Shu's soft voice came from inside, "Oh..."

Zhang Li could imagine that her current expression must be that she must be pouting a little and showing some dissatisfaction, as if she was annoyed by him.

*

Tang Shu sat on Zhang Li's bed, with her long hair half wet, and showed her wrist to Zhang Li.

"Hey... Ming Ruoxi's people were really heavy-handed... There are even marks."

Zhang Li lowered his eyes and took a look. In fact, he only saw the skin that was as white as usual.

He didn't expose her, but asked with a smile,

"So? What do you want?"

Tang Shu blinked her eyes and said, "Brother, blow dry my hair."

"...good."

Zhang Li looked helpless. He went to the bathroom to get a hair dryer, sat on the edge of the bed behind her, and helped her blow dry in a clumsy manner.

Tang Shu was wearing his long-sleeved T-shirt and sweatpants. The loose style and excess fabric did not make her look bulky when stacked on her body.

On the contrary, because there are too many gaps, it outlines a more obvious and delicate curve.

Because the wind direction cannot be controlled well, the warm air from the hair dryer always blows the collar off my shoulders.

The man with the already shaky collar grinned at Zhang Li and showed him the clothes he had just taken down from upstairs.

Zhang Li could only turn his face away and control the hair dryer by feeling.

But Tang Shu immediately hissed and turned back to complain.

"Blow it well!"

The voice had a southern accent, soft and sticky, not fierce at all.

The boy was sweating all over, and the work was thankless.

He pursed his lips tightly, and even the lines of his neck below his ears were tense.

"understood."

He answered in a low voice, but his voice was a little hoarse.

*

After finally finishing blow-drying his hair, Zhang Li awkwardly tried to find a topic to break his daydreaming.

"Your hair... seems to have become less green?"

There has always been a strand of bright green hair behind Tang Shu's left ear. Not sure if it was an illusion. Zhang Li was sitting behind her and took a closer look. He always felt that there was less hair than when they first met.

Is it faded? He doesn't understand.

Tang Shu moved to the middle of the bed, turned to face him, and played with the strand of hair with her fingers.

"Well, it has become less."

She propped her hands on the snow-white bed sheet, leaned close to Zhang Li's face, and looked directly into his dark eyes.

"So before the green hair disappears, brother must fall in love with me..."

"Huh?" Zhang Li was a little confused.

Tang Shu sat back down, lowered her eyes, and continued casually,

"Otherwise...Brother will never see me again~"

"is it?"

Zhang Li concentrated his mind, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Okay, I'll try my best"

"Thank you, brother~"

Tang Shu looked at him and smiled.

*

The fleeting moment of seriousness was fleeting, and she suddenly blinked at him.

"Zhang Li, the pattern is wrong."

"what?"

The young man looked at her blankly, with some sweat still on his temples from blowing his hair.

Tang Shu pulled at the large men's T-shirt on her body, revealing only a little bit of the shoulder straps, and then immediately put them back in place.

She said softly, "The pattern of the clothes and pants should be the same... Girls' clothes are all worn as a set..."

Zhang Li's face suddenly turned red.

"Sorry...I don't know..."

"Zhang Li, you have to study hard in the future~"

The girl said this to him coquettishly.

This sentence was so meaningful that Zhang Li suddenly stood up from the bed, picked up the hair dryer and the bath towel thrown by Tang Shu, and took them back to the bathroom.

Avoid this topic by being deliberately busy.

But Tang Shu was not what he wanted.

She just sat there lazily, looking at him with a half-smile, not giving up until she got his response.

Finally, Zhang Li's ears turned blood red.

Zhang Li exhaled and covered his eyes helplessly.

"Got it. I...will learn."

*

Zhang Li's cell phone suddenly rang, and the caller ID showed an unfamiliar number.

He glanced at Tang Shu and pressed the hands-free button:

"Hello, please let Susu answer the phone."

A magnetic and mature voice came out, it was Tang Yuechi.

No one knew where Ming Ruoxi had thrown Tang Shu's cell phone. With such a big thing happening, of course Tang Yuechi got the news quickly.

As expected of him, he found Zhang Li so quickly.

Tang Shu came over and responded sweetly,

"Brother~"

The person on the other side breathed a sigh of relief and said with concern, "Susu, stay there, I'll be there soon."

"Brother, wait a minute," Tang Shu picked up the phone, "Buy some food, something that will fill you up."

"Susu, didn't you eat? I asked Auntie..."

"No, brother, it's Zhang Li. Zhang Li didn't have lunch."

Tang Yuechi on the other end was silent for a long time, replied "OK", and hung up the phone.

Zhang Li took the phone and looked at Tang Shu with an obscure look in his eyes.

Even after such an accident happened, she was still worried that he hadn't eaten and was afraid that he would be hungry.

Zhang Li did not say anything sentimental. He just squatted beside the bed like he did last time, took the sandals decorated with tiny diamonds next to her, and helped her put them on in a clumsy manner.

*

The important decision that I had been hesitating about in my heart was finally made at this moment.

"Tang Shu,"

He squatted at her feet and looked up at her.

"After returning from Haitang Island, I plan to drop out of school."

"You once said that academic performance cannot determine whether a person is excellent or not, so if I...will you look down on me?"

Zhang Li's trajectory changed completely.

Tang Shu shook her head and answered seriously,

"Zhang Li, getting into a good university only proves your academic success, it doesn't prove anything else."

"If there is something you want to do more, we don't have parents to control us anyway, so just go and do it."

"You have endless possibilities. No matter which direction you go, I support you."

Zhang Li lowered his head, grinned, and laughed out loud.

He raised his hand slightly and quickly wiped the corner of his eye upwards.

"Tang Shu, I'm glad I met you."

Fortunately...he hasn't chosen the wrong direction yet...

*

Tang Yuechi came quickly, dressed in a formal black suit, and stood out of place in the corridor on the third floor.

With a gloomy face, he hung the package in his hand on the door handle.

Although he was extremely reluctant, he still bought lunch for Zhang Li.

His eyes looked sharply into the old, dim house through the silver-rimmed glasses on his nose, and his scrutiny stayed on Zhang Li.

Zhang Li stood behind Tang Shu and looked back at him silently.

"Brother~"

Tang Shu quickly threw herself into Tang Yuechi's arms and immediately started crying and acting like a spoiled brat.

"Brother, Ming Ruoxi bullied me...she wanted to burn me to death..."

"Don't worry, I'll take care of it for you."

Tang Yuechi hugged her lovingly and turned away with her.

Tang Shu turned around and blinked at Zhang Li.

Mouth-shaped goodbye to him.

"See you at Haitang Island tomorrow~"

Zhang Li smiled and nodded, but did not send it out.