Moonlight falls into my arms

Ruan Li played a few rounds on the sofa before the big boss messaged her, saying he had something to take care of and couldn't play anymore.

Ruan Li, with her feet tucked in, texted him asking where she could buy the cheapest shoes; she was in a hurry.

The big shot sent her a link.

Ruan Li, holding her phone, knocked on the door of Jiang Yuci's study.

"Enter."

Jiang Yuci took off her glasses, ready to see what play she had rehearsed this time.

Ruan Li held his phone in both hands, smiling softly, and said sweetly, "Jiang Yuci, help me out."

The motives are impure.

Jiang Yu nodded to her and pushed the book in her hand aside. Ruan Li put her phone on the table.

On the phone screen was a purchase link for a blind box of shoes from a certain brand. Jiang Yuci glanced at the price: "Nineteen yuan and ninety cents?"

Ruan Li pouted, "I'll buy the better one when I have the money. You can buy this for me first, and the money will be deducted from my account. The boss said it can be delivered to my door this afternoon, which is very convenient."

"Big Boss?" Jiang Yuci looked up, his lips moving erratically.

"The one who's really good at video games, the one who added you on WeChat."

“Jiang Yuci?” Ruan Li rested her elbows on the desk, her palms supporting her chin, as she looked at him.

"Are you trying to buy something disposable for 19.9 yuan? Or do you want to hop back barefoot like you did today?"

"I'll buy it. I just want to see. I've never bought one before, just in case it's good."

"..."

Since it was her own money after all, Jiang Yuci didn't say anything more and placed the order for Ruan Li.

While placing the order, Ruan Li's gaze fell on the bookshelf behind Jiang Yuci. "Wow, you have so many books."

Ruan Li scanned the pages one by one, "Just by looking at the title, you can tell it's a book suitable for reading before bed."

Do you have a habit of reading before bed?

"Oh, no, I meant that reading these books helps me fall asleep faster."

"..."

Jiang Yuci returned the phone. "I've placed the order."

He was momentarily confused; this phone seemed to be his.

I always felt like I had already tacitly accepted Ruan Li as my own.

Ruan Li picked up her phone and glanced at it: "Expected delivery at five o'clock."

Jiang Yuci picked up her glasses from the table and put them on, her voice neither slow nor hesitant: "Can we go out now?"

"Before you leave, I have something to ask you." Ruan Li suddenly became very serious. She placed her fingertips on the edge of the table and tapped them slowly as if playing piano keys. "I... did you see the pistachio keychain that was hanging by the door the other day? I've never seen it here before."

She suspected that Jiang Yuci had lost something!

Jiang Yuci ignored her words, his attention entirely focused on her slowly moving fingertips.

"If you don't like it or don't want it, give it back to me. I paid for it..." Ruan Li was still saying.

Suddenly, a force grabbed her wrist.

Jiang Yuci stood up, his jaw clenched, his gaze fixed intently on Ruan Li.

"What's wrong with you?" Ruan Li's eyelashes trembled, startled by his sudden action.

Jiang Yuci still held her wrist, his Adam's apple bobbing, his lips pressed down, exuding an imposing aura.

"Didn't you promise to give me a special privilege? Does that still count?"

Ruan Li nodded blankly. The force of the hand was so strong that she didn't care about the pain for a moment. She was only frightened by Jiang Yuci's sudden and intense emotions.

"Don't put on an act in front of me."

Especially imitating her various habits.

Ruan Li didn't flinch, raising her chin to look directly at him, her eyes filled with confusion and innocence, her lips slightly parted: "Acting?"

"Don't act stupid."

After thinking it over, Ruan Li realized that the only acting she could think of was her 'masterpiece' at the school gate today.

She was momentarily taken aback. "You came to school with me today?"

Ruan Li didn't receive a reply from Jiang Yuci when the doorbell rang.

It must be the people installing the TV.

"Why are you following me?" Ruan Li shook off his hand.

Belatedly realizing, "You didn't do this on purpose to embarrass me, did you?"

The person in front of her seemed to see right through her, and gave a slight smirk, "I'm not that free."

Jiang Yuci released her hand.

Click till.

As Ruan Li watched him leave the study to open the door, she looked down at her reddened hands and muttered under her breath, "So strong, yet so cowardly. What's with the attitude? You don't even have the courage to pursue your first love."

Ruan Li flicked her hand, "Serves you right!"

Ruan Li was still a little annoyed when she went out, but her anger dissipated when she saw the large LCD TV in the living room.

"Wow, watching TV with this is so awesome!" Ruan Li moved over in small steps. "I want to watch all the TV shows I watched on my phone before again."

Jiang Yuci stared at her in a daze.

Ruan Li grinned at him, "Am I not a good girl? I don't even need anyone to coax me when we argue."

Jiang Yuci grabbed her face and stared at her slightly sharp canine teeth.

Ruan Li kicked him: "You're really acting strangely today, grabbing my hand one minute and my face the next. If I weren't so good-natured, you would have been beaten up already."

Jiang Yuci was silent for a moment, then released her, rubbing his drooping fingertips together, the soft touch still lingering on his fingertips.

He pressed his brow helplessly, at a loss for what to do with the person in front of him.

"Um, Mr. Jiang, what do you think of this location?" The installer looked at the two men with an awkward expression.

"Well, yes."

Jiang Yuci stood in the living room watching the installation, while Ruan Li stood beside him, glancing at him every now and then.

Jiang Yuci couldn't help but glance at her again and again, and gave her a cold look.

Ruan Li shrank her neck. "I wanted to ask if you have a mental illness? Why don't you go get checked?"

Under Jiang Yuci's cold gaze, Ruan Li uttered the last sentence almost haltingly.

Jiang Yuci ignored her.

After the TV was installed, at five o'clock, Ruan Li's blind box was delivered to her door.

She darted to the door in front of Jiang Yuci, opened it, and hugged her blind box, saying, "Thank you, Uncle! You've worked hard."

He opened the door, took the items, thanked her, and closed the door in one smooth motion.

Ruan Li sat down in front of Jiang Yuci with the shoebox in her arms, looking up at him with a bright smile: "Guess what color it is. I'll bet you a dollar, I guess it's red."

"No gambling."

“…Oh.” Ruan Li puffed out her cheeks and opened the shoebox, holding her breath.

Then, she saw a pair of bright fluorescent green rubber boots in the blind box she had been longing for. The cold, eerie light reflected in Ruan Li's eyes and stung her heart.

ugly!

Ruan Li pouted, stretched out her bent leg, and kicked the box and the ugly shoes far away.

A soft laugh came from above.

The kind of laughter that you can't help but laugh.

Ruan Li moved her lips, looked up at him, and said, "You're still laughing at me... my twenty yuan... I've had enough bad luck today, and you're still laughing..."

Jiang Yuci looked down at the little girl who had plopped down on the floor, pouting and making a fuss. Her wet eyes were glistening with tears, her eyelids were drooping, and her eyelashes were wet. She looked as pitiful as could be.

Jiang Yuci clenched her fist and pressed it to her lips, then smiled again almost imperceptibly.

"I'm going out." He took Ruan Li's phone from the coffee table and added before leaving, "If you don't want to cook noodles, come downstairs to eat, I'll reimburse you."

When Ruan Li looked up, Jiang Yuci had already gone out and closed the door.

She muttered weakly, "At least they know how to comfort this unlucky person; they still have a conscience."