Moonlight falls into my arms

Ruan Li opened the back door and got in, clutching the scroll in her palms: "Jiang Yuci, look at me."

"I won't look." He had already turned the car around.

Ruan Li stubbornly shouted from behind, "Just look and see what's different about me today."

"Look at me! Look!" Ruan Li shook her head and turned to show him her little rabbit.

Jiang Yuci glanced up and saw her smug expression in the rearview mirror.

The gloom of the past few days seemed to have dissipated considerably, and a hint of spring melted into her cold eyes. "Yes, I saw it."

Ruan Li leaned closer and said, "Isn't it cute? A girl gave it to me, and she even braided my hair. It's just as good as my mom's."

"Sit tight and fasten your seatbelt."

Even though there were no traffic police on this stretch of road, Jiang Yuci still made Ruan Li fasten her seatbelt securely.

Ruan Li pouted, "But I'm sitting in the back, so I can't see you at all."

She sat back down, looking at Jiang Yuci expectantly: "Why won't you let me sit in the front?"

"There was something spilled on the chair, it's a bit dirty."

Ruan Li said "Oh," and then she would forgive her for the time being.

"Well..." Ruan Li gripped the seatbelt with both hands, her voice lowered, "Do you think... it looks good if I wear this little bunny?"

She looked up at Jiang Yuci, who was driving intently in the mirror, and a small dimple slowly appeared on her cheek. When Jiang Yuci looked up and the two looked at each other through the mirror, she asked again, "Jiang Yuci, do I look good?"

Suddenly, the car slammed on the brakes, and Ruan Li's head tilted slightly, but thankfully the seatbelt protected her.

"What's wrong with you?" Jiang Yuci used to drive very steadily.

"red light."

Ruan Li looked and saw that it really was a red light.

A sudden interruption can easily make people forget the previous topic, but Ruan Li did not do so this time.

She asked Jiang Yuci again, "When we wait for the red light, do you think this little bunny looks good on me?"

"do not know."

"..."

When Ruan Li's hints failed, she could only change the subject and ask Jiang Yuci why he had been so busy these past few days.

"You didn't always come home this late..."

"I've been quite busy these past few days. It's winter break, and there are quite a few students with colds and fevers," he said.

Ruan Li was confused for a moment, "Shouldn't it be Dr. Li who's busy?"

"..." Jiang Yu turned his head to the outside, "What are you doing on Riverside Street?"

Ruan Li exclaimed, "Oh, I forgot! I wanted to show you something."

She removed the ribbon from the scroll, unfolded it, and handed it to Jiang Yuci. The smile on her face was like that of a smug child who had gotten a perfect score on a test and was asking her parents for a gift. "I drew you. Don't I make you look cute?"

On a piece of white paper the size of a window, there is a Q-version little person drawn with a blue pen. It has a round head, chubby little hands holding a scalpel, and is wearing a white coat. It stands straight, but its fleshy face has a cold expression that does not match its cuteness.

"Haha, so cute, this is for you." Ruan Li tied the scroll with a ribbon and gave it to Jiang Yuci.

Jiang Yuci took it and casually placed it in the storage box.

"Have you studied painting before?" he asked somewhat cautiously.

Ruan Li shook her head: "No, I just drew pictures because I was bored."

Surprisingly, street art is actually quite lucrative these days.

The adorable art style is especially popular with couples in the throes of new love and children; Ruan Li's hands never stopped working all day.

"So, you paint on Riverside Street? You're there all day?" Jiang Yuci asked.

Ruan Li nodded: "Yes, it's very lively there. There are many people from morning to night. I heard that there are still many people at one o'clock in the morning."

Jiang Yuci remained silent, while Ruan Li rubbed her hands together.

The backs of my hands and fingers are a little red and itchy.

When they got downstairs, Jiang Yu declined and let Ruan Li go up first.

"What are you going out to do so late?" Ruan Li asked him.

“…Um, something came up.” Jiang Yuci watched her go inside before driving off again.

As soon as Ruan Li got back, she took her hair down and casually pinned the two rabbit hair clips on the thin line hanging from the ground lamp.

She paused and looked at it. "Wow, when did I buy so much?"

Ruan Li counted the row of hair clips, reflected on it, and decided that she would not buy any more hair clips in the near future.

After taking a shower, Ruan Li stared at the clothes in the laundry basket and turned on the washing machine next to her.

There were also clothes that Jiang Yuci had dried but hadn't hung out to dry.

"What's wrong with him lately...?"

Jiang Yuci always timed her laundry meticulously and never left clothes in the washing machine overnight, but she seems to have forgotten to do so two or three times in the last few days.

"Let me help you hang it up; I'm so diligent."

Ruan Li took the clothes out, put them in a basin, and took them to the balcony to dry. Just as she went out, Jiang Yuci came into the house, looked up at Ruan Li, and said, "Come here."

Ruan Li held the clothes in her hands and said, "I'll hang these clothes up to dry first."

Jiang Yuci placed the things in her hand on the table and opened the instruction manual to read them.

Ruan Li put the basin on the ground and was about to pick up a clothes hanger to hang it up when she suddenly remembered something.

Wait, what if his underwear is inside...?

She gritted her teeth.

"hiss......"

He paused in mid-air, his eyes darting around, "It seems... not a good idea."

Hearing footsteps, Jiang Yuci looked up.

Then my gaze fell upon a little girl whose face was flushed red from head to toe, her earlobes practically dripping blood.

She clasped her hands to her chest. "Um, Jiang Yuci, why don't you go and dry it? I... I need to feed the fish bones to the cat."

Jiang Yu only realized after being reminded by her that she hadn't hung up the clothes she washed last night.

Lately, I keep forgetting a lot of these little things. These were habits that I used to never change, but now it's as if those habits have been replaced and taken over by something else.

"Then apply the medicine yourself. Take two pills of this oral medicine, and wait until the water is warm." He got up to hang up the clothes.

"Why should I take medicine?" She sniffed and realized that her voice was very nasal and her throat was a little sore.

"For preventing colds."

Jiang Yuci glanced at Ruan Li again as she said this: "You've emptied the first-aid kit at home."

Ruan Li: 囧

She walked over, listened to Jiang Yuci's instructions, and took the oral medication first.

He then picked up the ointment.

"Frostbite cream..."

Ruan Li looked at her red and itchy hands. "No wonder they were so itchy, I was getting chilblains."

It's probably because I've been outside in the cold all day.

Ruan Li used to be someone who would stay at home during winter vacation, lying in bed comfortably and sleeping in late.

Ruan Li watched as Jiang Yuci finished hanging up the clothes and came out.

She lowered her head guiltily: "Actually, I wanted to help you hang up the clothes, but I thought, what if I touched something I shouldn't have? That would be really bad."

Jiang Yuci's eyes widened in surprise.

It's as if they're trying to understand what exactly the little girl meant by "something she shouldn't have touched."

"My mom says it's best not to let other people handle my underwear, so..."

Jiang Yuci then realized what she had misunderstood. His jaw tightened and his teeth clenched: "...I hand wash all my underwear, and keep them separate from my outer clothes."

"Oh..." Ruan Li said again, "Then, then I'll help you hang them up next time?"

"Need not!"