Moonlight falls into my arms

Chapter 49 Don't come home too late at night

Jiang Yuci looked down at the red marks on the little girl's hands and couldn't help but frown slightly: "What do you want to buy?"

Ruan Li went out to earn money simply because he encountered something he wanted to buy. He glanced sideways at the two dolls on the sofa.

Ruan Li bought it because she couldn't fit it in her own room.

Every time she bought one, she would say she wouldn't buy another one, but before Jiang Yuci was paying attention, she would bring another doll back.

"I..." Ruan Li stammered, "I'm not buying anything. I just want to make money. After all, I can't keep... clinging to you forever."

Jiang Yuci paused slightly, his eyes shifting.

Ruan Li looked up, her grip on the ointment in her hand tightening slightly: "You'll definitely get married and have children someday, so it's not really appropriate for me to stay at your house all this time..."

Ruan Li wanted to continue speaking, but Jiang Yuci interrupted her.

He was very certain, his tone firm: "I won't."

Ruan Li was stunned for a moment, then slowly lowered her head.

It's as if I can already see myself being rejected by Jiang Yuci.

“So, you don’t need to worry about those things.” He said, walking closer to Ruan Li and wiping away the excess ointment from her hand with a tissue.

Ruan Li didn't hear his words; her mind was filled with his previous statement about the future.

Jiang Yuci wanted to hear her answer, but the girl, who had her head down and whose expression was obscured, remained silent for a long time.

After a while, she slowly raised her head and looked at the shoe cabinet in the entryway, where a pair of women's slippers were placed.

It was the same pair that Ruan Li saw when she first came here.

"So, you're going to remain a widow for her for the rest of your life...?" Ruan Li lowered her eyes, her bright eyes drooping to hide the sadness in them.

"What widowhood..." Jiang Yuci put away the medicine on the table. "Remember to apply this every day, and don't come home too late at night; it's not safe after dark..."

He hesitated for a moment before turning around, his back to Ruan Li: "If there's anything you really want to buy, tell me."

Ruan Li muttered, "I'm not anyone to you. I'll pay you back for the phone once I've earned enough money."

Jiang Yuci curled her fingers slightly, then quickly relaxed them. "Whatever."

He walked step by step toward his bedroom.

A voice suddenly came from behind.

Jiang Yu resigns!

Ruan Li suddenly stood up, as if she were going all out: "Didn't you suspect last time that I liked the big shot? I said no, so aren't you curious about who I like?"

The person in front didn't move much, but their shoulders and neck tensed slightly.

Ruan Li spoke up: "Have you really never thought about who I actually like?"

Suddenly, the room went dark.

With a beep, the heating stopped.

There wasn't even a glimmer of light.

Ruan Liren was still in a daze.

But then they heard Jiang Yuci suddenly gasp for breath.

It started slowly, then gradually became urgent.

She rushed over and asked, "What's wrong?"

Jiang Yuci shook his head, his fingertips sinking deeply into his palm.

He calmed his breathing, and his brows gradually relaxed from being furrowed.

But his reaction just now still puzzled him.

He hadn't done that for many years.

"Was there a sudden power outage?" Ruan Li looked up at the dark ceiling. "How can we sleep in this cold weather without heating?"

Jiang Yuci lowered his eyes. Was it because of the sudden power outage that he had an attack?

Ruan Li gripped Jiang Yuci's arm tightly, "It's so dark."

“Meow…”

Fishbone, feeling its way in the dark, circled around to Ruan Li's feet, its cat paws scratching at Ruan Li's trouser leg.

"Let me hug you." Ruan Li squatted down and hugged Yu Ci to her chest, patting his head. "Don't be afraid, baby."

Jiang Yuci looked down at the cat again, "What do you call it?"

I don't quite understand.

Ruan Li usually likes to whisper sweet nothings to Yu Ci in her little room, calling him "baby." Today, she suddenly called him "baby" in front of Jiang Yu Ci, and only then did she realize what was happening.

“So what if I call him baby? This is my little baby.” Ruan Li hugged the fishbone and stroked it. “The fishbone is my baby.”

Ruan Li and Jiang Yuci were standing close together, and Ruan Li could clearly feel that the breathing of the people next to her had stopped and their bodies were frozen in place.

She looked up: "What's wrong?"

“…No, call me whatever you want.” He touched his arm.

"Go put on your coat." Jiang Yuci turned Ruan Li around and pushed her into the room.

"what?"

“You’re already in poor health, and you have a cold. If you sleep without heating tonight, you’ll get a fever tomorrow.”

Jiang Yu explained methodically, "The property management reminded us about the power outage today, but I forgot to tell you. The hotels outside didn't have a power outage."

"Are you going to take me to a hotel?" Ruan Li asked.

Jiang Yuci felt that her words were a bit ambiguous: "A room with two rooms."

Ruan Li hadn't thought there was anything wrong with what she said, but after Jiang Yuci explained it, her face turned red, and she said weakly, "I know."

"Can I carry the fishbone with me? It's also afraid of the cold."

"...Don't call it a fishbone."

"You already agreed to call it Fishbone, so why are you suddenly saying you don't want me to call it that anymore?" Ruan Li carried Fishbone back to her room, muttering to herself, "You're acting really strange tonight."

Jiang Yuci stood blankly at the door of Ruan Li's room, lost in thought.

Was he acting strangely tonight?

......

When Jiang Yuci took the cat and a person to check into a hotel room, the receptionist stared at her a few times.

"Um, here are your room cards." Jiang Yuci took the room cards.

Ruan Li, holding the cat, looked up at him and asked, "Are we standing next to each other?"

The receptionist turned to look at the two people who were about to enter the elevator.

"What's next to each other?"

"Oh, I mean my room is next to yours?"

"The suite has more than one room; it includes a master bedroom and a guest bedroom."

Ruan Li nodded, entered the elevator, and waited for the elevator doors to close before saying, "Did you notice the way the receptionist looked at us just now?"

“She misunderstood.” Jiang Yuci replied, looking down at her.

Ruan Li stroked the cat's head. "Don't you hate this kind of misunderstanding?"

"You hate me?" Jiang Yuci asked back.

Ruan Li panicked for a moment, "It's not... really, I don't care."

"It doesn't matter to me either."

Ruan Li kicked her foot to the side, bumping into Jiang Yuci's shoe.

Jiang Yuci raised an eyebrow and glanced at her.

Ruan Li cowered and shrank back, "It was an accident."

"Oh--"

Ruan Li looked up and glared at him: "It's this again!"

The last time I teased her, I took her to the cemetery and made fun of her!

"Do you want the guest room or the master bedroom?" Jiang Yuci asked, opening the door with her room key.