No one understands rebirth better than me

Chapter 112 Luo Xiaobei's Addiction

Smartphones are really fun.

Especially when it was just beginning to develop.

A small app can take people a long time to figure out.

Even Gu Youli, who loves learning, sometimes does this.

……

With you... I am truly happy.

【Good night】

I am truly happy... Goodnight.

That night, little Pear Blossom, hiding under the covers, had a great time playing with a ringtone editing software.

……

Besides the "Goodnight" recording of someone from last time, there's also the "I'm so happy to have you" recording this time. Gu Youli clumsily adjusted these two audio clips back and forth several times using the app.

Finally, as Gu Youli lay on her side in bed with headphones on, listening to someone's voice, she felt her body getting softer and softer, and sleepiness came faster than usual.

A familiar feeling of falling jolted her awake.

"!"

Gu Youli rubbed her exceptionally soft ears; wearing headphones while sleeping was quite uncomfortable. She then picked up her phone to check the time and was surprised to find that she had been listening for half an hour.

Gu Youli belatedly realized what was happening and felt a little embarrassed.

After all, recording your ex's voice is already quite clandestine.

She also inexplicably edited the videos and listened to them as if they were lullabies.

This behavior feels really strange; it's not something she should be capable of doing.

All I can say is, a bad deskmate is a bad deskmate. Even though we've separated, they're still leading me astray...

In short, Gu Youli, having "come to her senses," decided to delete these audio recordings before going to sleep.

But after hesitating for a while, I became a little worried.

Because she made the decision only after she had heard enough.

It was largely influenced by my current mental state.

But if...

Just if.

What if one day I want to listen to this again, but I delete it?

We can't make them record it again, can we?

Recording "Goodnight" is easy enough.

How about recording "I'm so happy to have you"?

Should I just make him repeat it to me again?
Gu Youli might as well find a crack in the ground and crawl into a hole if she had to do something so shameful that men and women shouldn't touch each other.

What's more, such an action might cause Guan Ren to misunderstand something, making him even more inclined to pursue his early romance. That would be great... Ugh! That would be terrible.

Therefore, in order to avoid "hearing like a Buddha, but searching like a demon".

In the end, Gu Youli decided to keep these audio recordings for the time being.

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Not all the hot pot ingredients that Guan Ren bought could be prepared in advance.

Some things need to be cut or prepared just before eating to ensure they are fresh.

Since Guan Ren plans to cook the hot pot ingredients at home this time, he will definitely be quite busy on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Otherwise, it would be best to buy these ingredients on the day of consumption.

"Guan Ren, are there any mooncakes left?"

"I think there are still some."

Actually, Guan Ren's family didn't buy many mooncakes. They were the classic Guan Sheng Yuan brand mooncakes wrapped in oil paper. They only bought six in total, and Guan Qiaoyun had bought them beforehand.

As a result, the Mid-Autumn Festival hasn't officially arrived yet, but the mother and son have been eating it at home, both as a late-night snack and for breakfast, bit by bit, until they seem to have almost finished it all.

That evening was no exception.

For dinner, Guan Qiaoyun and Guan Ren watched TV together. They watched it a little late and got hungry. So Guan Qiaoyun opened the refrigerator and found that there were only two left.

"Guanren, there's still beef and Yunnan ham. What would you like to eat?"

Both are classic flavors from Guanshengyuan, and both are delicious, but Guanren prefers the latter:
"Yunnan ham, I like Yunnan ham."

"Oh."

Guan Qiaoyun nodded, took the mooncake to the living room, ate half of it herself, and then handed the other half to Guan Ren.

"Huh? Sister Qiaoyun, something's not right."

"What's wrong..."

"I wanted Yunnan ham, but you gave me beef, didn't you?"

"Oh, wrong one, just make do..."

Guan Qiaoyun muttered something perfunctorily, her phoenix eyes fixed on the TV. Only after Guan Ren turned away did a faint blush creep across her pretty face, and she immediately began to reflect on herself in her heart.

Sigh, I don't even know what random thoughts are popping into my head all of a sudden...

The word "Yunnan ham" is perfectly fine; it originally meant "Yunzhou ham," but I ended up associating it with "Guan Qiaoyun's legs"...

Therefore, she subconsciously became somewhat reluctant to give the food to her son, which is... this is really absurd.

However, people's thoughts are sometimes like that, popping up in a jumbled mess, just like dreams.

Since she had already done it, Guan Qiaoyun couldn't possibly explain this absurd truth to Guan Ren. After silently finishing her meal, she glanced at Guan Ren, who hadn't gotten any Yunnan ham, and asked him with a guilty conscience:

"Son, I'll go buy some more mooncakes tomorrow, and a lot more Yunnan ham... for you to eat, okay?"

"That's not necessary."

Guan Ren shook his head at this, having other plans:
"I'm going to Luo Xiaobei's house tomorrow. I heard she bought the ingredients for mooncakes and wants me to make them with her."

"Oh, okay then..."

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Normally, Guan Ren wouldn't have planned to bring anything with him on this visit.

However, considering it was a holiday, Guan Ren still bought some.

I didn't buy much, just some fruit.

"Auntie."

"Little Guan is here! Oh dear, look at you, you always bring things with you every time you come. Auntie is going to be angry next time!"

After arriving at her home, Su Ping scolded Guan Ren for spending too much money.

Guan Ren promised again that he wouldn't bring it next time. But this time, he meant it.

Guan Ren himself felt that the next time he brought it, it would feel a bit awkward.

"Xiao Guan."

"Hey, Uncle Luo, you seem to have lost weight."

"Haha, yes, thanks to the camellia oil you gave us before, it really works."

……

Now, both Luo's father and mother welcome Guan Ren's arrival.

Luo Xiaobei watched this scene with delight, and at several moments, she almost couldn't resist taking his arm when her parents were chatting with her.

But it's inconvenient.

So they waited until later, when the two of them started making mooncakes in the kitchen, before taking each other's arms.

"Hee hee~"

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing much~ I just wanted to stick close to you~"

"..."

Guan Ren looked at her as if she were an idiot, then dipped his finger in flour and smeared it on the beauty mark under the corner of the idiot's right eye.
"Hey, let me do your makeup."

"???"

Luo Xiaobei stared wide-eyed in disbelief:
"You think I'm ugly?"

"Tsk, what are you saying..."

Guan Ren was at a loss whether to laugh or cry:

"Luo Xiaobei, although I don't really want to praise you, I do have to admit that there are very few people in this world who are more beautiful than you."

"Hmph, it's too late."

Luo Xiaobei put on a blank expression, looking like she couldn't be coaxed.

Guan Ren shook his head helplessly and stretched out his two hands covered in flour:
"Stop making excuses. You just want a hug, don't you? Let's finish kneading the dough first."

"?"

Luo Xiaobei shook her twin ponytails:
How did you know?

"nonsense."

Guan Ren gestured with his chin towards his back:

"You closed the door as soon as you came in. Do you think I don't know what you're thinking?"

If a childhood sweetheart and her boyfriend go into the kitchen to make mooncakes, will they close the door?

Besides, it's a snow skin mooncake, so there's no need to cook it or anything.

However, Guan Ren was wrong this time.

Luo Xiaobei closed the door, not because she wanted a hug.

At least not just.

……

"Guan Ren..."

"Ah."

The two of them kneaded the dough and shaped the filling in silence. After a while, Luo Xiaobei's body swayed gently as she softly pressed against Guan Ren.
My eyes are itchy…

"Your eyes are itchy?"

"Yeah, it's all because you put flour on my face earlier, it's itchy."

"Then just wipe it off..."

"No."

Luo Xiaobei lowered her hands and patted Guan Ren's hands as well.

Then she turned to stand in front of Guan Ren, raised her head with a soft hum, her pink lips pursed twice, and her bright, watery eyes blinked as she looked at him:
"Kiss me~"

"..."

Guan Ren's forehead immediately showed several black lines:

"Are you preparing to regress in age?"

"Oh well, we already kissed on your birthday, let's kiss again~"

"You still know it's a birthday?"

Guan Ren rolled his eyes at her. It was normal for the two of them to kiss each other when they were little. But if they still kissed each other when they grew up, what was the difference between them and children?
But despite saying that, Luo Xiaobei didn't care about any of that.

As always, she adopted the stance that "if he doesn't give it to her, she'll make a scene."

Guan Ren had actually foreseen this.

After all, he knew Luo Xiaobei too well. He kissed her on her birthday that day, and he always felt that she would want it again soon.

But what can we do?

For Guan Ren, this was his childhood sweetheart; he knew she shouldn't be spoiled, yet he still couldn't help but want to indulge her.

So Guan Ren was quickly overwhelmed by her pestering and said, both amused and annoyed:

"Alright, alright, kisses!"

But before kissing, Guan Ren also noticed with some confusion that Luo Xiaobei's eyes looked like she hadn't slept well the night before:
"Did you stay up all night playing games last night?"

"Huh? Yeah, that's right, hurry up."

Luo Xiaobei nodded and gave a perfunctory reply.

She couldn't very well tell Guan Ren that she had become increasingly upset last night because she missed the tutoring class, and had ended up crying a little bit, just to be honest.
In short, at Luo Xiaobei's urging, Guan Ren nodded slightly and kissed her beauty mark.

"Hmm...it smells like flour..."

"Hmph~ Who told you to be so impulsive?"

"Luo Xiaobei, this will last at least six months, okay? After that, don't ask me to kiss you anymore, it's like you're addicted..."

"I know~"

Luo Xiaobei obediently agreed on the surface.

But in his heart, he didn't think so.

After all, for Luo Xiaobei, liking him was an addictive thing.

(End of this chapter)