She glanced back at Lin Mo and saw him pretending to make a phone call not far away...
"What's your name?" Chen's mother's voice drew the girl's attention back.
"Jiang Wanfeng..."
"Oh, it's the class monitor! Ya Jie often talks about you to me, saying that you're the only one who keeps the class quiet. Ya Jie is very afraid of noise, and she's always been very grateful to you~"
"What I should do..." Jiang Wanfeng felt a restless tension in her heart, a tension that she had to express.
"Um, Auntie!"
"what's wrong?"
"It's him, isn't it? Does he come here often? Come here... and, and with Ya Jie... it's him..." Jiang Wanfeng looked at Chen's mother's kind face, her voice growing weaker and weaker, stammering and incoherent...
You shouldn't talk to your elders like that...
But little did Jiang Wanfeng know that her obvious emotions had already been noticed by Chen's understanding mother.
She's been through it all; how could she not understand a young girl's thoughts?
She'd seen the young couple coming to dinner together late at night many times before, but judging from their demeanor, this girl didn't seem very honest.
"I don't charge any of Ya Jie's classmates. That little boy came to eat here a few times before and remembered it."
"Oh, I see..." Jiang Wanfeng felt as if she had been granted a pardon; even the suspicion terrified her.
The sigh of relief not only meant letting Lin Mo go, but also letting herself go.
Do you eat spicy food?
"Oh, I don't eat spicy food, thank you, Auntie."
After Jiang Wanfeng finished speaking, she patted her chest to calm herself down, but then she realized something was amiss...
The aunt didn't ask Lin Mo if he ate spicy food...
But that's not the important thing. The important thing is that she didn't even know if Lin Mo could eat spicy food...
Even the auntie who cooks noodles can remember it.
My heart suddenly went cold.
Over the years, Lin Mo rarely revealed his preferences to his family, always telling his mother instead.
'I just want to be like Wanfeng; I'll like whatever she likes...'
Just be like her...
“You two have very different tastes. He and Ya Jie both love spicy food, and he always orders the numbing and spicy kind.”
Chen's mother added chili peppers to the noodle soup and smiled.
"Alright, two bowls of homemade noodles~"
How can he be the same as everyone else?
Faced with the noodles Chen's mother brought, Jiang Wanfeng stood there blankly, her mind filled with thoughts of spicy and non-spicy, and Lin Mo's repeated concessions...
The throbbing pain that had just subsided in my heart was replaced by a hazy, endless emptiness and confusion.
She could make excuses for herself, since Lin Mo had never said anything... but if he didn't say anything, couldn't she just ask?
Just because she doesn't ask, does that mean she doesn't need to know?
"Okay, thank you, Auntie!" At this moment, Lin Mo swayed over and grabbed two bowls of noodles before Jiang Wanfeng could reach them.
Lin Mo was itching to kneel down and kowtow three times to Chen's mother. Just moments ago, the exclamation mark above Jiang Wanfeng's head had practically pierced the sky, but after something the aunt said, it slowly disappeared.
Only then did he dare to come over.
Unbeknownst to him, the moment Jiang Wanfeng saw him, her eyes lost focus and became vacant...
"Xiao Mo, what's your relationship with this girl?" Chen's mother asked with a "kind" smile.
"Well, I'm staying at her house...we're like siblings."
"Oh~"
"That's great, I really envy you young people."
"Closer than siblings!" While Lin Mo and Chen's mother were exchanging pleasantries, Jiang Wanfeng, who had been in a daze, suddenly exclaimed, startling both of them.
"Haha...closer than siblings, yes, yes, yes," Lin Mo chimed in.
Jiang Wanfeng clenched her little fists and pouted.
"Auntie, I want mine extra spicy too, the spiciest of all!"
"Is it okay? You can't eat spicy food..."
"I can eat it!" the girl exclaimed excitedly.
"Alright then..." Chen's mother felt that the relationship between the two was a bit complicated; this girl seemed to be putting on a brave front no matter how she looked at it.
She added a little chili, not too much...
"Auntie, please have more, thank you for your trouble."
"...Fine."
...
Lin Mo was dumbfounded as he watched the girl sit down with a bowl full of chili peppers... the noodles were almost invisible.
Jiang Wanfeng stared at the fiery red chili peppers in the bowl, and her heart began to pound.
In the end, she stubbornly pursed her lips.
I tried to take a deep breath to calm myself, but even the air I breathed had a pungent, spicy taste.
"Cough, cough cough cough..." The girl covered her throat and coughed violently.
"Forget it, you..." Lin Mo reached for his chopsticks, wanting to remove the chili peppers from her bowl, but the girl forcefully stopped him.
"I'll eat it." Jiang Wanfeng gritted her teeth, her normally cute canine teeth now looking sinister.
Seeing the exclamation mark flashing above the girl's head, Lin Mo stopped provoking her, shut his mouth, and focused on eating his noodles.
Next, Jiang Wanfeng, her hands trembling, picked up chili peppers and stuffed them into her mouth one by one. Before she could even register the pain from the chili peppers, she gulped down a mouthful of water.
She gradually finished the water, but the amount of chili peppers in her bowl didn't decrease much.
What she considered a "big bite" was just a tiny bit of chili...
The burning sensation of chili peppers lingered on my lips and tongue, almost indistinguishable from the pain of being scalded by an oven.
Only pain can bring her peace of mind.
She didn't know why she did it, but her heart ached terribly, and had been for the past few days. She felt constantly uneasy, overwhelmed by so many strange things happening around her, things she couldn't understand, and didn't want to think about them.
However, deep down, her woman's intuition told her that if she did nothing, Lin Mo would drift further and further away from her.
Once he's freed from the constraints of school and family, she'll have nothing left...
A simple question like "Does he eat spicy food?" completely exposed her vulnerability. She always acted according to her own ideas, rarely considering Lin Mo...
The cake she painstakingly learned to make was nothing more than wishful thinking on her part; she even kept a small piece for herself to taste, and it didn't taste good at all...
She never asked Lin Mo if he liked it... she simply felt that since she was making sacrifices for him, he should accept it.
What was she afraid of? She was afraid of being rejected, afraid that Lin Mo would say he didn't like her, as if that meant he didn't like her... She didn't want that.
Ultimately, she hasn't changed; she's still doing disgusting things, using superficial and verbal changes to deceive herself and Lin Mo...
Lin Mo was simply accommodating her, always and always...
From the moment she took advantage of her status as the master's daughter to bully him.
It's so spicy! My tongue hurts, and my mouth hurts too. It's swollen up; it'll look awful... Will Lin Mo hate me when he sees it...?
It's so spicy it's almost making my eyes water.
You can't cry, Jiang Wanfeng, you can't cry. Crying will make you look even uglier. You can't cry in front of him. You've never cried to him before...
"Cough, cough cough cough... vomit..."
The girl even gagged, her face flushed red from the spiciness; her once snow-white skin was now marred by the rotting crimson.
Even so, she still hurriedly stuffed it into her mouth...
From a passerby's perspective, the girl forcing herself to eat chili peppers might seem funny, but in Lin Mo's eyes, it evoked a strange sense of pity...
What are you thinking, Jiang Wanfeng?
The constant stream of inner thoughts was so densely packed that he couldn't make them out at all.
"All right."
Lin Mo couldn't stand it anymore and simply snatched the girl's bowl away.
"Give me back..."
Jiang Wanfeng reached out to grab it, but Lin Mo slapped her hand away with a chopstick.
"Aren't you going to school tomorrow? Aren't you afraid of getting a stomachache from eating so much spicy food?!" Lin Mo snapped, yelling at her.
Jiang Wanfeng's eyes glazed over after being scolded by Lin Mo for the first time.
Although she knew Lin Mo was concerned about her, the tears she had been holding back for so long suddenly burst forth uncontrollably.
"I can eat spicy food! You can eat it, so why can't I?!" Jiang Wanfeng exclaimed, her lips pressed into a wavy line of grievance as she stammered.
Everything happened suddenly, yet it also seemed perfectly timed. Jiang Wanfeng realized that she had been suppressing her feelings for a long time, but where did this suppression come from…?
"I don't want you to keep giving in to me..."
"Don't look, don't look, I'm not crying..."
The girl wiped her tears with her hands, which were still smeared with chili oil. The wiping only made her eyes sting more, and the tears flowed even more uncontrollably.
"do not move."
“Hmm…”
Lin Mo took out a tissue, cupped Jiang Wanfeng's face, and wiped the spicy oil from her eyes. She pulled away after only a few strokes.
The girl became even more distraught because of his actions.
"I don't need your help. I don't like to cry, I won't cry... I can hold it in if you don't help me... I don't need your help..."
"Why is it always like this? Why is it always like this...?"
Tears rained down.
She's like a child who's fallen down, her bleeding wound causing her pain, and if no one around picks her up, no one helps her...
The girl could sob, swallow the pain, brush off the dust, and hold back her tears.
She will grow.
But if a girl has the meticulous care of adults, giving her someone to confide in and be affectionate with,
Instead, it made her cry miserably...
"woo woo woo woo..."
"What's wrong? What's wrong..." Seeing this, Chen's mother rushed over to ask.
"Auntie, I'm sorry, we can't finish the noodles..." Lin Mo took out a few bills and placed them on the table. "Here's the money for the noodles, we'll be going now!"
As he spoke, Lin Mo practically grabbed Jiang Wanfeng's arm and hoisted her up. The girl struggled but couldn't break free. She covered her face with one hand while he pulled her away quickly with the other.
"Eh!"
Watching the two figures disappear into the distance, Chen's mother sighed inwardly.
"I need to have a good talk with Ya-jie this weekend..."
...
"Your aunt is home today. Take a moment to calm down before going in. Don't let her worry. I'll stay here with you."
"Wipe your mouth... never mind, I'll wipe it for you."
"..."
"We'll go in when you're done crying."
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