Chapter 15: Aren’t You Embarrassing?

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Su Yunxiu did not go anywhere else. She took a taxi to the dance studio. Her heart hurt so much that she desperately needed to do something to occupy her mind.

The girl danced to the music over and over again, easily grasping all kinds of difficult movements. Her body was already sweating unknowingly. It was as if she did not know and had no intention of stopping.

She enjoyed dancing, but at this moment, it had become a means for her to vent her emotions. The last time she danced so hard was when her father passed away.

Her father passed away in a car accident in her third year of junior high school. At that time, she was in a daze. She did not go home immediately after school. Instead, she locked herself in the dance studio and practiced her dance over and over again.

She used the pain in her body to numb the wound in her heart.

The memories of that year in a daze overlapped with the present. Su Yunxiu accidentally twisted her ankle and fell heavily to the ground.

How could the pain in her body compare to the pain in her heart? Sweat kept dripping from her face onto the floor. Su Yunxiu lay on the ground for a long time.

When Yu Wenci arrived, he stood at the door and saw the girl lying on the ground lifelessly. Her fair face was flushed from the intense exercise.

In his memory, Su Yunxiu’s face was filled with confidence when she danced. She was one with the dance and enjoyed the fun it brought her. She would not be as lifeless as she was now.

The man pushed the door open and entered. He suppressed the heartache and deep affection in his heart and tried his best to control his voice. He squatted down in front of her and said slowly, “Miss Su, why do you look so pathetic every time I see you?”

Su Yunxiu only moved when she heard the voice. She propped herself up and sat cross-legged. Then, she felt a sharp pain in her feet. It was not strong, but she did not care.

“Why is Mr. Yu here?”

Yu Wenci’s face wasn’t red, and he wasn’t out of breath. He lied, “I’m here to pick up my sister. She hasn’t finished class yet, so I’m wandering around this building. I saw that the lights on this floor were still on, so I came to take a look.”

“Huh? Does your sister have to practice piano at night?”

“Yes, she’s quite hardworking.”

Su Yunxiu didn’t suspect anything. When she was about to take the dance exam, she practiced until late at night day and night. There were no shortcuts for dancers.

God had given her outstanding talent in dancing, and Su Yunxiu wanted to display this talent.

“Oh.”

The atmosphere fell silent.

“Why are you always in such a sorry state?”

Su Yunxiu: “When else have you seen me in this state?”

“No? Once in college, and now, twice in total.”

As he spoke, she seemed to have recalled something.

The reason why Yu Wenci said this was because Yu Wenci was the one who sent her to the hospital when she had her worst fever.

At that time, Xu Mu said that he was not free. Su Yunxiu’s roommates were all busy. She did not want to trouble others, so she could only brace herself to go to the hospital. When people were sick, they would become especially weak, and she was no exception.

The people who passed by were all in pairs. She was the only one who looked lonely. Xu Mu was not by her side, and she felt a lump in her throat.

She had overestimated her body. The scorching sun was high in the sky. When she passed by the basketball court, Su Yunxiu fainted. At that time, Yu Wenci happened to be playing basketball. Chen Zexi’s sharp eyes picked up Su Yunxiu and he quickly patted Yu Wenci’s arm. The man ran out and sent her to the hospital.

No one knew that the man, who had always been gentle and distant, had an unprecedented anxiety on his face as if he would lose the girl in his arms in the next second.

Su Yunxiu was dumbfounded.

Did this man have such a good memory?

Also, she clearly had moments of elegance too!

“There’s nothing in this world that you can’t overcome. No matter what happens, don’t vent it on your body. It’s not worth it.”

He was reminding Su Yunxiu not to do anything extreme for a scumbag.

Su Yunxiu fell into deep thought.

“People have to learn to look forward. After crying and sleeping, everything will be fine. You don’t want those people to see you like this, right?”

Yu Wenci was reasonable, and Su Yunxiu didn’t have so many reasons to refute him. She even felt that it made sense.

“Aren’t you embarrassed to be in such a sorry state?”

The man changed the topic. Su Yunxiu seemed to see the disdain in his eyes.

Su Yunxiu was dumbfounded.

She really wanted to say thank you. To think he still had it in him to feed her chicken soup for her soul.

“It’s not embarrassing. Nobody can see it anyway.”

“Yes, you’re right about everything. Do you want me to take you home?”

Su Yunxiu shook her head and her eyes dimmed. “My home isn’t here. I don’t want to go back.”

After her father passed away, her mother remarried. Su Yunxiu was once happy for her mother. At least, she found someone to accompany her. Later, she realized how naive she was.

In order to consolidate her position as the wife of a wealthy family, her biological mother had placed all her energy on her brother, who was not related to her by blood.

As for Su Yunxiu, she was more like a burden to her mother. No matter how good her exam results were or how hard she tried to dance, she could only get an “oh” from her. Her mother would probably only say a few words of encouragement when she was in a good mood. These words sounded like charity to her.

As time passed, Su Yunxiu no longer expected her mother to care for her. When she finally got out of that kind of living environment in university, she spent most of her time studying dance in school unless it was a holiday or a necessary holiday.

Sensing that she had something on her mind, Yu Wenci did not expose her and continued to ask, “You don’t have an ID on you. It’s unrealistic to go to a hotel. Why don’t I send you back to Lin Qingwan’s place?”

Since Su Yunxiu didn’t refuse his offer, Yu Wenci knew that she had tacitly agreed.

The man straightened up and Su Yunxiu instinctively looked up at him. From this angle, she realized that this person was really tall. She didn’t know what he had eaten to grow so tall.

“Why aren’t you getting up?”

The girl’s expression was a little awkward. Her petite body didn’t move as she stammered, “My… my feet are numb, and I twisted them just now.”

Yu Wenci asked, “Does it hurt? Do you want me to take you to the hospital?”

“No need, no need. I just need to rest. It won’t hurt.”

She wasn’t that delicate. As a dancer, this pain was nothing to her. She would endure it for a while.

“Here, hold my hand.”

Su Yunxiu didn’t understand and nodded. Her voice rose at the end, and her eyes were confused. Unknowingly, she looked a little cute.

The man slowly unbuttoned the sleeve of his shirt. As he moved, the cuff loosened. He pulled down the cuff slightly and reached out to her.

She didn’t understand what that meant.

Hold what?

“It’s improper for a man and a woman to touch each other. You can pull my sleeve.” A smile flashed across his eyes. His thin lips curled up slightly with a faint smile. “Or… does Miss Su want to hold my hand?”