Chapter 9: Despite Your Short Legs, You Run Quite Fast

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

She lowered her head and walked out. When she took the clothes from him, she accidentally touched his fingertips. As if her fingers had been burned, she quickly retracted her hand. Du Xi looked at her as he rubbed his index finger and thumb with relish. “Why are you so afraid of me? I won’t eat you.” However, Jiang Ju didn’t relax because of his joke.

Although she knew that the other party didn’t have any ill intentions, the passion in Du Xi’s eyes still made her anxious and uneasy.

Seeing the child in front of him turn around and run, Du Xi laughed. Although she was short-legged, she ran quite quickly. She was so frightened by mere a joke. He felt that his voice was quite gentle when he spoke to her, so why was she so afraid of him?

With a low laugh, Du Xi turned around and entered the kitchen. When he saw the vegetables that Jiang Ju had washed, he took out pork ribs and chicken from the fridge. Since he had time today, he would personally cook to nourish the child’s body so that she wouldn’t be as thin as a chick. She was so scrawny that it seemed like a mere breeze was enough to make her fall.

Jiang Ju, who had hidden in her room, sewed up the vest, but she was in no hurry to go out. Instead, she pressed her ear against the door and listened to the sounds outside. The living room was very quiet, and the man seemed to be gone. She sat back on the bed and looked down at the vest in her hand. She was at a loss. She had never made any decisions since she was young. It had always been her parents who planned everything for her. Ever since her parents passed away, she was like a kite with a broken string that floated aimlessly all day long.

The owner of this vest barged into her lonesome world with unreasonable dominance. She wanted to reject him, but she didn’t dare to. She wanted to expel him, but she didn’t have the courage to. She could only let him join her life. She couldn’t say what she felt, but she couldn’t stop thinking about him.

She sat in the room in a daze for a long time. It was only when Du Xi came over and knocked on the door that she came back to her senses. The moment she opened the door, she smelled an aroma. Jiang Ju’s eyes lit up and she felt much more energetic. Although she knew how to cook herself, she only knew how to cook some simple dishes. She couldn’t remember the last time she had eaten such a delicious meal.

Du Xi took the wrinkled vest from her hand and patted her head, as if he was rewarding her. “Why are you standing there? Hurry up and eat.” When Jiang Ju walked over and saw two sets of cutlery neatly placed on the table, she was overcome with an indescribable emotion.

Seeing that she didn’t move, Du Xi gently pushed her back to the chair, picked up the chopsticks on the table, and stuffed them into her hand. “Eat quickly. It’ll get cold later.” Knowing that Jiang Ju was shy, Du Xi didn’t look at her again after saying this. He sat down on the other side and ate.

Jiang Ju looked at him, who was eating with his head lowered, and her originally tense mood eased up substantially. She picked up a piece of pork ribs and took a bite. When the taste of caramel spread throughout her mouth, her eyes lit up. The food tasted extremely delicious. Jiang Ju, who had been starving for half a day, had a huge appetite. She ate two bowls of rice in a row and only put down her chopsticks when her stomach was stuffed.

Her stomach was so stuffed that she even had to hold onto a chair to get up. “Don’t worry, I’ll clean up the table later.” Du Xi had only eaten a bowl of rice. Afraid that she would feel uncomfortable, he left the table and sat on the sofa in advance. Now, he was watching a movie on the sofa leisurely.

From the corner of his eye, he saw her putting down her bowl and chopsticks, so he turned his head and beckoned her. Jiang Ju didn’t understand what he meant, so she blinked her big eyes in confusion as she walked in his direction. Du Xi was enamored with her adorable expression. His well-defined fingers knocked on the coffee table again and again as he thought about when he could pinch her little face.

He felt tantalized, but when he saw Jiang Ju’s confused expression, he suppressed his urge. He handed the phone to her and said, “Add me on WeChat.” “A few days ago, when the two of them signed the contract, he saw her phone number on the contract, so he didn’t specifically ask her for her contact number. When he tried to call her, he was told that this number was no longer in service.”

She had probably printed this contract in batches in the past and had yet to change the phone number.

Jiang Ju blinked her big innocent eyes and said slowly, “I’ll leave my phone number with you. I don’t have WeChat.” Du Xi frowned in belief and said, “You’re in your early 20s, but you don’t use WeChat? Now, not to mention someone in their 20s, even 60-year-olds used WeChat. It was too ridiculous for her to say that she didn’t use it.