115: Chapter 115 Oh no, could this be the feeling of falling in love?!

Lu Li carried the yogurt back home. When he pushed open the door, only a floor lamp was lit in the living room.

The warm yellow halo enveloped that small area of the sofa.

Shen Qingxue leaned against the sofa, holding that half-person-tall teddy bear in her arms. Her head was tilted to one side, resting against the furry bear head.

Her eyes were closed, and her breathing was even and long.

She had fallen asleep.

Lu Li stood in the entryway, still holding that bag of yogurt in his hand, and he froze for a moment.

He changed his shoes very quietly, making almost no sound, put the yogurt into the refrigerator, and then tiptoed back.

Shen Qingxue was sleeping very soundly.

Her sleeping face was completely different from usual; it lacked that icy aloofness and detachment, and she looked unimaginably soft all over.

Her eyelashes were long, casting a small fan-shaped shadow under her eyes, her bridge of the nose was straight, and her lips were pursed slightly.

A few strands of stray hair hung in front of her forehead, trembling gently with her even breathing.

Lu Li stood beside the sofa, looking down at this scene, and his heartbeat suddenly missed a beat.

He couldn't describe what that feeling was.

He just thought... she looked pretty.

Lu Li watched for a few seconds, then inexplicably squatted down.

He reached out, his fingertips hovering above Shen Qingxue's cheek, hesitated for about a fraction of a second, and then gently pinched it.

It was soft.

It was really soft, like marshmallows or tofu, and the tactile sensation from his fingertips was unbeatably delicate.

Shen Qingxue couldn't help letting out a soft hum, her brows furrowed slightly, and her head tilted toward the teddy bear.

She didn't wake up.

Lu Li withdrew his hand, his heart pounding fast as if he had done something shameful.

If netizens saw this scene, he would probably be chopped into mincemeat by them.

Lu Li looked for a few more seconds, then took a deep breath and suppressed all the messy thoughts in his heart.

He stood up, tiptoed to the air conditioning panel, and turned the temperature up by two degrees.

The air conditioning temperature was too low; sleeping like this could easily lead to a cold.

Then he walked into the bedroom again, rummaged through the cabinet for a thin blanket, folded it, held it in his arms, and walked back to the living room.

Shen Qingxue's sleeping posture hadn't changed; she was still leaning against the teddy bear, her head resting against the bear's head, curled up in the corner of the sofa.

Lu Li carefully unfolded the thin blanket and meticulously helped her adjust her sleeping posture from sitting to lying down.

Only then did he gently cover her body with the thin blanket, fearing that he would wake her up.

After covering her, he took two steps back, looked at Shen Qingxue who was sleeping soundly, and nodded with satisfaction.

Lu Li suddenly felt his throat was a bit dry and unconsciously swallowed his saliva.

Then, he turned around quickly, practically fleeing into the bedroom, and gently closed the door.

With his back against the door panel, Lu Li covered his chest, feeling that heart pounding wildly inside his chest cavity.

"Lu Li, calm down."

He couldn't help whispering to himself.

"You just think she's pretty; everyone likes pretty things, and that's completely normal."

"Right, very normal."

"Pinching her face was just because... because of curiosity, yes, just curiosity."

"Definitely not because she's pretty, definitely not because your heart rate accelerated, definitely not because that heart came back to life."

"Definitely not."

Lu Li let out a sigh of relief, walked to the bedside, plunged headfirst onto the bed, and buried his face into the pillow, only to find...

It was her, it was her; why was his mind filled entirely with images of her?

Especially after just being disgusted by that so-called ex-girlfriend, the comparison made the feeling even stronger.

Shen Qingxue's sleeping face, her long eyelashes... and that soft tactile sensation from his fingertips.

Lu Li rolled over, staring at the ceiling with a complex expression.

It was over.

He seemed to be getting hooked.

Carrying this emotion, Lu Li didn't know when he fell asleep.

He only remembered lying in bed with Shen Qingxue's sleeping face filling his mind, tossing and turning, the more he thought about it, the more awake he became.

Then, at some point, his consciousness went blank.

...

Midnight.

The living room was so quiet that only the faint buzzing sound of the air conditioner operating remained.

That floor lamp was still lit, and the warm yellow halo enveloped the sofa area, rendering the entire space gentle and serene.

But at this moment, Shen Qingxue's eyelids moved slightly.

Then, she slowly opened her eyes.

Coming into view was an unfamiliar ceiling.

She froze for a moment, her consciousness not fully returned yet, and stared blankly upward for two seconds.

Hm?

Where was this?

She hadn't gone back to her room to sleep?!

The next second, she sat up abruptly, and the thin blanket slid off her body, piling up around her waist and abdomen.

And that teddy bear had tipped over to the side, its furry bear head resting against her legs.

Shen Qingxue lowered her head to look at the thin blanket, subconsciously checking the clothes on her body—hmm, intact and undamaged.

After finishing this action, she couldn't help laughing at herself; as expected, she was still overthinking things.

Lu Li was a gentleman after all, how could he touch her?

However, on a certain day in the future, she would never expect that this "touch" was not that kind of "touch".

Before long, the broken pieces of memory in Shen Qingxue's mind slowly connected back together.

She had fallen asleep on the sofa, and then this blanket...

The blanket Lu Li had covered her with?

Shen Qingxue reached out, her fingertips gently pinching a corner of the thin blanket, smelling a faint, clean fragrance of laundry detergent.

She stared at the thin blanket for a few seconds, her eyelashes trembling slightly.

Then she refolded the thin blanket, placed it on the sofa armrest, and stood up from the sofa.

Shen Qingxue stood barefoot on the floor, turning her head to glance in the direction of Lu Li's bedroom.

The door was closed, and no light shone through the crack of the door.

Had he fallen asleep?

Shen Qingxue withdrew her gaze and looked down at the teddy bear lying crooked on the sofa.

The bear was large, furry, and looked endearing and cute.

She reached out, righting the teddy bear and making it lean squarely against the corner of the sofa.

Then she looked at it for another two seconds, raised her hand, and gently pinched the bear's ear.

It was furry and soft.

The corners of Shen Qingxue's mouth curved up slightly, a very small arc that was barely noticeable.

But at that instant, her whole person softened up.

She turned around, tiptoed toward the kitchen, poured a glass of water, held it in her hands, and leaned against the kitchen door frame, drinking slowly.

The living room was very quiet.

Shen Qingxue's gaze casually swept across the living room and finally landed on the seven photo frames on the display rack.

In the photos, the smiles of the two of them were frozen at that exact moment.

Whether it was a princess carry or holding flowers on one knee, every single picture made the roots of her ears heat up slightly.

Shen Qingxue withdrew her gaze, took a sip of water, and suppressed that indescribable emotion.

She put down the water cup, turned off the floor lamp, and walked back to her room in the dark.

The moment the door closed, she stood in the darkness for a moment.

Then she walked to the bedside, lay down, and pulled the quilt up to her chin.

Closing her eyes.

In the darkness, the image of Lu Li squatting beside the sofa and carefully covering her with a blanket instinctively surfaced in her mind.

She hadn't seen it with her own eyes.

But she could just imagine it, and the imagined scene was so clear that every single detail was there.

Shen Qingxue rolled over and buried her face into the pillow.

Why was her heartbeat suddenly beating a bit fast?

She was puzzled.