Thump!
Su Liumeng clutched her forehead, her eyes becoming even more resentful.
I rubbed my knuckles, which I had just used to knock her. “What’s with that expression? I really don’t like it. If I tell you to drink, then drink. Why do you have so much to say?”
“Can’t you help me relieve this trouble?”
I really couldn’t understand Su Liumeng.
Before, who knows who was the one who couldn’t wait? Now, it was as if she were stepping onto an execution ground.
This — woman.
Truly fickle.
I curled my lips, not quite understanding. Under Su Liumeng’s increasingly aggrieved gaze, I made the final decision. “This isn’t up to you. Whether you want to or not, you have to do it.”
Su Liumeng fell silent. There was no way to resist the Baby’s dominance.
She silently apologized to Zhizhi in her heart.
‘This really isn’t because I’m intentionally stealing your food.’
‘I’m being forced; I can’t refuse the command.’
Xi Zhiruo was about to be weaned. Recently, she had been eating a lot of normal food, which led to a bit more pressure on me. After all, my constitution was different from ordinary people; in a sense, I was uniquely gifted. Sometimes I seriously suspected that if I gave birth to twins, I wouldn’t lack enough nutrition for either child.
Su Liumeng suppressed her shame as an adult.
She constantly comforted herself in her heart.
‘This is a very normal way of helping; it doesn’t have any other meaning.’
She had always known this.
Except…
Every time Si Xinyan gazed at her with those doting eyes, holding her in her arms and gently patting her back, she always had the illusion of being coaxed like a ‘daughter’…
Everything was ready, and the bloated, painful feeling began to subside.
I blinked, acting purely out of subconscious reaction as I reached out to pat Su Liumeng’s back.
Who would have thought that her body would suddenly stiffen, as if struck by a bolt of lightning? I even sensed that she was about to end this session early, so I simply pressed down on the back of her head with some force.
“Mm…”
Su Liumeng was stunned, an instinctive sound escaping her mouth.
No.
Did Xinyan know what she was doing?
Having her face buried like that was already absurd enough.
Not to mention having her entire face pressed into the soft flesh on one side, an experience mixed with the overflowing scent of milk. Su Liumeng’s mind went blank. She had no idea where she was, leaving only her mouth to move unconsciously in coordination.
“Don’t move,” I said in a deep voice.
Who gives up halfway?
‘It’s over; it’s completely over now.’ Su Liumeng wept silently in her heart. As her mind gradually cleared, countless images flooded her head — all of them featured her and Zhizhi sitting side by side at a table, tapping their bowls with chopsticks, waiting for a young woman in an apron to finish cooking in the kitchen.
No, that’s not right.
Su Liumeng forcibly dispersed these extra stray thoughts.
‘Maybe I’m just overthinking it, and Si Xinyan doesn’t think about these things at all.’
‘Can I still not get over my own self-esteem?’
Su Liumeng cried in her heart again.
‘There’s no way around it; sometimes when a person is too smart, they tend to think about too many things…’
I obviously didn’t know Su Liumeng’s train of thought. My discomfort had completely faded away, and I puzzledly patted the back of Su Liumeng’s head while she remained in her original dazed posture. “Baby?”
Su Liumeng froze again.
‘Baby? Wait, is she calling me baby?’
At some point, the hand pressing her head had quietly let go.
She abruptly raised her head and emphasized every word with great seriousness, “You should call me Liumeng.”
A title she used to love, and a name Xinyan rarely used, had now become something of a minefield for Su Liumeng.
“Huh?” I opened my eyes wide and looked at the girl in front of me. I slowly reached out my pale pink fingertips, my gaze turning soft as water again as I gently brushed them over her. “Be careful. It’s all dirty. Let me wipe it for you.”
Su Liumeng’s body became even stiffer.
Wait —
She actually knew that Si Xinyan had never treated her as a daughter.
But…
This kind of behavior caused the conviction in her heart to waver.
‘Can adults even do this kind of roleplay?’
The remaining self-esteem in Su Liumeng’s heart caused a hint of embarrassed blushing to appear on the tips of her ears.
I blinked my large, watery eyes.
‘Is it my imagination?’
I felt that Su Liumeng was acting strange today. I took out a handkerchief to wipe my fingertips. Looking at the struggle and complexity in the eyes of the girl before me, I curled my lips in confusion. “Are you unhappy?”
“No, no, I’m not unhappy,” Su Liumeng hurriedly gave a triple denial to save herself.
I huffed and put my hands on my hips. “If you aren’t unhappy, why are you making a face like you’ve suffered some great humiliation?”
Su Liumeng was speechless.
She couldn’t exactly say she was terrified that one day, her wife, who had always slept in the same blanket as her, would suddenly grab her waist from behind one morning, bury her head in the crook of her neck, and blurt out: ‘Good girl, you have to be obedient and eat your breakfast…’
Su Liumeng let out a long sigh. The problem was absurd, but it was also serious. “Baby, how do you see me?”
I pondered for 1 or 2 seconds. “How do I see you?”
My large eyes flickered as I spoke seriously. “When you get close to me, I can’t help but feel my heart race. When you hold me, I can’t stop myself from reaching out my arms. When you show me unconditional favoritism, I inevitably feel a flutter, a tingling sensation throughout my whole body…”
“In short, I like you very, very much.” I tilted my head, my voice crisp and firm.
The heavy stone in Su Liumeng’s heart finally fell.
Only at this moment did she confirm that Xin Xin’s feelings didn’t contain any element of pity other than love. There was only a young girl’s raw and passionate devotion. Sometimes it was like a summer sun, so scorching that no one could look at it directly. Other times, it was like a shy spring flower, shrinking its body and lowering its gaze in embarrassment when watered by love. In short, this was her Baby, a Baby that belonged only to her, someone worth standing against the whole world for to show unconditional favoritism.
Su Liumeng slowly pulled the figure before her into an embrace.
I leaned against her chest, closing my eyes and enjoying her touch. My long eyelashes trembled continuously. An unavoidable soft hum escaped from deep in my throat, causing her knuckles to suddenly stiffen in mid-air. It wasn’t until I slowly opened my now moist eyes and stared in confusion at her sudden stop.
Su Liumeng’s fingertips resumed their movement. I lay sideways against her chest, sitting on her lap, my arms wrapped around her whole body. My recently opened eyes slowly closed again as I wantonly enjoyed the private time with my lover.
The air gradually grew quiet. Su Liumeng’s fingertips slid down the dark, beautiful hair. With her Baby’s soft and fragrant body in her arms, how many people could remain calm? Her heart rate gradually grew chaotic in the quiet air. She already felt a slight abnormality in her body. Her lips pursed subconsciously, and the girl’s throat grew a bit dry in the warming atmosphere.
Ding-dong.
I checked my phone screen.
“Zhizhi said she’ll be back a bit late.”
“She wants to go around another Secret Realm.”
Su Liumeng looked at the empty Villa.
Spring Qiao and Chunlan had both gone out to buy daily necessities and wouldn’t be back until 7:00 PM.
That meant —
Starting from now, there would be no one else in the Villa for at least 2 hours.
Su Liumeng suddenly grew nervous. She slowly took the small hand of the girl before her and spoke in a pitiful tone.
“Baby.”
I blinked my eyes again.
Calling me so mushily and aggrievedly…
‘What does she want to do?’