After Xiao Yuyu sent the message, her whole body began to tremble nervously.
She could feel her heart pounding.
At the same time, she could also feel the trembling of her muscles.
She wanted to live a happy life with Su Li!
Xiao Yuyu stared at the message in front of her that had yet to be answered, her chubby big hand tightly gripping the phone.
Once again, the image of the woman in uniform appeared in her mind.
“I can’t keep letting myself go on like this.”
“If this keeps up, sooner or later Su Li will leave my side and drift further away from my fate.”
[Having you]
Her phone vibrated again with a new message.
Looking at the smile on the phone screen, Xiao Yuyu couldn’t help but curl her lips upward, humming softly with uncontrollable joy.
As the night wind swept fallen leaves around her feet, she wobbled as she stood up.
Her calf muscles were still twitching, but just now, she had already placed an order online for eggs** and a fitness tracker.
Starting tomorrow, she would go for a morning run—starting with three kilometers!
She clenched her molars as she changed her Lock Screen Wallpaper to a photo of Su Li’s back.
The street lamp stretched her shadow long across the pebble path, like a sword drawn from its sheath.
[Love you, baby~]
She was in Su Li’s heart!
She was in Su Li’s future!
……
Su Li expressionlessly put away her phone and looked toward the horizon.
The clouds piled at the edge of the sky were melted gold and crimson by the setting sun, like spilled honey flowing across glass.
The glow leaked through the gaps in the clouds, etching fuzzy golden edges onto the silhouette of tall buildings—making the city seem wrapped in a layer of orange-flavored icing.
As dusk deepened, the lowest wisps of cloud began to gray, as if someone had smudged charcoal shadows over an orange-red watercolor.
With her mood slightly eased, Su Li felt a tinge of regret for having replied to Xiao Yuyu’s message.
Although maintaining her relationship with the Boss was something she was supposed to do.
But she was not a service machine—she didn’t like doing things without reward.
And clearly, she had just been taken advantage of by Xiao Yuyu again.
Originally, she intended to use this spare time to earn more money.
But while Xiao Yuyu talked about logging in, in reality she had no intention of actually doing so.
She hated being lied to!
But there was nothing she could do.
A job like hers was inherently a game of deceiving and being deceived.
When Su Li reached the downstairs entrance, she glanced toward the Convenience Store.
There was no sign of Miss Cat.
According to Miss Cat, the Boss of the Convenience Store had provided her a place to stay.
In theory, at some point Miss Cat should refresh at the Convenience Store.
But now, who knows where Miss Cat was busying herself.
But there was nothing to be done—people like her and Miss Cat, ordinary folks, had to struggle just to survive.
……
It wasn’t until the sound of knocking came that MOKA had already changed her clothes.
She grabbed a black baseball cap and crammed it onto her head, pulling the brim so low it nearly covered her eyebrows.
Her short brown hair was stuffed roughly under the cap, with a few rebellious strands poking out from behind her ears, looking like a dandelion gone to seed.
Oversized sunglasses covered most of her face, and in the reflection of the lenses she could see her own chapped, peeling lips.
This reminded her of the scabbed blood from biting Su Li yesterday, and she subconsciously licked the corner of her mouth with the tip of her tongue.
She wrapped herself in a wrinkled gray sweatshirt, its loose collar revealing half her collarbone, still stained with traces of un-wiped Whiskey.
The oversized hem covered her hips—at a glance, she looked like a high schooler in borrowed adult clothes.
She believed that, after dressing up carefully, no one could recognize her.
MOKA opened the door and found that the cleaning lady standing outside was much younger than she had imagined.
But there was a distinct aura of poverty about her, which made MOKA a little uncomfortable.
After glancing at the other person, MOKA sat alone on the sofa and picked up a bottle, gulping down mouthfuls of alcohol.
Su Li still hadn’t replied to her message, leaving her extremely irritable.
She wasn’t worried about Su Li, only about her own Song.
If Su Li kept ignoring her messages, her creative work, her Song, would be even more likely to be disposed of by Su Li.
How much could Su Li’s miserable life possibly be worth?
But her Song was worth a fortune!
Taking a look at the oddly dressed client, Miss Cat felt a bit nervous inside.
Although the rent in this neighborhood was quite high, that wasn’t what worried her.
Rather, it was the fact that this client looked so peculiar, and there were even traces of blood still on the floor.
She caught a familiar scent in the air, as if the owner had just left not long ago.
Miss Cat thought about the people she had interacted with.
Finally, one figure surfaced in her mind.
Su Li!
It was Su Li’s scent.
Miss Cat felt flustered, not understanding why Su Li’s scent was here.
And now it had disappeared!
She glanced at the customer quietly drinking, then took her cleaning tools and slowly moved into the bathroom.
There, she nervously pulled out her phone and hurriedly sent Su Li a message.
[[Voice] 2″ (Su Li, Su Li!)]
[[Voice] 4″ (Are you okay?)]
Miss Cat’s voice was soft, but full of fear and worry.
Afraid the customer outside would hear her, Miss Cat kept her voice as light as possible.
Blood, Su Li’s scent, the strangely dressed client.
One thought after another flashed through her mind, and she gripped the mop even tighter.
It was as if she was making some kind of decision.
[What’s wrong?]
The message came back almost instantly. Confirming that Su Li was fine, Miss Cat finally let out a long breath.
[[Voice] 10″ (While I was working, I smelled your scent, and… there was so much blood!)]
[[Voice] 6″ (I’m just glad you’re okay!)]
Su Li picked up her phone, pressing it close to her ear to hear Miss Cat’s faint but worried voice.
She could more or less guess where Miss Cat was working now.
She didn’t expect that right after she left, Miss Cat would come to clean up the aftermath.
[I’m fine, don’t worry]
Su Li replied to Miss Cat. She knew MOKA wouldn’t do anything to Miss Cat.
After all, MOKA still cared a lot about her idol image.
To those who signed the contract, she would bully the weak and fear the strong.
But to Miss Cat, coming as a cleaner, she wouldn’t make things difficult for her.
[[Voice] 2″ Mm-hmm!]
Seeing that Miss Cat was worrying about her even during work, the corners of Su Li’s lips slowly lifted.
Only after realizing what she was doing did she gently rub her lips with her fingers, her eyes becoming a little more confused.