Supermarket.
Shen Xiyan walked ahead while Qin Sheng limped after him, holding onto her small cane.
“Xiyan~~ wait for me! Wait for me!”
One
“I didn’t do it on purpose, you know I’m really dumb. Two identical cups of milk tea — I just accidentally grabbed the wrong one!”
Shen Xiyan stopped, forced himself to laugh at Qin Sheng’s excuse. “Your IQ can’t even tell left from right?”
“Mm-hmm.”
Qin Sheng pouted, looking pitiful as she tapped his head twice. “I can only tell inside from outside. Right now, I’m outside your heart, but it’s okay, sooner or later, you’ll be inside my body.”
Shen Xiyan’s blood pressure rose a bit. “… Then I hope you’ll just leave me alone. I’m afraid of messing up the baby.”
Qin Sheng’s eyes suddenly lit up like xenon headlights, sparkling joyfully. “Baby?”
Shen Xiyan gave a deadpan look. Just as he was about to turn away, Qin Sheng added, “I’m already hurt, and you don’t care about me at all! The men in books all treat their girlfriends so well…”
She wiped away some forced tears.
“Girlfriend? Who? You?”
Qin Sheng put her hands on her hips, clearly more than a foot shorter than Shen Xiyan, yet somehow managing a domineering, looking-down-on-you posture. “Isn’t it?”
“Not a chance! We don’t have a single thing between us…” Shen Xiyan rolled his eyes.
Qin Sheng lifted her foot to kick, voice choking with tears, “Shen Xiyan, you heartless, ungrateful bastard! You use me up and then deny it!”
But with only one leg and too much force, Shen Xiyan dodged, and Qin Sheng kicked empty air, tumbling forward.
Shen Xiyan quickly caught her.
“Get lost, I’m not your girlfriend! I might as well just fall and die!”
“Why don’t you just treat me like Lei Feng?”
Shen Xiyan picked up her small cane and set it aside. “Sit here quietly and wait for me. I’ll finish buying everything Aunt asked for, then we’ll go.”
“No!”
Qin Sheng first raised her delicate brows like a proud little hen, then deflated, drooping her eyes and brows. “You just want to ditch me…”
“Use some reason, will you? I can’t exactly buy things behind your back.”
Qin Sheng’s face lit up with surprise. “That’s all? You’re really not mad at me?”
Shen Xiyan sighed quietly. “… If possible, I wish you’d fake it less.”
Occasionally pretending is a little game between men and women.
Like when a guy pounces, and the girl shouts “Rape!” or “Harassment!”, most guys would go into a kind of fivefold blood fury mode, zero IQ, holding the girl tightly and going all out.
But if you pull this stunt every single time, the guy starts to suspect you might actually have an IQ problem and won’t quit until the police are called.
Qin Sheng was the latter.
“Oh.”
Qin Sheng obediently admitted defeat but was secretly amused.
People tend to be especially tolerant of those with low standards based on first impressions.
No man would like a teasing girl who flirts with everyone, but if her teasing, her coyness, her desire were only for you alone, that’s a “killer move.”
When others are around, Qin Sheng always put on a cool, aloof front.
That’s not a boyfriend’s privilege — that’s Shen Xiyan’s.
Men… in the end, are all vain. Who doesn’t want to feel special?
“Sit here quietly. I’ll be right back…”
“No, I’m really scared to be alone.”
“You weren’t scared back at school. Now you are?”
“Mm-hmm. Wait for me a bit.” Qin Sheng got up, limping away with her cane.
The arch of her brow and the curl of her lips betrayed a little sweetness in her heart.
Soon, Qin Sheng pushed a shopping cart back, holding a blanket.
Shen Xiyan frowned, not understanding. “What are you trying to do?”
Then he watched as Qin Sheng crawled through the opening in the front of the cart and sat down, covering her lap with the blanket.
“This way, I won’t flash anyone! And you can push me around everywhere!”
The blanket wasn’t very tight — just covering her upper thighs, leaving a pair of snow-white long legs exposed.
Qin Sheng’s legs were irresistibly beautiful, combining the slenderness of a young girl with the roundness and firmness only a mature woman had.
Ten years and never boring!
Her skin was porcelain smooth and translucent, impossible to look away from.
“I’m telling you… the hospital is kind of chilly. I wanted to buy this yesterday but didn’t want to steal Aunt’s blanket. Those hospital smells are weird. Today is just on the way.”
Because the cart was designed for kids to sit in, and Qin Sheng’s legs were a bit long, she pushed herself backward.
If someone were to crouch down now, they’d see Qin Sheng’s ample hips segmented into parts, overflowing from the cart’s opening.
Seeing that, you’d just want to pinch or poke…
“What are you waiting for? Go! Go! Go!”
***
Shen Xiyan sighed deeply, pushing her forward slowly.
“Xiyan… I saw this on Weibo before. My favorite thing is lovers shopping together, with the guy pushing the cart and the girl sitting inside. Wherever she points, he pushes. It feels so romantic!”
Qin Sheng’s phoenix eyes curved into crescent moons. “Remember this — there are seventy ways to coax a girl. Shopping is one of them. If you ever make me angry, take me out.”
“And the other sixty-nine?”
Qin Sheng answered matter-of-factly, “Sixty-nine is… sixty-nine. You know, mutual mouth-fighting.”
Shen Xiyan: “….”
Damn it, his brain was shaking.
Did this person even know how to spell “Zhishi” (reserve)?
So “mouth-fighting” meant that?
“Xiyan, one more question. When a normal person dies, we say they ‘passed away.’ When a monk dies, it’s ‘attaining nirvana.’ When an emperor dies, it’s called ‘passing away.’ What do we call my romantic rival’s death?”
“Are you trying my patience again?”
“Dummy! It’s called NICE!”
Qin Sheng finished, then cautiously glanced at Shen Xiyan. Seeing no anger, she got even happier.
Sometimes, even knowing the joke is nonsense makes you mad. Like now, replace “romantic rival” with Aunt.
Right now, Xiyan’s attitude basically meant he accepted her and Lin Ci didn’t get along, but he didn’t bother intervening. That was good — the only worry was if he always defended Lin Ci in everything.
Being favored by a girl isn’t just about looks; there are many other factors, like personality, skills, hesitation… it’s complicated.
Thinking this, Qin Sheng took out her phone and snapped a photo of herself and Shen Xiyan together.
“Don’t take random photos all the time, okay?”
“Just for memories. Don’t worry, I won’t take pictures at random…”
She wouldn’t?
Shen Xiyan didn’t believe it.
The most ridiculous thing from the previous life was Qin Sheng always leaving video recordings every time she “doi”-ed. That wasn’t a request an ordinary person could make.
Her reason was very reasonable: “You work late and don’t come home, I miss you.”
“If you miss me, just look at the photos, listen to the voice messages I send you. What do you want that for?”
Shen Xiyan didn’t dare ask, nor did he want to.
For now, he’d just obediently buy everything Aunt needed.
Occasionally, they passed couples glued to each other — girls holding their boyfriend’s arms, boys wrapping their arms around their girlfriend’s waists, wishing they could merge into one.
Compared to that, Shen Xiyan and Qin Sheng were a bit unusual —
Though they looked very compatible and did the most romantic things, the tall, handsome guy pushed the cart expressionlessly, sometimes pulling out his phone to play, while the girl inside chattered nonstop with no response — yet still thoroughly enjoyed it.
Onlookers: “Scumbag!”
At this moment, they passed the snack section.
Qin Sheng glanced at Shen Xiyan, secretly grabbed some snacks and put them into the cart, covering them with previously bought items to avoid detection.
As she did, she realized the cart was already full of snacks. Realizing this, she hurriedly started pulling some snacks out.
“Xiyan, who are you chatting with?”
“Why do you sound so angry?”
“You misheard.”
“Oh~~”
At checkout, Qin Sheng took things out of the cart while suggesting, “Remember to hide a rock in your pocket when we go upstairs later, just in case. Better not lose out.”
Shen Xiyan was still playing on his phone, not noticing the extra snacks in the cart.
How to put it?
He didn’t want any extra entanglement with Qin Sheng.
But knowing her as well as he did, if he was aware of that other person’s existence and still let things get physical, that would be weird.
She wasn’t some naive believer; Qin Ge’s visit last time was just too sudden.
“Hello, that’ll be 219 yuan total.”
Shen Xiyan froze while scanning. “???”
“Swipe my card…”
“Hey! No, what are you doing? Damn! Where did all this extra stuff come from?”
“You don’t let me come to your place anymore. Wenwen definitely has nothing to eat, so if big brother doesn’t care, sister-in-law will!”
Qin Sheng said this while twisting open a bottle of orange juice and gulping it down.
On the way to the hospital, they passed a public restroom.
Qin Sheng patted Shen Xiyan’s head. “Stop! Stop! Stop, I’m going to the bathroom…”
Before Shen Xiyan could say anything, Qin Sheng jumped off his back, limping away quickly with her cane.
Shen Xiyan thought for a moment, took out his phone, then entered the other side.
After relieving himself with ease, he shook himself off and pulled up his pants.
He liked drawstring pants best — comfortable and convenient, unlike tight jeans.
Turning on the faucet, he cupped water in his hands and splashed his face, feeling refreshed.
Even with all that dawdling, Qin Sheng was still inside the bathroom when he came out.
Girls were naturally slower in this regard — not as simple as a quick shake. That’s why women’s restrooms at busy places like scenic spots and malls often had long lines.
Shen Xiyan stood by the roadside, enjoying the evening breeze, waiting for her.
Finally, Qin Sheng came out… but she was leaning against the wall, walking with her feet turned inward.
“Xiyan~~”
Her voice had turned into a little whimper, trembling with tears, as if she was about to beg, “Husband, be gentle.”
“I can’t squat down; I want to pee. Come help me~”
Suddenly, Shen Xiyan understood everything.
What a grand scheme this was!