Chapter 337: Chapter 337: I Was Wrong, but It’s Wrong of You Not to Forgive Me
Cui Yun’s room is not the first time Shen Hua has entered. She even knew the arrangement inside better than anyone.
So many years have passed, and even very little has changed.
After the girl took a look around, she didn’t see anyone. She then walked past the screen with small steps towards the inside.
If it had been before, she would have avoided it, but now, Shen Hua behaves more casually than in her own room.
She swayed into the inner room, but still saw no sign of Cui Yun.
Shen Hua twisted her eyebrows.
"Cui Yun."
She called out, but no one responded.
Shen Hua lifted the bedding.
No one.
The girl slowly bent down to look under the bed.
No one.
She even walked over to a vase set-up as tall as a person, grasping the rim with both hands, and tiptoed to peek inside.
No one there either.
The three most likely hiding spots were empty.
Her shiny dark eyes blinked. She seemed to think of something, and looked straight at a spot. It was the bookcase against the wall, which only needed turning the mechanism on it, to open a washroom.
It was still back when she was Xue Tuan, that she accidentally touched the mechanism.
It felt like discovering a new world; she tilted her head and stormed in without hesitation raising her short legs.
She was so proud of herself.
She even thought for sure that there were Cui Yun’s secrets hidden inside!
The young man might have his secret quirks. That’s why he specially built a secret room! She was walking tall, her fluffy little head came up with a hundred ways to threaten Cui Yun in that instant.
But unexpectedly, as soon as she entered, the bookcase behind her closed again.
With a ’bang’, the kitten’s heart skipped a beat.
Initially, she calmly walked around and finally faced reality; inside was just a constructed bathhouse.
No windows were on the four walls, only ventilation through thumb-sized gaps under the doors. The lamps on the walls were always on, and many Luminous Pearls were embedded in them.
In a vague and hazy way, it carried its own beauty.
After the kitten had enough admiration, she couldn’t find her way out.
She searched everywhere for the mechanism to exit but descended into despair when she found that position too high; no matter how much she jumped, she was still far from reaching it.
She was short-tempered, furiously bristling as she became embarrassingly angry, her sharp claws desperately scratching the wall.
"Miao Miao Miao."
One hour passed, and then two hours, she ran out of the energy to cry and grew starving, her eyes seeing stars.
When finally found, she was lying on the ground, her eyes moist as she clutched at Cui Yun’s trouser legs, her little paw still trying to wipe away non-existent tears as she expressed her grievances.
——Why did you only come now!
——The mechanism is set so high! The cat gave a death stare.
——Don’t hesitate, pick me up and get me out! Hurry!
This was a memory she couldn’t bear to recall.
Yet, Shen Hua couldn’t help but smile.
She stepped forward, her gaze quickly drawn to another item. It was a jade-carved cat’s head placed on the cabinet.
It was even a cat’s head that had Lipstick applied.
She carefully bypassed the mechanism, lovingly pinched the cat’s sticking out tongue.
But she didn’t expect that just as she touched it, the cabinet shifted to one side.
Shen Hua: "..."
Shen Hua saw Cui Yun in the bath inside the room, his back to her, hair cascading down like a waterfall, the tips still dripping.
The pool was filled with misty vapors wafting through the warm air.
Cui Yun was struggling hard to control his emotions, but with no relief. He even pieced those unusual incidents together.
But did not expect, to be disturbed by a noise behind him.
He turned his head to look over, his eyebrows filled with fierce and intense worry, his eyes dark as deep pools, his face indifferent and slightly tilted up, strange in a way Shen Hua had never seen before, without a trace of warmth or emotion, this... was an unfamiliar appearance.
Shen Hua looked down at her hand then back at Cui Yun, feeling bewildered and helpless.
All she could whisper was: "Although I was wrong, it is not right for you not to forgive me."
Her gaze uncontrollably wandered down inch by inch.
It was the neck that shone faintly under the dim light, and further down, the broad shoulders that seemed to appear and disappear.
"Do you like what you see?"
A sudden voice came through.
Shen Hua didn’t know if it was the heat or her own restlessness, her ears reddened, her little face reddened, even her neck was flushed with red.
She didn’t respond, but turned and fled outside.
But she discovered!! The door! It was locked.
Shen Hua was furious!
She held her breath and walked back.
The cabinet doors in the dark room were still not fully closed. Since the last time Xue Tuan was trapped, Cui Yun had specifically had it modified, to prevent her from accidentally entering and getting locked inside again.
Seeing her turn back, Cui Yun said indifferently.
"I thought you ran off. What, haven’t you seen enough?"
"Ridiculous! How could I, a forthright girl, do something like fleeing in panic?"
The girl stiffened her face. She looked at Cui Yun’s chest, then at her own.
She was very disdainful.
"Yours aren’t even bigger than mine! What is there to see!"
Shen Hua: "As if nobody else has them."
Cui Yun: ...
She even took the initiative: "When did you change the other mechanism?"
"First, you send Ji Qing to look for me. And then you lock the door outside, really secretive!"
Shen Hua realized: "You did it on purpose for me to see."
Shen Hua found the answer: "Tempting me!"
Cui Yun said hoarsely: "Cover your eyes."
Shen Hua rebelliously looked him up and down again in a rogue-like manner. Naturally, she stopped at the chest, the bath area below was also blocked.
"I won’t."
She disdainfully looked at Cui Yun, and remembered the last time she overpowered him when his body was stiff and hard, not soft like hers.
"Really, you... are just so-so."
Cui Yun’s expression darkened, and his lips pursed slightly.
He raised his hand to press his temple: "Go out first."
"You asked me to come, and I came, now you’re asking me to leave? What kind of reasoning is that?"
Cui Yun could only softly say: "I’ll come out after I change my clothes."
But Shen Hua, with her sharp eyes, saw the wet clothes beside the bath area.
She was fundamentally kind-hearted.
The words of the sisters at the pear garden, the girl remembered them until today.
——With elders above and children below, the mother-in-law and father-in-law live with their eldest son, but each month we still have to send money to show filial respect, everything in the house requires money, children going to school requires money, everything inside and out is about money, easy to spend but hard to earn. All earned by the hard work of men outside, I can only manage to wash some clothes, make some netting to help with family expenses. My husband goes out early and returns late, so busy that eventually he fell down.
——Your own man, you care for him! I was the one who took care of him during his illness, wiping his body and face inside and out. As a virtuous wife, one should be understanding and caring.
At that time, she simply listened, but now, the words emerged one by one in her mind.
Shen Hua calculated the time.
It was almost time for dinner.
Cui Yun just gave her precious fur.
The Ministry of Justice was so busy these days but he always comes back to have meals with her.
Today! He even braved the rain to come back.
Yangyang thought about it, how hard could it be to act virtuously!
The girl’s tone became unusually gentle: "Since you got caught in the rain, you should soak longer to drive the chill away."
She went out and quickly came back with a small stool, closed the mechanism, and placed the stool three feet away from the bath corner. Then she slowly sat down, continuing in her virtuous manner to Cui Yun.
"No rush."
"No need for thanks."
Shen Hua: "I’ll keep you company and chat a bit."