ALL NOVEL Chapter 21: Still Talking While Not Awake, Huh?
Chapter 21: Still Talking While Not Awake, Huh?
Chu Hanting leaned back against the sofa, one hand against his forehead. “Liu Yu, you don’t understand. When he said he liked me, that look in his eyes… it was like he wanted to cut open his chest to show his true heart.”
He wanted to smoke again.
Usually he wouldn’t smoke once in ten days, but today he particularly craved it.
As if it could numb him and disperse the image in his mind of Su Mu’s extremely shocked and hurt expression after he’d said “Are you looking for someone to rely on?”
Liu Yu could see his usually decisive friend was doubting his own judgment, and couldn’t help but marvel at this college student’s high-level flirting skills.
Su Mu from the Su family, if he remembered correctly. He’d heard of him at banquets before – they said the young master of the Su family played piano beautifully.
“Fine, fine, you understand and I don’t,” as long as he wasn’t called over late at night to become part of their play.
Liu Yu went back to savoring his coffee, thinking things should be fine now.
Then Chu Hanting said: “Stay tonight. In case anything happens, you can diagnose immediately.”
Liu Yu: …So he still couldn’t escape becoming part of their play?
What a blessing to have such a friend.
As it turned out, Liu Yu’s medicine was quite effective.
By midnight, Su Mu’s fever had mostly subsided.
He shifted on the bed and slowly opened his eyes, but the bedside lamp’s light was a bit harsh, so he raised his arm to block it.
After adjusting, he finally opened his eyes completely.
!!???
Where was this?
Not his room – had he been kidnapped?
Probably not – no chains on his hands or feet. Kidnappers wouldn’t treat him this well.
He slowly sat up, got out of bed, and went to turn on the room light.
Wait! How did he know the light was in this position?
When the light came on, Su Mu was completely awake.
This wasn’t some stranger’s room – this was a room he knew very, very well in his previous life.
This was Chu Hanting’s bedroom!
Back then, after marrying Chu Hanting, he had refused to live together, yet also refused to stay in the guest room.
So he had taken over Chu Hanting’s room and banished him to the guest room.
Back then, he felt Chu Hanting owed him everything, so he did whatever he wanted – sending him to the guest room wasn’t enough, later he even made him sleep on the sofa.
Now thinking back, he wanted to smack his past self on the head – how could he have been so inhuman!
But now there was a problem – how did he end up in Chu Hanting’s room?
Hadn’t they fallen out? Probably?
He remembered at the hotel when Chu Hanting questioned his sincerity, he had said something like a confession and then left angrily.
Being so cold to him, Chu Hanting had probably gone from not yet in love to disgusted ( )
What should he do? If he directly rejected his confession, did that mean he had no chance at all?
Su Mu crouched by the door, back against it, feeling so miserable he wanted to cry.
Chu Hanting hadn’t slept. After Liu Yu finally gave up teasing him with a “you brought this on yourself” and went to bed, he’d been contemplating life in the living room.
Hearing movement upstairs, Chu Hanting came up to knock.
“Su Mu, are you awake?”
Su Mu, crouching like a mushroom, jumped like a startled animal and mumbled: “Not awake.”
He didn’t want to see Chu Hanting yet, hadn’t figured out what to say, and definitely didn’t want to hear things like “leave and let’s never meet again” – that would truly break his heart.
Chu Hanting: …Not awake but still talking, huh?
He coaxed gently: “Open the door first. You had a fever, the doctor needs to check on you.”
He pushed the door several times but couldn’t open it, as if something was blocking it.
Su Mu reluctantly stood up. When he opened the door, Chu Hanting saw a fluffy head peek through the gap, with eyes as red as a rabbit’s, looking like he’d been crying.
Why was he so delicate?
But actually, Su Mu was only like this with Chu Hanting. Only matters involving Chu Hanting made him lose his soul like this, terrified of losing this person completely.
In front of others, Su Mu would shoulder any burden himself, like how he dealt with Zhang Gong at school – he was never a weak person.
But when it came to matters of the heart with Chu Hanting, he became sensitive and fragile, like cotton that could be hurt by the slightest touch, unable to withstand any pressure.
Chu Hanting pushed the door open bit by bit, his movements gentle, afraid of frightening him with any sudden movement.
“You…” His eyes fell on Su Mu’s bare feet, and his heart tightened. “Why aren’t you wearing shoes? You just got caught in the rain – are you trying to make yourself sick again?”
“You’re scolding me, you’re yelling at me,” Su Mu pouted, even more unhappy.
Perhaps because his fever hadn’t completely broken, his behavior was extremely bold, completely unaware of how intimate his words sounded.
Chu Hanting: …Never mind, won’t argue with a sick person.
When he turned to get slippers, he realized that yesterday when he’d put Su Mu directly on the bed, he hadn’t left any slippers.
He turned back awkwardly, “Sorry, I didn’t think it through just now. I’ll go get you slippers.”
After he hurried away, Su Mu blinked. Did he just apologize to him?
Did that mean he didn’t completely dislike him? Did he still have a chance to pursue him?
Thinking of this, Su Mu’s eyes immediately brightened, his whole body becoming energetic.
Like still water suddenly surging with powerful waves.
When Chu Hanting came back up with the slippers, Su Mu was sitting obediently on the bed’s edge, his feet swinging slightly.
Su Mu looked at the white bunny slippers with surprise, as if asking “how do you have this style at home?” Even his own home didn’t have such things.
Though Su Mu didn’t speak, Chu Hanting seemed to receive his brainwave and answered directly: “My slippers are too big for you. These were left here by grandfather before, they should be the right size.”
What he didn’t say was that the old man had complained about his villa lacking a human touch and forcefully left these slippers in his shoe cabinet, saying what if he brought a woman home one day and there weren’t any suitable slippers – so these were left for his future daughter-in-law.
He’d thought these slippers would go to waste, but now after searching around, these were the only ones that would fit Su Mu, so they came in handy.
Somehow, seeing Su Mu’s temptingly white feet, Chu Hanting wanted to put the slippers on for him.
So the dignified President Chu, who never bowed his head to others, actually knelt down and held that lotus-stem-like ankle.
At that moment of contact, both their hearts skipped a beat.
Because Su Mu had been walking on the floor for a while, his feet were ice-cold. His skin was delicately smooth, like ice and jade. To describe it in one phrase, Chu Hanting thought it was like an ice cream cake.