Chapter 74: Liking You Doesn’t Need a Reason
A long time had passed.
On the bed, Lin Muxi suddenly felt a sharp cramp in her stomach. The pain woke her up instantly from deep sleep.
“Hiss—ah, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts… I’m going to die…”
Her face turned pale. Lin Muxi curled up on the bed, holding her stomach tightly with both hands.
What’s going on…? It didn’t hurt at all before I went to sleep…
Lin Muxi was confused, but she couldn’t do anything about it. The pain kept attacking her nerves again and again, and because her body was extra sensitive, she had to bite down hard on her teeth.
I can’t take it anymore… it hurts so much… What’s wrong with my body…?
Her mind was already starting to feel blurry, and Lin Muxi had no choice but to quickly think of asking her good bro for help.
“Mo Ziyang… Mo…”
But when she tried to call out to him in the living room, she realized she couldn’t even raise her voice anymore. Even her words came out weak and faint.
What should I do… I can’t just faint in my room from the pain, right…?
Enduring the cramps in her lower stomach, Lin Muxi forced herself to think.
Right! My phone!
She quickly turned over, grabbed her phone, and called her good bro. Then she curled up again, hoping that Mo Ziyang would come in right away.
And just as she wished—
A few seconds after she made the call, Mo Ziyang opened the door.
“What’s wrong, Lin Muxi?”
As soon as he walked in, he saw Lin Muxi’s small body curled up under the blanket. Realizing that her stomach was hurting badly, Mo Ziyang rushed over to her side.
“It hurts… it hurts so much…”
Looking at him with a weak face covered in sweat, Lin Muxi spoke softly.
“Tsk… why didn’t you tell me earlier?”
Seeing this, Mo Ziyang quickly ran to the kitchen. He brought back a bowl of hot brown sugar water he had boiled, carefully placed it on the small table beside her bed, then sat down and gently pulled the little fool into his arms.
“Drink while it’s still hot… open your mouth.”
He scooped up some sugar water with a spoon. Watching Lin Muxi suffer like this also made his heart ache, so he decided to feed her himself.
Seeing that her good bro had even cooked something for her, Lin Muxi, still curled in his arms and gritting her teeth, forced herself to open her mouth. Slowly, spoon by spoon, she drank the sweet brown sugar water he made for her.
After a while, she felt a warm current flow from her stomach to her lower belly, and the pain finally started to ease a lot.
At last, she could lean slightly against Mo Ziyang’s chest and sit up a little.
“Do you feel better now…?”
Looking at Lin Muxi, who had just been suffering so badly, Mo Ziyang couldn’t help but ask worriedly.
After all, he had never experienced this before. It was his first time taking care of a girl. He only knew that brown sugar water could help ease the pain, but he wasn’t sure how much it would really help.
“Mm… it doesn’t hurt as much as before…” Lin Muxi whispered, leaning against his warm chest.
Since the pain had lessened a lot, some color returned to her face. At least she didn’t look so pale anymore.
Seeing that she truly felt a little better, Mo Ziyang put a pillow behind her so she could rest on it.
Then he went back to the kitchen, poured some warm water into a pot, brought it to her bedside, and placed her drinking cup next to it.
On the bed, Lin Muxi looked at her good bro, who was busy running around to help her. She felt very touched. As a sour feeling rose in her nose, her eyes unknowingly grew wet with tears.
“Mo Ziyang…” Lin Muxi held onto her blanket and softly called to him while he was pouring hot water.
“Hm? What’s wrong? Do you feel pain somewhere again?” Mo Ziyang turned his head in confusion. When he saw Lin Muxi’s watery eyes, he thought she wasn’t feeling well again.
“No…” Lin Muxi shook her head.
“Then what is it?”
“That drink earlier… did you make it?” Lin Muxi thought for a while, then asked the question curiously.
“Yes. But that was just sugar water, it’s not really soup.” Mo Ziyang confirmed her guess.
“So you can even do things like that…”
Hearing his words, Lin Muxi glanced at her own soft little hands, then lowered her eyes with disappointment. Compared to her, her good bro was really too outstanding…
“What are you thinking about? Drink the hot water first.”
Seeing her mood drop, Mo Ziyang quickly poured a cup of hot water and handed it to her, then patted her head gently to comfort her.
The scene in front of her made Lin Muxi suddenly remember the question Yu Xiaoxiao had asked her in the morning.
What exactly… does Mo Ziyang see in me?
Why would he like me?
She couldn’t figure it out. She didn’t want to think about it either, it just felt annoying. But wasn’t the person she wanted to know about right here beside her? If she didn’t know, she could just ask him directly.
“Hey… Mo Ziyang, I want to know, what exactly do you like about me?”
After drinking a few sips of water, Lin Muxi handed the cup back, then grabbed his sleeve and asked.
Mo Ziyang smiled but didn’t answer. Instead, after putting the cup away, he sat down on the bed.
Lin Muxi immediately understood and moved into his arms, lying against his chest while raising her head to look at him.
“Lie down properly… I’ll rub your belly, then it should stop hurting.”
Still ignoring her question, Mo Ziyang gently began massaging her lower stomach.
“Mmm…”
His hands worked very well, making her feel so much better. The last bits of pain in her stomach quickly faded. But although it was comfortable, it was too comfortable, and that made her feel a little strange.
Before long, Lin Muxi’s small face had turned completely red in his arms, and even her breathing carried a faint hint of panting.
But she didn’t really care, because Mo Ziyang still hadn’t answered her question.
“Hey… what exactly do you like about me…”
Maybe because she was growing impatient with his silence, Lin Muxi asked again.
“I don’t even know. Can you believe that?”
Mo Ziyang gave a bitter smile. Clearly, he couldn’t give a clear answer to that question either.
But liking someone was just liking them. Why did it need a reason?
“I don’t believe you…”
Lin Muxi lowered her head, obediently leaning in his arms without moving, letting him rub her stomach.
“Other than looking pretty… I don’t have anything else. There are so many girls out there who are better than me…”
Her voice grew softer and softer, until at the end she was so shy she could only fiddle nervously with her fingers while hiding in his chest.
“You really want me to like someone else instead?” Mo Ziyang asked back.
“No… of course not… But even if I didn’t want you to, if you did, I couldn’t stop you…”
Even though she said that, her little hand tightly gripped his arm, unwilling to let go.
“You’re so silly. Why should I need a reason to like you? To me, liking someone is just liking them, it doesn’t need any reason. Do you understand?”
Mo Ziyang pulled Lin Muxi tightly into his arms.
“Mm…”
Hearing him say that, Lin Muxi’s face turned even redder. She could only bury herself shyly against his chest.
That heart-fluttering feeling, together with Mo Ziyang’s hand still rubbing her belly, made her whole heart itch restlessly.