Chapter 40: Deeply Cherished
After that, Su Moyu took out her phone and watched short videos, calmly enjoying Bai Shuchuan drying her hair.
Bai Shuchuan’s gaze fell on her back. Su Moyu’s figure now looked very small and delicate. As the warm air from the dryer lifted her hair, a faint shampoo scent drifted into his nose.
“Susu, Shuchuan, come downstairs for lunch!” Bai Xiaqing called from below just as he turned off the hair dryer.
“Coming!” Su Moyu answered. She reached up to touch her smooth hair, then looked at herself in the mirror. “Wow, I didn’t expect your skills to be this good.”
Bai Shuchuan smiled slightly. “Maybe I just got lucky.”
“Did you help your sister dry her hair before?”
“Yeah, sometimes. But that was a long time ago.”
Su Moyu nodded with satisfaction. “You really did a good job.”
As she spoke, she stood up and stretched. The shape of her body became clear for a moment.
Bai Shuchuan’s eyes were naturally drawn to her. When she lowered her arms again, his gaze returned to her face.
“Actually, I still feel a bit uncomfortable staying at your house,” Su Moyu said. “Even though your parents care about me, I still feel more at ease at my own home… or our house.”
Bai Shuchuan blinked. “Then… do you want to go back first?”
Su Moyu almost laughed. “If I do that, wouldn’t I look like a cold and heartless daughter-in-law?”
Bai Shuchuan looked even more confused.
Su Moyu cleared her throat and said, “Sometimes I just want to complain a little. I don’t really mean it. It’s like in high school when teachers gave too much homework, and I said I wanted to ‘fight them to the end.’ I didn’t actually mean it.”
“You can also talk to me like that,” she added.
“Okay,” Bai Shuchuan replied.
Su Moyu then turned and walked downstairs.
“Let’s eat! I haven’t had your mom’s cooking in a long time.”
When she reached downstairs, she saw the table already full of dishes, and a sense of nostalgia rose in her heart.
When she was younger and came to play at Bai Shuchuan’s house, she would stubbornly refuse to leave. Bai’s mother would even persuade her own mother to let her stay for dinner.
Thinking about it now, she felt her younger self had really been shamelessly bold.
Bai’s father ate lunch at the school cafeteria. The people at the table quietly ate their food. Bai’s mother casually picked up a chicken wing and put it into Su Moyu’s bowl.
“Try this, see if it tastes good,” she said.
Su Moyu took a bite of the cola chicken wing. Bai Shuchuan watched her smiling face, noticing a bit of sauce at the corner of her mouth.
“Delicious! Thank you, Mom,” she said happily.
“If you like it, eat more.”
“Try this braised shrimp. I made it,” Bai Xiaqing said, pushing the dish toward her.
“This is also really good!” Su Moyu said.
Of course, she could tell, many of the dishes on the table were her favorites.
It seemed Bai’s parents truly cared a lot about their daughter-in-law.
Thinking of this, a warm feeling rose in her heart.
But this kind of life…
Could it really continue like this forever?
Su Moyu secretly glanced at Bai Shuchuan. In her eyes, there was a hint of worry that even she herself didn’t notice.