Chapter 89: An Indirect Kiss
Inside the apartment, Mu Yi still did not know there was something wrong with the takeout food.
She directly took out a pair of disposable chopsticks and gently split them apart. Then she hesitated for a moment between the side dishes and the fried noodles.
Her chopsticks passed by the large sausage, small slices of lettuce, big pieces of chicken fillet, thumb-sized potatoes, and mushrooms.
In the end, she slowly picked up some noodles.
Tiny bits of meat sauce rolled down the surface of the noodles and fell back into the box, leaving only a little behind while releasing a hot, spicy, and tempting smell.
After softly breathing in the aroma, Mu Yi still did not eat immediately. Instead, she raised an eyebrow and looked at Gu Zhiren across from her.
“You really aren’t eating?”
Her expression clearly said, “It’s your loss if you don’t eat it.”
Seeing this, Gu Zhiren did not answer right away. He glanced twice at the small section of pale wrist extending from her sleeve. After thinking for a moment, he frowned and said,
“You seem to have...”
“Hm?”
Mu Yi froze slightly.
“You seem thinner.”
Gu Zhiren tilted his head and narrowed his eyes with dissatisfaction.
The moment she heard that, Mu Yi’s expression immediately turned strange, and alarm bells instantly rang in her head.
She remembered those dreams from the past few days.
Without caring about anything else, Mu Yi hurriedly put down her chopsticks in fright.
She flipped her hands over to look at them.
Then she directly pulled open her collar for a glance, lifted her shirt to check her stomach, and even shamelessly sniffed herself before turning around to look behind her.
Watching every single one of her actions, Gu Zhiren’s expression gradually became complicated.
Should he say “don’t look at improper things”?
But he simply could not move his eyes away.
After all, look at Mu Yi, wasn’t she adorable?
Then another thought came to him, and he could not help rolling his eyes helplessly at how completely unaware she was.
Surely she was not intentionally trying to tempt him, right?
“There’s nothing there...”
After carefully checking herself for a while and finding that her body was exactly the same as this morning, Mu Yi finally let out a relieved sigh.
That scared her to death.
She had thought her body suddenly changed again, like strange patterns appearing on her stomach, her chest and body shrinking, or some weird fragrance coming from her body...
“What are you talking about? You must be too hungry and seeing things!”
Muttering that, Mu Yi picked up her chopsticks again and aggressively poked into the takeout box.
“You just can’t tell yourself. Stop eating takeout all the time. I already told you this stuff isn’t clean, and it’s not very nutritious either. Wouldn’t it be better to cook for yourself?”
Gu Zhiren rested his head on one hand, his lips pressed into a straight line, looking both helpless and slightly wronged.
Then he lowered his eyes toward the two boxes of fried noodles.
If he could, he honestly wanted to throw them straight into the trash and make Mu Yi eat something healthier instead.
He wanted to raise her until she became soft and chubby~
But then Mu Yi suddenly looked over at him. She calmly picked up a mushroom and tilted her head, her eyes once again filled with that familiar smugness and slyness.
“Hey, Gu Zhiren, after saying so much, that last sentence was your real point, wasn’t it~? You just want me to hurry up and learn cooking so I can cook for you, right?”
Hearing that, Gu Zhiren looked at her with a half-smile and calmly asked back,
“Do I?”
“Playing dumb is shameless! Eat this mushroom first, then finish this box of fried noodles, and I’ll promise you that from now on I’ll never order takeout again. I’ll cook every meal myself.”
Mu Yi held the mushroom out toward Gu Zhiren.
This fried noodle dish was seriously top-tier. Missing out on delicious food just because of fixed opinions would be a huge loss. Once he finished eating, he would definitely thank her for it!
The only question was whether he would stubbornly stick to his opinion or accept what she said.
Obviously, he would choose the second option!
“Then I’ll eat it~”
Without any hesitation, Gu Zhiren leaned forward and ate the mushroom Mu Yi held out to him. After chewing a few times, he frowned slightly, then picked up the unopened box of fried noodles.
“Mmm...”
Seeing how readily he agreed, Mu Yi was stunned. She lowered her eyes and stared at the chopsticks that had just fed Gu Zhiren for quite a while.
That was too fast...
He had taken that bite way too quickly.
She was not sure whether Gu Zhiren’s lips or teeth had touched the chopsticks just now.
And if they did, then if she continued using the same chopsticks to eat—
Wouldn’t that count as...
An indirect kiss?!
What should she do? She really cared about it now. Could she ask Gu Zhiren to switch chopsticks with her?
Wait—
If she asked to switch them, wouldn’t that expose how much she cared about indirect kissing?
Mu Yi did not want to expose that.
Logically speaking, it was normal for a girl to care about this kind of thing.
But she was different.
She, Mu Yi, was a macho man!!
Thinking that, Mu Yi let out a breath and immediately wrapped a huge amount of noodles around her chopsticks.
As if she wanted to shove them straight into her throat, the noodles were instantly pushed into her mouth. She stretched her neck forward, and her pale cheeks puffed out noticeably.
Her mouth was quickly stuffed full of noodles.
Her soft pink lips slowly closed, and the hand holding the chopsticks pulled firmly.
The chopsticks slid back out.
With her eyes closed, she chewed the noodles fiercely.
The embarrassment and resistance in her heart slowly faded away, replaced by the happiness brought by the spicy noodles and rich meat sauce. A smile bloomed on the girl’s face.
Meanwhile, on the other side—
Gu Zhiren was still slowly eating the mushroom Mu Yi had fed him.
He had not touched the fried noodles at all.
He had not even taken out the disposable chopsticks yet.
After swallowing the hot mouthful, Mu Yi finished all the noodles in her mouth. She subconsciously pressed her lips lightly against the chopsticks, then turned her head and gently patted the white kitten’s head.
Cats could not eat this kind of food.
No matter how much it wanted it, the little cat could only watch helplessly.
There was no helping that.
“......”
Looking at the chopsticks Mu Yi had pressed against her lips, Gu Zhiren’s expression shifted slightly. Suddenly, he started caring about something.
Those chopsticks...
He had accidentally touched them earlier.
Did she really not care about indirectly kissing him?
Thinking back to before, when they had also been eating fried noodles together, she had acted completely unconcerned about an indirect kiss back then too.
He could not help slightly raising his eyebrow.
For a moment, many thoughts filled Gu Zhiren’s mind.
“Hey, what are you doing? Why do you keep staring at me?”
Mu Yi felt very confused by his behavior and directly looked back at him.
“Oh~ don’t tell me you’re overthinking because of the chopsticks?”
Seeing Gu Zhiren shrug his shoulders and shake his head like it was nothing, she lifted her chin proudly and continued.
Hearing that, Gu Zhiren only smiled silently.
He instantly realized that the person who cared about it was probably not just him, but he chose not to point it out.
“......”
Mu Yi did not want to pay attention to Gu Zhiren anymore, but then she suddenly realized that after all this time, he was still eating that single mushroom.
Her eyes widened in surprise.
He really ate slowly...
She had even wanted to remind him that food should be eaten while it was hot.
Suddenly, she felt dizzy.
Everything in front of her was covered in a layer of gray.
Her consciousness and thoughts rapidly drifted away. It felt as if her whole body had fallen into the deep sea, sinking lower and lower, while every sound disappeared into darkness.
She could not control it at all.
In the end, the only thing left in her world was endless blackness without a bottom.
“Ugh...”
Using the last bit of strength she had left, Mu Yi held her forehead.
Then her body tilted sideways, and she collapsed onto the table.
“Mu Yi?”
Gu Zhiren frowned.