“Xiaoyun doesn’t want to?” Qin Xue sounded a little disappointed when Su Yun didn’t respond for a while.
“It’s not that, it’s just... there’s no spoon here...”
“I know.”
“Eh.” Su Yun felt the softness pressing against her chest, and her heart skipped a beat.
So Qin Xue really did mean for me to feed her with my mouth…? With so many people around, isn’t she afraid they’ll misunderstand?
“Alright, alright, I won’t tease you anymore.” Seeing the worry and fear on Su Yun’s face, Qin Xue quickly came out of her sad mood.
“I’m really not that upset now, because Xiaoyun, you’re by my side~”
“Ugh...” Just a second ago, Su Yun was trying to comfort Qin Xue, but the next thing she knew, she was being wrapped in a hug so tight she couldn’t move.
Girls really switch moods fast. Or maybe… was she just acting earlier?
Su Yun felt a bit deceived—it didn’t sit right.
But thinking back to how genuinely Qin Xue spoke earlier, it didn’t really feel fake either.
Ugh, don’t hug so tightly...
“Here, drink, Xiaoyun.” Qin Xue picked up another new cup of milk tea and brought the straw up to Su Yun’s lips, trying to press it between her soft pink lips.
Su Yun was still stuck on what Qin Xue had said earlier. Her subconscious guardedness kept her from letting the straw in for quite a while.
If everything Qin Xue said about her childhood was true, then Su Yun really needed to treat this friend well and let her experience the joy of real friendship.
Although to be honest, she didn’t have many friends herself...
“Xiaoyun doesn’t want to drink?”
“It’s not that...” Prompted by Qin Xue, Su Yun finally bit down on the straw and started drinking.
“Hey, what are you doing?” But halfway through, Qin Xue suddenly yanked the straw out.
Su Yun glared up at her with a resentful look.
Why’d you pull it out all of a sudden? The milk (tea) is leaking!
“Eh eh...” But then, right in front of her eyes, Qin Xue bit down on that same straw and started drinking from it.
Su Yun blinked in disbelief, her mind lagging behind. At the same time, her face turned red.
That milk tea I had just been drinking… now she was drinking it... Doesn’t this count as an indirect kiss?
Qin Xue caught Su Yun’s dazed, adorable expression, and she secretly rejoiced.
Xiaoyun’s reaction is just too cute—she looks so silly.
“Pfft.” Qin Xue glanced at Su Yun again and couldn’t help but laugh halfway through drinking.
“What are you laughing at.”
“At you. You’re too cute.”
“...” Su Yun pouted her lips at the comment.
I'm not cute, I'm a ‘guy,’ and I bite, okay?
Su Yun really didn’t like being called cute. Especially not in that teasing tone Qin Xue used.
Right now, she just felt like Qin Xue was being a total airhead, constantly laughing, making her feel like all the concern she showed earlier was completely unnecessary.
“Alright, I won’t steal your drink anymore. Here, you can have it back.” Qin Xue said as she handed the milk tea back into Su Yun’s small hands.
“...”
Qin Xue then just sat beside her, eyes glued, waiting to see Su Yun bite down on the same straw she had just used.
“I don’t want it anymore.” Right then, Su Yun turned her face away, not even looking at her. Her tone sounded like she was mad.
“Huh?”
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” Realizing something was wrong, Qin Xue immediately hugged Su Yun’s small body and grabbed her chin to force her to look at her.
“I’m gonna bite you!”
“Xiaoyun, what are you doing?”
As soon as their eyes met, Su Yun lunged forward in anger, and the two started roughhousing in public.
“They’re so close...” Sitting at the table next to them, Zhou Yiyi watched the two with a tinge of envy.
She’d been listening to Qin Xue and Su Yun chat nonstop from the very beginning—over ten minutes of non-stop talking. At one point, they even shared drinks, and now they were cuddling in the middle of their conversation.
Looking at how intimately they behaved, Zhou Yiyi couldn’t tell whether she was more jealous of Qin Xue or Su Yun.
“Xiaoyun, don’t touch it there, it tickles—haha...”
“That’s what you get for drinking my milk tea! And for laughing at me!”
Pushed to her limit, Su Yun furiously attacked Qin Xue’s waist with her hands—and it just so happened Qin Xue was ticklish there.
Their roughhousing got a bit loud. Besides Zhou Yiyi, people at nearby tables started noticing the two girls tangled together.
But no one felt annoyed—on the contrary, it was a pleasant sight to behold. Plus, both girls had really nice voices. People started quietly whispering to their friends while sneaking glances in that direction.
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Later that noon, Su Yun had a seemingly delicious meal with the girls at the plaza’s center.
As for why it was seemingly delicious—it was because Su Yun couldn’t actually taste anything. But thanks to Qin Xue messing with her earlier, she was a bit hungry and managed to eat a bowl anyway.
The afternoon fun didn’t end there. Those girls had seemingly endless stamina, wandering all over the giant plaza. Even if they didn’t buy anything, they insisted on going into every store to browse like it was the most fun thing in the world.
This only made things worse for Su Yun, who was already tired and hungry. By the time they were actually getting ready to board the car and leave, she felt like her head was spinning.
“Today was so fun, thank you, Sister Xue!”
“There’s an amusement park nearby, right? We don’t need you to pay for tickets, we’ll cover it ourselves—wanna go check it out?” Even when they were at the car, the girls were still suggesting more places to visit.
“Ugh...” Su Yun, holding Qin Xue’s hand and trailing behind, was already slightly hunched over, barely able to walk.
“If we keep going, it’ll be too late. Let’s save it for next time—it’s almost break anyway. I’ll treat you all again then.” Qin Xue gently persuaded them as she helped Su Yun into the car.
“Alright then.” Seeing her like this, the girls finally gave in and got into the car as well.
Only then did this happy day of fun officially come to an end.
“Phew...” Once they were in the car, the exhausted Su Yun collapsed onto Qin Xue, looking completely drained.
Qin Xue wrapped her arms around her and held her waist steady.
On the way back to school, Su Yun fell asleep in Qin Xue’s arms again—just like earlier.
Zhou Yiyi, sitting nearby, could only secretly take a cute sleeping photo of Su Yun out of jealousy.
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“Bye bye~ Yiyi.”
“Bye.”
Eventually, the girls said their goodbyes at the school gate. Most of them went back into the school since they stayed on campus—only Zhou Yiyi lived off-campus.
And since Zhou Yiyi and Su Yun weren’t headed in the same direction, they parted ways there too.
“Ugh, Sister Xue, I’m kinda hungry...” In the car, the drowsy Su Yun lay against Qin Xue’s chest, her voice soft and sultry.
That voice stirred Qin Xue’s already excited heart even more.
She looked down at the adorable girl in her arms, her heartbeat racing.
“Is your place nearby?” Qin Xue thought for a moment and asked.
“Mm, very close, just across the bridge.”
“Oh, then we’re almost there.”
“Yeah...”
Hearing her voice getting weaker, Qin Xue instinctively wanted to tell the maid to drive back home and grab some blood.
But in the next second, another idea popped into her head.
When Xiaoyun gets hungry, doesn’t she start biting people?
She always jumps on her own, and when she drinks blood, she curls up in her arms like a little baby...
Just imagining it, Qin Xue looked down at the frail girl in front of her.
“Ugh, Sister Xue, why aren’t we driving yet...” That soft, whimpering voice came again from her arms.
And at that moment—Qin Xue went stiff.
(End of Chapter)