Chapter 11: What Are You Looking At? There’s Nothing to See (Revised)

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He couldn’t stop guessing if there was a problem between these two people; otherwise, Man wouldn’t have brought him home.

Countless malicious thoughts accompanied the vibration in his mind, just like in the countless dreams he had in the past two years.

Because no one answered for a long time, the phone kept vibrating, causing the entire sofa to vibrate slightly. The phone was about to fall off the sofa due to the vibration.

Si Jiahe suddenly came back to his senses. When his gaze fell on Tang Man’s face, he took the phone that was about to fall. His fingers curled up several times, and the evil thoughts in his heart gradually subsided. In the end, he still didn’t answer the call.

Because he didn’t dare to take the risk.

He wasn’t sure if Tang Man still had feelings for him after two years. He also didn’t dare to be certain whether Tang Man would choose him between him and Du Henian.

After getting along for a long time, Si Jiahe had figured out a bit of Tang Man’s temperament.

He wasn’t sure, so he didn’t dare to take the risk.

At least not now… Wait a little longer, he thought.

As if sensing someone beside her, Tang Man quickly woke up and saw Si Jiahe close at hand as soon as she opened her eyes.

She was stunned for a moment.

The two were very close.

She was still a bit dazed, lying on the sofa feeling sore and stiff, as if something was pressing against her shoulders and back.

“Whose call was it?” Tang Man rubbed her neck.

Si Jiahe handed the phone to Tang Man, casually mentioned Du Henian, and then naturally sat beside her, massaging her sore neck.

The force was just right, no less than the massage therapists in the shop.

However, when Tang Man heard Du Henian’s name from Si Jiahe’s mouth, her eyes widened for a moment. She quickly took the phone, almost jumping up from the soft sofa.

But then she realized that they had already broken up, and she didn’t need to be so panicked.

It was purely because, in the three years they were together, Du Henian had very little sense of security. As long as she was with other young men, he couldn’t help but be more concerned.

After realizing this, she rubbed her eyebrows and looked at the phone screen.

It was a missed call, displaying a string of numbers, not Du Henian’s. She frowned suspiciously for a moment before realizing it was Du Henian’s other number.

It wasn’t answered.

Because her mind was too chaotic, she didn’t notice why Si Jiahe knew the person on the other end was Du Henian just by seeing a string of numbers.

She subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the red string of numbers on the phone screen. After all, if Si Jiahe and Du Henian confronted each other at this time, it would be enough to give her a headache. The madness hidden beneath Du Henian’s gentle demeanor was something she didn’t want these two to confront now, as she would be the one to suffer.

However, Tang Man quickly realized that her reaction just now seemed a bit excessive. She glanced at Si Jiahe’s expression.

Si Jiahe was looking at her. “What’s wrong?”

Tang Man almost wanted to give an embarrassed smile but ended up just shaking her head pretentiously. “It’s nothing.”

Since Si Jiahe didn’t mention it, why should she take the initiative to touch upon this matter and bring up Du Henian?

Back then, when she was with Du Henian, she felt that she hadn’t done anything wrong. When they were together, she and Si Jiahe had already broken up, although she got together with Du Henian only two weeks later, which indeed seemed a bit improper in the eyes of outsiders.

But for her, she was serious and loyal to every relationship. If she fell in love with someone else, she would definitely break up before starting the next one, just like now.

However, if outsiders knew about what happened back then, they would undoubtedly call her fickle and ruin her reputation, but Du Henian wouldn’t be affected much. Outsiders would, at most, make a few jokes, saying that he was charming and had the ability to win over the campus belle.

In the eyes of outsiders, finding a new boyfriend within two weeks was undoubtedly a seamless transition. They would have many speculations, questioning whether she had already been emotionally unfaithful and had a secret affair with Du Henian.

But in the end, when they graduated, Tang Man didn’t hear any rumors. Si Jiahe didn’t tell anyone about her and Du Henian’s matter and actively kept it a secret.

Tang Man didn’t know the reason, but in her heart, there was a bit more guilt and apology. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have remembered him for so long.

So, when it came to Si Jiahe, she was always a little more gentle and soft-hearted, with a bottomless bottom line.

However, Si Jiahe seemed not to have noticed and instead leaned closer from above, whispering in her ear, “Man, it’s getting dark. I have to go.”

He spoke but didn’t stand up. Instead, he looked at the woman lying on the sofa with a pair of bright, cat-like eyes, his hands not stopping, pressing on the skin of her neck with just the right amount of force.

Tang Man turned her head to look at Si Jiahe. She had just woken up, and her mind was still a bit dazed, but when she heard the three words “Du Henian,” she had already become much more alert and had regained her senses.

She casually asked, “What time is it?”

“Almost seven o’clock.” Actually, he had been squatting here for nearly half an hour, and his legs were a bit numb, but out of a certain thought, he didn’t really want to wake her up.

She slept for so long?

Tang Man was a bit surprised.

However, she didn’t get up but continued to lie down for a while. Her gaze fell on the boy above, her fingers fiddling with the phone case in her palm, feeling that it was a bit difficult to end.

Si Jiahe also looked at her.

In a moment of silent eye contact, Si Jiahe suddenly leaned forward cautiously and tentatively kissed Tang Man’s cheek, then slowly landed on the woman’s corner of the mouth, gently going up and down.

With a strong implication. At the same time, a pair of hands were still on her neck, lightly touching like a dragonfly skimming the water.

Tang Man’s eyes were indifferent, but she narrowed her eyes under Si Jiahe’s kiss. In her mind, she thought of Si Jiahe’s beautiful hands that could be hand models, slender and long, not the kind of skinny and bony slenderness, but like warm jade, like an artwork made of white jade.

They were a pair of good hands.

She used to like them very much, and of course, she still liked them very much now. The men she had dated, not to mention their appearance, generally had good-looking hands.

Under his kiss, she thought casually, however, using such hands to prepare three meals a day was indeed a bit of a waste, a waste of resources.

But at the same time, one of her hands subconsciously rested on Si Jiahe’s neck, rubbing it a few times, stroking the protruding bones at the back of his neck. Too thin.

The tips of Si Jiahe’s ears turned red, spreading to a large area behind his ears, like the afterglow of the sunset, the layer of misty haze covering the sky.

He spoke, a pair of bright, cat-like eyes looking at the woman in front of him, saying in a low voice, “Man, can I stay overnight today?”

After a long while, Tang Man meaningfully pinched the tip of Si Jiahe’s ear, the warm sensation tickling her fingertips.

She smiled, her eyes shining, “Of course you can.”