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Sweet Nothings - Chapter 78

Published at 12th of June 2023 12:16:58 PM


Chapter 78

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Yan Qing had no resistance in front of Mr. Huo, being hugged by him like this, listening to him whispering his desires in her ear, she seemed to be floating in a cloud, her whole body was soft and hot, she just wanted to let him do whatever he wanted.

Be it physically or emotionally, she agreed to everything he wanted.

He always held her like a treasure, so why not her.

From the bathroom to the sofa, and the small bed outside the bedroom where he slept for her, they finally returned to the big bed that still smelled of her perfume.

It was the first time she and him were here, where they had hugged and slept countless nights, until today, as Yun Qing, she lay down in the same position again, hugged him with her sweaty arms, and indulged in the extreme joy he gave her.

In the middle of the night, Yan Qing couldn’t hold it anymore, and pushed him weakly: “If you go too far, I’ll…”

His voice was hoarse: “That’s all.”

Yan Qing blinked her watery eyes, hooked the back of his neck, prolonged the soft and charming tone: “Just—cry.”

Huo Yunshen smiled deeply, sweat rolled down his forehead, and he kissed her: “Qingqing knows what I’m afraid of best.”

Afraid that she will cry, afraid that she will hurt.

Afraid of any grievances and sadness for her.

Huo Yunshen slowed down, stopped listening to her, hugged her, and patted her: “If you fall asleep within five minutes, I will let you go today.”

He was not in a hurry for this night.

He and her had a lifetime together.

Yan Qing was so sleepy that she was crumbling, and when she heard this, she immediately fell asleep according to the order. It didn’t even take five minutes, and only a few tens of seconds passed. But she still kept talking, occasionally revealing a little bit of whispered dream talk.

She spoke vaguely, and Huo Yunshen couldn’t distinguish the words clearly, but he still listened carefully.

When Yan Qing fell into a deep sleep, Huo Yunshen was worried that she was uncomfortable, and was about to put her on the pillow, but she rubbed herself against him and called softly: “…Brother Yunshen.”

Huo Yunshen was stunned: “Qingqing, what did you call me?”

Yan Qing opened his eyes and said in a daze, “Yunshen…brother, you forgot the cotton candy…”

Half a sentence became ambiguous, and when she finished, the eyelashes she struggled to raise fell again, and she fell asleep until she was unconscious.

Huo Yunshen’s heart shook violently.

Whether it was before or after the reunion, Qingqing had never called him that. Even if he asked for it when she was passionate, Qingqing still blushed and refused. How could she say it naturally in her dream.

There was also the faint cotton candy at the back, and why was it put together with this title…

Huo Yunshen restrained himself from waking Yan Qing up, covered her with a quilt, and turned to look at the drawer of the bedside table.

When he was making supper in the kitchen, his attention was also on Qingqing. She covered the door and seemed to have been looking for something in the bedroom.

His wife sent him away on purpose.

Realizing this, Huo Yunshen felt sore and unbearable, so he held back and didn’t ask, wanting to wait for her to speak up.

But now…, the only abnormality was this.

Huo Yunshen reached out and opened the drawer, took out the box stuffed in the deepest part, turned on the desk lamp, and opened it under the faint yellow light.

There was only one thick book in the box, the cover was very old, and although several layers of protective film had been carefully added to the corners, it was still worn to a little grey.

……Journal?

He didn’t know that Qingqing had the habit of keeping a diary.

Huo Yunshen’s nerves tightened suddenly, and he grasped the warmth of the book before slowly opening it. On the title page was a girl’s childhood handwriting, with a few round and small words: “The little secret of marshmallow.” The man’s stable hands began to tremble slightly.

On the next page, she changed six colours of watercolour pens and clumsily wrote a few short paragraphs.

“I saw him for the first time today. He helped me drive away bugs and said that I was cotton candy. The trees in the yard were tall and the flowers were beautiful, but they couldn’t compare to him.”

“I don’t know what marrying him means, but I heard from others that we can be together every day when we get married, I am willing.”

“I like Brother Yunshen.”

She was still very young that year, and even though she was precocious and smart, it hadn’t been long for since she had learnt to write. Stick figures and pinyin were used instead, but only “Yunshen” was written extremely seriously and correctly, as if she had learned over and over again from copybooks and printed them on rubbings.

Huo Yunshen sat on the edge of the bed, his heart was burned by the burning fire, and his fingers turned into icicles.

He stared at the tiny page without moving.

His mind was blank, and he was so swollen with pain from the impact of the surging waves.

He hadn’t seen it before, but he could imagine the girl when she five or six years old, wearing a dress embroidered with flowers, climbing up a chair with dangling legs, wrinkling her delicate white face under the lamp, while it took a long time to write this, and she still relished it with a sweet smile.

She not only wrote this page, but also the whole book after it, over the years.

Every picture was related to him, every word, it was Yun Qing’s unconditional love and protection for brother Yunshen from the first moment she saw him in childhood.

“Brother Yunshen praised me for looking good with my ponytail, and gave me a headband, which I want to tie every day.”

“He has grown taller again, and I can only see him when I look up.”

“His hands are so hot, when he holds my hand, it feels like I’m going to have a fever.”

“Brother Yunshen said he would marry me, when I grow up.”

“He’s gone, I can’t find him.”

“I think about him, will he suffer, but I can’t get out. I jumped off the balcony, but I was caught back.”

“My mother passed away, and my father married someone else in a few days. No one in the family loves me. My father said, if I go to him, I will not be the daughter of the Yun family in the future.”

“I found brother Yunshen, but he forget about me.”

Yun Qing drew a big smiling face here.

“It’s okay. I wore the white dress he likes and the hairband he gave me. He will think of me one day. When I grow up, I will marry him.”

There were still words below, but he couldn’t read them, it was moistened by the water in the man’s scarlet eye sockets, forming a cloud.

Under the desk lamp in the middle of the night, Huo Yunshen’s fingertips were stretched blue and white. He clenched the book until it wrinkled, and then loosened it tremblingly, smoothing it out little by little. He bent down like a knife.

The one who forgot was him.

Huo Yunshen turned over and hugged the sleeping person next to him tightly. She murmured and arched into his arms, her cheeks were pink, her long eyelashes were as black as crow feathers, her red lips were smiling, and she still followed her instinct in her dream, humming and chirpingly kissing him.

His silent tears wet her hair.

Huo Yunshen couldn’t help tightening his hold, and wanted to embed her into his flesh and blood to become one. She felt a little hurt, and complained and bit his collar.

“Bite it,” he said in a rough voice, in a very low voice, “just keep my life.”

With this life, he wanted to keep her until she died. Huo Yunshen stayed up all night. In the early hours of the morning, he contacted Dr. He: “When you first checked me, you said that I might have lost a childhood memory due to psychological trauma, but you said it must be painful, so I don’t need to think about it, it’s better to forget it, so we didn’t take any measures.”

The childhood in the Huo family was the beginning of his dirty and dark life, and he was lucky to lose any part.

It never occurred to him that what he forgot under the great anger and grief was the only honey in his life.

Because of too much bitterness, he subconsciously hid his precious treasures, his cotton candy, which belonged to him, he was in a mess at that time and did not deserve to have it.

“What’s wrong, Mr. Huo? Is it an important memory? If necessary, I can try to restore it. Your situation is different from your wife’s. It’s not that complicated. It won’t be difficult.”

“I’ll go find you after dawn.”

Yan Qing worked hard for a long time for her performances and awards, and she was finally relaxed, so she didn’t wake up until almost noon. The breakfast prepared by her husband was kept warm. He himself sat beside her, reviewing the documents with his usual expression, as he pinched the tip of her nose: “You’re awake?”

The sunlight was excellent, shining through the window on his angular face.

Yan Qing sighed, rubbed her legs against his legs, smiled and rolled her eyes: “A happy day starts with seeing Shenshen.”

After eating, she was thinking about how to get out of her husband’s palm temporarily.

“Well, Sister Lin Yuan said—”

“You still have work?”

Seeing her husband taking the initiative to talk, Yan Qing nodded quickly: “Yes, yes, I’m going to do some work in the afternoon, and I promise to stay with you after today.”

She wanted to talk to him about proposal.

Although the marriage certificate had been obtained, the marriage had long been a fact, but the wedding had not yet been held.

Her memory went backwards. On the day he took her to Xingyun and locked her up, she saw with her own eyes that the room was full of bright red. It was the preparation for a wedding room. There were several sets of wedding dresses on the bed, all of which were crumpled by his intense bed affairs that day.

At that time, she repelled him and watched him resentfully remove the arranged festivities little by little with his own hands.

He was afraid that her memory would be reset the next day, and she would panic if she saw it, so he did the whole process silently, but her expression and eyes were piercing.

Looking back now, she was in so much pain that she couldn’t bear it, and she had to get back this grievance for Shenshen.

She was going to take him to the place where they first met, tell him about the lost memory, and propose to him again.

But since her husband came to power, the Huo family people were either imprisoned or dead. The old house had been empty and had not been auctioned. She had to find a way to sneak in.

Huo Yunshen stared at her quietly: “Okay, you go to work, I have something to do, see you in the evening, okay?”

Yan Qing calculated that there should be enough time, and agreed happily.

She had a manager and an assistant, and a large group of people rushed to pick her up. She waved goodbye to her husband, and hurried to get the ring that she had ordered in advance.

A plain men’s ring, which was finally completed after a long period, was just the size of his ring finger.

Although her husband already had a wedding ring, she hoped that he could wear a new one that she chose for him herself.

When Yan Qing was on the way to pick up the ring, Huo Yunshen was lying on the bed in Dr. He’s consulting room. He pushed open the door hidden deep in his memory, and saw a pretty girl inside.

She sat alone on the ground with her knees hugged, got up and rushed to him: “You think of me!”

Five-year-old Yun Qing.

He was not the current him, but the gentle and smiling elder brother Yunshen that she liked at first sight.

Huo Yunshen bent down to hug her, and slowly opened his eyes.

Dr. He asked with concern: “Mr. Huo, are you okay?”

Huo Yunshen pressed the bed where Qingqing had been lying on many times, the corners of his mouth curled up, and the tails of his eyes were burning.

Good.

In those years when he thought he was dilapidated, he was never alone.

His little princess, with the purest and most transparent heart, no matter how he was cast aside, saved him and loved him as always.

Min Jing called: “Brother Shen, the ring has been delivered.”

Brother Shen took a low-key photo of the diamond before, and designed it into a ring in a hurry. A small ring with a sky-high price was now embedded in the box brilliantly, just waiting for its owner.

Min Jing said again: “Brother, my sister-in-law is going in the direction of the Huo family’s old house. It’s locked over there. Look——”

“Open it,” Huo Yunshen said, “don’t make her tired.”

If you want to go in and she couldn’t open the door, she would climb over the wall.

Yan Qing rushed to the old house, and there were still people living around it, so it wouldn’t be so deserted that it would be scary. She was really ready to climb over the wall if she couldn’t enter through the main door. Anyway, the house was deserted, and there was nothing to steal. The alarm system should be turned off.

She pushed the door tentatively.

It was open.

Yan Qing took two steps back in shock, even if they had nothing to steal, they shouldn’t be so generous, right?

It was convenient for her.

She squeezed in, walked along the familiar road in her memory, and walked slowly to the corridor where she first met Huo Yunshen. In midsummer, the green plants were luxuriant, and it hadn’t changed from before. It was still the same as if time had passed in the blink of an eye.

Yan Qing stroked the hem of the skirt. She specially customized it. It was an enlarged version of the dress she wore when she was five years old, and the style was actually very suitable.

Her heart beat faster, and she called Huo Yunshen in the shade.

He didn’t finish ringing, and he answered.

“Shenshen, I want to make a date with you.”

“Okay.”

Yan Qing took a deep breath.

When her Mr. Huo came, she would first tell him the story in the diary, and then take out the ring to propose to him——, “I am—”, she sweetly described the address, under the corridor of the main house in front of her, the man’s eyes were fixed on her.

The girl was wearing a white dress, her long hair was tied up with a familiar headband, revealing her porcelain-white cheeks and slender shoulders and neck. She was holding her hands nervously. The evening sun shone down, reflecting a leaf, which fell leisurely on her shoulders.

Yan Qing got stuck and was startled.

The last time she stood here collecting bugs, this time, when Yan Qing looked down, footsteps sounded, stepping on her breath.

She saw a pair of slender and straight legs, and cold white palms stretched out to brush off the fallen leaves on her shoulders.

Yan Qing froze, and slowly raised her head in disbelief.

Huo Yunshen pinched her face deeply: “Coward.”

Yan Qing stared at him, her heart turned upside down, and the tip of her nose turned red suddenly: “…you bullied me.”

“It’s not bullying,” he said with a smile, “it’s about you, your face is like cotton candy, so I pinched it.”

Not a single word was bad.

Yan Qing thought she wouldn’t cry, but at this moment, the tears couldn’t bear the weight at all and flowed out violently.

She touched the ring, choked up and couldn’t speak.

Huo Yunshen grabbed her hand, wrapped it tightly in his palm, and knelt down in front of her.

He was so tall, and now he lowered himself, kneeling piously in front of her, putting the diamond ring on her ring finger with trembling wrists, with blood pooling in his eyes, and asked her: “Can you please agree to marry me.”

When she was in college, he proposed to marry her, but he had nothing, and she was still willing to promise him.

After finding her, in order to bind her, he forcibly trapped her with a marriage certificate.

Now he was complete and could give her all the good things in the world.

Huo Yunshen’s voice was hoarse: “Qingqing, we have everything, I can let you live the best life, what you want—”

Yan Qing didn’t wait for him to finish, she just lowered her body and cried, “Huo Yunshen, I don’t want anything else, I just want you.”

She hurriedly found out the ring, put it on his ring finger, lowered her head and kissed it, smiled through tears, raised her face and said softly: “I also beg Mr. Huo Yunshen, to marry me and take me home.”

The wind in the summer evening was very gentle, blowing the broken hair on her forehead.

There was light in Huo Yunshen’s eyes, he pressed Yan Qing into his arms, and hugged her with all his strength.

And embraced his whole world.

He was stuck in the bottomless abyss, the girl let down the rope, not to let him climb up, but she let herself down without making a sound, even if the corner of her skirt was torn and cut a wound, she still had to put on the warmth of her whole body and softly pounced on him.

Henceforth the abyss was also heaven.

Cold could also be hot.

He burned everything, stepped on the ashes and bound her persistently, but she was willing to open her arms and fall into the cage he built with his own hands as early as the very beginning.

If he was still uneasy.

Then he was the only one…

The time in this life was too short, even if he exhausted everything, he could only love her for less than a hundred years.





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