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The touch was wrong. Qiansui was furry, soft, and round. What she held now was hard, warm, and had bones.
She caught that familiar scent. It was Lin Qingxue.
She started struggling, pushing at Lin Qingxue’s shoulders, kicking at her waist, flopping like a fish caught on land.
Lin Qingxue almost lost her grip. She tightened her arms and hoisted Su Yutao up a little.
Then she bent down, picked up the dusty penguin from the floor, and shoved it into Su Yutao’s arms.
The moment Su Yutao’s hands touched Qiansui’s plush, she hugged it tight.
Qiansui’s voice exploded by her ear, raspy from sleep and full of grievance.
“Host, you kicked me right off a moment ago!”
“And can you sleep a little better? I was the one who got kicked off.”
Su Yutao hugged Qiansui even tighter and said in her heart:
‘Mm, I was still dazed from sleep. I thought you ran off on your own.’
Qiansui got even more wronged.
“I’m a toy penguin. How can I run? I don’t even have legs! And who’s that pink-haired girl at the door? I’ve never seen her before.”
Su Yutao froze.
Pink-haired girl? Someone else?
She lifted her face from Lin Qingxue’s neck and “looked” toward the door.
She couldn’t see, but she could feel that gaze. It was sticky, like syrup clinging to her skin, and it felt very unfriendly.
She frowned.
Lin Qingxue looked down at Su Yutao in her arms.
After getting the penguin, the girl stopped struggling and leaned quietly against her, hugging the toy.
Her white hair brushed Lin Qingxue’s chin, soft and ticklish.
Her little face was fair, her eyelashes long, her lips slightly pouted. She looked both angry and dazed.
Lin Qingxue felt an odd urge that was neither heartache nor affection. She wanted to pinch the girl’s cheeks.
Luo Xiaoning stood nearby, watching how Lin Qingxue looked at Su Yutao. That focus, that tenderness, that feeling like the two of them were the only ones in the world.
She clenched her teeth harder, but her smile stayed sweet.
“Sister Lin, who is this little sister to you? Is she your sister?”
Lin Qingxue only then remembered that someone was still standing at the door.
She looked up at Luo Xiaoning.
The girl was soaked. Pink hair clung to her face, clothes dripped water, and her wet shoes left puddles on the floor.
She stood there with her hands twisted in front of her, like a kitten abandoned in the rain.
Lin Qingxue said, “Mm, why don’t you go wash up? You’re soaking wet. You’ll catch a cold.”
Luo Xiaoning breathed a sigh of relief. Good, Sister Lin still remembered her, still cared about her.
She was about to nod when Lin Qingxue added, “After you finish, I need to bathe Little Peach. The medicine balls Shen Nian sent arrived this morning. She said they’re good for the body and help wounds heal without scars.”
Luo Xiaoning’s face fell.
Sister Lin was going to bathe this little thing? Alone? Then what about her?
She was drenched, shivering with cold, hair still dripping, and Sister Lin was telling her to wash by herself?
She looked at the little thing in Lin Qingxue’s arms, which was looking back at her with those innocent eyes.
Why did that thing get Sister Lin’s care?
She, Luo Xiaoning, was also a little girl, also weak. Why couldn’t she get it too?
She took a deep breath. Her eyes reddened instantly, her lips started trembling, and her voice carried just the right amount of wronged weakness.
“Sister Lin… I just got rained on. My head hurts, I’m dizzy, my face is pale…”
She touched her own forehead.
“See? Do I have a fever? I… can’t really take care of myself. I’m afraid I’ll pass out in the bathroom.”
“Can you wash me? I’m still a kid. I don’t really know how to wash…”
Su Yutao, still in Lin Qingxue’s arms, got goosebumps all over.
That voice was soft and sticky, coated in honey, the kind that made you feel sick.
She said to Qiansui in her heart, ‘That one is pure green tea.’
Qiansui also exploded.
“Still a kid? Pfft! I looked at her character info. This Luo Xiaoning is already 19! She’s no kid! She’s just short, about the same height as you.”
“But you’re short because of malnutrition. She has a chubby face. She’s just naturally short!”
Su Yutao felt even more disgusted. Over 18 and still pretending to be a child? To ask someone to bathe her?
She thought of Luo Qianning, the woman who burned her with a cigarette.
This Luo Xiaoning shared the surname Luo and had a soft voice. Could they be from the same family? They were both bad news.
Luo Xiaoning happened to catch the disgust in Su Yutao’s eyes.
Those purple eyes were misty and unfocused, but the disgust was clear from her brows to her lips.
Her nails dug into her palms, but her smile stayed sweet and her voice stayed soft.
“Little sister, what’s your name? I’m Luo Xiaoning. You can call me Sister Ning.”
Su Yutao buried her face in Lin Qingxue’s neck, not wanting to look at her.
Lin Qingxue gave Luo Xiaoning a faint smile. “Sorry, she can’t see, and she can’t speak.”
She stroked Su Yutao’s head and said softly, “Little Peach, this Sister Ning wants to bathe with you. Are you willing?”
Su Yutao shook her head in Lin Qingxue’s arms. She shook it hard.
She didn’t want to bathe with a green tea b*tch.
She also didn’t want Lin Qingxue to bathe her.
She didn’t like Lin Qingxue, and she didn’t want her to see her body.
Even though it had been seen when she first came back, she still didn’t want it.
Lin Qingxue saw how firm Su Yutao was, sighed, and said to Luo Xiaoning, “You should go wash by yourself. Just get yourself warm. No need to wash thoroughly, just rinse off in the shower.”
Luo Xiaoning’s smile froze for a second.
Her always-working act of feigning weakness had been rejected.
She opened her mouth to say more, but Lin Qingxue had already turned back to Su Yutao, not throwing her a single glance.
She swallowed her frustration, put her smile back on, and said, “Okay, I’ll go wash.”
She turned toward the bathroom. After two steps, she looked back at the little thing in Lin Qingxue’s arms, and her gaze darkened.
Just then, Lin Qingxue’s phone vibrated.
With one hand holding Su Yutao’s bottom, she pulled the phone from her pocket with the other and unlocked the screen.
It was a message from the community chief:
[Residents, due to a strong wind breaking a water pipe, emergency reservoir water is currently in use. Water supply will be cut off in about 10 minutes. Please store water as soon as possible.]
Lin Qingxue read it and frowned.
Ten minutes? She looked at Luo Xiaoning, then down at Su Yutao in her arms.
Little Peach’s medicinal bath needed several minutes just to draw the water. There wasn’t enough time.
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