493. Before Heading Home
“It’s time to go back…”
On the last day of the break, Ning Chu was still in a pretty miserable state.
She hadn’t slept well in the tent last night, and God knows there was no aura to recharge her. She still looked like she was half-asleep, with red eyes and a glimmer of tears constantly hanging at the corners.
She rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand and stretched in a lazy yawn.
“Ning Chu! You’re leaving this early?”
After returning the rented tent, a few girls came over, playfully shoving each other.
“Yeah, the ticket for this morning,” Ning Chu glanced back at them, yawning again, “I’ll catch some sleep on the bus.”
“We also need to go home for more sleep; we’re so tired~”
Unlike Ning Chu, who couldn’t sleep due to the change in environment, Yan Xinya and the others had been playing mahjong until the wee hours of the night.
God knows how they managed to play mahjong by the dim streetlight on the beach until then!
Lily stopped beside her, looking down at the ride-hailing app on her phone. Suddenly, she quietly asked, “Need help?”
“Ah? No, it’s fine.”
Even though this succubus always acted cool and aloof, Ning Chu could still sense Lily’s concern for her.
Lily had been casting glances at her since yesterday.
“It’s just a little trip home, I’ll see you all at school tomorrow,” Ning Chu wrapped her arm around Wen Yang’s, “Plus, Wen Yang’s coming with me, so don’t worry.”
“Okay.”
Zhang Shaoqing strolled over with his hands in his pockets, casually walking alongside Qian Qian, “Want me to drive you to the station?”
“Only telling us now that you’ve called for the car?”
“Why the heck didn’t you tell me earlier?”
“You two are leaving already?” Xixi finally caught on, “I thought we’d go shopping together this afternoon.”
“Got some things to deal with, maybe next time.”
Just then, the ride-hailing car Ning Chu ordered arrived.
She waved goodbye to the girls behind her, and when she turned back, she saw Wen Yang had opened the rear car door like a doorman, waiting for her to get in first.
“You can just get in.”
Ning Chu mumbled as she bent down to enter the car, wiggling her hips to lean against the left door while casually telling the driver her mobile number’s last few digits.
She was about to meet her father, whom she’d never seen before, this afternoon, oh joy~
Feeling the light vibrations of the vehicle, she leaned on Wen Yang’s arm, feeling a bit annoyed.
“Ugh, so bothersome.”
“What’s bothering you now?”
“Just tired and don’t want to go home…”
Ning Chu really didn’t know how to face that father.
Maybe she should learn from Lily? Keep her face straight, act like an ice queen?
This feeling of being unwilling but pushing herself to go was quite dreadful, like having a boulder crushing her chest, desperately needing a good old vent session.
She lifted her cute face, her delicate eyes shimmering, gazing shamelessly at Wen Yang.
Wen Yang’s arm wrapped around her back, gently resting on her shoulder, reassuringly said, “Aren’t I going with you?”
Seeing her hint go ignored, Ning Chu straightened up, pressing her body against Wen Yang’s and pitifully murmuring, “I haven’t eaten all day, I’m hungry…”
She could clearly feel the small succubus’s soft chest rising and falling. Her sensitive earlobes tingled with the sweet scent from the girl’s breath, while her nose was filled with the tempting perfume of the succubus.
In an instant, Wen Yang reacted, his scalp tingling as he leaned away from Ning Chu, pulling down his coat to try and cover up his rising battle enthusiasm, “Be careful outside.”
This little succubus was so distracting.
He had shared a bed with Ning Chu for two days but hadn’t dared to move a muscle. God knows how many wild dreams he had had.
And now she was flirting with him directly.
He awkwardly shot Ning Chu a look, and she realized the driver was shamelessly peering through the rearview mirror, nosy as ever.
“Have you never seen a couple whispering sweet nothings?”
Ning Chu grumbled in a low voice, finally adopting a serious demeanor, crossing her legs elegantly while running her fingers through her somewhat messy hair.
After dozing off for nearly an hour on the car ride, they finally arrived at the train station.
Since the ticket was for the afternoon, Ning Chu wasn’t in a hurry to enter the station and turned around to look for a nearby budget hotel.
“Aren’t you going to have breakfast first?”
“Let’s eat at the hotel.”
“But I’m really hungry…”
Pouting in dissatisfaction, Ning Chu considered that skipping breakfast might impact Wen Yang’s battle performance and reluctantly nodded, “Then I want mixed noodles.”
Seeing her eager little face made Wen Yang want to laugh.
Not too long ago, Ning Chu used to shy away from any physical contact, always feigning displeasure like she had been wronged. Even when he gave it to her for free, she always insisted on keeping the lights off, getting all bashful before things got going.
But now, her head was filled with these naughty thoughts, and she wasn’t pretending anymore.
It only took a day for her to turn into a glutton, totally a qualified succubus.
They found a place to eat breakfast, and Wen Yang lowered his voice to tease Ning Chu, “What if I have to go on a business trip in the future? You’re only this hot after a day?”
“Then I’ll ask Lily to throw a silver party with me~”
If anyone else had said that, Wen Yang might have believed it, but with Ning Chu, all he could do was laugh.
She also brought Lily along, the succubus who talked about dating in a loud voice online but couldn’t even muster the courage to speak to a guy in reality.
Forget about a silver party, those two succubi wouldn’t even dare to go to a bar without company.
“By the way, I need to call my mom and let her know I’m coming back.”
Ning Chu finally remembered she needed to give her family a heads-up. She pulled out her phone, dialing while saying, “Classes start tomorrow, and I still need to ask that female ghost for leave.”
“Should I handle it with the instructor?”
“No way… shhh~” her call was picked up by her mother, and she put her finger to her lips, signaling Wen Yang to stay quiet, then brightened her voice as she cheerfully said, “Mom! I’m coming back this afternoon! I’ll probably be home by four.”
Her mother sounded particularly surprised, “This afternoon? Aren’t you skipping class tomorrow?”
“Just taking a day off~ Wen Yang is coming with me too, so make sure to prepare more for dinner.”
“You didn’t come home during the break, don’t let it affect your studies…”
Ning Chu paused, then asked, “When did he come back?”
“A few days ago.”
“So… did he come to see you?”
“Yeah.”
Where did she get the nerve?
Hearing this made her a bit hot under the collar, and she couldn’t help but ask, “Mom, when are you planning to divorce him? What does Uncle say?”
“We’ll see?”
Upon hearing her mother’s ambiguous answer, Ning Chu couldn’t help but frown.
Could it be that she was softening? Her mom had been planning to file for divorce, so why was she hesitating now that he’s back and the divorce could be settled easily?
What about the uncle? He seemed like a decent guy!
Oh great! She suddenly wanted to avoid going home even more!
No matter how much she disliked that father, she couldn’t just change her mother’s mind forcefully.
She really wasn’t good at this kind of family drama!
Compared to that, it would’ve been easier to trigger a little Emperor Wen plot and deal with that; it was way more straightforward, just some lovey-dovey acting or roleplay involved.
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There were some plot issues initially~ Having a father who returned home out of the blue with no prior experiences to draw from made things tricky.
If only it had been a father working away and rarely coming home, that would’ve been easier to write about…
