It Seems There is Light

Nice Person

  

Shi An glared at Ling Yue, and gently patted the top of the little girl’s hair with his palm.

 

Ling Yue stood by the table, holding a plastic knife for cutting cakes, spreading her hands innocently.

 

The electricity at the auditorium was restored around ten o’clock, and it was still early when he returned to Qingjiu Alley.

 

As soon as Shi An entered the shop, he saw Ling Yue standing on the seat closest to the counter with a small cake.

 

She put the cake in place, still holding a plastic knife to cut the cake in her hand.

 

Fang Wanqing came to visit, hugging Lady and sitting in that seat. Next to her, was an unknown little girl, blinking at the cake.

 

“Auntie Fang.” Shi An greeted her as took off his bag and put it on the counter. Taking his phone out and putting it aside, he turned his head to look at the cake.

 

It was a small cake in the shape of a rabbit. It was snow-white all over, a small ball nestled in a light-colored paper plate, with narrow eyes and lovely jade snow.

 

Shi An already had an instinctive fear of what Ling Yue had made, but looking at this rabbit, he quietly sighed with relief.

 

This was the most normal design he had ever seen from Ling Yue.

 

He nodded in satisfaction, and was about to turn around and go upstairs when he heard Ling Yue ask the little girl: “Xiao meimei,1 do you want to eat rabbit?”

 

The little girl probably nodded her head, and Ling Yue said: “Okay. Jie jie2 will cut it for you.”

 

For some reason, Shi An suddenly got a chill on his back and couldn’t help but turn around and watch Ling Yue cut the rabbit cake.

 

She raised her hand to the rabbit’s head, and the next second, dark red liquid spilled out of the cake.

 

The warm light in the store gave the pulp a dark color, making it look like blood.

 

This was a three-dimensional little cake made only with a Montblanc piping nozzle, mimicking the soft fluffy fur of the little animal, and now this bloodstained rabbit nestled in a paper plate looks indescribably creepy.

 

“Wow, this effect is even better than I imagined. I was worried that it wouldn’t look like blood if it flowed out.”

 

Ling Yue clapped her hands happily.

 

Shi An: “…”

 

He knew it.

 

The little girl next to her, whose eyes were full of light, looked at the bloodstained bunny, and her mouth deflated as she cried out.

 

Shi An:”…”

 

He felt his temple jump suddenly.

 

Fang Wanqing was originally happy but when she saw the child was scared that she cried, she hurriedly went and coaxed her: “Ah, baby, stop crying, don’t cry or cry, don’t…”

 

However, the little girl was just like thunder without rain, crying loudly but there were no tears.

 

Fang Wanqing: “…”

 

Shi An stood at the entrance of the stairs, thinking that the child was really scared, and drew a few tissues on the counter ready to go over, who knew that the little girl turned around and jumped into his arms and continued to howl.

 

A child of five or six years old, the impact caused him to take a half step backwards.

 

Rarely, Shi An raised his hand in a daze, not knowing what to do.

 

After a moment of hesitation, he raised his hand to touch the little girl’s hair and patted her back. He raised his eyes to glare at Ling Yue.

 

Ling Yue spread her hands innocently: “Don’t you blame jiejie. The rabbit is so cute, how can you not eat it.”

 

Shi An: “…”

 

Shi An’s amber eyes flickered under the light, his cheeks puffed up unconsciously, as if he was angry. His long eyelashes fluttered and blinked.

 

For the first time, Ling Yue knew that when Shi An was angry he looked like a little hamster, and couldn’t help being happy: “Don’t worry, do you see her tears? Kids nowadays are so bold.”

 

The little girl jumped into his arms, her small hands tightly wrapped around his waist, but after crying for so long, there were really no tears at all, but her hands were getting tighter and tighter.

 

Shi An: “…”

 

Lady was lazily nesting in Fang Wanqing’s arms, bending her tail in a beautiful arc as always, lifting her front paws slightly, and licking her paws gracefully.

 

Seeing Shi An being hugged, it suddenly became unsettled and jumped off the ground from Fang Wanqing’s arms. Its light-colored eyes squinting slightly in dissatisfaction, and its spine arching out in sharp lines.

 

Fang Wanqing: “Yeah yeah…”

 

A young couple ran over and lifted the little girl out of Shi An’s arms.

 

The young woman smiled and asked her: “How old are you? Are you ashamed? En?”

 

The little girl’s face was smothered with a little red, her big eyes shining brightly, and there was not even half a drop of tears. Looking at Shi An, she said in a milky voice: “Da gege is good-looking, his body smells good.”

 

Shi An: “…”

 

Fang Wanqing: “…”

 

Young couple: “…”

 

Ling Yue: “Oh.”

 

Lady rubbed herself against Shi An’s feet. Shi An gently bent his eyes, bent down and picked the cat up, rubbing its head.

 

Ling Yue gave the blood rabbit to the little girl. The child held the cake and ate it happily, mouth was full of red pasted

 

Lady softly nestled in Shi An’s arms, her head kept rubbing against Shi An’s body. It still had half of her usual lonely and proud look.

 

“It’s over,” Ling Yue went to clean up the counter. Hanging Shi An’s school bag, she muttered, “Yan Xiaoliang has many rivals in love, across ages and species.”

 

“…What did you say?” Shi An asked her, stroking Lady’s head and looking up.

 

“…It’s nothing,” Ling Yue said to herself boringly while tidying up, “…The current situation is not optimistic, Shi Xiao’an has many love rivals, Yan Xiaoliang also has many love rivals…”

 

While she was bored to pieces, she was about to stuff Shi An’s phone into his bag and put it away, when the phone screen suddenly lit up.

 

Phone messages were considered something more private, so Ling Yue immediately averted her gaze and said, “Shi An, there’s a message on the phone.”

 

Shi An’s fingers gently smooth along Lady’s chin towards her neck and asked, “Who?”

 

Seeing that Shi An didn’t mean to avoid her, Ling Yue only looked up at the screen: “Shen…Qiaoqiao? …gi, girl??”

 

Ling Yue stared at the light pink anime avatar, incredible.

 

Shi An was taken aback for a moment.

 

He thought that a girl with a personality like Shen Qiaoqiao only added WeChat out of politeness, the kind who lay quietly on the list of each other.

 

Shi An stood behind the counter with the cat in his arms and said lightly, “En, it’s a classmate. Help me open it.”

 

Shi An really didn’t feel that WeChat was anything private.

 

Most of his lists were neighbours in Qingjiu Alley. If there was anything to say, everyone would choose a simple and brutal solution like shouting in the heart of the street, and usually didn’t send messages.

 

There were many people who asked Yan Liang for WeChat, but not many had asked him, probably because no one could imagine Shi An playing WeChat with his phone.

 

His phone had no password and could be opened with a slide. It was Shen Qiaoqiao who shared a file with him along with the words, “Sorry, not bothering you, right?”

 

Ling Yue looked at Shi An’s face and saw that he really didn’t care about the content of the message, so she didn’t hesitate and directly clicked on the file.

 

There were several links lying in the file in different categories.

 

“Long night sleep affecting sleep? Teach…”

 

“Why do you always have nightmares when you sleep…”

“How to improve sleep quality”

“Ten simple actions before going to bed…”

“Healing soft sounds relax the brain…”

…

 

Ling Yue scrolled it casually, but couldn’t reach the end. She didn’t know how long it took Shen Qiaoqiao to sort it out.

 

Shi An rubbed Lady’s fluffy tail and recalled that it was probably the lunch break the day before the sports festival when he knocked his head in front of Shen Qiaoqiao so she thought he had a nightmare.

 

Although that dream was not really a nightmare, Shi An was still slightly surprised.

 

He didn’t expect Shen Qiaoqiao to be so meticulous and specifically went to sort out so many things.

 

“…” Ling Yue didn’t know what to say: “…She likes you, ah?”

 

Shi An thought about it for a while and decided he didn’t know Shen Qiaoqiao very well before he finally came to a conclusion, “No. She’s nice.”

 

“…” Ling Yue suddenly felt a bit sad for this girl.

 

Shi An put Lady back into Fang Wanqing’s arms and put his school bag on one shoulder, “Aunt Fang, I’ll go upstairs first.”

 

Fang Wanqing smiled and said good night to him.

 

“…Wait.” Ling Yue reached out and pulled the strap of his school bag, handing him the phone on the table, “..Will you reply?”

 

“Forgot.” The reply was of course to reply. Under Ling Yue’s scorching gaze, he took the phone and pressed out the keyboard to type.

 

“Thanks. Very considerate of you.”3

 

This reply was very Shi An.

 

He looked up after typing and saw that Ling Yue was still staring at him and couldn’t help but ask, “…what are you doing?”

 

Ling Yue sighed in a pretentious manner, “I thought he was slow enough, there’s an even slower one.”

 

“…” Shi An locked the screen and asked her, “What he? What slow?”

 

Although there was some confusion, it was clear he wasn’t really curious.

 

Ling Yue narrowed his eyes and glanced at Shi An.

 

Her eye sockets were somewhat deep, her pupil color was also deep, and her eyelashes were dark and dense. At first glance, the look was somewhat meaningful.

 

Ling Yue waved her hand and hurried Shi An upstairs.

 

As soon as Ling Yue grabbed her phone, Yan Liang’s phone rang.

 

Yan Liang had just finished showering and was sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling window wiping his hair when he glanced at his phone.

 

A WeChat incoming message alert was lying on the screen, showing Ling Yue’s name.

 

Yan Liang picked up his phone and glanced at the opposite side of the street, where he could see Shi An’s front door at the end of his field of vision.

 

Ling Yue sent him a message, “Are you there?”

 

Yan Liang replied, “Jie, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. Just come out and shout, I can hear and see.”

 

There was a quick reply: “The secret of heaven cannot be revealed.”4

 

Yan Liang replied to her with several emoticons.

 

Ling Yue looked in the direction of Shi An going upstairs for a few seconds, took a deep breath and replied in a deep voice: “I just saw Shi An chatting with a girl on WeChat. You tell me secretly, is Xiao An in love?”

 

Her intuition had always been very accurate, she could often see people and see things very thoroughly.

 

This did not mean that she knew how to deal with it so she could only push it based on intuition, but she knew that she could always take good care of her discretion.

 

In her opinion, this state of forbearance, rather than breaking the balance, was the cruelest and worst.

 

Once this balance was broken, there would be even more tragic backlash.

 

The phone shook slightly, and when she looked down, she ran into a screen full of exclamation marks.

 

Yan Xiaoliang: [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

 

After a moment of silence, the phone vibrated again.

 

Yan Xiaoliang: [????????????????????????????????????]

 

A few moments later.

 

Yan Xiaoliang: [???!!! Jie, what did you say???!!!]

 

Ling Yue: “…”

 

 

 

T/N: I thought I have already scheduled this for the last friday and saturday, but apparently I didn’t so here are two chapters to make up for it. Also, there’s a slight change to the update. It’ll be on friday and saturday as before, but only a chapter per update. Thank you

 

 

1

little sister

2

sister

3

有心了 not in sarcastic way

4

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