Chapter 52 – I want to be with you

” Shen Yu , where are you taking me to play?”

Asaba Rika has already eaten his fill, setting his dishes aside, folding his hands on the table and leaning forward slightly as he looks at Shen Yu expectantly.

It’s a pain to eat with a girl who doesn’t have a big appetite, so Shen Yu gets up to add a bowl of rice, comes back and sits down to scrape all the vegetables from her plate into her bowl and drizzle a bit of soup over it so it tastes good.

“Where do you want to go to have fun?”

“I don’t know, Shen Yu takes me wherever I want to go.”

Since Shen Yu promised to take her out this afternoon yesterday, Rika has been trying to figure out where to go since last night.

There are so many people, ticket sellers, unprofessional guides, commercialization and so on, I don’t know where to go.

“I know Sunan has a long cultural history and Shen Yu is a local, so he must know a lot of interesting places, so I’ll listen to you!”

“There’s nothing interesting about it, it’s just some stone roads, old mansions, white walls and grey tiles, rockery and lotus ponds, and a lot of new ones built in imitation of the old ones, and there’s a lot of people, and it’s a lot of commotion. If you really want to see what’s left of the past, go to the museum, it’s still a bit interesting.”

As a local, Shen Yu is not really interested in gardening or other attractions.

He said excitedly to Asaba Rika, “Why don’t I take you to the tech fair, a new issue opens this week and I hear there are a lot of cutting edge AI products ……”

Shen Yu was getting more and more excited, thinking that it would be nice if Ke Liangji was there, or Zhao Yage too.

He even started thinking about dropping Asaba Rika off at Humble Administrator’s Garden and letting her wander around on her own while he went to the tech show and picked her up when he returned?

Great idea! It’s a great way to go to the tech fair and to hit Rika and successfully alienate her from her.

The knife, sharp as a tack.

Shen Yu was about to suggest this to Asaba Rika when he saw her sulking eyes and pursed lips, looking unhappy.

Asaba Rika didn’t understand any of Shen Yu’s talk about smart home appliances, vr devices, cloud computing, sensors, robots and other tech show highlights, and was not interested.

” Shen Yu have you finished eating, I’ll go and wash the dishes then.”

Asaba Rika is a little disappointed, I think I’d better wait until I know my way around before I go out on my own, I’ll let Shen Yu and Ke Liangji go out today ……

She didn’t say she didn’t want to go to the tech fair, but just quietly cleaned up the dishes, not very good at controlling her expressions, but Shen Yu sensed that the atmosphere didn’t seem right.

Shen Yu didn’t say anything and got up to help her clear the dishes.

” Shen Yu and Liangji should go, I’m not going as I have to catch up with my drawing this afternoon ……”

“Well ……”

“I’ll just clean up, Shen Yu. Go on.”

Asaba Rika took the dishes from Shen Yu’s hand and silently washed them in the kitchen, wiping down the stove and cleaning up in an orderly manner.

Shen Yu looked at her forlorn back from the doorway and wanted to say something, but refrained from doing so.

I went to the bathroom and when I came out, Asaba Rika had already tidied up the kitchen.

She is not in the kitchen and the door to her room is closed.

Closed very tightly.

Shen Yu was so close to success, but she couldn’t be happy, wondering if she’d be sad in her room ……

After hesitating for a long time, he took out his mobile phone, opened qq and typed a few words in the chat input box of ‘Universe invincible single is the king three swordsmen love each other and hug each other for warmth’.

[Afternoon tech show, the three of us together?

The thumb hovers over the send button for a long time.

Still not pressed.

It just won’t press down.

Suddenly I felt like I was going too far, obviously telling myself all the time not to be soft or soft-hearted, but the broken knife just wouldn’t cut.

So a slap to his own face.

Close qq, switch back to WeChat, tap on the chat box of ‘ Luo Yan ‘, type a few words and send it out.

Sinking Fish: asleep?

Asaba Rika is lying on her bed, clutching the bear she got with her phone bill and staring at the ceiling.

The phone vibrated, so I picked it up and saw that it was a message from Shen Yu. So I typed a few words back to him.

Luo Yan : I will take care of my family~

Shen Yu will definitely not reply to the message, he rarely nagged, after sending the message, Asaba Rika put the phone aside again, and covered his head with a pillow, feeling sullen.

But then the phone vibrated again and Asaba Rika couldn’t resist picking it up again to check.

Shen Yu: Liangji, they are not available, I will go with you to have fun, go to the old town and stroll around.

Asaba Rika read the message carefully, and biu sat up from the bed, holding the phone in both hands, with the bear in her arms, and typed a super quick ‘yes’ in the chat input box.

Then he deleted it again, typed it in again, deleted it again, and then replied to Shen Yu’s message after a ten-second tangle.

I wonder what this little niggle comes from, the inherent pride of a little girl?

Luo Yan : I just said I had to catch up on my work ……

I sent it and Asaba Rika regretted it, why didn’t I say yes? Shen Yu will definitely reply ‘Forget it then’, I regret it!

So I remedied the situation by continuing to type in the chat box [but if Shen Yu is with me, I’ll do the draft in the evening, Matsushima is a good editor, she won’t scold me].

She is a slow typist, and before she can finish her sentence, Shen Yu’s message arrives.

Sinking Fish: Come back and paint it.

Asaba Rika then deleted the entire paragraph that he had managed to type and sent back an emoji.

Luo Yan : Yes! (づwど)

Putting down the phone, Asaba Rika rolled happily on the bed.

He put the bear he got with his phone bill back on the bed and ran over to open the door with a thump, peeking a little head through the doorway and looking at Shen Yu in the living room with a happy look in his eyes.

” Shen Yu , wait for me, I need to change my clothes!”

“Come on.”

“It’s quick!”

Ten minutes later, Asaba Rika got changed and came out.

Shen Yu looked up at her for a moment, she had a small bag over her shoulder and a camera around her neck, the black strap contrasting with her snow-white skin, she had changed into a pair of casual cloth shoes and a white t-shirt with letters on it, her hair was also tied up in a ponytail, and when she walked, the ponytail twitched, she looked full of youthful energy.

“Didn’t you look pretty good in that one before.”

“It’s hotter now, it’s less hot in white, let’s get going!”

Asaba Rika trotted over to Shen Yu, wearing flat mid-top shoes that showed off her pretty little legs above the ankle, and she looked like a little bird bouncing around as she walked.

It’s now 1pm and if we don’t hurry up and play it will be evening again.

Asaba Rika thought that if it was fun, she could come back later, and that Matsushima’s editor would be understanding as far as the manuscript was concerned.

Shen Yu didn’t have much to prepare for, so he took his mobile phone and ID card, grabbed his car keys and took her downstairs.

” Shen Yu, if you want to go to the tech fair, I’ll go with you too.” said Asaba Rika, who was half a body behind him.

Shen Yu glanced back at her with some surprise and then back again, taking two steps before asking her in a pretentious manner, “Didn’t you not want to go just now?”

“Now that I think about it, it’s fun too!”

Asaba Rika pulled the bag on his shoulder and looked at his back and said, ” Shen Yu , I’m serious!”

Shen Yu did not speak.

Arriving at the courtyard, the two men opened the car door and got in. The courtyard door opened automatically and Shen Yu drove smoothly up the road.

” Shen Yu , where are we going now ……”

Rika doesn’t know the way and looks out of the window like a curious kitten.

” Zhou Zhuang .”

“Not going to the tech show? ……”

Shen Yu turned at the junction and drove in the direction of Zhou Zhuang, before answering her.

“There’s not much point in a tech show either, I got tired of seeing it a long time ago.”