"One bowl, the same size as yours."
That's an exaggeration; in reality, it was only half a bowl, and the bowl was even smaller than the one in Sheng Muxi's house.
Sheng Muxi was clearly not satisfied with her answer: "Then drink another half bowl."
The other person's tone was like coaxing a child who doesn't like to eat. Chai Qianning couldn't help but chuckle, but when the other person fed her, she still opened her mouth.
When someone feeds her, she seems to feel less full. She herself doesn't even realize how obedient and compliant she is when Sheng Muxi feeds her soup.
Even after finishing the entire bowl, Chai Qianning still felt unsatisfied, but not because she was still unsatisfied with the soup.
"You said you were full?" Sheng Muxi put down her bowl with a sense of accomplishment.
Chai Qianning suddenly laughed at herself. She had hands and feet, so why was she just letting Sheng Muxi feed her soup?
She tilted her head, her gaze drifting elsewhere, finally landing on the screen in the living room. The image frozen on it seemed familiar.
Are you watching a movie?
"Yes, it's new." Sheng Muxi tidied up the dishes and took them into the kitchen.
Chai Qianning propped her head up, looking at the eerie scene.
Oh, she remembered. This movie has been getting a lot of online promotion lately, and the scene frozen on the screen is exactly one of the backgrounds from the movie's promotional poster.
"Do you want to watch it?" Sheng Muxi asked, then suddenly regretted it. It was a horror movie, and it wouldn't be good to scare the other person.
Just as she was about to say something more, she heard Chai Qianning reply, "Okay, let's watch together."
Chapter 9 Movies
While Sheng Muxi was washing dishes in the kitchen, Chai Qianning sent Chai Shuqing a message: "I'll be back later to spend some time with Teacher Sheng."
Chai Shuqing replied quickly: 【What! What are you and Teacher Sheng doing?】
The little girl was simply worried that her older sister and teacher might talk about things that were not good for her. So when she heard that Chai Qianning was going to stay at Sheng Muxi's house for a while, she felt very apprehensive.
How could Chai Qianning not see through the other person's thoughts? But Chai Shuqing's question, "What are you and Teacher Sheng doing?" made it seem as if she and Sheng Muxi really had something going on.
To reassure the other party, Chai Qianning replied: "Don't worry, it's just friends chatting casually; it has nothing to do with you."
Immediately afterwards, Chai Shuqing replied with an emoji that said "Then I'm relieved."
Looking at the meme, Chai Qianning thought to herself, if she were Chai Shuqing's age and her homeroom teacher lived upstairs, she would probably look just as terrified.
Therefore, she could fully understand her sister's worries and stopped teasing her.
The sound of water in the kitchen stopped. Chai Qianning looked up at Sheng Muxi's back in the kitchen. She was surrounded by a faint halo, her hair was tied low behind her back, and she was wiping the water off her hands.
She threw the crumpled paper she had used to wipe her hands into the trash can and, as she walked out of the kitchen, said to Chai Qianning, "Do you really want to watch it with me? It's a horror movie."
"Teacher Sheng, aren't you scared watching horror movies alone?"
“If I were scared, I wouldn’t have watched it alone.” Sheng Muxi sat down next to her: “Have you ever watched a horror movie before? Were you scared?”
"I've seen a little bit." Chai Qianning doesn't watch horror movies much because if the scenes don't scare her, she gets bored and prefers to watch dramas.
She remembered that her younger sister had gone to the cinema with her classmates last weekend and that Chai Shuqing said it wasn't very scary.
If the movie can't scare Chai Shuqing, then it probably won't scare her either.
“But the two of us,” Chai Qianning said to Sheng Muxi.
The implication is that if I'm scared, you're still here for me.
Sheng Muxi thought so too, stood up and walked to the light switch, placing her finger on it: "Then I'll turn off the light."
As the lights went out, the living room darkened, making the light from the screen particularly glaring. Sheng Muxi sat down next to her again and picked up the remote: "I've watched almost half of it. Do you want to start over?"
"No need. Horror movies aren't dramas. I can understand them even without watching the beginning. Just explain the parts you don't understand to me."
"Okay, I'll start."
The scenes in the movie began to move, light and shadow swept across the two people's faces, and the wind leaked in through the window, billowing the hem of the curtains.
Although Chai Qianning and Chai Shuqing had watched this at home before, they were looking for a scary and exciting atmosphere. Watching it with Sheng Muxi now is a different feeling.
Most importantly, this horror movie isn't scary at all.
It was just fangs and a head of seaweed; calling it a ghost was an understatement. It was more like a wooden figure with its features hidden and no words, and there was simply no way to scare it.
She imitated Sheng Muxi, sitting upright, merely leaning back against the sofa. But she never sat so properly when watching movies at home.
Considering this wasn't her home and there were other people around, she managed to maintain a proper sitting posture for a few minutes, but in less than ten minutes, she couldn't take it anymore; sitting like that was too uncomfortable.
So she moved over a bit, put her feet up on the sofa, slumped her back, and sank into the softness of the sofa, finally feeling a little more comfortable.
When she encountered something she didn't understand, or a character she didn't know, she would ask Sheng Muxi, who would then help her review the previous content.
Suddenly, a terrifying shadow flashed across the screen. Before Chai Qianning could even see it clearly, the person next to her put their arm around her back and gently comforted her, "Don't be afraid, it's all fake."
When her body touched another person's, Chai Qianning's breath hitched. She wasn't afraid, but when she heard Sheng Muxi's words, she still leaned closer to her.
She had her head down, and the hair tie that had been in her hair had somehow come loose from rubbing against the back of the sofa, leaving her hair loose and covering her profile.
The room was dimly lit, with only light coming from the screen. Because it was a horror scene, the colors in the movie were also dark.
Chai Qianning became even more emboldened and leaned her entire body closer.
Feeling the weight and warm breath of the other person leaning against her, Sheng Muxi gently patted her back: "If you're scared, don't look away."
This was a good suggestion, as Chai Qianning already found the movie boring. So she looked away and focused her attention on Sheng Muxi.
The darkness concealed Sheng Muxi's beauty, yet in the brief moment when light swept across her face, her delicate features were subtly revealed, adding a touch of softness and mystery compared to the daytime.
The air conditioner in the living room was set to 18 degrees Celsius, but halfway through, Sheng Muxi worried that she would get cold, so he turned it up two degrees.
But no matter what temperature the air conditioner was set to, Chai Qianning felt just right next to her, neither too hot nor too cold.
Sheng Muxi's pajamas had two straps on the side, which fell into Chai Qianning's palm, bringing the unique cool touch of silk, but inexplicably mixed with a few lively elements, dancing in her palm.
She twitched her fingers, but she had no idea what was playing in the movie.
When Sheng Muxi pulled her closer again, she buried her eyes in his neck.
The other person simply assumed that she was too scared to watch any longer, and gently raised their hand to smooth her hair.
Chai Qianning inhaled the fragrance emanating from the other person, pressed her face against their skin, and watched the subtle undulations below. Uncontrollably, a whole host of erotic thoughts arose in her mind.
She swallowed carefully, her throat bobbing, thinking, "Just a little kiss, is that too much to ask?"
Wouldn't that be taking advantage of someone else?
Chai Qianning ultimately lost her temper, caught between thinking, "This isn't good, but there's nothing wrong with it."
She was sitting crookedly, and now she slid down a bit more, so she could only raise her head slightly. Unable to reach the other person's lips, she placed a light kiss on his collarbone.
As Sheng Muxi paused in surprise, Chai Qianning's eyelashes cast a faint shadow, her head slowly drooped, and she closed her eyes, letting her hair and the dim light conceal the small curve of her lips.
"The moonlight is bright tonight, and the wronged ghost will no longer come out to harm people." At this moment, in the movie, on the screen, such a line of Chinese and English subtitles appears.
Sheng Muxi seemed to sense something, lowered her eyes, no longer paying attention to what was playing in the movie, but only noticed that Chai Qianning seemed to be asleep in her arms.
And Chai Qianning was indeed about to fall asleep.
The room was dimly lit, and the movie was boring. She used Sheng Muxi as a soft, warm pillow. After doing her naughty thing, she felt satisfied and began to doze off, her consciousness gradually becoming hazy.
As I drifted off into a daze, the sound of the movie gradually faded into the background.
She didn't know how long she slept after that, but when she woke up, she subconsciously rubbed against the things she was holding.
Surprisingly, this blanket felt softer and smoother than any she had ever used before, and it was even warm.
Her still-sleepy brain started working haphazardly, wondering what kind of material this blanket was made of, and how comfortable it felt to rub against.
Then, she half-opened her eyes, rubbed against him a few more times, and belatedly realized that she had almost gotten a nosebleed when her face was buried in a certain part of Sheng Muxi's body.
But she was embarrassed for only a few seconds before closing her eyes again. As long as she didn't wake up, she wouldn't feel awkward.
She recalled Chai Shuqing's words, "When people are too tired, the things they do are beyond their brain's control."
She was just too sleepy, she really didn't mean to... be a pervert towards Sheng Muxi.
Besides... she rubbed against him so many times, and Sheng Muxi didn't push her away.
Chai Qianning silently opened her eyes a little and found that the movie had been turned off, but the lights were still off. It was also possible that Sheng Muxi was being held by her and couldn't turn on the lights.
She didn't know what Sheng Muxi was doing at that moment; it seemed like she was looking at her phone? Because she felt a slight glimmer of light coming from her hair.
Then the light flickered, and Chai Qianning noticed some glistening moisture on a certain spot on the other person's skin. Realizing that it might be drool she had drooled while asleep, Chai Qianning closed her eyes again, feeling utterly disheartened.
Forget it, it's better not to wake up. At worst, I can just sleep here for one night, and when I wake up tomorrow morning, there won't be any awkwardness.
As she was thinking this, Sheng Muxi gently ran her fingers across her forehead and between her hair. Her eyelashes trembled involuntarily, and then he gently placed her head on the sofa to sleep.
Chai Qianning quietly opened her eyes a crack and saw Sheng Muxi relaxing her body, probably because she had been leaning against her for too long and her body had gone numb.
She stretched her legs and continued sleeping. Although she was barely sleepy, she could hypnotize herself if her willpower was strong enough.
Perhaps so as not to disturb her sleep, Sheng Muxi did not turn on the light.
Chai Qianning keenly sensed a rustling sound coming from beside the sofa, which soon fell silent again, without any further movement.
It was so quiet that you could hear your own breathing.
She frowned slightly. Had Sheng Muxi gone to her bedroom to sleep?
Chai Qianning's mind wandered to what Sheng Muxi would think if he knew she drooled in her sleep... Ugh, just thinking about it was kind of...
But it was only a tiny bit, it should have all dried out by now, right?
As she was thinking, she suddenly remembered something very important: Chai Shuqing was still home alone!
How long did she sleep? What time is it now? Although Chai Shuqing is an adult and it's not like she can't stay home alone, it's really not right for her, as the older sister, to say she went upstairs to chat with the neighbors and not come home all night.
They're setting a bad example for kids.
Therefore, she felt she still had to go back.
Then, she opened her eyes.
Unexpectedly, their eyes met, which were very close to Sheng Muxi's.