Strawberry Kiss Mark (草莓印)🍓 by Bu Zhi Shi Ke Cai (不知是颗菜) ~Chapter 19

The time two of them arrive home, Pei Yue has just arrived home.

She thought that both of them are sleeping as the light is off. She is turning all the light and raises her selfie stick to have a selfie for her new hairstyle.

The time Lu Xing Yan and Chen Xing Ruo get into the house, they hear a ‘click’ sound from the camera.

Chen Xing Ruo is startled and she greets Pei Yue.

Lu Xing Yan rolls his eyes speechlessly and changes his shoes with the slippers. He doesn’t look at Pei Yue.

Pei Yue is full of self-confident, she doesn’t feel awkward. She says: “why are you guys just coming home, I thought you guys are sleeping.”

“We went out to have dinner.”

Lu Xing Yan replies.

“What did you eat?”

“……….”

“……….”

Lu Xing Yan and Chen Xing Ruo turns silent.

Two of people under legal age are eating hotpot with 903 in price. How could they show it off to her.

But Pei Yue doesn’t really mind about what were they eating before.

Tomorrow she needs to go to Hui Ze, she remembers another thing to do so she talks to them for a while, then ask them both to go upstair and sleep.

The time they go upstair, Lu Xing Yan walks behind her. He walks a bit slower. The time Chen Xing Ruo walks toward a corner, he looks back.

Pei Yue is looking at him.

He extends his fingers and waves.

Pei Yue sighs.

Every family goes through its problem. There’s no way to solve it, she has tried her best.

———

The next morning, Lu Xing Yan finishes his shower and goes downstair to have breakfast.

The time he just goes out of his room, he sees Chen Xing Ruo is out of the bedroom with her backpack.

He suddenly feels that she somehow looks like Cinderella, he doesn’t know whether it’s because of her story last night or because of her slim figure.

He doesn’t help but to say: “Hey.”

Chen Xing Ruo looks back.

He pushes his hair back and asks: “Where are you going?”

“Library.” Chen Xing Ruo says, “then I’ll go back to the school.”

Maybe because it’s quite early, his brain isn’t working really well. At first he wanted to say something more, yet he just shows his expression of “Oh, I just ask you randomly”. Then he just watches her leave.

——-

In the afternoon, Pei Yue and Lu Xing Yan take the high speed train back to Hui Ze.

Compared to two hours flight and an hour by car to the city area, it is more convenient to travel by high speed rail as it only takes an hour.

Lu Shan is busy with his work. At first he planed to go back to Xing City and travelled together with his wife and son to Hui Ze. But he is so busy so he would just take the flight from Yun City to Hui Ze.

This is the second marriage for Chen Guang Ya and because he is an artist, so this wedding would not be too lavish and grand.

From the males side, the daughter would not come even the relatives are not coming. From the female side, only few relatives are coming to attend the party.

In total, the guests are less than fifty.

Though the wedding is very small, yet it is arranged in detail and fine.

Lu Shan’s family has received the wedding invitation, which Chen Guang Yao drew personally. When they arrive at Hui Ze, there is car waiting for pick them. Pei Yue and Lu Xing Yan are sent to the hotel.

Hui Ze is a good place, the scenery is so beautiful. Life there is very easy and comfortable.

It’s obvious that the life here is slower than Xing City.

The wedding is held on the next day morning, the venue is Jun Yi’s hotel.

Chen Guang You is a real artist family, he is a forty years old man. He is quite romantic, he chooses to have a garden wedding party.

Lu Xing Yan actually doesn’t like to join his parents to attend this kind of party.

Because every time, he feels that children always being a capital to show off or perhaps to an excuse to praise.

Lu Xing Yan doesn’t like to study. Of course Pei Yue and Lu Shan wouldn’t mention about it.

So most of them would just compliment about his appearance. “Lu Xing Yan is really tall! “Lu Xing Yan is very handsome.” They keep on complimenting him that way.

Hearing those words, Lu Xing Yan feels that it’s enough. —— Except being handsome and tall, don’t I have any more merit?

The time they are waiting for the bride and groom to get inside the hall, Lu Xing Yan coulnd’t help but to ask it to Pei Yue.

Pei Yue sighs: “Son, though you don’t have any merit but you have a really good self-knowledge.”

Am I really her child?

———

Very quickly, the bride and groom are entering the venue.

A black suit and white wedding dress. They are two young flower girls following behind them.

The last time Lu Xing Yan met Chen Guang Yao was three years ago, he still looks the same.

The bride looks very sweet-tempered and beautiful. She looks around forty years old. She is taller but compare to Chen Xing Ruo’s Mama, Song Qing Zhao, she is quite lacking.

The bride and the groom are holding hands.

The wedding song is played.

Two of them are walking toward the center. They are so happy and romantic.

Lu Xing Yan is sitting and watching, but his mind is recalling Chen Xing Ruo’s expression when she said that she wouldn’t go.

Perhaps Chen Xing Ruo’s conflicted feeling is too obvious, it even makes him a bit hard to feel sympathize with this kind of romantic scene.

The wedding finally enters the rings exchange ceremony and wedding kiss.

Lu Xing Yan has no interest in watching elders’ corny and affectionate interaction. He glances outside.

Suddenly he yawns.

“Ay, what are you doing Lu Xing Yan! Sit down !”

Pei Yue pulls Lu Xing Yan’s sleeve and scolds him with a low voice.

Lu Xing Yan acts like he doesn’t listen to her: “I’ll go to the restroom.”

“Would you die if you hold it for a while?”

“Yes.”

He stands up.

Lu Xing Yan leaves his seat a bit too abruptly, a lot of people are watching him.

He doesn’t care about other people’s gazes, he holds Chen Xing Ruo’s wrist and drags her to another corner.

Chen Xing Ruo shows no expression. She just lets him drag her, she even doesn’t try to stand up steadily, Lu Xing Yan helps her to stand up still.

She looks at the wedding hall.

Lu Xing Yan licks his lips and asks: “What do you want to do?”

Chen Xing Ruo is silent.

“Be more clear-headed. If you want to make a fuss here, where would your father’s face be? What if he got angry and just takes your mother’s assets for his new wife and the kids, he wouldn’t even leave you any painting?”

Chen Xing Ruo looks at Lu Xing Yan: “I don’t want to make a fuss.”

Lu Xing Yan chokes.

Chen Xing Ruo says: “My Mama’s assets is mine. Besides before the wedding, he had transferred four out of six his properties into my name, the insurance and trust bond’s earning would be mine. If he wants to give to that mother and son, I’m afraid he should wait till he could paint more. He should find more people to offer him ‘lousy kick’.”

“……..”

She seems to holding a grudge toward her own father.

Lu Xing Yan regains himself and asks: “Didn’t you say that you wouldn’t come? Your Papa last night said that you really don’t want to come, he looked very disappointed.”

Chen Xing Ruo is indifferent: “What disappointed? Now he also looks so happy, he is happily married. He is smiling like he is recovering his youthful vigor.”

“…………”

“Your words are really cruel.”

The MC announces that the couple are now officially husband and wife, everyone else is clapping.

Chen Xing Ruo’s face is even colder.

Lu Xing Yan wants to speak up to comfort her, but suddenly Chen Xing Ruo looks at his eyes. Chen Xing Ruo’s eyes are shinning.

She looks like she is sinking into serene craziness. Lu Xing Yan feels that she is about to force kiss him.

Yet Chen Xing Ruo just says: “Don’t take advantage of me, stand far away from me.”

Lu Xing Yan is late in responding, but he quickly puts some distance between them. He shows his disgusted expression: “D*mm*t, who would want to take advantage of you, I even feel that I’m the one who suffer losses.

———

Chen Xing Ruo seems to just come over to take a look.

She doesn’t make fuss or cry. The wedding ceremony is finished, she then just turns her body to leave.

Lu Xing Yan also follows her to go out.

They go outside the hotel and notices there’s a traffic jam around the hotel.

The mid-afternoon sun is very good.

Before coming here, Lu Xing Yan had taken a look at the weather forecast from her phone. Few days ago Hui Ze had unbroken spell of wet weather, but today it has a good weather.

He suddenly asks: “Do you come here because you want to wait for a heavy rain when they exchange rings?”

“Childish.”

Chen Xing Ruo looks at him, she is speechless to hear his thought.

Lu Xing Yan wanted to tease her but he didn’t do it too much.

When it is almost dinner time, they both just walk around and feel a bit hungry.

Lu Xing Yan suggests to go find a restaurant to eat. Fortunately there’s a restaurant nearby, which Chen Xing Ruo recommended to him before. The restaurant serves a very delicious Fei Teng Yu Pian (Boiled Sliced Fish). So they both just go there.

After they have dinner, Lu Xing Yan pays the bill and teases her: “Ay, before you went to the restroom, did you pay for the bill?”

Chen Xing Ruo looks at him “Why would I pay?”

The restaurant gives them a complimentary dish, a plate of Hami melon and a plate of sliced watermelons. They both don’t leave directly, they just sit down for a while and chat.

Lu Xing Yan finally remembers something, he asks: “Oh right, today I didn’t see your stepmother’s child.”

Chen Xing Ruo: “He possibly needs to make up missed lessons, he is in competition.”

Lu Xing Yan raises his eyebrow: “He is also a senior high school student?”

“Junior high school.”

It’s a rare thing for her to answer his question so he asks a thing that he is curious about: “Actually your Papa had been single for quite so many years. I feel that he is treating you well, why couldn’t you accept the fact him remarry.”

Chen Xing Ruo is calm.

She lifts up her head and answers: “That woman is my homeroom teacher when I was in grade 10. At the school she was enquiring solicitously about me meticulously, she frequently enlightened me. She helped me to come out from the shadow of my death. She knew about my family condition from my mouth. Then suddenly without me knowing, she just be with my Pa, and wants to be my stepmother. If it’s you, could you accept it?”

Homeroom teacher.

No wonder she decides to transfer to another school.

Lu Xing Yan doesn’t know what should he say.

Chen Xing Ruo takes a tissue and wipes her mouth: “Lu Xing Yan, lend me three hundred Yuan, I want to buy ticket to go back.”

After she moved to Xing City, she doesn’t use any money from Chen Guang Yao, but she is quite magnanimous in spending money. She has no habit to be thrifty. She has spent all the money she saved previously.

Lu Xing Yan hasn’t regained himself, he just directly transfers five hundred for her.

Both of them are going out of the restaurant and suddenly Lu Xing Yan has another question. He asks: “You came here by high speed rail?”

“Em.”

Lu Xing Yan: “Then where did you get the money to buy the ticket to come here?”

Chen Xing Ruo turns silence: “Last night I went to that restaurant and asked for the money back.”