"This one," Su Shi said, turning the card over - a joker.
"Yes!" Li Xi stood up excitedly, clenching her fists with a look of certainty of victory, "I'm finally going to win!"
"Hmm..." Deng looked at Su Shi blankly, his eyes full of confusion.
“Pfft.” Aiyin couldn’t help but turn her face away and chuckled with her hands covering her mouth.
Soyorin's acting is so fake...but it seems like Rikki didn't notice.
Li Xi looked at the two cards in Su Shi's hand. She had been staring at them since Su Shi put the cards back in her hand. Now she was sure that she had remembered their positions.
Without hesitation, Li Xi grabbed the card in Su Shi's hand and pulled it out suddenly - the two of spades!
Li Xi proudly tore off the paper on his face and stuck it on Su Shi's forehead: "This feeling is great! It really is a wheel of fortune, Su Shi."
Su Shi obediently accepted the punishment, and looking at Li Xi's smug look, she couldn't help but chuckle.
Outside the window, the rain is still falling, and the sound of the rain hitting the glass is like a soft lullaby.
Su Shi's gaze swept across the heavy rain outside the window, and the corners of her mouth rose slightly.
If it hadn't rained, everyone would have gone back long ago, right?
"What a nice day." Su Shi suddenly said, gently stroking the note on his forehead.
"Huh?" Li Xi looked out the window in confusion. She felt that there was nothing wrong with her eyesight. It was still raining outside. "Su Shi, are your eyes blocked by the note? How can this awful weather be good?"
"Eh? Su Shi... do you think the weather is good?" Deng was stunned and nodded slightly. She didn't understand why Su Shi suddenly said this, and began to think about the reason in her mind.
"Could it be... Soyorin, you mean..." Aine looked at Su Shi's expression and understood what was going on. Her legs, which had originally stopped, began to shake again.
Feeling Aine's gaze, Su Shi met her eyes with a slight smile on her lips. Without words, the two of them understood each other.
It seems that Aine-chan has sensed it.
"One more time!" Li Xi felt that she was now incredibly strong. She had already started to shuffle the cards again. "This time, Aiyin, I'm going to make you put a note on it too."
Li Xi shook his head. More than half of the notes on his face were posted by Aiyin, and the rest were posted by Su Shi.
“Tsk.” Aine rolled her eyes and sat up from the sofa. “Rikka is worthy of being Rikka. He got carried away after winning.”
Le Nai narrowed her eyes slightly, and she looked at Li Xi: "Rikki was losing all the time just now."
"That's called indirect weakness!" Li Xi argued shamelessly, shuffling the cards clumsily, making them all over the table.
Deng helped pick up the cards. She came to Su Shi and asked softly, "Su Shi... is very gentle."
Su Shi naturally knew what Deng meant by "gentleness". She raised her index finger to her lips and blinked: "Xiao Deng, it's a secret."
The rain still pattered against the window, but now it no longer sounded gloomy.
Deng turned his head, glanced at the rain outside the window, and then focused his gaze on the group of people in front of him. The corners of his mouth gradually rose, just like Su Shi's.
I think... I know why Su Shi said it was a nice day today.
The game started again, and Lenai sat next to Lixi: "I want to play too."
"Hey, what are you doing? Is Lenai planning to stick a note on Rikki's face too?" Aine asked jokingly.
"Yeah." Lenai nodded and looked at Riki with a smile, "Rikki...I've got the note ready."
"Hmph." Li Xi snorted lightly, "Wild cat, it's still unclear who will stick to whom!"
Looking at the scene in front of him, Su Shi fixed his gaze on Aine. Coincidentally, Aine turned her head and their eyes met again in the air.
Su Shi drew her cards again and breathed a sigh of relief. She really hoped that the rain would last a little longer.
Chapter 422 A Clear Night
The rain finally stopped.
The clouds outside the window gradually dissipated, revealing the long-lost night sky. A few stars twinkled timidly. Su Shi stood on the porch, seeing off his friends in the band one by one.
"Su Shi, see you tomorrow." Deng waved gently and left with his notebook.
Li Xi turned around and glanced at Su Shi: "Well, goodbye."
"Sushi, bye." Lenai ran to Riki and grabbed her clothes, "Rikki, matcha parfait."
"I'll buy it tomorrow."
When the three figures disappeared around the corner, Aiyin turned around and waved to Su Shi: "Then I will too..."
"Aine." Su Shi suddenly grabbed her sleeve, her voice a little lower than usual, "Today... can you stay with me all night?"
Aine was stunned and blinked, "Huh? What happened, all of a sudden?"
Su Shi grabbed the clothes, her fingers tightening slightly, the fabric wrinkling fine lines between her fingers. The light from the living room shone on her profile, and the shadow cast by her eyelashes trembled slightly: "Just...stay overnight. Is that okay?
Aine opened her mouth, not knowing how to respond. In her memory, Su Shi rarely asked for company so directly.
Seeing that Aine didn't answer immediately, Su Shi said, "It's okay if you want to go home..."
"I just...some parts of that dream were too real. I..." Her voice trailed off, her eyes dropping to stare at the tips of her shoes, "I'm still a little scared."
"Soyorin..." Aiyin stared at Sushi blankly. She felt a little melancholy in her heart. She didn't expect that dream to cause so much trouble to Soyorin...
Aiyin's dazed expression made Sushi's heart tighten. Although she said it was okay for Aiyin to go home, she didn't really want her to leave. She reached out and grabbed Aiyin's arm: "Didn't you say before that you would listen to me?"
Sushi's voice was muffled, with a hint of fragility in it that Aine had never heard before.
Aine's eyes softened, and she took a step forward, pulling Su Shi into her arms.
"Aine-chan?" Su Shi was at a loss as to what to do due to Aine's sudden action.
Aiyin rested her chin on Sushi's shoulder and whispered, "Of course I'll accompany you, idiot."
"Then...you just..." Su Shi's voice paused.
"I was just thinking that the dream had caused you so much trouble."
Sushi's body stiffened for a moment, then slowly relaxed, her forehead resting on Aine's shoulder. Aine could feel her breath through the thin pajamas, warm and light.
Aine chuckled. She pulled away slightly and cupped Soyo's face. "Of course I'll accompany you, Soyorin. No need to make so many excuses."
Back in the living room, the window faced the night sky that was beginning to clear. Aine stood in front of the huge French window, looking up and counting the stars that were gradually increasing in number.
"Isn't that particularly bright planet Jupiter?" she asked, pointing to the sky. "I remember Tomorin told me that."
Su Shi didn't answer. She stood beside Aine, her fingers unconsciously twisting the hem of her pajamas, her eyes fixed on Aine's profile - the face that made her dream about it day and night, intoxicated.
Aiyin turned around, caught Su Shi’s gaze, and smiled knowingly: “Are you still thinking about that dream?
Sushi shook her head, "Aine-chan, you look so good."
“Pfft.” Aine covered her mouth with her hands and chuckled. “I didn’t expect Soyorin to say such cheesy things. I thought you always said one thing and meant another.”
"What do you mean by saying one thing and thinking another?" Su Shi looked at Aine dissatisfiedly. "Even after being with you, my attitude has been very direct, right?"
“Yeah, that’s true.” Aine nodded.
"By the way, Soyorin, you know what," Aine said suddenly, her fingers drawing invisible patterns on the glass, "I had a very long dream after I passed out in the operating room."
Su Shi looked at her: "What kind of dream?"
“I dreamt that everything around me was dark.” Aine’s eyes sparkled with the starlight. “I could feel you were by my side, but strangely, I couldn’t find you.”
Su Shi's fingers quietly clenched her clothes. The dream described by Aine was strangely consistent with the dream she had of "losing Aine".
"What happened next?" she asked softly.
Aine shrugged, "Then I heard Suyo's voice."
“My voice?
“Yeah, you were playing the bass, though I couldn’t hear it clearly…” Aine’s fingers tapped casually on the windowpane, “and then I woke up.
A warm feeling surged in Su Shi's chest. She did not feel insulted by Aine's words. After all, Aine only felt her voice. What else could she ask for?
"Let's go back to the house?"
"Okay." Su Shi nodded.
Back in Su Shi's room, the two of them lay on the bed, looking into each other's eyes.
Aine grabbed Sushi's hand and squeezed it gently: "Come on, close your eyes."
"What?"
"obedient."
Su Shi closed her eyes obediently, her eyelashes trembling slightly, as if she was expecting something.
Just as Su Shi was lost in thought, Aine spread out her hands and tapped them intermittently in her palms, as if she was playing something.
Aine’s fingertips gently fell on her palm, jumping like raindrops, at first without any pattern, and then gradually forming a familiar rhythm - it was "Bi Tian Ban Zou".
The warmth of the fingertips, the gentle pressure, and the sound of Aine’s breathing so close to her.
Sushi's eyelids trembled slightly, but she didn't open them. In this dark and quiet space, there was only Aiyin and her, and that silent melody.
"Aine suddenly said, "The sky is clear."
Su Shi opened her eyes and followed Aine's gaze out the window. The clouds had completely dispersed, and the Milky Way stretched across the night sky.
Aine's fingers still stayed in her palm, now just quietly pressed against it, warm and solid.
"Aine-chan, why are you playing 'Bitian Banzou'?"
“It’s just because we played it during our first live, and I suddenly remembered it, so here it is…” Aine said with a slight smile, “If Soyorin doesn’t like it, ‘Kasuga Shadow’ is also fine.”
Hearing this, Su Shi snorted lightly, but she no longer felt the disgust she had at first. Instead, she revealed a hint of relief.
"Go to sleep," Aine whispered, "I'm right here."
"Okay." Su Shi held Aine's hand and closed her eyes.
That night, Su Shi didn't have any dreams for the first time in a long time.
When she woke up in the morning, sunlight already filled half the room. Aiyin was leaning against the headboard, a book in her hand. Noticing the noise, Aiyin lowered her head and smiled, "Good morning. Did you sleep well?"
Su Shi blinked her sleepy eyes. In the morning light, the outline of Aine was coated with a layer of gold, which made Su Shi feel a little dazed.
"Su Shi replied softly, "I didn't dream."
Aiyin closed the book, leaned over and placed a soft kiss on Sushi's forehead: "That's good."
Chapter 423 Picking up the guitar again
The afternoon sun illuminated Mu's room, and the air was filled with the unique fragrance of books.
Aine sat at the desk, her long pink hair casually tied up with a pencil, a few unruly strands of hair hanging down in front of her smooth forehead.
She bit her lower lip, frowned, and stared at the analytic geometry problem in front of her. The spread-out math notes were rustling in the wind, and were covered with dense pencil marks.
Mu sat quietly beside her, like an exquisite porcelain doll. She leaned forward slightly, her long eyelashes drooping, her eyes fixed on Aine's calculation process.
When Aine got stuck on a question about finding the length of a string, Mu didn't say anything. He just stretched out his slender fingers and gently pointed with his fingertips at a key condition in the exercise book that Aine had overlooked.
"Ah... here!" Aine suddenly realized something and slapped her forehead in frustration. Then she turned her gaze to Mu and smiled gratefully, "Thank you, Mumu! Without you, I really would be lost here."
Mu shook his head slightly, and a soft curve appeared at the corner of his mouth, which was almost invisible but real.
She liked seeing Aine focused yet a little confused like this, and she liked the feeling of being able to help even more.
Watching Aine concentrate on solving the problem again, the sunlight dancing on her pink hair, ripples of satisfaction spread in Mu's heart.
This kind of alone and quiet time is precious to Mu.
It would be nice if it could go on like this - Mu looked at his hands placed on his legs, his eyelashes drooping slightly.
Time passed quietly as the pen tip rubbed against the paper. When Aine finally solved the last puzzle, she breathed a sigh of relief and stretched her stiff body backwards.
At this moment, the sunset outside the window dyed the room a warm orange-red.
"Finally done! Thanks to Mumu." Aine stretched with a smile in her eyes.
Mu nodded and put away the books and stationery on the table, his movements gentle and orderly.
At this moment, Aine’s gaze drifted inadvertently to the corner of the room.
Mu's guitar was leaning quietly there, and a strong feeling of longing and desire instantly gripped her.
How long had it been? Ever since she was admitted to the hospital, she hadn't been able to touch her guitar again.
"Mumu..." Aine's voice suddenly softened, carrying a hint of cautious tentativeness and uncontrollable yearning, "Um... can you play guitar with me for a while? Just for a while."
She pointed to the corner: "I...I haven't touched it for a long, long time."
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