Rebirth: Growing Up Together

"Lin Wanzhou, girls shouldn't talk in such a perverted way. Ahem, just tell me this, don't tell anyone else."

"I'm just worried that you might do something perverted!" the girl immediately clarified.

He is the only one who can get so close to her since she was a child. She won't even give anyone else the chance to get within one meter of her.

"No, I won't do that before you agree."

Xu Cheng gently stroked the girl's soft hair with his cheek. Her hair was clean and had a rich fruity scent, which made him unable to help but pick up a strand and put it to his nose to smell it carefully.

Lin Wanzhou did not resist. In fact, she did not have the strength to resist. The infusion was indeed very effective for colds. Xu Cheng, who was still weak in the morning, had become so strong now.

Just thinking this, she rubbed against him twice.

I don't know whether this guy brought the air conditioner remote control or the TV remote control. He just put it between the two of them and didn't move it away, which made her feel very uncomfortable.

So she took a lot of effort to turn over on the narrow sofa. This was much more comfortable than before, but her eyes met Xu Cheng's cheek.

Even through the darkness, the girl could see the way he was looking at her.

At that moment, she suddenly felt that turning around was a mistake, but she no longer had the chance to turn around again.

At a loss, she buried her head in his neck like an ostrich, feeling his breath and closing her eyes.

"Lin Wanzhou, you are so cute."

Listening to Xu Cheng's slightly magnetic and ambiguous words, the girl didn't know how to respond and just whimpered helplessly.

"Can I kiss you somewhere cute?"

"What's lovable about me?"

The girl instinctively said "which ones" instead of "what". Saying "where" means there is only one place, but the girl instinctively thinks that there are many cute places about her, so it is "which ones".

However, Xu Cheng's answer was more greedy, and made the girl happier.

"You are cute all over, every corner and every hair is cute."

"Humph."

The girl looked up shyly, like a couple flirting with each other, and looked at Xu Cheng with pouting lips as if in protest.

Her slender fingers were still holding the little deer on his sweatshirt, wrapping it around her slender index finger.

"What did you just say to me?"

"Huh?" Xu Cheng was stunned for a moment.

"I asked you what you just said?"

"Didn't you hear me? I said you're cute all over."

"What about the previous sentence?"

"Lin Wanzhou, you are so cute..."

The girl shook her head anxiously. "That was the sentence before that. I'm talking about the one in between these two sentences."

Xu Cheng tried to recall for a while, then asked tentatively.

"Can I kiss you somewhere cute?"

"No." The girl refused firmly.

"why?"

"Because you're greedy!"

"So you only need to kiss one place?"

When Xu Cheng was asked this, his attention was diverted, and the actions that originally restrained the girl were much relieved.

Seizing this opportunity, Lin Wanzhou slipped out of this guy's arms like a slippery little loach.

I was still thinking in my heart, Xu Cheng is too useless, just saying he is greedy, he only dared to kiss one place...

"You don't stand a chance. I'm so hungry now. Let's go eat."

The girl pushed away Xu Cheng who followed her in the dark, and the boy felt a little depressed.

"But I don't have the energy to cook."

"Then you still have the energy to bully me!"

"Unless you help me recharge." Xu Cheng looked at Lin Wanzhou with anticipation.

Having often heard Xu Cheng say shameless things, Lin Wanzhou also understood that his charging must have other meanings.

"You were dreaming."

She tapped on her slippers to turn on the living room light. The glaring light made Xu Cheng unable to open his eyes for a moment.

Then he sat down beside the coffee table, opened the fruit basket that Yan Wenwen had brought, took out a banana, and started eating it while squatting beside the coffee table.

Xu Cheng, who was a little hungry, also leaned over to get some fruit, but Lin Wanzhou pushed his hand away.

"Don't eat it!"

"why?"

Xu Cheng was puzzled. "This is a fruit basket given to me by someone else. Why can't I eat it?"

Of course the girl would not say that she was jealous. Just because she was jealous of him, she shamelessly hugged the whole fruit basket in her arms and even wanted to spit on it.

But when he thought that if he really spit, Xu Cheng would not feel ashamed to eat, but would have one more reason to eat, so he did not do so.

"I won't give you any. If you eat it, I'll beat you."

"..."

Xu Cheng was helpless, "If you don't give me fruit, then you should cook for me. I'm so hungry now."

“I don’t want to eat the food I cooked.”

The girl didn't care about her face at all in this matter. "Let's go out to eat. Do you have an appetite?"

"Fortunately."

The two went out again, and because Lin Wanzhou was afraid of bumping into his parents, he went out the darker back door of the community.

Several street lamps had new bulbs replaced, emitting a dazzling incandescent light in the dim main color.

Perhaps it was because he had been cooped up at home for a long time, but now Xu Cheng was walking on the street, breathing the fresh air, and felt that his body, which had been stuffy for a long time, became much more relaxed.

Urban construction was gradually booming, and the city was gorgeous at night. The two didn't know where to go for dinner, so they walked aimlessly with empty stomachs.

Xu Cheng's hand naturally grasped the girl's small hand, and Lin Wanzhou did not even think of resisting. She felt that the feeling of these hands against the gentle night breeze was great.

"Xu Cheng, why are your hands so warm? Have they been like this since you were a child?"

Xu Cheng thought back, "I remember when I was little, my sister held my hand and took me home..."

Feeling the unfriendly gaze of the girl next to him, Xu Cheng quickly added, "She was my cousin. She had already started working at that time. We were only in the first and second grades..."

"Hmph, just say your own thing. There's no need to explain all this to me. I'm never jealous." The girl turned her head away.

"Uh……"

Xu Cheng had no choice but to continue speaking obediently, "At that time, she said my hands were very warm, and she kept holding my hand. I remember it very clearly..."

"Let me go, let me go." The girl urged, and clasped Xu Cheng's palm with her other hand, preventing him from pulling her anymore.

Xu Cheng was helpless, "Don't you think you're not jealous?"

"Who is jealous...I just don't want you to hold me, it's so dirty..."

"..."

Xu Cheng tapped his fingers tighter and gripped them more forcefully, controlling the strength to just the right level so as not to hurt the girl.

"That's my cousin. Besides, if I were to name the first person who actually held my hand, other than my mother and other elders, the first person of the opposite sex who was not related by blood would definitely be you."

"Really?"

"Yeah, you forgot we held hands in kindergarten..."

"I forgot. I forgot everything about kindergarten."

The girl pouted and recalled something, glaring at Xu Cheng angrily, "Let's not talk about holding hands, let's talk about something else. I remember that you were kissed by Teacher Xiaoyang when you were in kindergarten, so I wasn't the first one to kiss you!"

Didn’t you forget???

Xu Cheng coughed twice.

"…Don't worry about it. It was a long time ago. I was so young then."

"Who cares?" Lin Wanzhou said the exact opposite in the tone of "I care a lot."

Xu Cheng pulled the girl's hand and moved her arm, but the girl ignored him.

He announced as if he had made some important decision, "Okay, then I'll let you kiss me back."

"Who wants to kiss you? You are shameless." The girl rolled her eyes at him. She was not so stupid that she couldn't figure out such a confusing thing.

"You really don't want to kiss me? If you kiss me, you'll be even with Teacher Xiaoyang."

Xu Cheng half squatted down, controlling his height to be on the same level as the girl, and showing her his cheek.

Lin Wanzhou glanced at him a few times, was embarrassed for a while, and finally couldn't help but hold his face with her hands and turned his cheek away.

"Mr. Xiaoyang kisses the left cheek, I want to kiss the right one."

Then she looked around and found that there were no pedestrians. She quickly pursed her lips and kissed him lightly on the right cheek.

Xu Cheng only felt the warmth and dampness for a moment, and then the coolness of the wind blowing through the traces of saliva.

And beside him, the girl who never grew up suddenly felt much happier.

Most of the time she is very generous, and most of the time she is also very stingy.

So the knot in my heart and the unhappiness that had been in my mind since I was six years old were finally resolved at this moment...

Chapter 295: The Next Arrangement

The passionate summer has arrived in the blink of an eye, and small skirts and suspenders have become the mainstream attire on the streets.

The second half of Xu Cheng's first year of high school also ended after the final exams.

I went to the research group to get the summer homework and distributed it to the students, and then distributed the parent notices to the students. The tasks for this semester were completed.

Xu Cheng and Lin Wanzhou were both on duty on the last day.

The two of them dawdled in tacit understanding, so all the other students on duty in the same group had already left, but they were still in the classroom.

Xu Cheng looked around and saw that the classroom was empty and there was no outsider. So he picked up the mop, walked through the rows of desks with chairs upside down, and went to Lin Wanzhou who was bending over to sweep the floor.

The girl raised her head and glanced at him, then impatiently tapped his dirty shoes twice with the broom.

"What are you doing? Don't block others from sweeping the floor."

Xu Cheng quickly took two steps back and stood where she had already swept, with her chin lazily resting on the mop stick.

"Lin Wanzhou, how are you going to spend this summer vacation?"

"Just live your life the same as before."

The girl carefully used a broom to gather the scraps of paper on the ground into a small pile.

"My dad is going on a business trip and my mom is not at home, so I'm going to stay at my grandma's house for a while..."

Xu Cheng scratched the tip of his nose and asked tentatively.

"Can you please not go to your grandmother's house?"

"Why?" The girl straightened her slender waist and looked at Xu Cheng.

The boy hurriedly explained, "Think about it, from childhood to adulthood, we rarely had the experience of playing together during the summer vacation, right?"

"..."

The girl frowned slightly and found that it was just as he said. They would be separated every summer vacation because she had to go to her grandmother's house. The only summer vacation they spent the longest time together was the one when they lived together at her grandmother's house.

During that time, they slept together every night. When the girl thinks back on it now, she feels shy but also a bit of nostalgia and yearning.

"Then, then you come with me."