Do You Like Me or Not?
That answer really left Jun Yueyue with no way to argue.
She clicked her tongue, leaned back in her seat, and looked sideways at Fang Anyu with a smile.
Whenever she was with Fang Anyu, she spent most of her time smiling. She actually wanted to reply, *Trying it out wouldn’t be impossible*, but after thinking about it, she still did not send it.
Mainly because there were too many things she could not figure out right now. She could not figure out what exactly was going on with this world, could not figure out why people from the apocalypse were appearing here, and the plot of this world was becoming more and more broken. She did not even know what everything would become next.
Most importantly, she could not figure out her own feelings either. She also was not sure whether she truly wanted to find someone like Fang Anyu. Before figuring all this out, provoking him when he did not understand feelings at all would be far too wicked.
So Jun Yueyue avoided the topic. She pretended to be sleepy and closed her eyes, no longer replying to Fang Anyu or bringing up any other topics.
Fang Anyu held his phone and watched Jun Yueyue close her eyes. Slowly, he bit his lip.
Fang Anyu’s thoughts were very simple. He did not have as many complicated thoughts as Jun Yueyue. He simply liked being with Jun Yueyue and going around playing with her. He wanted to keep living with her because when he was with her, even the most ordinary things like eating and sleeping became especially interesting.
And the reason he had tentatively sought intimacy with Jun Yueyue was also very simple. He wanted to please her. Because it was only after the two of them had a real physical relationship that she had started to change. Fang Anyu thought Jun Yueyue liked that. He had also sensed that her mood was not very good, so he had been trying to find a way to make her happy…
She had refused him twice. She… probably did not like doing it very much.
Fang Anyu would not do that again in the future. He put his phone away and also leaned back against the rear seat, inching little by little toward Jun Yueyue. In the end, he leaned against the side of her head and closed his eyes too.
If she did not like doing it, then how could he please her?
Fang Anyu thought that he had to make her like him even more as soon as possible, so she would stop bringing up divorce.
Jun Yueyue had originally been pretending to sleep. She knew when Fang Anyu leaned over too. She was still sorting through everything that had happened since she had woken up in this unfamiliar body.
If her previous guess was correct, then perhaps she had not transmigrated into a novel. Perhaps she had only been reborn, from a person the author had never written about into the body of a female cannon-fodder character.
Thinking of this character’s final ending in the original plot… it seemed… hm? Had she just been kissed?
Jun Yueyue kept her eyes closed and did not move. She felt something warm and soft touch the side of her face, and the thoughts in her mind instantly broke off…
Was Fang Anyu secretly kissing her?
Jun Yueyue could not describe what she felt. She waited for a while and then opened her eyes, but she did not move her head. Instead, she looked sideways at Fang Anyu, who was leaning beside her head. His eyes were closed, and he seemed to be asleep.
Had that just been an illusion?
Jun Yueyue closed her eyes again, preparing to pick up the thought that had just broken off. But she did not know whether Fang Anyu had some natural hypnotic effect. Once she closed her eyes, she began growing drowsy, and before long, she fell asleep.
The two of them had gone to sleep late the night before. Now, with their heads leaning against each other, they slept deeply in the back seat and did not wake until evening.
They were woken by Fang Anyan. The car was parked beside a small restaurant. It was dinner time. Fang Anyan had been driving all day and was so hungry his chest was almost sticking to his back. Jun Yu had also slept for a while halfway through the journey and was hungry now too.
The four of them got out of the car and sat down in the small restaurant. They ordered a few dishes, and the meal was unexpectedly harmonious, completely different from the strange atmosphere on the way there.
Jun Yueyue did not know whether it was her imagination, but she felt that the way Jun Yu looked at her was gradually becoming sticky. Even when they were eating, Fang Anyu leaning his stool toward her was one thing, but Jun Yu, who had always intentionally or unintentionally kept a distance from her, was also leaning toward her now. The key thing was that she was sitting in a wheelchair… so her leaning over was a little too obvious. Jun Yueyue could barely stretch her hand out to pick up food…
“Um…” Jun Yueyue turned her head to look at Jun Yu’s small face. When Jun Yu put food into her bowl for the fourth time, Jun Yueyue finally felt a little embarrassed and returned the gesture, placing a piece of meat into Jun Yu’s bowl.
Jun Yueyue said, “You’re a little too thin. Eat more…”
Jun Yu froze for a moment. Then she picked up the meat from her bowl and put it into her mouth. She nodded, her large eyes looking at Jun Yueyue before curving into a smile.
Aiya. Honestly, as expected of the female lead. She was already pretty to begin with, and when those two eyes curved like that, they were like deadly hooks…
But Jun Yueyue’s mood was actually a little complicated. Because of Old Master Jun’s sudden brain malfunction, the plot had completely gone off track. He insisted on giving that piece of land to her, so the business marriage between the female lead and male lead was definitely gone…
Without the business marriage, where would the “marriage before love” come from?
If the male and female leads did not get together, then how would the later plot develop? Would this world change in some bad way because of the change between the male and female leads?
Jun Yueyue suddenly felt a little unsettled. She wondered whether she should try to bring the male and female leads together. Even if it was not a marriage-before-love situation, as long as they ended up together in the end, it should be fine, right?
But this thought was cut off after they finished eating and were preparing to get back on the road.
Fang Anyan had driven for several hours and went to rest in the back. Jun Yueyue drove in front. Fang Anyu had originally wanted to sit in the front, but this time Jun Yu took the initiative and asked to sit in the front, so Fang Anyu could not beat her to it…
This was awkward.
The key thing was that Fang Anyan was lying in the back with his eyes closed and was not actually asleep at all. He had not rested well these past few days to begin with. On the way there, he had been taking care of everyone. At Old Master Jun’s place, he had also been walking on eggshells, while also dealing with all the mess in the company. This trip had made him worry as if he were smuggling white powder, but in the end, he had not even managed to fish up a cabbage leaf. His whole person was extremely exhausted…
Fang Anyan was originally a businessman. For families like theirs, business marriages were far too normal. It was not wrong to say he was profit-driven. But he was carrying that whole big family on his shoulders, carrying the shaky Fang Corporation. If he was not profit-driven, what else could he do?
Moreover, although Fang Anyan had not known about Old Master Jun’s test, he had passed it perfectly. Although Jun Yueyue always argued and clashed with him, she felt that Fang Anyan’s character was already very good.
It was actually reasonable that the male and female leads would develop feelings after marriage. One had responsibility and bottom lines. The other, even if her thoughts had originally been a little biased, did not hold grudges and corrected herself very quickly. There was nothing wrong with her nature. These two people together were really quite suitable. Unfortunately, Old Master Jun’s brain had suddenly developed a hole, and he insisted on giving the Jun family business to her. This pair had been ruined just like that.
Jun Yu held onto the car door and refused to get into the back. Fang Anyan had his eyes closed and brows slightly furrowed, pretending to be dead in the back. Fang Anyu stood by the car door, unwilling to get into the back. For a moment, the scene almost lost control…
Jun Yueyue braced herself and turned to glance at Fang Anyan. She honked the horn twice, but Fang Anyan did not even lift an eyelid. Jun Yu grabbed Jun Yueyue’s arm and said, “Sister, just let Brother-in-law sit in the back. I’m feeling a little carsick…”
This reason was truly logical and well-founded. Jun Yueyue could only take out her phone and send Fang Anyu a message:
Sit in the back. Jun Yu is feeling a little carsick. I won’t be driving for long either. In a few hours, I’ll switch back with Anyan.
After Fang Anyu read it, he nodded, released the car door, opened the rear door, and sat in the back.
After the car started, Fang Anyan turned his head to look at Fang Anyu. He took out his phone, wanting to add his brother on WeChat. But he held the phone in his hand for a long time, and his brother did not look at him even once…
It was not that he had never thought of buying Fang Anyu a phone before, but Fang Anyu had always said he did not know how to use one, did not want one, and that it was too troublesome. Yet when someone else bought him one, he accepted it…
Judging by the looks of it, he even liked it quite a lot. And he was operating it very skilfully.
Fang Anyan sighed and reached up to pinch the space between his brows. There were many things he could not take care of. His parents and the company had taken too much of his energy.
He knew why his brother so easily became inseparable from Jun Yue. It was because he had not done well enough. He had not used large amounts of time to accompany him, had not used a great deal of patience to help him gradually become familiar with new things…
Fang Anyan felt uncomfortable, but even more than that, he felt guilty. Fang Anyan was also a little afraid. The things Jun Yue had done before were still vivid in his mind. She had liked him, chased him madly, and there was no one in Qiuhai City who did not know it.
Why had she suddenly changed? Why had she suddenly become so close to his brother? Even today, when he had accidentally heard the conversation between Old Master Jun and Jun Yue, Jun Yue had even rejected the entire Jun family for his brother and said she wanted to give birth to his brother’s child…
Jun Yue had liked him and pursued him for several years. She had even married his brother for his sake. Could someone really transfer their feelings this quickly?
Because of the Fang family’s affairs, Fang Anyan was overwhelmed and did not have much spare time to think about these things. From beginning to end, he had never had a proper conversation with Jun Yue either. The last time he had asked her out to talk, the things Jun Yue said had made Fang Anyan feel creeped out even now…
Fang Anyan was worried that Jun Yue’s personality was too extreme. When she liked him, she had been that extreme. Now that she had transferred her feelings to his brother, she was just as extreme. If one day she liked someone else and abandoned his brother…
With his brother’s personality, Fang Anyan could hardly imagine what he would become.
Thinking of this, Fang Anyan could not help tugging on his brother’s hand. Only then did he finally pull his brother’s gaze away from the rear-view mirror.
He took out his phone, opened WeChat, and typed on it:
Add me on WeChat, Brother.
Jun Yueyue did not drive as crazily as she had when she first got behind the wheel, but her speed was still quite fast. Jun Yu sat in the passenger seat and was actually very obedient. It was just that her large eyes kept looking at Jun Yueyue from time to time, making Jun Yueyue feel a little like stepping on the brake.
Jun Yueyue had never had a younger sister. In her previous life, she had a younger brother… Her younger brother had been especially obedient. At that time, he had only been a few years old. Actually, later, during the extremely long time Jun Yueyue struggled to survive in the apocalypse, every time she brushed past death and every time she dragged out a miserable survival, she understood a little more why he had been her mother’s choice.
After all, her younger brother had not understood anything back then. The only person Jun Yueyue could not forgive was her mother.
Besides, why could she not have waited for her a little longer? If she had waited a little longer, Jun Yueyue had almost been about to take the initiative and say she would stay behind. If she had waited a little longer, perhaps Jun Yueyue would have mutated, and their family would not have ended so tragically…
She had been ruthlessly abandoned and hurt. She had struggled alone to survive in that kind of world for so long. Even if she did not want to admit it, deep in her bones, she yearned for affection. She was starving for every kind of feeling.
Because only after seeing all kinds of human nature and experiencing countless separations by life and death did one understand that being alive itself was already far too difficult. Even without accidents, life was too short. In the face of life and death, everything else became tiny.
So Jun Yueyue could not really deliberately ignore people who showed kindness to her. Fang Anyu had been like this before, and now Jun Yu, who was suddenly stretching out little feelers and poking at her, was also like this.
So when they stopped to rest and refuel, Jun Yueyue took the initiative to ask Jun Yu, “Do you need the bathroom? Are you thirsty? Should I buy you a bottle of water?”
Jun Yu first shook her head, then looked at the convenience store inside the petrol station and nodded again. Her eyes curved as she said to Jun Yueyue, “Thank you, Sister…”
Fuck.
Jun Yueyue nearly cursed out loud. She opened the car door and got out to buy water. She bought enough for all four of them, one bottle each. Fang Anyan was in the back seat talking to Fang Anyu about something. The conversation did not seem very pleasant. By the end, Fang Anyu was ignoring Fang Anyan entirely, his face almost pressed against the side window…
When Jun Yueyue and Fang Anyan switched places, Jun Yu still tried to follow Jun Yueyue to the back. But as soon as Jun Yueyue sat in the rear seat, Fang Anyu hugged her.
In the end, Jun Yu’s attempt did not succeed. If she wanted to sit in the back, she would need Fang Anyan to carry her. Besides, she had used the excuse of carsickness to sit in the front earlier, so now it was not convenient for her to change her words.
Fang Anyan drove until past ten at night. He found a place for the group to rest for the night. By the afternoon of the next day, they returned to Qiuhai City.
Jun Yu did not follow Jun Yueyue and the others back to the Fang family. She prepared to return to her own place and hurry to get ready, since she still had to attend her friend’s engagement banquet that evening.
Fang Anyan dropped Jun Yueyue and Fang Anyu off at home, then hurried to the company. The moment Jun Yueyue and Fang Anyu returned home, they ran upstairs to see the flowers Fang Anyu was raising.
It was around five in the afternoon. The servants had looked after Fang Anyu’s flowers fairly well. He held a small cloth and crouched very carefully beside the balcony, wiping the slightly larger leaves one by one.
Jun Yueyue sat on the sofa and watched him. The setting sun spilled in through the floor-to-ceiling windows, outlining Fang Anyu and the scenery around him with a reddish-gold edge. It dazzled her until she narrowed her eyes… and there was also an indescribable warmth and peace.
Moments like this were far too rare for Jun Yueyue. Her whole body lay limp on the sofa as she watched Fang Anyu kneel there. Beside him was a small basin of clean water, and in his hand was a soft cloth. After wiping two leaves, he would wash the cloth once. He looked as if he wished he could stroke every single needle on the cactus one by one…
“You like them that much…” Jun Yueyue spoke to his back, but in reality, she was talking to herself.
Fang Anyu was such a strange person. Whether toward people or things, he was gentle to death. He liked flowers so much that he knelt on the floor and wiped them again and again. Jun Yueyue could not help wondering: if he liked a person, what would he be like?
Would he treat her well unconditionally, give her whatever she wanted, never get angry even if that person treated him badly, always wait for her, quietly accompany her… or, no matter what happened, never abandon her?
Fang Anyu washed the little cloth again and changed to a new potted plant. This time, it was a spider plant. Its leaves were especially thin. He wiped them slowly from base to tip, even using a small stick to hold them up as he did so. Not a single leaf was overlooked…
His fingers under the sunset showed an incomparably warm colour. Jun Yueyue thought that whoever was held in the palm of his hand would probably never feel cold for the rest of their life.
She slowly lay sideways on the sofa, curling her body up and habitually hugging her knees. This was a posture of self-protection, of closing herself off.
She closed her eyes and asked Fang Anyu’s back, “Do you like me…”
She did not expect any response from Fang Anyu at all, so she did not send it on her phone. She was not even facing him, and her eyes were closed. It was more like she was speaking to herself, her voice especially soft.
“Not the kind of like where you just want to run around wildly with me. Not the kind of like because I’m more patient when I talk to you. And not the kind of like where you want to do it with me because of a physical need…”
Jun Yueyue said, “That would be putting the order backwards.”
She paused, licked her lips, and continued speaking with her eyes closed under the warm sunset.
“It should be that you like me first, and only then do you like running around wildly with me, like talking to me, and feel physical desire for me…”
“But you don’t understand anything…”
Jun Yueyue sighed. She opened her eyes, originally planning to get up and find something to eat. This kind of self-pitying manner really did not suit her.
But when she opened her eyes, what she saw was not the sunset filling the room, but Fang Anyu crouching beside her with his back to the sunlight.
The warm yellow light enveloped his whole person. Jun Yueyue could not see his expression clearly. She could only see the beautiful little dimple at the corner of his mouth, and at that moment, she felt he looked like a sweet-coloured pastry that had just come fresh out of the oven…
She heard her own heart begin to beat faster and faster.
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