Return to the leisurely life on the island - Chapter 274: I Can Like You Secretly

Chapter 274 I Can Like You Secretly

After Zhiyi came back, the house became much more lively.

Even though most of the time, Zhiyi doesn't chatter like Cailing.

It’s a very wonderful feeling. Lively is not just a literal meaning. Perhaps it’s more of a feeling that no one can lack.

It was still early, and after packing their luggage, Liu Zhiyi couldn't wait to pull Fang Wei to do homework together.

"You just came back, don't you want to take a rest first?"

"No, finish your homework early and take a nap early."

"...?"

No! What kind of reason is this for doing homework? !

In fact, each of them had a desk in their room, but usually the three of them did their homework and studied together at the dining table. Only when Liu Zhiyi was secretly writing a manuscript would she hide in the room and write the manuscript at her desk. It was completely different from doing her homework, and she would not allow Fang Wei and Cailing to peek. If someone stood next to her, she would not be able to write a single word of her manuscript.

Therefore, even though they had known each other for such a long time, Lian Fangwei had never seen what the girl looked like when she was writing.

I heard that when writers are writing, when they reach an emotional part, they will giggle or wipe away tears by themselves, and they have all kinds of quirks, like tearing tissues, biting nails, writing while standing or lying down, etc. I'm afraid that readers can't imagine what kind of situation the works they are reading were created in.

The dining table was spacious, with more than enough space for two people to do their homework together, but Liu Zhiyi still liked to sit next to Fang Wei and squeeze in to write together.

"How much have you written in the past two days?" Fang Wei asked.

"A little bit……"

"Are you busy writing?"

"I've only written a little bit of the manuscript..."

"So what have you been doing at home these past two days?"

"Well……"

The girl lowered her head in shame. She didn't know what she had been doing. She was doing her homework and writing manuscripts in the room as usual. However, she could have written 100 pages, but she only wrote 30 in the same amount of time. Most of the time she was in a daze.

All I can say is, my heart isn't there anymore.

It's all right now. After returning to her nest, she immediately felt her restless heart calm down.

Obviously, this place is not her "home" in any sense, but when she is in her little nest with three people, she always feels the sense of security that comes only when she is home, like a fishing boat returning to the port.

Is it because of the house? Of course not. If it were the other way around, and she was the only one here, and Fang Wei Cailing was on the island, she would definitely not be at ease.

"How about you? How much have you written?"

"I have finished the math and am almost done with the physics."

"what?!"

There is no pressure without comparison. As the holiday is coming to an end, the girl finally feels the urgency when faced with a large amount of unfinished homework.

"I'm not talking to you anymore!"

"..."

With an excited look on his face, Liu Zhiyi quickly took out the test paper and started doing the questions at his desk.

Like Fang Wei, she chose to do math first, but for different reasons. Fang Wei thought math was simple so he did it first, while she thought math was the most difficult so she did the difficult ones first.

The math papers assigned during the winter vacation were not easy to complete. Liu Zhiyi was struggling with the answers. She had said she would not talk to him, but soon she moved the paper in front of her to his side and pointed at a certain question with her little hand.

"How do I do this question..."

"..."

……

After Zhiyi came back, Fang Wei's lunch was no longer as casual as when he ate by himself.

The three of them brought a lot of food from home, and for lunch they made a steamed salted chicken, a steamed egg, and some stir-fried vegetables.

They were all homely dishes, but Liu Zhiyi ate them with relish. When Cailing was not around, the two of them would sit opposite each other at the dining table, with their calves hooked together under the table. Whenever they came across a great piece of chicken thigh, Fang Wei would put it into her bowl.

The girl was a little picky about food, mainly picking out greasy parts, such as fat and chicken skin, but she didn't want to waste anything. Whenever she frowned, Fang Wei would hand her the bowl, and she could put the fat or chicken skin she had bitten off into his bowl.

"Fang Wei."

"Ok?"

"So are we going to make preserved meat rice tonight? Grandpa brought me preserved meat and sausages."

"You've been eating for two days and you still want to eat?"

"I want to eat what you cook~"

"That's fine, but let's do it in two days. You'll get tired of eating it continuously."

"Yeah! So what are we having for dinner tonight?"

"I'm tired of eating so many dishes during the Chinese New Year. How about I make you some Western food tonight?"

"Western food! Is it steak and pumpkin rice?"

Liu Zhiyi's eyes lit up. It was true that he was tired of eating many dishes during the Chinese New Year, and the elders could not come up with any new ideas. Only when he was with Fang Wei, he could come up with many new ideas even for the meal.

"Let's make something special for you this time. How about we make our own pizza?"

“Pizza!”

"Yeah, do you want to eat?"

"miss you!"

Although the girl has a small appetite, she is usually very greedy. When she heard that Fang Wei was going to make pizza, Liu Zhiyi became very much looking forward to it.

"Will it be difficult to make? The pizza that Susu took us to eat before was so expensive!"

"It shouldn't be difficult. I'll try to practice first. I don't think it will taste good."

"Your cooking must be delicious~"

"That's fine. Let's go pick up Cai Ling together this afternoon and go shopping for groceries while we're at it."

"Uh-huh!"

Fang Wei cooks and Liu Zhiyi is responsible for washing the dishes.

After cleaning up the kitchen and wiping my hands, it was finally time for the long-awaited nap.

The girl moved very quickly. When Fang Wei came out of the bathroom, he didn't see her in the kitchen, the living room, or her room, but he saw her on the bed in his own room.

When I saw her again, Liu Zhiyi had already crawled into the bed.

On the chair beside the bed were the clothes she had taken off, including a coat, a sweater, a pair of light blue jeans, and even a pair of long johns.

When Fang Wei saw the other clothes, he didn't react much, but when he saw the pair of autumn trousers, his eyes suddenly widened.

No... you even took off your long johns?!

The girl was wrapped tightly in the quilt, and no one knew how much she was wearing underneath. Although Fang Wei did not deliberately make any noise when he entered the room, she seemed not to notice and did not even open her eyes to look at him. She just pretended to be asleep.

The sleeping position also changed. Cai Ling usually slept on Fang Wei's left side, with her quilt and pillow also placed on the left. But this time she had been carried to the right side of Fang Wei's quilt and pillow, rolled up like a runny egg roll, and lay down on the right side.

Of course Fang Wei didn't believe that she was asleep, but seeing that she was pretending to be asleep, he didn't call her. He just turned around and gently closed the door.

Hearing the sound of the door closing, the girl who was pretending to be asleep secretly squinted her eyes and took a look.

Fang Wei turned his back to her and began to take off his clothes one by one. He first took off his coat, then his sweater, and then bent down to take off his trousers...

Boom, boom, boom. Her heartbeat gradually quickened. For some reason, she felt it was so astringent to watch someone taking off their clothes.

As Fang Wei sat on the edge of the bed wearing only a thin base shirt and fitted autumn pants, Liu Zhiyi's heart beat faster. She was too embarrassed to look at him anymore and simply closed her eyes tightly.

She only heard a slight sound from the bed, and then Fang Wei sat down beside her.

He was arranging his own quilt. Because his quilt was bigger and hers was thinner, Fang Wei covered her quilt with half of it, just like he did when he slept with Cai Ling.

As the weight of the quilt fell, Liu Zhiyi's face turned slightly red, and she felt particularly tight and warm.

Even with the curtains drawn, the bright afternoon sunlight still filled the entire bedroom with warmth.

Fang Wei had just laid down in the bed and had not yet completely adjusted to this warm little world when the girl next to him plucked up the courage and, unlike usual when she would sneak her hand in during lunch break, she boldly reached her hand through the quilt and gently held his hand while both of them were still awake.

When Fang Wei held her slightly cold little hands to warm them up, Liu Zhiyi's brows relaxed as if she was warming herself by a fire in winter, and the corners of her mouth unconsciously revealed a little curve of happiness.

"Are you asleep?"

"Um……"

"Still um?"

"..."

Fang Wei was both angry and amused, and did not expose her. He just turned to face her and played with her little hands to warm them up.

"Is it cold?"

"No, not cold."

"Turn around, and give me that hand too. I'll warm you up."

"..."

Liu Zhiyi never opened her eyes from beginning to end. She still had her eyes closed, but she turned around obediently and extended the little hand that was not on his side to him through the gap in the quilt.

"Did you take off your pants?"

"No, no!"

The girl blushed, half of her face buried in the quilt, and muttered softly: "I'm wearing two pairs of long johns..."

Fang Wei: “…”

Well, I thought she gained weight after the New Year, but it turns out she was just wearing two pairs of long underwear.

Although they usually slept together like this during lunch break, Cai Ling was not here this time. When there were only two of them lying in the same bed, the atmosphere became particularly romantic, even though it was broad daylight.

The two of them lay side by side facing each other. As the cold little hands were warmed up, Liu Zhiyi gradually became bolder.

She moved gently, put her legs through her quilt, and tentatively touched his legs with her little feet.

"hiss--!"

Fang Wei said exaggeratedly: "Who is freezing me with ice?!"

"It's not ice..."

Liu Zhiyi giggled and said shyly: "My feet are cold too..."

It is very common for girls to have cold hands and feet in winter. It is related to each person's physique. Even for Cai Ling, the temperature of her hands and feet is much colder in winter. No wonder when the weather gets cold, they are like cats and like to stick their cold hands and feet to him.

The feet are the farthest part from the heart. When the feet are cold, the whole body cannot be warm.

"Okay, okay, then stretch out your feet and I'll warm them up for you."

"whee……"

After getting his doting consent, the girl stretched out her legs. There was a height difference between them, so Fang Wei bent her legs so that the soles of their feet were at the same height, and like holding hands, their soles of their feet were pressed together.

Feet are obviously the farthest from the heart, but they are much more sensitive than hands. When he touched her cool and small feet, even Fang Wei felt his heart beat faster. Not to mention Liu Zhiyi, her face started to feel hot before her feet started to feel hot.

She had noticed that since her hands and feet had moved to his side, almost half of her body was in the same bed with him.

"Knowledge."

"……Well?"

Liu Zhiyi couldn't stand him calling her name in such a gentle voice, making her always want to bury her head in his arms.

"There is something I want to tell you. I already told Cai Ling about it a few days ago, but I think it would be better to tell you in person."

"W-what's going on..."

Such an opening remark made Liu Zhiyi a little nervous. After all, it was rare for her to hear Fang Wei speak in such a serious tone.

Before Fang Wei said anything, she couldn't help but think about what he had said to Cai Ling but hadn't told her yet, was Fang Wei determined to be with Cai Ling, was Fang Wei going to draw a line between them...

Unlike the optimistic Cai Ling, the pessimistic Cai Ling always thinks of the worst first when encountering something, so much so that she even ignores the obvious fact that Fang Wei is holding her hand and lying in the same bed with her.

"I like you."

He spoke without any warning, words that made the girl's mind go blank for a moment.

Liu Zhiyi, who had had her eyes closed, suddenly opened them. Her fingers trembled slightly, but Fang Wei held them tighter. She looked up in astonishment, and her gaze met Fang Wei's fiery and affectionate eyes. In just a moment, her brain seemed to explode with a buzzing sound, and her cheeks began to heat up rapidly, as hot as shrimps just out of the pot.

The girl's eyes were wide open in disbelief, her thin lips slightly opened as if she wanted to say something, but she was so shocked by the sudden situation that she couldn't make a sound. A few strands of hair stuck to her red cheeks, adding a bit of messy cuteness.

"Why, do you think I'm trying to coax you?"

It’s funny to see Liu Zhiyi’s reaction. God knows how a person can have so many expressions in such a moment.

"I I I..."

"I'm serious. I like you."

After a while, the girl whose mind was blank finally recovered a little.

In order to hide her inner panic, the girl shrank her neck and buried half of her face in the quilt, leaving only a pair of big watery eyes exposed, staring at Fang Wei in a daze.

But the quilt also trembled slightly, revealing her nervousness and excitement at the moment.

Occasionally, she would bite her lips, leaving light marks on her pink lips, as if this could calm herself down.

"You, you want to kiss me..."

When she said this, the blush on Liu Zhiyi's pretty face spread from her cheeks to her ears, and then all the way down, even her neck was stained with a faint pink.

Fang Wei was a little confused by her question and could only say "Huh?" in surprise.

"The book says that when a man says these words to a woman in bed, he is thinking, thinking..."

"...No, what kind of random books do you usually read?"

"Then why do you say that... If you want to kiss me, I will..."

Woo! Liu Zhiyi couldn't continue.

It has long been an unspoken fact that the three of them like each other, so much so that Liu Zhiyi thought that the three of them would continue to keep it a tacit understanding. After all, no one is sure what changes will happen to the relationship between the three after saying this fact out loud.

Liu Zhiyi is also greedy, but compared to greed, she is more afraid of unknown risks. In fact, if things continue like this, she will feel that it is very good and she will be satisfied.

"I mean it."

"..."

"Knowledge."

"..."

"Do you like me?"

"........."

"Hmm? Cai Ling said you like me the most? Is that right?"

Fang Wei finally finished speaking, and as he waited for her response, the girl's heart beat so fast that it seemed like it was going to burst through her chest.

Seeing that he was really serious and didn't seem to be joking, Liu Zhiyi finally nodded gently. The movement was as light as the softest willow branches brushing across the lake in spring, but it stirred up huge waves in her heart.

Perhaps the nod was too light, and she seemed to be afraid that Fang Wei didn't see it, so she said "hmm" softly. The sound was as small as a mosquito's hum, but full of shyness and sweetness, making the air in the bed become charming.

"Hehe, I knew it."

"..."

Even now, when the two have expressed their love for each other, Liu Zhiyi is still a little confused about the situation. She likes Fang Wei, and Fang Wei also likes him. Does this mean... they are going to be together?

What about Cai Ling? What should Cai Ling do...

Just like Cailing thought of her first, Zhiyi also thought of Cailing first. After all, leaving aside the factor of love, just talking about the severity of the feelings, the feelings between the girls are no less than those with Fang Wei.

"Then, does Cai Ling know..."

"She knows."

"Do you like Cai Ling?"

"like."

When Liu Zhiyi heard Fang Wei say that he liked Cai Ling, she felt relieved instead. She could finally boldly accept his love.

After all, if Fang Wei didn't like Cai Ling and only liked her, to be honest, the girl didn't know what to do. The thought of that kind of thing made her feel very stressed.

"So what is our relationship now..."

"Just like before, we should study and write. I have also told Cailing that it is a fact that the three of us like each other, but we are not in a hurry to make any commitments or define our relationship. This is also what I want to tell you. I hope we can face up to this kind of feelings, and then use the time to get along and grow together to digest and choose. We are not together because of a momentary impulse, but at the end of the day, we still feel that we are inseparable and indispensable to each other."

"I, I'm not acting on impulse...!"

"Now what you said doesn't count."

"Then your love for us doesn't count..."

"I count, but you don't, because you are just like Cai Ling, still a childish ghost."

“You are…!”

The girl blushed and hit him lightly with her little hand.

This was the first time Fang Wei opened his heart to her and talked about the relationship between the three of them. There was so much information that she needed a lot of time to digest it.

But no matter what, Fang Wei's mature, rational and non-avoidant way of dealing with the problem still helped the girl find the direction when facing the chaotic emotional issues. At least she no longer had to struggle and feel confused like before.

Maybe this is one of the reasons why she likes Fang Wei, even though he is a greedy person, but fortunately he is a greedy person.

"Actually...actually, I've thought about this before..."

Liu Zhiyi snuggled in the bed, holding his hand, and whispered, "I originally thought that if you were to like someone in the future, you should like Cailing, because Cailing likes you very much. She has been with you since she was a child, and she has always wanted to be with you forever... It doesn't matter to me."

"Silly, don't you like me too?"

"I can like you secretly..."

"You can't do it secretly. Now the three of us have talked it over with each other. No one is allowed to do it secretly. Do you understand?"

"Hmm~"

The girl agreed sweetly, and when she came to her senses after finishing the conversation, she realized that half of her body had secretly crawled into his bed without her knowing.

Fang Wei sighed, but didn't send her back to her own bed. After all, Cai Ling had slept with him for two nights, so he couldn't bear to let his little classmate go back to his own bed again.

Seeing that he agreed, Liu Zhiyi became bolder. Like a crab shedding its shell, she moved her delicate body out of her quilt little by little until it was completely pressed against his.

Now the two of them were covered with the same quilt, but it was warmer than when she was covered with two quilts just now.

Fang Wei was lying flat, and she was half leaning on him, with her head resting on his pillow and her soft hair scattered around his shoulders.

"Do you want to kiss me again..."

Liu Zhiyi was still thinking about what had just happened. When she said this, her face felt very hot. She said she was asking him if he wanted to kiss her, but she had already buried her face in his neck, leaving no room for him to kiss her.

"This is not good."

"Then, hug me..."

"..."

After spending more time together, Fang Wei also realized that Zhiyi and Cailing had very different personalities. For example, Cailing preferred to hug people, while she preferred to be hugged.

Seeing that she was already half leaning on him, Fang Wei simply followed her wishes, extended his arm to the girl's slender waist, and gently hugged her.

The girl, who was only wearing a thin base shirt, had a surprisingly slender waist. Unlike her hands and feet, her body was extremely hot, so hot that Fang Wei's mouth became dry.

Liu Zhiyi could clearly feel that when his hand fell on her waist, her body tensed up for a moment, but soon became softer.

She couldn't help but hum, and the sweetness in her voice was about to overflow. The moment Fang Wei hugged her, she felt as if she had been connected to a fast charger after being without electricity for two days, and the power increased rapidly.

The girl couldn't help but lean more of her body against him, her pretty red face buried in his neck. Her gentle breath brushed across the surface of his skin, making Fang Wei feel a little itchy.

Hugging is a very happy thing. Although Fang Wei felt a little uncomfortable, he had to admit that he actually liked it very much.

"Then, then you still want to sleep with Cai Ling tonight..."

"Do not."

"Then I..."

"Do not."

"Then let's..."

"Not even!"

"Humph……"

"When you were sleeping together, did you kiss Cai Ling?"

"No."

"Did Cailing kiss you?"

"No."