Chapter 18 — Eat It Long Enough and You Get Used to It
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Wei Zhao nodded and headed for the water dispenser.
"Ahh — I'm so sleepy. Wretched alarm clock." Yawning, Gu Mengyao came groggily down the stairs. She had not slept soundly all night: the first half of it she had done nothing but brood over the loss of her first kiss, and she had sobbed out her troubles to Shen Yushu for half the night. At last, too tired to keep her eyes open, she had drifted off into a muddled sleep — and now that she was awake, yesterday's business did not seem quite so heartbreaking anymore.
Only, Gu Mengyao felt as though she had scarcely slept at all before the alarm clock shook her awake. She had not wanted to get up, but remembering that there was school today, she had no choice but to drag herself out of bed.
Finding Shen Yushu absent from her side, Gu Mengyao was rather puzzled. She had been talking to her all this while, and Shen Yushu had seemed to stay up late too, hadn't she? So how had she gotten up so early?
Downstairs, a delicious smell of cooking suddenly reached her. Gu Mengyao had hardly eaten anything the night before, and what she had eaten she had thrown up again, so her stomach was now utterly empty. At the smell, her mouth watered at once: "Xiaoshu, what good thing are you sneaking a bite of? It smells so good — and you didn't even call me!"
Gu Mengyao trotted into the dining room and found Shen Yushu busy demolishing a bowl of noodles, while across from her sat another bowl, full and steaming hot. Her heart leaped with delight: "Ha, I knew you wouldn't forget me, Xiaoshu! You fixed a portion for me too — thanks a lot!"
Shen Yushu was in the middle of drinking the noodle broth — she had discovered that the broth was full of flavor too and could not bear to leave a drop — and just as she was drinking, she heard Gu Mengyao's words. She was about to open her mouth when she saw that Gu Mengyao had already picked up her chopsticks and begun to eat: "Er..."
Shen Yushu let out a sigh, seeming about to speak but holding back. She thought to herself: Well, don't blame me now — who told you to be so quick with your chopsticks? I hadn't even opened my mouth before you were digging in!
"So fragrant, so delicious!" Gu Mengyao was truly starving. After one mouthful of the tasty plain noodles, she couldn't put her chopsticks down, and she praised them as she ate: "Xiao Shu, where did you buy this?"
"It wasn't me who bought it. It was Brother Arrow who made it." Shen Yushu shrugged, casting a pitying look at Gu Mengyao. She really didn't have the heart to strike again at Gu Mengyao's fragile soul.
"Ah!" Gu Mengyao was startled. "He made it? Then I won't eat anything he made..." As she spoke, she put down her chopsticks.
Shen Yushu thought to herself: You've already eaten some, so what's the point of saying that now? But at least you did have a taste of Wei Zhao's saliva yesterday, so today it doesn't matter. Anyway, you'll get used to it with every bite... Heh heh, Shen Yushu thought with malicious glee.
"Humph, who would go against food? I'll eat it anyway!" After putting down her chopsticks, Gu Mengyao felt her mouth watering. Looking at the fragrant noodles before her, she simply couldn't resist, so she picked the chopsticks back up and said: "Eating his food doesn't mean I forgive him. I just didn't have anything last night, and I'm hungry. Honestly, these noodles are just so-so, right, Xiao Shu?"
"Oh, I suppose..." Although Shen Yushu was dying to see Gu Mengyao's reaction once she learned she had eaten Wei Zhao's saliva again, she felt the girl was already pitiful enough, so it would be better not to say a word.
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