He went up to lift her clothes and found that her waist and stomach were covered with purple marks and there were many needle holes on them, perhaps in other parts of her body as well.
Yuan Long is an adult and does not think she was beaten up like Dudu does. He can see that these marks should be left by cupping and acupuncture.
But when did she went out for cupping and acupuncture? And why does she want to go in the first place?
Yuan Long remembered her painful expression when Dudu rushed at her yesterday, and then remembered that she had instructed Dudu not to hold her last night. Was it because she was in pain that she dared not let Dudu touch her?
Why on earth did she make herself like this?
Dudu saw that his father kept a straight face and did not speak. Thinking that his mother was seriously injured and became worried. Tearfully, he grabbed his father's trouser leg and asked, "Dad, is Mom in pain? Let's take Mom to the hospital to see an Uncle Doctor"
Yuan Long patted him on the head and planned to send the little guy off first. "Mom was not beaten. Mom's fine. Go brush your teeth and wash your face, and have breakfast later."
Dudu refused to leave and still looked at his mother with uneasiness. Mom was so scary, how was she beaten up? Mom is usually so fierce, it must've been someone else who didn't like her and hit her.
Mother fights so hard, but that man can even beat his mother, so he must be even worse.
Dudu sniffed and rubbed his little face on his Dad's trousers. crying: "Dad, the person who hit Mom, was he very good that you couldn't beat them either? Dad, don't be afraid. Let's call the police, and let the police beat up the bad guy."
Yuan Long is suddenly unable to laugh nor cry. This kid's brain is really that of a student surpassing the master: He's better than his mother.
He leaned over and picked up the sad little fat man. Yuan Long wiped away his tears and had to explain to the little guy what cupping is. "Dudu, Mom was not beaten by someone. Mom went to cupping. Cupping is good for her health. But it makes the skin black like Mom's, so she's not really hurt, you know?"
This was the first time Dudu heard of cupping so he just listened blankly. It took a while for him to digest the fact that his mother went for a cupping instead of being beaten. Doubtful, he asked a question: "Then Dad, why did Mom go to cupping? Is Mom in poor health?"
Yuan Long doesn't know why. Yu Shanshan needs to answer this question herself. He can only give his son a perfunctory response for the time being. "Mom is going to treat her leg. Cupping can make her leg heal better and faster."
Dudu suddenly realized that he can finally let go of his heart, and is now willing to obediently go to the bathroom to brush his teeth and wash his face.
Without Dudu, the look on Yuan Long's face faded. He went to Yu Shanshan and sat down by her bed. He looked at the marks on her body again then thought about it in his head, trying to determine the time she went to cupping.
For the last two days, she would go shopping daily after he sent Dudu to school. He didn't suspect anything, and only thought that she was just bored at home. Now when he thinks about it, she didn't go shopping at all, but went for cupping sessions.
If she was cupping for the sake of good health, she shouldn't have kept it from him. But she kept it a secret and didn't want him to know. Then this cupping is not for the body at all, but for another purpose. Plus she still had these pinholes on the skin.......
Yuan Long immediately speculated what she was doing.
Realizing this, there was a sudden burst of anger in his heart. Why don't you take your body seriously? What if your body is damaged at random? Is health important or is beauty and ugliness more important?
Yuan Long simply doesn't believe in any other way to lose weight apart from exercise. Those shortcuts that claims losing weight easily comes with a price. He will never have allowed her take shortcuts for her body to lose weight indiscriminately.
For the first time since their reunion, Yuan Long is angry with Shanshan.。
He bowed his head directly and kissed her lips heavily. His teeth were grinding between her lips. It might as well be a punitive bite.
Yu Shanshan felt breathless, in a daze. Her mouth still ached, and she could not help but open her eyes softly. Then she saw Yuan Long looking at her with a straight face.
Yu Shanshan was so frightened that she opened her eyes and woke up.
She sat up quietly, and retreated back. "What are you doing?"
Yuan Long did not speak, he looked at her and appeared to be a little cold.
This is the first time since the two met again that Yu Shanshan has seen him show such an expression, which is very similar to how he was in the past. His expression was usually cold, and sometimes his face was even more terrible when he was angry. But nowadays, he is soft and gentle to her and Dudu, so that she forgot that he is still capable of this look that had made her afraid before.
In the past, she was afraid of the way he sunk his face, but now she's also quite afraid.
Yu Shanshan, feeling a little scared, tried to ask, "What's wrong with you? Why do you look at people like that?"
Yuan Long grabbed her arm and dragged the person over, lifting her clothes to reveal the skin inside. He asked lightly, "What is this?"
Yu Shanshan panicked and hurried to pull her clothes to cover it.
Yuan Long loosened his hand. "Yu Shanshan, can you explain to me how you got these marks on your body? Why do you want to do acupuncture and cupping?"
Unexpectedly, she was found out so soon, and he knew at a glance what she had done. Yu Shanshan's eyes are restless and dared not say that she was trying to lose weight, because according to what she knew about him, he would definitely be angry. He'll hate her not taking her body seriously.
So she had to lie and say, "I have to get rid of the dampness and cold in my body, and it's good for my health."
Yuan Long still looks faint: "Is it? Then why did you said you were going shopping instead of telling me this?"
Yu Shanshan's heart was beating drums, but her mouth pretended to be indifferent and said: "Oh, there's nothing to say about this. Anyway, you don't know much about this either. What am I going to tell you?"
When Yuan Long looked at her, his eyes sank. "Yu Shanshan, are you sure you still want to lie to me?"
Yu Shanshan couldn't help shrinking her neck and recalling the scenes in the past whenever she made mistakes. At that time, every time she did something that made him angry, he did not beat her or scold her, but he looked at her coldly, making her heart feel very uncomfortable, which was even worse than hitting her and scolding her. She would then be overwhelmed quickly and would obediently admit her mistake, indicating that she would never dare to do it again.
After all these years, seeing him again with such a heavy and cold expression, she didn't expect that she could still not stand him like this, and soon she was overwhelmed, "Oh, why are you doing this? I didn't do anything bad, why are you so angry?"
Seeing that he still didn't speak, Yu Shanshan knew that he couldn't get over this today. If he wanted to know, he could find out even if he didn't have to say it, she might as well confess herself and get lenient treatment with frankness and leniency.
Having plucked up her courage, Yu Shanshan said, "All right, I'll just say it. I'm going to cupping to lose weight. Why? Can't I try this kind of weight loss?"
The last sentence is said with courage, trying to find some momentum for herself.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work here with Yuan Long. His expression is even more ugly. "Yu Shanshan, do you even know that you're already a mother,? You still don't understand what can be done and what can't be done? You want to lose weight, okay, I'll support you, but you can't rely on these unreliable methods to reduce, if your body is damaged, do you know what the consequences will be?"
Yu Shanshan was not convinced despite the reprimand. "Cupping belongs to traditional Chinese medicine to lose weight. Many diseases are cured by acupuncture and cupping, which shows that acupuncture and cupping are beneficial. I didn't take medicine indiscriminately, so how can it be unreliable?" It took her a long time to decide on acupuncture and cupping to lose weight, and she didn't try any other unsafe methods.
Yuan Long pursed his lips hard and pointed to the marks on her body. "Look at your injury, is that safe? Also, have you considered side effects? Is it bad for your health? Once it stops, can you guarantee that it will not come back immediately?"
"I......." Yu Shanshan was struck dumb because she didn't know whether it would be bad for her health, and also didn't know whether it would rebound immediately once she stopped. She secretly searched the Internet, and many people said it would rebound, but she didn't know whether it was true or not. But she subconsciously didn't want to believe that it would bounce back, because she hoped it would be effective, it could really help her lose weight, that it would help her become less ugly and less conspicuous standing beside him.
But with such a self-deceiving idea, she didn't know how to say it to him.
In front of him, she looked like a poor fool, nothing like the proud and confident Yu Shanshan.
Yu Shanshan suddenly felt so sad and aggrieved, even though she didn't want to cry in front of him, it was still too late, and the tears came down so unexpectedly.
Initially, Yuan Long was only angry that she did not cherish her body, but he did not want to make her so sad, let alone make her cry. The most unbearable thing in his life was her crying, he never wanted to see her shed tears.
He couldn't help leaning over and hugging her. Yuan Long rubbed her hair and apologized softly: "Sorry, it's my fault. I shouldn't be so fierce. Don't cry."
Yu Shanshan cried even harder, struggling not to let him touch her.
He doesn't understand her inferiority and sadness. He's still the excellent and eye-catching Yuan Long, but she's the poor Yu Shanshan, who has been ridiculed everywhere and has fallen to dust. They are not from the same world at all.
Maybe she shouldn't have let him into her life once again. The result of such pressure is that she suffers and he is also aggrieved, they're not fit to be together at all.
She almost broke Yuan Long's heart, and even if she didn't want him to, he forcibly held her in his arms, trying to wipe away all her tears and asking her not to cry. "I've not been good, don't cry, don't cry, baby."
"I'm not your baby." Yu Shanshan was so miserable that she pushed him, "You go. I'm not from the same world with you. Go on with your excellent life. Fat people like me don't deserve to be with you, and you don't have to be responsible for me because of Dudu. I don't need your responsibility. I can't afford your responsibility. Go find a better woman."
"Yu Shanshan, what nonsense are you talking about?" Yuan Long was angry and hurt. Her words poked his heart. He wanted to give her a good beating on her ass, but he was afraid to make her cry even more. He doesn't know what to do with her.
"Dad, why is Mom crying? Do you have a pain in your body?" Little Dudu, who was waiting for breakfast in the living room. He couldn't wait for his parents to come out to eat, so he ran into the room to look for them, only to find his mother crying sadly in his father's arms. He subconsciously felt that the injury on his mother must have been very painful and made his mother cry.
Dudu came in, and Yuan Long didn't know how to continue the conversation, so he had to wipe her tears and kiss her forehead like a child. "Don't cry now, ok? You don't cry when you see Dudu, Dudu will laugh at you."
Yu Shanshan didn't want to cry so badly in front of her son. She quickly stopped her tears, wiped her face. She pushed away Yuan Long and got up, and said to Dudu, "Mom's all right, little fat man, go to breakfast and go to school, or you'll be late!"
Seeing that his mother had regained her vitality, Dudu was relieved and took her by the hand and said, "Then come out and have breakfast with me. There are delicious eggs."
Yu Shanshan patted his little ass. "Just go and eat. Mom hasn't had enough sleep yet. Mom wants to sleep for a while."
Dudu, accustomed to his mother's habit of sleeping in, nodded then turned to pull his father, "Dad, let's go to breakfast together."
Yuan Long looked at Yu Shanshan and saw her lying back, covering her face with a quilt, obviously ignoring him. Thinking that Dudu has to go to school later, he had to take Dudu to breakfast and then send him to kindergarten first.
After sending Dudu to school, Yuan Long returned to the downstairs of the community, but instead of going upstairs, he sat on a chair in the square and thought quietly.
He's thinking about what happened today.
He was angry about Shanshan's careless weight loss. He didn't like her to put weight loss before her health. He didn't understand her blind weight loss behavior, so he was angry with her.
But her tears of grievance were like a whip on his heart that woke him up completely.
He had been thinking that he does not dislike her, he didn't think that she's fat or not good-looking, he had hoped that she didn't have an inferiority complex and will not care about how others will see her.
But can you really not care if you have inferiority complex?
From another perspective, if he had become a fat man, who was once again confronted with a beautiful, dazzling woman, would he have been able to sit with her and accept others' eyes without care?
No, if he becomes like that, he will certainly worry that he is not worthy of her and the profile he will attract alongside her.
Yuan Long could not help but want to beat himself up. He really took it for granted that he had never thought about her from her point of view. Once so proud and dazzling, she has experienced the gap from heaven to earth, how can she not care like a saint?
She wants to lose weight because she wants to be a better person. Is there anything wrong with that? No. But he never understood her and even blamed her for using the wrong methods.
What he should do is not to blame her, but to help her become what she desires, to regain her self-confidence and to become the Yu Shanshan she wants to be.
It's ridiculous that he didn't figure it out until now. No wonder she didn't want to talk to him, he didn't do well enough.
Yuan Long looked at the watchtower, paused for a moment, took out his cell phone and called his aunt Yu Miao.
"Auntie, do me a favor."
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After hanging up the phone, Yuan Long went upstairs. the house was quiet and the breakfast left in the pan in the morning was not touched.
Yuan Long knew that Yu Shanshan had not eaten since this morning.
He pushed open the door of the room and found that she was still lying on the bed in the same position as in the morning, as if she were asleep.
He slowly walked over and sat down on the bed. He then put his arms around her, nestled his head in her neck and deeply breathed the smell of her body. Slowly and piously he said in her ear, "Baby, I was wrong. I will support you in the future if you want to lose weight. I will help you lose weight together, OK?"
Yu Shanshan's eyelids quivered.
"Baby, if you think that being who you were in the past will make you confident and make you happy, then let's work together to make you what you used to be as soon as possible, okay?"
Yu Shanshan could not pretend any more. She slowly opened her eyes and fell into his pitch-black eyes as soon as she opened them.
Yuan Long kissed her on the eye. "Don't be angry with me, and don't say that I'm not responsible for you. You're my responsibility for the rest of my life, and I will never let you go."
Yu Shanshan never knew when he was still able to speak so well. Her line of defense collapsed in an instant and she wanted to cry again.
In fact, she was not angry with him, she was angry with herself, she just threw all her grievances at him. She later calmed down and felt regret, she shouldn't have said those words to drive him away. He only did it for her own good, he did nothing wrong. She was so afraid that he was really angry with her and left.
Now not only is he not angry anymore, but also came back to apologize to her.
Yu Shanshan couldn't help crying and asked him, "Aren't you angry that I lost weight?"
Yuan Long wiped her tears and kissed her red eyelid. "I'll support you to lose weight and I will supervise you. But there is one point: you can't reduce it in random ways. We need to reduce it in the most scientific way, okay?"
Yu Shanshan nodded with a pout. "I will not lose weight indiscriminately. I won't go to acupuncture and cupping. I will eat less and exercise more. I will not be lazy."
The corners of Yuan Long's mouth were hooked up. His heart was melted by her obedience at the moment. He couldn't help hugging her more tightly, and then told her what he had been planning deep down inside.
"Baby, why don't you quit your job here and come back to the imperial city with me?"
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Internet buzzword, 妖妖灵 (yāo yāo líng) is a Chinese homophony of the number 110 一一零 (yīyī líng), which is used in China to call the police. Its literal meaning is Demon Spirit.
青出于蓝而胜于蓝 It is a metaphor that people can improve after learning or education. It is often used as a metaphor for students surpassing teachers.
It't actually 眼珠子咕噜噜一转 but lmao I have no idea what this is, so I was searching up what this exactly means but one of the Chinese answers to one similar question was "我也不知道" hahahaha but I found one explanation saying it's "frequently blinking eyes" so I stuck with that. If you have any ideas, feel free to tell me
Monique: (≧◡≦) I like the newer chapters, more interaction between the two leads. I apologize for the slight delay, I've been busy with work lately.
