Chapter 36 – Dad was just talking about you with Ah Yu earlier

Su Tian returned home in the evening.

After a simple dinner, she took a glass of milk upstairs to work on some problems.

She changed into a cotton nightgown, intending to continue the problems from the morning. However, after pondering with pen in hand for a long time, she still couldn’t solve them.

It was just an ordinary function selection problem.

Su Tian sipped some milk.

The rich milk flavor temporarily suppressed the restlessness in her heart.

Thinking back to an hour ago.

After agreeing to come to Old Wang’s Wonton Shop again next time, she and Jiang Chiyu went their separate ways. She took a taxi straight home.

On the path towards their two villas, Jiang Chiyu was on his phone the whole time. When Su Tian reminded him it was bad for his eyes, he just replied with a “Mm” and continued ignoring her.

Su Tian felt a bit unhappy.

When they reached the gate of her courtyard and Su Tian said goodbye, about to go in, Jiang Chiyu suddenly grabbed her shoulders and turned her half around. Then he naturally raised his phone camera towards the two of them, snapping two shots before releasing her.

Jiang Chiyu looked down at the screen. Su Tian also glanced at it. In the photo, one of them had a dazed expression while the other had a gentle smile. The background was utility poles and the flower wall of her house.

Though it was a very ordinary photo without composition or technique, perhaps because of the moonlit filter, the two people in the photo looked exceptionally good-looking, brimming with atmosphere.

Flipping to the next one, their poses and expressions were basically the same, just with added filter stickers – she had rabbit ears while Jiang Chiyu had cat whiskers.

Both had the photo app’s watermark in the bottom right corner.

Su Tian was still in a daze.

Jiang Chiyu had already put away his phone. With one hand in his pocket, his back to her, he waved lazily with the other hand, a hint of laughter in his voice, “Good night, Tian Tian.”

Su Tian gradually came back to her senses.

So Jiang Chiyu had been fiddling with his phone the whole way just to download a photo app?

She put down her pen, feeling that if she didn’t figure this out, she probably wouldn’t be able to solve a single problem tonight. So she went to look for her phone, wanting to ask him about it.

Inexplicably, she just wanted to ask.

Not finding it on the desk, she remembered her phone was probably still in her backpack, and her backpack and today’s clothes had been tossed in the bathroom.

Su Tian entered the bathroom. As she took out her phone from the backpack, she caught sight of her denim skirt.

Denim skirt…

She was wearing a denim skirt today.

In the haunted house, when Wei Sicheng pushed her, she had directly sat on Jiang Chiyu’s lap…

She was wearing a skirt! A skirt!

Embarrassed, Su Tian averted her gaze, randomly grabbing a bath towel to cover the skirt.

The matter of going to ask Jiang Chiyu about the app was also temporarily cast aside.

She didn’t want to face Jiang Chiyu again tonight.

In any case, she wasn’t in the mood to do problems anymore. Su Tian simply called Zhou Ying.

After two rings, the other party hung up.

Su Tian thought she had misdialed. She lay on the bed waiting for a call back, but after waiting for a long time there was none. So she dialed again.

After two rings, it was hung up again.

“…” Su Tian took a deep breath and directly bombarded her with text messages:

Li Bai bless me: Answer me, now, immediately.

Li Bai bless me: Within one minute I need to know what happened in the haunted house today.

Li Bai bless me: Leniency for those who confess, severity for those who resist.

Su Tian waited five minutes.

Still no reply at all.

The more Zhou Ying acted this way, the fishier it was.

Li Bai bless me: If you still want to obtain my homework copying privileges.

Li Bai bless me: I’ll give you one last minute.

The next second, the chat box showed the other party was typing. Before long, Zhou Ying sent her a message.

God of Wealth bless me: Tian, I was wrong.

God of Wealth bless me: But if I confess, you have to confess too.

Li Bai bless me: What do I have to confess.

God of Wealth bless me: You and Jiang Chiyu ah.

Su Tian’s typing fingers paused.

Seeing those three characters of Jiang Chiyu’s name, she couldn’t help thinking of that scene in the haunted house again. The heat that had taken effort to suppress showed signs of rising again. She subconsciously tossed her phone under the pillow and buried her face in the quilt.

Seeing her lack of response for a long time, Zhou Ying immediately seized the upper hand:

God of Wealth bless me: Do you have a guilty conscience?

God of Wealth bless me: Otherwise why aren’t you answering me?

God of Wealth bless me: Answer me, now, immediately, right away!

Hearing the vibration of her phone, Su Tian picked it up to take a look. She let out a cold snort and directly called.

“Zhou Ying, what happened between you and Han Shuo while we were gone?” Su Tian cut straight to the chase, regaining the upper hand.

Zhou Ying hemmed and hawed as expected, “Also nothing…what could have happened!”

Su Tian didn’t believe her at all: “If you don’t say, I’ll assume your lower parts came into contact.”

“N-no they didn’t! Beep—”

Zhou Ying directly hung up.

A question mark slowly appeared above Su Tian’s head.

Then it quickly changed into a row of exclamation points.

!!!

So it really was like she thought?

Su Tian found it unbelievable.

She knew Zhou Ying definitely wouldn’t pick up if she called again. Shaking her head, as it was still early for bed and she had nothing to do, she went to work on math problems again.

At 11 PM, she finally rubbed her dry eyes, put away her books, and went to sleep.

Early the next morning, not needing to get up early for school, she originally thought she would wake up past 10 AM again. But to her surprise, it was only 8 o’clock. Su Tian rubbed her drowsy eyes, not wanting to get out of bed.

Her phone next to the pillow vibrated once, then vibrated again.

Su Tian’s vision was still blurry and her throat dry. She really didn’t want to look, so she ignored it for now. Rubbing her eyes, she wanted to go downstairs to get a glass of water to moisten her throat.

Opening the door, from the stairs she saw Dad sitting on the sofa downstairs. Hearing the door open, Dad also glanced back, his tone surprised, “Daughter, you’re up?”

“Mm.” Su Tian rubbed her eyes while holding the railing as she went downstairs. “Morning Dad.”

“Isn’t it the weekend today? Why are you up so early?”

“Woke up thirsty. Doesn’t Dad have work today?” Su Tian opened her eyes halfway, hazily glancing at Dad on the sofa.

Mr. Su was wearing sportswear with a towel around his neck, evidently just back from a morning run.

Su Tian recalled belatedly that Dad goes jogging every morning if he’s not busy. So she made an “oh” sound and said nothing more.

She hadn’t washed her hair yesterday, so her bangs were a bit oily this morning. Su Tian pushed those strands back with one hand, walking into the kitchen like a dead fish to get a glass of warm water.

The kitchen was semi-open. Mr. Su continued talking to her, “It’s good timing you’re up, Tian Tian. I was just chatting about you with Ah Yu. I said you definitely wouldn’t be up until after 10 AM. Didn’t expect you to be up so early today, not giving Dad face.”

Oh.

Just an unlikely one-in-a-million coincidence.

Su Tian swallowed a mouthful of warm water.

But was there a guest over?

Su Tian scanned the living room, suddenly startled.

Wait a minute…

Who?

Ah Yu?!

Jiang Chiyu?!!!

Su Tian abruptly stood straight. Because the movement was too large, some water spilled from the glass.

Her gaze swept the living room, finally landing on the boy in white sportswear sitting across from her dad.