Chapter 10: Can I let me take care of you?

Qiao Suisui got goosebumps all over, gently brushed his hand away, and changed the subject.

"How much longer until Luka comes back? I want to go."

Laiboli of course couldn't let her stay and wait for Luka; afterward, she was carried onto the flying ship. He took her to the most prosperous commercial area, the huge area was cleared by Laiboli's order, and after people left, he took her in to shop. First, he picked out more than a dozen sets of clothes for her; with clothes, he said he had to buy matching shoes.

When trying on shoes, Laiboli knelt on the ground almost the whole time, helping her put them on one by one, and even analyzed them with reason.

"This pair makes you look fair, although our Suisui is already very fair. Buy."

"This pair looks good, but it's not very comfortable to wear, wear it occasionally. Buy."

"This pair is for outdoor wear, it matches that dress just right. Buy."

"You like this pair? Buy."

After buying shoes, Laiboli said he had to match a few styles of accessories; he originally wanted to take her to buy jewelry, but Qiao Suisui was really embarrassed to let him continue paying, so she used the excuse of being tired to pull him to drink tea, this time she would treat. Although Qiao Suisui's Star Coin account was bound to Luka's, she self-hypnotized that as long as this sincerity and gratitude were conveyed, it would be fine.

The place for tea was decorated very uniquely, like being in the Amazon jungle, and there were some male beastmen who had transformed into beast forms working and doing business around.

"Suisui." Laiboli smiled very gently, looking at her seriously. "Can I let me take care of you?"

"Ashi, you have already done a lot for me."

"No, I want to be your spouse."

'Ding—' 'Bang—'

Suisui lost focus and knocked over the teacup; Laiboli immediately got up to wipe the tea stains on her skirt.

"Sorry, Ashi, I..."

"Suisui," Laiboli smiled and pinched her slightly panicked hand, "You never need to feel sorry to me."

She looked at Laiboli blankly, feeling that he seemed to have something to say, and between breaths, he seemed to swallow the words back.

"I will submit an application, I just wanted to tell you first. No matter how you choose, you don't need to feel burdened by it."

"Why did you suddenly want to be my spouse?" She didn't understand; clearly, the distance between the two before was still far and near.

"Because I like you."

"What do you like about me?"

Laiboli hadn't thought about this question; he felt she was very good and compatible with him, unlike other females who were so spoiled. He learned today that she was pregnant with Luka's child; anger, jealousy, emotion, surprise—all mixed together. He rarely lost his composure like today, and in the past, no female had ever been able to make him have emotional fluctuations like her.

Most importantly, Laiboli looked at her stomach.

It was flat; were there really little cubs inside?

He also wanted to let her get pregnant with his child...

Laiboli didn't want to give her this pressure so early, so he instinctively took out the set he used to coax other females.

"Because you are very beautiful, I felt my heart move the first time I saw you..."

Originally, she should have agreed, so she could use the system. But Qiao Suisui heard the two words 'beautiful' and was stung unexpectedly.

"It's because I am a female, and have reproductive function." She interrupted.

Laiboli froze; although he didn't understand what was wrong with this reason, seeing her expression wasn't good, he immediately changed his words: "I don't know how to say it, but I really want to take care of you, seeing you happy makes me happy too, I..."

"Ashi, you just like my function, not me. Sorry, I don't want a spouse yet."

She finished speaking quickly and stood up, walking straight out, ignoring Laiboli who was stunned in place.

Her footsteps became faster and faster, and voices kept emerging from her mind.

—Suisui, this is Uncle Wang's son, hurry, call him brother.

—Qiao Suisui, how are you getting along with Uncle Wang's son? Their family is a contractor, the conditions are very good. Look, your brother's school problem was solved by Uncle Wang.

—Little girl, don't be ungrateful; let me tell you, girls have to marry early to carry on the family line for others; do you think our family's money comes from a strong wind? You need money for college, right?

—Suisui, be good, I've already accepted the dowry; your brother is just at the age when he needs money, you wouldn't disagree, right?

—Suisui, I've raised you for so many years, you have to be of value.

She covered her ears, the more she tried to endure, the more her tears kept flowing.

In her life, there was no experience of being loved simply because she was beautiful; instead, because she was beautiful, she was excluded and isolated at school, harassed and bullied by male classmates, targeted early to be sold for a good price in the name of marriage; when she was a child, if she walked a little closer to any boy, she would be reported to her mother by neighbors, and then what greeted her was humiliation and repair.

Physical pain gets used to, but those humiliating words would pop up at some moment when she thought she could obtain happiness, becoming a curse that couldn't be shaken off.

You have to be useful to others to obtain love.

You have to pay for your family to obtain love.

You have to be diligent, sensible, well-behaved, and have good grades to obtain love.

You have to run hard, not stop for a moment, otherwise you will be left behind by others; only by being excellent can you obtain love.

Beauty, to her, is a disaster.

And Laiboli said he liked her because of her disaster.

If he liked her because she was beautiful, what if she wasn't beautiful one day?

If he liked her because he wanted to take care of her at this moment, what about a year later? Ten years later?

No one can be relied on, except herself.

Qiao Suisui ran until she was tired, squatted by a fountain, hugged her knees, and used the sound of the fountain water to cover up her suppressed crying.

Tears flowed out and she wiped them away, flowed out and she wiped them away, repeating this.

Suddenly, she saw a shadow cast on the ground.

She looked up blankly and saw Luka standing in front of her at some point.

The two were one high and one low, one standing and one squatting, looking at each other silently.

Tears slid from the corners of her eyes as she looked up, and for a moment she forgot to be sad.

Suddenly, there was a weight on her head, and a faint scent of tobacco mixed with the clear scent of mountain springs enveloped her.

Luka gently draped his military jacket over her head; the originally well-fitting jacket looked exceptionally large on her petite body, covering her entirely.

"This way no one will see you, cry."

Suisui froze, hugged herself, grabbed a corner of the jacket, and her tears flowed even more recklessly.

She knew that if she truly let herself cry, the time of sadness wouldn't actually be that long; the emotion that would have passed if she endured it, because of warm concern, couldn't be stopped.

Luka stood in place the whole time, hearing her weak sobbing, crying so cautiously, and suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest. He spat out a turbid breath, habitually wanting to take a cigarette, but remembered she was in pregnancy, so he threw the whole box of cigarettes into the fountain.

She heard a 'plop' sound, looked up to see, didn't know what he threw in, and asked in a muffled voice: "What are you doing?"

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 11 =====