Ten-Year Loyal Dog’s Road to Chasing Her Wife (GL) - Chapter 33

Chapter 33

One of the greatest characteristics of young people is their excellent ability to self-heal. In the afternoon, when they returned to school, they still had frowning faces as if they had just experienced a life-and-death parting; later, upon hearing “you can go back to rest and come back tonight for evening self-study,” they revived by $25%$; by the time they heard “seven days off for National Day,” they revived by another $50%$.

If the instructors heard how quickly this group’s gloom had dissipated, they would likely clutch their consciences and say, “I am truly heartbroken to have led a bunch of ungrateful things.”

But the students clearly wouldn’t buy into that act.

They had returned early; the sophomores and juniors were still in class, and there were only a few classes holding PE on the campus. The entire campus was empty, lacking a bit of the usual lively atmosphere compared to normal times.

Qiao Wan and Qiao Mei walked along the deserted school path. Nearly ten days of military training life had brought the two of them much closer. At least during these ten days, Qiao Wan had relied almost entirely on Qiao Mei’s care to survive smoothly; the uniforms were prepared according to the heights they had reported earlier, and Qiao Wan was given the 155cm size, which was undoubtedly much too large. While shoes could be exchanged, the clothes could not; in the end, it was Qiao Mei who bought many safety pins and forcefully fashioned a well-fitting uniform for her.

Then there was the showering; Qiao Mei was the one who fetched the water. Ten days had passed, and Qiao Wan still didn’t know where the hot water room was located.

It felt as though Qiao Mei was taking care of her like a child and a young, helpless child who couldn’t look after herself at that.

Although Qiao Wan had to admit that this description was accurate.

But at the time, she really felt her deskmate Qiao Mei was super cool; this person seemed to know how to do everything. Especially when Qiao Mei used safety pins to fix her clothes, Qiao Wan sat on her bed dangling her two snow-white feet and said: “How do you know how to do everything?”

At that moment, Qiao Mei looked up at her with a half-smile and said: “Because you don’t know how to do anything.”

Qiao Wan immediately threw a small plush toy from the bedside down: “I’m not playing with you anymore.”

Qiao Mei maintained that half-smile and raised a hand to accurately catch the toy she had thrown. “But it doesn’t matter. With me around, you don’t have to know how to do anything.”

“Will you be around for a lifetime?”

This time, Qiao Mei raised her eyes and looked at her seriously for a long time before slowly saying: “Always.”

For some reason, Qiao Wan, who was used to hearing sweet talk, suddenly felt her heart skip a beat at this moment.

In the end, she turned away with a red face: “Hmph, I won’t listen to your flowery words.” She vaguely heard Qiao Mei’s low laughter, and her cheeks, which hadn’t yet cooled from the lingering heat, were once again occupied by an abnormal flush of red.

Oh my god, why is this girl’s laughter also so seductive?

From that day on, she seemed to have gone mad, wanting to cling to Qiao Mei’s body, wanting to hear Qiao Mei’s laughter, that kind of laughter that was hard to describe; it wasn’t like silver bells, and naturally not like a barbell. It was very reserved, often just a soft sound. One rarely saw Qiao Mei lose herself in boisterous laughter; Qiao Mei was like a lady of a great family from ancient times. Laughter was a rare thing, and in most cases, even if she smiled, it was silent. But Qiao Wan just liked to stick to her and wanted to hear her laugh.

So she always tried to amuse her with clumsy techniques.

Although she never succeeded, Qiao Wan never tired of it.

Their conversations often went like this:

Qiao Wan: “Give me a smile.”

Qiao Mei: “Everything is fine; why should I grin like a fool for no reason?”

“Just give me one smile.”

Qiao Mei: “…… :)”

Along with a facial expression as if looking at a retard. “Like this?”

“Make the curve a bit bigger.” Qiao Wan begged again, but this time Qiao Mei ignored her. Later, this almost became a fixed routine between them, just like at this moment when Qiao Wan was helping Qiao Mei carry her bucket to see her off at the school gate to catch a ride. Catching a glimpse of Qiao Mei’s “poker face,” she couldn’t help but tease her again: “Give me a smile.”

Many day students were in no hurry to go home and were wandering around campus waiting for their parents to pick them up, so the school path was fairly lively. Qiao Wan was bumped by someone walking without looking; before she could fall, she was caught by the quick-eyed and quick-handed Qiao Mei. She heard Qiao Mei scoff: “Is your cerebellum not fully developed? You can even trip on flat ground.”

The voice was full of helplessness.

“It was clearly the other person who wasn’t walking properly; why blame me?” Qiao Wan expressed her disapproval and strongly condemned the bump. “Forget it, I won’t argue with you. I want to walk on the inside.”

“That was my intention as well.” Qiao Mei moved aside, letting her walk on the inner side so she wouldn’t be hit by unobservant people or cars. “You’re so short and small; if you’re thrown into a crowd later, who will be able to pick you out?”

“Then I’ll definitely cling to you honestly, so no one can pull me off. That way, it’ll be safe, right?”

Qiao Mei narrowed her eyes slightly. “Mm, safe.”