vrcanaries Chapter 1135 A Passerby Cannon Fodder in an Infinite Flow Dimension (Part 58)
Chapter 1135 A Passerby Cannon Fodder in an Infinite Flow Dimension (Part 58)
Miaomiao didn't expect to sleep until after eight o'clock. When the sunlight shone on her face through the gap in the curtains, the warm touch made her linger for a while before sitting up.
According to her mother's previous rule, she would knock on the door at seven o'clock to urge her to eat, but she didn't expect it to end after only one day.
Miaomiao yawned and rubbed the goosebumps that had inexplicably risen on her arm. She had a feeling that something was about to happen today, which made her a little uneasy.
After a quick wash, Miaomiao rubbed her sleepy eyes, grabbed a loose cotton nightgown from the side, put it on, and then slowly strolled downstairs in her soft slippers. She was secretly wondering if she could go out for a milk tea today if her parents didn't interfere.
Her simple wish made her happy just thinking about it.
However, as soon as he reached the corner of the stairs, his eyes met those of the person on the sofa in the living room on the first floor.
Miaomiao stopped abruptly, her mind clearing up considerably.
She blinked and rubbed her eyes hard to make sure she wasn't hallucinating from just waking up. The tall man on the sofa who was staring at her intently was actually Xie Chenzhou?
He was dressed in a well-tailored casual outfit and sat upright on the sofa.
But the moment their eyes met, Miaomiao sensed that Xie Chenzhou's aura was unusually tense, like a string stretched to its limit that would break at the slightest touch.
What really sent chills down Miaomiao's spine was his gaze.
Even from a distance, Miaomiao could still sense that the other person's eyes seemed to be churning with emotions she couldn't understand at all.
His eyes were fixed on her intently, as if trying to imprint her entire being into his very bones. For a moment, Miaomiao even had the illusion that she was frozen in place by his gaze.
She now understood what it meant to feel an eternity in a single glance. Time should have flowed at a normal pace, but the moment their eyes met, everything around them seemed to disappear.
Before Miaomiao could calm her panic, Xie Chenzhou, who had been staring intently at her, slowly curled the corners of his lips into a smile.
The smile was faint, so faint it was almost fleeting, yet it carried an almost devout tenderness that inexplicably reminded Miaomiao of the look in his eyes when she left the mirror world, and the kiss he placed on her forehead.
They hadn't said anything yet, and the other person looked so gentle...
But Miaomiao still felt a chill spread from her spine to her limbs, causing her to instinctively grip the stair railing. Her legs went weak, and she just wanted to turn around and run back to her bedroom on the third floor to escape this man who made her feel panicked.
She had a vague feeling that the look in his eyes wasn't good news for her.
Unfortunately, Miaomiao was slow to react because she had few emotional threads, not to mention that she had lost the memories of the previous twenty worlds, so she naturally did not remember that someone had developed a possessive mind towards her, and that it was a signal from a man that he wanted to hold her firmly in his palm.
Miaomiao remembered very clearly that Xie Chenzhou had probably forgotten everything about the mirror world, and when he woke up in the hospital, he reportedly didn't remember her either.
So, the idea that her feelings for her originated from the suspension bridge effect sounds reasonable, but now, Miaomiao is a little uncertain.
She didn't transmigrate into a Mary Sue novel and become Mary Sue; she was just a random passerby.
Miaomiao subconsciously took a half step back. Unable to figure it out, she decided to go back and rest first.
However, Xie Chenzhou noticed her hesitation and retreat.
Xie Chenzhou suddenly stood up from the sofa. His movements were not hurried, but they carried an unmistakable sense of oppression. His tense aura became even more intense, and even the air seemed to freeze because of his movements.
He continued to stare intently at her, the ecstasy in his eyes almost bursting through the shackles of restraint, but he forcibly suppressed it, leaving only extreme focus and fascination, his muscles tense as if he were trying his best to endure something.
"Miaomiao."
He called her name softly, his voice extremely calm and restrained, with only a barely perceptible hoarseness at the end.
No one knew that at that moment, his heart was pounding so hard it felt like it would burst out of his chest, and his mind was already churning with countless crazy thoughts.
He won the bet.
The moment Xie Chenzhou saw Miaomiao, he had already imagined how they would kiss, how he would kiss her, how he would serve her, where their wedding would be held, how he would pamper her as his one and only for the rest of his life, and even the names of their future children were already in his mind.
But the next second, he completely overturned this idea.
No, there can be no children. His girl belongs entirely to him, and nothing and no one can take away even a fraction of her attention.
But none of that included her escape.
Miaomiao was stopped in public. She knew that turning around and running away would seem deliberate and awkward, so she put on an awkward but polite smile.
It was only now that she noticed that not only Xie Chenzhou was in the living room, but also her family. Xie Chenzhou must have been talking to her father.
Fortunately, what she thought was a long eye contact was actually only two seconds, and even her parents didn't notice anything amiss.
Miaomiao forced a stiff nod at Xie Chenzhou, then slowly continued walking down the path under his gaze.
She lowered her eyes, not daring to look into his eyes again, feeling that every step she took was exceptionally heavy.
Miaomiao originally thought that Xie Chenzhou had something to ask her brother, but she didn't expect that Xie Chenzhou, who was always busy and extremely stingy with his personal time, had no intention of leaving today and stayed at the Tan family's house for the whole day.
He meant that he only realized the importance of home after falling into a coma, but since his parents were abroad, he sought warmth in her home.
It sounds reasonable, but he seems to have forgotten that he rejected her advances before.
In short, Xie Chenzhou spent the day chatting with her parents and her brother, mostly about her, his gaze seemingly lingering on her...
This intimacy has long since crossed the line of what is meant by "friend's sister".
When she peels an orange, he will subtly hand her a tissue, his fingertips even deliberately brushing against her fingertips.
And when she answers her mother's questions, he sits quietly by her side, his eyes so focused that it seems as if she is the only person left in the world.
Even when she got up to go to the kitchen to get water, he would subconsciously follow her a couple of steps and stand at the kitchen door waiting, his tenseness never dissipating.
Not to mention Miaomiao, the Tan family members all noticed Xie Chenzhou's subtle attention to Miaomiao, as if he was trying his best to restrain his feelings, yet revealing everything in the slightest detail.