Ning Meng was a little stunned when she saw Shu Er’s actions.
In her heart, she couldn’t help but wonder, was Shu Er really treating Huo Chao’s hand like a pig’s trotter?!
It seems that Shu Er is the only individual in the whole No. 1 Middle School who would dare to do something like this… If anyone else treated Huo Chao like this, they’d probably have no idea how they’d end up.
Huo Chao had sauce smeared on the back of his hand. He was a little mysophobic and felt that the sauce was annoying, so he pulled his hand away to wipe it off, but failed.
He cast a bewildered glance at Shu Er.
Noticing Huo Chao’s movement, Shu Er looked up at him with a bright smile, saying, “Brother, don’t look at me like that! If you keep staring, I’ll eat your big pig’s trotter!”
He is a big pig’s trotter?
Huo Chao decided to stop struggling. Upon hearing this, he wore a half-smile, asking, “Eat it?”
Shu Er nodded earnestly, “Yeah.”
Huo Chao’s dark eyes fixed on her, revealing no emotion, “What kind of eat?”
“Just like a big ‘aowu’ bite to eat it!” Shu Er didn’t think too much and opened her mouth, imitating a little tiger’s sound.
This elicited warm laughter from Ning Meng, Xu Chen, and Zhao Zhifeng.
Even Huo Chao put down his chopsticks, propped up his side face with his free hand, and tilted his head to watch her performance.
After Shu Er finished speaking, she took Huo Chao’s hand and stuffed it into her mouth.
Everyone present was momentarily taken aback, unable to react as they watched Shu Er bring Huo Chao’s hand close to her mouth, and then, just as she had claimed, she actually took a bite out of the back of his hand while groaning!
She really bit him!
Afterwards, she even pretended to grind her teeth a bit.
Huo Chao: …
Everyone: … Awesome.
Releasing her bite, Shu Er looked at the faint bite mark on Huo Chao’s hand and pursed her lips, praising, “This pig’s trotter tastes pretty good.” Setting aside the fact that Huo Chao’s hand was too large for her to fit in her mouth—though even if it could fit, she wouldn’t do that; it would be too unsanitary—it was perfectly fine to leave a bite mark on his hand.
Huo Chao pulled his hand back, looking at the subtle, saliva-coated bite mark, and let out a chuckle, “What’s this? A mark?”
A mark? She is not an alpha, nor is he an omega, and certainly not an omega in heat—what was there to mark?
Shu Er hummed. Just then, a dish she liked was served, so she ignored Huo Chao afterward.
Huo Chao picked up a napkin from the table, meticulously wiping the sauce off the back of his hand. When he reached the bite mark, he instinctively paused.
After a few seconds, he finally wiped away the saliva that Shu Er had left behind.
—
The celebration dinner was delightful. They enjoyed food and chatted, and before long, it was nearly nine in the evening.
The restaurant was warm, and with a few spicy Sichuan dishes, Shu Er’s face and lips had turned red from the heat, giving her pretty eyes a more innocent look.
However, Huo Chao knew that Shu Er’s current quietness and cuteness could only fool others. He was well aware of how troublesome she could be when she wanted to be.
Huo Chao settled the bill, and the group stepped out of the private dining restaurant.
As the evening breeze blew, Shu Er comfortably squinted her eyes.
Just as she was about to ask Huo Chao to take her and Ning Meng home, a somewhat surprised voice called out from not far away, “Second Sister.”
Turning her head, Shu Er saw that it was none other than her younger sister, Shu Ya.
She walked a few steps towards Shu Ya and asked curiously, “Why are you here?”
Shu Ya was in the third year of junior high, and her school was in the opposite direction.
Shu Ya, holding several books in her arms, smiled slowly, “The Xinhua bookstore here is the biggest and best in the city. I came to buy some extracurricular study books.”
Shu Er nodded in understanding. She had always known her sister to be a bookworm—good grades, highly disciplined, and very passionate about studying. She was a good kid and was the closest one to Shu Er in the entire Shu family.
The snacks that Huo Chao had bought for her earlier had partly gone to Jiang Xici and partly to feed her sister. While reading novels, Shu Er had always admired Shu Ya the most among the family.
“So, have you finished buying everything now?”
Shu Ya nodded.
Since her sister is here, Shu Er will naturally go home with Shuya. She asked Huo Chao to help send Ning Meng home safely, waved to them, said goodbye, and went home happily with her sister.
The seventeen-year-old girl possessed the freshest beauty, with a face that could captivate without any makeup.
As Shu Ya observed her cheerful and carefree second sister beside her, a struggle flickered in her heart.
Should she say what was on her mind or not?
The bus passed station after station, bringing them closer to home.
If she didn’t speak up now, she didn’t know when she’d have another chance.
Seizing the moment before they reached home, Shu Ya suddenly asked, “Second sister, don’t you think you don’t really look much like the Shu family?”
After saying this, she finally breathed a sigh of relief. She finally said it.
If it were the original character, hearing this would likely make her feel unwelcome by her family because now even her younger sister thinks she didn’t resemble the Shu family at all.
The original Shu Er would have been hurt and disappointed by such words.
But the person now was Shu Er. Upon hearing Shu Ya’s comment, a multitude of thoughts crossed her mind.
When she was reading the book, she was vaguely puzzled. Why didn’t the book describe the reaction of the female supporting role’s family after the heroine sold the female supporting role to the mountains? Did the female supporting role’s family do nothing, or were they powerless? Were they passive, or were they powerless?
Either situation was quite tragic.
They gave up the female supporting character directly.
But she was a living, breathing person. How could a family remain indifferent when one of their own went missing? Yet the Shu family managed to do just that. This indifference led to the female supporting character suffering so much.
Since entering the story, Shu Er’s confusion had deepened.
She noticed that the original character had a rather bland relationship with her family. At most, it was superficial, and mainly, Shu Rou’s attitude towards her was very poor.
That remark from yesterday, “Are you a plastic bag? Otherwise, why are you so pretentious?” was far too harsh. It didn’t seem like something an older sister would say to her younger sibling.
If Shu Rou was a selfish person who treated all her sisters poorly, it would be understandable, but she treated Shu Ya quite well. Their interactions were no different from that of ordinary sisters.
Of course, it could also be attributed to the original character growing up in the countryside with their grandmother, resulting in her being unfamiliar with Shu Rou and Shu Ya.
Then the question is, why is it that among the three children in the family, only Shu Er grew up in the countryside until she was 17 years old?
Even if Shu Er’s mother was the poorest when the female supporting character was born so she sent her to the countryside, their family conditions obviously improved a little bit after a while. Why didn’t they mention bringing her back?
It was only after the grandmother in County B passed away, leaving the original character with no one to care for her, that she finally returned home.
If the original character truly wasn’t a child of the Shu family, then everything would make sense.
Of course, Shu Er only had a suspicion in her heart. Whether it was true or not would require a DNA test to confirm.
Turning to Shu Ya beside her, Shu Er’s expression remained unchanged as she asked tentatively, “Third sister, why do you suddenly say that?”
Shu Ya averted her gaze, tightly hugging the extra-curricular books she had just bought tonight. “It’s just what I think.”
It was true that Shu Er didn’t resemble the Shu family much; she was the most attractive one among them.
Perhaps because the original character’s face hadn’t fully matured yet, she was becoming increasingly captivating over time. In contrast, the Shu family appeared somewhat gray beside her.
However, genetics was a complex matter; not all children looked like their parents. Some unattractive parents had beautiful children. So, she had never really considered that she might not be the biological child of the Shu family.
This point hadn’t even been mentioned in “Extremely Addicted.”
Tilting her head slightly, Shu Er wondered if Shu Ya knew something more.
At that moment, the bus finally jolted to a stop at their destination. Shu Ya announced, “We’re here,” and stood up first.
Shu Er followed suit.
Regardless of whether she belonged to the Shu family, she could always investigate and find out.
On the way home, Shu Er suddenly noticed a yarn shop right at the edge of her neighborhood.
She informed Shu Ya and, filled with excitement, stepped into the store.
The shop wasn’t large, and its decor was quite ordinary, but it offered a rich variety of yarns in many colors—everything she wanted to buy was available here.
With the help of the shopkeeper, Shu Er picked out the right needles and yarn, then cheerfully paid for her selections.
Watching her older sister’s carefree smile, Shu Ya felt a mix of happiness and confusion.
If one day one of her sisters told her that she didn’t look like anyone in the family, she would definitely overthink it.
However, Shu Er seemed completely unaffected by what had just been said. While being cheerful was great, didn’t she have any other thoughts at all?
After returning home, Shu Er was washing her hands in the bathroom when Shu Ya approached with a book in her hand.
Drying her hands, Shu Er looked at the brand-new “How the Steel Was Tempered” in front of her, puzzled. “What’s this?”
“Sister, your birthday is this Friday. I thought I’d give you your birthday gift in advance. Happy birthday! May you become more beautiful and better every day.”
So this Friday was the original character’s birthday!
Shu Er was pleasantly surprised as she accepted the gift, “Thank you! I really like it.”
Shu Ya smiled shyly and then returned to her room to read.
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The next day, as Shu Er left the neighborhood gate for school, she spotted Huo Chao waiting at the entrance.
He was wearing a baseball cap, with his beloved bicycle parked in front of him. He was leaning against the wall, fiddling with his phone.
The first thing Shu Er did upon reaching him was check whether the bite mark she left on his hand was still there.
To her disappointment, it was gone.
But it was to be expected; she hadn’t bitten down hard enough, and after a whole night, the mark had naturally faded.
Huo Chao looked at Shu Er and raised an eyebrow. “Why? Do you want to bite me again?”
Shu Er shook her head, her eyes fixated on Huo Chao’s collarbone concealed by his shirt.
Biting his hand was rather boring; the next time, if she is going to bite, it would be Huo Chao’s collarbone!
After all, he had turned her down twice, refusing to knit her a bag both times!
She was keeping a mental note of all these accounts.
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