Defeated By Love

Xie Ruhe: “Huh?” 

Shu Nian looked at the doughnuts in his hands with an indescribable expression. She was finding it really hard to speak and lowered her eyes. Her voice sounded pitiful and soft: “I also want to eat one more…” 

Fang Wencheng felt that he was particularly idle recently. 

Except on New Year’s Eve when Xie Ruhe was sent back to the Ji household for New Year’s Eve dinner. After that, he basically had nothing else to do. 

Xie Ruhe rarely went out. Although he did write songs in the festive time, he didn’t write for other singers. Most of the time he would go to the 17th floor for physical therapy and he would do it alone and constantly. 

It was like he suddenly found motivation for it. 

Xie Ruhe’s behaviour made Fang Wencheng feel like he was anxious about something. He was similar to a bad student who wanted get a hold of themselves before an exam. It was like he wanted to get good results in tomorrow’s exam so he stayed up all night, trying to study. 

But Fang Wencheng didn’t know what he was anxious about. 

According to his previous progress, the training plan given by the physical therapy doctor stated that he would recover sooner or later. It wasn’t the same as before where it was nothing but just a hope. Now, it was something achievable.  

Although he didn’t know why, Fang Wencheng felt that this was really good. Every month, he got a very high salary by going to a big house to play on his phone and sleep. 

Occasionally, he would follow Xie Ruhe’s instructions to do some trivial things but most of the time he lived a happy life. 

Earlier, Xie Ruhe suddenly came out of his recording studio. Fang Wencheng thought he had something to do but he just went into his room to change his clothes and quietly went out in his wheelchair. 

Xie Ruhe didn’t even look at him once. 

He (Fang Wencheng) didn’t carry any sort of presence or existence in his (Xie Ruhe’s) eyes. 

But he had encountered this kind of situation many times before. 

It was because Shu Nian was coming. 

Fang Wencheng didn’t dare to sleep anymore thinking that they would be back soon. He stood up and went to find something to do but as he walked around the house, he still couldn’t find anything. 

He yawned lazily and picked a game to play on his phone. 

He didn’t know how much time passed when the main open clicked open. 

Fang Wencheng immediately put away his phone and ignored the curses from his teammates in the game to quickly go greet the two: “Young master.” 

As expected, Fang Wencheng greeted Shu Nian when he saw her standing behind Xie Ruhe. 

After entering the house, Xie Ruhe changed into his slippers and stood up. He held the cup of milk tea with one hand and walked slowly against the wall. He ignored Fang Wencheng but his expression was a little strange and unexplainable. 

Shu Nian followed him with the bag and didn’t say anything. 

Fang Wencheng didn’t know what kind of atmosphere this was and tactfully kept silent. 

They went into the living room one after the another. 

Xie Ruhe sat on the sofa and Shu Nian hesitated a bit before sitting down next to him. 

It was dead silent. 

There were three people in the spacious living room but it wasn’t any different from having no one there.  

Xie Ruhe pursed his lips and moved. He pushed all the six doughnuts in front of him to Shu Nian and said in a low voice. “I was joking with you.” 

Shu Nian felt a little embarrassed because of her words from earlier and didn’t know how to respond to him. 

Xie Ruhe continued: “I don’t like sweet foods very much.” 

When Fang Wencheng heard those words, he said in surprise: “Young master, didn’t you just buy a dozen bags of gummies and put them in your room?” 

“…” Xie Ruhe gave him an icy stare and calmly changed his words. “I don’t like doughnuts.” 

It had been a long time since Shu Nian had eaten any doughnuts so she couldn’t help but blurt out those words. Her main purpose was to buy them for Xie Ruhe but he deliberately lied to accommodate to her—— 

Shu Nian felt ashamed of herself. 

She sullenly said. “You eat.” 

Xie Ruhe’s forehead muscle twitched. He really didn’t want his image for Shu Nian to become someone who robbed her of her snacks. He licked the corner of his lips and weighed his words, mulling over what to say. 

Fang Wencheng, who was beside him, didn’t really understand what their situation was so he couldn’t help asking: “What’s wrong?” 

“Nothing.” The atmosphere became awkward because of some doughnuts which was childish behaviour. Shu Nian didn’t know how to explain it and so she stammered: “It’s just, just…” 

He waited for her to finish. 

Meanwhile, Xie Ruhe took out a doughnut from the bag and handed it to her mouth. 

It was a very sudden move. 

Shu Nian immediately shut up and looked at him with round eyes. She was confused. 

Xie Ruhe lowered his eyes and stared at her lips: “Take a bite.” 

Shu Nian’s mind was blank and like a robot, she did whatever he said. She pinched the hem of her clothes and held his hand before taking a small bite. 

“Is it delicious?” Xie Ruhe asked. 

Shu Nian chewed twice and nodded mechanically. 

Seeing that, Xie Ruhe was relieved and his eyebrows which were originally tightly knitted, also relaxed. 

“Then you can just eat them all.”