Chapter 64: Doubts

  As I stared at the unbelievable words on my computer, all I felt was shock and more shock. Online romance, a byproduct of 21st-century technological advancements, is mysterious and tempting to every man. However, towards this empty and lonely person who would advocate for such an abnormal way of loving, I have always held a repulsive attitude. Even seeing these words, my deepest feelings were still stimulated. Perhaps it was just her joke, but as soon as I saw the words, I already had the idea of rejecting her in my mind. Moreover, with Ke Yi by my side, I chose to give a negative answer without any hesitation. I didn't want to do something stupid that would ruin everything because of an abnormal relationship with a stranger I couldn't touch or meet.

  "Come on! Let's go! What are you still dawdling for?" Qin Ke suddenly burst in, interrupting my daydream and prompting me to hastily shut down QQ...

  Ever since being with Qin Ke Yi, going to the supermarket and actively pushing a cart instead of carrying a basket has become one of her so-called "good habits" that she has instilled in me. This may be an omen for my impending rational enslavement.

  "What's on your mind? You've been distracted since you left home?" Qin Ke had sensitively detected the state of my mind, which was affected by that sentence on the internet.

  "No way! I'm not absent-minded at all!"

  "Really?!" Qin Ke asked me suspiciously.

  "Want some sausage?" I decided to change the subject and picked up a pack of sausages from the shelf, asking Qin Ke.

  "I took it just now, didn't you know?" Qin Ke Yi took out the same packaged sausage from the shopping cart and waved it in front of me.

  "Ah……, I think this one seems a bit thin, so I want to change to a thicker one." Qin Ke Yi didn't respond to my excuse at all, but instead looked at me with an extremely strange smile on her face. Experience told me that behind Qin Ke Yi's strange smile, there would often be unpredictable but extremely dangerous events happening, so I decided that I must prepare a series of "shocking heaven and earth, moving ghosts and gods" romantic words to throw at Qin Ke Yi in an extremely low, gentle tone, accompanied by melancholic eyes, in order to turn the unfavorable situation around and shift her suspicion towards me.

  "Do you know what kind of scene in my heart can move me the most and make me feel warm and happy?" Originally, I was going to add some tears to my eyes to create a better atmosphere, but since it's been a long time, I couldn't muster up any feelings after thinking about it for a while. So I started talking to Qin Ke Yi with a stiff upper lip.

  "You... want to say something?" Qin Ke was taken aback by my sudden change.

  "What touches my heart the most is not a smooth and uneventful love process, nor is it a romantic and warm movie-like scene. It's the ordinary and trivial things in life that make me feel the most warmth and happiness. Just like when you're feeling cold and I hold your hand, or when you're feeling wronged and want to cry and I hug you; just like that day we sat together quietly, flipping through your photo album and listening to stories of your childhood, or today when we went grocery shopping for dinner together, just the two of us. These ordinary things that often appear in life are what make me feel most warm and happy. And it was because of this warmth that I couldn't help but indulge in it earlier.

  So, please forgive me for unintentionally neglecting you...

  After finishing my perfect concluding speech, I let out a deep breath in relief and felt grateful that my ability to do this hadn't depreciated yet. Qin Ke Yi's expression made it hard for me to guess what she was thinking at the moment, but at least things were starting to develop in the direction I had hoped for. So, I thought it would be best to seize the opportunity and give Qin Ke Yi another deep hug to push the atmosphere to..."

  "Ke Yi, thank you, thank you for making me so happy..." I walked up and hugged Qin Ke Yi, saying softly.

  "Kang Jian...do you know what the most touching and warmest scene is to me?" Qin Ke Yi said after a moment of silence in my arms.

  "What is it?" I asked with excitement as I realized my goal was almost achieved.

  "Look over there." Qin Ke came out from my arms and pointed behind me.

  "What's over there?" I turned around and looked back, then turned around with a puzzled face and said to Qin Ke.

  "Take a closer look, what's on that shelf over there?" Qin Ke reminded me once again.

  "What... what does it mean? Those things over there are all used by you women, aren't they?"

  "Hmm!" Qin Ke smiled and nodded at me, giving me a bad premonition.

  "You won't...?" I asked Qin Ke somewhat hesitantly.

  "Great! What attracts me most is your cleverness, often with just one glance from me, you can understand my meaning! I'll be coming over in a few days, so..."

  "No way! I'd rather die than go! I didn't think you'd feel so sentimental about the thing I bought for you! Is this what they call being a pervert?!"

  "You still don't quite get it! Do you see that middle-aged woman over there? The sign she's holding is exactly the same one I've been using, but it seems like there's only one left on the shelf. When I see the boy of my dreams use his excellent eloquence and abilities to fight for the last sanitary napkin just for me, that's when I feel warmth in my heart!" Qin Ke said with a seemingly intoxicated tone.

  "What!!?! You... let me and a middle-aged woman compete for that thing!!!" I excitedly asked Qin Ke.

  "I've always had confidence in your eloquence! Just now, in that environment, you were able to make the atmosphere so sentimental that I almost got moved to tears! So for you, this is simply as easy as reading a storybook."

  "What...do you mean? Are you kidding me?" I suddenly asked Qin Ke in a suspicious tone.

  "Weren't you just fooling me a moment ago? Do you think I'm a three-year-old kid? So easy to deceive!!" Qin Ke suddenly said seriously to me.

  "That...! Qīn Kě Yī, don't be angry...... I just wanted to ease the tension between us." I said with a guilty conscience, while constantly reflecting on where I had revealed my weakness.

  "If I were angry, would it be like this? Is there something that must be hidden from me?"

  "Really, I'm fine, you're just thinking too much... Honestly, I'm just a bit tired, didn't sleep well, so my mind is elsewhere..." I said seriously to Qin Ke Yi.

  "Alright... I believe you..." Qin Ke Yi looked at me and said helplessly. Although there were some twists and turns, this time the crisis of suspicion was finally smoothly resolved, and it also made me feel that it's not easy to hide things from Qin Ke Yi.

  Qin Keyi didn't think of going to pay until the shopping cart was filled to the brim. Facing the long lines in front of each checkout counter, Qin Keyi and I had a moment of resonance, both thinking of putting everything back in its place and then walking away with a relaxed face from the non-shopping passage, smiling at the anxious people queuing up. But fantasy is after all just fantasy, unless we wanted to go hungry today, this idea would never come true.

  "Oh no! I forgot to buy banana chips! Kang Jian, can you help me get two bags?" Just as we chose a relatively shorter queue and stood in line, the person in front of me, Qin Ke Yi, suddenly turned around and said to me.

  "How many times have I told you! You need to eat less snacks! It's not good for your body and it's easy to get fat! You're a model, can't you have some professional spirit?"

  "I'm so hungry! Can you help me get two bags? I promise it's the last time!" Qin Ke said with a pout.

  "No way!" I took a firm and unyielding attitude towards Qin Ke's behavior, with no room for relaxation or compromise.

  "Kang Jian..." Qin Ke Yi continued to coax me, the sugar content in his tone also steadily increasing.

  "No way!" I hesitated for a moment and then denied her again.

  "Hmm!!" Qin Ke turned around, seemingly angry that he couldn't force me to surrender no matter what. Not long after, he turned back again, with a very mysterious smile on his face, and moved his mouth to my ear...

  "I heard that the few days before coming events are called a safe period..."

  "What...what do you mean?" I asked Qin Ke with a bit of trepidation after hearing those words that made my blood boil.

  "It's okay! It's just that the lingerie show I promised you last time didn't go as planned, and I've been feeling guilty about it. And seeing how painful it was for you to sleep with me every night recently, I couldn't bear it..."

  "Don't think that just because you always use these dirty things as bait I'll back down and compromise! As if I enjoy this kind of thing!"

  "Oh! It seems I overthought it! Forget it! Let's pretend I never said anything!"

  "Hmm...? But as a responsible man, my top priority is to make the person I love happy. If I can't even satisfy my girlfriend's craving for banana chips, it goes against my principles as a man!" I said with a serious and solemn expression.

  "Hah! Then hurry up and prove to me that you're such a man!" Qin Ke said with a radiant smile, urging me on.

  "Uh... tonight... should be a safe period, right?" I asked Qin Ke quietly.

  "Ugh! Can't we just go back and talk about this later, with so many people around...?" Qin Ke said to me in a low voice, her face red, making me suddenly feel like I'd been injected with stimulants, and I turned around and ran into the supermarket...