Heavy Taste

Yang Chen smiled bitterly. “Alright if you’re bothered then I’ll have it.”

“No!” Zhenxiu shook her head. “Why don’t we play rock, paper, scissors? The winner gets to eat.”

Yang Chen was caught off guard. “You want me to play a child's game with you for it?”

“Why? Are you scared?” Zhenxiu taunted him.

Yang Chen had already been called a simple-minded person, he couldn’t let go after being taunted like this.

“Alright I’ll play but the loser has to be flicked on the forehead!” Yang Chen said.

Zhenxiu pounded the table. “Okay! But let me tell you now, I was dubbed the ‘King of Foreheads’ in the orphanage!”

Yang Chen rolled up his sleeves. “Stop talking and let’s start!”

Others would have thought they were idiots if they saw them but they were very serious about it.

“Rock, paper, scissors, shoot!”

Yang Chen showed rock and Zhenxiu showed scissors.

Zhenxiu’s face went green as she pouted. “Hmph, you got lucky. I guess God took pity on you for getting scolded by Sister Ruoxi. Come!”

Yang Chen didn’t hesitate and flicked her forehead while wearing a proud smile.

“Ouch!” Zhenxiu covered her forehead and pouted. “Brother Yang, I’m a pretty girl. How can you hit me so hard? It hurts!”

It was incredibly painful even though he didn’t use a lot of strength.

“Which pretty girl on earth would call themselves one? Let me tell you, we don’t cheat in this house and bluffing isn’t allowed either.” Yang Chen laughed wickedly.

Zhenxiu cursed under her breath. “No way, let’s play two more rounds!”

“Again?” Yang Chen was dumbfounded, “Do we really have to do this for a piece of seaweed wrapped rice?”

“This will affect my honor as the ‘King of Foreheads’! How can I treat it lightly?” Zhenxiu huffed.

Yang Chen didn’t really care. “Alright…”

And so they played another round.

Yang Chen showed paper and it was cut by Zhenxiu’s scissors.

“Yay!” Zhenxiu jumped off her chair and ran to Yang Chen. “Okay, don’t move, it’s my turn!”

Yang Chen felt more relaxed seeing her happy face. She really is still a little girl, he thought.

So he closed his eyes and waited for it.

Zhenxiu licked her lips and blew air towards his forehead…

Yang Chen opened his eyes in curiosity. “Zhenxiu, what are you doing? Why are you blowing air?”

Zhenxiu caught his head. “Don’t move, don’t move! It hurts more after doing this! You should lower your guard since I’m a girl.”

Yang Chen was dumbfounded as he thought it wouldn’t hurt no matter how she hit him. But he chose to keep that little bit of information to himself.

So he closed his eyes again and let Zhenxiu do her thing.

Zhenxiu went closer to Yang Chen and was going to blow air, but it felt weird after being interrupted.

Her lips were so near to his face and if she leaned closer, she could kiss his face…

Zhenxiu couldn’t help but think what would happen if she kissed him. Could she have played it off as a reward for picking her up? But he wasn’t her lover so wouldn’t it be weird to kiss him so randomly?

No no no, Sister Ruoxi treats you so well. How could you even think about it? she told herself.

Zhenxiu blushed from her thoughts, her mind jumbled with thoughts as she struggled to decide…

She stood still and even forgot to breathe.

Yang Chen waited for a while but he couldn’t sense anything from Zhenxiu, so he opened his eyes and asked in confusion, “Zhenxiu, what’s wrong? Why’s your face so red?”

Zhenxiu was surprised and she stuttered, “Oh... I’m doing it now.”

After saying that she didn’t care if Yang Chen closed his eyes and immediately flicked his forehead.

She kept quiet as she ran back to her seat and ate her instant noodles without uttering a single word.

Yang Chen asked, “I thought we were playing three rounds? So who’s eating the food if we both scored one?”

“Who cares! We’re not kids so why care about it!” Zhenxiu looked up and grumbled.

Yang Chen’s lips twitched. This girl has such a fickle mind. One moment it was super important to her, the next moment, I’m being called a kid for caring at all.

Yang Chen shook his head and didn’t say anything else. He had to find a chance to apologize to Lin Ruoxi when they got home after eating.