Fight back

Author: Nan Ruoruo

Gu Yanci instantly forgot that he had been thinking about avoiding suspicion for half the night. He walked to the bed in two steps and looked at her by the light of the night light.

Li Mianmian's face was full of tears, and her expression was full of fear, as if she had dreamed of something extremely terrifying.

Gu Yanci placed the water glass on the bedside table, covered her forehead with his palm, and whispered: "Mumu, brother is here, wake up."

Perhaps because of hearing "brother", Li Mianmian cried even harder.

She waved her hands in the air in panic and accidentally grabbed his collar.

Gu Yanci felt a tight squeeze on the back of his neck, so he had no choice but to bend down obediently.

Li Mianmian pulled him hard with one hand, as if grasping a life-saving straw, her fingertips turned slightly white.

The other hand seemed to be resisting something and kept making scratching movements.

Because Gu Yanci was too close, his neck was inevitably affected. The place where she scratched her felt a burning pain, and several bright red and slender blood marks soon appeared.

But he didn't realize anything and just observed Li Mianmian's condition.

"...Save me..." Gu Yanci heard her faint murmur, "Brother...save me..."

"Brother is here."

Gu Yanci patted her face and tried to wake her up, but her hands were wet.

Li Mianmian was so deep in the nightmare that she couldn't wake up.

Gu Yanci simply turned on the bedroom light and took out two pieces of paper to wipe her sweat.

The bright lights made Li Mianmian frown.

After a while, her eyelids trembled twice, and she finally woke up slowly, staring blankly at the ceiling, breathing heavily and urgently, not yet escaping from the terrifying nightmare.

"It's me." Gu Yanci came closer and blocked her view with his face, "Mumu, you have a nightmare."

Seeing him, Li Mianmian was stunned for a moment, then suddenly raised her body and plunged into his arms.

Gu Yanci held the back of her head with one hand and gently patted her back with the other: "It's okay. Brother is here. It's okay."

Li Mianmian grasped the hem of his clothes tightly and silently soaked the piece of fabric at his collar.

After about ten minutes, she finally calmed down.

At this time, Gu Yanci's neck was already a little sore.

Li Mianmian let him go, pulled up the quilt and wiped away the remaining tears on her face, burying her head and saying nothing.

Gu Yanci rubbed the top of her hair gently, picked up the water glass and handed it to her lips: "Here, drink some water."

Li Mianmian opened her mouth and bit the edge of the cup, but made no further move.

After hesitating for a moment, Gu Yanci put his hand on her chin, raised the cup slightly, and fed her some water semi-forcedly.

"Is it better?" He wiped off the water stains on her lips with the pad of his thumb and asked in a warm voice, "Do you want to continue sleeping now? Or do you want to talk to your brother?"

Li Mianmian shook his head, lay down again, held the edge of the quilt, and looked straight at him.

After a pause, she reached out from the quilt again and grabbed the hem of his clothes.

"Brother..." She tightened her fingers, "Can you wait until I fall asleep before leaving?"

Li Mianmian looked at him, as if she wanted to imprint his face in her mind, and after a while she closed her eyes.

As darkness enveloped me, the images from my dream began to flash through my mind again.

Her breathing became rapid uncontrollably, and she was wrapped in fear, making her hair tingle.

Li Mianmian opened his eyes, figuring that he wouldn't be able to sleep in a short time.

"Brother." She called.

Gu Yanci lowered his head: "Huh?"

"I……"

Li Mianmian felt a lump in her throat, and it took her a long time to continue: "Does it really look good when I wear it like that today?"

Gu Yanci laughed: "Why do you ask this suddenly?"

"..." Li Mianmian said coyly, "I just wanted to ask."

"Good-looking." Gu Yanci said slowly, "Mumu will look good in whatever she wears when she grows up."

"Just..." Li Mianmian bit her lower lip and her voice became lower and lower, "Is it just good-looking?"

Gu Yanci thought for a while, but didn't quite understand what she meant: "What else should there be?"

"...I don't know..." Li Mianmian's eyes began to turn red again, and his speech became incoherent, "I don't know if everyone looks at me like this, or if it's just them...I, I don't know this is mine.

It's their fault...I don't know what to do..."

"Don't worry." Gu Yanci's calm voice was like a shot of tranquilizer, and like the gentle breeze blowing through the spring water, "Brother, listen, please speak slowly."

Probably not knowing how to speak, Li Mianmian fell silent with her eyes lowered.

Gu Yanci didn't urge him and just waited quietly.

After a long while, she stammered: "...They, they said that I..."

Li Mianmian swallowed and said in a voice so low that it was almost inaudible: "Sexy."

"..."

Gu Yanci lowered his face, his eyes were as sharp as a knife, and there was a biting chill in his voice: "Who."

"That person today..." Li Mianmian wanted to bury his head in the quilt, "And... the person from before..."

Gu Yanci didn't answer for a while.

His chest was as quiet as a pool of stagnant water, he could hardly feel his breathing, and there was a sense of pressure from an approaching rainstorm.

Li Mianmian carefully raised her eyes to look at him.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but the lights in the room suddenly became very dim, and darkness came from all directions, making people unable to breathe.

A terrifying aura spread from Gu Yanci's body, blending into the surrounding darkness.

Li Mianmian was a little scared and called timidly: "...brother?"

"Um."

Gu Yanci responded, then lowered his body and asked, "Who was that person in the past?"

"..."

Li Mianmian pursed her lips and said weakly: "Already, already dead..."

"Oh." Gu Yanci curled her lower lip, "You ran away pretty fast."

"..."

"Those who say this are just lower species that have not completed evolution. We advanced intelligent creatures can appreciate beauty." Gu Yanci stroked her face comfortingly and continued, "Why bother with something like a paramecium?

Up?"

Li Mianmian was confused: "Paramecium?"

Gu Yanci: "Have you never studied biology in junior high school?"

"..."

Li Mianmian remembered.

——Paramecium, a lower organism that uses the same place for eating and excretion.

She couldn't help but want to laugh: "Why are you so good at swearing..."

"Did I curse people?" Gu Yanci smiled and said, "The people I cursed were not people."

"..."

Li Mianmian sniffed, and her mood improved inexplicably.

Because of what happened today, she had some resistance to formal attire, but as soon as he scolded her, those negative emotions disappeared in an instant.

"I can fall asleep now." She held Gu Yanci's hand and shook it slightly, "Thank you, brother."

Seeing that her mood improved, the low pressure around Gu Yanci gradually dissipated.

"Don't doubt yourself because of things like that." He said, "It's not your fault, you know?"

"Yeah." Li Mianmian nodded.

"You are free to wear whatever you want." Gu Yanci said, "As long as the occasion is appropriate, as long as you like it."

Lin Jian subconsciously wanted to continue nodding, but she thought about it and asked, "What does it mean that the occasion is appropriate?"

"For example," Gu Yanci replied seriously, "don't wear bikinis on the streets where people gather, don't wear leather pants on formal occasions, etc."

After a pause for a few seconds, he added: "But if you just like to dress like this, that's okay."
To be continued...