Chapter 8: A Holiday for Two

  "Ah, it's still so comfortable at home!" Su Qi had a good night's sleep last night and took the overnight train back home without delay during the National Day holiday. Just thinking about not having to deal with annoying Lu Ke and mysterious Si Ruiwen made her feel extremely happy.

  Su Qi Ruo stretched languidly, her hand suddenly coming into contact with something hard. "Huh? What is this? It's so hard?" Su Qi Ruo casually turned her head to look, and then let out a cry of surprise as she tumbled to the ground, her heart nearly jumping out of her throat. "This...this..." Su Qi Ruo stared blankly for half a day, rapidly blinking her eyes until she was certain she wasn't seeing things wrong, before hesitantly asking, "Lu Ke?"

  Lu Ke seemed extremely dissatisfied with Su Qi Ru's explosive behavior, and only opened his eyes after a long time. He glanced at Su Qi Ru, raised his own tail, and tacitly acknowledged her statement.

  "Nima!" Su Qi jumped from the floor to the bed, stretching out her hand to pull Lu Ke down from the bed. Thinking of Lu Ke's stiff and angular body, she restrained herself and pulled back her hand, shouting, "Get up for me! Get up! When did you appear on my bed?! When?! When?! Ah——ah——ah——"

  "Quiet!" Lu Ke waved his tail around Su Qi Ruo's side, and Su Qi Ruo immediately shut up, warily staring at the hook on Lu Ke's tail. If that hook scratched him, wouldn't it scrape off a piece of flesh?

  The purpose of the demonstration was achieved, and Lu Ke slowly got out of bed and restored his human form, but he didn't retract his tail. "I'm thinking of your safety, what if someone takes advantage of you?"

  "You should have said something earlier, what's with you suddenly appearing on my bed?"

  "You walked so fast and didn't give me a chance to speak. How could you suddenly leave without saying goodbye? Don't you owe me an explanation?" Lu Ke suddenly turned the conversation around, starting to interrogate Su Qi Ruo.

  "You should give me an explanation first!" Su Qiye declared immediately.

  "If you hadn't suddenly disappeared, how would I have ended up on your bed? If it wasn't to catch up with you, how would I have exhausted myself and turned back into my original form? If it wasn't..."

  "Alright, alright, I was wrong, it's my fault, isn't it?" Su Qi couldn't understand how the situation had suddenly turned around and become her fault when clearly Lu Ke had been disturbing her first. "Can't you always be like this? Shouldn't you put on some clothes and think about arrangements for later? Like a hotel or something?" Su Qi didn't plan on leaving Lu Ke, this troublemaker, at her home, which would ruin the rare National Day holiday.

  "I've decided to stay at your place before you go back to school," Lu Ke said with a straight face, not even considering asking Su Qi's opinion.

  "How can this be! My parents are still at home! If you stay here, how am I supposed to explain?" Su Qi shouted in a fluster.

  Lu Ke slowly and leisurely put on his clothes, completely ignoring Su Qiruo who was getting anxious to the point of jumping up and down. "Hey! Hey! Hey!" If Su Qiruo wasn't always mindful of Lu Ke's swishing tail, he really wanted to knock open Lu Ke's head and see what he was thinking about.

  "Set up a barrier in your room and your parents won't notice. Besides, aren't your parents going on a trip today?"

  "Have you been eavesdropping on my parents' conversation?"

  "The soundproofing is poor, I didn't bring earplugs."

  "You..." Su Qi was already at a loss for words, why could Lu Mo make every matter sound so reasonable, as if everything he did was right, and everything she did was wrong.

  "Shh!" Lu Ke suddenly whispered mysteriously, "Your parents are back."

  As soon as the words fell, Su Qi Ruo heard the sound of the door creaking open and the furious Su Qi Ruo had to whisper, "Hide for me."

  "This holiday I will be at your home."

  "You——" Su Qi Ruo gritted her teeth, glaring at Lu Ke with a fierce gaze, "Fine." Having obtained Su Qi Ruo's promise, Lu Ke flicked his tail and entered the boundary with a crisp sound. "Beast! Beast! Taking advantage of someone's misfortune!"

  Lu Ke was a man of his word, and when Su Qi's parents were at home, he didn't cause them any trouble. It wasn't until Su Qi saw her parents off that Lu Ke wagged his tail and emerged from the boundary.

  "Can't you just put your tail away? What if the neighbors see it!"

  "Only you can see." Lu Ke wagged his tail and walked into the kitchen, "What's for dinner tonight?"

  "Noodles." Su Qi said in a bad mood, "Can't you make it so that I can't see it either? My dizzy eyes are already blurry from all the flashing around."

  Lu Ke shook her tail more frequently, as if demonstrating, "It's uncomfortable with my tail tucked in."

  "You..." Alright, if Su Qi admitted that Lu Ke was absolutely intentional, she would go east and he would go west. If she couldn't beat him, she would definitely twist him into a knot and flush him down the drain.

  "Can you only make noodles?" Lu Ke opened the refrigerator and confirmed his doubts. The entire refrigerator was filled with all sorts of noodles, wide ones, thin ones, round ones, flat ones, long ones, short ones... If there were any other creative types, it would be instant noodles and cat ear noodles..."Bang!" Lu Ke closed the refrigerator door with a cold expression, "Why hasn't your figure turned into a noodle shape?"

  "I don't know." Su Qi remained completely oblivious to Lu Ke's change in expression, her full attention fixed on the TV screen.

  "Ah——" Lu Ke seemed to have realized something and sneered, "You've eaten too much mantou."

  "What's with the wide noodles, eaten too much?" Su Qi Ruo, who reacted a beat slower, only realized after a while that Lu Ke was actually mocking her for being fat! "What do you mean!" Su Qi Ruo instantly burst into flames, and would have liked to immediately drive Lu Ke out of the house with a stick.

  "Start cooking!" Lu Ke ignored Su Qi Ruo's anger and added coldly, "Now!"

  "I'm not hungry!" Su Qi sat heavily on the sofa with a bad temper and continued watching TV.

  Originally thought Lu Ke would make some moves to force himself, but he didn't expect him to turn around and start busy in the kitchen without a word. Su Qi felt a little joy at this time, finally defeating Lu Ke once. He is willing to be busy in the kitchen, as long as he doesn't destroy the kitchen in anger, she won't help him.

  Su Qi Ruo sat steadily on the sofa watching TV, and before long, she smelled a delicious aroma that made her stomach growl. Was she hallucinating? Where was this smell coming from? Su Qi Ruo followed the scent and found it was coming from her own kitchen. Could it be Lu Ke? No way! That lazy bum Lu Ke could cook? When Su Qi Ruo saw the four dishes and one soup neatly arranged on the dining table, her jaw almost dropped. Just looking at the colors made her hungry! What would happen if she took a bite?

  As soon as Su Qi picked up the chopsticks, Lu Ke snatched them away, "You're not hungry, are you?" Lu Ke asked with a cold glint in his eyes.

  "Uh... this... I wasn't hungry just now, but I'm hungry now." Su Qi explained weakly.

  Lu Ke suddenly smiled slightly and handed the chopsticks to Su Qi Ruo with a gentle tone, saying "Try some."

  Su Qi Ruo gazed at Lu Ke's face, which had turned from gloomy to sunny, and felt a little nervous in her heart. However, she couldn't resist the temptation of delicious food, so she mustered up her courage and picked up her chopsticks. Oh my god! After Su Qi Ruo took her first bite, she felt an overwhelming urge to cry tears of joy. This wasn't just delicious, it was incredibly delicious, absolutely five-star quality, a culinary god!!!

  Just as Su Qi was about to pick up a second piece of food with her chopsticks, Lu Ke grasped her hand and asked kindly, "Is it delicious?"

  "It's delicious." Su Qi said subconsciously while staring at the dish.

  "Hehe......" Lu Ke's smile grew even brighter, "Want some?"

  "I'm starving." Su Qi stared at the dishes without blinking.

  "I can often give it to you!" Lu Ke said temptingly.

  "Really?" Su Qi Ruo immediately shifted her gaze towards Lu Ke, and suddenly felt that Lu Ke was actually quite cute.

  "Really." Lu Ke nodded sincerely, "But... did you know what was wrong?"

  "What's wrong?" Su Qi Ruo was taken aback by Lu Ke's sudden question, what was wrong? What had she done wrong? Su Qi Ruo blinked at Lu Ke in confusion.

  "You didn't get my consent and suddenly ran back home, isn't that wrong?"

  "...In her heart, Su Qi didn't think there was anything wrong with not telling Lu Ke about this matter, but after a moment of hesitation between the dishes and Lu Ke, "Wrong."

  "Now that we know what's wrong, shouldn't we correct it?" Lu Ke said persuasively.

  "The dishes will be bad if they get cold." Su Qi said with a difficult expression, at this time her eyes and mind were still on the delicious food, she didn't realize that she had already fallen into Lu Ke's trap.

  Lu could tell she was intentionally not answering him, displeased, and picked up her plate, "If it's not good to eat, then pour it away."

  Su Qi immediately heard and hastily stopped Lu Ke, "Waste is shameful, waste is a crime!"

  Lu Ke looked at Su Qi's anxious expression and was slightly satisfied, then resumed his smile and continued to ask, "So are you going to change or not?"

  Su Qi said with gritted teeth, "Change!" She had already heard her stomach protesting against herself.

  Lu Ke could see that she said so and put the plate back on the table. Su Qi Ruo, as if afraid Lu Ke would regret it, hastily picked up a mouthful of food and put it in her own mouth. Ah! The moment the dish entered her mouth, Su Qi Ruo suddenly felt very at ease.

  "Now that you know, from now on, no matter where you go, you have to tell me, and without my consent, don't leave my sight!"

  Su Qi stared at Lu Ke with a straight face, as if she had seen an alien. When she heard Lu Ke's words, which were full of coquettishness, she suddenly felt very strange. Indeed, Lu Ke's baby face paired with her slightly affected voice was very cute, but she just felt a sense of discord. Anxiety, intense anxiety surrounded herself.

  "I..." Su Qi Ruo was just about to refute.

  Lu Ke gently stroked Su Qi Ru's head, just like petting a little cat, and cooed indulgently, "Good boy, good boy, listen to me, I'll cook for you every day!" After that, he left with a pleased swish of his tail.

  Su Qi Ruo was stunned for a few seconds, trap! Naked trap! Sold herself out for just one meal, where is Su Qi Ruo's integrity? Where is your integrity?! Good food and handsome men are her lifelong pursuits, didn't expect to achieve both at the same time! Indeed, when heaven drops a pie for you, it must come with a big pit! And it's a bottomless pit!

  Su Qi felt an urge to cry with tears streaming down her face, could Lu Ke still take it back?... Forget it, I'll just finish this meal first!