Damn it, I'm surrounded by childhood sweethearts-Chapter 394 - 287. I disagree
After lunch, the three of them returned to the apartment that Zhang Chunxue had purchased here for a siesta.
It seemed Aunt Zhang wasn’t too fond of cleaning, nor did she like strangers coming into her home; therefore, the apartments she purchased were always of medium or small size, which would not require too much effort to clean.
For instance, this apartment in Zhujiang New Town, though less than seventy square meters in space, saw its prices soar to twenty thousand yuan per square meter after the completion of the Canton Tower.
The apartment that Zhang Chunxue purchased was in the best community nearby, and the small seventy-square-meter home, including decor and appliances, cost nearly four million yuan.
A home of the same size would have cost about one-twentieth of that in Li City in 2010.
In Hong Kong, property values in bustling areas compared to remote, backwater places could differ by more than tenfold, a common situation that gave rise to the so-called ’tycoon villages,’ where a single demolition project could create dozens or even hundreds of millionaires overnight.
"Yiyi, are you going to sleep with mom or with Xiao Fan?" Zhang Chunxue, having quickly washed up, came out of the bathroom with her hair wafting a sweet fragrance throughout the living room.
Zhang Yiyi knew her mom was teasing her again. She was no longer a child; sleeping with her brother wasn’t an option anymore.
"Mom and brother can sleep together. I’ll sleep by myself!" the young girl boasted, playfully blinking her eyes.
Xu Qingfan was also blinking rapidly, but, with a strong will to survive, he dared not speak.
Zhang Chunxue chuckled, "Hehe, let Xiao Fan sleep on the living room sofa, and we’ll go back to our bedrooms to sleep!"
Zhang Yiyi turned to glance at her brother who sat grinning foolishly on the sofa and nodded in agreement, "Right, brother sleeps on the sofa!"
"No, how can you bear to let me sleep on the sofa? What if I fall off?" Xu Qingfan’s eyes widened in disbelief.
"Xiao Fan, have a good nap, and if you’re cold, you can take off the sofa cover and use it as a blanket," Zhang Chunxue waved at him and then returned to her own room.
"Brother, have a nice nap!" Zhang Yiyi, showing off her neat, white teeth, gave him an askew grin before picking up her backpack and heading back to her bedroom.
"Auntie, I haven’t given you a massage yet," Xu Qingfan protested, standing up to follow Zhang Chunxue into her room, but the door was shut with a "snap" the next second.
However, the door wasn’t locked, and with a gentle twist, he opened it.
Xu Qingfan poked his head in to discover Zhang Chunxue already sprawled on the bed, browsing on her phone.
Her bare legs swayed carefreely in the air, and she looked up, giving Xu Qingfan a playful glance, "So, you really want to come in and sleep with Auntie, do you?"
Even though she was a mature aunt of thirty-six, Zhang Chunxue still exuded a youthful charm with every frown and smile.
Xu Qingfan swallowed and said, "Didn’t we agree that I’d give you a head massage?"
"Why are you staring at my legs if you’re supposed to massage my head? Or do you want to give a leg massage to Auntie too?" Seeing him shyly glance at her, Zhang Chunxue couldn’t resist teasing him further.
"That.... wouldn’t be a problem either."
As Xu Qingfan closed the door and came into the room, extending his hands to climb onto the bed to give a massage, he heard Zhang Chunxue say, "Don’t mess around. There is a lot of work to do this afternoon. We’ll talk about it tonight."
After stifling a lazy yawn, she pointed to the wardrobe and added, "If you’re not going to sleep in Yiyi’s room, then grab a blanket from there; don’t catch a cold."
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"Have a good nap, Auntie," Xu Qingfan reluctantly withdrew his hands and took a single blanket from the wardrobe.
"Ha, good nap," Zhang Chunxue waved offhandedly and, once Xu Qingfan had securely closed the door behind him, she turned to vainly glance at her own legs.
[They do look pretty good. I could even apply some nail polish. I wonder what color Xiao Fan would like...]
After leaving, Xu Qingfan went back to the sofa in an obedient manner, not quite understanding why Zhang Yiyi didn’t want to sleep with Auntie, offering her room to him instead.
But girls of her age always had their secrets in their private rooms, and perhaps she simply didn’t want him to see them.
He picked up the remote control to close the curtains, covered himself with the blanket, and went to sleep.
Indeed, inside her room, Zhang Yiyi harbored a secret that she didn’t want her brother to find out about, and that was the photo shoot from the morning!
At this moment, the young girl was holding an 8-inch wedding photo, the background of which was a medieval church. The protagonists were Yiyi and her brother, dressed in a suit and a wedding dress, becoming husband and wife in the presence of a priest.
Zhang Yiyi gently caressed her brother’s face in the photo with her fingertips, but since the photo was protected by the album, she could only feel the icy touch of the glass.
She lay on the bed, holding the photo up above her as she daydreamed.
The wedding photo had been taken, purchased in its largest size from the store, and bound nicely, and Zhang Yiyi was very pleased with it.
Although it was said that the three of them were inseparable, Yiyi still had a bit of a selfish wish to take a wedding photo with her brother, just the two of them.
It was a perfectly normal desire. After all, who doesn’t have a bit of personal longing? Like Lin Wanning, who would slip into Brother Qing Fan’s bed without ever calling for Yiyi.
However, Zhang Yiyi didn’t think in the same way. Now that the photo was taken, she felt guilty about sneaking off, and also worried about where to hide the photo.
Her secret base was definitely out of the question, too risky of being discovered; next was her home in Bijui Garden, but Wanning often stopped by for visits.
[If Wanning saw it, she would certainly feel sad, wouldn’t she? We had agreed to be together, all three of us, yet I secretly took a wedding photo with Brother Qing Fan...]
In the end, it seemed she could only keep it here. Wanning wouldn’t come to this home, while she herself almost visited every week.
Being able to see the wedding photo with her brother at any time was of course wonderful, but for the girl, even once or twice a week was satisfying enough, since after all, this was her stolen pleasure.
After deciding to leave the album here, Zhang Yiyi looked at the photo and couldn’t help wearing a faint smile.
She withdrew her hands, her head and the album just inches apart.
The next second, the girl leaned down and planted a dragonfly-like kiss on the young man’s cheek in the photo.
After doing all this, she hugged the album to her chest and slowly closed her eyes.
The girl quickly drifted into dreamland. In her dream, she completed the wedding ceremony from the morning.
But unlike the morning, this time, apart from her, her best friend Wanning was also a bride!
Beneath the stage, the mother, uncles and aunts, along with Wu Lingyu and Xiao Ruawen, were all sincerely blessing them.
After the priest had asked if the two were willing to become the brother’s wives, they couldn’t wait to say in unison:
"I do!"
Instantly, enthusiastic applause erupted from below the stage, and when the girl in her sleep saw everyone’s genuine smiles full of blessings, her lips too curled into a lovely arc, but in the next second, she furrowed her brows.
Zhang Yiyi felt she had overlooked something but couldn’t remember what. Her eyes scanned the crowd below.
In a flash, she realized where the unease came from.
[It’s Xiaoxiao, Xiaoxiao didn’t come!]
Yiyi looked around, but she couldn’t find Xia Xiaoxiao anywhere.
"I also..."
At the next moment, the church doors were pushed open from outside.
Everyone turned their heads in surprise to see who it was, and Yiyi too stared blankly toward the door. It was Xia Xiaoxiao!
Clad in a pristine white bridal gown, Xiaoxiao kicked off her crystal slippers, lifted her skirt with one hand, and ran from the end of the red carpet.
Just as Xu Qingfan was about to blurt out his "I do", the girl shouted loudly:
"I object!"
