Airport.
Xu Musen drove to the airport to pick up his parents.
And standing by his side was Yao Mingyue.
Yao Mingyue leaned back comfortably in the passenger seat with a bag of fries, noting the weather was getting hotter, especially in Huhai. The streets were soon to be filled with black stockings and little tank tops that dazzle the eyes.
Yao Mingyue had also changed into denim shorts, her long, slender, white legs propped up on the dashboard.
She wore knee-high white cotton socks on her feet, her toes wriggling contentedly in the sunlight, like a little white cat stretching lazily.
"Why didn't An Nuannuan come with you? Is she shy, or is she afraid to meet our parents?"
She turned her head to look at Xu Musen, muttering meaningfully: "Even an ugly wife has to meet her in-laws eventually, all this dithering, nowhere near as straightforward as me."
Xu Musen ignored the sarcasm in her tone. In terms of looks, Yao Mingyue and An Nuannuan were two different types of goddesses.
Xu Musen had told An Nuannuan about his parents' visit the day before.
No one would be calm during their first meeting with their in-laws; An Nuannuan tossed and turned all night without sleeping well.
In the end, she decided to stay at home, saying the best impression a girl could make was to take good care of the house. So she busied herself with housework early in the morning, and Xu Musen didn't know what she planned to do but let her be.
As for Yao Mingyue, even if Xu Musen hadn't called her, she should have come—the relationship between their families, regardless of what kind of relationship Xu Musen and Yao Mingyue had, was ultimately inseparable from their elders.
"She has her own plans, don't talk behind her back."
Xu Musen reached out and snatched the fries from her hand.
"Tch, I'm just being honest. Look at you gritting your teeth as if someone's snatched a bone from your mouth..."
Yao Mingyue pouted, shaking her little foot on Xu Musen's body.
"Behave yourself, and put those stinky feet back."
Xu Musen patted her ankle.
"Stinky feet?"
Yao Mingyue snatched the fries back. She shifted her long legs, leaned against the car door, and placed both legs directly on Xu Musen's legs.
The feet in white socks moved, seeking an embrace like a cat stretching.
"Some people quite enjoy it, right? Even asked me to soak my feet in roses and honey…"
As Yao Mingyue spoke, Xu Musen froze, his fries snapping and falling onto his pants.
Well, Xu Musen did have that little fetish, but that was a thing of his past life.
In this life, when had he ever indulged?
And the method of soaking feet in roses and honey was an improvisation from his past life.
He looked at Yao Mingyue, a preposterous thought crossed his mind, had she also reincarnated?
But Yao Mingyue said calmly, "Remember when we were young? I fell in the snow and sprained my ankle once, soaking my shoes in snow. You warmed my foot in your embrace because my little toe couldn't warm up. You were afraid I'd get frostbite, so you warmed it with your mouth. Later, I brought you Honey Rose Cake to eat, and you said that actually my foot tasted just like that cake…"
"Alright, alright, the last part is ridiculous."
Xu Musen interrupted her, somewhat embarrassed.
How could he remember such childhood memories so clearly? Xu Musen did remember Yao Mingyue was often hypoglycemic as a kid—her hands and feet were always cold in the winter and wouldn't warm up.
The reason he said Yao Mingyue's little foot was like the Honey Rose Cake was that she became too shy to talk to Xu Musen afterward.
Girls, plus her shoes were wet, worried about the smell of rainwater or the like.
She was afraid Xu Musen might dislike her, so he just went along with it while eating Honey Rose Cake, saying, "Actually, I've forgotten everything. Right now, I only know that my mouth is full of the taste of the Honey Rose Cake you gave me."
That was obviously his high EQ speaking!
Back then they were young, there was no such thing as a foot fetish—it was all pure friendship and dedication!
Yao Mingyue laughed happily, a silly girlish laugh with a touch of tender redness on her face. She gently moved her feet placed on his legs.
"But when you kept my toes warm… I decided to soak my feet in roses every day after that."
Xu Musen looked down, and despite the white socks in the way, he could smell a faint scent of roses.
"That's nice, soaking feet in rose petals might help with fatigue relief, improving sleep, promoting blood circulation, pain relief, and beauty detoxification."
"That's not it."
Yao Mingyue cut him off, smiling with narrowed eyes, slowly kicking off one sock: "Because if I soak my feet in roses every day, you can just squeeze honey on them anytime you want to have a taste."
The fair feet of the young girl indeed looked tempting under the sunlight.
"..."
Xu Musen didn't know whether to be moved or what as he looked at the giggling Yao Mingyue.
"Go on, you pervert, take your feet down."
"Pfft, calling out thieves to catch a thief…"
This chapt𝙚r is updated by freeωebnovēl.c૦m.
Yao Mingyue reluctantly withdrew her foot, but before doing so, she posed another question.
"Xu Musen, if I get hurt again, will you help me warm my toes?"
"I won't."
Xu Musen shook his head without hesitation.
Yao Mingyue stared at him for a good while before her lips curled into a pleasing curve.