My Girlfriend is the Cutest in the World

Su Lin bent down next to the train that was stopped at the entrance. Lu Yuanyuan was crouched in her compartment, her head buried in her knees, shoulders trembling.

    Like a poor little animal.

    Su Lin still didn’t know what had scared her, but seeing her like this, curled up here in a ball, he felt… not very comfortable.

    He couldn’t hold himself back from reaching down to touch the top of her head, and rubbed, “Don’t cry…”

    The person under his hand had a slight reaction.

    She buried her head in her hands and rubbed her face. Then, she pushed off her knees to stand up, suddenly letting out an “ah” sound.

    She fell back into a crouch.

    “My,” She looked up with a dazed expression and mumbled in a small voice: “…… legs are numb.”

    She’d cried until her eyes turned red. Against her white skin, it was particularly striking. Her dark pupils were still flooded with tears, rippling like waves, when she turned her unfocused gaze in his direction.

    “……”

    Su Lin suddenly felt his throat was a little dry.

    He looked away and agreed, “Then you sit down. We’ll leave later.”

    He stood up and waited beside her for five minutes before the two walked out in silence.

    On the way, they passed by the [Deceptive Haunted House]’s wooden sign again that was firmly fixed in the ground by a long wooden stake. The chibi skull drawing on the sign wasn’t the least bit scary, but grinning, smiling ironically.

    Lu Yuanyuan seemed to have been poked at her sore spot.

    She walked up quickly, and without thinking, raised her leg and kicked at the stick stuck in the ground.

    Su Lin, who was following behind: “……”

    He looked at her from behind. Her ponytail was slightly golden in the sunlight, and the hood of her white jacket, because of her action, was tilted to the side.

    He didn’t know why, but just looking at her back, he could tell she was getting angry.

    He lowered his eyes and smiled a little, and took two quick steps to catch up with her, “Feel better?”

    “No.” She answered shortly.

    At this angle, her side profile was puffed up with fuming anger. Along with the trail of dried-up tears, she looked extra comical.

    “……”

    He wanted to laugh again.

    Come to think of it, from the first day he met Lu Yuanyuan, whenever he was with her, he seemed to have experienced all sorts of emotions.

    For example, always holding back laughter.

    Some of her unconscious actions, like touching her hair when embarrassed, or kicking the sign of the haunted house when she was angry just now, it all inexplicably made him want to laugh.

    The kind of laughter that couldn’t be restrained.

    Seeing her, even his heart felt warm and fuzzy.

    Leaving the haunted house, Su Lin took Lu Yuanyuan to a bench in the shade of a tree to rest.

    He saw that her mood had stabilized before asking the question that had been on his mind all along, “So… what was going on just now?”

    Lu Yuanyuan turned her head to look at him. The redness around her eyes had also subsided a lot, “Ah, it’s all because of that story…”

    She summarized from the beginning, and soon came to the climactic part, “…… Then, then the narrator in my headphones said that the female ghost suddenly tapped Xia Ming. Then!”

    Her eyes opened wide, “Then you tapped me!”

    Su Lin: “………”

    No matter what he imagined, he never could’ve fucking guessed it was because of this.

    No wonder. After she tapped the person in front of her, that woman also had the instinctive reaction to ask for help from the person in front of her, and so on.

   …. And that was how that cursed scene happened.

    He looked at Lu Yuanyuan, whose dark eyes seemed to flood with fear again after retelling the story.

    He couldn’t help but raise his left hand again and touch her head for the second time today, “It’s all right. It’s all fake, a coincidence-“

    “Senior.” The little girl suddenly called him softly, the end of her words carrying a tremor.

    He stopped talking and looked at her.

    She raised her hand and took his hand off her head.

    Then, her large, watery eyes flooded with raging tears again. Clutching his arm like it was her life-saving straw, the corners of her lips were pulled down, and she closed her eyes tightly and cried out bitterly: “Wuwuwuwu this amusement park! This haunted house! Way too deceiving, ah wuwuwu….”

    Su Lin: “……”

    She was crying.

    She was hugging his arm and crying.

    For a second, he actually didn’t know whether he should be happy or sad right now.

    Fuck.

    He once again cursed Qin Fang in his heart.

    —

    After Lu Yuanyuan gave him an explanation, she replayed herself getting scared in her mind again. She really bawled for a while before slowly calming down.

    After she became aware of what she was doing, she instantly let go of him, “Sorry, sorry! Senior, I…. didn’t mean to.”

    Reaching the end, her words had gotten weaker and weaker.

    She’d just instinctively wanted to hold onto something, so, she completely unconsciously held his hand that was close by.

    But….

    She glanced at the two red marks left on his arm from her tight grip, and felt her cheeks heat up a little.

    She secretly raised her eyes and glanced at Su Lin.

    His eyes were still on her. Because they were in the shade, the sunlight shone through the leaves onto his well-defined face. Against the patchy light and shadows, his eyes looked brighter than usual. She didn’t know if it was because of the light, or something else.

    He said, “It’s nothing.”

    The voice was as usual; clear and pleasant.

    Lu Yuanyuan absentmindedly froze for a moment. Only when she heard his words did she react with a jolt. She immediately inclined her head, thinking about his expression just now.

    He seemed… not mad?

    It was just that his eyes staring at her were odd….

    Not his usual unbothered and leisurely look, it had a… kind of feeling that was hard to explain.

    Maybe she saw it wrong.

    She wouldn’t dwell on the things she couldn’t understand. No matter what, she was so rude just now, and it was good that he wasn’t angry.

    Lu Yuanyuan exhaled a big sigh of relief. Pulling out some wet wipes from her school bag she’d gotten from some random event, she wiped her face, then turned her head and asked the person beside her, “Um…. senior, I’m okay now. Do you want to go somewhere else?”

    “Okay?”

    After a second, he asked again, “Completely okay?”

    “…… Mhm.”

    She’d been crying for so long that there was nothing left of the little bit of panic from being scared. Besides, it wasn’t like there was really a ghost.

    Also…

    She didn’t know why but, after looking at him just now, her mood inexplicably lifted a bit.

    Lu Yuanyuan smiled a little, “There’s still a long time before we need to gather back. Let’s not sit here and go play something else.”

    Su Lin frowned. Thinking about her appearance just now, and was just about to reject-

    “We bought a full-priced ticket. We have to play the whole day, play enough to get our money’s worth!”

    The little girl stood up and clenched her fist as she spoke.

    Su Lin: “……”

    Alright.

    After walking for a while, he couldn’t come up with something to do. She likes to play bumper cars, so she probably didn’t have much interest in things like the merry-go-round.

    “Do you have something you want to go on?” He asked.

    After crying it all out, Lu Yuanyuan’s mood eased up and she looked at him with light in her eyes, “I want to go on the merry-go-round, senior! Can we?”

    “…… Can, ah.”

    Ay.

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