Seeing this, Su Wan’er’s stomach couldn’t hold back and let out a moderately cute sound.
Fortunately, the cinema wasn’t crowded, and the movie volume was loud enough that no one else heard it except Gu Bai.
Hearing the sound, Gu Bai turned his gaze toward Su Wan’er, who was so embarrassed she wished she could disappear.
She could only shift her eyes to the big screen, pretending nothing had happened.
But no matter how well she acted, Gu Bai understood why she had been staring at the popcorn in his hand all along.
She was hungry.
After realizing this, Gu Bai sped up his popcorn eating.
‘Hmm… watching Su Shuhao suffer like this is actually… kind of nice?’
To be clear, Gu Bai didn’t have some psychological fetish for abusing beautiful girls.
He simply wanted to make this former little princess, whom he once spoiled, suffer a bit.
“Damn it…”
Seeing Gu Bai being so clueless, Su Wan’er could only swallow her pride.
‘Who made her Su Shuhao now? There’s no helping it. If Gu Bai actually gave her food, she’d feel even more flustered. This is fine for now…’
But she was really hungry.
To escape this unbearable feeling, Su Wan’er focused her attention on the big screen.
However, she didn’t notice that Gu Bai had quietly left his seat and gone somewhere.
A few minutes later, Gu Bai returned to his seat, but this time he held an unopened bucket of popcorn.
Seeing Su Wan’er starving to the point where her stomach was practically touching her back, Gu Bai handed the popcorn to her.
“This is?”
Su Wan’er looked at the popcorn bucket in her hands, both surprised and delighted.
She was delighted because she could fill her stomach, and Gu Bai didn’t seem like a stubborn blockhead after all.
But Su Wan’er was also a little afraid: could this be a sign of lingering feelings for her sister?
While Su Wan’er was worrying, Gu Bai stuffed some popcorn into his mouth and explained, “I don’t like owing people. This way, we’re even.”
With that, Gu Bai stopped paying attention to the stunned Su Wan’er and continued playing on his phone.
When Su Wan’er snapped back to reality, she couldn’t help but think,
‘You didn’t owe her anything in the first place…’
‘If anything, it’s my sister who owes Gu Bai more.’
‘These seven years of time haven’t wasted just one person’s youth.’
‘Su Wan’er didn’t think a girl’s youth was more precious than a boy’s. She believed time was equal for everyone.’
But these were her inner thoughts, and of course, Gu Bai couldn’t hear them.
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After a moment of silence among the three, Su Wan’er’s phone rang. It was a message from her best friend, Lai Weiyi.
“How is it? How is it? What’s his attitude toward you now? Is he even more disgusted?”
After glancing at the message, then at the popcorn bucket in her hand, Su Wan’er thought for a moment and replied,
“Hard to say.”
She still wasn’t clear about Gu Bai’s thoughts.
After all, she was a novice in love. How could she understand such complicated emotional issues?
Unless Su Wan’er could read minds, but unfortunately, that was just wishful thinking.
Faced with Su Wan’er’s answer, Lai Weiyi scratched her head in confusion.
Since she wasn’t there in person, she couldn’t know the exact situation.
After roughly analyzing it, she replied,
“Then why not do something to make him dislike you.”
Seeing this message, Su Wan’er scratched her head.
She wasn’t quite sure what would make Gu Bai dislike her.
She had never tried anything like that before, so she was momentarily dumbfounded.
‘Swear at him? But I can’t, and I don’t want to do that. Or take action? But what would I even do?’
Fully at a loss, Su Wan’er could only dig through her brain.
Drawing on experience from the anime and novels she’d seen, she came up with a good idea.
So she took off her right leather shoe, crossed her legs, and struck a very arrogant pose.
At the same time, she kept her peripheral vision on Gu Bai, trying to gauge his reaction.
Sure enough, Gu Bai quickly noticed that Su Wan’er had taken off her shoe for some reason, and was now crossing her legs with her slender, perfectly toned foot—made even more alluring by its black stocking—sticking out.
‘This is pretty unexpected. I never thought Su Shuhao had this habit in private.’
‘No smell, and it’s actually quite pleasing to the eye.’
‘Alright, even if I don’t want to get involved with Su Shuhao, I’m still a man… lust is in my nature. What’s wrong with looking at a pair of legs?’
Gu Bai didn’t overthink it.
He let his gaze linger on her foot for a few more seconds.
When Su Wan’er saw Gu Bai’s reaction, she secretly rejoiced.
‘After all, seeing me like this—completely lacking in grace, with my shoes off—should at least kill his appetite, right?’
‘Disgust me, the more disgust the better.’
As she thought this, Su Wan’er’s foot couldn’t help but bob up and down happily.
Gu Bai finally understood what some people online meant when they talked about “dark chocolate.”
It really was quite enticing.
‘But just a treat for the eyes is fine. Actually getting back together is out of the question.’
‘Su Shuhao is probably doing this to lure me into admitting fault first, right? In a way, she’s really going all out.’
He knew that Su Shuhao suffered from an extremely severe case of androphobia.
That was why, even after all this time together, he had only ever held her hand.
He had tried hugs and kisses before, but whenever he attempted any intimate contact of that level, her body would tremble uncontrollably, her face would turn deathly pale, and she might even get short of breath or risk fainting.
But at least those seven years weren’t wasted.
Su Shuhao could now tolerate contact with a few specific body parts—like when he helped her with her sprained ankle last time, or when she had linked her arm with his earlier.
‘And now she’s willing to lower herself to strike this pose… Is she trying to get me to admit fault?’
Gu Bai shook his head with a smile, said nothing, and just watched quietly.
‘Go ahead and tempt me. I’ll take the candy-coated shell, and you can keep the bullet yourself.’
After enduring Gu Bai’s gaze for who knows how long, Su Wan’er also realized something was off.
‘This isn’t right. Why doesn’t it seem to be working?’
‘Shouldn’t Gu Bai be disgusted and tell me to put my shoes back on?’
‘Why… why do I feel creeped out by the way he’s looking at me?’