Su Ning cupped his face and deliberately rubbed it hard.
He didn’t get angry.
Instead, he laughed happily.
He was often a little foolish.
He couldn’t even solve simple math problems, and she had taught him basic addition and subtraction herself.
It really made her wonder whether, if they ever had children, his worrying intelligence would be passed down to the next generation.
Yet he could be made happy so easily by the smallest little things she did.
He really was easy to satisfy.
Well, then.
The question of his worrying intelligence could be put aside for now.
Oh no.
Su Ning felt like she might have been infected by his foolishness too.
Seeing Su Ning looking troubled while she was still rubbing his face, Shen Ji could only ask indistinctly, “Ning Ning, what’s wrong?”
Su Ning slumped onto his back and said gloomily, “I feel like we’re going to become a stupid couple.”
Shen Ji comforted her.
“You’re always first in every exam, Ning Ning.
You’re not stupid at all.”
Su Ning immediately perked up.
“That’s more like it.
This young lady is very smart.
If I’m stupid, then there are no smart people in this world.”
Shen Ji nodded in agreement.
“Yes.
Ning Ning is the smartest person in the world.”
Su Ning pinched his cheek.
“Perfectly complementary to you.”
Shen Ji took a moment to understand what she meant.
He pressed his lips together and said unhappily, “I’m not stupid either.”
Su Ning smiled and asked, “What’s five plus five?”
Shen Ji thought about it seriously, his brows furrowing, but he still couldn’t come up with an answer.
Su Ning held one of her hands out in front of him with all five fingers spread.
She taught him, “Count them.
How many fingers are on one hand?”
Shen Ji counted them one by one.
“One, two, three, four, five.”
Each time he counted a number, Su Ning folded one finger down.
When she had closed her hand into a fist, she asked him again, “How many?”
“Five.”
Su Ning held out her other hand in front of him.
“One hand has five fingers, and this hand also has five fingers.
Now keep counting after five.”
Su Ning waved both hands in front of him.
“So five plus five equals ten, right?”
Shen Ji nodded in sudden realization.
Su Ning poked his cheek.
“And you still say you’re not stupid.
I even have to teach you such simple addition.”
Shen Ji refused to admit defeat.
He opened his mouth and bit one of Su Ning’s fingers.
The sudden movement startled her.
His speech was muffled.
“If I eat one finger, then it doesn’t equal ten anymore.”
He seemed to have actually bitten down with some force, and Su Ning cried out, “Ouch!”
Shen Ji immediately released her finger.
Su Ning desperately wiped the saliva on her finger onto his clothes.
“Shen Ji, are you a dog?
That’s disgusting!”
There was a faint tooth mark on her finger.
She angrily said, “If you dare bite my finger off, I’ll chop you up with a knife!”
If he really bit her finger off, she would only threaten to chop him up instead of breaking up with him.
Seriously, she must really love him.
Shen Ji’s body suddenly tensed with excitement.
He decisively changed direction and carried the girl into a nearby path.
There was a patch of rose bushes here.
Because the area had been abandoned and left unattended for years, the flowers and plants had grown wildly.
The thorns on the branches were even sharper than those of ordinary roses.
Shen Ji wasn’t afraid in the slightest of the pain the thorns might cause him.
He strode straight into the bushes.
Almost immediately, he placed Su Ning down on the grass.
Before she could ask what he was going crazy about this time, the young man was already leaning over her.
His normally slender-looking body was incredibly strong at that moment.
Like a large, impatient puppy, he nuzzled against her and pleaded, “Ning Ning, kiss me.
Kiss me…”
He could have taken the initiative and kissed her himself, but he wanted her to take the initiative.
There was something very different about that feeling.
It made him feel both good and excited.
A thorny rose drooped downward because of the young man’s reckless movements.
Just as it was about to fall onto the girl’s face, the young man raised his hand and caught it.
Even when the thorns pierced his skin, he seemed completely oblivious to the pain.
His hand remained perfectly steady.
Su Ning could clearly feel as though, at that moment, every danger in the world had been shut out from her.
The surge of adrenaline overwhelmed the girl’s usual reserve.
She raised her hands, held his face, and fiercely bit down on him.
The dormitory supervisor in Building B was a very old woman.
Her eyesight wasn’t very good, which meant that boys who didn’t follow the rules could often sneak in with their girlfriends when she wasn’t paying attention.
Su Ning limped back into the dormitory.
At some point, bits of dried grass had gotten tangled in her long black hair, and her beautiful new dress was stained with flower juice from the roses being crushed.
In short, she had never looked this disheveled before.
Shen Ji followed behind her.
“Ning Ning, your foot is hurting.
Let me help you take a shower.”
Su Ning gave him a single word in response.
“Get lost.”
The corner of her lips hurt when it pulled, so she shut the bathroom door without mercy.
Shen Ji had accidentally bitten the corner of her lip hard enough to break the skin.
He knew he was in the wrong, and he also knew that he was still dirty, so he didn’t dare sit on Su Ning’s bed.
Instead, he moved a chair over to the bathroom door and sat there, hugging his legs with both arms.
He curled himself into a little ball, staring at the bathroom door without blinking and waiting for the person inside to come out.
After Su Ning finished showering and changed into a comfortable nightdress, she came out.
The first thing she saw when she opened the door was the abandoned-puppy look in Shen Ji’s eyes.
Shen Ji immediately jumped up, grabbed her hand, and led her to sit on the edge of the bed.
“Ning Ning, I’ll put a bandage on your foot.”
He turned around and found a small box in the drawer of the desk.
After rummaging through a pile of miscellaneous things, he found the bandages and then came running back to her, looking at her expectantly.
He sat down on the floor and gently lifted Su Ning’s injured foot.
He was very familiar with her room.
For a moment, Su Ning even wondered whether this was her dormitory or Shen Ji’s.
Shen Ji first gently blew on the wound on the back of her heel.
Only then did he tear open the bandage and carefully place it over the wound.
This was something he had learned from Su Ning.
In the past, whenever Su Ning saw a scrape on his hand, she would first gently blow on the wound and then put a bandage over it.
He wasn’t very smart, but at least he was pretty good at imitating others.
Su Ning’s mood improved a little.
She wanted to smile, but the movement pulled at the wound on the corner of her lips.
The skin there had been slightly torn and was still red.
Her temper flared again.
She raised her foot and planted it against his face.
“If you bite me like that again, I’ll step you to death!”
Shen Ji froze for a moment.
No one knew what he had thought of.
He wrapped his arms around Su Ning’s lower leg, looking deeply moved, with tears welling up in his eyes.
“Ning Ning, you’re so good to me.”
She was already that angry, yet she still rewarded him like this.
If this wasn’t love, then what was?