Chapter 206: The First Night Back Home
I vaguely remember that when I took my little brother to college, he was still a pretty cute little kid.
However, today after picking him up, I saw a little girl instead…
Ning Yuan even had the illusion that he gained a sister.
He sat on the sofa, glancing frequently towards the bathroom, faintly hearing splashing water inside. His gaze moved to his mother who was scrolling through Douyin; it was clear that her mood wasn’t great.
She seemed a bit worried, even carrying a hint of guilt.
Everything felt strange today, prompting Ning Yuan to probe a bit.
“Mom, should I take Ning Chu to get a haircut tomorrow?”
“Hmm, I’ll take her in the afternoon.”
Ning Yuan relaxed a little; his mother was indeed concerned about his brother’s messy long hair.
Probably his brother cried when he first arrived, leaving their mother a bit dazed, which is why she hadn’t mentioned the haircut before.
“What was Ning Chu crying about earlier? Did you get to the bottom of it? Did someone bully her at school?”
“Well, not really.” His mother hesitated. “Something came up, I’ll tell you later.”
“Oh…”
Ning Yuan felt like he suddenly became an outsider.
He would hear more later.
His mother stretched her limbs, a bit sleepy, and stood up, heading to the bedroom while saying, “Tell your brother to finish eating and go to sleep, don’t stay up late.”
“Okay.”
Ning Yuan watched his mother walk into the bedroom, still puzzled as to why she was sharing a room with Ning Chu.
His brother just turned eighteen…
“Takeout!”
Hearing the knock on the door, Ning Yuan jumped up to open it.
As he set down the takeout and looked up, he saw Ning Chu stepping out of the bathroom in a t-shirt and shorts, her hair all wet.
The shorts looked a bit small, hugging his brother’s bottom tightly, accentuating the fullness and perkiness, while her pure white, slender legs appeared as delicate as cleaned lotus roots, her petite feet glistening, leaving water marks on the floor.
If their mother saw this, her blood pressure would probably spike.
His brother always disliked wearing slippers or socks at home and preferred being barefoot, no amount of nagging from their mother ever changed that.
Ning Yuan’s gaze traveled up.
With narrow shoulders and a small frame, Ning Chu looked particularly petite. Her fair, round arms bore no signs of any muscle, and her loose t-shirt bulged awkwardly at her chest, quickly drawing his gaze.
That chest…
Ning Chu walked over to the sofa and put on her jacket, blocking Ning Yuan’s sight.
Having stayed in a boys’ dorm for a few months, she had developed a defense system; usually, she only shed her jacket when going to bed.
But at home, she couldn’t help but let her guard down a bit.
Her empty stomach protested; Ning Chu couldn’t be bothered to blow-dry her hair any longer. She rushed to the coffee table, sat down, and tore open the takeout.
“Bro, you wanna eat?”
“What did you buy?”
“Barbecue and rice.”
She opened the takeout box, one hand holding her phone watching anime while the other grabbed a skewer of chicken.
Ning Yuan could clearly feel his gaze on her profile.
She understood his scrutiny and didn’t mind too much, casually handing him a skewer of cauliflower.
“Bro, when are you going back to work?”
Ning Chu asked while munching.
“Leaving Sunday night.”
“What are you doing now? Where do you work?”
Ning Yuan observed her delicate and pretty face while answering, “I’m working locally in advertising design, usually have to work late, so I only come back occasionally.”
Her slightly baby-fat cheeks looked a bit young, with dew on her long curled lashes that seemed ready to fall at any moment. The slightly upturned corners of her peach blossom eyes bore a hint of rosy hue… Honestly, she looked nothing like an eighteen-year-old adult male.
“Oh~ How much do you earn?”
“Five to six thousand.”
Not much in the provincial capital…
Ning Chu swallowed that line to avoid hurting her brother’s pride.
Mainly because it’s easy to get hit, even if she was bullied less now, the intimidation factor her brother had before she turned ten was stronger than their mother’s.
That was some real beatings!
This made it a bit harder for her to be honest with him about things than with their mother.
“How are your grades at school?” Ning Yuan refused another skewer of barbecue she offered, leaning back on the sofa and crossing his legs. “You’re not just playing games in the dorm all day, right?”
“Well, not really.”
But she hadn’t studied much, mostly keeping an eye out for bad women trying to cheat her.
“How about a girlfriend? Do you like any girls?”
“Eh, stop pushing me…” When this topic came up, Ning Chu actually got excited, boasting, “There’s a café outside school! The owner is a senior and really likes me!”
“Hmm?”
“I heard she’s a rich lady, not even thirty, and pretty~” She puffed her chest in pride, “Too bad I’m tough, I can’t live off someone!”
Mainly because she was worried about the kids taking too big a leap, and the wire mesh ball was pretty hard to accept.
“That’s good.” However, Ning Yuan’s gaze fell on the bump made by her jacket: “Why are you still wearing a jacket at night? It’s not cold recently.”
Ning Chu hurriedly bent down, slightly hunching her shoulders.
“What’s up with your chest?”
She didn’t expect him to ask so directly, her cheeks inevitably flushed a bit, after thinking for a moment, she mumbled, “I’ve gained quite a bit recently…”
Although she had the urge to come clean about her real gender, she really didn’t want to show her tattoo to Ning Yuan.
For a succubus, tattoos definitely belonged to a privacy zone, like near the thighs.
“Gained a bit…”
Indeed, Ning Chu looked much fuller than before, with a soft and squishy appearance, her body fat percentage obviously higher.
But shouldn’t it not only be in the chest?
Ning Yuan felt like he was being made a fool.
However, he didn’t feel like discussing it any further, standing up he said, “I’m going to sleep now. You finish eating and go to bed quickly too, don’t stay up.”
“Okay.”
Within ten minutes, Ning Chu finished off all the leftover barbecue, tidied up the packaging, turned off the light, and made her way to her mother’s bedroom.
Opening the door, it was pitch black inside.
After she started kindergarten, she had been sleeping in the same bed with Ning Yuan, and she hardly had any memories of sleeping with their mother.
A lingering male thought made her somewhat resistant and tense about this, also worrying her mother would try to inspect her growth again at night.
She hesitated, tiptoeing into the room, using the faint light from her phone to navigate, climbing gently onto the end of the bed, careful not to wake her mother.
It was a soft double bed, still with extra space for two.
Ning Chu lay down on one side, keeping more than ten centimeters of distance from her mother.
Just as she settled in, her mind flooded with wild thoughts.
Since her mother was also a succubus, and there hadn’t been a man in the house all these years, could it be like Lily… there’s no way she was finding other men outside…
Ning Chu hurriedly pushed those strange thoughts down.
Making similar assumptions about her mother was a bit too much!
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