Chapter 58. Good-Looking.

The concrete floor on the rooftop not only felt bad but also cost a lot of money. Chen Jia Shu’s shoes were almost worn out at the front, like a small white boat with a leak, and were basically in a state of disuse. She was waiting for Chen Du to bring new shoes to support her.

Chen Du took three or four steps at a time and ran up to the top floor, looking out through the narrow wooden door, where Chen Jiashu was playing shuttlecock [1] on the rooftop.

Her body was delicate and slender, and she jumped up like a new swallow. Her high ponytail was swaying in circles, very cheerfully, enveloped in the thin warm light of the twilight. Her slender neck elongated a section of white jade, leaping up and down in a small range in the field of vision.

A pair of onion-like white ankles were tied in dusty old ballet shoes, but the shuttlecock was still kicked with great dexterity. Her long legs hooked one after another, fast and light, with astonishing accuracy. Chen Du watched from the door for a while before the shuttlecock fell off her ankles.

As she kicked, she counted for herself, “Two hundred, two hundred and one, two hundred and two, two hundred and three”

The other people had robbed her classroom and torn her skirt, while here she was kicking the shuttlecock for her own amusement and pleasure.

She probably should not have known that the skirt she was wearing for tomorrow’s performance had been torn, but Chen Du guessed that she would not have reacted much even if she had known. The fact that her skirt was ruined could not be changed, and furthermore, she would still go on stage and finish her performance even if she was wearing a torn skirt. Just as she was still comfortably kicking a shuttlecock in a pair of scrapped old shoes at this moment.

“Two hundred and twenty, hey?” Chen Jiashu jumped to the two hundred and twentieth stroke when the shuttlecock fell.

She bent down to pick up the shuttlecock, but someone was one step ahead of her. A slender arm appeared at her feet and picked it up off the ground before they returned it to her.

Chen Jiashu picked up the shuttlecock along with her dancing shoes, “You took two pairs?”

“Well, they’re both new. One pair is for practice today and the new pair is for tomorrow.”

“Oh, that’s quite thoughtful.” Chen Jia Shu smiled and went to pinch his face.

Chen Du’s cheeks still had a little baby-fat, which softened the contours of his deep features a little, making him look very good. He looked fresh and sunny, and his fleshy face was very easy to pinch. She was free to play with his ears, but Chen Du didn’t like her pinching his face. He thought that it was childish and it was like she was teasing a child.

But only children are good teasers. In another two years, no, according to Chen Du’s terrifying growth rate, in less than two years, the little baby fat he had left will be gone, and his deep bones will emerge. He was born with high eyebrows, three dimensional features, and a sharp outline.

Now he is more or less a shadow of his near future self. Occasionally he looked cold and hard when he was not expressing himself. He looked very cold, his temperament was very hard, and he had a handsome face that was both amorous and romantic.

So the more he disliked her doing it, the more she had to pinch it, with great force. She grabbed the flesh of his face and pinched it in the middle and on both sides, giving him crooked eyes and nose, while she pinched and called him a good boy, a good baby. When she made him jump in anger, she felt so relieved.

Chen Du let her pinch his face and suddenly reached out and hugged her.

“You will look so good in your new shoes.”

Oh.

“You’ll look good in a new dress, too.”

“Ah?”

“There will be newer ones that look even better.”

“Huh?”

Chen Jiashu didn’t quite understand what he meant, but he wasn’t going to explain. He stood up straight and kissed her down on the lips before taking her hand and leading her downstairs, “It’s nothing, let’s go for dinner.”

[1] Shuttlecock – Shuttlecock (also called as birdie) is a sports equipment, which is used for playing badminton game. Shuttlecock is thrown on the opponent’s half of the field through the use of badminton racket. Shuttlecock consists of a head and a tail. The tail of a shuttlecock is formed by 16 overlapping feathers, which are inserted into the head and secured with thread.