1160 Life’s Turning Point 2 (1/2)
This was Garen's first time staying with a neurotic patient who was suffering from personality splits. Hence, he was always constantly worried about what kind of unexpected things the patient would actually do.
”Got it,” He then stood up and went to the basin to wash his hands. Behind him, he could hear the sounds of Kong Xinxue placing down the bowls and chopsticks.
Two of them then started eating silently.
As time passed by, the dishes on the table slowly reduced, and soon enough, the plates were empty. Even the soup was half gone.
”Is it delicious?” Kong Xinxue did not eat much as most of the time she was just staring at Garen eat. She seemed to find Garen's eating gestures something new and interesting.
”They're okay,” Garen answered honestly. Even though the dishes did look tasty, the taste was surprisingly displeasing. It was fairly confusing as to where the delicious scent was coming from. For Garen to say that it was decent was already too good of a compliment.
”Your eating posture,” Kong Xinxue leaned closer as she had her stare locked on Garen's lips.
”What is it?” Garen was slightly startled by her sudden closeness and backed off a little bit.
”It's nice,” Kong Xinxue continued. ”It's like a rigid etiquette. Really, it's unbelievable. The piece of meat under your lip actually isn't stained by any grease. Such a precise yet elegant eating etiquette… This is probably the first time I've seen something like this.”
”Oh, really?” Garen put on a bored face as though he did not want to respond. An ordinary person might not be able to understand his true meaning, but Kong Xinxue could see through it. Not only did she make it hard for people to predict her next moves due to her split personalities, she also had an extremely subtle observation, which Garen already figured out long ago.
”Don't you want to talk about it?” Kong Xinxue retracted her head. ”Seems like people this age have a really wild imagination… I heard students this age can easily suffer from a special illness.”
”A special illness?”
”Basically thinking that you're different from the others and that the world revolves around you. You think protecting and maintaining peace in the universe is all on you, just something like that,” Kong Xinxue said calmly as she poured herself a cup of tea and slowly sipped on it.
Garen noticed that the cup of tea she was drinking was not the one on the table, it was another cup of something that she prepared herself.
”Do you want to drink?” She lifted her cup and asked.
”What's that? I smell something weird,” Garen answered with his brows furrowed.
”It's soy sauce.”
”...”
A weirdo indeed.
Garen continued staring at Kong Xinxue who was seated right across him. With just a glance, she really was a cool and elegant beautiful lady, who knew she would be drinking soy sauce as if she was sipping coffee?
”I'm going to shower now.”
Kong Xinxue stood up.
”Do you want to join?”
”...” Garen looked at her as she stared back with her head crooked. He was utterly speechless.
”What a boring man,” She pulled her long hair as she slowly walked to the bathroom. ”Sexually incompetent.”
”...”
”As expected… As one of the primary characters, despite being an ordinary person, it was still not that simple at all.” Garen said helplessly as he started cleaning up the cutleries.
No matter what his response was, he would still be the final targeted victim. He was already immune to this move that Kong Xinxue always used.
”Hey, sexual incompetence.”
”... Don't you think it's slightly inappropriate for you to call your only younger brother that?”
Garen got up helplessly.
”Help me get my underwear. They're in the second drawer below my wardrobe in my room. I shall allow you to have a whiff at it, but you better not let me catch you,” Kong Xinxue was standing naked behind the bathroom's glass door.
”I'm not even a pervert,” Garen was completely dumbfounded and quickly went to her room to retrieve a set of underwear. He soon noticed that all of Kong Xinxue's underwear were white, every single one of it.
However, as he opened the drawer, a stack of letters fell out. They were all pink color with a small heart print on its top corner, with the words printed behind: To Kong Xinxue.
”Love letters?” Garen simply pulled out one of the letters. The seal was opened and he pulled out a piece of paper which was empty. There was nothing on the paper.
”Nothing?” Garen then swiftly flipped through all the other love letters. They were all the same, empty.
With a precise agility, he stuffed the love letters back before carrying the conservative underwear to the front of the bathroom.
”Just place it on top of the washing machine outside.”
”Alright.”
Garen placed the underwear down and turned around to leave.
”Oh yeah, sister,” He suddenly stopped.
”Speak.”
”I've known you for so long, but how come I've never seen anyone try to pursue you? Is it because everyone found out your weird personality and decided to keep their distance?” Garen asked straightforwardly.
”...” There were no responses from the bathroom.
After a long pause, he could hear the sound of water from the showerhead.
Garen knew that since she did not want to talk about this topic, there was no point asking anymore as he would not get any answers from her. He just had to be patient with her. She was one of those people who would definitely keep their mouth shut for a period of time once they had decided on not opening up about a certain something as she believed that talking about something before the period of time would not reveal her true thoughts about it.
She was just such a weird person, so perhaps it was not something out of the ordinary that nobody liked her.
With that thought, Garen left and entered his own room.