125 What Do You Like About Me? (2/2)

”Ah?” Su Yan's knitted brows relaxed in confusion. What was clean?

Nie Chang sighed. ”You don't have to wash it so meticulously. Just holding it under the water for a while is alright. It's not like it's poisoned or something.”

Su Yan looked down and finally noticed that he was still holding a red pepper. He turned off the water and put the thing on the cutting board Nie Chang had prepared. His boyfriend handed him the knife again but Su Yan just stared at it.

Alright, he would admit it. Even though he was already twenty-one he had no idea how to cook at all. Till the day he left home his mother had always taken care of him and after that, he either invited himself to someone who could cook, went to eat somewhere with his colleagues or just ordered take-out. How would he know how to cook? Cutting up a red pepper really seemed like a daunting task to him.

”You just have to cut it into small pieces.” Nie Chang watched with a bit of worry.

He knew that Su Yan wasn't proficient in the kitchen but it couldn't be that bad, could it? Cutting up a red pepper should be alright. So why was Su Yan staring at it like this?

Su Yan pursed his lips. He could hear the slight worry in Nie Chang's voice and his bad conscience became even worse. Nie Chang was so worried about him even though he was only supposed to cut some vegetables. He really … treated him too well. And he had never really reciprocated. Not now as his boyfriend and not when they had just been friends before. It had always been Nie Chang who took care of him.

He couldn't help but scrunch up his face and turn to Nie Chang.

”Ah Chang, honestly, what do you even like about me?”

”Ah?” Nie Chang was stunned. How had they arrived from cutting a red pepper to what he liked about Su Yan?

Su Yan put down the knife and turned to his boyfriend. He reached out and tugged at his shirt. Actually, if considering who was more likely to leave the other one … Wouldn't it rather be Nie Chang who would be fed up with him one day?

”You've liked me for so long. But I'm not even a good person. I've never treated you well enough. So … How did you even fall in love with me?” Su Yan looked up, his gaze slightly worried. The longer he thought about it, the less he understood. What did Nie Chang see in him?

Nie Chang had no idea how Su Yan had arrived at this question while washing a red pepper but he didn't mind talking about it. In fact, after that misunderstanding from before he felt it would be a good idea to make that kind of thing clear between them.

”Well, when talking about that … I'd probably have to start from the day we first met.”