Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Wei Zhiqian pressed his nose against Tan Mo’s face and took a sniff.
“It’s different from the fragrance on your body,” Wei Zhiqian said.
The face cream also had a faint fragrance that did not smell cheap and was actually very pleasant.
But it was different from the smell on Tan Mo.
Tan Mo was tickled by his breath and giggled.
At this moment, the doorbell rang.
Wei Zhiqian looked at his phone and was surprised. “Wow, delivery speeds are really fast nowadays!”
Wei Zhiqian let go of Tan Mo and said, “I’ll go get the door.”
Tan Mo finally had time to finish applying the face cream.
Wei Zhiqian went to the door and opened it. He did not expect Xu Mingzhen to be there.
Wei Zhiqian was stunned for a moment and quickly called out, “Auntie.”
Xu Mingzhen also didn’t expect Wei Zhiqian to be there.
“I spoke to Momo in the morning. She said that she had taken leave today and didn’t go to school. I could tell that there was something wrong with her voice and she seemed to be sick. I was worried that she wouldn’t actually know that she was sick and so I came over to take a look,” Xu Mingzhen explained as she stood outside the door.
Coincidentally, Xu Mingzhen had called Tan Mo in the morning.
Wei Zhiqian was afraid that he might disturb Tan Mo and so worked alone in the study.
Tan Mo was woken up by the call from Xu Mingzhen. She answered the call half-asleep and lazily told Xu Mingzhen that she had taken the day off.
She didn’t have the energy to say anything else as she had just woken up.
Tan Mo was so sleepy that she just wanted to hang up the phone.
She was sleepy and her voice was hoarse. When it was transmitted through the phone, these two things made her voice become very different.
Xu Mingzhen thought that Tan Mo wasn’t feeling well and didn’t have the energy to say much, so she let her have a good rest and quickly hung up the phone.
Then, she got Auntie Guo to make some soup.
When it was almost noon, Xu Mingzhen came over with a thermos with the soup.
However, she didn’t expect Wei Zhiqian to be the one to open the door.
“What’s wrong with Momo? Why did she call someone who’s busy with work over?” Xu Mingzhen thought that Wei Zhiqian had come over specially as Tan Mo wasn’t feeling well.
“Don’t worry, she’s not feeling unwell. It’s just that she’s been too busy with the math competition lately, and now that she’s finally done with it, she’s especially tired. Thus she decided to take the day off today,” Wei Zhiqian explained as he let Xu Mingzhen in while taking the thermos from Xu Mingzhen’s hands.
Tan Mo also heard Xu Mingzhen’s voice and was about to get up.
Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of the mark on her neck in the mirror on the dressing table.
Tan Mo panicked and didn’t have time to change her clothes.
Besides, she didn’t have any collared clothes with her as well.
It was also very strange to wear a scarf at home.
Tan Mo was quick-witted. She quickly found some concealer and applied a thick layer of it to the mark on her neck.
Tan Mo and Qin Muye wanted to learn how to apply makeup, but they didn’t know what to buy. After watching the makeup tutorial video, they went straight to the mall and bought some concealer.
When they brought it back, Tan Mo realized that she didn’t need it.
There were no blemishes on her face, dark circles under her eyes, or tears. She had bought the concealer and left it unused.
Tan Mo had almost forgotten about that item that day.
However, in her panic, she seemed to become very desperate.
All the doors and drawers that could be opened were opened by her and she was able to draw some inspiration from the items in them.
Just like that, Tan Mo picked up the concealer in the storage drawer.
Tan Mo quickly applied a layer of concealer to the marks on her neck.
Fortunately, the concealer was good and was able to cover up the marks.
If one did not look very closely, one would not be able to even see the concealer.
Tan Mo quickly applied some powder to keep the concealer firmly on her skin.
She did not want to accidentally rub off the concealer and expose her neck.
Although Tan Mo did not have any need for makeup, she had watched a makeup tutorial video with Qin Muye previously.
The two of them then tried to put on some makeup later and felt that there was no need to go through so much trouble.
Their foundation was good, their skin was white, and their eyebrows were thick. They didn’t even need to draw their eyebrows as it would make them too thick.
In addition, the two of them were young, and they were looking their best. They didn’t even need to use blush as their skin already had a good combination of white and red.
In the end, the two of them only wore light-colored lipstick at most, and they both felt that they had bought those beauty products for nothing.
But at least they had watched videos and learned from them.
They knew how to use each item.
Tan Mo hurriedly finished putting on the makeup. She didn’t have time to close the doors and drawers that she had pulled open and quickly went out.
“Mom, why are you here?” Tan Mo heard what Xu Mingzhen had said outside, but in order to cover up her panic, she asked again.
“I heard your voice on the phone, so I came over to take a look. It turns out you were just being lazy!” It seems like Xu Mingzhen had come all this way for nothing.
Tan Mo hugged Xu Mingzhen’s arm and acted coquettishly. “I was really too sleepy, so I answered randomly. Whether it was what I said or what you said, I didn’t pay attention.”
Xu Mingzhen knew what it was like to be woken up by someone while Tan Mo was sleeping, so she wasn’t suspicious.
“You.”Xu Mingzhen couldn’t do anything about her. “I came in a hurry, so I only asked Auntie Guo to make some soup. Since you drank it in the afternoon, I didn’t come in vain.”
Because Tan Mo didn’t come to stay often, this was Xu Mingzhen’s first time coming here.
She also took a look at Tan Mo’s bedroom.
However, she was dumbfounded when she entered.
“You’re not so sloppy at home. Did you get robbed?” Xu Mingzhen glared at her. She wasn’t afraid of being laughed at by Wei Zhiqian.
“I just… took something from here and something from there. In the end, I opened the drawer and forgot to close it.” After Tan Mo was cured, she carried the pot on her back.
“There’s also an auntie who comes to clean the house every day. It’s okay,” Wei Zhiqian said.
Xu Mingzhen felt that something was wrong when she heard Wei Zhiqian’s words.
But she didn’t have time to think about what was wrong.
“But you can’t make the house so messy.” Xu Mingzhen was afraid that Wei Zhiqian would laugh at her, so she explained, “Momo isn’t like this at home.”
Tan Mo was speechless.
She wasn’t like this when she was here.
Taking advantage of the time when Xu Mingzhen wasn’t paying attention, Tan Mo quietly pointed at Wei Zhiqian’s neck.
Wei zhiqian knew at a glance that it was the place where he had left his mark.
It was originally all over her body, but it had been erased. At least this was left behind.
With Xu Mingzhen around, Wei Zhiqian was too embarrassed to lower his head and take a closer look. How exactly did she lose it?
Wei Zhiqian looked at Xu Mingzhen and almost called her “mom”.
This “Mom”was already on the tip of his tongue. When his lips touched, he was about to say it, but Wei Zhiqian forcefully changed his words, “Auntie, since you’re already here, why don’t you have lunch here? I just ordered some dishes and some more.”
“That’s fine too.” Xu Mingzhen didn’t stand on ceremony with him and took the soup to the kitchen.
Wei Zhiqian then asked in a low voice, “Did you get rid of the marks on your neck?”
