Ideal Mary Sue

Shen Mingxu was stunned for about two seconds until he suddenly realized that the girl outside the glass window was gesturing at him with her hand. Shen Mingxu, who had always been casual, felt for the first time that his appearance of lying on the sofa was embarrassing. He quickly fixed his sitting posture.

Shen Mingxu pointed to the door of the bar, but the girl shook her head. Her hand kept pointing to the table in front of Shen Mingxu, a decorative object without any sense of existence… Chocolate cake!

The girl pointed to the cake and shook the two brand new hundred-dollar bills she was holding, her meaning obvious.

She wants to buy the cake with money…

Shen Mingxu looked at Qi Xuan, who was watching the show, and Qi Xuan said generously, “Let her come in and eat. I’ll buy another one for Ling Ling later.”

“Thanks.”

Shen Mingxu got up and strode out.

However, he didn’t see the person he was thinking of.

Out of nowhere, a sense of panic swept through his heart. People who have disappeared, will never be seen again. He doesn’t even know her name… No, it can’t be like this!

In just a few steps, Shen Mingxu ran to the corner ahead and saw the blue figure slowly walking away with her head bowed in frustration.

Shen Mingxu stepped forward and grabbed her hand, warm and soft, as delicate as cotton. Shen Mingxu unconsciously relaxed his grip but was reluctant to let go. Originally, he wanted to ask her why she wasn’t waiting for him in the same place until he saw her reddish eyes and swallowed his words down.

“Hey, why are you crying?”

Upon hearing this, the girl was even more aggrieved. Having found someone to talk to, the girl sniffed and said intermittently, “…Mom only allows me to eat cake once a week… I like this chocolate cake…” she said, taking out her cake brochure and turning to one of the pages. The cake style on it was exactly the same as the cake just now.

“I picked this one on Monday.”

“As soon as my training session was over, I came running… But in the end, I still wasn’t able to buy it.”

“I saw this cake in that bar and wanted to go in and buy it.” Speaking of this, the girl was a little angry. “They actually didn’t let me in, saying I was underage! I’m obviously 18 years old, I just don’t have my ID card with me!”

“You didn’t eat it, and you don’t sell it to me…” The girl stared at the bakery in front of her. “I was going to buy a different flavor of cake, but… But when I returned to the bakery, I found that all the other flavors were sold out too!”

In fact, Shen Mingxu wasn’t listening all that much. He was simply looking at her small pink lips intently, wondering if kissing her would be as soft as he imagined.

The girl fell into deep self-loathing. “If I hadn’t gone to the bar just now, I would have bought it by now… Now it’s 9:30 p.m. Mom won’t let me eat after 10. I didn’t even eat dinner for the cake…”

“I’ll buy you food!” Looking at her disappointed and frustrated look, Shen Mingxu felt his heart squeeze and wanted to hold her in his arms to comfort her, but afraid of scaring her. “Just now, that… Chocolate cake!”

…Ten minutes later…

The girl was sitting on the sofa by the window in the bar, eating the chocolate cake with a happy and satisfied look.

“So, you thought we were selling cakes here!” Qi Xuan laughed out loud. “This is a bar!”

The girl raised her head in confusion, looking at Shen Mingxu, and then at Qi Xuan.

“You, don’t listen to him.” Shen Mingxu opened the cake brochure on the girl’s left-hand side. “You see this cake above, it’s for sale here.”

“Really?” The girl was pleasantly surprised.

Shen Mingxu, who was looking straight into those beautiful eyes, had a suspicious pink flush at the tip of his ears. “Yeah, are you still coming here tomorrow? I can buy you something to eat, any cake you want…”

The girl shook her head and was about to say something when her phone rang.

The word ‘Mom’ was displayed on the phone screen. The girl looked at the time and found that it was already past ten o’clock, so she stood up and answered the call.

“Mom… Okay, I-I’m on my way…” The girl’s eyes darted around as she panicked, and her fingers twirled the ends of her hair restlessly.

Shen Mingxu felt like he was obsessed, feeling that every little action she made was too cute, and every move of hers had a firm hold on his heart. It was a strange but fascinating feeling for him…

“Hey, hey, everyone’s gone. What are you still doing here?”

Qi Xuan’s voice brought him back to his senses. The girl had disappeared.

“Why did you let her go?” Shen Mingxu was slightly grumpy, stood up, and kicked the sofa.

Qi Xuan raised his eyebrows. “If someone wants to leave, can I force them to stay? She said ‘Goodbye’ to you, but you were distracted, I don’t know where your mind went…”

“You! Forget it…” Shen Mingxu sat down in a sullen manner.

Seeing his depressed appearance, Qi Xuan stretched out his foot and kicked him in the leg. “Hey, are you serious?”

“It’s none of your business!” Shen Minxu began to think about whether he needed to wait in the cake store tomorrow.

Qi Xuan kicked him again.

“What?”

“Look beside you.”

A colorful cake brochure is lying on the sofa.

“Looking at how she treasures that brochure, she’ll come back in a while when she realizes it’s missing. You just wait here…”

Shen Mingxu couldn’t wait, took the brochure, and ran out.

Sure enough, at the corner, he ran into the girl who came back to get her brochure.

The girl was gasping for breath, apparently anxious to run here.

“You forgot to take your brochure.” Shen Mingxu handed her the cake brochure.

“Thank you!” The girl said gratefully. “You’re such a good man!” Not only did he treat her to cake, but he even came out to deliver the brochure to her.

“It’s so dark, it’s not very safe. Let me send you back…”

“It doesn’t matter, my home is not far. There are street lights and shops. I’m not afraid at all! I won’t trouble you.” The girl’s eyebrows rose slightly with pride.

This proud little look makes Shen Mingxu’s heart itchy, as if there are feathers tickling it, making him want to hold her in his arms and rub her fiercely. “I like to walk on the streets at night. Just send you home while I walk. No trouble at all.”

“All right then!”

…

On the way, the girl sneaks a glance at him from time to time.

At this moment, Shen Mingxu is extremely grateful that he inherited his parents’ good looks. Although he has always disliked other people liking him because of his face, if the other person is the girl next to him, it can be counted as an exception because she is special. Shen Mingxu even hopes that she can fall in love with him just like those girls in school…

“… You, I, can I ask you one thing?” The girl finally spoke.

“Of course you can.”

The girl stopped. Shen Mingxu also followed to this Y-shaped fork in the road and stood still.

There are two roads in front of them, one is a dark trail without street lights, and the other is a commercial street, bright as day.

The girl looked at the trail. “If you take this trail, you can go directly to the back of my neighborhood in three minutes. But if you take the commercial street, you’ll take a detour and have to walk five minutes more to get to the neighborhood. I’ve never dared to walk this trail at night because there is no one to accompany me and it’s too dark inside. I… I don’t know… Can you accompany me down this path…”

After speaking, she seemed to feel that her request was too much and hurriedly added, “If you’re also afraid… We don’t have to go this way…”

“Then we’ll take this path.”

“Okay!” The girl was very happy. She’s always been curious about what the late-night trail is like, but suffering from a lack of friends to explore with her, this wish has passed on from the age of 8 to 18…

The two of them stood in front of the path. The girl turned on the flashlight function on her mobile phone, and the faint white light could only illuminate a distance of about two or three steps. The cool night breeze blew against her face, bringing a little chill.

The girl secretly moved two steps to Shen Mingxu’s side.

Shen Mingxu pretended not to notice anything and walked comfortably and slowly. While the girl was not paying attention, Shen Mingxu gently kicked a stone onto the road ahead, and the sound of the stone clattering on the ground seemed strange on this quiet night.

The girl cried out in surprise and took a nervous step backward, bumping into Shen Mingxu’s arms, who happened to get so close to her at some point.

Shen Mingxu seized the opportunity and directly reached out to embrace her. “Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid. It’s just a small stone.”

The girl, with her back against Shen Mingxu, rolled her eyes where he couldn’t see and said in a slightly trembling voice, “Yeah, yeah, I’m not afraid…”

“We can talk about other things to distract us.” Shen Mingxu casually asked, “Are you a student of Jinlin High School?”

The girl shook her head sullenly. “I’m not.”

“How could it be…”

“I have to learn dance every day, so I don’t have time to go to school because my mother is a teacher, and she teaches me cultural knowledge at home…”

The two passed a corner and could already see the exit of the path. A tall street lamp stood by the exit, illuminated with white light, appearing hazy and illusory in the night mist.

“Ah, we’re out!”

The girl’s joy was overwhelming. Shen Mingxu reluctantly let go of her hand and saw the girl in front of him leap towards the street lamp, her light blue pleated skirt fluttering in a smooth and pleasant arc in the fluorescent white mist.

The scene of the girl standing under the street lamp, smiling back at him and bending slightly to express her gratitude, gave Shen Mingxu the illusion of being under a huge stage where a girl in a light blue dance costume was saluting the audience and about to perform a dance.

If she really danced, how wonderful it would be.

“Thank you for coming so far with me…”

Shen Mingxu walked toward her, his heart overjoyed as he got closer step by step, as if he had found a rare treasure.

Such a person should belong to him…

“No thanks, if you don’t mind, can you tell me your name?”

“… My name is Su Ning, Ning of quiet…”

“… You don’t have to come over, I’ll walk to my house. Bye…”

The pale blue figure fell out of the light and into the darkness.

She didn’t even wait for him to approach.

“Wait a minute…”

Shen Mingxu ran past, stood under the street lamp, looked around, but in the surroundings, there is no longer any trace of her.

Shen Mingxu smashed his fist on the street lamp, and a bang sounded. His eyes are gloomy and terrible.

She disappeared.

Once again, she disappeared in front of his eyes…