Substitute

Chapter 2: She and the water glass

Just as Chi Chuji withdrew from his sleep, his gaze toward Le Xi also showed a free posture. She lay on the sofa, carefully recognizing Lexi’s face for a while, and it took a while to find her consciousness.

“Why come back so late?” Chi Chuji pulled his cold fingers out of her palm, and sat up on the sofa with his body supported.

She raised her hand and covered her smooth and full forehead that was exposed because of her hair curled up, her voice was like a cold mountain spring with astringent meaning: “What time is it?”

Lexi stood up with her, looked at her left and right looking like looking for shoes, immediately leaned over and dragged the slippers she had thrown beside the sofa on the opposite side, put them at her feet, and replied softly: “It’s almost half past ten. NS.”

Chi Chuji stepped on the slippers, raised his head to reveal his slender and elegant neck, and looked at the tall young girl in front of him and asked casually: “Have you had dinner?”

Just a few simple greetings were enough for Lexi to smile. She lifted the corners of her lips and said softly: “I have eaten it already, how about you?”

Chi Chuji raised his hand, covered his mouth and nose lightly, and yawned very forbearingly. Enduring her sleepiness, she stepped on slippers and walked to her room: “Not yet.”

The days of running around made her extremely tired. When she got home, she fell asleep on the sofa regardless of it, too late to think about the trivial matter of being hungry.

Lexi watched her walking towards the light, her meticulously curled up bun, her thin but powerful shoulders, and her straight back… she looked at her under the fluffy skirt, long and powerful. With two straight legs, thoughts that shouldn’t have emerged in my mind.

Lexi suppressed the restlessness in her heart, looked at her away back, and said softly: “There are steaks, eggs and some potatoes and cauliflower in the refrigerator. How about I fry a steak for you?”

“You haven’t eaten anything all night, you should eat a little bit more or less.”

Although Lexi knew that Chi Chuji had the habit of “not eating after eight o’clock,” she was really worried about her fragile stomach. She was afraid that Chi Chuji would not eat anything and would have a stomachache at night.

Chi Chuji stopped and stood in the light to look at the young shadow hiding in the darkness. After hesitating for a while, he replied stingly: “Yes.”

Chi Chuji paused and added: “Turn on the lights and don’t do too much.”

Le Xi smiled, and showed a slight smile to each other: “Okay.”

An hour later, Chi Chuji, after bathing, appeared in the dining room wrapped in her dressing gown. She tucked her wet hair into the towel, and sat down at the table with a knife and fork in her hand, slicing steak slowly.

Le Xi sat across from her, watching her own fried steak being dismembered into pieces under her hands. She was anxious and hoped to look at Chi Chuji: “What do you think, isn’t it very old?”

Chi Chuji used a fork to fork a piece of meat, dipped it on his lips and took a bite. The rich gravy and juice splashed in his mouth, which was extremely delicious.

She took a closer look, and the face that had always been dignified and slightly indifferent in front of Lexi showed a slight smile at this time. She raised her eyes to look at Le Xi, with encouragement to the younger generation in her eyes: “You did a great job.”

Le Xi couldn’t help but smile.

She cast her eyes down at the dinner plate in front of her, and her subordinates carefully sliced the steak, and the corner of her eyes fell on Chi Chuji’s body.

Chi Chuji received ballet education at a young age. From the age of 24, he was the chief of the National Ballet until he retired last year due to physical reasons.

No matter what time it was, her gestures were very elegant. Even if you just sit at the dining table and cut the steak with your back straight, there is a charm that makes people unable to look away.

She is a swan, a beautiful swan, every move is pleasing to the eye.

At this moment, Le Xi looked at the steaks that had been neatly broken down under her, and began to envy that the other party could serve her under her.

It would be nice if she could eat me too.

Lexi thought untimely, trying to control his gaze to move towards Chi Chuji’s face, trying to pull his deviated heart back to its original position, and began to look for words as usual: “By the way, how did the game result? Your students are all outstanding, have they all achieved good grades.”

Since retiring from the group last year, Chi Chuji has become a teacher of the Star City International Ballet Academy and the head of the school’s ballet troupe.

Chi Chuji was on a one-week business trip this time to take his students to the capital to participate in national competitions.

Since becoming a teacher, Chi Chuji’s daily work is almost training students, choreographing performances, and taking students to participate in various competitions.

Domestically, internationally, I travel almost every month.

However, compared to when he was the chief, Lexi feels better when he is away from home.

Rather, to be able to “eat dinner” with Chi Chuji at this moment is an unimaginable luxury for Lexi before last year.

This year, the two people spent more time together than the previous eight years.

The older woman cut the steak, glanced at the girl who was trying to talk to her, and the corners of her lips raised slightly: “Not bad, I won the gold medal.”

Le Xi bends her eyebrows, and sincerely admires: “You are so amazing, and your students are also excellent!”

“The gold award is well-deserved.”

Chi Chuji smiled slightly and decided to continue “communication” with her: “Fortunately, let’s talk about you.”

“Has something happened recently?”

Lexi couldn’t help but smile, and she started cutting steaks briskly, and the whole person was in a happy state: “There is nothing interesting. Because in the third year of high school, there are so many test papers…”

“I came back so late tonight because I went out to do homework with my friends.”

Chi Chuji nodded and thought about it seriously: “Your friends…Zhao Sisi and Kong Mingque?”

Le Xi was surprised: “Do you remember them?”

Chi Chuji nodded: “Well, they look cute, so remember.”

Chi Chuji paused, and then added: “But if you do your homework in the future, don’t go home too late. It’s dark and there is a certain danger outside for a child your age.”

Le Xi laughed: “Okay, I remember it.”

Lexi crossed a piece of cattle and put it into her mouth, and tentatively said to her: “Since talking about my friend, there is something I want to have a simple exchange with you.”

“Um?”

Lexi took a bite of a steak and tried to relax her tone as much as possible: “A group of new trainee teachers have recently come to the school, and there is a female alpha that is particularly good, my friend… Zhao Sisi has fallen into a vortex of love for this.”

Lexi bit her fork, paused and thought about the words: “As far as she is concerned, the female alpha smells of sea water, and she is a little worried that she won’t be favored because of it.”

Le Xi said, taking a look at Chi Chuji cautiously: “Do you have any insights on this? Do you think her relationship is likely to succeed?”

Chi Chuji ate a steak slowly, and thought for a while before asking, “Is she going to pursue that teacher?”

Le Xi nodded: “Yeah.”

“Then I don’t think she needs to worry too much about it…at least it won’t be too late to think about the troubles of love after she turns eighteen and breaks away from the teacher-student relationship.”

Chi Chuji raised his eyes, looked at Le Xi with those indifferent eyes, and said, “Although teacher-student love is not a secular and immoral relationship in my opinion, it is because of the unequal experience. Regardless of whether it is intentional or not, there is a suspicion of seducing minors…”

“This is an empirical fraud. So I think what she needs to consider at this stage is how to study well.”

Good…good classic traditional paternalistic answer.

Le Xi was stunned for a moment, then smiled suddenly and said, “Is this your first consideration?”

Chi Chuji glanced at her, and smiled as if there was anything: “Otherwise, what do you think I should consider first?”

“I thought it would be weird for one alpha to fall in love with another alpha.”

Chi Chuji crossed the last steak and said lightly: “I don’t think there is any problem with this, because love will happen between any two different individuals. It is an extremely sensual, ethereal. Logical emotion.”

“If someday… I mean that someday you also like an alpha, I also hope you don’t have any psychological burden, after all, this is something that happens within the normal range.”

Chi Chuji ate the last steak, raised his hand to take the water glass, and took a sip of water with his head up.

Lexi looked at her exposed and slender neck, consciously or unconsciously fell on the glands on the side of her neck, and subconsciously licked her own tiger teeth.

She endured it for a while before she said, “I don’t like alpha.”

Chi Chuji put down the water glass and looked at the serious look on her face, slightly surprised.

She nodded, but said something dispensable: “Yeah.”

Lexi looked at her with serious eyes: “I like omega.” In order to avoid ambiguity, Lexi also emphasized: “I already have an omega that I like.”

Chi Chuji looked at her seriously and asked, “Can you feel the pheromone smell now?”

Le Xi shook her head: “Still not.”

Lexi curled her brows, her face showed a look of regret but it didn’t matter: “Nevertheless, I think that no matter the taste of her pheromone, it will not affect my liking for her.”

Chi Chuji looked at her bright eyes and tilted his head thoughtfully.

After a while, she spoke and said with some confusion: “So now our communication has changed from ‘your friend’s love troubles’ to ‘your love troubles’?”

Lexi laughed and shook her head: “No, of course not. I don’t think about love issues at this stage. At least I have to wait until I reach adulthood.”

Chi Chuji nodded, looked at her young face and said, “That will be fast too. You will be an adult after the New Year.”

“Yes, but that has been a long time.”

Lexi relaxed and said with a smile: “Although she said she didn’t consider such a thing, she still felt a little worried. I also wondered if the other party would like alpha or would like a pheromone defective alpha. …”

Chi Chuji blinked and looked at Le Xi with a smile: “Young girls, are they as cute as you? Before anything started, they were caught in so many troubles…”

Le Xi was stunned for a moment, raised her eyes to see Chi Chuji leaning back, and said to her very seriously: “My child, since it comes to the issue of love, then I can give you a suggestion: whether you are What gender, what kind of person, disabled or not disabled…”

“Remember one thing: first you have to love yourself. If you want to love someone and have a beautiful love story with them, then confess.”

“If the other person likes you and everyone is happy, you can weave a love story together.”

“If the other person doesn’t like you, then please give up as soon as possible and love yourself well.”

Lexi froze for a moment, and said in a slightly confused tone: “But as you said, love is an illogical and very emotional emotion. How can I control whether I like someone or not?”

Chi Chuji smiled faintly: “Of course so, I just tell you that you need to set up a protection mechanism for yourself when you are in love, so as not to hurt yourself.”

“Although love is uncontrollable, I still hope you can taste a little sweetness in love, rather than being hurt.”

Le Xi curled her eyebrows and smiled: “Do you understand that you are caring about me?”

“It’s just some advice to children.” Chi Chuji got up and glanced down at her, with a smile in his eyes: “You can also understand that you are caring for you.”

Chi Chuji pointed his finger at the dinner plate: “Can I ask you to clean up the table?”

Lexi nodded and answered with a smile: “Of course, this is what I should do.”

“thanks.”

Chi Chuji said goodnight to her, turned and walked towards his room.

Le Xi sat at the dining table and watched her slim figure wrapped in her nightgown gradually disappear from her sight, before she lowered her eyes and quickly got rid of her steak.

After finishing the dinner plate in front of him, Le Xi got up and walked to the place where Chi Chuji was sitting before. She stretched out her hand, stacked the two dinner plates together, and finally fixed her gaze on the glass of warm water on the table.

The transparent glass contained a half of the water, which was left over from the beginning of the pond. At the mouth of the cup, there are dots of water reflected in the light of alluring light.

Lexi’s gaze stayed at the place where the water was glowing at the mouth of the cup. It took a while before she reached out to take the cup, put her lips on the place where the water was printed, and took a sip.

The water has residual temperature and is incredibly sweet.

Lexi suppressed the smile raised at the corners of her lips, and sipped the cup of water that had remained warm.