GL My Goddess Best Friend’s Seduction (H) - Chapter 55

After my birthday, winter break officially began. Compared to my past self as a full-time instructor, this version of me was living in pure bliss. In the past, I had no personal time at all during the break. I taught classes from morning to evening, and even lunch breaks were often taken up by students.

Now, although I was still busy overall, I no longer had to constantly focus on teaching or attending classes. This winter break, I was only responsible for training one new teacher. That meant I did not need to invest too much time or energy. I hardly had to work overtime at all. Barring special situations, I clocked out promptly at 5:30 PM each day.

And all those evenings were dedicated to my fiancée.

It made me incredibly happy.

Si Jingnian, on the other hand, was very busy. She usually came home at nine or even ten at night. Maybe all companies are like that right before the Lunar New Year.

The kittens and I would wait at home every evening for her return. Recently, they had become very well-behaved. After our evening walks, they would snuggle at my feet affectionately. When Si Jingnian came home, they would circle her legs, meowing as they twirled around her. Perhaps they could sense that she was tired.

If the kittens got a little rowdy, like pawing at her pants, I would immediately scoop them up and say, “Don’t bother Mommy. She needs to rest.”

Si Jingnian would take off her sweater, smile indulgently, and ask me, “If they call me Mommy, what do they call you?”

With pride, I lifted my chin toward her and declared, “Of course they’d call me Daddy.”

“Oh? They’d call you Daddy?”

“Since when is Daddy always the one on the bottom?” Si Jingnian whispered teasingly in my ear.

She rolled up her sleeves and closed the little distance left between us. She kissed me expertly, her nimble hands sliding to my waist. Slowly, they moved upward, warming my chest, collarbone, neck, earlobes, and back. Then she tapped my lower back and the curves of my hips.

Our kisses deepened, and we became completely lost in each other.

Only when the stew pot on the stove started bubbling did she finally pull away from my lips.

I planted two more kisses on her lips and gave her firm rear a playful squeeze before letting her go turn off the stove.

Wanting her to relax after her exhausting workdays, I resumed my exclusive An Xiaoyu blind massage service. I also prepared all kinds of nourishing soups and herbal dishes for her. If I had time, I would draw a warm bath so she could soak and relieve her sore muscles. I even intentionally reduced how often we were intimate to prevent her from being too tired during the day.

But I had only managed to keep this up for a few days before Si Jingnian caught on and put a stop to it.

How did she notice? Well, after every kiss, when she tried to pull me back into the bedroom, I would say I was too tired. If she invited me to bathe with her, I would claim I had already showered and was too cold to take off my clothes again. If she tried to come into my room, I said the kittens were inside and it would be inappropriate to fool around. If she touched my calf under the dinner table, I would complain that I had a rash and it was really itchy.

Was I being too obvious?

Probably. It was pretty fake. Hehehe.

When Si Jingnian finally confronted me, I was frustrated at first. I could not believe my acting had been so easy to see through. But then I defended myself righteously, saying I was doing it for her health.

She sighed and said, “That’s supposed to be a stress-relieving activity. How could it possibly drain my energy?”

I insisted it would. She insisted it wouldn’t.

That night, we tested the theory. The next day, we were both in great spirits. Especially me. My cheeks were glowing, and when Feng Yiyun saw me in the morning, she immediately called me out.

“You definitely did it last night, didn’t you?” she said, poking me with her finger and grinning with gossip-laced curiosity.

“Eh?” I blushed and whispered, “Is it that obvious?”

“Of course it is.” Feng Yiyun pouted and grumbled. “Don’t get smug. Once I win over that server guy, I’ll be the one flaunting my relationship every day.”

She had been getting close to a server guy recently, but they were both busy and only managed occasional meals together.

He was a college student doing part-time work to support himself, only 21 years old, five years younger than Feng Yiyun. But he was a warm and sweet little wolfdog. Every night, he would pick her up from work and escort her home before heading back to school himself.

When I brought this up, Feng Yiyun threw in a dirty joke. She said, “What good is a warm heart if he can’t warm my body?” She even hinted to him about coming upstairs to rest. But he refused firmly, saying it was too late and he might lose control of himself.

Feng Yiyun was not as bold as Jiang Yiyi or the others, so she did not go as far as saying, “What are you trying to control? Get in my bed already.”

Now, she just stomped her feet in front of me in regret.

I scolded her for being so focused on s*x. She fired back, saying I had a wild love life and had no right to judge anyone lacking in that area.

With my so-called “wild love life,” I had no retort.

After about ten days of work, the Lunar New Year approached. Our company policy was five days of spring holiday for employees who lived locally and seven days for those from out of town. Since I was not currently teaching, I swapped around some of my shifts and managed to take two extra days off.

Si Jingnian had been working herself to death before the holiday, but surprisingly, she got a long break for New Year’s. Maybe it was because her company was international?

She got ten days off.

As the holiday drew closer, I didn’t feel excited. I felt so nervous I could die.

We had decided to come out to my parents over the New Year. Just imagining that scene made me tremble.

I checked in with Aunt Luo Lan ahead of time. She told me she had already laid some groundwork and asked my parents about their views on homosexuality. At first, they were a bit resistant, but after she gradually introduced the idea as something normal, their attitudes started to change. So she felt that they should be able to handle the news of my relationship with Si Jingnian.

Even with her reassurance, I was still anxious. I knew my parents too well. They were the type to remain indifferent as long as problems did not affect them directly. As soon as something became personal, everything changed.

What Aunt Luo Lan described might have seemed like just idle gossip to them. If their own daughter became the subject of that gossip, the outcome was uncertain.

With those worries, on the evening of the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Si Jingnian drove me back to my hometown, Liushi.

We had packed loads of things to bring home. After parking downstairs, Si Jingnian helped me carry everything upstairs.

My dad opened the door, happily taking the bags from my hands. Si Jingnian followed me in.

My dad’s expression when he saw her was hard to read, but it quickly shifted back to warmth and friendliness.

I felt suspicious. Then my mom came out of the kitchen, and my suspicions grew. When she saw Si Jingnian, her face showed hesitation, like she wanted to say something but held back.

That was so unlike her. In the past, she had been happier to see Si Jingnian than me. It always made me wonder if I was the adopted one.

Her reaction this time was anything but normal.

After helping us bring in the bags, Si Jingnian got ready to leave. My parents exchanged a few polite words with her, urging her to stay since it was late. She declined a couple of times, then left.

As soon as she was gone, the serious look vanished from my parents’ faces. My instincts told me they had already learned something.

Sure enough, they asked me to sit down on the couch with them. Their expressions were complicated, full of nervousness, confusion, and regret. My mom didn’t even bother removing the essence mask from her face. My dad didn’t even light a cigarette.

I could sense something was very wrong.

And then my mom opened her mouth and confirmed it.

“Xiaoyu, do you know that Jingnian is a lesbian?”