Mind Reading

Chapter 3 Part 1

Shen Yi turned the TV on and Su Tang found out that it was on mute. He picked up the remote control and changed the mode, but the people still spoke with no sounds. 

Shen Yi handed the control to Su Tang apologetically and pointed at the sound control on it. He pointed at his ears and shrugged. 

Su Tang comprehended, “You want me to adjust the volume myself?” 

Shen Yi smiled and nodded. 

Su Tang wanted to turn the sounds on but stopped. He couldn’t hear any sounds…… Why was it on mute? 

Su Tang turned to Shen Yi and he passed his phone to her before she could speak. 

—— I’m not sure how much I should turn it up, it’s not good to disturb the neighbors. 

Su Tang glanced at the beaming Shen Yi and asked, “What’s your job?” 

Shen Yi blinked for a second and typed a word down. 

——Guess. 

Su Tang raised an eyebrow and replied crisply, “Businessman. The type that serves people with your entire heart, the type of excellent businessman who treats their guests as Gods.” 

Shen Yi smiled profoundly and seemed amused by her answer, then nodded. 

“Then…” Su Tang wanted to ask why he couldn’t hear sounds but she was too shy to ask. She changed the topic, “Why did you get hospitalized.” 

Shen Yi touched his stomach. 

Su Tang stuck her tongue out and almost forgot that he came back for food, “Go and make food, we need to go back after you eat. If my grandma finds out about this she’s going to take us back and handle us by law.”

Shen Yi looked confused, Su Tang guessed that he didn’t know what she meant by “handle us by law”. She lifted her right hand up and gestured cutting her throat, she didn’t forget to stick her tongue out and roll her eyes to show that she ‘died’. 

Shen Yi beamed and patted Su tang’s shoulders before leaving. 

Su Tang thought he probably wanted to say, “Don’t worry, we’ll go back alive”. 

Half an hour later, Shen Yi brought a bowl of hot noodles with chicken broth on the table, with a drumstick, three mushrooms and some finely cut green onions on top for garnish. Su Tang tried the soup and immediately said all the compliments she could find in her vocabulary, but Shen Yi’s expressions told her that he at most understood a third of it. 

Even so, Shen Yi felt embarrassed from how much compliments he received and took out his phone. 

——An hourly cook made the broth and put it in the kitchen. 

Su Tang’s words were like spilt water. She picked up some noodles and smiled shamelessly, “I don’t care, you are the one who made the soup.” 

Shen Yi beamed and accepted it. 

Su Tang thought Shen Yi took out her bowl first before going back to get his, but Shen Yi went back to his room and he didn’t come back out after Su Tang finished eating. She was just about to clean up the table before the phone rang in her bag. Su Tang took it out and it was Shen Yi’s message. 

——You don’t have to clean up after you are done. All the bedsheets are new in the guest room, tell me if you need anything else. Good night. 

Good night…… He was staying home?!

Did they make a deal to go back to the hospital after eating?

Su Tang’s first reaction was dashing to his bedroom. She turned the door knob as it was knocked, she knocked on it three times and called his name. She was just about to curse at him before she abruptly remembered what he typed—— He couldn’t hear any sounds. 

Su Tang felt something furry rubbing her leg, she looked down and Shen Yi’s cat was standing by her feet, looking at her as if she was an idiot. 

Su Tang texted him five times to tell him to come out, and she added more and more exclamation marks at the end of the sentences. Shen Yi didn’t reply back to any and she heard the clear sounds of the shower. 

Was he going to bed…… 

Su Tang bashed the door helplessly. What a fox. 

Shen Yi was the first deaf person she had spent more than a minute with and she didn’t know what to do when he did this. When she was about to give her grandma a call in the middle of the night, Su Tang suddenly realized that the water inside didn’t sound right. 

The water was big, as if he turned it up as much as he could. Even so, the sound of water couldn’t cover the person vomiting inside. 

Su Tang froze and had no choice but to look at the living thing that understood Shen Yi the most. Their eyes met and the ginger ball of fur meowed innocently before it started scratching the door. 

The vomiting didn’t sound like it was going to stop and Su Tang panicked. She was the one who left the hospital with him and she won’t be able to forgive herself this lifetime if something happened to him. 

Su Tang sighed and bent, picked up the cat and put it to the side, “Make some space, let me do it……” 

Su Tang was well aware of how these doors were installed, as to how to uninstall it…… Su Tang thought if Shen Yi could afford a house like this, she supposed he wouldn’t mind changing a new door. 

The door was like every other door in the house. His bedroom door was made up of a piece of frosted glass embedded in a thin, white frame. Su Tang found a roll of duct tape in the drawer of his study room desk and stuck on duct tape all over the glass as quickly as she could. She picked up a pan from the kitchen and smashed it at the center of the glass piece where she put the most duct tape on with all her might. With a loud bang, small pieces of glass flew into the room with duct tape, only a few fragments broke off. 

Su Tang climbed through the hole of the door and found the shower head running in the transparent bathroom, but he was nowhere to be seen. Su Tang pushed open the half closed door to the toilet and Shen Yi was kneeling by the toilet, still fully dressed. He supported himself by holding onto the side of the toilet, the other hand pressed on his upper stomach tightly and his face was white from vomiting. 

Su Tang patted Shen Yi’s shoulder. Shen Yi obviously didn’t know someone came in and turned around shockingly, freezing at the sight of the pan in her hand. 

Su Tang silently hid the pan behind her back and knelt down worryingly, “Are you okay?”