Chapter 8 (1/2)

” Can I remove the belt?”

I was startled Panicked, I shrunk back and turned towards the door

I clearly understood what he meant

” Are you angry?” he saw me look unhappy and immediately normalised his earlier cynical tone ” Okay, I wont tease you anyestion?”

'What suggestion?”

Hearing his sincere tone, I thought he would say so like, ”next tio home and take a bath so you don't catch cold”

” For your body, 70C h, from my point of view, if you wear this size, it looks more attractive to men”

Ugh!

Of all the advice I had ever got, this was the most shameless one

I clutched on touncontrollably I shrunk my body on the leather seat, as if I wanted to meld myself to the door

He was still watchingat me with no expression on his face

In this narrow space, I felt that his gaze and the words he was using were invading allme

I thought of slapping hi off the car From noards, I would break off all contact with him

But in reality what I was feeling was not anger

I was a bit scared I was tre … but I could feel a s my drenched body The warmth spread over my limbs and I felt like my body was on fire

This was a feeling I had never experienced; every nerve seehout

The love song continued playing

He stretched out his hands, grabbed ht…

I was stunned I tried to resist, but he carefully arranged the coat so it covered me completely

Finally, he patted hed

Not a nasty sht hint of…

I was completely confused My whole body and mind was messed up

What had he wanted to do to me?

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Back at the apartment, we hurriedly ran to catch the elevator In the elevator, I shrank back, deliberately keeping a distance between us

” Why are you coe my expression as soon as Qin Xue entered the elevator

” Ah, I was in the library to write a report”

Qin Xue looked atnext to me

” Did you come back just now?”

There was an added emphasis on the ‘you'

” I went to work at the convenience store I just got off work”

” Oh!”

As the elevator reached, I sloalked out and then looked back

I saw Ye Zhengchen and Qin Xue staring at each other wordlessly

The kept staring at each other till the doors closed I suddenly felt a hollow feeling in my chest

Throughout the night, I lay in the tub, hot water overto annihilate the ache in my body

Throughout the night, I could hear the rance in heaven'

(TL: the sa played in the car)

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The next day, Qin Xue took the initiative to invite me for lunch She wore a red dress , had applied very subtle ht attention wherever she went

I suddenly remembered how Li Kai had described Qin Xue's beauty He had described her as a fresh lily, untouched and pure, soth I was a rose, charrasp me, my thorn would prick them and draw blood

I would like to tell Li Kai now, that he rong Qin Xue was the rose, flirtatious but dangerous

” Bo Bing”, Qin Xue quietly started , ” I wanted to tell you a few things I shouldn't say them, but since we are friends”

I knehat she wanted to talk about

” Ye Zhengchen and I are only friends, nothing more”

” I understand that you don't really have anything going on, he wont…” she suddenly stopped and smiled coldly at me instead

Her s Ye Zengchen, and the comments people made about him

Qin Xue said, ”Bo Bing, Ye Zhengchen changes woets bored easily and is only interested in pursuing new things”

I didn't kno fast he changed women But in the five ed three cars

Qin Xue sneered, ” A woman can maintain her beauty for a decade but the novelty factor cannot betime A month? Two months?

Qin Xue and I chatted for more than an hour in the cafeteria What she said added to the inforathered over the last few months

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