Free Web NovelChapter 450: Chapter 448: "No, I Really Didn’t Touch Him!
Before Xu Su could even react, a kiss was planted on her forehead. Immediately after, Xi Zirong’s clear voice rang in her ear, "Susu, good morning."
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Xu Su whipped her head around, her eyes wide. "Delete that!"
Yang Nan waved the camera in his hand. "Delete what? I guarantee this photo is very artistic. Even with looks like yours, it’s hard to capture a shot like this. You could never get this kind of effect with a posed picture."
Xu Su was about to speak again, but Xi Zirong stopped her by wrapping an arm around her waist. He smiled at Yang Nan. "Hello there. Could you send me that photo?"
Yang Nan nodded. "Of course. Just give me your contact info."
Xi Zirong let go of Xu Su, walked over, and exchanged contact information with Yang Nan.
Si Xuan, who had been standing silently beside Yang Nan, was watching them without a word. Suddenly, his brow furrowed. He strode over, took off his jacket, and draped it over Xu Su. "Go change," he said in a low voice.
"!!!" His words made Xu Su remember—she was in her pajamas.
Pajamas!
The kind you wear without a bra. Even though it had built-in padding...
’You could probably tell if you looked closely!’
’She wasn’t wearing a bra in front of four men.’
Xu Su’s face instantly flushed crimson. She shot to her feet as if her pants were on fire, clutching Si Xuan’s jacket around herself and bolting for her tent without another word.
Judging by her reaction, even those who hadn’t noticed anything before could now put two and two together.
Aside from Yang Nan, who was still enthusiastically snapping pictures of the sunrise, Xi Zirong’s expression had darkened. He truly hadn’t noticed.
’Who would deliberately stare at a girl’s chest...?’
At that thought, his gaze shifted to Si Xuan, sizing him up sharply. The longer he looked, the more he disliked what he saw.
Si Xuan met his gaze, his lips curving into a slow smile. Without a word, he turned and walked away.
After finishing the breakfast provided by the campsite, they set out for another day on the road.
Sika wanted to drag Xu Su into her crush’s car but was stopped by Si Xuan, who gave a sanctimonious reason: ’Since this is a team-building trip, we should stick with the team. No splitting up.’
Just great!
Those words made Sika turn right around and follow Xu Su into his car. Then, right in front of him, she spent the entire morning chanting "It’s confirmed, it’s confirmed" in a stage whisper loud enough for everyone in the car to hear.
Xu Su had a vague idea of what, exactly, had been "confirmed," and so did Yang Nan.
Si Xuan, the man at the center of it all, remained calm and unruffled, acting as if he hadn’t heard a thing.
Xi Zirong and Jiang Chusheng’s car followed steadily behind them. National Highway 318 is hailed as one of the world’s most beautiful roads; you don’t need to go looking for scenic spots, because the entire journey is the scenery.
During a rest stop, Yang Nan claimed he was tired of driving and wanted to rest in the back. He had Si Xuan take the wheel and urged Xu Su to move to the front passenger seat.
In response, Sika wore an expression that clearly said, ’Heh, I knew it.’
Forced into a corner, Xu Su climbed into the passenger seat.
The door had just closed and the engine hadn’t even started when it was pulled open again from the outside. Xi Zirong stood there, staring intently at her.
"Get in my car."
"???" Xu Su glanced at Si Xuan in the driver’s seat to her left, then at Xi Zirong standing outside to her right, completely baffled by the scene he was causing.
She asked, puzzled, "Didn’t we already agree you’d follow behind us?"
Xi Zirong didn’t answer. He simply reached in, grabbed her wrist, and started to pull her out of the car. ƒгeewёbnovel.com
He leaned down to look inside, giving Si Xuan a slight smile. "Pardon us. Our Susu is a little clueless. She doesn’t understand that the passenger seat isn’t for just anyone to sit in."
As Xi Zirong pulled her, Xu Su was just about to get out of the car when another hand clamped down on her left wrist. The normally quiet Si Xuan had turned toward her. Ignoring Xi Zirong completely, he spoke softly to Xu Su, "There’s nothing to be sorry about. You can sit in mine."
...
A sharp hiss...
...came from Sika. The sound snapped Xu Su out of her daze.
She blinked, then reacted in a flash. She shook off Si Xuan’s hand, scrambled out of the car without a moment’s hesitation, and turned back to the man frozen in the driver’s seat. She let out a strained laugh. "I think I’ll just ride with my friend after all. We’ll follow right behind you, we won’t get separated. You don’t have to worry."
’She finally got it. It seemed Si Xuan really did see her as someone special...’
’And if that was the case, then between Si Xuan and Xi Zirong, she would choose Xi Zirong, no question!’
’Xi Zirong was already in too deep anyway, while Si Xuan was still on solid ground. Whatever Si Xuan was thinking, she had to keep her distance from him.’
Xu Su had even used formal language; her attempt to distance herself was painfully obvious. What could Si Xuan say? He was speechless.
The hand gripping the steering wheel tightened abruptly, but his expression remained calm.
In the end, Xu Su got into Xi Zirong’s passenger seat. Sika scrambled out from the back of Si Xuan’s car and followed Xu Su, switching to the back seat of Xi Zirong’s car.
Jiang Chusheng was already sitting there, so Sika’s dream of riding in the same car as her crush was fulfilled.
The moment Sika got in the car, she started shaking the back of Xu Su’s seat and leaned forward, squealing, "I told you Si Xuan likes you, but you just wouldn’t believe me!"
’She was so desperate for fresh gossip she didn’t even care that her crush was sitting right beside her...’
Xu Su didn’t know how to argue. Sika pressed on, "Did you two meet before the party? Otherwise, why does he seem so comfortable with you? He keeps his distance from the rest of us."
As Xi Zirong started the car to follow the one in front, he tilted his head and shot Xu Su a look of apparent curiosity.
"..." His glance left Xu Su speechless for a moment. She offered a simple explanation, "We ran into each other a few times before the party. My photo was in the group chat, right? He just recognized me."
Sika said, "Oh," then asked a bombshell of a question. "So, during which of those ’few times’ did you find out Si Xuan has back dimples?"
The words had barely left her mouth when Xu Su distinctly felt the incredibly stable, custom-modified SUV swerve for an instant.
Her eyes shot open. "When did I ever..."
Sika raised an eyebrow, a wicked grin on her face. "Still won’t admit it?" freēwēbηovel.c૦m
"You guys were the ones talking about it, I just made a random guess!" Xu Su felt like she’d been framed with no way to clear her name. "I really didn’t know he..."
"Some guess. You sounded so sure, as if you’d felt them with your own two hands."
Sika was determined to enjoy the show. She asked with a sly grin, "And what about the party? You disappeared and never came back, leaving your bag and phone in the private room. And in the end, it was Si Xuan who brought them out to you. How did you two get in touch? You all met online, so were you two secretly developing feelings on the side?"
Hearing this, Xi Zirong, driving beside her, interjected coolly, "Sounds like you and he have a rather complicated history..."
"That’s not it! And I really didn’t touch them!" Xu Su denied frantically. "At the party, I just happened to run into him, and since it was inconvenient for me to go back for my bag, I just asked him for a favor. We haven’t had any contact other than that."
’As for the back dimples, she had only guessed because she thought Si Xuan and Zhou Mochen had similar builds... so she just assumed he had them, too.’
