Free Web NovelChapter 1044: Chapter 21: Gu Yan, You’re Such a Scoundrel! (2)
Nie Xiaoxing’s chest suddenly heaved up, her eyes flew wide open, and the hand resting on his shoulder almost instantly clenched tight into the fabric of his shirt.
Gu Yan stared hard at Nie Xiaoxing’s face, stunned to the point of blankness; a streak of mischief flashed across his starry eyes as his lips wrapped around her small mouth, and he hummed, "That’s right, your young master is totally gonna be a pervert!"
The words fell.
Gu Yan suddenly bit down on Nie Xiaoxing’s lips, actually bit.
Nie Xiaoxing hissed from the pain, and her tightly clenched teeth loosened a little.
Gu Yan seized the moment, his tongue thrusting straight in, hooking the soft sweetness that tried to flee in panic.
That feeling of her heart pounding so wildly she could barely breathe crashed into her mind again.
Nie Xiaoxing grabbed even harder at Gu Yan’s shirt, her long lashes instantly damp, blinking lightly as she looked at him.
Gu Yan stared back at her.
In Nie Xiaoxing’s eyes at this moment was helplessness and panic, a complete loss of what to do.
It somehow made Gu Yan suddenly feel reluctant to push further.
The hand under her chin slid down, gently hooking her absurdly slender waist; the hand braced on the window moved to cradle her head, lifting her up and pulling her into his arms.
The instant her butt landed on the man’s hard thigh, Nie Xiaoxing squeezed her eyes tightly shut.
Two crystal-clear tears immediately rolled out of her sockets, hanging on the tips of her long curled lashes, bright and translucent enough to make one’s heart ache.
A softness he’d never felt before spread through his chest; Gu Yan couldn’t help a low sigh in his heart, his large hand gently stroking her hair, no longer bullying her any further. His thin lips brushed a light peck on her rosy lips, his starry eyes deeply locking onto her tense little face as he said softly, "If you keep being this soft and weak in front of your young master, your young master just... can’t bear to bully you."
Nie Xiaoxing’s lowered lashes trembled twice, then slowly lifted. Her pupils had been rinsed clean by those two pools of tears, even clearer and purer now, looking at Gu Yan with such harmless confusion.
Gu Yan drew in a rough breath, unable to stop himself from hooking an arm around Nie Xiaoxing’s neck and lightly kissing her eyes.
The moment both her eyes were wrapped in his warmth, Nie Xiaoxing felt as if her heart too was being bound like this by his heat.
For a fleeting instant, Nie Xiaoxing actually felt... that Gu Yan liked her!
Would he...?
"Little Xing’er..."
Gu Yan’s lips slid from her eyes to the tip of her nose, then back down to her lips, his voice hoarse. "I’m really happy."
Nie Xiaoxing, "..."
The corner of Gu Yan’s mouth twitched up, his starry eyes bright as they fixed on Nie Xiaoxing. "You are kinda ugly, but at least your taste is decent."
As soon as Gu Yan finished, he successfully saw Nie Xiaoxing’s face turn dark in an instant.
"Hey." Gu Yan chuckled, rubbing Nie Xiaoxing’s gloomy little face. "Your young master is complimenting you! What’s the use of just a pretty face on a woman? You gotta have brains and good judgment too."
Nie Xiaoxing stared at the smile on Gu Yan’s face. The faint trace of sweetness that had just risen in her heart was thoroughly shattered by that one word "ugly," not a scrap left. She pressed her lips together, slapped his hand away from her face, and moved to get off his lap.
Gu Yan hooked an arm around her waist, not letting her move.
"Gu Yan, don’t push me!" Nie Xiaoxing glared at him in anger.
"Okay, okay, your young master was wrong, I shouldn’t have called you ugly! After all..." Gu Yan shrugged and laughed. "That’s not your fault either."
Nie Xiaoxing’s eyes turned red; she shoved Gu Yan hard.
This time, Nie Xiaoxing didn’t hold back much.
Gu Yan’s shoulder ached, the smile on his handsome face stiffening a little as he frowned down at Nie Xiaoxing.
When he saw the suppressed fury and humiliation in her eyes, Gu Yan’s heart tightened. Only then did he realize that Nie Xiaoxing was really mad.
"...Um, that’s not what I meant. I just wanted to tease you a bit." Gu Yan scratched his head in frustration.
Nie Xiaoxing let out a cold laugh, eyes red as she stared at him. "Gu Yan, maybe to you that’s just some light, harmless joke! But to me, not only is it not funny, it makes me feel like you’re humiliating me!"
"I..."
"Just treat it as me not knowing how to take a joke, being petty!"
Nie Xiaoxing stared hard at Gu Yan; in her eyes there was only him. When she spoke again, there was a clear rasp in her voice. "If you think I’m making a fuss over nothing, then let me tell you this... I, Nie Xiaoxing, am exactly that kind of person who makes a fuss over nothing!"
Because the person was him, the one she hid deep in her heart, no matter if he repeated those words a thousand or ten thousand times, she just couldn’t not care. It would still hurt, she would still... hate herself, hate that she didn’t have a face he liked...
When Gu Yan saw the redness in Nie Xiaoxing’s eyes about to spill over, his heart lurched in panic. He pulled her into his arms. "Little Xing’er..."
"Let go!" Nie Xiaoxing pushed at him, her voice choked with suppressed sobs. "Gu Yan, let go of me!"
"I’m not letting go, I just won’t!"
Gu Yan pressed his face against hers. When she slapped him away, he burrowed into the crook of her neck instead.
"...Gu Yan, you rogue!"
Nie Xiaoxing trembled slightly and shrank back.
She’d just had four straight hours of class; she was covered in sweat...
"Little Xing’er, Little Xingxing..."
"I’m gonna puke!" The mist in Nie Xiaoxing’s eyes scattered in minutes under Gu Yan’s pestering.
"..." Gu Yan choked on that.
He simply stopped talking, his arms wrapped tightly around Nie Xiaoxing. No matter how she "hit" him, he just refused to let go!
After entangling with him for more than ten minutes, Nie Xiaoxing finally lost the battle. She braced a hand on her forehead, let out two long breaths, then frowned at Gu Yan who was still buried in her neck. Holding down her temper, she spoke gently, "It’s almost twelve. Can we stop messing around? Let’s each go home, okay?"
Gu Yan shook his head into her neck.
Nie Xiaoxing ground her teeth. "Then what do you want?"
Gu Yan stayed silent.
"...Gu Yan!"
Nie Xiaoxing grabbed his hair at the back of his head, wanting to yank him up, but when she actually exerted strength... she couldn’t bring herself to do it.
She could only give up!
"Gu Yan, I’ve had four hours of class. I’m really tired, I don’t have the energy or the mood to keep tangling with you. Let me go back, okay?"
Nie Xiaoxing had been tormented by Gu Yan to the point she’d lost her temper entirely; her tone was compromising, helpless.
Hearing her say she was tired.
Gu Yan finally lifted his head from her neck. His hair was a tousled mess, his handsome face flushed from being pressed against her. His starry eyes looked at Nie Xiaoxing, lazy yet innocent.
Seeing the flush on his face, a quick wash of red skimmed over the tips of Nie Xiaoxing’s ears as well. Looking at him like this, the hard shell she’d just built up in her heart softened again, melted.
Nie Xiaoxing sighed inwardly, lowered her eyes to him and said softly, "Okay?"
Gu Yan stared straight at her. "Still mad?"
After all his ruckus just now, how was she supposed to keep being mad?
Her teeth tugged lightly at her lower lip. Nie Xiaoxing shook her head.
A glimmer of light appeared in Gu Yan’s eyes. "Really?"
"...Yeah."
"You’re not lying to me?"
"...No."
"What if you are?"
"..."
"Kiss me once, and I’ll believe you’re really not mad anymore."
"...Will you ever—mmph..."
Nie Xiaoxing’s exasperated words weren’t even finished before his warm lips suddenly descended without giving her a chance, urgently sealing over hers.
