Chapter 274 - Trust
Chapter 274 – Trust
She glanced at him quietly for a few seconds before letting out a soft laugh. Her eyes glimmered as she hugged him tightly laughing till her stomach hurt as tears threatened to spill from the corner of her eyes.
''What's so funny?" He asked, gently stroking her back.
She calmed down after a long time, "Well…''
He raised an eyebrow.
"I was wondering whether I am crazy or you are. I just casually told you that I am someone else and you seemed to have accepted it without any qualms. Don't you think your level of acceptance is so high?" Even her brother was shocked for almost half an hour but she did not get to relish the expression of shock on Jun Zixuan's face for more than 10 minutes.
He rolled his eyes, ''I got to have this high level of acceptance or how am I going to cope with your madness?"
She glared at him, "That's not how you treat your first love. Write poems for me, shower me with praises, look at me like I am your whole world…but you have masochistic tendencies. You provoke me all the time despite knowing that you will be starting a fight,''
He chuckled, "Jokes apart, you are an open book to me.''
She quickly sneaked a peek at her body.
He threw his head back as he laughed, ''You have such a dirty mind.''
She punched his chest as her face flushed.
He grabbed her wrist and pulled her closer before giving her a peck on her lips as his tongue glided across her skin. He slowly bit her chin and her body arched. He placed a soft kiss on her neck before pulling back.
Not only was she a distraction, she was a living torture to his self control.
She quickly stood up from his lap before sitting beside him on the couch, "What did you mean by that then?" If she kept sitting on his lap, there will be no conclusion to their discussion given the way it was going.
And for the very first time, he did not pull her back onto his lap as this was the most rational thing to do at this point. He could not keep his indecent hands and mouth off her and they still had a lot to catch up on.
But that did not stop him from grabbing her hand. "What I meant is although I am not aware of what you are hiding from me but your face is an open book. I know when you are lying and when you are not,'' He said, gently stroking her hand, "If I don't remember it wrong, you previously told me that you are not Yu Mei Zhen.''
She nodded, "Yes but you did not believe me…''
"You passed it off as a joke and I did not trust you at that time.''
She glared at him again, ''In simple words…you were a jerk back then.''
He sighed as he could not bring himself to refute it either.
"Does that means you knew it whenever I lied to you?" She asked hesitantly.
''What do you think?"
"Ehh…" The corner of her lips twitched as a glint flashed across her eyes. Letting out a dramatic sigh, she plopped back on the couch like a dead fish, "That means I can't check out guys in future….''
He grabbed her thighs and pulled her up in one swift move.
Her hair flipped in front of her shoulder as she fell on him. Her legs wrapped around his torso while her hands were grabbing onto his shoulders for support.
''Just because I was unable to kick you out and you are here, sitting on my lap, seducing me with whatever this thing you are doing…" Her finger which was drawing circles on his chest paused at his words while he continued, ''Did you think I am not angry about it anymore?"
"Unable to kick me out? Just say that my beauty melted you,'' She stuck her tongue out.
He pressed his lips on her neck and a gasp escaped her mouth. His teeth pierced onto her delicate skin as she clung to him for her dear life feeling a heat near her lower abdomen. Her body ached with need when he sucked the spot he just bit before kissing it again.
Just as she leaned closer to him, feeling him more closely, the man ruthlessly pulled back, leaving her sanity hanging by a thread.
Her breathing was uneven at this point as she watched him licking his bottom lips like he just tasted some delicacy.
''Another man? Your eyes are all over me right now,'' He whispered beside her ear snapping her out of her daze.
She blushed before burying her face in the crook of his neck, ''Evil..''
He smiled as he stroked her back once again, realizing that years ago, both of them were in a similar position, sitting on a couch but there was a distance between them unlike now when she is sitting on his lap, hugging him like this. At that time, it was not just the physical distance between them but also the emotional one.
While he had feelings for her, she was closed off to such things. The mention of anything more than friends was just a taboo to her so he just decided to stay beside her, in whatever form she wanted, to support her, to be the shoulder she can lean on. He never made any attempts to woo her to avoid making her uncomfortable while she, never saw what he felt for her.
And it felt like a dream to have this moment when they both were like this, in a new phase that they never expected.
''I died…'' She mumbled, getting all his undivided attention within an instant.
His brows tugged together as he lowered his head, "You…?"
She tilted her head to look at him, ''Just like Yu Mei Zhen…I, Han Mei, also died. And by the time I woke up, I found myself in this body. One month had passed since my death,'' She pursed her lips.