Mister Li, the Heart Bandit

Ji Weixi could only watch as the van drove off, only to be caught by Li Shaoling when she tried to give chase.

“Quick, get to your car and chase them!” Ji Weixi was stamping her feet indignantly—how could he be so calm?!

The witness they went through so much trouble to find was gone now!

“Relax.” Li Shaoling calmly replied. “She’s not getting away.”

Ji Weixi had more to say, but she also felt that she was bleeding more now. She could not help but hold her waist and gasp in discomfort.

Li Shaoling simply scooped her up, and grinned at her unhappy face. “Storms here are terrifying, so you might get scared. Let’s find a place to rest, and I promise we’ll find her. Alright?”

At the sight of his smiling face, Ji Weixi could only simply live with how annoyed she was. Unable to stay unreasonable with him sweet-talking her like that, she nodded tamely.

As they drove back into the city, the downpour, coupled with the sea winds and fog became even wilder.

The car wiper worked incessantly, whereas lightning and thunder split the heavens deafeningly.

It was suddenly dark and suddenly bright inside the car as the windshield was utterly drenched in rain, smudging it with splashes and very much blurring it.

It was too dangerous to drive in this weather—Li Shaoling’s brow had knitted together while Ji Weixi kept her eye on the GPS indicator of a nearby hotel on the map, gesturing for him to stop at a car park.

She sighed in disappointment. “We could only stay here. I’m worried something would happen if we go any further.”

Li Shaoling looked at her as he unfastened his seatbelt. “Wait for me.”

Before she could say a word, Li Shaoling had taken a jacket from the backseat and got out of the car, dashed around it and opened Ji Weixi’s door to carry her down.

It had been just a moment, but there was now basically a river outside the main doors of the hotel.

Nonetheless, Ji Weixi was completely clean aside from being a little wet when Li Shaoling put her down in the lobby.

On the other hand, Li Shaoling’s clothes were completely soaked through in no time at all.

His short sleeves were sticking to his arm and his black hair was dripping, with droplets flowing down along his long nose and onto his thin lips.

How lethal. So ragged, yet so handsome—the picture of a beautiful man walking out of a shower.

Ji Weixi felt moved to tears: he had carried her so that she won’t get her shoes dirty, and waded through the piling rainwater.

He even gave her his jacket, and she could feel her heart swelling in utter fulfillment.

***

The hotel only had one room left: a luxury suite.

Ji Weixi was a little resistant to that idea, but having seen that Li Shaoling had made payment and the desk receptionist cast envious looks at her, she braced herself and followed him into the elevator.

Swiping the car outside and entering their room, Ji Weixi heated up the bath and only remembered then that their luggage was still in the car.

Li Shaoling was drying his hair with a towel. Noticing her weird look, he asked, “What is it?”

“Li Shaoling… we didn’t bring in our luggage…”

“Okay, I’ll go get it.”

Li Shaoling had just reached out to pinch her little face, but suddenly realizing that his body was a little cold, he quickly pulled back, afraid that she would get a cold.

Ji Weixi caught him, however, and worriedly said, “The hotel should have umbrellas. Borrow one, don’t get wet again.”

He smiled. “Alright. You should take a bath or you’ll get a cold.”

Ji Weixi nodded and watched as he left before closing the door.

Since having her period meant she could not soak herself in the bath due to infections, she merely took a hot shower before coming out in a bathrobe.¹

However, she could not calm down as she stood by the window and watched the pouring rain outside.

Li Shaoling was even more drenched when he came back, and looked a lot more ragged than before, although that still did not affect his good looks.

Ji Weixi felt a little hurt to see him so battered for the first time, but also breathed a sigh of relief.

It’s fortunate that he returned, or her brain would be full of bloody scenes from every kind of accident.

As Li Shaoling went for his bath, Ji Weixi pulled her luggage to a corner and made the bed before drying her hair.

She kept sighing near the window with senseless worries.

What misfortune: to be caught in such a storm just when they had arrived at Ocean City, and letting Jian Jie escape just when they had caught her.

However, Li Shaoling had promised her so surely that they would find her.

Therefore, she chose to believe in him.

But even as she wondered blankly, she suddenly felt a warmness over her back, followed by the sweet scent of minty soap.

Maybe because he had just got out of the bath, Li Shaoling’s face was a steaming red. Even so, the lines on his face remained ever tender, his brows and eyes ever gentle and his ebony pupils clear and bright.

He held her—just like that, his chin resting on her shoulder while he stared at her fixedly.

Ji Weixi turned her head slightly, and the tip of her nose immediately rubbed on his, the hotness of their breaths colliding.

She inhaled sharply as her heart thumped wildly, but she pretended that it was nothing and cleared her throat.

“What are you thinking?” His voice seemed to have been rinsed: gentle, clear and ever attractive, tugging at her heartstrings as he spoke beside her ears.

Ji Weixi’s heart was already caught in a storm, and yet she kept a straight face and said, “I’m wondering when the rain would stop.”

“It won’t.” Li Shaoling said and gnawed at her ear. “You don’t have to worry about anything. Leave it to me, and we’ll have a break first. Okay?”

His last syllable seemed to be slightly lifted, revealing his patience and sweet-talking.

The word ‘break’ was really a puzzling one.

Ji Weixi blushed meekly as her mind unwittingly spiced things up with certain… questionable images.

She pulled away from him, head lowered and mumbling. “I’m going to sleep.”

Be that as it may, she had just taken one step out when Li Shaoling caught her again, putting his large body over her own.

Ji Weixi immediately stumbled onto the table behind.

Reacting quickly, she kept her balance with her hands, but she seemed to have knocked something over, and it dropped to the floor in a clutter.

Her breath was caught when she looked down.

There was every kind of color available.

Uh…

But…

Time seemed to stand still, and the air was swirling with awkwardness and vague intimacy.

“Weixi…” Li Shaoling’s voice was hoarse.

Ji Weixi kept both hands over her ears and dashed crazily to the bed, pulled the blanket over herself while putting on a serious face as she watched a show on her phone.

She felt she was crumbling inside.

Li Shaoling simply sat beside her, full of invasive hormonal scent.

JI Weixi forced herself to stay calm and stared fixedly at her phone. She found a love drama, but the scene incidentally was not a family-friendly one.

Really…. %#￥&￥%##!!

She quickly closed it and watched Detective Conan instead.

Yes, there’s a murder in every episode. This is good, and it would melt off the awkwardness…

The episode she happened to be watching was the ‘Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case’, a two-parter that stood out.

Ji Weixi remembered that she was frightened to death by the series when she watched them a younger age, but felt nothing when she watched it now.

Maybe it was because of her age, and she eventually became absorbed in it, completely ignoring Li Shaoling’s presence.