Jian Ning sighed dramatically: “Ah, I never expected you to be so good at being coquettish. As a woman, I feel inferior in front of you, it’s so self-defeating.”
Anyway, her face had been trained by the alternate personality, and now she wasn’t going to let Qiao Yu off easily. Why should she be the only one embarrassed? She was going to make Qiao Yu enjoy it too.
Qiao Yu took a deep breath: “Can you stop talking!”
“No.”
Jian Ning rolled her eyes: “You’re allowed to threaten and seduce me, but I’m not allowed to tease you a bit? Let me tell you, Qiao Yu,” she smiled and poked his smooth, tight cheek: “You’re not the same as before now. How dare you act tough with me? Aren’t you afraid I’ll use that whip on you too?”
Qiao Yu: “………”
Qiao Yu said with restraint: “Jian Ning, you’d better behave, otherwise—”
“Otherwise what?”
Jian Ning picked up the riding crop again, swishing it down next to Qiao Yu’s face: “Otherwise you’ll send me to a more ‘proper’ mental hospital, let me spend the rest of my life mentally ill, worse than death?”
“………”
Qiao Yu kept a straight face: “You know.”
Jian Ning scoffed, gripping his chin with the hand holding the riding crop, forcing him to look up, leaning in almost face-to-face, raising an eyebrow: “Qiao Yu, you really think I can’t do anything to you?”
Qiao Yu’s breath caught.
His brain went blank, his gaze unfocused, breathing her breath, forcibly taking her scent into his viscera, circulating through his blood, flowing into his heart, suddenly exploding like fireworks, so intense his heartbeat stopped.
He could barely hear what she was saying, could only vaguely see her pale red lips opening and closing, when a sudden, inappropriate thought burst from the depths of his heart.
Inexplicable.
Blazing hot.
An urgent desire to kiss her.
Qiao Yu swallowed, the sound of his gulp startling himself. He suddenly widened his eyes, as if extremely shocked, desperately breaking free from her hand.
He was so forceful that he and the bench toppled over. Unable to dodge in time, he was hit on the forehead, blood immediately flowing from the wound.
