The kitten rubbed against Li Zeliang's trouser leg in a somewhat coquettish manner. As soon as he bent down, the kitten jumped into his arms, being extremely docile.
Xieyi clenched his right hand which was in pain, and couldn't help muttering in his heart, "The cat really relies on the power of the person. The cat is like the person, and it changes its face every time it sees a person with a ferocious look."
"Why did you run outside?"
His question did not have a subject, and Xieyi was not sure whether he was asking her or the evil cat, so she didn't know whether she should answer for a long time, until Li Zeliang raised his voice and said "hmm" to her.
"I was bored, so I came out to take a look."
"Then let's go back to the house." He said as he put the kitten down, freed his hands to unbutton his shirt sleeves, and walked back to the house. The cat followed Li Zeliang into the house.
Xie Yi looked at his feet from behind. The prosthesis was put back on. He didn't know if it really recovered so quickly or if he was just forcing himself to do it. However, if he really stood still, it would be hard to tell the difference between the prosthesis and his other leg.
When Li Zeliang entered the room, he turned around and glanced at her, and Xieyi immediately lowered her head. Looking at someone from behind was not polite at all.
"Is the guest room ready?" Li Zeliang asked.
"It's cleaned up, the room upstairs." said Old Tan.
"Well, Miss Shen will stay a few more days. See if she needs anything. Help her unpack tomorrow."
When Xieyi heard this, he bit his lip and did not refute.
After Li Zeliang sat down on the sofa, he motioned for Xieyi to sit down, and the cat also coiled up at Li Zeliang's feet and fell asleep.
Old Tan served the tea and tactfully left, leaving them alone in the living room. The teapot was brewing Tieguanyin tea, and a burst of tea fragrance escaped from the spout of the pot.
Li Zeliang poured her a glass.
Xieyi originally wanted to say "I don't drink tea at night", but she felt that it would make her seem a bit hypocritical, so she thanked him and took a sip. She didn't like tea and had no knowledge of it, so she couldn't taste it.
After drinking the tea, Li Zeliang rubbed his eyebrows with his knuckles, looking extremely tired.
He habitually took out a lighter to light a cigarette, but then he thought of something and gave up, putting the cigarette box on the coffee table.
"Are you afraid that I will go back on my word?" he said. "I am a man of my word. Since I promised you, I will definitely do it." Obviously, he was referring to the fact that she took the initiative to come to him.
Instantly, Xieyi felt embarrassed, and the blush on her face suddenly rose to her ears. She had already convinced herself, but when Li Zeliang said it so suddenly, she still felt upset.
She clenched her fists. Based on her previous personality, she almost turned around and left. Not only that, she also responded to him with a few sarcastic remarks, not only making him unable to gain any advantage, but also making him angry to death.
However, Xie Yi's heels were fixed on the spot, her face turned red and then white, but she finally held back: she had made up her mind to get along well with him.
"It seems that Mr. Li enjoys humiliating me." Xie Yi said lightly. Such a submissive word could still hurt people when she said it.
Li Zeliang was not angry.
"That's not the case. I'm just a little..." He paused, searching for the right words in his mind, "a little happy about the huge change in Miss Shen's attitude."
Unfortunately, this kind of words sounds even more sarcastic.
Xieyi glanced at the man in front of her with a fake smile on his face and thought, he is not as pleasing to the eye as when he is angry.
"Okay, it's getting late. You should go and rest. The second room upstairs is your room." As he said this, he also prepared to go back to his room.
Xie Yi's breathing paused. He meant that this was the end of today.
Suddenly, Li Zeliang turned back and said, "Let me see your hand."
Xie Yi was stunned. She thought he didn't notice.
"fine."
"Let me see."
Xie Yi was forced to stretch out her hand. He spread her hand in his palm and examined it carefully. Fortunately, the wound was not deep and only slightly broken. He went to get the medicine box and actually applied medicine to her.
The freehand painting was somewhat unexpected.
As he was about to apply iodine, he said, "If it hurts, scream."
“It doesn’t hurt.”
"Cats are animals with fickle temperaments, so you shouldn't touch them."
"People are still the same." Xieyi said.
"Who are you talking about?"
"I didn't say you."
"Who then?"
"Speaking of myself."
That's it.
"Yeah," he nodded, "I totally agree."
He turned the tables on me.
"This is the first time we've reached a consensus," he said.
At this time, the kitten climbed up appropriately, arched its back and meowed, and I don’t know if it was trying to cater to the views of its handsome owner.
Xie Yi glanced at the cat and said, "Yeah, it's not easy for the two of you to reach a consensus."
"… "
"… "
After a while, Li Zeliang carefully applied iodine to her wound, and then he blew on the wound childishly.
“I will definitely find time to get vaccinated tomorrow.”
"Yeah." Xieyi nodded, and then prepared to retract her hand. However, he did not let go, and slightly exerted force with his fingers to lock her hand in his palm. Xieyi squinted her eyes when he pressed on the wound, feeling a little pain.
"I thought you were very patient. You didn't even complain when you hid your hands behind your back for a long time." Li Zeliang said with a playful look in his eyes. He seemed to have changed his recent violent temper and returned to his old personality towards her.
"No matter how patient I am, I'm not a wooden man. I have feelings." She frowned in pain.
"I think so."
"Huh?" Xie Yi didn't hear clearly what he said because she suddenly smelled a strange fragrance.
She turned around and saw that it seemed that the kitten had rubbed the door open a crack when it went out, causing the fragrance to come in.
"What's that smell?" she couldn't help asking.
“Tuber jasmine.”
"Tuber jasmine?" She has always been curious about this kind of plants. When she was a child, her family bought her a mimosa, and she couldn't understand why it was shy. So she touched it, and the mimosa closed its leaves. After a while, she waited for it to open up and touched it again. She was very happy, but unfortunately she tortured the mimosa to death in less than two days. She was a real destructive king.
Why does tuberose only bloom at night
"Can I see it?" She hadn't smelled it in the garden just now.
"What's there to see? Just a few flowers. You'll get dizzy if you smell them for too long." He said without any interest.
Since the host said so, Xieyi had no choice but to go back to the guest room. In the bathroom of the guest room, there were actually some change of clothes and pajamas prepared.
She looked at it and found that the pajamas were new, but the women's clothes were old, but they were washed very clean. It was a light yellow dress, about the same size as her. She guessed that it was probably the daughter of the Li family. It was better to have something to change than to wear this one tomorrow.
She took a shower and threw herself on the bed. Thank God, Li Zeliang let her live here. If she went back to the apartment last time, she would not know how to get along with him. There was only one bedroom, so should she sleep, him, or both of them
It was better than she thought, at least she got through the day.
An unknown amount of time had passed, but she was lying alone in the guest room on the second floor of the villa, her eyes still wide open.
She can't sleep.
Perhaps because she had just drunk tea, she lay on the bed, counting flocks of sheep in her mind, and she was not sleepy. At first, she considered whether she should lock the door of this room, because she clearly saw that Li Zeliang's bedroom was next door. But she thought about it again and gave up. If he really wanted to come in openly, he would not have to commit the crime secretly.
Then she studied the crystal chandelier above the bed to see how many crystals there were. Unfortunately, no matter how many times she counted, the number was always different, so she got bored and thought of something else.
She looked out the window. This family had a strange hobby. They kept the lights on in the garden until late at night, which made her even more unable to sleep. She got up to draw the curtains, and suddenly an idea came to her. She quietly opened the door and went downstairs. As soon as she entered the garden, she smelled the fragrance. She didn't recognize the tuberose, but she found it by the fish pond by her sense of smell.
The small white flowers, with light green stems, bloomed in clusters, looked like small flower balls at first glance, and looked ordinary, not as interesting as the mimosa. She was somewhat unwilling to squat down and take a deep breath, but she saw a pair of dark green cat's eyes appearing next to her under the tuberose.
I leaned down and saw it was the cat.
It tilted its head and stared at Xieyi.
"It's so late, why aren't you sleeping yet?" she asked it.
This cat is Li Zeliang's little follower, but it won't go to sleep even when its owner is asleep.
Having suffered a loss last time, she would not be deceived by its docile appearance and reach out to touch it again.
"Then what are you going to do if you don't sleep?"
The voice suddenly sounded, and Xie Yi was so scared that she jumped up and wanted to scream. But just as she opened her mouth and her throat was about to burst out with sound, someone covered her mouth from behind, and most of the scream was suppressed in her throat.
"Hush!" said the owner of the voice. "Do you want to give me a midnight fright?"
Only then did Xieyi hear clearly that the man was Li Zeliang.
He released her mouth.
"You scared me to death." Her heart was still beating wildly. If she could turn around at this moment, she would definitely glare at him fiercely.
“Same here.”
"When I couldn't sleep, I came out for a walk." Xieyi explained.
"Oh," he teased her, "so I thought there was a thief in the house and came out to catch him."
Old Tan heard a noise in the garden, turned on the light and walked out, just in time to hear Li Zeliang's next sentence.
"Master, what are you catching..." He swallowed the word "thief" before he could even utter it and retreated into the house.
I've seen people catching thieves, but I've never seen them caught like this.
At this moment, Li Zeliang was hugging Xieyi from behind, and her back was pressed tightly against Li Zeliang. Seeing such an ambiguous posture, the old man naturally stepped back tactfully, without even mentioning whether to catch the thief or not.
Although it was not in broad daylight, they were unfortunately a single man and a single woman. Xieyi immediately took a step forward to create some distance between them, then quickly turned around to face him, and coughed dryly to hide her embarrassment.
"Then I'll go back to my room."
"You can't sleep?"
"I'm going back to my room to watch TV."
"There's no TV in your room."
"… "
As soon as she met him, it seemed as if her IQ dropped by half.
He walked to the bench next to the fish pond and sat down, saying, "Since we can't sleep, why don't we sit together to relieve each other's boredom."
This sentence should sound like a question, but unfortunately he said it in a declarative tone, which shows that he was not asking for her opinion, but she had no choice but to sit down. If it were normal, being able to sit next to Li Zeliang would be an honor that many women would fight for even if they were to break their heads.
In that case, she simply sat beside him generously.
The fresh night breeze blew her face slightly, messing up her hair a little, but it also brought a different kind of comfort when it brushed against her skin. She saw his handsome profile in the moonlight, his upper lip was thinner, and his lower lip was slightly curled towards his chin. When he pursed his lips, he was stunningly beautiful.
Freehand painting means calming your mind. Of course, idioms should not be used indiscriminately. They are used to describe women.
"What are you thinking about?" he asked.
"I'm thinking about your next life..."
She suddenly paused, realizing that she had accidentally let something slip, so she didn't dare to continue. She couldn't tell him, "I'm thinking about whether you can be a stunning woman in your next life, right?" If she did, the man would definitely send her to hell on the spot.
"What about the next life?" He seemed to see something and asked.
"I'm thinking, I want to be a very good man in my next life."
"Um?"
"And then you must marry a wife as lovely as me." Her black eyes rolled and she managed to make the sentence sound complete.
He smiled slightly when he heard that.
"Have you always been this interesting?"
As he spoke, he raised his hand to smooth the ends of hair on her forehead that were blown out by the night wind, and then moved his hand to her chin.
He raised his hand slightly, causing Xieyi to look up. Then, Xieyi saw his lips, which she had just carefully examined, fall.
It was not the first time they kissed, but this time was completely different from the humiliating, forced kiss last time.
He kissed her very lightly, as if he was afraid that if he used too much force, he would break this illusory dream. At this moment, he was just tasting some treasure in the world. Xieyi's hand was still pressed against his chest with some resistance, separating the contact between their bodies, wanting to push him away, but the unexpected encounter last time made her dare not use brute force against him again.
While she was hesitating, he slowly reached between her teeth and slowly applied force. Such soft lips made her start to lose her breathing rhythm, and she was eager to get rid of his lingering.
But he was so greedy.
He kissed her with a kind of selfless greed, their lips and teeth resting on each other, reluctant to leave.
The wind carried the scent of tuberose and summer grass, but she no longer had the energy or mind to identify them.
He freed his hand to move away the fist that was trying to push him away, then put his arm around her waist to bring her closer to him. Unfortunately, they were originally sitting side by side, so their angles couldn't be the same.
The man seemed dissatisfied with this, and leaned forward slightly, half pressing her down on the chair, and then held her soft body tightly in his arms. He continued to entangle her tongue, sucking and sucking, taking away her remaining consciousness.
Just when she thought she was about to melt into it and almost lose oxygen, he reluctantly left her lips, then once again held her tightly in his arms, frowned, closed his eyes, and murmured in a low voice that sounded like a spell, over and over again: "Freehand, freehand, freehand..."
Xie Yi didn't know why, but seemed to be infected by his emotion. She didn't push him away and answered obediently, "I'm here."
"Xie Yi." He called softly again, with a gentle voice that could make people intoxicated.
Xie Yi's heart seemed to be filled with something, and she slowly put her arms around his waist and repeated, "I'm here."
"No, you're not," he said.