Chapter 48

CHAPTER 48

Girl among Men, Could Bend or Unbend

“En?” Xiao Chen squinted his eyes and walked step by step towards Jing Yue who got goose b.u.mps all over her body after she saw his gloomy expression. Jing Yue abruptly tugged the quilt at her side and completely wrapped herself inside the quilt that even her head couldn’t be seen.

A faint smile flashed through Xiao Chen’s eyes when he stared at the ‘thing’ on the bed. He then calmly sat on the bedside and took both his outer robes and shoes off before climbing onto the bed. Meanwhile Jing Yue, who had completely bundled herself inside the quilt, had already started to feel that it was hard to breathe.

Feeling the movement on the bedside, Jing Yue immediately moved her body and tried hard to shrink herself to the innermost part of the bed. After waiting motionless for quite a while and didn’t find any other movement, she blinked her eyes and started to have doubts; ‘has Xiao Chen secretly walked away?’

Thinking like that, Jing Yue cautiously moved her body and found no movement outside. She moved her body again, farther this time, and still didn’t find any movement. Finally, Jing Yue cautiously extended her head out of the quilt; she s.h.i.+fted her gaze around, twisted her hips and rolled her body over.

“Are you willing to come out?” Once she turned her head, Jing Yue met Xiao Chen’s somewhat contemptuous eyes straight away.

“Si (gasp)……” Jing Yue inhaled a mouthful of cold air; without thinking, she tried to pull her head back into the quilt. But, how would Xiao Chen give Jing Yue this kind of opportunity? He raised his hand to hold Jing Yue’s chin and buckled herself firmly in his embrace; with this kind of appearance, it looked just like he was hugging a gigantic pupa.

“Huuu (whimper)……” Jing Yue twisted her body; she originally wanted to reach out and push Xiao Chen away, yet she herself had courted death and wrapped her hands in the quilt. Right now, her whole body was hugged by Xiao Chen in his embrace, completely unable to move.

“Want to come out?” The smile in Xiao Chen’s eyes deepened when he saw Jing Yue’s sweating appearance.

“I was wrong……” Jing Yue stared at Xiao Chen with eyes that were gleaming with tears; her flushed face was filled with the intention to beg.

Xiao Chen narrowed his eyes to stare at Jing Yue and said: “Know wrong?” Jing Yue blinked her eyes and ferociously nodded her head. She repeatedly told herself in her heart; ‘girl among men, could bend or unbend*, she’ll endure!’

Xiao Chen let his hands go and watched Jing Yue impatiently drilled herself out gulping for air, looking like she was about to collapse from the heat. She raised her hands to fan herself and stared at Xiao Chen from the side of her eye before she finally pouted her lips and silently turned her back on him.

Xiao Chen propped up his head; seeing Jing Yue’s back in front of him, he suddenly spoke in displeasure: “Turn over.”

“Don’t want to.” Jing Yue held the bedding and remained motionless. However, just after these words fell, Jing Yue’s waist was suddenly buckled by Xiao Chen’s big hand; his strength was huge and made Jing Yue inhaled a mouthful of cold air. She had not been able to open her mouth and speak yet Xiao Chen already pulled herself into his embrace.

Xiao Chen’s eyebrows were wrinkled as he stared at Jing Yue’s twisted face; he opened his mouth and said: “Do I have to use force?”

Jing Yue’s small hands were swatting Xiao Chen’s hand as she opened her mouth and cried: “Let go……”

Xiao Chen didn’t speak but the strength in his hand was actually loosened. He gazed at Jing Yue’s furious face and slightly lowered his head to touch Jing Yue’s, the two’s head were stuck together. Jing Yue’s whole body went rigid; she blinked her pitch-black eyes to stare at Xiao Chen’s closed ones with a burst of nervousness in her heart.

Jing Yue wanted to move yet she didn’t dare to; she was afraid that Xiao Chen would suddenly kiss her.

Jing Yue was rigid for quite a while; however, in the end Xiao Chen basically didn’t make any ‘next-step’ movement, he simply pressed his forehead against Jing Yue’s like that and closed his eyes as if he was already asleep.

“You…… Are you alright?” Stiff for a long time, Jing Yue finally couldn’t help but opened her mouth and asked.

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*能屈能伸 (néngqūnéngshēn): lit. Could bend or unbend/ flexible, adaptable to the circ.u.mstances, know when to submit or a.s.sert.