533 Not Cute?

If Ying had the chance to hear what Xiu had told Darren, she would have at least understood the reason why Xiu had been acting out of sort in the last week. Xiu's hyper nature had gone a lot down in the last days and it was both shocking and concerning to the people who noticed.

Unfortunately, during that period of time, Xiu only showed her face to either Ying or Dylan. Apart from that, she had shut herself up in her house.

That's why Darren always felt really worried about her. She had a habit of keeping her worries to herself. When she was supposed to seek someone's support, she actually decided to lock everything inside of her. She wanted to be brave enough to deal with everything on her own and he knew that as well. However, he couldn't just forget that this habit of hers was the reason, in the end, she wasn't able to hold on and ended up taking her own life.

Just the reminder was enough to make him pull her closer to his body. This time, he felt lucky that she ran over to him. He'd never let her face anything all alone ever again. 

Since Xiu couldn't just walk around with so many plushies, they had come to their car. But before she could place everything inside, she said, "Baobei, you hold it all."

Darren was suddenly given so many cute plushies but he didn't question her. Instead, he waited until she rummaged out her phone and clicked a few photos before saying, "You can put it all in the car now. I'll give it all to my niece."

Darren nodded and did as she said. Then he questioned, "Now what?"

Xiu stretched her hand towards him which he held without hesitation. "Let's walk around."

There were several stalls on this street and one could see many couples walking around hand in hand. Suddenly, Xiu found something interested and pulled him along. She took a cute car ears headband and put it on her head. 

She turned to face him and did the most unexpected as always. She curled her fingers just like a cat rubbing its face and did, "Meow!" Seeing Darren looking at her stunned, she shook him a little, "Say something. Is it not cute?"

Scratching her head she looked around and picked up another headband. This one had tiger cat ears. Putting it on, she tried to adjust her expressions to aggression and curled her fingers in a claw shape as she did, "Rawr!" Tilting her head to a side, she asked, "Is this one better?"

Darren opened the front of his coat and hid her face into his chest saying, "Let me hide you first. What if you seduced unnecessary bees with this act of yours?"

"Huh? But I was trying to be cute?"

Darren leaned his head as his nose brushed lightly against her, "Sweets, you really have no idea about what you're capable of." He leaned closer to her ear and whispered, "And don't do this again or else, I really can't promise you abstinence."

But it wasn't Darren's fault either. When she tried on those headbands, he could only picture the image from last night when her hands were cuffed, with her body writhing under his touch. As she said, she was certainly acting cute and she definitely looked adorable as always. But it was his own mind that couldn't stop thinking about those censored shots. He really lost his mind around her.

After taking the cotton candy, she took him to the nearby public park and sat down at the wooden bench. She fed some to him and distractedly ate some herself. In fact, she was just talking animatedly but he could still make out the abnormality in her behavior.

So, he followed her gaze to see what she was distracted by and asked, "Do you also want to go cycling?"

Xiu pouted at him in grief, "How can I?"

"Why not? I can get a bicycle for you." As always he was more than willing to do what she wanted. How would he dare say no to her? He'd do anything to make her happy.

"That's not the problem," said Xiu.

"Then?"

"I can't ride a bike," answered Xiu honestly. "I never had a bike since no one was there to teach me as well. Neither a father nor a brother."

Darren inexplicably couldn't help thinking about the young Xiu who would have looked longingly at other families. Biting his lips, he stood up and said, "Wait here."

"Huh? Where are you going now?" called out Xiu but he was already gone.

Thankfully, Xiu didn't have to wait for long since in five minutes he stood before her with a bicycle. Xiu knitted her brows at him saying, "Baobei, I just said I can't ride it. Do you want me to fall down before all these people and make a joke out of myself? Even children will laugh at me."

Darren patted her head saying, "No my dearest wife. Since you can't ride it, I'll give you a ride myself."

Xiu looked at the bicycle and pointed out, "There is no backseat, my dearest husband!"

Darren patted at the crossbar saying, "But we have this."

Xiu eyed him for a while before happily jumped up saying, "Okay!"

When Xiu sat on the crossbar, she felt a little uncomfortable but then Darren's arms went around her body to hold the handlebars and she felt safe. Now that he was keeping her safe from both sides what was there to fear?

"Sweets..."

Xiu had just turned around to hear what he had to say but her lips were immediately captured. After kissing her for a good few seconds, he pulled away and whispered, "Hold tight."

"You!" Xiu didn't know what to say. He was definitely taking advantage right now. Something suddenly clicked in her mind, "You got the bicycle without the backseat on purpose, right?"

"Absolutely!" Darren replied shamelessly leaving Xiu speechless. "It's more romantic."

If you're going to agree to my conjectures so easily, how am I suppose to be mad at you!