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Her mind and body belonged to him alone.

Perhaps it was because he was too deep for breath due to the kiss, but after Ye Xiaoxia's eyelashes trembled slightly, she slowly opened her eyes.

What entered her line of sight was Lu Lichen's abnormally handsome face, as his breath seemed to fill her mouth.

Although Ye Xiaoxia was dizzy from drinking, she was still conscious.

"Lu Lichen..." She pushed at his chest. "Let me go, I can't breathe."

Her face was still flushed from the alcohol, but at this moment, it was mostly due to lack of oxygen.

"Can't breathe?" The corner of Lu Lichen's mouth raised into a smile, "Looks like he's still very young."

Ye Xiaoxia, "... Let me go. "

Her heart was beating faster than usual, she was not used to the close distance between her and Lu Lichen.

"Didn't you grab me yourself?"

Lu Lichen shifted his gaze downwards, landing on the small hand that was still tightly grabbing onto the corner of his clothes.

Ye Xiaoxia felt as if the back of her hand had been shined upon by two hot rays of light, causing her to quickly retract her hand, but the hand Lu Lichen was holding onto her waist with did not loosen either.

"I'm not feeling very comfortable with you hugging me like this …"

Ye Xiaoxia was not used to lying in others' embrace, not to mention in Lu Lichen's embrace.

"That wasn't what you thought when you were in the bar, was it?" Lu Lichen said in a bland voice, "How did I remember who was calling my name, and why was it that they didn't let go of me?"

Ye Xiaoxia was embarrassed: "I'm drunk …"

"So you're still sober?" Lu Lichen squinted, and moved his gaze to her lips.

The meaning was obvious.

Ye Xiaoxia shrunk her neck, and did not reply.

She didn't speak again, and Lu Lichen also didn't let go. The two of them continued to stay together.

In the end, it was Ye Xiaoxia who spoke first, "Why are you there …?"

Wasn't Lu Lichen supposed to be working at the Shengchuan at this time?

"Talk." "No," he replied.

Who would choose to talk about things in a bar? One look was enough to tell that it was a lie.

But Ye Xiaoxia did not care about the authenticity of the letter, and picked up another question to ask: "Regarding my father, were you helping him behind his back?"

"What do you think?" The man raised his brows as he looked at her with a domineering and proud expression on his handsome face.

His light tone merely confirmed the guess in Ye Xiaoxia's heart, but in Ye Xiaoxia's heart, there was a kind of unhappiness.

Lu Lichen helped her settle a few of her most troublesome matters, but she was still against him as his wife.

Furthermore, every time Lu Lichen kissed her, she would remember that night at the Kaiser Hotel. He had no idea who that man was or how old he was.

She only remembered the feeling the man had given her. It was a very, very painful feeling.

So there was still a shadow in her heart. She couldn't accept Lu Lichen so quickly.

"Thank you …"

She could only give her thanks in this manner.

However, it was obvious that the man didn't really care about her thanks today. "Is it that simple?"

He had helped her twice, but she only said thanks?

Ye Xiaoxia unconsciously clenched her fists tightly. Because at this moment, her face was a little pale red from the alcohol, his long eyelashes trembled uncontrollably under his attentive gaze.

"I …" Ye Xiaoxia felt that it was somewhat difficult for him to even speak, "Yesterday, I sold myself out … "But something happened and I didn't see Young Master Gu. I didn't even know who the man who took my body away was …"

Lu Lichen might have a bad temper, but he was a good person.

Ye Xiaoxia felt guilty in her heart. Although this was the first time Lu Lichen didn't despise her, she did.

"You …" Her seriousness was obviously something that Lu Lichen did not expect. He even had the impulse to tell her that the man from two nights ago was him.

However …

"Do you hate that man?"

"Who?" Hearing the question, Ye Xiaoxia was startled, but after that she realised who the man Lu Lichen was referring to, she smiled, it was a smile filled with sorrow.

"How could I not hate him?"

Although she ran away first, she still hated … However, what she hated the most now was herself.

After Lu Lichen heard Ye Xiaoxia's words, the words that he originally wanted to admit turned around on the tip of her tongue and was swallowed back down.

If he did, this little girl would probably run away.

A layer of darkness covered Lu Lichen's pitch-black eyes.

If he had known earlier, he would have told her yesterday. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so hesitant now.

After returning to the Green Sea Bay, Ye Xiaoxia did not ask Lu Lichen for help. Instead, she slowly went up the stairs to her bedroom, took a change of clothes, and went to the bathroom to bathe.

After showering, her head was still dizzy. It seemed that the alcohol she had ordered out of impulse had given her quite a bit of strength.

She sat on the edge of the bed, one hand on her aching forehead, her face bitter. If she had known earlier, she would have stopped drinking impulsively.

I don't understand why so many people like to drink.

Just as Ye Xiaoxia was sitting alone on the bed, pressing her forehead against the wall, the door to the room was opened.

Familiar footsteps sounded in Ye Xiaoxia's ears, and when she raised her head, she saw Lu Lichen walking in.

"Let's go eat." Lu Lichen said.

"I'm not hungry."

Ye Xiaoxia replied without thinking. She really didn't have any appetite at all.

She had seen her father's body go into the incinerator at the funeral home, and she had had the urge to pull him out. She wanted to say that her father was definitely not dead …

From the moment she had learned of her father's death until now, she had found herself unable to accept this fact.

"Even if you're not hungry, you still have to eat." Lu Lichen naturally knew why she didn't want to eat it.

But Ye Xiaoxia's body was getting thinner day by day. If she did not properly eat, her body would not be able to hold on.

"I don't want to eat it." Ye Xiaoxia's tone of voice was very loud, but he was still unable to hide the sobs in her voice.

"Even if you don't want to, you still have to." It was rare for Lu Lichen to persevere.

"I said I don't want to eat it!"

Ye Xiaoxia suddenly flared up and raised her red eyes. There was a thin layer of water vapor under her clear black and white pupils and her small face was filled with stubbornness and anger.

She was already forced to do many things, why did Lu Lichen have to force her to eat such a small meal!

Lu Lichen lowered his voice as he coldly glared at him. "Who do you think you're angry at right now?"

Ye Xiaoxia was startled, and quickly realized what she had just said to Lu Lichen out of sheer control of his emotions …

The man's cold gaze was like a bucket of cold water that was poured over her head, extinguishing the small flame in her heart.

He was right... Where did she get the courage to get mad at him?

"I'm sorry." She lowered her head, revealing only her pitch black hair to him. "Young Master Lu."

The way she addressed him seemed to have returned to yesterday.

His extremely handsome face tensed up, and the coldness in his eyes grew increasingly stronger. His unkind voice sounded from above her head: "Ye Xiaoxia, are you tired of living?"