"I just had Steward Zhong boil some herbal soup, I'm going downstairs to get it," Ye Jinghuai still left.
He said something she didn't understand and left.
What does he mean by torturing him?
She sincerely wanted him to accompany her tonight.
Calling what, torture?
Fortunately.
Ye Jinghuai really only left for a short while.
He brought the herbal soup and walked to her.
He first put the soup on the nightstand, then bent down to pick her up and prop her up against the headboard.
Only then did he pick up the soup again, scooped up a spoonful, and brought it to her warm lips, "Open your mouth." Ye Jinghuai said.
An Nuan obediently opened her mouth.
She could actually drink the medicine herself.
But she just couldn't seem to refuse Ye Jinghuai.
She just couldn't seem to refuse anything from him.
Ye Jinghuai fed a spoonful of soup into An Nuan's mouth.
After An Nuan took a sip, "So bitter." The bitterness made An Nuan's features all scrunch up.
"Good medicine tastes bitter," Ye Jinghuai said.
"But it's too bitter," An Nuan refused the second mouthful.
"Be good, I'll give you candy after you finish drinking it."
"Can you put the sugar directly in the medicine?"
"No," Ye Jinghuai refused.
An Nuan looked at Ye Jinghuai aggrievedly with her face full of grievance.
"This is a secret family remedy handed down in our family. I used to get injured a lot as a kid and drank this every time, and my body recovered very quickly," Ye Jinghuai explained.
"You used to get injured a lot as a kid?" An Nuan asked.
She was still somewhat surprised.
Ye Jinghuai was born wealthy, taken care of from childhood to adulthood, how could he get injured a lot?
"Drink the medicine first, then I'll tell you about it," Ye Jinghuai said straightforwardly, as if noticing An Nuan's doubts.
An Nuan hesitated for a moment.
Admit it.
She just really wanted to know what kind of person Ye Jinghuai was.
She gritted her teeth and nodded.
An Nuan drank down most of the bowl of bitter medicine one sip at a time.
So bitter.
She felt her entire mouth had lost all sensation.
At that moment, she suddenly saw Ye JInghuai's hand holding a White Rabbit milk candy.
Watching as Ye Jinghuai unwrapped it, he placed the candy by An Nuan's lips.
An Nuan opened her mouth, even somewhat impatiently wanting to eat the sweet candy.
But the moment she opened her mouth-
"Mm-" An Nuan's eyes widened.
She did taste the sweetness of the candy.
But what she tasted was the flavor inside his mouth.
The White Rabbit milk candy that Ye Jinghuai had didn't make it into her mouth. Instead, the moment she opened her mouth, he popped it into his own mouth, then deeply kissed her.
So this is...
The sweetness that the rumors describe when kissing?!
So sweet that An Nuan was completely enraptured.
In the quiet room.
Two bodies, held tightly together.
Lips pressed tightly, kissing deeply.
A long time.
So long that An Nuan felt as if time had stopped forever in that moment.
Only then did Ye Jinghuai part from her lips.
He parted from her somewhat swollen lips.
There was already color in his eyes.
But his body didn't make any other moves.
His eyes just kept staring at her rosy lips. His perfect lips opened slightly, "Still bitter?"
An Nuan's face turned red beyond compare.
Now her whole mouth was filled with...the flavor of White Rabbit milk candy.
"Want another piece?" Ye JInghuai asked her.
It felt as if Ye Jinghuai was treating her like a little girl, doting on her to the extreme.
"No more," An Nuan actually didn't like sweets.
Just now was only because it was too bitter.
Alright.
She was now starting to suspect whether in the future, she might grow to love the taste of candy.
"Then go to bed early, it's very late now,"
"Do you want to sleep?" An Nuan suddenly asked him.
"Miss An, sleep has many meanings," Ye Jinghuai solemnly reminded her.
An Nuan knew he was deliberately teasing her.
But she seemed to not dislike it so much anymore.
She told Ye Jinghuai very seriously at that moment, "I want to chat with you."
Ye Jinghuai's throat moved slightly.
He had probably guessed what An Nuan wanted to talk about.
He nodded, "Go ahead."
It was very late now.
After everything that had happened tonight, they should both be very tired.
But An Nuan at that moment truly couldn't fall asleep for even a second.
She looked at Ye Jinghuai's overly handsome face. She took a deep breath and asked, "Ye Jinghuai, do you care about my body?"
"Of course," Ye Jinghuai answered without hesitation, very definitively.
"Do you care about my first time?"
"I care a lot," his tone was clearly heavier.
An Nuan couldn't help biting her lip.
She felt that Ye Jinghuai was completely not following her line of questioning.
Normally after what happened tonight, as the man in this situation, shouldn't he be saying that what he cares about is only her heart?!
His tone was so definitive, how was she supposed to continue?
An Nuan stared at Ye Jinghuai.
Ye Jinghuai smiled instead, and said, "When loving a woman, you care about everything about her, including whether even a single strand of hair has been touched by another man."
An Nuan knew it.
Men were the creatures in this world that you could expect the least from.
"But caring doesn't mean disdaining," Ye Jinghuai said sincerely. "I've said that I will never disdain you."
So.
There was another layer of meaning to what Ye Jinghuai had said about not disdaining her.
An Nuan's heart stirred.
It was just so easy for Ye Jinghuai's words to deeply move her.
"So no matter how you change, whether your body is clean or not, I won't disdain you," Ye Jinghuai's words.
Were like oaths.
He was clearly telling her.
He wouldn't care whether or not she had been violated by someone tonight.
Her throat tightened.
Some emotions.
Were truly.
Very difficult to control.
She didn't know whether it was because she wasn't as cold-hearted as she thought she was, or if Ye Jinghuai's skill level was truly so high that even a frozen heart could be revived from the ashes.
She only knew that right now she didn't want to suppress her feelings anymore.
Actually.
She had truly realized her change in feelings, completely confirmed her change in feelings, was tonight, in the moment when that man was about to violate her. Her mind was full of Ye Jinghuai, full of guilt towards Ye Jinghuai, desperately wishing, desperately wanting to give her first time to this man, only to this man.
She didn't even think of anyone else, including Gu Yan Sheng.
Including the man she had once thought she loved deeply, loved so much.
She tried her best to maintain a calm tone of voice to ask him, "Ye Jinghuai, did you just say you loved me?"
What he said was, when loving someone, even her strands of hair would matter.
Ye Jinghuai was much more straightforward than her.
He had none of the struggles she did.
He said candidly, "Isn't it obvious?"
"But when did you fall in love with me? There's clearly no intersection between us, so when exactly did you..."
"Then when did you fall in love with me?!" Ye Jinghuai asked in return.
An Nuan's heart.
Suddenly tightened.
Why was Ye Jinghuai so certain that she loved him!
She wasn't even certain herself.
Where was he getting his confidence from!
