"I like you being genuine!"
If soone else said this, Qin Chu would think they were being pretentious.
When they really can’t find anything to praise about her, they say she’s simple and genuine.
But Lue Xizhou looked at her as if being genuine and real were rare qualities in this world, making her unique and one in a million.
"You must think I’m bluffing, right?"
Lue Xizhou looked into Qin Chu’s eyes, "You think I could easily complint your beauty, your personality, your coolness, and your style; things one can see at a glance, yet I chose to say sothing as vague as ’genuine’."
Qin Chu’s gaze paused slightly.
Lue Xizhou laughed, "Qin Chu, I can confidently say, I understand you better than anyone else, do you believe it?"
"No!"
Qin Chu spoke decisively.
But her heart was pounding wildly.
On the one hand, she felt that Lue Xizhou was flirting with her again.
On the other hand, she felt he was telling the truth.
But as soon as the latter thought appeared, Qin Chu denied it.
Lue Xizhou understands her better than anyone?
What a joke.
Counting from the first ti she t Lue Xizhou at the Hot Spring Villa with Lizi, they’ve only known each other for half a year.
Even when he gifted her a racing car, she didn’t have his phone number or WeChat by then.
They’ve only been closer in the past few months.
What does he understand about her?
"I knew you wouldn’t believe it. Alright, let analyze it for you..."
Lue Xizhou sat cross-legged and looked at Qin Chu, "You’re cold, you’re cool, simply because you don’t know how to face a world full of hostility toward you. You always feel that everyone around you could smile at you one second and turn on you the next, pointing at you saying, ’Do you know who this is? The Qin family’s illegitimate child!’"
Qin Chu’s expression changed slightly.
Lue Xizhou said seriously, "You think of yourself as a cactus, covered in spines, so people don’t dare to approach you, and you won’t get hurt, right? But Qin Chu, in my eyes, you’re like the little girl selling matches under the bridge."
"In the snow, people rush by, and only you, almost frozen, walk alone on the unfamiliar streets. You dream that soone will approach you, buy your matches, and then light a bonfire to warm you up together."
Qin Chu looked at Lue Xizhou in a daze, moving her mouth to argue.
But didn’t know what she could say.
Lue Xizhou took a deep breath and moved a step closer to Qin Chu, "Qin Chu, I’m sure I am the one who can warm you up. Do you want to... co into my arms?"
???
Qin Chu froze.
Isn’t a normal person supposed to say, ’Do you want to hold my hand’?
Co into your arms?
"Lue Xizhou, are you sure you’re not being a rogue?"
Qin Chu glared at him.
Her ears started to heat up.
Her heart, already pounding, was vibrating to the point where her eardrums seed to hurt.
"If I said this to every pretty woman, then I would indeed be a rogue. But Qin Chu, I’m saying this only to you, and for a lifeti. This isn’t being a rogue, it’s called... honesty!"
Lue Xizhou raised his chin slightly, "Co on, give a definite answer, are you coming or not!"
"Not coming!"
Qin Chu refused emphatically.
The air had a brief silence.
Just when Qin Chu thought Lue Xizhou would be embarrassed and leave.
He might even point at her and say, "Qin Chu, you’re just being ungrateful."
Lue Xizhou moved one step closer.
The distance between them was already only a ter.
With his movent, Qin Chu almost felt her knee touch his.
Wet and slippery.
Uncomfortably indescribable.
Lue Xizhou’s sweat scent filled her nostrils.
Yet, it wasn’t unpleasant.
Even so, this was the closest Qin Chu had ever been to the opposite sex in her past 26 years.
Subconsciously trying to move back.
However, her back was against the boxing ring’s railings.
There was no room to retreat.
"Qin Chu, I know what you’re thinking."
He reached out to pat Qin Chu’s face, signaling her to look up at him.
Lue Xizhou said in a deep voice, "You’re going to say that even if you do have feelings for , and agree to be my girlfriend, we won’t last in the future, right?"
Qin Chu looked up.
Lue Xizhou continued, "How long can a relationship last, right? It ultimately leads to marriage. My surna, it determines that my marriage can’t be at my discretion. My parents, the Lue Family, won’t let marry an illegitimate child."
With every sentence Lue Xizhou spoke.
Qin Chu’s face turned paler and paler.
By the ti Lue Xizhou finished, Qin Chu’s face had almost no color.
Lue Xizhou suddenly laughed, "How about it? Wasn’t I right?"
Seeing Qin Chu not speaking, knowing she was truly angry.
Lue Xizhou supported himself with one hand and scooted over to sit beside Qin Chu.
Shoulder to shoulder.
The sweat scent in the nose was even more apparent.
Yet, Qin Chu felt, it wasn’t at all unpleasant.
"Do you know why it’s only you?"
Lue Xizhou turned his head to ask Qin Chu.
Looking back, the man’s face, flushed from vigorous exercise, gradually cald down.
It seed like in the blink of an eye, he turned back into that handso, dashing man with a rebellious look.
But at this mont, there was none of that past arrogance and unruly deanor.
Qin Chu strangely felt a trace of restlessness and insecurity in him.
As if she had caught his weakness, a smile appeared on Qin Chu’s face, "Lue Xizhou, are you... nervous?"
Whether it was Lue Xizhou or Fu Yanci.
n like them wouldn’t get nervous in business settings.
They would be even less so in front of won.
Fu Yanci because of his cold, aloof temperant, won approaching him would freeze in place with just one look from him, not daring to step forward.
There’s no need to play up to won, so Uncle Fu isn’t nervous.
Lue Xizhou, on the other hand, is proficient and at ease.
Like he said, he understands her.
Lue Xizhou was modest.
What he understands is won.
To travel through a sea of flowers, leaving no leaf untracked, describes n like him.
In the crowd of won, he maneuvers as if a fish in water.
Would he be nervous?
Qin Chu found it a bit amusing.
Then saw Lue Xizhou nod candidly, "Yes, I’m nervous. Qin Chu, when you confess to the man you like, aren’t you nervous?"
Her heart sank.
Qin Chu’s breath also stalled.
She just blankly looked at Lue Xizhou.
Con...confession?
Her heart hadn’t even started beating.
Lue Xizhou said, "In the business world, I have to act calm, as if nothing happened while chaos unfolds. At social gatherings, I have to act. When I return ho, I have to act. Pretending to be the competent Mr. Lue who can handle everything, to reassure shareholders, partners, my family, to... reassure everyone. So, I act! But Qin Chu..."
Lue Xizhou looked seriously at Qin Chu, "I never put on an act in front of you. You make feel that no matter how much I act outside, how exhausted I am, in front of you, I’m just myself."
"Qin Chu, do you want to trust yourself once, and also trust once?"
Trust... trust yourself?
Qin Chu was stunned.
Lue Xizhou’s eyes curved with a smile, the fox-like charm even more apparent, "You’ve long had feelings for , just too stubborn to admit it. Qin Chu, wasn’t I right?"
???
"You, don’t you say such nonsense! I’m not, I didn’t..." did!
Nervous to the point of stuttering.
For so reason, there was a sense of danger spreading.
Qin Chu instinctively wanted to retreat.
Before she could step back, Lue Xizhou’s handso face suddenly moved closer.
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