n of poor character, whether formidable or not, are very frightening.
So girls think they are marrying a husband, only to jump straight into a grave.
Tong Le nodded earnestly, listening to him speak, while Li Zaijun, seated in the passenger seat, was silent, looking out at the rain through the window, her thoughts unknown.
Shen Lin dropped Tong Le off first, taking her ho, and then slowly drove Li Zaijun back to the compound.
After Tong Le had left, only the two of them remained in the car, quiet, with only the sound of other cars’ horns and the pitter-patter of rain audible.
Neither of them spoke first.
The atmosphere gradually beca subtle.
The car rged into the traffic, cruising unhurriedly, and at that mont, Shen Lin’s hand suddenly opened the storage compartnt in the middle of the seats.
Despite still looking ahead as he drove, his slender hand extended a bottle of milk in a glass jar toward her, "Take it."
Li Zaijun paused, her hand slowly taking it from him.
It was still warm?
She looked at Shen Lin, slightly astonished, as Shen Lin lightly touched his nose and said gently,
"What are you looking at? I only took this one bottle when I left the office, not knowing she would be there, so I didn’t give it to her."
His reason for not giving it to her at the start didn’t need much explanation.
As Li Zaijun listened to him, her gaze withdrew and her eyelashes fluttered slightly.
The glass bottle filled with warm milk slowly transmitted its warmth, warming her cold hands.
She twisted off the cap and took a few sips, a ring of white froth clinging to her small mouth, which her little tongue lightly licked away.
Shen Lin, who caught this scene unexpectedly through the mirror: "..."
"You ca specifically to find ."
Li Zaijun stated softly, without doubt.
Without beating around the bush, Shen Lin chuckled softly and agreed with an "Mhm."
The grip of Li Zaijun’s hand on the milk bottle tightened, and for a mont, she didn’t know what to say.
Mostly, she felt awkward.
After all, he was her brother’s good friend, and she had co to see him as a brother as well.
But from so point on, things had subtly changed.
But... what about the arranged date?
Thinking this, she also spoke softly, "You’re going to a matchmaking session this week."
Hearing this, Shen Lin glanced at her, his smile amused but not outright, "What, are you unhappy about it?"
Li Zaijun took another two sips of the warm milk, pressed her lips together and said, "What’s it to ? It’s not a matter of being happy or unhappy."
She brushed it off cleanly.
But Shen Lin chuckled lightly and shook his head,
"I know you’re indifferent to , but I’m not so fickle. The matchmaking session is real, arranged by my family with a suitable match, just to et this week, but I gently rejected it."
As he said this, his tone paused, then he added,
"The reason I said that earlier was because I saw your classmate was quite concerned about . With a brother as outstanding as , what if your classmate took a fancy to , then what?"
So that’s why he ntioned the matchmaking session.
Hearing this, Li Zaijun was sowhat at a loss for words, but in the end, she said, "Aren’t you being a little presumptuous? How can everyone like you?"
Even though Tong Le indeed had the expression of a starry-eyed admirer.
"Ha, everyone likes ? Don’t you just dislike ?"
Shen Lin retorted.
"I—"
Her words caught in her throat, awkward and hard to articulate, but finally, she said, "Yes, I don’t like you."
She spoke with conviction, unaware—
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