"Alright, I won’t worry needlessly anymore then." Dong Wenxiu smiled, "I’ll go check out the kitchen."
"I’ll join you." Feng Zilan followed along to the kitchen.
Meanwhile, after running out of the Yang Family home, Li Jiaya calmed down. She raised her hand to wipe the tears from her cheek with the back of her hand and sat down on a rock by the river. She had indeed been impulsive just now.
Although she truly liked Shu Luo, the two families’ statuses are ultimately unequal. She doesn’t possess Xinxin’s ability to disregard these concerns. Forget it, Li Jiaya can pick up and let go, just treat it as a dream. Let her parents arrange for a match when she returns.
Having convinced herself of this, she no longer hesitated, stood up to head home, but then...
Ah!
Ah!
Unbeknownst to her, a person was standing behind her, and upon suddenly standing up, she bumped her head directly into the person’s chin.
This resulted in the simultaneous outcry of two screams.
Startled and shocked from the collision, Li Jiaya instinctively stepped back, but stepping on a rock, she fell straight backward.
"You murderer... Jiaya! Watch out!" Shu Luo clutched his chin and hopped in place, but upon seeing her about to fall into the river, he disregarded everything, reached out, grabbed her hand that was trying to find something to hold onto, and with a strong pull, pulled her back, spinning his foot to move away from the riverbank.
Li Jiaya, still in shock, suddenly found herself in his arms and instinctively raised her hand to slap him.
Shu Luo was stunned by the slap.
"Scoundrel." Li Jiaya glared at him, then turned to leave.
"Hey!" Shu Luo quickly moved to block her path, "I saved you."
"If you hadn’t scared me from behind, would I have fallen?" Li Jiaya glared at him, "Since... since you don’t like me, I won’t like you either. Don’t bother me anymore!" With that, she prepared to walk past him and leave.
Shu Luo took a deep breath, and in the instant she was about to sidestep him, he suddenly grasped her hand.
"You..."
But before she could finish speaking, he wrapped his arms around her and sealed her lips with his.
Li Jiaya only felt her head buzz, as if thrown into a furnace.
Despite being the young master of the Shu Family, the Shu Family was known for being virtuous, with none of those intimate affairs, nor did they frequent those romantic venues. Therefore, while he knew about relationships between men and women, he was naive about how to proceed, much like now. He didn’t know what to do next.
Thus, the two of them just stood there, wide-eyed and lips touching, motionless.
"Uh... This seems to require closing your eyes," Shu Luo finally released her after a long while and said.
"Oh." Li Jiaya immediately closed her eyes, but then quickly opened them again, "You didn’t close your eyes."
Shu Luo hurriedly closed his eyes too.
And so, they both stood there with closed eyes, neither moving.
In the shadows, Yang Xiong couldn’t help but roll his eyes at the naivety of these two, and could only cough deliberately.
The two, with their eyes closed, promptly parted.
"You two continue, I’m just passing by." Yang Xiong said with a small smile and then turned to leave.
Li Jiaya’s face turned beet red: "You..."
"I’ll head back shortly and ask my grandfather to find a time to propose marriage to your family." Shu Luo, aware of his inexperience, but not wanting to show it, reached out and took Li Jiaya’s hand, "Let me walk you home."
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