Chapter 68: Yan Xi
There were clearly clues, clearly more than once of heart-fluttering moments, yet he just didn’t react at all.
It wasn’t until Yan Xi’s casual joke that he suddenly realized.
“Heh~”
The laughter in his eyes splashed like water flowers, joyful and unrestrained.
“I’m talking to you, kid, what are you grinning about all by yourself?”
Even the thick-skinned Yan Xi noticed something off and couldn’t help but reach out worriedly to feel his forehead, “You aren’t running a fever, are you?”
“Sister, I’m not feverish, I just figured out something important.”
“Is that so?”
Thinking of her subordinate’s personality, his mind and heart were full of his research, that important thing might well be about work again.
Yan Xi shook her head and withdrew her hand, advising in the tone of an elder sister, “I’m telling you, Yan Xiao Qi, Comrade Yan, can’t you stop thinking about work when we’re home resting?”
“You’re already in your twenties, like Mom says, with your aloof and reclusive personality wasting the most beautiful face in the family, at least give us brothers and sisters some face by first tricking… cough, first getting a partner?”
Don’t think she didn’t know all those nasty things said in the courtyard.
All the Yan Family juniors were like poking a nest of bachelors, what’s the use of being excellent?
Eyes too picky, this not good that unwilling, all of them one surpassing the next in ‘old age’, sooner or later all turning into leftovers.
Pfft, bullshit nonsense!
Those childhood friends, not one could fight, all cowering like mice seeing a cat when they saw her.
Give them her green plum?
If they really could bring themselves to do it, she’d have to squat down to ride them!
“Sister.”
Seeing her furious expression, Yan Bei felt exhausted: See, can’t stop picking from the so-called childhood friends pile?
Childhood sweethearts, innocent playmates. Reuniting in the best and most beautiful years, a paper of commitment from then on life and death bound, white hair together till the end.
Ms. Xiang and the Yan big devil king’s love was very beautiful, its ups and downs full of twists and turns, the legendary love story of missing and then possessing could be written into a notebook.
But, can love be copied?
How to persuade such a stubborn-minded sister?
“Sigh~”
“Don’t sigh at me, it was subconscious… you know!”
Reflexively clenching her fist, Yan Xi threatened viciously: Damn it, tormented daily by the big devil king’s sighs, whoever dares sigh in front of her again, try it and see!
If she doesn’t beat him to death, she isn’t the Yan witch!
“Let’s go, we’re here.”
Sure enough, as his words fell, the car steadily stopped at the hotel entrance.
Yan Xi quickly straightened her hair and clothes, striving to leave the best impression on her subordinate’s benefactor.
……
Standing at the room door, though they had only left that morning, Yan Bei felt as if it had been ages, with a strange nervousness.
Since meeting Su Ning, in this short time he seemed to have experienced more emotions than in his twenty-two years.
Before he could savor and reminisce again.
The impatient Yan Xi yanked the person away from the door: Was the door in front a man-eating monster? Raise hand, lower it, raise again, just knocking, so troublesome!
“Sister, wait…”
“Knock knock knock~”
Good grief!
Yan Bei, not mentally prepared, silently withdrew his hand, his expression instantly reverting to calm and composed as her knocking sounded.
Only… if the tips of his ears weren’t so burning hot, cough~, it would be more perfect.
“Knock knock~”
After waiting several more minutes, still no one opened the door.
“What’s going on? Is no one in?”
Yan Xi, full of suspicion, turned to look at her own subordinate, surely not injured with a bad brain forgetting the room?
They had nested in the same womb for eight or nine months, just from her look Yan Bei knew she was inwardly mocking him again.
Rubbing his brow, Yan Family men had always been utterly helpless against their own ladies from top to bottom.
Couldn’t hit, even more reluctant to scold, so just endure it.
Tactically pretending to see nothing, Yan Bei stepped forward, his voice like winter clear spring flowing, low, pleasant, and with a special magnetism, “Su Ning? Su Ning, are you in?”
“Knock knock, knock knock~”
Had she taken Xiao Qiu out to find the Zhang Family?
Didn’t she say to wait until work was done before joining them…
Thinking of Su Ning’s temperament, from several interactions his intuition was she didn’t like dragging things out, unwilling to easily trouble others or owe favors.
It really might be possible that what she told them was just an excuse.
“Sister, she might have gone out…”
“Click—”
……
Having just come out from the space after eating her fill, Su Ning heard the room door being knocked.
Vaguely through the door came a voice, seemed like… Yan Bei?
She lifted her hand to smell herself, full of meal meat fragrance.
Looking around the room, besides the bed and table her suitcase, and the just-bought unboxed gift boxes, everything else was spotlessly clean with no food residue.
Quickly returning to the space for a quick shower, changing into a skirt, then immediately flashing back to the outer room.
Ignoring her hastily wiped but still dripping long hair, she hurried forward to open the door.
“Yan…”
How come, one more person than she expected?
Looking at the brightly beautiful woman like a peach blossom in full bloom in the sunny March, splendidly vibrant regardless of the late spring chill.
Her gaze swept to Yan Bei beside, Su Ning somewhat surprised: What situation?
“Su…”
“You must be Su Ning, right?”
Yan Bei, half a beat slow and robbed of words, gave Su Ning an apologetic smile, his eyes full of soothing warm gentleness.
Seeing this, Su Ning slightly relaxed and politely nodded with a smile, “I’m Su Ning.”
“Great! I’m Yan Xi, Yan Bei’s sister, specially representing the whole family to sincerely invite you to visit our home.”
“?”
She heard clearly, but didn’t understand the meaning.
When?
Had Yan Bei said to invite her home?
“I didn’t explain clearly, the elders at home learned you saved Yan Bei and specially set a banquet to invite you, must properly thank your lifesaving favor, please Su Ning give us the opportunity to express our gratitude!”
So… formal?
Are you sure you know, his two broken ribs are still… cough cough~
“Yan Bei, didn’t we agree this lifesaving favor offsets back then?”
Su Ning, slightly embarrassed, didn’t wait for him to speak and turned to Yan Xi, “Comrade Yan, this lifesaving favor is too much, no need to be so polite, we…”
“How can you say that, such a great lifesaving favor, what offset, unless Yan Xiao Qi offsets with his body…”
“Yan Xi!”
“Heh~”
Scared, the words at her lips changed tone directly, Yan Xi quietly clenched her fist, knuckles cracking crisply.
Su Ning, utterly confused: Offset with… what?
“Su Ning, let’s not talk about that, just as friends visiting my home, isn’t that appropriate?”
“In that case…”
Still something off somewhere?
“Mm, then you pack up first, we’ll wait here for you.”
“……”
Watching her eyes full of dizzy spirals as she dazedly closed the door, Yan Bei’s upturned mouth corners couldn’t be pressed down.
Heaven knows, when she with disheveled hair and damp eyes looked at him.
That moment the palpitation in his heart came so surging and turbulent for the first time, almost making him unable to control lifting his hand to rub that no matter how he looked, cute head.
If he could bag her in a sack… and carry straight back, even better.
“Hiss—”
A sour painful sensation jolted Yan Bei back to awareness.
Yan Xi warned with a skin-deep smile, “This time for your injury it’s just a little lesson, dare call my full name again, heh~”
Silently moving several steps away to safety, Yan Bei then cupped fists and bowed, “If you really want me to do what you said in the car, please shut your noble mouth.”
Shut your noble mouth what the hell?!
And what did she say in the car? What matter?
Ruffling her short hair twice, Yan Xi reviewed everything from getting in the car to now, her naturally smart but study-hating self immediately got it.
Look at subordinate, then at the closed door.
“Yan Xiao Qi, you fancy…”
“Cough~”
“Got it, got it!”
Bubbles of gossip bubbling all over, Yan Xi grinned like a mouse fallen into a rice store.
Obnoxiously so, unbearable to look at!
“Sister, why don’t you go back first?”
“Why, not only won’t I hinder you, I can even assist, just secretly rejoice!”
Yan Xi turned back pouting: Want to drive old lady away, even if the skylight opens it’ll be locked tight!
Yan Xiao Qi Yan Bei’s gossip, she was determined to have it! Front row kind, no one can make her leave!
