Chapter 221: Choose Me or Him
“Watching you,” Jin Shi Yue lightly parted his lips, stating two words with utmost seriousness.
“Your hair isn’t even dry yet.” Lian Li glanced at his jet-black short hair, noting its excellent texture and feel.
The last time she had grabbed his hair was last night.
Her two slender white legs were spread apart and resting on the sofa armrest.
The man, who was always meticulous about cleanliness, leaned down.
The dim light from the floor-to-ceiling window created a sense of varying depths that was alluring, causing her to grip his hair tightly with her fingers.
She suddenly remembered that Jin Shi Yue had dried her hair many times, but she seemed to have never dried his.
“Let me dry your hair.”
Lian Li closed her computer, stood up, and brought over a hair dryer.
Jin Shi Yue watched her run around with great interest. She plugged in the hair dryer, then bent her right leg, kneeling on one knee between his legs. She lowered her eyes and diligently dried his hair.
Jin Shi Yue leaned back lazily against the sofa. Lian Li leaned forward, holding the hair dryer in one hand and parting his hair with the other, looking quite professional and attentive.
“Have you dried Jin Yan Ting’s hair before?” Jin Shi Yue asked, his tone ambiguous.
“No,” Lian Li replied without hesitation.
Jin Shi Yue’s brow relaxed, a look of elation on his face. As she finished drying his hair and prepared to leave, he wrapped his long arm around her waist and abruptly pulled her onto his lap.
Lian Li was caught completely off guard, almost falling onto him. She blinked her eyelashes and looked at him in a daze.
Jin Shi Yue snatched the hair dryer from her hand, tossed it aside, and held her completely in his embrace.
“Did you cut your nails?” His eyes swept over her hands.
Lian Li nodded, “I just cut them today.”
She always ended up scratching him, but he was strong and didn’t feel pain, while her nails did.
Lian Li mentioned that she had bought a gift for Xue Shufan at the mall today. Li Ye seemed to have a knack for picking gifts for girls, like a friend to women, completely unlike Tao Su and Ling Yu.
“Did your assistant choose people based on Wi-Fi signals?”
Lian Li adjusted herself in Jin Shi Yue’s arms, finding a comfortable position to chat with him. “Tao Su, Li Ye, and Ling Yu – their personalities are like Wi-Fi signals, increasing in intensity. One is cold, one is gentle, and one is passionate.”
It was the first time someone had evaluated his assistant in such a way.
Jin Shi Yue let out a slightly weary chuckle from his throat, “Are the three bars full?”
“Mm.”
Lian Li was just joking. She knew that anyone working under the Second Young Master Jin was certainly no ordinary person.
Ling Yu had likely come from the Military Region. As for Li Ye and Tao Su… Lian Li wasn’t sure; they hadn’t demonstrated Military Boxing for her.
It started raining outside, the bead-like raindrops pattering against the window. Lian Li wanted to see the sea through the misty rain. Jin Shi Yue held her as they sat on the sofa by the balcony window, listening to the sound of the falling rain and gazing at the sea.
On this rainy day, fine mist splattered against the window, covering it with a thin layer of water, blurring the view as if draped in a delicate white veil.
Lian Li nestled in Jin Shi Yue’s arms, looking outside, and spoke about her past trips back to Taipei with Lian Jingcheng, each experience being different.
In the Capital City, Lian Jingcheng thought about finding her mother every day. In Taipei, Lian Jingcheng returned to his hometown and was visibly happier, perhaps because it was where he and Ji Tan had met, fallen in love, and grown to know each other.
Lian Li spoke while consistently looking straight ahead, gazing at the distant sea and rain. Jin Shi Yue’s gaze, however, remained fixed on her, never wavering.
After an unknown amount of time, she quieted down, and he remained silent.
Most of their interactions involved noise, either him speaking or her speaking. He would tease her most of the time, and they rarely spent time together in quietude.
Raindrops fell on the sea, creating countless ripples, the scene shrouded in mist.
In the silent quietude, Jin Shi Yue suddenly spoke, “I’ve been watching you for a long time.”
His voice was deep, his tone as casual as usual.
“I know,” Lian Li said.
Jin Shi Yue, however, replied, “You don’t know.”
Hearing this, Lian Li turned to look at him, her eyes sparkling like they were adorned with a sky full of stars.
Jin Shi Yue looked into her eyes, lifted her chin with his long fingers, and lowered his head to kiss her.
A kiss on a rainy day, damp and pure, fostering affection.
After the kiss ended, Lian Li nestled in Jin Shi Yue’s arms, her breath unsteady, and said to him, “Before we go back, let’s go have another bowl of beef noodles.”
Jin Shi Yue’s trip this time was low-key. His private jet had few attendants. In the luxurious and elegant cabin, besides the two of them, there were only Li Ye and three flight attendants.
Lian Li was bored on the plane and braided two pigtails for herself. She picked through suitable earrings and found only white iris earrings in her bag, which didn’t suit her look, so she took a baseball cap and put it on.
Lian Li fastened her hat and turned her head to look at Jin Shi Yue, “Does it look good?”
The baseball cap almost covered her small, palm-sized face.
Jin Shi Yue: “Dressed so heavily, are you planning to steal something?”
“?”
Lian Li was displeased, her tone stiff, “Steal you.”
“No need to steal,” Jin Shi Yue curved his lips into a smile, “I’ll deliver myself to you for free.”
Li Ye glanced at the couple flirting.
The young girl, with her two small braids and baseball cap, looked like a female college student playing baseball, full of youthful energy.
Lian Li arranged her two braids, placing them on her chest. She opened her mobile phone’s front camera and took a picture. Her hair was neat and tidy, sharp and refreshing.
In the past, she was busy with her studies and cello while looking for her mother, and occasionally had to socialize with Jin Yan Ting and entertain guests. She didn’t have the time to style her hair.
Now that she finally had some free time, she impulsively decided to style herself.
Jin Shi Yue didn’t understand the cello, nor did he understand girls.
It was just that her face attracted romance.
Oh, and her mouth… sometimes venomous, sometimes flippant.
The plane arrived at Capital International Airport.
Lian Li was the first to unbuckle her seatbelt and disembark, her straight, long legs moving swiftly, not waiting for him.
“What are you running for?”
“You said I looked like I was stealing, so I’m going to steal to support you,” Lian Li said, her voice petulant and willful, without looking back.
Jin Shi Yue was amused by her. He strode forward in a few steps, blocked her path, and took her hand as they walked towards the waiting Rolls-Royce.
“We’ll steal at home.”
Lian Li looked at his chiseled profile, thought for two seconds, and said, “That works too. Besides you, everything else in your house is easy to steal.”
Jin Shi Yue scoffed and escorted her into the car.
The driver was still wearing white gloves, but his face was unfamiliar.
Jin Shi Yue’s drivers changed quite frequently.
Lian Li mused, settling comfortably into the back seat, and turned her head to watch the man slowly get into the car.
“Did Jin Yan Ting arrange for you to go abroad?” he asked abruptly.
Lian Li pondered for a few seconds and said, “Are you referring to studying abroad? His secretary handled the arrangements for my studies abroad, and I asked for some experience.”
This summer, Jin Yan Ting had originally planned for her to go to Switzerland with him, but after her relationship with Jin Shi Yue was discovered, Jin Yan Ting never brought it up again.
Jin Shi Yue was likely not referring to going to Switzerland, but to the United States.
“I’ve made arrangements on my end as well.”
Jin Shi Yue leaned back lazily against the seat, a faint, meaningful smile playing on his lips, “Will you choose me, or him?”
