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CHAPTER 87
She noticed the dangerous glimmer in those sexy eyes of his, while a mischievous grin flashed across his cheeks.
"You are beautiful. That wasn't the aphrodisiac inhaled from Mo Feng Yi's perfume talking. It was true. You are indeed a wonder," he complimented.
At the mention of Mo Feng Yi's name, she recalled the doubt she had of the matter before and pointed it out to him.
"Xueyi," she pulled his hand from her chin and took another step back towards an open space.
Now feeling free, she had the boldness to confront the matter. To him, however, it was more like she had the confidence to flee whenever she wished to.
"You mentioned Mo Feng Yi before and you still did now. How did you know she was the one?"
"Take a wild guess," he hinted, not leaving any room for doubt.
As much as he was trying his best to do the needful, he may have just caused more concoctions for her brain.
Andromeda thought about it for a few seconds before finally coming to a wild conclusion.
"Do not tell me that the meeting you went for, you went to see your girlfriend Mo Feng Yi?" His eyes darkened from the term she used in relating Mo Feng Yi to himself.
"She claims to be yours anyway," Andromeda blurted out. "Although, honestly, I think your taste is lousy if she is your woman."
She had just spoken the first words that came to mind without thinking. And when she lifted her eyes to meet his, what she saw left her mouth dried and jaw-dropping.
A deadly aura suddenly surrounded Liu Xueyi as he shot her a deathly glare for mentioning the one word he wished not to hear on any account.
"You said?"
The deepness in his voice as he uttered that question created a huge lump in her throat and she did back away, properly this time.
Boy was she glad she found an open space to retreat to at times like this.
She had thought about it teasingly and decided to voice it out as a joke, but who knew that joke was going to be this crazy?
"Liu…" she swallowed hard and took another big step backwards with both of her hands stretched forward, trying to plead her cause and stop him.
All of a sudden, she felt her back hit something and she reached behind to feel it. She had reached another blockage.
Dead End.
Andromeda had no idea how well she backed away to the point where she had reached the wall close to the window where her desk was placed.
Left with no other option, she decided diplomacy may be the best course of action. "Liu Xueyi."
"Whose girlfriend did you call that soul?" His eyes held no humour in them, masking away any form of joy, leaving only dread in their wake.
"I… Well, she... you know. She... I just thought."
There was no explaining it. How could she even have thought about that? The absurdity of the matter.
Not wanting to grant her any chance to run away, Liu Xueyi walked briskly over to her and pulled her into his arms, shocking Andromeda to the core at how fierce he could be.
With the sudden closeness between them, her breathing skipped a beat and she forgot to actual breath while she stared into those dark onyx eyes of his, a complete contrast to her perfect blue ones.
"Xueyi." The sweet sound of her words, etched in her mouth sent a different meaning to his ears and he desired to hear her call them again, this time in a more sonorous pleasured way.
"Andromeda, I would make it clear right now. I have no connection with Mo Feng Yi and I only returned to clear my doubts about whether or not she was the one and to scare her off from bullying you."
She could not believe she made such a horrendous mistake. All she wanted to do was a tease and well, she teased out the wrong side of him.
"I-I didn't know. I am sorry."
"Sorry?"
That wasn't the sad thing. What ached was the fact that for her, he got himself entangled and inhaled so much of her aphrodisiac perfume bit what did he get?
"Tsk, my taste is lousy, huh?" He allowed his gaze to trail down her face to the side of her body to prove a silent point.
"I do not think my taste is lousy except you call yourself lousy."
"Huh?"
He let her go instantly and walked some feet away from her, creating enough breathing space between them lest things got out of control again in the name of him proving his point.
"You should actually look in the mirror before you tell me my taste is lousy," Liu Xueyi added.
With that he walked back to the other side of her desk and gently sat down, waiting for her to do the same.
Andromeda took some seconds, remaining in the bent position he left her at, while her brain tried to think properly about what he meant.
'I should check myself in the mirror? Wait, does that mean he is calling out my dating skills with Wu Bai too? Argh… sigh. Let it go. Sadly I cannot yell at him.'
She shook her head and placed both hands down. Slowly, Andromeda stole a glance at Liu Xueyi to find him staring at her.
She whipped her head away quickly, avoiding his intense gaze.
'I did have a lousy taste with men in the past, but even he is no different. Oh wait, he said he knew her not, but how did he know who she was? Hmm, I do not buy his story. I shall find out.'
With her thoughts fixed, she cleared her throat and turned to face him moving closer to take her seat as she waited for his next words.
"You know, for a girl who claims she wants me to keep my space, you shouldn't go about using me like that," Liu Xueyi cautioned with a smirk.
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