Chapter 958: Just A Mystery
How could that teeny tiny guilt in her eyes escape Xia Zhao's eyes when he was even familiar with all her expressions? It had to be said that the person he studied the most in his life was the woman standing in front of him. So, even though they hadn't met in years, he could still understand her every single frown.
Mu Chenyan again looked at her teeth marks and blood on his forearm and sighed, "I'll bring the medicine box." When she came back, she pushed him to sit down and started cleaning the wound that she inflicted. She took a cotton swab and cleaned his wound with the antiseptic.
Xia Zhao was focused on her movements as if trying to figure something out. As if just looking at her face, he'd be able to find the answers he was looking for. Clearly, he was wrong. He didn't find the answers but found himself in a trance.
"Ouch!"
Mu Chenyan's hand paused and she looked up at him with an ugly look on her face.
"What? It hurts," he said.
Mu Chenyan snorted, "Yeah, right." When she bit him, it didn't hurt and now it was hurting because of the antiseptic. What a joke! Her intelligence might drop around him but that didn't mean she couldn't tell he was lying right now.
She dabbed the cotton swab on his arm again and he winced, "Ssss... Painful."
Mu Chenyan paused again and bit the inside of her lips to stop herself from laughing right now. But she couldn't suppress her smile right now because of his antics.
"How callous! Here I'm in pain and you're smiling? Does my misery excites you that much?"
Mu Chenyan looked into his eyes and nodded, "Yes! I love to see you in pain. Happy to know that?"
He gave her a look of disbelief, "Yan Zi, you are cruel!"
"Is it your first day knowing how cruel I am?" she asked while shaking her head. She wrapped his wound with a bandage and said, "If you don't want to suffer, don't look for trouble with me again."
"That is not possible," commented Xia Zhao. "My whole life will become cloudy if you're not there to make trouble."
"Weren't you in peace when I wasn't around to make trouble?" she inquired. "If I remember correctly, you love cloudy days."
"I also thought I did love cloudy days," he told her. His hand lifted up to tuck a strand of hair behind her ear as he said softly, "But I think I was wrong."
Mu Chenyan stilled when his fingers brushed against her ear so softly. She didn't move for a whole minute. She breathed through her mouth and punched his arm saying, "Behave yourself!"
Xia Zhao who was punched out of nowhere couldn't chuckle at her reaction.
"What are you doing here?" she asked.
"I told you, I came to see Uncle Tian," he replied.
Mu Chenyan squinted her eyes at him, "So, you're here to see him?"
"Why? Are you upset that I'm not here to see you?" he asked.
Mu Chenyan lifted her foot and kicked his calf without any restraint, "Who said that? Do I look like I want to see you? Do you think you're that important?"
Xia Zhao staggered a little because of this unexpected kick on his calf. It was painful. Very painful. But he didn't say anything. He didn't even wince yet again. He just sighed at how defensive she got.
"Isn't that the problem?" he commented. "The fact that I'm not that important."
"Does it hurt?" she asked.
"It doesn't," he replied.
"Sorry," she grumbled.
"It's okay," he said. "I'm used to it. My stance is still the same. You can just hit me when I get on your nerve. Don't always keep it inside yourself."
"You do realize that you're the reason why I am who I am today, right?"
"Me? What did I do?" he asked in confusion.
"You're the reason I became so competitive in life, you're also the reason I don't hold back. Whenever I hit you, you just let it go. You always give in when I want you to but you also never give up when I don't want you to. It's the..."
"It's the first time, I'm not giving when you want me to," he completed her words for her. "You should listen to your niece. Stop this obsession before it turns into greed."
He was about to leave when she held his arm once more to stop him, "What if I want to be greedy?"
Xia Zhao looked at her eyes and was a bit startled by what he noticed. He looked away and avoided that topic saying, "Let's go. I'm hungry. I have to see how good of a master chef you have become now."
Mu Chenyan pulled him back and made him bump into her as she stared right into his eyes. They stood very close to each other right now. So close that Xia Zhao's body inexplicably went taut. He was avoiding his eyes when she pinched his chin and made him stare at her, "What? Want to run?"
"Where do you think I can run?" he asked. "I was always standing right here. It's you who always chose to run."
Mu Chenyan felt like she heard a bit of grievance in his voice when he said that. She cleared her throat and said, "Then what are you standing here for? Since I ran, you shouldn't be foolishly standing here!"
"You asked me to stand here," he answered. "You told me if I stood there, you'd come back."
Mu Chenyan's hands clenched and she sneered. She poked his forehead saying, "You are the real fool between the two of us. And here I thought, nothing could cause a storm in your peaceful world."
"From the moment you walked into my life, I already knew there won't be any peace in my life."
If anyone heard their conversation, it'd be very difficult to understand what they were really talking about. They really had their own way to talk in puzzles which only they understood. And to the listener, it was just a mystery.
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