The two of them were silent as they arrived at their neighborhood. Before she got out of the car, Han Muzi suddenly asked, “Don’t you own a car?”
When Ye Moxuan, who was about to pass the car key, heard that, he was stunned. “Why?”
“Sometimes I want to drive my car on my own.”
Ye Moxuan retorted furiously, “I’m here. I told you that I won’t leave you, so if there’s any place you want to go, you just need to let me know. I’ll send you.”
Han Muzi scrunched her nose, thinking what to reply to him. “It’s inconvenient. You can’t follow me everywhere.”
Ye Moxuan raised his eyebrows. “You want to get rid of me?”
“That’s not what I meant. Don’t you live on the other side of the city? Why don’t you ask Xiao Su to bring your car over and you can fetch me using your own car in the future?” After she uttered those words, Han Muzi paused momentarily. When she realized what she had just said, she turned her head back quickly. “Forget about it. Do whatever you want to do.”
Then, she opened the car door and walked off. After she took a few steps, she heard the sound of the car door being opened and closed, indicating Ye Moxuan, too, had gotten out of the car. Soon, he caught up with her. “I’ll get Xiao Su to drive the car over tomorrow.”
However, Han Muzi continued to walk, ignoring him.
When they got to the elevator, Ye Moxuan asked, “Are you happy now?”
She continued to ignore him while pursing her lips, looking away. She did not want to admit that she had uttered such words earlier.
“Are you embarrassed?
She feigned innocence. “Can’t you keep your mouth shut?”
Ye Moxuan’s gloomy mood was swept away and the smile in his eyes became apparent. These days, he had appeared before her to protect her, occupying her time and space. He knew he was somewhat seizing this opportunity to barge into her life. How loathsome of him.
But he could not control himself and be selfish. He wanted to be close to his woman despite what had happened between them in the past. He did not want to regret again, because he did not know whether he could withstand another five years of mental anguish.
Certainly, he felt her resistance toward him. However, her resistance slowly diminished, but it felt more like she was helpless about it or she was forced to accept him. In his opinion, it did not matter whether she was willing or forced to, as long as he could be with her anywhere and at all time.
As long as I’m by her side, no other man would get a chance. Even if she doesn’t accept me, there’s no other man around her that she can be with.
After they entered the elevator, Han Muzi stood against a wall and leaned tiredly. But at that moment, a pair of hands stretched over to her. “Lean on me if you are tired.”
She kept quiet while thinking about it, but didn’t refuse. For the first time, both of them stayed quiet in the confined space. They even took a while to move when the elevator door opened. It was Han Muzi who took the first step out. He naturally followed behind her.
When she arrived at the front of the door, she thought of something, so she turned to look at him. Her eyes had never looked so serious. “Thank you for your company during this period of time. Since it seems like there’s no more danger lurking around, and that so many things happened in your company, do you want to—”
“Are you worried about me? You are already thinking of the company for my sake?”
Han Muzi was silent.
“Don’t worry. I’ll take care of the company’s work matter and won’t neglect you.”
She looked at the dark circles around his eyes. When I leave home everyday, he is always there to take me to and fro from work. At the same time, his company’s work has also been taken care of. Surely he has less than five hours of sleep daily.
She bit her lip. “Even if you are worried about me, can you please take care of yourself?”
“Are you concerned about me?”
“It’s the weekend tomorrow. I’m not going out so you can rest well.”
Ye Moxuan looked at her quietly for a while before he suddenly embraced her in a hug. It was not a strong hug, but it resembled the action of a dragonfly skimming over the surface of water. But this hug had warmed her heart because he also placed a kiss on her forehead.
“You have to keep to your promise not to go out tomorrow.” His voice sounded so magnetic that her mouth went dry. Then, she responded dumbly, “Okay.”
…
She slowly but finally regained her senses after about ten minutes of being in the room. Subconsciously, she lifted her hands to touch her forehead—the area where Ye Moxuan had kissed. Damn it. Obviously it’s merely a kiss on the forehead. Why did my heart beat wilder than when he had kissed me on the lips? She sighed. Have I been single for too long that I had such a reaction?
Han Muzi rubbed her red, hot cheeks, and decided to take a bath. After her bath, she went to prepare her dinner. Ye Moxuan seemed to be busy because he didn not ask her to have dinner together this time around.
Come to think of it, he has been with me for a long time. Maybe he’s dealing with his work at this hour? She felt a pang of heartache when she thought of the dark circles under his eyes. She reached out to her phone and sent a WeChat text to him. ‘Do you want to come over for dinner?’
After she sent the text, she looked at it, thinking whether she should have sent the message. She then deleted it ten seconds later. After all, the text had been sent for only 10 seconds. It was impossible for Ye Moxuan to have read it immediately.
Han Muzi put down her phone in a beat and stomped back to the kitchen. She had just finished preparing the ingredients to cook when the doorbell rang.
Han Muzi wrinkled her nose. Who would come at this hour?
After she washed and dried her hands, she went to open the door.
Upon opening the door, the expression of Ye Moxuan, who was outside, darkened.
“W-What brings you here?”
He walked in with a furious look on his face. “How can you simply open the door without knowing who it is?”
Han Muzi was speechless.
“What if it is dangerous?”
Han Muzi thought to herself, You have been following me around these few days. If there’s any danger, you would have scared them away.
“Nah, I doubt it.” After she gave it some thought, she asked again, “Why are you here?”
Ye Moxuan squeezed his tall body into the area while his eyes stared at her face. “Did you not invite me to come over?”
“Me?” She paused for a while and suddenly remembered the message that she deleted earlier. “W-When did I?”
“Oops.” Ye Moxuan leaned down and put his forehead against hers. “It so happens that I was looking at my phone when your message came through.”
She was dumbfounded. The message was only sent for ten seconds and yet he managed to read it?
Her lips twitched. “Were you on your phone?”
He looked at her and gave an acknowledging hum, his eyes shining brighter than the millions of stars in the sky.
