Chapter 289 Did he trick me?

Qiao Xing's lips twitched. His reaction seemed off. Was it because he hadn't imitated him well enough?

"I'm fine, do you want to go to sleep?"

"Sleep." He said, then suddenly bent down and picked her up, startling Qiao Xing, who quickly wrapped her arms around his neck.

Qin Ce carried her back to the bedroom, kicked the bedroom door shut, put Qiao Xing on the bed, and leaned down to get closer.

Qiao Xing tensed up upon seeing this. She only wanted to tell him to go to sleep, not to exercise with him.

She grabbed Qin Ce's collar, her cheeks burning. "Wait, first, turn off the lights."

Qin Ce stared at her for two seconds, then got up to turn off the light, lay down next to her, hugged her and kissed her twice, then buried his head in the crook of her neck and called her name very softly.

"Star."

"What's wrong?"

Then he fell silent.

Qiao Xing stared at the dark ceiling. A minute passed, ten minutes passed, half an hour passed...

This guy definitely didn't sleep last night!

Otherwise, he couldn't have fallen asleep so quickly, in less than ten seconds.

She secretly reached out and touched his cheek, then his eyes, to make sure he was asleep.

She then turned over and went to sleep.

Although the man was asleep, he seemed to reflexively grab her waist and pull her back.

Qiao Xing was being held very tightly by him, just like when she hugged the plush bear before, and she had to put on the mask of pain again.

The next day, Qiao Xing woke up, picked up her phone and saw it was 10:30. Her heart skipped a beat, but then she remembered that it was a holiday, so she went back to bed reassured.

After lying in bed for a few minutes, she got up again, thinking about her trip abroad the next day.

Qiao Xing tidied the sheets, got up and walked out. There was breakfast on the table, which was still warm.

Was it because he had just started? Could he possibly guess when she would get up?

Qiao Xing ate a couple of bites and then went to the study.

The door was open, and Qin Ce was working inside.

She knocked on the door. "Qin Ce."

Qin Ce looked up at her and asked, "What's wrong? Have you eaten?"

"We've eaten. Are we leaving tomorrow? Should we pack our things?"

"Okay, just pack whatever you need, don't bring too much."

"Okay, then I'll help you pack a couple of clothes. May I come in?" Most of his clothes are in the study, but it's an important place, so I still need to ask permission first.

In all this time, Qiao Xing has never gone in without permission.

Seeing her clinging to the doorway, Qin Ce couldn't help but chuckle. "Of course you can come in. Isn't the study your home too?"

Qiao Xing smiled, straightened up and went inside. However, once inside, she saw that Qin Ce had closed his work interface and was looking at his desktop.

Qiao Xing's smile vanished instantly.

“You…” Qiao Xing pointed at his desktop, her fingers trembling slightly, “You, you really used this photo as your desktop wallpaper??”

Qin Ce glanced at the table; it was the photo taken at the amusement park last time—the one with her crooked mouth, slanted eyes, and rolling her eyes.

"How beautiful."

Is he blind?! What's so beautiful about this?

When Qiao Xing saw the photo, her rationality began to crumble. She tried to negotiate amicably with Qin Ce, "Could we get a different one?"

"Okay." Qin Ce casually picked up the next photo, another one of the amusement park photos. He had taken ten photos last time.

Qiao Xing's expression was starting to crack, she said, "I have a lot of photos here, can you please not use those from the amusement park?"

"I just think this one looks good."

"You..." Qiao Xing glared at him resentfully, "Are you really not going to change?"

Qin Ce caught a glimpse of her gaze, his eyelids twitched slightly, and he tentatively asked, "What will happen if we don't change it?"

"If you don't change it, I'm going to make a scene!"

"What exactly is going on?"

Qiao Xing pounced on him, grabbed his collar, and shook him frantically, yelling, "Ahhh, change it now!!"

"Did you hear me?!"

Qin Ce held her waist, her hair disheveled from being shaken.

While Qiao Xing was still in a frenzy, she suddenly felt a tightness around her waist and lost her footing, which startled her so much that she stopped talking and forgot what she was doing.

The next second, Qin Ce pulled her to sit on the desk. Looking at the man approaching, she dared not move.

"What, what are you going to do?"

Qin Ce braced himself against her side with one hand, and with the other hand, he took out his phone, held it in mid-air, and snapped a picture of their intimate pose.

His deep eyes were fixed on Qiao Xing, and he said in a low voice, "I'll change it."

Qiao Xing looked at the face so close to hers, her heart suddenly raced, and her face flushed. "You're not going to use this picture we just took, are you?"

"Is it nice?" he said, handing the photo on the screen to her.

Qiao Xing glanced at the photo on the screen. In the photo, she was sitting on the table, looking up at Qin Ce, and Qin Ce was looking down at her. It gave her the illusion that they were about to kiss.

He does take good photos, though.

"This..." Qiao Xing recalled the embarrassing photo he saw as soon as he turned on his computer, and suddenly felt that it was not as good as the one of him rolling his eyes.

"How about we don't change it?"

"Whatever you say." Qin Ce put his phone away and lifted her off the table. "Go collect the laundry."

"Oh." Qiao Xing blushed and silently went to the side to collect the clothes, sensing that something was wrong.

She opened the cabinet, glanced back at the man whose expression remained unchanged, and frowned slightly.

Was I tricked by him?

Anyway, after being teased by him, she wasn't in the mood to care about the things on the table. Qin Ce's clothes all looked the same, so she just grabbed two sets of his clothes and left the study.

Qiao Xing packed their clothes into a box, and then she noticed that the box she had used to pack the local specialties yesterday was missing.

She then ran to the study and asked Qin Ce, "What about all the local specialties I bought?"

Qin Ce didn't even look up, busy typing on the keyboard, "Sent."

"ah?"

Qin Ce paused, looked up at her, and said, "Those local specialties of yours don't have quarantine certificates, so they might be confiscated."

"...Is that so?"

"Hmm, it's fine, sending it over is the same."

"All right."

Qiao Xing stopped bothering him and took out her phone to search online for what she needed to bring when going abroad.

The recommendations online were varied, but she felt that each one was useful, so she changed her clothes, said goodbye to Qin Ce, and went out to buy things.

Just as he left the residential compound, Qin Yi called her.

Qiao Xing saw the caller ID and quickly swiped to answer, "Hello?"

"Sister-in-law, are you taking the flight tomorrow morning or tonight?"

"I don't know, he hasn't told me yet. Why don't you just ask your brother?"

Oh, you're not home?

Qiao Xing stood by the roadside hailing a taxi and casually said, "Yes, I just went out to buy some things. I just checked online and realized I need to bring so much stuff."

"Don't listen to the nonsense online. Just bring a power bank and some medicine. But my mom probably already has most of those at home, so you don't need to buy them."

Is that so?

"Yes, although I've never been there either..."

Qiao Xing twitched her lips. "Then I'll go take a look."

"Where are you going to buy it? I'll come find you. I'll stay at your place tonight." Qin Yi added, "My luggage is all packed."