Chapter 10 I Don’t Want to Live

There was a dull pain on my forehead. I could smell the faint scent of perfume coming from the clothes where my nose was pressed. My heartbeat was beating strongly in my ears.

But after the pain subsided, other feelings that were initially ignored gradually began to strengthen their presence.

Xia Linxing could clearly feel the firm and elastic touch of his chest muscles under the soft fabric against which his forehead was resting.

Huh?

Xia Linxing subconsciously bumped his forehead against it again to confirm the touch.

"999..." Xia Linxing shared his discovery with System 999 with sparkling eyes: "It turns out that the chest muscles are soft!"

"Ah!" System 999 suddenly made a sharp explosion.

"Hmm?" Xia Linxing was about to ask System 999 what was wrong when he heard a cold voice above his head again: "What are you doing?"

Xia Linxing was stunned.

Xia Linxing stiffened.

Xia Linxing felt like she was about to break apart.

Ahhhhhh——

His face instantly turned red like a ripe apple.

What did he just do!!!

How could he be so obsessed as to do such a thing?!

Oh my god, would Xie Tinglan think he was a little hooligan? No! Xie Tinglan wouldn't think... that when his legs gave out and he fell, he did it on purpose, right?!

“U-Um…”

Xia Linxing raised her head eagerly and met a pair of cold, icy eyes: "I said I didn't mean it..."

His voice became increasingly halting under the gaze of those eyes. "Do you... do you believe it?"

As soon as the words fell, silence fell all around, and the air seemed to stagnate for a moment.

Xia Linxing: “…” Oh, then he understood.

He lowered his head and shut his mouth obediently, not daring to look at Xie Tinglan's cold face again.

"Hey, what are you looking for..."

System 999 saw Xia Linxing with his head down, his eyes scanning the ground around him, as if he was looking for something.

Xia Linxing's face was burning hot and his eyes were filled with tears: "I'm looking for a crack in the ground." He wanted to crawl into it.

System 999: “…”

Even System 999 became speechless and silent, and the atmosphere around them became even more frozen.

Xie Tinglan lowered his eyes and looked at Xia Linxing, who was curled up in his arms like an ostrich, leaving only her head for him.

When Xia Linxing fell on his chest for the second time, Xie Tinglan did suspect whether Xia Linxing did it on purpose.

After all, the previous "Xia Linxing" did this kind of thing a lot -

For example, pretending to fall down and trying to fall into his arms, deliberately pouring wine on him, then rushing over to apologize and trying to wipe it off for him personally...

It was also because there were too many such things that Xie Tinglan became bored, so he gradually reduced the number of times he went home and attended banquets.

But now... Although he couldn't see Xia Linxing's expression from his current angle, he could still see Xia Linxing's face which was so red that it seemed like blood was about to drip out.

It was so red that Xie Tinglan was suspicious. If the light was brighter, he could even see the heat coming out of the other person's skin.

After all, Xia Linxing looks...really like she's about to be cooked.

This physiological reaction cannot be faked.

Although Xia Linxing's face was red as blood, he seemed to have forgotten the most important thing.

Xie Tinglan waited for a while, and after making sure that the other party really couldn't remember, he sighed helplessly.

Xia Linxing was still concentrating on finding a crack in the ground, as if he could really squeeze himself into it after finding it. And just as he was concentrating on finding the crack, he suddenly felt a heat in his waist.

Huh? Xia Linxing looked down and saw a pair of large, bony hands resting on his waist.

This is... He blinked twice and was about to look up along the direction of those hands when he felt his body lighten -

His whole body was lifted up.

It is really "end"——

He felt like a dish, with Xie Tinglan holding both ends of the plate (his waist), then lifting it up upright at an angle parallel to the ground, moving it horizontally to the open space next to it, and then putting it down upright.

Not a drop of soup was spilled during the process (the wrinkles on Xia Linxing's clothes remained the same as before they were picked up).

Handle with extreme care.

After being put down, Xia Linxing first looked down at his position in confusion, then looked up at Xie Tinglan in confusion, as if he had not yet reacted to what had just happened.

But the next second, when he saw Xie Tinglan dusting off his clothes and getting up from the ground, Xia Linxing finally realized what he had forgotten.

Just now, he was so focused on finding a crack in the ground that he forgot to climb up from Xie Tinglan!

"Boom!" Xia Linxing felt like his head was about to explode.

How could he be so stupid?! He had only fallen once, and he had forgotten his original purpose (to get up from Xie Tinglan's body)!

Xie Tinglan had clearly urged him once before, but he still refused to get up! In the end, Xie Tinglan even had to move him away herself...

Woo woo woo... The villain in Xia Linxing's heart slammed against the wall.

How embarrassing! He doesn't want to live anymore!

Xia Linxing was so embarrassed that she didn't know where to put her hands. She could only lower her head and pretend to be busy tidying up her clothes which were a little messy after she got up from the ground.

An atmosphere of silence permeated the air.

Just as he was smoothing out the wrinkles on his clothes for who knows how many times, Xie Tinglan broke the awkwardness in the room.

"Why are you here?" he asked Xia Linxing.

Before Xia Linxing could even breathe a sigh of relief that someone finally spoke, Xie Tinglan's question made him angry again.

"I...I..." Xia Linxing felt guilty and his eyes wandered everywhere. He kept saying "I" for a long time but couldn't make any sense.

He couldn't say that he came to peek at what Shen Sibai's debut performance was and then planned to copy it, right? However, for the time being, Xia Linxing really couldn't think of any other good excuse.

Even System 999 was racking its brains along with Xia Linxing.

The two idiots thought for a long time but couldn't come up with a reasonable reason. In the end, they could only ask Xie Tinglan dryly: "Then what are you doing here, Teacher Xie?"

Xie Tinglan glanced at Xia Linxing and said, "I came here because of you..."

"Ah?" Xia Linxing's eyes widened instantly after hearing these rather ambiguous words, making his already round eyes even rounder.

What does Xie Tinglan mean by this?

Even System 999 was shocked!

Its cute cub is indeed adorable, but isn't Xie Tinglan's emotion coming a little too violently and quickly?

"...Because I saw you sneaking around in the corridor on the surveillance camera." Xie Tinglan finally finished the second half of the sentence.

"Oh oh..." System 999 and Xia Linxing breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

He/it said, how could Xie Tinglan suddenly develop inexplicable feelings for his/its cub? It turned out that he/she only saw him on the surveillance camera -

Wait! Surveillance?!