Chapter 10: Stealing a kiss out of hatred.
"I'm just looking at the scenery." Qi Xunsheng was frightened by her smile. He clenched the straps of his backpack with his fingers and pointed casually at the Rose Manor behind him. "This place is quite special."
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Qi Xunsheng felt frightened.
"Why don't you put up some road signs? It's so easy to get lost."
“…”
No one responded.
"Do you believe me when I say I'm going to the bathroom?"
“…”
With only the cold violence of eye contact, Qi Xunsheng was defeated and raised his hands in surrender: "Okay, I admit it, I was planning to escape, but I got lost."
After she finished speaking, Qi Zhao's expression finally eased a little and he stood up from the sofa.
Qi Xunsheng trotted over and jumped behind her. He was half a head taller than her. She walked on tiptoe in disbelief and asked, "It's so weird here. I couldn't get out no matter how hard I ran. I kept going around in circles, like I was stuck in a ghost wall."
Qi Zhao went up the spiral staircase without responding.
Qi Xunsheng continued, "Aren't you afraid living here alone? Don't you have any family?"
Just after climbing one flight of stairs, Qi Zhao stopped.
Qi Xunsheng, who was following behind her and trying to compete with her in height, was caught off guard by her pause and bumped into her back, getting hit hard on the forehead.
"What are you doing..."
The light in the house was already dim, and Qi Zhao was facing away from the light, with her entire face buried in the darkness. Qi Xunsheng then discovered that Qi Zhao had changed her clothes. She had taken off her usual red long skirt and put on a sky-blue cheongsam with a slit up to the thigh. Her hair was also tied up with a jade hairpin, and she looked very charming.
Receiving Qi Zhao's cold and impatient gaze, Qi Xunsheng swallowed what he wanted to say and blurted out, "Why are you so beautiful? Who are you trying to charm?"
At that moment, she saw the ice in Qi Zhao's eyes melt.
This person is soft-hearted and doesn't respond to harsh words.
Enjoy praise but don’t be scolded.
Qi Xunsheng took note of it silently in his heart.
Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you win every battle. Qi Xunsheng has never been a reckless fool. She has to be smart when she is in someone else's territory.
"No."
"What?"
Qi Xunsheng, who was thinking of a plan, didn't react.
Perhaps because he was flattered by her praise, Qi Zhao actually added a reply very patiently:
"No family, no fear."
No family = longing for love.
Not afraid = brave.
"It doesn't matter. I will be your family from now on."
“…”
"You are brave and I am timid but smart. We can protect each other!"
“…”
This must have touched you deeply.
Qi Xunsheng looked up at her eyes and blinked his big watery eyes.
“Tsk—”
She seemed to hear Qi Zhao's sneer.
"Close your eyes when you plot against me." Qi Zhao said lightly.
Qi Xunsheng: "..."
This guy is like a cunning person.
Qi Xunsheng curled his lips and continued to follow her upstairs, stopping in front of a door. Qi Zhao pushed open the door. The room was clean and tidy, with simple and beautiful furnishings. The main color was light pink, very similar to her room.
She guessed that this was the room Qi Zhao prepared for her.
"Can I ask you a question?" Qi Xunsheng felt uncomfortable all over. "If you don't answer me, I won't be able to sleep tonight."
Qi Zhao turned around and looked at her: "Speak."
"Are you a human or a ghost? And what's in your Rose Manor? Why can't I get out?" Qi Xunsheng always felt that it was chilly here. According to her experience, there should be a lot of ghosts around in this situation, but she didn't see any.
There must be something wrong when things are abnormal. Either there is something wrong with the castle, or there is something wrong with her ability.
Qi Zhao bent down, looked her straight in the eye, and a strange smile appeared at the corner of his lips.
She was too close, and the scent and gaze on her body were very invasive. Qi Xunsheng had no choice but to shift his gaze to her delicate collarbone and her neck as white as jade. The collarbone was so concave that it could hold a clear spring. If he took a bite, he wondered what the scene would be like with the crescent moons on it.
Qi Zhao didn't give her a chance to escape. He pinched her chin with two fingertips, forcing her to look directly at him. He lowered his head and gently bit her lips. With a little force, the delicate lips were stained with blood. She released his fingers and smiled casually and playfully.
Qi Xunsheng had already become dazed. She foolishly raised her hand to touch her painful lips. When the smell of blood filled her mouth, she finally reacted and shouted, "Qi! Zhao!"
Is this person born in the Year of the Dog? Why is he biting people for no apparent reason?
She just asked her whether she was a human or a ghost. If she didn't answer, then that would be fine. But why was he biting her?
"Hmm?" Qi Zhao tilted his head and curled his lips, "Don't you want to bite me?"
The angry expression on Qi Xunsheng's face froze instantly, and he was so frightened that he couldn't speak.
How could Qi Zhao know what she was thinking?
Realizing that Qi Zhao might be able to see what she was thinking, Qi Xunsheng immediately looked away, blushing and hesitantly saying, "You're talking nonsense, I didn't think that. How could you kiss me for no reason..."
Qi Xunsheng had forgotten that the question she had just asked had not been answered yet. Her mind was full of thoughts about how Qi Zhao was so weird, sometimes being cold and indifferent to her, and sometimes kissing her actively.
"If you don't want to answer, just go out. I'm going to sleep." Seeing her calm and composed, Qi Xunsheng became angry and wanted to push her out of the room.
"Sleep?" Qi Zhao raised an eyebrow. "Where are you sleeping?"
"Isn't this my room?" Qi Xunsheng took it for granted that the room in front of her was the one arranged for her by Qi Zhao.
This light pink princess bed, light pink wall table, if it's not hers, could it be Qi Zhao's room?
Qi Zhao chuckled and raised his chin slightly towards the cot: "Go get the quilt."
The smile on Qi Xunsheng's face instantly collapsed. He reluctantly picked up the quilt from the small bed and followed her into another room.
This room is much larger than the previous one. The black and white color scheme matches the castle style very well. The curtains are drawn on the entire floor-to-ceiling window. The light is dim, and the whole room is dark and depressing. The bed looks like a coffin.
Qi Xunsheng's heart trembled.
"I don't want to sleep in this bed."
Qi Zhao chuckled: "I didn't let you sleep on the bed."
Qi Xunsheng breathed a sigh of relief, not understanding the meaning of her words: "Then where do I sleep?"
Qi Zhao pointed to the ground: "You sleep on the ground."
"Which room is on the ground..." Before she could finish the word "room", her face fell and she pointed at herself and then at the ground.
He actually let her sleep on the floor?
Is this reasonable?
"Why did you make me sleep on the floor?"
"Do you want to sleep in the same bed with me?"
What's wrong with two people sleeping on such a big double bed?
Although she was a little disgusted with this coffin-like bed, she still preferred sleeping on it to sleeping on the floor.
"Yes, I want to sleep in the same bed with you."
"But I don't want to."
Qi Xunsheng: "..."
She had never been humiliated like this before.
No matter how she resisted, Qi Zhao did not change his mind. In the middle of the night, Qi Xunsheng could only spread the quilt on the floor, wrap herself up and lie on the cold floor.
It was clearly a summer night, and it should have been hot and stuffy even at night. It shouldn't have been this cool, especially with the doors and windows closed.
The lights in the room were off, and one could only see what was going on inside the room through the dim light coming in from the moonlight outside the window.
Qi Xunsheng couldn't sleep. Although they were in the same room, she couldn't hear any breathing. This made her wonder whether Qi Zhao was a human being.
She quietly got up and tried to use the light from her cell phone to see the situation in the room clearly. She searched for a long time but couldn't find the phone. She couldn't help but wonder if she had fallen into the rose bushes when she was escaping.
But compared to this question, she was more curious about Qi Zhao's identity.
By the moonlight, she slowly stood up and moved to the edge of the bed. She became angry when she thought about sleeping on the cold floor while Qi Zhao could sleep on the soft big bed.
But this was not the time for her to be angry. After calming down, Qi Xunsheng raised his hand and placed two fingers lightly between her nostrils. After feeling the warm breath, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Before she could recover from the shock, the person who was originally asleep suddenly opened his eyes and looked straight into her eyes.
Qi Xunsheng was so frightened that he babbled incoherently: "Tonight... the moon is so round tonight."
When she looked again, the eyes that had suddenly opened had closed.
Qi Xunsheng took a deep breath, retreated back into his quilt, wrapped himself up in a ball, and didn't even dare to show his head.
After a long time, she finally came back to her senses from the fright and slowly fell asleep. When the sound of steady breathing was heard in the room, the person on the bed slowly opened her eyes. She stood up and looked at the moonlight outside the window, then looked at the "dumpling" on the ground again.
Feeling that he was moving quickly, Qi Xunsheng thought he was dreaming and muttered, "Don't kiss me."
The person holding her paused, and put her on the bed after she calmed down. He looked at her closed eyes, lowered his head and touched them lightly, lit the calming incense on the bedside, and then left the room.
When Qi Xunsheng woke up the next day, the sky outside the window was already bright. She sat up suddenly. The room was dim, the double bed was empty, and she was still lying on the cold floor where she had fallen asleep last night.
She knocked her head hard. What a terrible dream! She actually dreamed that Qi Zhao carried her to bed in the middle of the night, kissed her secretly, and carefully tucked in the corners of the quilt for her.
Qi Xunsheng shook her head and rubbed her arms. Although she had slept on the floor all night, her mind was clear and her body was not sore. You know, except for the time when she was kidnapped as a child, she had never slept on such a hard "bed" since she was a child.
After taking out her toiletries from her backpack and washing up, she went downstairs. Qi Zhao was reading in the study on the first floor.
Even though Qi Xunsheng was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he had never seen a library with so many books.
She glanced around casually and even saw the "only copy" that Luo Qingqing mentioned.
"I didn't expect you to like reading so much." Qi Xunsheng walked closer and took a closer look. Unexpectedly, he saw books about Qi Chao in it.
She subconsciously wanted to reach out and take it, but before she could touch it, she heard Qi Zhao's slightly warning voice -
"Don't touch what you shouldn't touch."
Qi Xunsheng withdrew his hand and said, "Actually, I didn't really want to touch you. You're really pretending."
Her voice became softer and softer, and she didn't know if the other party heard her. Seeing that she was holding her head high, her eyes were all on the book in her hands, not paying any attention to her, Qi Xunsheng said angrily:
"It's true that I was wrong to intrude into your territory, but if you didn't want to see me so much, why did you let me stay with you for seven days?"
"Because of hatred."
The words came out as casually as she turned the pages of a book.
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