Chapter 36. "You...you little glutton!"
"What's wrong?" Bai Xiao asked, puzzled.
Before Song Huai could answer, Bai Xiao keenly noticed the red marks on Song Huai's neck.
He frowned, his voice turning somber: "What happened to your neck?"
Song Huai quickly covered his neck, trying to cover it up, "It's nothing... I just got bitten by a mosquito."
Where do mosquitoes come from in the dead of winter?
Bai Xiao looked at Song Huai speechlessly, her eyes seeming to say, "How can you lie without even thinking?"
The red marks on Song Huai's neck were quite frightening, making Bai Xiao very anxious.
Bai Xiao had no time to worry about anything else. He squatted down and forcibly pried open Song Huai's hand that was covering his neck.
At this moment, the itching on his neck intensified, and Song Huai could no longer bear it. Ignoring Bai Xiao's presence, he reached out to continue scratching his neck.
He had barely scratched twice when Bai Xiao firmly gripped his hand.
Bai Xiao's brows furrowed even more, his eyes filled with worry: "What's wrong with you? Tell the truth!"
Song Huai tried to scratch his neck with his other hand, but Bai Xiao grabbed his other hand tightly as soon as he made the move.
Bai Xiao's grip was extremely strong, and no matter how much Song Huai struggled, he remained completely still.
Song Huai then reluctantly said, "I'm having a bit of an allergic reaction, but..."
Before Song Huai could finish speaking, Bai Xiao's breathing became noticeably rapid upon hearing the word "allergy." Unable to remain calm any longer, he immediately grabbed Song Huai's hand and tried to take him to the hospital.
At this moment, Bai Xiao's mind was filled with news reports of people dying from allergic reactions despite attempts to save them, and his heart rate skyrocketed in a short time.
"Wait, wait..." Song Huai struggled to break free from Bai Xiao's grasp, bewildered. "Where are we going?"
"Hospital." Bai Xiao coldly uttered two words, then pulled Song Huai towards the door again.
Song Huai was speechless for a moment, then quickly explained, "No need to go to the hospital, just apply some ointment and it will be fine."
Bai Xiao then stopped and looked at Song Huai with suspicion.
“Really!” Song Huai added, afraid that Bai Xiao wouldn’t believe him, “I used to just apply some ointment and it was fine.”
Bai Xiao's heartbeat finally calmed down a little. He slowed his breathing and asked, "Where is the medicine?"
Song Huai pointed to the ointment that had just fallen to the floor in the chaos.
A minute later, Song Huai sat on the sofa with his head tilted back. Bai Xiao took out a cotton swab, squeezed the ointment onto the swab, and was about to apply it to Song Huai's neck.
"Hiss!" The moment the ointment touched his skin, Song Huai felt a sharp pain. "Bai Xiao, be gentle..."
Bai Xiao, however, remained cold and unmoved by Song Huai's slightly coquettish tone.
He seemed to have thought of something, and his tone subtly revealed anger, "Endure it."
Bai Xiao lowered her head and carefully applied the ointment to Song Huai's neck with a cotton swab, her eyes fixed on the spot, afraid of missing any part.
The process of applying the medicine was extremely agonizing for Song Huai. At this moment, Bai Xiao was only a fist's distance away from him. He could clearly see Bai Xiao's distinct eyelashes and the small mole on the tip of his nose. Looking further down, he could almost see Bai Xiao's chest muscles faintly visible under his bathrobe...
Song Huai immediately shifted his gaze and stared at the ceiling.
However, Bai Xiao's hot breath still sprayed onto Song Huai's neck.
Song Huai's neck turned red, and his face also flushed.
"Song Huai, is your face also having an allergic reaction?" Bai Xiao thought that Song Huai's allergic reaction had worsened, and her heart tightened again.
"No...no." Song Huai's mind raced, trying to find a plausible reason to explain why he was blushing, but after thinking for a long time, he couldn't come up with anything. In the end, he just mumbled "hmm" a few times.
Bai Xiao said no more and continued to focus on applying the medicine to Song Huai, trying his best to control the pressure so as not to hurt the person in front of him again.
After enduring the initial pain from the applied medicine, Song Huai's neck began to feel cool and refreshing, making him feel much better than before.
Bai Xiao's cotton swab brushed across Song Huai's neck like a feather, as if tickling him, making Song Huai want to laugh.
"Pfft!" Song Huai finally couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Song Huai smiled, making it impossible for Bai Xiao to apply the medicine properly. He pretended to be angry and said with a stern face, "You can still laugh!"
Song Huai had no choice but to suppress his smile and quietly let Bai Xiao apply the medicine.
But after a short while, Song Huai couldn't hold it in anymore. As if his funny bone had been tickled, he burst into laughter again, his whole body trembling.
"Song Huai!"
One second Bai Xiao was growling fiercely, but the next second he couldn't hold back anymore. Infected by Song Huai, a smile appeared in his eyes, and he laughed for no reason.
The two laughed for a while, then gradually quieted down.
Their eyes met, gazing at each other with an undisguised, burgeoning affection.
The air was filled with tiny sparks, and their hearts grew anxious.
Bai Xiao leaned forward, slowly approaching Song Huai, their breaths gradually mingling.
Song Huai stood frozen in place, unable to move. He dared not look away from Bai Xiao, afraid that it would reveal his cowardice.
The two were so close that Song Huai could smell the faint fragrance of Bai Xiao's shower gel.
Song Huai racked his brains trying to figure out what to do next, but even as his CPU nearly burned out, he still couldn't come up with a solution.
At this moment, Bai Xiao lowered her eyes, took out a cotton swab, squeezed out some ointment, and began to apply it little by little to Song Huai's neck again.
Why are you applying it again?
Bai Xiao looked completely innocent, as if nothing had happened. "The instructions say to apply it twice."
"……oh."
The allergic reaction came on fiercely but subsided quickly. After Bai Xiao applied the medicine, the redness and swelling on Song Huai's neck had almost completely disappeared.
Bai Xiao was finally completely relieved.
He tossed aside the cotton swabs, put the medicine box back in its place, and leisurely sat back down on the sofa, ready to settle scores later.
A sense of foreboding rose in Song Huai's heart, and he immediately made an excuse to leave: "It's getting late, I'm going to sleep now."
He had just stood up when Bai Xiao pulled him back onto the sofa.
Bai Xiao said calmly, "Song Huai, let's talk."
He took a deep breath and asked again, "Why are you allergic?"
Song Huai didn't know how to answer.
Bai Xiao asked to herself, "Is it because of the crayfish tonight that you had an allergic reaction?"
Knowing he couldn't hide it from Song Huai, he could only nod guiltily.
Just now, when Bai Xiao heard Song Huai say the word "allergy," and recalling the unnatural expression on Song Huai's face when he ate crayfish tonight, he immediately guessed what was going on.
What he didn't understand was why Song Huaiming would eat crayfish knowing he was allergic.
Doesn't he have a mouth? Why doesn't he tell me? Can I force him to eat?
"Then why did you eat it in the first place?"
Song Huai choked, though he himself couldn't quite explain why.
Bai Xiao gazed patiently at Song Huai, looking determined not to give up until she got an answer.
After a long pause, Song Huai stammered, "Because...because the crayfish you made was so delicious, I couldn't resist..."
Bai Xiao racked his brains but couldn't fathom why Song Huai insisted on eating crayfish for such an outrageous reason. He stared wide-eyed in disbelief, almost unable to catch his breath: "Song Huai, you!"
He paused for a moment, then roared, "Is this how you treat your body? Do you know that severe allergies can be fatal? How can you joke about something like this? What if something really happens to you...?"
At this point, Bai Xiao couldn't continue speaking for some reason.
If something really happens to you, what am I supposed to do?
I can't... live without you.
Seeing Bai Xiao suddenly lose her temper, Song Huai trembled with fright. He felt that Bai Xiao was making a mountain out of a molehill; he was perfectly fine, so why worry about so many "what ifs"?
But then Song Huai thought again that he had done something wrong tonight, so it would be better to apologize.
Song Huai gently tugged at Bai Xiao's sleeve. "Okay, I was wrong. Please don't be angry anymore, okay?"
Song Huai looked at Bai Xiao pitifully with his amber eyes, which were like glass beads.
Being stared at by such eyes, Bai Xiao's immense anger vanished completely.
Bai Xiao lowered her voice: "Will you eat random things again next time?"
Song Huai quickly patted his chest and assured him, "No, absolutely not!"
Bai Xiao was still angry after thinking about it again, so he turned his head away and stopped looking at Song Huai.
Song Huai chuckled inwardly. Bai Xiao usually looked like a mature business elite, but now he looked like a child who hadn't grown up.
Having no other choice, Song Huai thought for a moment and then coaxed softly, "Isn't it because your crayfish is so delicious? It would be such a waste if I didn't eat it. You see, I don't eat crayfish made by anyone else."
Bai Xiao wasn't buying it and said sullenly, "You just said that the crayfish was just so-so."
Song Huai was speechless again. What's wrong with Bai Xiao? How come she has such a good memory?
After a long pause, Song Huai said awkwardly, "I was just afraid you'd get arrogant..."
Bai Xiao then turned around, her eyes filled with helplessness: "You...you little glutton!"
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In the days that followed, Song Huai and Bai Xiao became noticeably closer than before, to the uninitiated, who would have thought they were a loving couple.
Later, Bai Xiao took Song Huai to several banquets. Overnight, the news spread throughout the circle that the eldest son of the Song family had somehow bewitched the young master of the Bai family, making him constantly swayed around him. Everyone was both envious and jealous of Song Huai. Not only had he married into the Bai family, but he had also truly won over the Bai family's only heir. In the future, he would surely enjoy countless riches and honors. He was truly blessed.
Even Bai Xiao himself sometimes had the illusion that Song Huai was his lover, that they were mutually in love and deeply devoted to each other, and that Song Huai had no one he had secretly loved for many years, that Song Huai only had him in his heart.
At that time, Bai Xiao was still single-mindedly pursuing Song Huai. He naively believed that as long as he persevered, he would eventually win the heart of the beauty.
Song Huai, on the other hand, gradually fell into the gentle embrace that Bai Xiao had created for him, becoming deeply immersed and unable to extricate himself.
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