Chapter 65 Chapter 65 "When you look at me, what are you...
After dinner, Xu Jun, as usual, took out a Transformers toy to coax Tao Ning to take medicine. This was the most effective trick he came up with after calmly observing Tao Ning and choosing between rewarding her with candy or toys.
The boy who took the medicine with warm water really benefited from this trick. His light brown eyes stared at the Transformer, and he finished eating obediently not long after.
"Let's go back to school."
Tao Ning was just about to ask if he could stay a little longer when the corner of his mouth was touched by a soft tissue, and then a pair of slender, slightly warm fingers touched his lips lightly. He was stunned, but Xu Jun acted as if nothing had happened, with an indifferent expression and no explanation.
There must be something on the corner of his mouth. Tao Ning thought this and forgot what she was about to ask. She watched Xu Jun pack up and take him out. The Honda continued to follow them at a steady pace. But through the window, the wolf-like eyes were unusually cold. He drove with one hand and coldly ordered the person on the phone, "Go check Tao Ning's roommate and find out everything about his family background."
It was Sun Lao Er's voice on the other end of the phone: "Yes." After a moment, he hesitated and asked, "Brother Zhao, is this kid plotting something bad against Sister Tianxian?"
As long as he is not dealing with business matters, Zhao Jingqun is usually easy to talk to. His subordinates like to call him "Brother Zhao" and they can also joke with him.
Sun Lao Er continued to worry, "If you ask me, Brother Zhao, you really need to keep a closer eye on your sister-in-law. She looks like a disaster to the nation, and I think everyone would like her... But she's just a young boy, how can she compare to you, Brother Zhao?"
Zhao Jingqun on the other end of the phone sneered and said nothing.
But Sun Laoer understood the meaning of the laughter, which was that the young boy was not worthy of being compared with him.
The man in the car hung up the phone and stared at the two people walking side by side in front of him. His long and strong arms stretched out of the window, his muscles tense, and he flicked off the cigarette ash from his fingertips indifferently. The swirling smoke rose in an instant, and his deep eyebrows were shrouded in it, and only a glimpse of vague cruelty and jealousy could be seen.
It was almost evening when they returned. Tao Ning and Xu Jun returned to the dormitory. Tired from the journey, they took a hot shower and went to sleep for a while. However, before they even touched the pillow, Xu Jun woke them up: "Tao Ning, your hair isn't dry yet."
Xu Jun stood at the head of the bed, and when Tao Ning was about to fall on the pillow, he pulled him into his arms with one hand.
But he didn't know that Tao Ning had never blow-dried her hair during this period, and he was already very sleepy. In the man's warm embrace, he grabbed his hand in a daze and muttered: "I don't want to blow dry my hair... I want to sleep..."
Xu Jun lowered his head, looking at the thick and long eyelashes of the person in his arms. After a moment of silence, he said lightly: "You will get sick if you don't blow it."
Her hand was suddenly grasped by the boy. She moved a few times in his arms as if to act like a spoiled child and blurted out, "Zhao..." The boy was stunned for a moment, and his brain was half clear, "...Can you help me blow it?"
The soft flesh on her chin was instantly pinched, and Tao Ning was forced to raise her head. In the dim light of the dormitory, Xu Jun's cold and abstinent face was very close, so close that they could even hear each other's breathing, and the cold and hot breath sprayed on her face.
"Tao Ning, who are you thinking of when you look at me?"
The tears that oozed from the corners of her eyes due to sleepiness were wiped away by the man's fingers, and Tao Ning's pupils shrank slightly.
The man who had pinched his jaw refused to let him go. The indifference behind his glasses melted like ice on the water, revealing a bottomless abyss beneath the water. His tone was calm, yet for some reason it sounded creepy. "Just now...whose name did you want to call?"
The ripples in his voice were clearly the same as usual, but Tao Ning felt a chilling feeling as if he were being stared at by a venomous snake. The omen of danger set off alarm bells in his mind. He slapped the hand that was pinching his soft flesh away and hurriedly got out of bed: "No, no one, I'm going to blow dry my hair."
Xu Jun stared at his flustered back with an expressionless face.
Tao Ning blew his hair a few times in a hurry, his mind in a mess. The hair dryer was taken away just as he put it down. Xu Jun blocked him between the corner of the wall and his chest. His wet hair was lifted up by his warm fingers, and the buzzing sound of the hair dryer sounded again.
His body was stiff and he couldn't move, so Tao Ning had to ask Xu Jun to blow dry his hair.
Now, let alone sleepiness, Tao Ning was able to stay awake enough to do ten sets of math problems, but it was only because she was frightened by Xu Jun's expressionless face.
Did he notice anything?
Why ask those questions...
It was not until Tao Ning sat in the chair and watched Xu Jun use a knife to remove the wax seal on the kraft paper, then carefully wipe off the remaining wax on the blade with a tissue, and handed the envelope to him.
The brown envelope was hanging in the air, and Xu Jun looked over with cold eyes.
When he was about to touch the envelope, Tao Ning hesitated. At that time, he thought that the envelope might contain dried flowers or postcards, and he didn't take it seriously. But now, Xu Jun was very abnormal that day, and he always felt that things would not be that simple.
If you knew the contents of the envelope, some things would become irreversible.
Xu Jun said calmly: "You agreed."
"......Um."
Tao Ning took the envelope hesitantly, her slender hands trembling slightly. The rustling sound of the letter being opened was extremely abrupt in the quiet dormitory. What she received in her hands was neither dried flowers nor postcards, but two very thin pieces of paper.
The strong handwriting can be seen through the back of the paper, as if the writer cherished it very much when he picked up the pen.
"From Tao Ning: Seeing your letter is like meeting you in person, and reading your letter brings joy to your face."
Xu Jun said, "I knew you before you came, but I didn't take it seriously at the time. Until September 18th, when the elevator door opened, you looked disheveled, but you were the most energetic person I had ever met."
Tao Ning's heart trembled.
Xu Jun continued, "But I know I'm being carried away by pride, and I disdain the sentiments described in Fromm's books. I think that romance and all other unnecessary human emotions are vulgar, not to mention the mysterious and profound nature of falling in love at first sight. But later, every time I see you, I think of the rising sun in the morning and the moon at night."
"Even when I wake up in the middle of the night, I still dream of your smile."
"I then realized that I was nothing more than a vulgar villain, attracted by your sinful appearance, moved by your sincerity and purity, and finally... became an admirer of your clothes beneath the clouds."
"Observing your emotions and experiencing your feelings became my only joy. Later, because I felt sorry for you getting sick, I worked my ass off to make money, hoping you could live a life without burdens. But I didn't do this to become a burden to you again. I only hope to gain your mercy."
"I just want you to understand..."
Tao Ning's hands were shaking as she held the thin paper, but Xu Jun's cold voice continued to ring in her ears.
"How lucky I am to like you."
"Because I adore you, I am willing to do anything."
"But--"
The envelope in his hand was taken away. Tao Ning raised his eyes, and the ice layer cracked. Through the clear lenses, he bumped into a pair of eyes that seemed to be filled with boiling magma. Just a slight contact of their eyes, and his whole body was about to be burned to ashes.
With a hiss!
The man tore the envelope in half. He stared at Tao Ning, so that she could only see him. "I thought you were naive and ignorant of the ways of the world, so I didn't dare tell you my feelings for fear of shocking you. So I compromised and chose this method, thinking you would be able to notice it by now. Now I realize that your naiveté makes me feel cruel, because it's not that you can't feel other people's feelings for you. Song Yucong, and your ex-boyfriend named Zhao, who you also call your cousin... You accept them, but ignore my existence. Why?"
After all these words were spoken, Tao Ning felt as if struck by lightning.
He...how did he know that Zhao Jingqun and he had that kind of relationship?
However, Xu Jun still tore the envelope into pieces with an expressionless face.
Tao Ning was speechless after receiving so much information at once, as if his throat was blocked by the shredded paper. Xu Jun looked so frightening. He reached out to stop the man who seemed to be a little crazy, "Xu...Xu Jun, don't do this. I...I thought..."
The hand he extended was avoided by the man. Tao Ning was stunned for a moment. Just when he was about to retract it, he was instantly grabbed by his iron-like hand. With a light bang, he was pushed against the wall by the man.
Xu Jun lowered his head and looked coldly at the boy trapped in his arms.
He considers himself to be an extremely restrained person in his daily life. He never eats too much and never comes into contact with too many addictive things.
For example, drinking is an addictive thing for ordinary people to relieve their worries, but for him, it is just alcohol that he comes into contact with at business banquets, nothing more. Even if he gets drunk, he is extremely restrained and has no attachment to it, let alone relying on alcohol to relieve his worries.
Other entertainment-related things are even less common.
Because he is rational and clear-headed enough that he is unwilling to be bound by material things.
But now that Tao Ning was trapped in his arms, the feeling of them being the only two people in the world was too wonderful, like a deadly poison. Even though he knew that touching it would lead to falling into an abyss from which there was no return, Xu Jun was happy to accept it. He even had the extreme idea of hiding Tao Ning so that only he could see her.
Touching Tao Ning's swollen lips with one hand, Xu Jun suppressed his extreme thoughts and asked coldly, "What do you think? Do you think we are friends?"
Because of being kissed frequently in the past few days, her red lips were swollen to the point of oozing out tempting saliva. Now being caressed by the man's gentle fingers, Tao Ning felt a slight sting and wanted to avoid it, but Xu Jun's palm held her, preventing her from struggling.
Tao Ning had no choice but to nod with difficulty under his cold gaze, but all she got was a sarcastic laugh.
Xu Jun's hand, which had been caressing his lips, shifted to pinching his soft jaw. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, he said, "That day Song Yucong trapped you like this—" As he spoke, he pushed Tao Ning's legs apart, leaving no gap between the person in his arms, the wall, and himself. "Like this."
Xu Jun lowered his head, his thin lips almost touching Tao Ning's swollen lips.
"He trapped you in his arms and forcefully kissed you. The sound of kissing was so loud that the entire room could hear it. You know your friend—me," Xu Jun sneered, emphasizing each word. "What was I thinking at the door? I was thinking, what would it have been if I had been the one to kiss you wet?"
He continued to laugh like a madman, "You and your ex-boyfriend were having sex on the phone that day, right?"
Tao Ning was stunned, her voice trembling: "You...Xu Jun...do you know...do you know what you are saying?"
Xu Jun seemed to be completely deaf to his words. The cold and rational expression behind his gold-rimmed glasses disappeared. He inserted a finger into his swollen lips and said with hatred, "Your friend, I'm thinking, if that time..."
He came to Tao Ning's ear, her body stiff, and whispered word by word, "It would be so nice if I were the one to make you cry."
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