Chapter 47: The feeling of being close to a beast

"Would you like a drink?"

"...Ah, yes, I'd like to try some."

I don’t seem to have ever drunk alcohol, either in my previous life or now.

"Are you aware of your own physical condition?"

“........I was just thinking…”

Linuo's voice lowered.

"So good."

Qin Xu placed his big hand on Li Nuo's head and rubbed it gently.

Li Nuo didn't expect to receive such praise. He muttered a few words, thinking that he was not a child anymore, so of course he had some self-control.

Qin Xu's fingers applied light force, and Li Nuo looked up in confusion.

"I've said before that your sense of boundaries is really weak."

"Because the directors are not outsiders."

It was my God of Wealth. The God of Wealth touched my head and asked what was wrong. Li Nuo thought it was quite appropriate.

"If not someone else, then what is it?"

"It's money..." Li Nuo almost blurted out, but he stopped himself and said, "My boss at work?"

"Just the boss? What about Mo Chuan?"

"Someone you know? Brother?"

Qin Xu suddenly became unhappy, "Director Mo is the elder brother, and I am the boss of the unit?"

The difference is quite obvious.

"Uh——" Linuo uttered a short sound.

Qin Xu moved his left hand down to his face, "How about trying to call me brother?"

"Calling him a director like that? Isn't that a good idea? A director is a director."

In that case, Mo Chuan should also be a director, but he saw Li Nuo calling him "Brother Mo" in private. Li Yan was very angry, but it was useless.

Qin Xu lifted Li Nuo's head and met his always moist eyes.

Under the orange light of the izakaya, his pupils were dyed golden, like the sun melting in the snow.

The heat from the pub turned her cheeks slightly red, and because she was pinching them, her cheek flesh was squeezed together.

Qin Xu pinched it with a little force and it felt good. He felt that his cheeks had recovered a little this week and were not as thin as before.

He moved his fingers slightly and his thumb moved to Linuo's lips, which felt very soft.

Most importantly, the bright red color is very attractive.

To the point where you want to eat it in one bite.

This is an act of force majeure, Qin Xu thought so, and slowly leaned down. Their faces were getting closer and closer. They stopped when they could feel each other's breathing.

Qin Xu opened his mouth and said, "Do you know what I'm going to do next? Just watch me like this?"

Li Nuo finally woke up from his dream, "...What are you going to do?"

This question is...

Qin Xu stepped back a little, stared into those clean eyes, then sighed. He thought the look was too direct, like the look of a child, and he felt embarrassed to do it.

"ha......"

Qin Xu used a little force and hit his forehead against Li Nuo's forehead with a bang. Li Nuo immediately let out a brief cry of pain.

"If someone comes this close to you in the future, just push him away or give him a slap."

Seeing Li Nuo's shocked expression as he covered his forehead, Qin Xu tapped his head and asked, "What's the answer?"

"......I see."

In other words, these two people didn't know that Mo Chuan had taken a slight advantage in the rooftop garden, otherwise Li Nuo might have really slapped him in the face for the first time.

He likes Mo Chuan very much now, but it is not the kind of love between lovers, but the kind of love that comes from having a friend to talk to.

Who made Qin Xu and Li Yan talk less.

Qin Xu moved away and returned to his seat. Li Nuo rubbed his forehead which was still a little painful and turned his attention back to Qin Xu's hand on the table.

"director."

"Um?"

"Can I touch your hand?"

"hand?"

Qin Xu moved his hand on the table, his left palm facing up, "Here you go."

Li Nuo turned his hand over again, placed his hand on the back of his hand, and gently stroked the scars. He did not ask how these scars came about.

Qin Xu squinted his eyes. The warm touch on his hands made him feel very comfortable, and the slightly moving fingers felt a little itchy. He lowered his head and saw Li Nuo's fair little hand moving back and forth. He turned his hand, bent his fingertips, and held the little hand in his palm.

"director?"

"It's a little itchy, and didn't you tell me to call me brother?"

"?"

"Not the director, but my brother."

Li Nuo looked at him straight for a while, and suddenly laughed. He had emphasized this several times, and it seemed that he really cared about the issue of addressing him. Just call him that, it's not something that is difficult to say.

"Brother Qin."

“........”

Before Qin Xu responded, Li Nuo suddenly felt a little shy. He thought it was nothing, but after saying it out loud, he felt different.

He wanted to pull his hand away, but Qin Xu held it tightly.

"........Brother Qin, can you let go?"

"Can't I just hold it like this?"

"It's not impossible, but it's so hot."

“It’s not very hot.”

Qin Xu put their hands on his thighs, and as if afraid that Li Nuo would pull his hands away, he applied a little more force.

Li Nuo was looking at his hand again, Qin Xu asked curiously.

"Do you care about my hands? The scars?"

"Uh, does it hurt?"

Qin Xu did not answer immediately. The person who left the scars on his hands was already dead. He was in a trance for a while before he spoke.

"I have forgotten."

"It must have been painful at the time. I was still a kid then."

“........”

Yes, it was very painful at the time, and I was also sick. Before I had time to deal with these injuries, a new blow came.

Qin Xu recalled the memory of that time, his expression became gloomy, and he held his hands tighter.

"ah."

Then he quickly let go of Linuo's hand as she let out a brief cry of pain.

"sorry."

Qin Xu opened his hand and checked if there was anything wrong with Li Nuo.

He is relatively strong and Li Nuo is very weak. If he breaks a bone due to his mistake, it would be a waste of time for the other person to suffer.

"Does it hurt?"

He carefully examined each finger and asked if there was any pain.

"Oh, fortunately, it doesn't hurt anymore."

Li Nuo shook his head. It was just a brief pain and it would be fine after he recovered.

On the contrary, Qin Xu looked so nervous that it seemed as if Li Yan had taken over his body.

"No way..."

Thinking back, I was also very surprised a few times before. Is Qin Xu a person who likes physical contact with others so much? But he touched his head several times.

If it was someone else, Li Nuo would have thought about it more, but Qin Xu was one of the protagonists of the novel, and he was the one who killed the original owner, so he never thought about it.

"Because the difference between before and after Linuo lost his memory is so big, he has opened up to me now?"

It seems like I have found a way to avoid the death route.

No, it is better to say that it is far away from the ending of death.

After sorting out his thoughts, Li Nuo smiled with a relaxed look.

"What are you laughing at?"

"Nothing, I'm just happy that Brother Qin cares about me so much."

"......I?"

Qin Xu's fiddling with his fingers froze.

"I care about you?"

Since childhood, I have always been told that I am cold and indifferent to others. Even when Mo Chuan, who I lived with, fell ill, I was only worried that he would infect me, so I rushed him to the hospital.

If my subordinates are sick, I will just ask them not to affect their work. I am such a person without empathy.

He wanted to say that Li Nuo was talking nonsense, but at this moment, he saw the white little hand that he had not let go of.

Unexpectedly, the conversation with Mo Chuan that day popped into my mind again.

"I don't want to let go. Since the impact has been so profound and the manifestations are so obvious, there is no reason to let go."

Then, he remembered what He Yan said about himself, that he didn’t have anyone he was close to and that he wouldn’t be nice to others.

But you don’t have to learn this stuff. As long as that person appears, your instinct will tell you what to do.

After Qin Xu finished examining the hand he was holding, he smiled gently for the first time.

"You're right. I care about you."

Li Nuo thought he had seen it wrong and blinked, but the smile on his face remained unchanged.

His face suddenly turned red.

Although he knew that Qin Xu was a handsome man, he was usually too imposing and made people feel that they couldn't look him in the face. But now, seeing Qin Xu smiling from the front, Li Nuo's heartbeat quickened involuntarily as he was struck by his beauty.

Who wouldn't like that face?

No wonder this protagonist is so popular when reading novels.

The next day, needless to say, Secretary Yang had a hangover. When he sent someone home last night, it was his wife who went downstairs to bring the person back.

Now, he was paralyzed in a chair, and it seemed that he had not fully recovered yet. When he saw the two brothers coming in, he just waved his hand weakly.

Seeing his half-dead look, Li Yan was a little speechless, "I told you not to drink so much."

Secretary Yang leaned back in his chair and said weakly, "Stop reading. My head is going to explode."

"Didn't you take any hangover medicine after you got home?"

"I ate it. Probably because I mixed the two together and drank them. It was too strong," Secretary Yang sighed. "I can't just sleep it off like I did when I was in my twenties."

"I'll make some honey water, it will work after I drink it."

When Li Nuo came out with the cup, Qin Xu just arrived. He glanced at Secretary Yang, who looked pale, and marveled.

"I thought you were a real drinker, but last night you looked like you weren't going to stop until you had drained all the store's inventory."

Secretary Yang rolled his eyes and said, "Is it not okay for me to drink when I am happy?"

I saw Linuo coming out of the tea room and stretched out his arm.

"Hurry, hurry, my honey water."

Li Nuo brought the water over, and Secretary Yang gulped down a few gulps before he heaving a sigh of relief.

Qin Xu frowned, "Don't bother anyone to look after you, just send the morning report as soon as possible."

Watching Qin Xu's back as he walked into the inner room, Secretary Yang complained in his heart about the evil capitalists. He drank the rest of the honey water in one gulp and finally came to life a little.

He staggered towards the inner office with the report in his hand, his back looking inexplicably miserable.

But Li Nuo showed admiration on his face, "Secretary Yang, you didn't delay your work even when you were so drunk, you're really amazing."

Li Yan nodded in agreement. It can be said that the workers are very well-educated.

Mo Chuan's two-week business trip was compressed into five days. There was no rest time at all. He just slept for a while and then went to work every day.

The people who went with him were so resentful that they could kill each other. Fortunately, after the work was done, Mo Chuan went back to his country alone, so the rest of the people could slowly sort things out and take a rest.

Mo Chuan came out of the airport dragging a suitcase in one hand and holding a doll in the other. Liu Ming was already waiting in the car. When he saw him coming, he took the suitcase and reached out to take the doll, but Mo Chuan stopped and said, "I'll take this myself."

It was a white cat doll with pure white artificial fur and a cute, lifelike expression sewn on it.

It looked very awkward for Mo Chuan to hold it in his formal attire.

"Young Master, would you like to go back and rest first?"

"No, go directly to the company."

Mo Chuan looked at the time and thought he should be able to arrive before getting off work.

Although Liu Ming was confused, he still started the car and drove to the company.