Chapter 159 Provoking
Xu Songning's fingers loosened slightly, slipping off his arm, and he uttered those words again.
Are you done talking?
It was as if they had nothing more to say after they finished talking, as if their relationship would end once she ended the topic.
Given the already misaligned relationship, it seems reasonable for him to sever it.
Xu Songning took a deep breath, trying not to look disheveled, and replied with feigned composure, "Yes, that's all. Have a safe journey, and may you always be safe and sound."
"The future? Why wish for the future now?" Xiang Yun grabbed her wrist painfully. Did she mean she didn't plan to contact him again? Was she going to use Lily's situation to end their relationship completely?
Xiang Yun's voice sounded calm, and he concealed the turmoil in his heart very well.
If anyone else had lied to him like that, he would never have come back. He would have made sure that person never saw him again.
He never expected that he would come back for Xu Songning, and now he has to listen to her wish him a safe and peaceful future. Is that what he wants to hear?
Xu Songning gritted her teeth. Wasn't it because you were leaving? Would I ever have a chance to say that again?
"Speak." Xiang Yun's patience was running out. He admitted that he had wasted too much patience on Xu Songning, to the point that she could challenge him without any limits.
"Why should I believe what you say? What if you never intended to be honest with me and are just trying to cover for yourself after things get out?"
“You may not believe me, but there’s something that belongs to you. If you’re leaving, take it with you,” Xu Songning said softly.
Xiang Yun frowned, his cold, handsome features contorted into a deep frown. "What is it?"
"button."
Xu Songning made way for him and went in first, regardless of whether he followed or not.
It was just a button; Xiang Yun could do without it, he could even do without the clothes. But he kept the clothes, sewed a different button onto them, and they still lay peacefully in his wardrobe. That in itself was a miracle.
Lily...no...Xu Songning didn't throw away the button from that night, why?
Xiang Yun stood at the door and closed it.
He is like an active volcano, with magma surging violently inside, desperately needing to find an opening to flow or erupt.
Xu Songning walked out of the room, her clenched hands open in front of him.
The button lay quietly in her palm, a reminder of what had happened that night.
Xiang Yun closed his eyes, trying to banish some memories from his mind, and asked coldly, "Why are you keeping it?"
"Miss you."
"……What?"
This answer was clearly unexpected for Xiang Yun. All his preparedness and all his questions vanished in those two words.
“At first, I really didn’t want to develop any relationship, so I didn’t ask for your contact information, but Qiaoqiao left a backup, which unexpectedly became the clue that helped me recognize you later.”
Xu Songning approached step by step until they were close enough that he could see every micro-expression of the other person.
“I recognized you, but I’m also a little angry.”
Xiang Yun was immediately swayed, "Are you angry??"
"Yeah, you left in the middle of the night that night. What do you mean? Who leaves a match midway through?" Xu Songning leaned against the door with one hand, forcing the grown man into a wall slam.
"There really was an emergency that day. I was going to explain to you why you wouldn't add me on the contact list." Xiang Yun gritted his teeth. He was in the right all along, but now Xu Songning had caught him red-handed.
Xu Songning pressed her advantage, tilting her head up to get closer to him, but he pressed his finger against her forehead, preventing her from going any further.
In that awkward position, she asked him, "Is it my fault? What could be wrong with you? Tell me, and I'll see if it's serious enough."
Xiang Yun didn't want to lie to her. If misunderstandings and estrangement arose between them again because of this, they would have to argue again. It was better to take this opportunity to make things clear.
"Qin Han broke her leg. Her mother called me and made the situation sound very serious. She cried and said that her daughter would be paralyzed for life. How could I not go?"
Xu Songning had a pretty good idea of what was going on, but hearing it from him in person was a different experience. The other woman's mother had made the situation sound so serious; if Xiang Yun didn't go, that would be truly heartless.
Hearing his voice soften slightly, Xu Songning insisted on arguing, "Then it's reasonable for me not to add you as a friend, right? What's the point of adding a man who abandons you in the middle of the night? If I didn't have all my money, I would have thought you cheated me out of my money and my body."
Xiang Yun was speechless. What she said seemed to make some sense, but wasn't her line of thinking off track? Wasn't he the one who was asking about Lily just now?
“I never drink much. Yesterday, I really wanted to be honest with you, so I downed that glass of wine. Who knew it would have such a strong aftereffect? Let me show you my chat with Qiaoqiao.” Xu Songning pulled up the chat history.
Xu Songning did indeed tell Zhou Qiao about this a few days ago.
"I confessed to him on his birthday!"
Xu Songning emphasized this sentence, as if afraid he wouldn't see it, and shoved the phone in front of him, "Look, it's real!"
Xiang Yun was having some difficulty breathing. Xu Songning was too close to him. She was afraid he would escape, and she wished she could form a cage around him with her body to imprison him.
"How did you know my birthday?" Xiang Yun suddenly realized a blind spot.
“I asked Gu Xing, and he said your birthday is in May, and it’s easy to guess. That day, I saw you enter your phone password, and when I saw you enter 520, I guessed it,” Xu Songning explained.
"You guessed it. So do you think it's good or bad to confess this on my birthday?" Xiang Yun asked in a low voice.
His voice sounded dangerous, but Xu Songning didn't care. She pounced on him, hugged Xiang Yun, wrapped her arms around his neck, and clung to him.
"You..." Xiang Yun grabbed her waist to restrain the person struggling on top of him, "Have we finished talking?"
"No?" Xu Songning feigned ignorance. She had already seen through Xiang Yun's retreat. He retreated, so she advanced! Step by step, she stepped into his bottom line.
When Xiang Yun saw that she was trying to renege on her promise, the flames in his heart reignited. Did she think she could just let this go so easily? No way!
With his hands still on Xu Songning's waist, he used a little force to press her against the door, placing his left hand on the back of her head to prevent her from hitting it.
The positions shifted instantly, and Xiang Yun leaned down, exuding an intense sense of oppression. Xu Songning gripped his collar tightly.
"Now that Lily's matter has been clarified, what about your kissing me outside the door and hugging me now? What's the reason behind that?" Xiang Yun asked in a low voice.
Xu Songning couldn't hear his rambling, but seeing his handsome thin lips, she took the opportunity to kiss him again.
The moment she kissed him, Xiang Yun leaned back slightly, his palm against her neck, holding her firmly within a hand's width of him.
Xiang Yun stared into her beautiful eyes, trying to discern whether she was teasing or playful, but found nothing.
He made one last emphasis, while the temperature of his palms was alarmingly high.
"Xu Songning, are you sure you want to mess with me?"
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