Chapter 43: I'll give you a handful of delicious candy. Try it.

After his mind came back to its senses, Ye Man hurriedly unbuckled his seat belt to grab the phone. His movements were too hasty and his body fell forward, almost hitting his face on Xu Huaiting.

Xu Huaiting instinctively tensed the muscles in his chest, then forced himself to relax, hugging the man who had lost his balance and flinging himself at him, with one hand around his waist and the other pinching his cheek, helping him maintain his balance and preventing him from getting hurt in the car. This collision was really strong enough to break a person's nose.

Ye Man didn't have time to think about how awkward this position was, and was only focused on taking his phone back from Xu Huaiting. Xu Huaiting didn't fight with him for it, and let him take the phone from his hand, then shook his wrist and turned off the software that was making increasingly strange noises.

Silence finally returned to the car, and Ye Man heaved a sigh of relief.

But soon, he felt that it would be better to keep the sound on.

The narrow space inside the car was too quiet. The car blocked out most of the white noise from the outside world. The warm air blew quietly, and the heartbeat and breathing sounds that were so close became very obvious.

Only then did Ye Man realize that he was almost sticking to someone.

He wanted to sit up, but as soon as he moved, the hand that was holding his waist pressed down.

A sour and tingling feeling came out from the seams of his bones. Ye Man shivered as if by reflex. He lowered his head suddenly, and whispered with trembling lips: "Release... Release..."

"Well, are you...thirsty? Let me get you some water...Is there any water in the car? Where is it? Let me look for it..." He was busy feeling around, trying to find a bottle of water from Xu Huaiting's car.

He was immersed in his own world, surrounded by warmth, sounds, breath and touch. He had no idea how Xu Huaiting was looking at him because he couldn't see.

Xu Huaiting did not let him go, allowing him to wave his hands around and randomly touch around for a while, then rubbed his hot face with his thumb with inexplicable meaning: "Xiaoman, your face is so red."

It sounded like he was stating something, but also like someone was teasing him in a malicious way.

There was a hint of smile in the suppressed voice, but it was not quite the same as ridicule. Ye Man vaguely felt that there was a deeper emotion restraining him.

After hearing what he said, Ye Man seemed to be under a spell, his busy movements stopped, and his head became heavy again.

As her hair swayed, a hint of ripe red could be seen.

At this time, Xu Huaiting was unwilling to take care of the sensitive and fragile shame of the vicious cannon fodder, and was unwilling to be a considerate and gentleman, cooperating with him to pretend that nothing had happened and change the subject.

That's too bad.

Ye Man lowered his head and thought.

"Xiaoman?" Xu Huaiting called his name with a smile in his voice.

Don't say that anymore.

"Sorry, you suddenly rushed over and scared me." Xu Huaiting stopped while he was ahead, let him go and let him sit down again.

......

Xiao Wu got on the car and saw the blanket in the car. He remembered that the journey was long and the young master would probably fall asleep on the way. Seeing that the car in front had not started yet, he got off the car and planned to give the young master a blanket.

As he was walking, he suddenly stopped a few steps away from the passenger door and stared at the scene not far away.

In the car, Ye Man sat in the passenger seat with his head lowered, his cheeks unusually red.

Xu Huaiting stretched out his long right arm and placed it on the backrest of his young master. He smiled and tilted his head to look at his young master's face which was almost buried in his collar. It was obvious that he did not get the man into his arms, but from a distance, it was obvious that he was posing as if he was holding the man in a circle.

Ye Man had no idea that Xu Huaiting was looking at him like a wild animal patrolling its territory. While talking to him, that comfortable yet predatory gaze was moving inch by inch from the boy's hair to his lips, and from time to time he would glance over there inadvertently. The man's lowered eyes were filled with contemplation, as if he was thinking about something.

Xiao Wu's eyelids twitched and he opened his mouth to say something.

The man in the car seemed to notice something and raised his eyelids slightly.

The relaxed and smiling gaze turned into cold scrutiny the moment it touched him. Although she said nothing and did nothing, it seemed like a silent warning and threat.

The blood froze, and Xiao Wu's feet were fixed there as if they were filled with lead, unable to move forward. It was not until he instinctively took a step back under that cold gaze that the other party seemed to confirm that he was not a threat and lazily withdrew his gaze. With a raised corner of his lips, he approached the person in the passenger seat and said something, and his young master's face turned redder.

Can't get close.

This thought popped into Xiao Wu's mind.

The other party was clearly sending out such a warning. At this moment, no one was allowed to approach the other party's marked territory.

He swallowed and silently returned to the car with the blanket in his arms.

He took a deep breath, unscrewed the bottle of water and gulped it down, only then did he recover.

"It's over, it's over... How am I going to explain this to Mr. Chi and the others?"

The third young master said that he had something important to discuss in secret.

So it's such a big deal?

......

In the car.

Xu Huaiting helped Ye Man fasten his seat belt again.

He glanced at Ye Man and said, "Are the radio dramas you usually listen to... all like this? Um... two men?"

Ye Man was crying in her heart, and her hands were about to tear the seat belt buckle: "I didn't choose this, I just randomly clicked on a test function, I only listened for two seconds, who knew... who knew it would be like this later......"

He never sees anything like this in his normal studies or when he listens to skits!

"Brother Tong! I'm going to die!"

System: "Don't talk nonsense. It's just a radio drama with two male protagonists and a car. It won't kill anyone."

Ye Man continued to cry and grit her teeth in anger: "Damn it, damn it! Just wait for me, I will make him pay back a hundredfold for today's humiliation!"

System: "...No, I'll give you two extra points?"

Ye Man's crying stopped.

She replied obediently: "Okay, thank you Brother Tong, I feel much better now."

System: "......"

The nonexistent heart ached for a moment.

He recovered so quickly that Tong felt he had been seriously deceived!

Xu Huaiting didn't realize that he was hated by the embarrassed and vicious cannon fodder for just a second.

He took the brown paper bag from the back seat and put it in Ye Man's hand. The heavy bag fell into his hand, and a milky aroma filled his nose.

"There are croissants, apple cinnamon rolls, Basque toast... Hmm, I don't know what you like to eat, so I bought some of them. It's a long way to go, so I'll take them to fill my stomach."

Ye Man tightened the bag, then quickly loosened it, fearing that the bread inside would be crushed.

"Give it to me?" he asked uncertainly.

"Otherwise? Is there anyone else here?"

"Didn't you say you were just passing by..."

Xu Huaiting steered the wheel while looking at the rearview mirror and casually replied, "Well, I'll drive two and a half hours to pass by you, right?"

"......OK."

The man beside him laughed vaguely, "The water is on your right, just feel it and you'll know. Tell me which one you like, and I'll buy it for you next time. If you don't like any of them, I'll go to another store next time."

Ye Man started to button the paper bag again and whispered, "It will dirty your car."

"If it gets dirty, throw it away and buy a new one."

Ye Man turned to him with wide eyes, and Xu Huaiting laughed again: "I'm just kidding, if it gets dirty, just clean it up, it's your own car, why should you be so careful?"

Then I thought of the radio drama I had just heard.

Then he said, "Besides, a few crumbs are not considered dirty. I think those two guys just mentioned what they were doing in the car in the parking lot."

Ye Man's face started to get hot again.

Xu Huaiting glanced at the co-pilot, who turned his head away from the window. He took out a croissant and took a bite, his ears turning red as if blood was about to drip out.

The fingers on the steering wheel clicked and began to itch again.

Neither of them mentioned whether to put anything on the stage anymore, but Ye Man was not bored at all. There were gongs and drums beating in his head, more lively than the wedding procession at the village entrance.

Let alone radio dramas, he can't hear anything at this moment.

After eating, he dozed off and fell into a deep sleep without realizing it. When he woke up, the car was parked in front of the Chi family villa. It was dark outside, with only the dim yellow lights on inside the car. Ye Man moved, and his coat slipped off.

"woke up?"

"Hmm..." Ye Man had just woken up and was still a little dazed, so his voice was drawn out.

Xu Huaiting slowed down his voice and said to him, "Go ahead. Your brother is waiting outside. Go to bed early tonight and see you next week."

After getting out of the car, I wrapped the coat around him.

Chi Yan came over and held Ye Man's hand, "Xiao Man, let's go home."

He paused at Xu Huaiting, his face tense, nodded, and took Ye Man's bag of candy from him.

Ye Man followed and took two steps, half a beat slower, then he remembered something, "Brother, brother! Wait a minute!"

She grabbed a handful of candy from the bag, staggered towards Xu Huaiting, touched his arm, and stuffed the candy into his arms.

"Here, you can eat it," he said nervously. "It's delicious. Would you like to try it?"

After saying this, he turned around and walked away without waiting for Xu Huaiting to answer.

Xu Huaiting was left standing for a long time, holding a handful of Chenpi candy and leaning against the car.

It was not until Chi Yan took him away and he could no longer see him that he opened a candy and pressed it on his tongue.

It’s really... so sweet.