Even though there was someone standing at the door, Si Jiu didn't feel uncomfortable at all. She soaked in the bath slowly and comfortably, then got up lazily and put on the pajamas prepared for her by Chen Huai.
Coming out of the bathroom, she immediately met Chen Huai's gaze.
His eyes were unblinking, deep and lingering, as if they had been wandering in the long river of time and space for hundreds of years and finally found their home. They fell on Si Jiu's face with cherishment and restraint.
He was facing another "strange" face.
But he would never mistake her eyes, nor the tremor that seemed to come from the depths of his soul whenever he saw her.
He could even see Si Jiu's original appearance through her completely unfamiliar face.
He raised his hand, and his fingertips landed just below the corner of her left eye. "Little wine."
Sijiu's hair was still dripping with water, and the water droplets fell on her neck, quickly soaking her collar. She was a little annoyed and reached out to pull it unhappily.
Chen Huai smiled, held her hand to stop her from treating her hair roughly, took her into the bathroom again, took a large towel to cover her head, and gently wiped her hair.
Such a simple thing can fill Chen Huai's heart with a full sense of happiness.
Chen Huai looked for her gaze through the mirror. When their eyes met, he would always curl up the corners of his lips, and his eyes were filled with only Si Jiu's figure.
But once Si Jiu stared at him for too long, the tips of his ears would turn slightly red, as if he couldn't bear it and wanted to look away, but because he couldn't bear to do so, he made the tips of his ears even redder.
It is obvious that Chen Huai now looks like a cold and difficult person, exuding the aura of a big boss in the eyes of others.
Si Jiu saw the young master from before in him again.
Her heart softened suddenly, "Thank you for your hard work."
Whether it was before, when he waited for her for a hundred years guarding someone else's corpse, constantly trying to "summon" her back, or later, when he held on to a slim one in ten thousand chance and injured himself all over, just to go back to the past and meet her again.
This time, no one knew how much effort and cost he had to pay before he appeared in front of her again.
How hard must this young master have worked and given his all to achieve this, as he couldn't even hide his small flaw of being afraid of pain?
She raised her hand and touched Chen Huai's face, responding to his gaze in the mirror with a softer look than ever before, "Thank you for your hard work, my little master."
Chen Huai raised his hand and placed it against her hand that was touching his face. His eyes, as deep as the sea, stared at her quietly. "I'm happy with it," he said.
The towel fell from his fingertips, she turned her face and raised her head to find his lips.
There was a minty taste in her mouth from brushing her teeth just now, but Chen Huai felt that he tasted a sweetness more intoxicating than honey.
This was the first time that his beloved kissed him while fully conscious and sane.
It had nothing to do with any other emotions, it wasn't meant to be funny or comforting, but rather... a kiss filled with pity, and maybe even a little bit of love...
He felt a slight shudder at this realization.
"A little wine. A little wine..."
He turned her body around, held her waist tightly, and whispered her name in her ear.
"Um."
He kissed her for a long time until she finally began to get impatient, and then he reluctantly separated from her for a while. But within two seconds, he couldn't help but lower his head and peck her lips again, like a willful child who couldn't get enough candy.
However, even so, he did not take any further action.
Si Jiu could clearly feel the obvious changes in him, but he seemed to be indifferent to his own reaction.
Si Jiu felt a little pity and wanted to laugh, and couldn't help teasing him, "My little master, you are really as innocent as always."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah, how can he be so pure? He's so cute." She reached out and patted his cheek gently, then smiled herself.
So she didn't see what kind of surging desire and restraint were hidden in the eyes of her innocent young master at that moment.
"Well, as long as Xiaojiu likes it."
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