Chapter 41, The 41st Beam of Light: "Then shall I let you kiss me back by force?"...
Ying Qi turned around and was stunned to see the two of them. Then he gave Song Xingyun a thumbs up and said, "Warrior."
Wen Ying didn't expect to hear such explosive gossip as soon as she got up. She gently nudged Song Xingyun with her shoulder, and Song Xingyun quickly covered her mouth to stop her from making a joke.
Yu Mushang also heard the noise behind him. His hand, which was on the small machine, froze. After a few seconds of silence, he stammered, "I was just kidding."
Ying Qi: No need to explain, we understand!
Wen Ying: We're all adults, don't be shy!
Song Xingyun exclaimed excitedly, as if she had grasped a lifeline, "Really? Is it really a joke?"
Hearing her urgent question, Yu Mushang felt a tightness in his chest. He turned towards the direction of her voice and said, "It's fake." Anyone who saw it would look at his face with resentment.
This made Song Xingyun seem like she had turned her back on him after getting what she wanted.
Ying Qi: "Scumbag."
Wen Ying: "Female?"
Song Xingyun pointed to herself, "I..."
Wen Ying took a big step forward and grabbed Ying Qi by the back of his suit collar. "You two chat, we're going to feed the dogs."
"Hey!" Ying Qi was pulled backward, "You woman, let go of me."
Wen Ying, naturally, wasn't so obedient. She dragged him along, saying, "Not so aloof this time? What are you doing? Don't you care about your boss's happiness?"
Song Xingyun stared blankly at the two noisily leaving, wanting to run away with them, but her feet seemed to be bound by the man in front of her. "Boss... Boss."
"Yeah, right." Yu Mushang uttered two more words from his thin lips.
Song Xingyun didn't react for a moment, "What do you mean?"
This was the first time she had ever seen Yu Mushang with such a smug expression. When she realized what he meant, the man confirmed her understanding, saying, "Fake? No way."
Song Xingyun: ?
She relayed his words.
Just kidding.
real?
Fake.
It's impossible for it to be fake.
So, it really was a joke?
He actually played word games with her.
Song Xingyun grabbed his wrist immediately. "What are you waiting for? Let's go explain to them!"
But the man remained unmoved, a fleeting look of dejection crossing his face. "It's a joke that I lost my innocence, but it's true that Assistant Song dragged me to the bed, groped me, and forcibly kissed me."
"Now you want to wash your hands of it?"
Every word he spoke struck Song Xingyun's heart, each one making her heart beat half a second faster.
So that's what she remembered from last night's blackout?
Did she really almost do that to him?
Song Xingyun covered her mouth with one hand, her heart pounding loudly from her chest to her ears.
Her fingers, which were gripping his wrist, were pressed against his pulse. Was his heart beating that fast too? For a moment, she couldn't tell if it was her own heartbeat or his.
"Then what should we do?" Song Xingyun was truly exasperated with her habit of stuttering when she got nervous in front of Yu Mushang. She took a deep breath and tried to say something fluent, "Then I'll let you kiss me back?"
That sentence was spoken very fluently.
That's worse than stuttering!
Song Xingyun slapped her forehead. "Hehe, that's ridiculous, right? I was just kidding."
As soon as she finished speaking, Yu Mushang was pulled back by the hand she was holding, and Song Xingyun fell into the man's arms before she could even react.
She was the one holding onto him, so why was she being led around by him...?
Before she could even process how they had gotten to this distance, she felt the man lightly pinch the back of her neck. She instinctively shrank back, but he wouldn't let her escape.
Song Xingyun watched as Yu Mushang's face grew ever larger in front of her, and she had nowhere to retreat.
But her first reaction at this moment wasn't to push him away.
Instead, close your eyes.
Song Xingyun felt that she was probably a little crazy.
Yu Mushang didn't actually kiss her; instead, he pressed his forehead against hers, saying, "Don't joke around like that."
"I'll take it seriously."
After he finished speaking, he let go of her, took the smart cane from Xiaoji's hand, and turned to head towards the laboratory.
The small machine followed closely behind, muttering in a mechanical voice, "This time, the boss almost forcibly kissed Assistant Song."
Yu Mushang: ......
"Shut up."
The little machine beeped, "The little machine is aggrieved, but it won't say anything."
Yu Mushang happened to be passing by the sunroom when he heard the noisy sounds coming from inside, from two people and two dogs. "Did they kiss or not?"
"I told you to get closer and hide behind the sofa, you coward."
"Wen Ying, who are you calling a coward!"
Yu Mushang had a headache. He tapped the small machine with his smart cane and said, "Go tell Ying Qi to come over here."
He insisted that he make him delete all those strange programs from the mini-system, and also teach him how to control his mouth and eyes.
Song Xingyun watched the man's departing figure, his words still echoing in her ears.
If she's joking, will he take it seriously?
What does he mean?
Song Xingyun was only brought back to her senses when Wen Ying hugged her from behind. "I don't know how many times my heart stops every day."
Wen Ying tapped her bright red ears, "Pah, pah, pah, don't talk nonsense."
"How was it? How was Mr. Yu's kissing skill?"
Song Xingyun was so frightened that she pushed her away, "What kind of kissing skills are those! Nothing happened between us!"
"He made me explain to you that he was just joking." Song Xingyun thought to herself: I don't care, he's the one who made her explain!
"Oh? Is that so?" Wen Ying looked regretful, which made Song Xingyun so angry that she couldn't help but rub her face.
Wen Ying was originally planning to retreat, but she didn't expect to waste a lot of time by watching the gossip. When Song Xingyun dropped her off at the door of Villa No. 9, she was still absent-minded. Wen Ying put her arm around her shoulder and said, "Don't think about it. You'll see it once you go in."
Song Xingyun suddenly became serious, "You don't actually want to be a matchmaker again, do you?"
Unexpectedly, Wen Ying actually nodded honestly, "Yes." She clenched her fists and placed them on her chin, suppressing her excitement, "You two look so good together." And she really felt that Yu Mushang was interested in her little star.
But then she changed her mind and grabbed Song Xingyun's shoulder. "But, his eyes... it's really a pity. I was just kidding, don't take it seriously." She felt it was best not to influence Song Xingyun's thoughts.
It's only natural that an ordinary person would mind the imperfections of Yu Mushang.
Song Xingyun knew that Wen Ying was worried about her and was also reminding her, but she felt a pang of sadness in her heart, "He should have been the pride of heaven."
"However, in my eyes, he is no different from any other person." This was what she truly felt.
Wen Ying opened her mouth in surprise, then sighed, "You said you don't like him."
Song Xingyun was stunned. "Is this what liking someone is?"
Wen Ying thought for a moment, "Maybe a little? You'll have to figure that out yourself."
After she drove away, Song Xingyun stood at the door for a while longer until Changming somehow ran out, and then she followed it inside.
Yu Mushang heard the sounds of a person and a dog playing approaching from the doorway, so he left again. Only after returning to his room did he slump back onto the bed, saying dejectedly, "You were too obvious today."
"I won't do it again." That's what he told himself.
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When Song Xingyun returned, she only saw Ying Qi and Xiao Ji bickering. After thinking for a moment, she asked, "Where's the boss?"
Ying Qi looked left and right. "He should go back to his room to rest. He said his back hurts."
My back hurts...
Song Xingyun turned and ran, saying, "I'm going back to my room to rest too."
Ying Qi only realized what had happened after the people had run far away, and looked at Xiao Ji, "Were they very intense last night?"
Xiao Ji raised his hand and punched Ying Qi, "Bagua, hit me."
Ying Qi rubbed his arm, resigned to his fate, since the instruction program was clearly the work of his own boss.
As Song Xingyun walked back to her room, her knuckles tapped lightly against her lips. "Is the back pain due to a recurrence of an old injury... or because I hurt him again last night?"
She said she would take responsibility for Yu Mushang's physical therapy, but she has only done it once so far.
Song Xingyun paced back and forth in the room, "To go or not to go?"
She put her hand on the doorknob, then pulled it back, went back to the bed, and crawled under the covers.
Frustrated by the numerous misunderstandings and blunders she had caused in just one week, which had more or less harmed Yu Mushang's mind and body, she recalled his expression when he spoke to her earlier, noting the loneliness he had captured.
She flipped over and sprang to her feet. "No, I have to go check on his back."
Without hesitation, Song Xingyun cheered herself up and rushed towards Yu Mushang's room like a female warrior.
Yu Mushang's door was tightly closed. She took a deep breath and then raised her hand to knock on the door, but to no avail. She then pressed the doorbell on the side.
The room was large, and Ying Qi had specially installed a doorbell, but this was the first time Song Xingyun had rung it.
The person inside sat up in bed when they heard the doorbell ring. Their face looked grim. They walked to the door, put their hand on the doorknob, and said, "Ying Qi, you'd better have something really serious to tell me."
Just as he was about to open the door, he heard Song Xingyun's cautious, soft voice from outside, "Boss, it's me."
This made Yu Mushang stop opening the door. After a few seconds, he spoke again, "Is something the matter?"
Song Xingyun had already prepared what she wanted to say and replied in one breath, "I came to check your back. Ying Qi said your back hurts and you haven't had any physical therapy for several days."
Yu Mushang hadn't expected her to come for this reason.
He had thought that after what had happened before, she would avoid him. After all, when she pulled him aside to explain to everyone, she seemed so eager to distance herself from him.
But I didn't expect her to reappear so quickly. Was she really not embarrassed at all, and didn't think much of it? Was I the only one caught in the middle? "No need."
Song Xingyun felt a pang of sadness after being rejected. "It's all my fault that you got hurt."
"I have to take responsibility."
Take responsibility? How could he dare to make her take responsibility?
Yu Mushang withdrew his hand from the doorknob, turned around to leave, but after taking only one step, he couldn't move anymore. He sighed and leaned back against the door. "No need."
"From now on, Assistant Song only needs to focus on completing her work tasks."
"Stop doing anything that could be misunderstood, stop saying anything that could be misunderstood, and stay away from the boss's private area, do you hear me?"
Song Xingyun's heart skipped a beat, a pang of sadness welling up inside her. She didn't answer him, but stubbornly repeated, "I have to take responsibility..."
Footsteps faded into the distance from inside, along with his repeated refusal: "No need, not from now on."
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Author's note: It'll be alright, it'll be alright [cheek resting on hand]
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