Chapter 72: Innocent Relationship
Nie Yao, who was eating steamed dumplings, almost choked at his words. She immediately picked up her water cup and took a big sip. After finally swallowing the dumplings, she said angrily and amusedly, "What do you mean by living together? We're just a landlord-tenant relationship!"
She deliberately emphasized the pronunciation of the word "innocent". Li Jinxing suddenly lowered his head, moved closer to her, and chuckled, "Are you sure you're still innocent?"
Suddenly being pressed closer by Li Jinxing, Nie Yao could even feel his scorching breath. The memory of the first time she rescued him, when she had mouth-to-mouth sex with him in order to force him to drink the anti-inflammatory medicine, slowly emerged in her mind...
If he was referring to that time, it wasn't intentional...
"If you mean in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, I didn't mean to be disrespectful to you. I did that to save you..." Nie Yao muttered softly.
"Except for that time..." Li Jinxing laughed softly and shook his head.
Except for that one time?
Nie Yao was stunned this time. Apart from that time, she and Li Jinxing had never had a more intimate contact!
Unless it was in a dream... But Li Jinxing couldn't possibly run into her dream and spy on her, right?
Seeing her dazed look, Li Jinxing didn't say anything else. He just stretched out his finger and gently wiped the soup from the corner of her lips. He smiled and said, "If you are forced to ask about your relationship with me next time, you can explain it to them generously..."
"What do you want to explain?" Nie Yao was still holding the chopsticks in her hand, and the corner of her lips where he touched felt hot as if it were burned.
"You can explain it however you want!" Li Jinxing smiled faintly, slowly stood up, his eyes fell on Nie Yao's desk, and he picked up a few documents and drawings and took a few glances at them.
"Cohabiting partner, roommate..." He said it casually, but the hand that picked up the drawing suddenly stopped.
Covered under several data drawings on the surface were his sketches.
Although it was just a casual pencil drawing, his expression is different in each one, so lifelike...
"These paintings..." Li Jinxing picked up the sketches, raised his eyebrows slightly, turned around and looked at Nie Yao, trying to ask her to give an explanation.
Nie Yao was still shocked by his previous statement about them being live-in lovers. When she saw that he was holding her sketches in his hand, she immediately rushed over, snatched the photos from his hands, hid them behind her, and a blush of embarrassment appeared on her face.
"That was just a random drawing I made when I was bored, don't think too much about it..."
"Very good drawing!" Li Jinxing curled his lips slightly, slowly took out his portrait from her hands behind her back, put it under her nose, and asked with a smile: "But since you are drawing me, shouldn't you greet me as the model in advance?"
"I..." Nie Yao was speechless for a moment. Meeting his teasing gaze, she couldn't help but raise her head and retorted shyly, "I'm helping you, searching for information every day. Can't I draw a few sketches of you to relieve stress?"
"Of course!" Li Jinxing couldn't help laughing. He lowered his head and looked into her eyes, his nose almost touching hers. "But with the real person in front of you, are you sure you still want to rely on painting to relieve stress?"
Nie Yao froze in her tracks, her mind a bit dazed. After an unknown amount of time, Li Jinxing smiled and said, "I'll take these paintings. Take your time with the steamed dumplings, and get some rest!"
Before she could react, he took the sketches she had drawn and left her study.
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