Chapter 163 I Want to Eat Children
"Uncle Dan." Gu Ji got into Dan Anwen's car without even changing out of his military training uniform.
Dan Anwen stopped tapping on the steering wheel, unscrewed the cap of his water glass, and said, "Have some water first. Do you want to eat at home tonight, or go out?"
Gu Ji took a few sips of water, quenching his thirst. "I want to eat Aunt Zhang's cooking when I go home for dinner."
During the two weeks of military training, she only went home for meals a few times, the last time being five days ago.
Today, military training finally ended, and she was able to stay in bed at home for two more days.
Dan Anwen chuckled and pinched her soft cheek. "Don't want to eat my cooking?"
Gu Ji saw the teasing in his eyes and smiled back, "I want to eat it, but I'm afraid it will be too much trouble for you."
Dan Anwen smiled, not exposing her words of comfort. He knew his own cooking skills; he could eat it, but he wouldn't miss the taste.
It seems we need to put in more effort to win over the kids' appetites.
Seeing that he wasn't dwelling on the issue, Gu Ji breathed a slight sigh of relief; this question was practically a death sentence.
The first thing Gu Ji did upon returning to the Jinshan Villa was to immediately go upstairs to take a shower.
She felt like she was about to rot; this military training uniform bore the weight of her sweat from the entire day.
When Gu Ji came out of the bathroom wrapped in a bathrobe, Dan Anwen was sitting on the sofa flipping through a magazine. Hearing the noise from the bathroom, she raised her dark eyes, a hint of amazement and desire flashing in them.
His voice was slightly hoarse when he spoke, "Little friend, what would you like to eat for dinner?"
Gu Ji watched the figure approaching her and felt a sense of unease. Sure enough, the moment the man finished asking his question, her body was lifted into the air.
The man carefully placed the girl on the bed, supporting himself on his knees, his cool fingertips caressing her red lips, his deep eyes unfathomably black.
She was about to speak when the man's thin lips silenced her, leaving only a few ambiguous sobs.
After a long while, I felt the warmth of your lips leave and heard a deep voice in my ear, "Little one, when will you grow up?"
Gu Ji's eyes were glistening with tears, and she wanted to retort to the man that she was already an adult.
However, when she saw the lingering lust in the man's eyes, she instantly chickened out. After all, what would happen after they spoke was beyond their control.
Gu Ji's voice trembled slightly, sounding exactly like someone who had been brutally abused, "I want to eat sweet and sour pork ribs."
She decided to change the subject, and besides, she was very hungry.
A smile crept into Dan Anwen's dark eyes, his thin lips curled upwards, and his tone carried a hint of danger, "But I want to eat children."
"You..." Gu Ji placed her hands between the two of them, preventing him from getting any closer to her, her face full of vigilance.
Dan An chuckled and pinched her slightly red nose, then got up and pulled her out of bed, her tone returning to its usual gentleness, "Okay, I'll blow-dry your hair."
As he spoke, he took the hair dryer out of the drawer and plugged it in.
The buzzing of the hairdryer reached Gu Ji's ears, and every now and then she felt the touch of a man's slender fingers on her scalp, gently playing with her hair.
The man looked down at the soft strands of hair on her pale, fair fingers, and the girl's fragrance wafted into his nostrils.
His eyes darkened, and taking advantage of the girl's inattention, he gently bit her sensitive ear with his thin lips.
The girl shuddered involuntarily, an itch that swept through her entire body and penetrated to her very bones.
"You look so tempting." Dan Anwen's voice was low and husky; he felt he couldn't blow-dry the child's hair anymore.
Thinking this, she handed the hair dryer to Gu Ji, patted her head and said, "I'm going to take a shower too, you can dry yourself."
Before she could react, his tall figure disappeared from her sight.
Gu Ji stared blankly at the hairdryer, taking a long time to process what the man had said.
Her rosy cheeks were flushed, whether from embarrassment at the man's words or from the heat of the hairdryer.
After Gu Ji went downstairs and ordered food from Aunt Zhang, Dan Anwen slowly changed into her home clothes and went downstairs.
Gu Ji sat lazily on the sofa eating fruit, and Dan An, seeing this, took out a tube of ointment from the drawer.
"You didn't apply any medicine today."
The man's words were not a question, but a statement, causing the girl to pause in her eating of fruit.
After her face got sunburned, she applied ointment every day, but in the last two days, she felt that her face was almost healed, so she started to relax and often stopped applying it.
"Then I'll apply it now." Gu Ji blinked her bright, watery eyes, not daring to tell the man that she hadn't applied any medicine for the past few days.
Dan Anwen lifted her delicate chin with her slender fingers, stared intently at her face, and asked in a calm tone, "You haven't been applying any makeup these past few days?"
Gu Ji smiled guiltily, stuck a piece of apple on a skewer and held it to the man's mouth, saying ingratiatingly, "I just forgot, I forgot."
Dan Anwen reluctantly ate the apple that she was offered to her mouth, and gently pinched her cheek. "You're just lazy."
Gu Ji didn't argue. After military training these past few days, she was so tired when she went back to the dormitory to shower that she didn't even bother to apply skincare products, let alone ointment. She didn't even know where she had put the tube of ointment in the dormitory.
Gu Ji pursed her lips and said in a soft voice, "Then Uncle Dan, could you help me apply it?"
As she spoke, she blinked and stared intently at him until he softened and stopped pursuing the matter.
Dan An sighed inwardly, worried that she wouldn't take good care of the child's face and would regret it later.
Although I wanted to punish her, my actions betrayed my true intentions.
The man unscrewed the cap of the ointment, gently scraped it with his fingertip, and felt a cool sensation on the girl's slightly flushed cheek.
Gu Ji puffed out his cheeks and said, "Uncle Dan, my face has turned black."
The girl was still very concerned about her skin tone. Even though her skin didn't tan easily, after two weeks of intense sunlight, her face had become several shades darker.
Dan Anwen continued applying the medicine without stopping, her tone gentle, "If it gets dark, we'll take care of it to restore it. I've already bought you a lot of whitening products; they're on your vanity."
"Besides, kids are cute no matter what."
The girl's initial melancholy was instantly healed. The man not only provided a solution but also took it one step at a time, and gently comforted her without being perfunctory at all.
"Uncle Dan, you must be a savior sent by heaven." Gu Jixing's eyes shone with starlight.
Dan Anwen screwed the ointment cap back on, leaned in and kissed her red lips, and said with a smile, "I don't know if I'm a savior, but I'm going to collect benefits."
Meeting the man's doting eyes, Gu Ji's fair skin flushed crimson; she understood his meaning all too well.
After tonight's goodnight kiss, it's questionable whether she'll be able to go out and meet people tomorrow.
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