While helping Xu Nian wash her hands, Chen Chaoxi looked intently at her and said, "Niannian, will you come home with me? I've wanted to marry you for a long time. If you don't want to marry me, you can marry me instead. I'll be your son-in-law."
When the topic of marriage came up, Shen Chaoxi's handsome face was filled with excited anticipation.
"Shen Chaoxi, forget about today. I will not marry you." Xu Nian lowered her head, refusing to look at his ugly face.
"It's okay. If you're not willing now, I can wait until you are. I'll keep pestering you. No one but me can marry you." Shen Chaoxi's fierce voice echoed in the room, making Xu Nian's long eyelashes tremble.
With him taking such initiative, how is she supposed to follow the plot and send those people who killed the original owner to prison?
"Shen Chaoxi, go home!" Xu Nian's voice carried the soft, gentle quality of a Jiangnan water town, just like her appearance, without a trace of aggression, yet Shen Chaoxi liked it very much.
She silently exuded her resistance to him.
Shen Chaoxi stared at her for a while, sighed softly, twitched his fingers a few times, straightened his clothes, and grabbed her wrist, saying in a way that left no room for refusal, "Niannian, I'll take you to the county town to catch the train."
"Shen Chaoxi, let me go, I can walk by myself." To Shen Chaoxi, Xu Nian's struggles were like a child throwing a tantrum, which could be easily subdued.
"Niannian, stop fooling around. Do you really want to make a scene and attract other people's attention?" Shen Chaoxi's words silenced Xu Nian. She was sensitive and didn't like others focusing their attention on her.
She could only glare fiercely at this shameless man, but her light and indifferent gaze had no power to harm him; instead, it made his gaze towards her even more unsettling.
"Niannian, don't seduce me. I have very poor self-control when it comes to you." Shen Chaoxi still wanted to take advantage of him, but since they both had to catch their trains, they had to suppress those inappropriate thoughts.
Xu Nian was speechless. How could the male lead be so shameless and brazen?
In the original story, he was a gentle and refined gentleman who always knew how to conduct himself properly; otherwise, he wouldn't have been so captivating to the female lead.
Now all those wonderful qualities are gone.
He boldly pursued the original owner of this insignificant persona, and just now he even went so far as to force her to do that kind of thing. Does he even know what he's doing?
Shen Chaoxi held Xu Nian's hand with one hand and carried their bags with the other. He was in a good mood and a smile was on his lips.
They led the people out of the dormitory area and to the village entrance to board a bus bound for the county town.
The bus swayed and wobbled, packed with people.
The smell of diesel fuel mixed with various strange odors in the car was unpleasant, and Xu Nian closed her eyes uncomfortably as soon as she got in.
Yes, she gets carsick, whether she's sitting or standing.
Shen Chaoxi noticed that she was uncomfortable, so he immediately put down his bundle, took out a piece of salted ginger from his pocket, and put it in her mouth. "Eat a little, it will make you feel better."
"Thank you!" Xu Nian's brows relaxed. She didn't know if it was a placebo effect or if the salt and ginger really worked, but she did feel much better.
The bus swayed and rattled for more than forty minutes before finally arriving at the county's train station.
With the tall and imposing Shen Chaoxi protecting her, Xu Nian didn't encounter any pickpockets or people with ill intentions.
The green train arrived at the station half an hour late. After Xu Nian carried her things through the ticket gate and entered the station, she found that Shen Chaoxi was following her closely until she boarded the train.
Sitting in her train seat, Xu Nian frowned and looked at the person next to her. "Shen Chaoxi, aren't you going back to Beijing?"
“Niannian, have you forgotten what I said before? I’m going to follow you, what would I do back in Beijing?” Shen Chaoxi took out his train ticket and showed Xu Nian the station address.
Great, the exact same destination as hers. You have to queue up to buy these train tickets several days in advance. It seems he was well-prepared for today's events.
"Shameless." Xu Nian muttered after looking at the train ticket.
She realized that she had really been taken advantage of by Shen Chaoxi.
She couldn't be driven away, and he didn't know how to curse her. He was also more shameless than her, and he was sure she was soft-hearted.
"Shen Chaoxi, aren't your family worried about you if you don't go back?" Xu Nian couldn't understand why the male lead's family would let him act so recklessly.
"I've already called my parents and told them. They know I'm going to pursue my wife, and they're very supportive of me going with you." Shen Chaoxi said with a grin, his hand starting to wander and grab Xu Nian's soft, boneless hand.
He didn't care about the glare he received; on the contrary, he was quite happy.
If it weren't for the fact that they were in public, he would have liked to kiss that hand again.
His hands are really beautiful, everything about them suits his taste, especially his hands, which he really likes.
Shen Chaoxi's gaze was intense, and his throat began to dry again.
Noticing the unusual look in the eyes of the person next to her, Xu Nian's lips twitched, and she reached out with her other hand and pinched the person's waist hard.
Shen Chaoxi jolted awake and immediately sat up straight. He quietly moved the crossbody bag he was carrying and glanced around, not daring to look at Xu Nian again.
Seeing that he had calmed down, Xu Nian leaned back in her train seat and closed her eyes to rest.
Her home is in the south, quite far from the village she was going to visit. It would take her a whole day and night to get back by train.
In other words, apart from tonight, I will have to stay on the train all day tomorrow until I arrive at the station in the evening.
Traveling by train can easily lead to mental fatigue, so getting a good rest at night is essential.
In a daze, Xu Nian felt herself being pulled into a warm embrace.
Perhaps subconsciously believing that he wouldn't hurt her, Xu Nian fell asleep peacefully.
Seeing that she was sleeping soundly, Shen Chaoxi took out a coat and covered her with it.
The train was now completely quiet, with many people resting with their eyes closed, and only a very few remaining awake.
Shen Chaoxi glanced over, but found nothing unusual, so he closed his eyes to rest.
The green train clattered along in the darkness until the morning sun shone in, at which point Xu Nian lifted the clothes over her head and opened her eyes in a daze.
When she met Chen Chaoxi's smiling eyes, her face flushed red instantly.
She actually slept in his arms all night, sleeping like a log until dawn.
"I'm not usually like this," Xu Nian said dryly in her defense.
"It's alright, it seems that Niannian doesn't hate me as much as you make it out to be!" Shen Chaoxi said with a smug smile.
"Who said that? I just..." Unable to say what she didn't mean, Xu Nian simply turned her head away and stopped talking.
Shen Chaoxi leaned back in his train seat, admiring her awkward appearance with a smile in his eyes.
When the train attendant pushed the dining cart over, Xu Nian went over and bought breakfast for the two of them.
When she returned to her seat, she handed one of the dishes to Shen Chaoxi. Seeing him accept it generously, she smiled slightly.
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