Chapter 120 The White-Cut Black-Hearted Younger Brother 20
Seeing how dependent he is on her, I feel like his happiness level shouldn't be too hard to climb in the future, right?
As she thought about it, she felt sleepy and soon fell asleep.
After noticing that the person on top of him was breathing steadily and knew that she had fallen asleep, Xiao Yichen secretly placed another kiss mark on her neck, then held her waist and fell asleep peacefully.
The next day, Xu Qiuqiu asked Qu Heng for two days off, intending to take good care of Xiao Yichen.
Qu Heng didn't ask anything and agreed. After hanging up the phone, she turned around and saw Xiao Yichen looking at her not far away, as if he had something to say to her. She asked him, "What's wrong?"
"Who did you call, sister? Was it... your boyfriend?" When he said the word "boyfriend," Xiao Yichen bit his tongue, the pain and the taste of blood preventing him from losing control of his expression.
Xu Qiuqiu glanced at him, feeling that he was acting strangely. She wondered why he had been so clingy to her from the beginning, always trying to get close to her. If it was intentional, then why were his eyes so clear and innocent?
Seeing Xu Qiuqiu looking at him with a scrutinizing gaze, Xiao Yichen immediately became nervous. Had his sister noticed something?
He started to panic. Had he been too hasty? He had finally gotten his sister to agree to hold him while he slept every day, and now it was all going to be gone?
Thinking of this, his face turned pale, and a chill and panic spread from his heart to his whole body.
Seeing his face suddenly turn pale, Xu Qiuqiu stopped thinking about anything else, went over and took his hand, asking with concern, "Achen, what's wrong? Why is your face so pale? Are you feeling unwell?"
Seeing the concern in her eyes, Xiao Yichen's heart calmed down a little, but the panic and fear still lingered. He grasped her hand in return, his voice fragile, "Sister, shouldn't you have asked that? Please don't be angry, okay?"
Seeing his near-collapse, Xu Qiuqiu didn't understand why he was reacting so strongly. She hadn't said anything yet, but his current appearance was truly heartbreaking, like a drowning person clinging tightly to a piece of driftwood, as if he would die if she let go.
She raised her hand and gently touched his face. When her fingertips touched his face, his pupils contracted slightly, and then he looked at her cautiously.
Xu Qiuqiu gently coaxed him, "Achen, don't overthink it, I'm not angry." Seeing that his expression had softened, she suddenly asked him, "Achen, are you concerned about whether I have a boyfriend?"
"Sister..." This question made Xiao Yichen's heart almost stop beating, and his eyes instantly turned red.
He was in so much pain, he didn't dare to say it, he didn't even have the courage to tell her he loved her.
Should I tell her that I'm a monster who's been coveting her for a long time?
The boy in front of her turned even paler. Seeing his panic, Xu Qiuqiu explained, "Achen, I don't have a boyfriend."
Upon hearing the answer, Xiao Yichen's eyes lit up instantly. To hide his emotions, he awkwardly changed the subject, "Sister... Achen is hungry..."
Xu Qiuqiu didn't expose him. "Achen, what do you want to eat?"
Xiao Yichen answered quickly, "I'll eat whatever my sister wants to eat."
She can't cook, so she ended up ordering several takeout meals on her phone.
For the next two days, Xiao Yichen stayed close to her. When she was quietly writing copy at home, he would sit beside her without making a fuss. Ever since she agreed to sleep together, he would hold her tightly every night.
Fortunately, the two days passed quickly. After the stitches were removed at the hospital, she sent him to school. Otherwise, she would have found his clinginess unbearable. However, she couldn't get angry because, apart from being clingy, he was actually quite well-behaved. Usually, even before she was angry, if she raised her voice, he would get scared and tearful.
She wondered why Ah Chen was so dependent on her. Did he like her? But she couldn't see any love in his eyes.
However, she didn't have time to think about these things. She took two days off, and when she returned to work, her workload had increased.
Time flies, and Xiao Yichen's birthday is just around the corner. Xu Qiuqiu is called home by Bai Di to prepare the room in advance.
That night, lying in bed, she asked 003, "What kind of gift do you think Ah Chen likes?"
003 thought for a moment and said, "I think whatever the host gives to the second male lead, he will like it!"
Why?
003 casually replied, "Because the second male lead likes the host."
Xu Qiuqiu was taken aback. "Why do you say that?"
“It’s quite obvious. I can occasionally see the second male lead looking at the host with eyes full of love…” 003 randomly picked an example, “The second male lead would always sneak into the host’s room late at night. Although I was blocked, I guess the second male lead probably wanted to spend the night with the host. Therefore, we can conclude that the second male lead can’t sleep if he can’t see the host!”
Entering her room in the middle of the night? That sounds pretty weird. Xu Qiuqiu was startled. "How long ago was this? Why didn't you tell me?"
003 whispered in defense of herself: "The host didn't ask, so I didn't mention it..." After defending herself, she continued to answer her question: "It was the second weekend after the second male lead came to this house."
"So early?" Xu Qiuqiu thought back carefully. She was not a deep sleeper. If someone entered her room, she would definitely wake up. Why didn't she wake up and didn't notice anything?
I suddenly remembered that he used to knock on the door before bed and give me a glass of warm milk. Could it be the milk?
She pressed on to the key question: "Did he tamper with the hot milk he gave me before?"
003 answered in a low voice, "He did administer some sedatives, but I only found out later because the dosage was so small that the system didn't detect it..."
After saying that, it asked cautiously, "Host...you're not angry, are you?"
Hearing 003's answer, Xu Qiuqiu felt a little annoyed. "Fine, fine, I didn't expect him to be so secretive." Recalling the hot milk incident, she realized that ever since she agreed to sleep with him, he had never insisted that she drink hot milk again. She used to think he was a sweet and considerate girl, but now she felt that he was really... heartless.
Xu Qiuqiu gritted her teeth and asked, "003, is there anything else you haven't told me?"
"That's all the system knows..." Realizing she'd messed up, 003 weakly tried to say something nice for the second male lead, "Host, don't be angry, the second male lead is actually quite well-behaved..."
003 dared not say anything else, fearing that it would make the host even angrier. If the host knew that the second male lead had cut himself just to see the host, the host would probably be even angrier. Moreover, it felt that the second male lead, apart from being self-destructive, would not have the heart to hurt the host. So, since the host hadn't asked, it didn't intend to say anything.
After all, the host couldn't accept the second male lead from the beginning because of the awkwardness of his identity. Now that he has finally figured it out, he doesn't plan to tell the host.
It also has its own little scheme. After all, it has watched many melodramatic TV series where the female lead's fear of the male lead escalates into a deeply abusive relationship. So, it won't say what it shouldn't say.
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