Chapter 70 Nocturne (revised) That was when she was seventeen, how...
The skin where the earlobes connected to the neck began to feel hot. Bo Xia was a little angry but didn't know how to express it. She lowered her eyes and met his gaze which was different from before, and her heart began to tremble.
Being bewitched by him while feeling that he was a bit of a jerk, she simply lowered her eyes and bit his neck, not hard, but her teeth dug into his skin.
Jin Yunyan hissed and took a breath of cold air, but this touch that was neither painful nor itchy was more like some kind of flirting. She didn't realize that this was not a way to vent her anger, but rather adding fuel to the fire.
The man's voice became even hoarser, his narrow eyes holding a hint of smile. He held her legs and kindly reminded her, "Aren't you going down yet?"
The person in his arms seemed to be burned by something. The moment she stood up, her long, inky hair brushed against his nose, emitting a faint fragrance.
After everyone left, Jin Yunyan couldn't calm down for a long time.
He lay on the dark green sofa for a long time. Suddenly, there was a slight sound from the door handle. He raised his eyes in surprise, as if he saw a beast walking into a trap.
Bo Xia looked at the astonishing sight that hadn't faded yet, and her legs felt weak, but she still stood still and said, "Remember to drink the honey water. And--"
He tilted his head slightly, his expression reminiscent of those days when he was standing at the negotiation table, as if asking her, "Anything else?"
"Also... don't take a bath later. Be careful not to fall asleep in the tub."
Her tone was so considerate, and her eyes were filled with passion that was about to overflow.
If she had been a few seconds slower in closing the door, Jin Yunyan could not have predicted what uncontrollable situation would have occurred.
After a while, he unbuttoned his shirt and walked to the bathroom. Through the frosted glass, he could see the blurry silhouette of a man under the running water. Thinking of how she had just been worried about him, he couldn't help but think of her cheek, the warmth of her palm...
The thick liquid was gradually diluted by the coldness, leaving only a hazy crimson at the corners of his eyes that took a long time to fade away.
Jin Yunyan was indeed a little tired when he came back. He had been traveling a lot and was busy with social events today, but now the sleepiness had completely disappeared.
After walking out of the bathroom, he put on his bathrobe and went to the balcony to light a cigarette.
No one could sleep peacefully that night.
Insomnia inevitably led to a listless state the next day. During breakfast, Jin Yunyan rubbed his brows on the table. The atmosphere between the two was a little awkward. Bo Xia casually glanced at the undulations of the fabric of his clothes, then looked at his face: "Do you have a headache?"
He said "hmm", but waited for a long time without her next words. He concealed his expression and said, "Don't you feel sorry for me?"
Bo Xia thought about being cheated yesterday and turned away slightly: "How can I be so delicate."
A slight laugh escaped from his throat. After hearing what she said, he actually lowered his eyes to admire her angry expression, thinking that she looked cute.
Jin Yunyan didn't plan to tease her any further. After dinner, he heard a noise behind him. He raised his eyes and saw Bo Xia finding some painkillers. He asked him if it was serious.
He didn't look at what she was holding. He grabbed her wrist, pulled it onto his lap, and looked at her with his eyes downcast. With just one glance, Bo Xia knew that she had been deceived again.
She gently accused, "Liar puppy."
It seems like this name only comes from bad friends. I don't know why it has become a flirtatious name when it comes from a partner. Isn't that what it means to like someone? It's a cat, it's a puppy, but not a person.
So Jin Yunyan was stunned at first, then he laughed softly, held her waist and kissed her neck, as if to confirm the name.
Her voice came between gasps: "Don't bite."
He lowered his eyes to look at her expression, thinking that she was always so indulgent towards him, so how could she blame him for being too demanding.
"Xiao Xia."
Bo Xia heard him call her name in a gentle voice, and was forced to tilt her head back to meet his kiss. It was an extremely intimate position, which made her put all her focus on him and dared not relax.
She was worried that the distance was too close and she would make the same mistake again. Her mind was wandering a little far away, so she didn't react for a moment when the edge of her underwear was pulled aside. It was not until she felt his fingertips as warm as jade that she trembled all over and looked at him with wet eyes.
Jin Yunyan just stopped kissing her, and waved the light-colored mole at the corner of his eye in front of her. Seeing that she had no resistance on her face, he kissed her again, blocking her words of rebuke between his lips and teeth.
Bo Xia didn't say a word on the way to work until the car was about to arrive at the company gate. Then she thought of something and took out foundation to help him cover the marks on his neck.
He didn't take it to heart, but Bo Xia insisted. She felt that intimate things could be done, but it was not good to show the traces in front of others.
Jin Yunyan looked at her with a smile and asked her, "So, can you do anything?"
Before she got out of the car, she kicked his ankle, this time with quite a bit of force.
After work was over for the day, Bo Xia went to his company to pick him up, completely forgetting what happened in the morning.
When she arrived at the top floor of Wansheng, Song Cen received her and told her that President Jin was still in a meeting. She saw through the glass that the man was looking down at documents. He had a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his superior nose and his face did not look very good.
He raised his eyes slightly and scanned the surroundings, but no one dared to look him in the eye. Song Cen made a cup of coffee and placed it in front of Bo Xia. She said thank you softly, but when she saw someone standing in front of her, she hesitated to speak. Bo Xia chuckled and said, "Don't worry about me. Go and do your own thing."
"That's right, Mr. Jin may need a long time."
"good."
When Jin Yunyan finished his work, the woman had already fallen asleep on the sofa in his office. He took off his glasses and looked at her for a long time, but in the end he couldn't bear to disturb her.
The man bent down and carried her to the lounge at the back, where he held her and dozed off for a while. When Bo Xia woke up, it was already nine o'clock in the evening. She was pressed against his chest, and the sound of his strong heartbeat filled her ears.
She looked up at his face and for a moment she felt as if she were in a dream.
It seemed like she was following him and secretly watching his back yesterday, but today she is already very close to him. Many stories are so beautiful that they always make her suspect that they are bubbles that can easily disappear.
She couldn't help but raise her head and kiss his soft lips, but she saw him open his deep eyes unexpectedly the next second, and she was caught in the act of kissing him.
“…”
It turns out that he didn't fall asleep at all, Bo Xia thought.
She blinked her long eyelashes, and her vision suddenly darkened. She heard him coaxing softly, "Open your mouth."
The air in her lungs was robbed, her eyes were filled with swaying spring tides, and she couldn't help but let out a slight gasp.
Bo Xia vaguely recalled what happened yesterday and this morning, thinking that it was inevitable that adults would have conflicts, let alone in an occasion like this.
She looked up to meet his passionate gaze, her slender fingertips subconsciously clenching the sheets behind her, but she heard him ask, "Are you hungry?"
"I'm hungry."
Jin Yunyan laughed briefly: "Then wait for a while."
"good."
He went to tidy up his clothes for a while, and when he was almost done, he took her out to dinner.
Jin Yunyan is a very considerate person. When he takes her to a restaurant, he will help her pull out a chair, and when she eats steak, he will take the initiative to cut it for her. He will even help feed her when she has something to reply to a message.
Bo Xia was not used to it. She took a bite of the food he handed her and said, "Jin Yunyan, this is weird."
He looked at her with some confusion, not feeling that there was anything wrong with himself.
"I used to think other people's relationships were boring, but now it's suddenly my turn."
Jin Yunyan understood what she meant. Actually, he hadn't understood why someone would constantly pester their partner to call them, until he went on a business trip and his phone was empty. He hadn't had the heart to make love before. Although he sometimes had physical needs, they had never seemed particularly interesting. Until he was with her...
Otherwise, Sheng Chi wouldn't always send him messages copying the quotes he had sent him before, mocking his zero love IQ.
Jin Yunyan just asked her if she didn't like it. She didn't deny it, saying that she was just expressing her feelings.
He lowered his eyelids and thought that he liked it.
Halfway through the meal, Jin Yunyan stood up and said something to the waiter not far away. She raised her eyes and saw him sitting in front of the piano by the window, his bony fingers pressing on the keys, and pleasant music pouring out from his fingers.
That's Schubert's Serenade.
He looked up at her, clearly playing for her.
Bo Xia could clearly hear the sound of her heart beating for him. She had known before that he could play the piano, but she still remembered that others had tried hard to get him to perform at the campus party, and even someone as easy-going as him had made excuses to evade them.
No one had ever heard him play, let alone for one person.
That was a scene she never dared to imagine when she was seventeen.
Looking back many years later, those countless moments when girls’ dreams came true all seemed like fragile yet dreamy bubbles.
At that time, I was only immersed in it, but it was not until a sleepless night much later that I could recall the sadness and willingness I felt at that time.
After the song ended, Jin Yunyan walked towards her. His well-proportioned figure was so dazzling under the light that it attracted the attention of people at other tables.
Before he could sit down and say anything, Sheng Chi walked over and said, "What a coincidence."
I can't remember how long it has been since the brothers last met. Sheng Chi accused Bo Xia of being too strict, but Bo Xia was naturally wronged. She looked at Jin Yunyan and said, "When have I ever been strict with Ah Yan?"
"You don't care, is it because Yan doesn't want to meet me?"
Jin Yunyan sat opposite Bo Xia, with a smile on his lips, and it was obvious that he had a positive attitude towards what was said.
Bo Xia was helpless: "I really didn't care."
"You mean, you automatically turned into a dog before you even trained Ah Yan, right?"
Jin Yunyan closed his eyes and looked at him angrily: "Can you get out now?"
For Sheng Chi, being a jerk is his hobby: "What, are you prioritizing women over friends now?"
He always behaved politely and calmly, stating the facts calmly: "I have always been indifferent to friendship, regardless of whether it is a color or not."
Bo Xia found it a little funny to watch the two of them bickering, so she quickly tried to smooth things over by saying that they could get together some other day when they were free, and this tricked Sheng Chi away.
She held her chin and looked at him, not knowing who she was looking at through him.
Jin Yunyan asked her what she was thinking, and she said that she always felt that he had not changed at all over the years. Although he said that he did not care about his friends, he actually valued friendship very much.
Jin Yunyan didn't know when he became this kind of person: "Really?"
"Well, aren't you angry that he just called you a dog?"
He narrowed his eyes and was about to explain that he was not angry because he was talking about her dog and there was no need to be angry, but this statement went through his mind again, and it really surprised Jin Yunyan himself.
He couldn't say these words, so naturally he didn't explain.
A few days later it rained and the temperature dropped sharply.
The autumn colors on both sides of the street faded, silently announcing the arrival of winter.
Bo Xia was busy moving and looking for a house during that time. She estimated that her year-end dividend would be quite a lot, which could be used to improve her housing conditions.
Jin Yunyan knew that she was independent in everything, and it was still rare for her to accept his kindness in such a moderate way as she did now. Naturally, she would not accept living with him, so he just helped her find a house with good conditions.
After signing the contract, Bo Xia saw that it was still early, so she bought a bouquet of flowers and went to Jin Yunyan's house.
Jin Yunyan was still working overtime at that time, so he was not at home. When she arrived, she saw a lady standing at the door in elegant clothes. She asked politely, "Who are you looking for?"
"I'm looking for Ah Yan, isn't he here?"
"He is still in the company. May I ask who you are..."
The woman looked at her for a long moment, then shifted her gaze to the flowers in her hand. Perhaps she understood something and smiled, "Would it be convenient for you to have a cup of coffee with me?"
There was no reason for Bo Xia to refuse, so he agreed.
The two sat in the cafe for a long time. Bo Xia took a sip of coffee, and a bitter taste filled her mouth. She heard the lady sitting across from her sigh, "He's been alone for so many years. Now that you're by his side, I feel relieved."
Hearing the tone, Bo Xia had a guess in her mind: "Are you his mother?"
It's no wonder she guessed that way. The woman in front of her had a gentle temperament, just like what she heard from Jin Yunyan.
Ji Wan opened her mouth. Perhaps she had some selfish motives at that time, so she didn't know why she agreed in the end.
"Although this is our first meeting, you are as gentle as I imagined."
Bo Xia chatted with her for a while, and Ji Wan left because of something. When she was about to go back, Jin Yunyan's car happened to be parked in front of the coffee shop.
She got in the car and casually told him that his mother had just come to see him.
I thought he would be happy, but who would have thought that Jin Yunyan's face suddenly turned ugly, and he seemed a little out of control. But after a moment, he still restrained his emotions and said in a calm voice: "Who are you talking about? Did you recognize the wrong person?"
Bo Xia told him what had just happened. Jin Yunyan probably knew what was going on and explained, "That's my stepmother."
Although she didn't know much about Jin Yunyan's past, she roughly knew that his parents were divorced and he was not close to his father, let alone this stepmother who was not related to him by blood.
Bo Xia guessed that he must have had a difficult life in the past, and a hint of heartache appeared in her eyes. She said with a hint of apology: "Is your relationship not going well?"
But the answer was unexpected——
"Neither cold nor indifferent. If you compare her to me, she is the one closest to me." But even so, they can never be true relatives.
There is only one mother and she is irreplaceable.
He quickly returned to his usual steady demeanor, as if he had just casually mentioned something. Bo Xia suddenly felt a little regretful: "I thought I had met my aunt. I also wanted to know what the woman who could raise you like this looked like."
Jin Yunyan suppressed his smile, thinking that if his mother were here, she would probably think that these words were insulting to her. After all, she would occasionally complain that he was too arrogant and self-centered, and that his personality was not like hers.
Jin Yunyan looked at Bo Xia for a long moment. She raised her eyes and asked him what he was laughing at. The man lowered his eyes, looking particularly gentle: "I'm laughing because you sound like you really want to meet your parents."
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