Chapter 93 Do You Like Me?
The girl's voice was as soft as a breath, yet like a stone thrown into a calm lake, causing Pei Lian to raise an eyebrow slightly.
His fingers lightly tapped the table, and his voice took on a softer, more magnetic quality, with a captivating ending.
Why would you think that way?
The man leaned forward slightly, and the fragrance emanating from him became even stronger.
"This is the real world, just like I am sitting right next to you right now, listening to you talk about these things."
As soon as she finished speaking, the man's hand gently covered hers.
His fingertips, slightly cool in temperature, touched her fingertips resting on her knees.
Seeing that the girl didn't dodge, he slowly stroked along her knuckles, finally stopping on the back of her hand and gently making circles.
Ruan Yi paused for a moment, vaguely recalling somewhere that physical contact seemed to be off-limits in psychological counseling.
Pei Lian's movements were so natural that the slightly cool touch made her unsure whether she should pull her hand away.
"This world must be real."
His tone was as if he were speaking to a baby in swaddling clothes.
"Falsehoods are just misconceptions, so what makes you have such a cute idea?"
The tone was ridiculously soft, as if it were about to wrap her up like a cotton ball and stuff her into its embrace at any moment.
Ruan Yi felt a lump in her throat from being coaxed, and a strange sense of grievance welled up inside her, which she blurted out.
"What if... what if I've actually already gone through it all?"
After saying this, Ruan Yi subconsciously tried to pull her fingertips back. What she said sounded too absurd. Would Pei Lian think she had really gone crazy?
The man didn't look up; his eyelids were lowered. He simply held her wrist lightly with his fingers, preventing her from pulling away.
My fingertips traced upwards along the girl's smooth, lovely nail bed, gently pinching her fingers and repeatedly rubbing the knuckles with a light touch that made my skin tickle.
His gaze was focused on the back of Ruan Yi's hand, landing on the few bluish-purple veins. His fingertips followed the trajectory of his gaze, tracing the veins very lightly, his eyes filled with an inexplicable infatuation.
"Perhaps... the repetitive and chaotic experiences were all tangled up because of the same event or the same person?"
Pei Lian's fingertips suddenly slid along the back of her hand to the web of her thumb and forefinger, and gently pressed it, as if to soothe her or to emphasize something.
"A tangled ball of thread will only get more tangled the more we try to untangle it. To untangle it, we need to find the place where the knot was first tied, right?"
These words sounded like she was talking about her memories, but also like she was talking about something else, carrying a vague implication.
Ruan Yi felt a slight tingling warmth from the fingertips he pressed against her tiger's mouth, mixed with his magnetic voice.
The overly realistic images in her mind became increasingly fragmented.
Ruan Yi's thoughts were still trapped in those chaotic fragments of memory, as if she were shrouded in thick fog and couldn't tell which way to go.
Suddenly, he felt a warm touch on the back of his hand, so light it was almost an illusion. Pei Lian lowered his head, his silver-white hair falling down.
As if he couldn't control himself, the man placed a very light kiss on the bluish-purple vein on the back of her hand.
In that instant, all the chaotic thoughts seemed to be paused.
Ruan Yi abruptly pulled her hand back, the warmth of his lips still lingering on the back of her hand, her mind blank.
She looked at the back of her hand, then looked up at Pei Lian, and blurted out a nonsensical sentence.
"Pei Lian, do you like me?"
Such a sudden kiss, as if it were uncontrollable, and she's not stupid.
Pei Lian was clearly not expected her to ask so directly. He paused for half a second, then chuckled softly.
The laughter, with its magnetic tremor, gently reached the girl's ears, making her inexplicably feel her ear tips burning.
Pei Lian looked up at her, a smile still playing in his eyes, "I'm sorry."
His voice remained soft and seductive.
"I couldn't help it for a moment."
He spoke frankly and naturally, without the slightest embarrassment at having his thoughts exposed.
After pausing for two seconds, he moved closer.
"As for liking someone... is it that obvious?"
Ruan Yi was amused by his straightforward question. "Of course it's obvious."
After all, the other person's body language was too obvious, and the way they looked at her was almost drooling.
Pei Lian's smile suddenly faded, and his gaze fell heavily on her face, as if he were probing her and hiding some unspoken emotions.
"You're quite sensitive to what other people like."
Ruan Yi nodded in agreement. Isn't that how it is between adults? It's common for them to be attracted to each other at first sight and develop feelings over time.
When Fu Jingchen confessed his feelings to her, she could clearly sense the emotions in his eyes and words, but he was reluctant to face them.
As for Fu Wang, it's perfectly normal that the two of them hit it off immediately, as they were each other's ideal type in terms of personality and appearance, and they were also attracted to each other's bodies.
She could sense Shen Xun's feelings for her during high school, but that guy was just too sarcastic, and maybe she even changed his sexual orientation because of his sharp tongue.
"But……"
Pei Lian tapped his fingertips twice, returning to that familiar rhythm, and lowered his voice even further.
"But there's one person whose feelings you seem to have never noticed."
Ruan Yi was stunned.
Who else?
Ruan Yi frowned and thought back. She seemed to have sifted through everyone around her, but she really couldn't think of anyone whose affection she hadn't noticed.
In her view, men, being simple-minded creatures, always express affection in a way that is almost clumsy and direct.
She looked up at Pei Lian, who was staring at her with an unfathomable smile in his eyes.
Pei Lian's gaze shifted from the girl's face to the aromatherapy lamp on the corner of the table. The ambiguity in his tone vanished instantly, replaced by a worried seriousness.
"However, at present, the reason for your memory confusion is more likely that you have been subjected to some kind of mental interference, and it is highly likely that you have been instilled with false beliefs."
"I'll let you know as soon as the blood test results are in, if there are any abnormalities..."
Pei Lian looked up at Ruan Yi, his worry undisguised.
"Then we need to investigate thoroughly to find out why this happened."
The topic suddenly shifted, "If we let things continue like this, it's possible that it could escalate to the point where your mother fell ill."
Ruan Yi shuddered, recalling how her mother had become delirious and nearly collapsed when she fell ill. She had never imagined that she herself might become like that.
"Don't let things get to that point, okay?"
Pei Lian's voice softened further, carrying a hint of pleading, his gaze fixed firmly on her.
"I don't want to see you do the same..."
Ruan Yi nodded vigorously.
After Pei Lian said that, she really felt something was wrong. She had to figure out these incoherent images in her mind, otherwise she wouldn't be able to sleep peacefully.
Of course, this is just what she thinks at this moment.
In fact, she slept very well last night, not only sleeping for a long time, but also having a very exciting dream.
But this did not diminish her determination to get to the bottom of things, after all, those memories were too real.
The thorn in one's heart must be removed.
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