She raised her hand to his waist and tried to push him, but couldn't budge him.
Xiao Yan still held her tightly, burying his head in her neck, the originally cool mask gradually warming up with her body heat.
He finally relented.
Only when Shen Qiyin pushed again did she finally manage to break free from his hold.
Their eyes met, and their faces flushed red.
Chen Xiyin frowned.
She now suspects that he used his internal energy to control his face, making it turn red whenever he wanted. Otherwise, why would he blush when he bit her first?
"You..." Shen Qiyin covered the spot where he had bitten her, and thinking that Chu Si was still outside the carriage, she unconsciously lowered her voice and asked, "Why did you suddenly bite me?"
Little did they know, when this voice reached the ears of a certain young master, it sounded so soft and sweet that he wanted another taste.
He didn't answer, but instead pulled her hand down, gently touching the spot where he had just kissed her, and asked, "Does it hurt?"
"A little." It doesn't hurt much.
But that's not the point!
"So why did you bite me?"
Xiao Yan thought for a moment and said, "I don't know."
"N-I don't know?!"
"Hmm, I don't know." His gaze was sincere, not feigned: "Just now in the palace, I saw Yinyin staring intently at my aunt, and I suddenly felt an urge to tease Yinyin a little."
Upon hearing this, Shen Qiyin's heart tightened.
This is not a good sign.
She always felt that this person had unconsciously awakened some kind of consciousness.
She swallowed hard, turned her back to sit down, and said to the person behind her as calmly as possible, "Then, you can't do it next time."
Xiao Yan leaned in from behind and hugged her again, but did not respond to her words.
He picked up a pen and paper and wrote down a bunch of things.
He didn't shy away from mentioning Shen Qiyin, so the latter didn't try to avoid it either. She looked at the names openly for a while, but seeing that they were all just names and not very interesting, she looked away.
Unexpectedly, he cupped her face, turned her head back, and said, "Yinyin, remember all of this."
"oh."
Seeing that he was still writing, Shen Qi was afraid of disturbing him, so she didn't rush to ask him why he was memorizing these names, and simply memorized them as instructed.
Thanks to copying books when she was young, she has a good memory for words. Although she can't memorize them after reading them once, reading them two or three times is enough for her.
Seeing that she had turned her gaze back to him, Xiao Yan asked, "Have you memorized everything?"
"Mm." She nodded.
He gathered the paper in his palm, and when he opened his palm again, it had turned into dust.
His hand reached out of the window, and the object in his palm was instantly blown away by the wind.
Upon seeing this, Chen Qiyin was startled.
She already had some guesses, but still asked him for confirmation: "Who are these people?"
He tightened his arms around her waist, brought his thin lips close to her ear, his breath brushing against the stray hairs by her ear, and whispered a few words to her.
As soon as she finished speaking, Shen Qiyin's gaze suddenly froze.
really!
Xiao Yan held her hand in his palm and played with it, saying casually, "Next time we encounter a similar situation, if I am not in the city and my aunt is unable to arrive in time, these people can be used for marriage."
Upon hearing this, Shen Qiyin frowned and looked at him, her eyes filled with astonishment and doubt.
He just casually told her that she was a spy in the palace?
“Xiao Hanyu, you…” Her brows furrowed slightly, a rare look of distress on her face.
"I don't understand." Shen Qiyin shook her head slightly: "This might sound narcissistic, but I really can't understand why you are so deeply in love?"
After saying that, she noticed a rare look of displeasure on Xiao Yan's face: "Otherwise what? You think I was just joking when I said I liked you?"
"……No."
He said he loved her, and she believed him.
He stood up for her, helped her find a way out, and entrusted all his belongings to her for safekeeping. These were all actions he took to show that he cared about her, and she was very moved.
But there's always a way out for those things.
Exposing the palace's spies to her is tantamount to him personally handing her the hilt of a knife.
How dare he!
Seeing that she still looked confused, Xiao Yan chuckled and tapped her forehead with his finger, saying helplessly, "Yinyin, eat something good." Isn't this how you should act when you like someone?
Or is it that liking someone should be done in degrees? When you like her a little, you can give her money; when you like her a little more, you can give her power; and only when you like her a lot can you give her your all?
But he wasn't.
From the moment he realized his own feelings, he knew he liked her very much!
“Yinyin, you should believe that if someone likes you, it's because you have something they like. It's not like they only like you because they have no one else to like.”
"Not to mention, my husband is so intelligent and quick-witted, and his medical skills are so exquisite and unparalleled. It would be strange if he wasn't likable, right?"
Shen Xiyin's cheeks were slightly flushed, and she could barely suppress her smile.
"Did you...did you secretly eat candy?" Such a sweet talker.
"Hmm..." Xiao Yan stared intently at the spot on her neck where he had bitten her, his gaze growing increasingly profound: "What I ate just now."
Realizing what he meant, Shen Qiyin found it both funny and embarrassing.
She buried her face in his arms and felt inexplicably at ease.
Xiao Yan pulled her closer, his fair and slender hand gently stroking her dark hair. He suddenly asked her, "Yinyin, were you... a little moved just now?"
Shen Xiyin nodded.
After thinking for a moment, she honestly corrected herself, "I was very touched." More than just a little.
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