The soft and smooth touch spreads from the palm of his hand. Jiang Shui feels the warmth and tenderness. He withdraws his hand somewhat distractedly and pinches Qi Yan's cheek.

He can clearly feel the temperature under his hand rising faster!

[The male protagonist's favorability towards Qi Yan +5, current favorability: 55]

A smile flashed across his eyes, and he moved his thumb slightly, gently wiping the corner of Qi Yan's mouth to wipe off the remaining soup stains on his mouth.

"It's not wiped clean." Jiang Shui stretched out his thumb and showed Qi Yan the place with a brown soup stain: "Wipe it off."

His eyes fell on Qi Yan's face, but he found that he was blushing and staring at him in a daze.

"You——!" Qi Yan stretched out his hand tremblingly, and kept pointing at Jiang Shui: "You, you, you...what are you doing!"

"I told you to wipe the soup stain for you." Jiang Shui wiped off the soup stain with a tissue: "It tastes so good, you like it, right?"

"Who likes it? I just don't want to waste food!"

"Ah..." Jiang Shui responded with a little disappointment, and didn't continue talking.

Seeing this, Qi Yan felt that he was a little too hypocritical just now. People worked hard to make it, and you suddenly denied it... It's really disappointing.

Qi Yan smacked his lips in distress, and wanted to say something else, but saw Jiang Shui silently picked up the bag and walked towards the bathroom.

Stunned, watching him walk into the bathroom with familiarity, Qi Yan swallowed back the words of rescue that were about to come out of his mouth.

——Did this guy send someone to investigate here while he was away? Otherwise, how could he know the direction of the bathroom so clearly? ! He was only here for less than five hours in the past two days, and that was the total time!

When Jiang Shui came out again, the lunch box had been washed clean.

Qi Yan, who was originally pacing anxiously, quickly went up to him, blushing and hesitating: "I, I think what you cooked is okay, it's barely acceptable to me... Of course, the main reason is that I didn't want to waste food, so I ate it all!"

"Pfft..."

Jiang Shui finally couldn't help it, and laughed out loud with his hands covering his mouth.

This was the first time that Jiang Shui showed an undisguised smile in front of Qi Yan. Even if he smiled a few times, it was not as comfortable as now.

Qi Yan was stunned, and after a long while he murmured foolishly: "You smiled..."

"Yeah." Jiang Shui did not hide: "Thank you, you made me laugh so happily. I haven't laughed like this for a long time."

"...Then you are really pitiful." Qi Yan murmured unconsciously.

"Yeah, I'm pitiful." Jiang Shui restrained his smile and returned to his usual dull and sluggish look: "Thank you for recognizing my cooking skills."

"...Why do you always say thank you? You've said it several times today." Qi Yan turned his face away and clenched the corner of his clothes in a panic: "Aren't we friends? Saying thank you so many times, it seems like I did something great."

Food tasting is really not a good deed! Speaking of thank you, Qi Yan should doubt whether he can bear it.

Jiang Shui just wanted to express his gratitude simply, but for Qi Yan, this gratitude, to some extent, happened to separate him from the most ambiguous distance.

Qi Yan didn't want this, because Jiang Shui was attracting him all the time.

After dinner, Jiang Shui did not leave in a hurry, but sat on the reception sofa in the office and used the wifi to play around. Qi Yan was sorting documents. In such a quiet and silent time, although the two did not communicate or chat, they still did not feel empty.

As long as the two are together, there will be nothing wrong with doing anything.

Qi Yan dared to pat his chest and guarantee that Jiang Shui was definitely the person he had the fastest progress in conquering.

Others were only easy to conquer on the basis of Qi Yan's relationship with them. It was almost impossible for such a big breakthrough to be made within a few days of meeting Jiang Shui.

It was precisely because of this that Qi Yan was particularly concerned about Jiang Shui's inner thoughts.

Is he sincere? How does he see himself? What would he think if this happened?

Qi Yan sometimes laughed at himself in his heart, wondering if he had traveled too much and was physically and mentally exhausted, so he became more cautious in doing things?

It was past noon, and after struggling to get through the time when he wanted to go to sleep, Qi Yan rubbed his eyes and stretched his muscles. Then he saw Jiang Shui sitting on the sofa, staring at him without blinking with his head tilted.

"Why are you looking at me..."

"Today is Saturday." Jiang Shui suddenly said; "Qi Yan, don't you have an appointment?"

"...How do you know I have an appointment?!" Troubles surged into his mind again, and Qi Yan cried: "You are too predictable."

"No, I heard the last time that female teacher came to see you." Jiang Shui actually admitted it honestly!

Blinking, Qi Yan licked his dry lips: "Um... do you have any good ideas?"

"Huh? What?"

"It's about her asking me out for dinner." Qi Yan counted on his fingers: "She must want to bribe me and get the position of tutor through bribery. But to be fair, her ability is very average, and both her painting skills and creativity remain at a not-so-outstanding level. As a teacher, she doesn't need a breakthrough; but as a tutor respected by everyone, she absolutely can't do it."

"What do you mean?"

"I firmly deny it. She was not among the original candidates for tutor."

Jiang Shui was silent for a while, suddenly stood up, walked to Qi Yan's side, leaned over and stared at Qi Yan who was sitting in the boss chair.

"What if you use an excuse to prevaricate?" Jiang Shui's tone was very serious: "Use an excuse to prevaricate."

"...Prevaricate?" Qi Yan thought for a while: "That's not good... I wanted to refuse directly."

Jiang Shui: "..." Is it okay to refuse directly?

"But what you said is fine... But what excuse is used? Is it an excuse to not go to the appointment or an excuse to not give her the position of tutor?"

With both hands on the handles, he circled Qi Yan between him and the chair. Jiang Shui thought about it and spoke seriously.

"Tell her that you can't go to the appointment."

"...Where's the reason?" Qi Yan rolled his eyes. If he could say it so bluntly, he wouldn't have to worry about it, okay!

"Because I have to accompany my boyfriend."

"Huh?"

"Because I have to accompany my boyfriend, I can't go to the date."

Jiang Shui repeated it, and suddenly raised a gentle smile: "...You really believe it? I'm lying to you."

Qi Yan: "..."

Suddenly he became a little cold, and pushed Jiang Shui away, his face cold: "Don't joke like that."

"...Sorry, I just don't want you to go to the date."

——Because if you go to the date, I will feel uncomfortable. Although I don't know why.