"Brother Lang?"
Ye Minghan read out these three words and glanced at Chi Rui. She was leaning back in her chair, her head slightly tilted to the other side, sleeping soundly.
He withdrew his gaze and looked at the mobile phone in his hand, which was covered with a pink protective case.
His brows were furrowed into a deep frown.
Who is this person? What is his relationship with Chi Rui? Why did the little girl leave such an intimate note for him?
Ye Minghan felt deeply unhappy in his heart.
He pursed his lips and was about to press the answer button, but the next moment, because no one answered the call for too long, the ringing tone suddenly stopped.
Ye Minghan paused, feeling a little annoyed.
He was still staring at the phone, wondering if the other party would call again, but after a long while, there was still no sound from the phone.
Apparently no one answered the call after two calls, so the other party gave up temporarily.
Ye Minghan pursed his lips, hesitating whether to call and give it a try, when the pleasant music sounded again.
His heart moved slightly, but after glancing at the caller ID, his expression became indifferent again.
I casually pressed the answer button and put the phone lazily to my ear.
"Rui Rui, it's very late now. Are you going home soon?" An Xin's voice came through the receiver.
"I'll be back soon." Ye Minghan said in a calm voice.
An Xin on the other end was obviously stunned for a moment, probably because she didn't expect to call Chi Rui, but heard a male voice instead.
But she quickly came to her senses, "Ahan?"
"Yes, it's me." Ye Minghan said, "We will be back soon."
"Haha, okay, okay!"
An Xin kept asking, and you could hear her excitement, "Did Rui Rui ask you to pick her up?"
"Yeah, take your time. It doesn't matter if you drive slowly. Son, hehehe, you have to seize the opportunity."
Listening to her obscene laughter, Ye Minghan frowned. What opportunity was he trying to seize?
He didn't listen to her anymore and just answered her casually before hanging up the phone.
Looking at the mobile phone interface of Chibi Maruko-chan, he pursed his lips and looked at the girl next to him.
In the rearview mirror, the man's perfect and handsome profile is reflected.
He looked at the sleeping girl, hesitated for a moment, slowly leaned over, and gently took her little hand.
The girl's hands were white and slender, with green fingers, and it felt like holding a piece of soft jade in her hands.
Ye Minghan felt a slight palpitation in his heart and his ears felt a little hot.
He attributed this to a guilty conscience. He glanced at the girl and saw that she was still asleep, so he gently took her index finger and pressed it on the fingerprint reader of the phone.
The phone's lock screen suddenly opened.
He carefully put the girl's hand back, and then found her WeChat among the cute pink icons on the homepage of his phone.
Take out your mobile phone and bring up the QR code business card.
Scan the QR code, apply to be a friend, click to approve, all in one go.
After thinking about it, he opened his WeChat chat box on Chi Rui's phone, looked through Chi Rui's emoticon package, picked a smiley face and sent it to himself.
Looking at the message sent by Chi Rui on his mobile phone, Ye Minghan curled his lips slightly.
ok, perfect.
His mood finally improved a little. He locked Chi Rui's phone, then leaned over and carefully put it back into her bag.
When Ye Minghan brought Chi Rui back home, An Xin and Ye Xiao were both asleep, and only Butler Chen was still waiting for him in the living room.
"Master..."
Seeing him carrying Chi Rui in, Butler Chen hurried forward to greet him.
Seeing that Chi Rui was not wearing a school uniform and was sleeping in Ye Minghan's arms, with two abnormal blushes on her little face, he couldn't help but be a little surprised.
Miss Rui, this is...
"Uncle Chen, please cook some sobering soup and bring it up." Ye Minghan walked towards the elevator and whispered to him as he walked.
Butler Chen paused and nodded: "Okay, Master."
Ye Minghan held Chi Rui in his arms and walked to her room with ease, then gently placed her on the soft princess bed.
As soon as she lay down on the bed and smelled the familiar scent, the girl turned over, hugged the pillow happily, and rubbed it like a sated kitten.
Ye Minghan looked at her, his usually cold expression had completely softened, and a gentle smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Her sleeping position hasn't changed at all, it's still the same as when she was a child.
He sat beside her and looked up at the girl's room.
He had entered this room many times over the past many years. Even with his eyes closed, he could clearly recall the furnishings in the room in his mind.
However, if no one has lived there for a long time, no matter how clean it is or how warmly it is decorated, there is always a sense of coldness.
Now this room is completely different.
A sense of satisfaction that he had not felt for a long time rose from the bottom of his heart and gradually filled every corner of his heart. He lowered his head again and looked down at the sleeping girl.
The corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up. Just looking at her like this, staying with her like this, his joyful mood was uncontrollable.
"Plop, plop--plop, plop--"
After looking at it for a long time, his heartbeat started to slow down.
Ye Minghan frowned, and that strange feeling appeared again. His gaze moved slightly downward and fell on the girl's pink lips.
The pink cherry lips, under the dim bedside lamp, glowed with a light, moist luster, looking so tempting that one would want to...really want to have a taste of it.
"Knock knock knock--" There was a knock on the door.
Ye Minghan was startled and quickly sat up straight. Before he could think about it, he turned around and saw that the door was not closed just now, and Butler Chen was standing at the door with a tray looking at him.
"Young Master, the sobering soup is ready." Butler Chen said.
Ye Minghan pursed his lips uncomfortably and nodded: "Come in."
Butler Chen came over with a tray, bent down slightly, and smiled at him, "Master."
Ye Minghan didn't want to pay attention to him. He gently pulled Chi Rui up, let her lean on him, then picked up the bowl and carefully fed her with a spoon.
Chi Rui narrowed his eyes and hummed twice in displeasure, but still drank it obediently under his gentle coaxing.
"Ms. Rui seems to have drunk quite a bit of wine."
"She said she only drank one glass." Ye Minghan put the empty bowl back on the tray and said softly.
Butler Chen nodded in understanding, "It seems that Miss Rui can't hold her liquor well."
He silently made note of this, stopped being a light bulb, and left with the tray.
Ye Minghan helped Chi Rui lie down again and tucked the quilt for her.
Looking at her peaceful sleeping face, his movements gradually slowed down, and there was a soft light in his dark eyes.
The night was alluring, and the man's figure was reflected in the floor-to-ceiling window.
He looked deeply at the girl.
Finally, the man slowly leaned over and gently kissed the girl's hair...
The curtains were neatly tied on both sides. The cold wind was howling outside the window, sweeping the snow on the branches to the ground, making a rustling sound.
The room was dark.
On the big bed in the middle, the young man closed his eyes tightly, fine beads of sweat wet his temples, his eyeballs moved rapidly under his eyelids, and his breathing became increasingly rapid.
"Go away... don't come over here..."
He muttered softly, his face full of anxiety, and finally when he was extremely frightened, he suddenly opened his eyes.
The young master stared at the ceiling. He took big gulps of air and his chest heaved violently.
The nightmare that haunted him all night began again...
"Brother Han?" A soft and gentle call brought him back from his memories of the dream.
Little Chi Rui, who was sleeping at the end of the bed, sat up drowsily, rubbing his eyes gently with his little hands.
"Did I wake you?" the boy asked in a low voice.
Xiao Chi Rui blinked and didn't answer him, but crawled towards him on the bed.
She sat next to him, tilting her head and looking at him curiously.
"Did Brother Han have a nightmare?"
The young man froze, looked away, and said coldly: "Go to sleep."
Xiao Chi Rui was not scared off by his coldness.
She tilted her head and thought for a moment, then stretched out her little hands and held his face. Under the boy's stunned gaze, the little girl leaned over and kissed his forehead.
After the warm and soft feeling on his forehead faded, the young man came back to his senses. He covered the place where he was kissed, and his ears were so red that blood seemed to drip out.
“You…what are you doing?!”
Little Chi Rui looked at him with a smile, her dimples showing sweetly.
"Mom said this is called a goodnight kiss. Just a kiss will stop you from having nightmares at night."
"Goodnight kiss...?"
"Yeah, that's very useful!"
Young Master Ye heard her say this with such confidence, but he didn't believe it at all.
He was about to say something when the little girl twisted her body and crawled into his bed, hugging his arms with her soft little hands.
"You...what do you want to do..."
"Hehe, I'll sleep with Brother Han~ This way Brother Han won't have to be afraid."
"Who, who said I was scared?"
He said this stubbornly, but in the end he didn't push her away.
The two children lay side by side in the same quilt, warmth flowing between them.
Smelling the faint milky scent of the little girl, the boy, who was originally troubled by nightmares, actually felt a little sleepy as his heart calmed down.
Silence returned to the room.
But after a while, the little girl's soft voice sounded again, "Brother Han, I can't sleep..."
Ye Minghan opened his eyes helplessly. He was about to fall asleep, but now he was awake again.
"Let's...let's count sheep!"
Xiao Chi Rui patted the quilt and suggested excitedly, then ignored him and started counting on her own.
"One sheep, two sheep, three sheep, five sheep, four sheep, seven sheep..."
The more Ye Minghan listened, the more he felt something was wrong. How could there be five after three? How could there be seven after four?
"You counted wrong." The boy said coldly.
Xiao Chi Rui stopped, stretched out his fingers, and counted in the dark, "I counted correctly."
Hearing her innocent tone, the boy pursed his lips, hesitated for a moment and said, "Three, four, five, six, seven, this should be the order."
"Oh, then I'll count again."
Xiao Chi Rui accepted the correction humbly and then started counting again.
"One sheep, two sheep, three sheep, six sheep, four sheep, five sheep ..."
Young Master Ye: "..."
Due to his obsessive-compulsive disorder, after correcting her several times and failing to get her to count correctly, the young master finally gave up.
"Let me count..."
“Yeah!”
So the boy completely forgot what he had said before, that he would never be able to count sheep in his lifetime, and started counting.
Just when he was about to count to fifty and thought that the little girl beside him should have fallen asleep, the little girl suddenly raised her head again.
"Yes, I...I also want Brother Han's goodnight kiss~"
She was obviously very sleepy just by hearing the voice, but she still insisted and asked him to kiss her.
“…”
The young man turned his back silently, pretending not to hear, but the little girl did not let him go.
"Brother Han, okay, just give me a kiss."
"After kissing, we went to sleep..."
"Okay, okay..."
He was at a loss as to what to do after being pestered by her, and finally he had to fulfill her wish.
The little boy will always remember that on that dim winter night, he hugged the clingy little angel and kissed her forehead gently, gently.
A faint milky aroma lingers at the tip of your nose, sweet, soft, and warm, like honey.
He felt a corner of his heart collapse and sink uncontrollably.
From then on, it was like a hole there that could never be repaired...
“Pah—”
The pen in his suit pocket fell to the ground as he leaned over, awakening Ye Minghan from his memories.
The lips felt warm, and there was a lingering scent of a young girl...
He stiffened his body, straightened up and left the girl's forehead.
Ye Minghan didn't dare to stay any longer, so he turned off the light, turned around, tiptoed out the door, and ran into his own room opposite.
Behind him, the girl turned over in a daze, touched her forehead with her little hand, and sank deeper into sleep...
After taking a cold shower and finally lying on the bed, Ye Minghan felt that his hot head had finally calmed down a little.
He stared blankly at the ceiling, thinking about everything that happened tonight.
That girl...will she still remember all this tomorrow?
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