Chapter 2378

Chapter 2378: Chapter 2378

Lu Zishu looked careless and a bit slow on the uptake, but in fact he was pretty sentimental.

Ruan Jiaojiao remembered that he seemed to have had only one brief relationship back in high school, and even that was because he got tempted seeing other people date, so he casually started one himself. It was like playing house; they never really opened their hearts to each other.

All these years, Ruan Lei and Yang Tao, who were close to him, had been breaking up and getting back together, and Qin Yue’s girlfriends changed one after another so many times they’d lost count. Only him—ever since that one time in high school, he had never dated any other girl.

Until he met Xin Miao, he started liking her and never wavered, even when he knew there was someone else in Xin Miao’s heart—his feelings had never changed.

Of course, if Xin Miao had accepted him at any point during this period, she wouldn’t have overthought it. She would even have believed it was Lu Zishu’s deep devotion that moved her.

But that wasn’t how it went. Xin Miao only accepted him yesterday, after she found out that Ruan Jie was getting married. Ruan Jiaojiao really couldn’t help thinking too much about it.

Worrying they’d hurt each other was one thing, but more than that she felt distressed for Zhao Li; her godmother really couldn’t take that kind of emotional tossing around.

"Then let’s just ask the two of them," Duan Xi said directly, unable to stand seeing her fretting over other people.

Ruan Jiaojiao lifted her head and poked his cheek, pouting her lips. "How am I supposed to ask them? In what capacity am I even asking?"

When it came to other people’s love lives, no matter what mindset she went in with, the moment she stuck her nose in, it would be annoying.

Ruan Jiaojiao was still brooding, while Duan Xi’s attention was completely fixed on her pouting little mouth.

Ruan Jiaojiao’s skin had inherited Shu Jiao’s cool undertone—it was very fair. She’d been raised on milk since she was little; even now she had a glass of milk every night before bed. So all the skin on her body was pampered into this delicate, tender state. The heating was on in the villa, and under the warm air her cool fair skin picked up a faint pink, truly soft and tender; saying it was smooth enough to break with a puff of air wouldn’t be an exaggeration.

She loved looking pretty and taking care of herself. Not only was all the skin on her body meticulously maintained, her little mouth never got neglected either. Every day she carefully applied lip balm several times to keep it from drying and peeling. When it came to lip balm scents, she was especially fond of apple and lemon; today she’d put on an apple-scented one.

Now she was curled up in Duan Xi’s arms, her little apple-flavored mouth moving as she talked. The two of them were so close that he could smell the sweet apple fragrance wafting off her. How could he possibly concentrate on what she was saying? Without even realizing it, he lowered his head and sealed her chattering lips.

The sweetness and soft warmth in his mouth made his mind swim; he couldn’t see anything else anymore. He just followed his own desire, pulling her tightly into his arms, pressing down on her little mouth and ravaging it to his heart’s content.

"!!!" Ruan Jiaojiao.

She froze in his arms. When she snapped out of it and remembered they were at home, with the bedroom door not even closed and so many family members around, she felt both shy and flustered. In a panic she reached up to scratch at him, but he easily caught her hands and pressed them to his chest, rubbing them lightly there.

In the end, Ruan Jiaojiao’s head was filled entirely with him. How could she still remember anything about Xin Miao or Lu Zishu? She’d forgotten all of it!

The next day.

Ruan Jiaojiao didn’t want to stay at home, so she went to the company with Duan Xi. While they were in a meeting in the conference room, she sat in front of the computer playing games. Partway through she got a call from Yang Tao, who said she was going back to school tomorrow and asked if she was free, saying she wanted to treat her to something to eat.