Chapter 462 - 216: Shen Yuan’s Family ’Little Brother’ Status (3)

Chapter 462: Chapter 216: Shen Yuan’s Family ’Little Brother’ Status (3)

"Nope," Shen Yuan flatly refused Li Zhi.

The girl pouted, not wanting to speak anymore.

Shen Yuan then turned to Ah Jie, Yang Ze, and the others. "Shout out your milk tea orders! My treat! You guys go get them!"

"Yuan! I love you!"

"Yuan! I want to have your babies!"

"Get lost, all of you!"

Shen Yuan rolled his eyes at Ah Jie and his friends in disgust.

"Let’s eat first. We can go grab them right after."

After they finished their meal, Ah Jie and two others were sent to pick up the milk tea, while Shen Yuan took Li Zhi and her two friends to the campus supermarket.

Even though it was winter, the campus supermarket still had ice cream in stock.

The selection was a bit smaller, but that didn’t matter—the kind Li Zhi liked was still in the freezer.

The moment they entered the supermarket, the beautiful girl was drawn toward the ice cream in the freezer. Her fingers were just about to touch the cold, hard glass of the sliding door.

But Shen Yuan, quick as a flash, grabbed her wrist. With a gentle tug, he pulled her away from the freezer and closer to his side.

"Hey—!"

Li Zhi let out a soft cry of protest. Caught off guard, she stumbled, but Shen Yuan steadied her.

She whipped her head around, a look of indignation on her pretty face. Pouting slightly, she glared at him. "What are you doing! Can’t I just look?"

"Nope," Shen Yuan said, his tone final. He let go of her wrist and instead moved to put a protective arm around her, blocking her path to the coveted ice cream.

"It’s freezing out. Why would you want ice cream? No means no."

"But I really want some..." Li Zhi’s voice instantly softened, becoming sweet and sticky like melting syrup, laced with a coquettish whine.

"Just this once. I haven’t had it in so long. Just enough to satisfy my craving, that’s all..."

The girl leaned slightly toward him, her eyes trying their best to look pitiful and wronged as she blinked up at Shen Yuan.

Her pout was so pronounced you could have hung a bottle from it.

He drew in a sharp breath.

Shen Yuan’s heart skipped a beat, but he took a deep breath and forced himself to suppress the flustered feeling her flirting had stirred in him.

"No. Be good, you really can’t have any. Let’s wait for the milk tea to get here. Besides, if you buy it now, it’ll melt by the time the evening party starts."

As if coaxing a child, he gave the back of her hand a few soft, reassuring taps.

After a few seconds of silent standoff.

The girl gently shook Shen Yuan’s arm. "Nooo~ I just want to eat ice cream."

"But it’s better to eat it in the winter! It’s so cold that the ice cream melts slower! You can savor it! Ice cream was practically made for winter!"

As she spoke, Li Zhi’s fingers resentfully tapped and poked at the freezer door, as if this could somehow break through Shen Yuan’s unreasonable stance.

Shen Yuan’s eye twitched.

He looked at the beautiful girl spouting all sorts of absurd theories just to get some ice cream, and he found it so ridiculous he could barely keep a straight face. He was both exasperated and amused.

He grabbed Li Zhi’s mischievous wrist, which was still tapping on the freezer, and gently pulled her away from the source of chilly temptation.

"You’ve got one twisted theory after another, but no still means no. Nothing you say is going to make me let you have any."

Dragged away from the freezer, the girl looked like a kitten that had just had its favorite dried fish stolen, puffing out her cheeks with a resentful look in her eyes.

She struggled to free her wrist, but couldn’t. Instead, Shen Yuan smoothly transitioned his grip, putting an arm around her shoulder and steering her toward the snack aisle.

"Shen Yuan!"

"Let’s look at something else. Pick out any sunflower seeds or chips you want. The hot milk tea will be here soon," Shen Yuan said, his voice still tinged with a mix of sternness and resignation.

The words had barely left his mouth when he felt a pair of arms wrap around him.

Confused, Shen Yuan looked down and met the girl’s upturned face.

The feigned anger on her face was gone, replaced by a look of subtle hurt. Her long lashes fluttered, and her eyes glistened under the lights.

Before Shen Yuan could process what this sudden change in her expression meant—

"Brother..."

Li Zhi’s voice was light, soft, and sweet, the last syllable drawn out as it slipped into Shen Yuan’s ears.

Her beautiful eyes gazed up at him, and she blinked.

"I just really want some... Just this once, I promise. I won’t ask again until after the New Year. Please?~ Brother?~"

That single word was like a jolt of electricity, striking Shen Yuan right in the heart and making half his body go numb.

Shen Yuan’s mind went blank with a BUZZ. The mental defenses he’d built up shattered, layer by layer, like thin ice melting in the spring.

His arm around Li Zhi unconsciously went slack, the resolve in his eyes vanishing completely.

Shen Yuan’s Adam’s apple bobbed. His lips parted, but no sound came out.

He looked at her slightly pouted lips and the pleading look in her eyes.

Sensing the subtle crack in his resolve, both in his eyes and his posture, the corners of the girl’s lips couldn’t help but curl into a triumphant little smile, which she immediately suppressed.

Li Zhi put on an even more pitiful expression and gave the hem of his shirt another tug.

"...Please? Brother?"

"..."

Shen Yuan was utterly defeated.

He closed his eyes in resignation. When he opened them again, his face was a mask of utter exasperation.

His arm fell away, and he practically pushed her toward the very same freezer he had just strictly forbidden her from approaching.

’Fine, fine, it’s just ice cream, right? Go on, eat it!’

’This little tyrant has already deployed a weapon as deadly as ’Brother.’ What else could I do but surrender?!’

He Zhiyu and Zhuo Peipei had witnessed the entire process of Li Zhi breaking down Shen Yuan’s defenses.

Honestly, if they hadn’t seen it with their own eyes, they never would have imagined that the typically sharp-tongued Painful Sacrifice was capable of such a masterful display of coquetry.

’So the usually cold and acid-tongued Painful Sacrifice could actually unlock such a clingy, killer technique when she was with Shen Yuan. It was truly... an eye-opener!’