Chapter 234: She said I like you too

Nan Jiaojiao picked up some crab roe with her chopsticks and offered it to Bo Yanching’s mouth.

He was in the middle of a lecture, and she pulls this stunt?

“Not willing to talk?”

Nan Jiaojiao pushed her hand forward again, “Eat this, it’s delicious, I specially saved it for you.”

Bo Yanching glanced at the bowl in front of her.

It was empty.

The little bit on her chopsticks was scraped from the edge of the bowl, barely enough to cluster together to feed him.

She really went out of her way to plead on behalf of Shen Shichu, even scrapping up bits from between her teeth.

Bo Yanching’s mind spun countless turns, yet he still took a bite, and before he even chewed, Nan Jiaojiao said nonchalantly, “It’s quite short, not as good-looking as yours, you have more muscles.”

“Cough!”

This time Bo Yanching truly choked.

He tried to grab his coffee to soothe the choke, but the coffee was long gone; in a rush, he looked for anything drinkable on the table, when suddenly a cup was thrust into his hand.

Without even looking, Bo Yanching took it and drank.

A rich milk taste spread in his mouth.

Nan Jiaojiao was watching him with a teasing smile, “Tastes good, doesn’t it, uncle?”

Bo Yanching, face red from coughing, finally managed to swallow the crab roe, took the last two sips of milk, gave her a heavy look, and said, “Addicted to messing with me, are you?”

“Weren’t you the first to mess with me?”

Nan Jiaojiao looked at him with a smile, sly as a little fox, “If I really cared about Shen Shichu, even if we had broken up, I would still save some face for his wedding.

Since there was no affection to begin with, it would be unreasonable for me to care so much about him.

Uncle, you had him trending and getting flayed online for a week, which was more than enough vengeance for me; I didn’t mind it, so why are you still upset?”

Her saying this proved that she didn’t just let go, but that in her heart, Shen Shichu never had any place to begin with.

Bo Yanching felt a bit better and asked her, “What about your feelings towards me?”

Nan Jiaojiao’s smile stalled slightly, “You like me?”

“I do.”

Nan Jiaojiao cupped her face, her fingertips touching her temples, gently tapping, her clear, moist eyes looking at him, as if a layer of coldness was spreading within.

When he tried to look closely, that coldness disappeared.

“I like you too.”

She was smiling, her eyes lightly curling up at the corners, her smile lazy and charming.

Yet it always conveyed a detached coolness.

As if there was nothing she truly cared about.

That ‘I like you’ perhaps was just casual talk after all.

After breakfast, Nan Jiaojiao felt sleepy and called the professor from the car, asking for a day off.

Bo Yanching dropped her off at Feisheng.

She did not invite him upstairs.

The man smoked half a pack of cigarettes downstairs, but no one came down.

Muttering ‘heartless little thing’ under his breath, he left with his eyes still fixed on her building.

…

When the Kang Family found Kang Xiangyue, she was on the brink of collapse.

Liu Shi burst into the bedroom and saw Kang Xiangyue disheveled, huddled on the couch, her clothes dirty, several fingernails cracked, and there were scratches on her leg.

At the bedroom door lay a man with a knife stuck in his belly, his face purplish from blood loss, frothing at the mouth, his eyes nearly bulging out of their sockets as he stared fixedly at Liu Shi, his mouth open but without sound.

Scared out of her wits, Liu Shi screamed and rushed to Kang Xiangyue’s side.

“Xiangyue, my Xiangyue, what have you been through, talk to Mom, don’t scare me!”

Kang Xiangyue suddenly yelled, clutching her head and shaking it violently, repeatedly shouting, “Don’t come near, get away, get away!”

Liu Shi wanted to touch her but didn’t dare, crying frantically, “Xiangyue, it’s Mommy, Mommy’s here to save you, you’re safe now.”