Chapter 352: Gradually Get Used to Having Me Around

The remaining steps, Nan Jiaojiao descended with a bit of a skip.

Bo Yanching leaned against the car door, and as she hopped down, his body moved instinctively to catch her, only relaxing back against the door once he saw she had landed safely.

Nan Jiaojiao ran up to him, looked up at him, and suddenly blurted out, “You’re really handsome.”

“…” The anger that had been building in Bo Yanching’s chest was almost entirely dissipated by her unexpected flirtatious remark.

And every time she said something like that, her eyes were so moist and innocent, without a hint of ulterior motive.

“I know, you’re just after my good looks,” he said.

Nan Jiaojiao nodded seriously.

Bo Yanching stopped teasing her, opened the car door, “Get in first, it’s cold outside.”

“Oh.”

She bent over to get in, and Han Chuan, sitting in the driver’s seat, turned to smile at her; Bo Yanching also got in, and Han Chuan immediately faced forward again, sitting up straight.

“Have you eaten?” Bo Yanching asked.

Nan Jiaojiao honestly replied, “Not yet.”

“Let’s go to a private kitchen,” he directed Han Chuan.

Bo Yanching took a bottle of yogurt, poked a hole in it with a straw, widened it a bit, and drank straight from the bottle.

After a sip, he noticed Nan Jiaojiao eyeing the yogurt in his hand.

He shook the bottle, “It’s gone, I just had a few sips of alcohol, using this to sober up.”

Nan Jiaojiao gave a muffled “Oh.”

Suddenly a small bottle of yogurt landed in her lap.

“I bought a pack, the rest is all yours.”

Nan Jiaojiao brightened up then, lifting the yogurt up to him; Bo Yanching immediately understood and inserted the straw for her, she took it back and leaned on the seat, sipping leisurely.

“Ye Wanting was my classmate, we were in the same dormitory in our first year, she took good care of me.

I know about her family situation.

The person I asked you about last time, wanting to help, that was her.”

Bo Yanching sighed, “So, you went playing the little hero again?”

Nan Jiaojiao was momentarily lost, feeling that Bo Yanching had some unvented anger, yet not knowing where it was coming from.

Fearing she might guess too much and get it wrong, she decided to just ask outright, “What’s wrong?”

Bo Yanching said, “You could have informed me beforehand, and I would have stepped in.

It’s better than you getting your hands dirty.”

She paused, “I’m used to it.”

“Well, you’ll just have to get used to having me around from now on.”

Nan Jiaojiao suddenly looked up and found herself colliding with the man’s deep, dark eyes, which seemed to grow darker, like an abyss capable of swallowing her whole.

His gaze made even her speech stumble “I’ll…

remember that.”

Bo Yanching leaned closer, arm curved and resting against the back of her seat, while his other hand lay on his leg, casually tapping his knee, “I wasn’t telling you a lie.”

Nan Jiaojiao wrapped her arms around his shoulders, “I know.”

“Do you really know, or are you just pretending to know?

You’re quite the deceiver,” he said, his lips curving into a rare smile for her.

Nan Jiaojiao climbed up the pole, “I really know.”

“That whip of yours, I’ve been quite curious, where exactly do you pull it out from?”

“Oh, it hangs in the room, hidden behind the picture frame on the bedside table.”

Bo Yanching’s lips twitched, “I’ve been sleeping under a whip that weighs dozens of pounds every day?”

She batted her eyelids, “Isn’t that good?

It wards off evil spirits.

An aura of uprightness.”

Bo Yanching: “…”

“When I went to find Wanting, I realized it was on the way, so I went home to grab it.

I’ve always wanted to make a lighter one, something soft enough for me to carry with me, ideally something I can wrap around my waist.”

As she spoke, Nan Jiaojiao took Bo Yanching’s hand, placing it on her waist.

She was simply letting him help measure.

But when she didn’t hear him speak for a while,