They slept for more than two hours.
When Li Wangshu woke up, He Yu was poking her cheek with his finger like an elementary school kid.
She stared at him blankly for a while before asking,
“What time is it?”
“Four o’clock.”
Li Wangshu tried to sit up, but he pressed her back down.
“Little Moon, you slept so deeply on a man’s bed. Did you really think you could leave here completely unharmed?”
His breath tangled with hers, but she was still groggy, as if she hadn’t fully woken up yet.
Still, she had slept well, so she wasn’t in a bad mood.
“Did you actually do anything?”
She looked at her clothes, then at He Yu’s. Although they were a little wrinkled from sleeping, everything was still perfectly proper.
Tilting her head in confusion, she said,
“You didn’t do anything. Besides, you were the one who said you wouldn’t touch me.”
“And you believed me?”
His lips brushed lightly against her neck.
“Don’t you know? You should never trust a man’s words, especially the ones he says in bed.”
Li Wangshu shivered slightly and instinctively tried to push him away.
She couldn’t move him at all.
Since she couldn’t, she simply gave up.
She wasn’t even that nervous. Instead, she let out a long, relaxed yawn.
Deep down, she simply felt that He Yu wouldn’t actually do anything.
Seeing that she had struggled for less than three seconds before completely giving up, He Yu paused and propped himself up on one arm.
“So… you’re just going to submit?”
“What else can I do?”
Li Wangshu looked directly into his eyes before calmly answering,
“I can’t beat you.”
She was disabled. She even had permission to skip physical education classes. There was no way she could physically fight someone like him.
“So you just give up?”
He Yu didn’t think she was that weak.
“Not really. I’ve been thinking of a solution.”
She still intended to outsmart him.
“And have you thought of one?”
“Yes.”
He Yu raised an eyebrow, waiting for her answer.
“Please… let me go.”
Although she was pleading, her tone was as calm as if she were ordering another bowl of rice noodles.
It didn’t matter.
Young Master He was already thoroughly pleased.
“So that’s your plan? Beg me?”
“Yes.”
“Please.”
“It’s not impossible for me to let you go… but I have one condition.”
“What is it?”
“Be my girlfriend.”
As usual, several buttons of his shirt were left undone.
Li Wangshu’s eyes drifted from his elegant Adam’s apple to the pale skin of his chest.
Actually…
To fulfill Ji Lian’s wish, she had already been planning to seduce him.
But she hadn’t expected that he didn’t need any seducing at all.
He had taken the initiative far sooner than she imagined.
Ji Lian had said before that he was a playboy.
So… had his flirting simply landed on her?
“I can still feel affection… although it’s only a tiny bit,” Ji Lian whispered cautiously.
That only made Li Wangshu more annoyed.
“I don’t really want to agree.”
She honestly admitted it despite the risk.
“We barely know each other.”
“Then what counts as knowing each other?”
He spoke with deliberate menace.
“If we turn uncooked rice into cooked rice, would that be close enough?”
His hands, which had been relatively restrained, slowly began inching toward her limits.
“Little Moon, do you know that in all of Beijing, no woman has ever dared reject me?”
In Ji Lian’s eyes, He Yu’s eyes were tinged with a faint blood-red glow. His fierce voice was terrifying enough to make her tremble in fear.
Yet strangely…
Li Wangshu, standing at the center of the storm, wasn’t afraid at all.
She even found his overbearing CEO-style declaration a little funny.
Fortunately, she managed not to laugh.
Otherwise, things might really have turned into a tragedy.
“If you confess like this, then even if I agree, it won’t be because I want to.”
She spoke gently, but every word was incredibly bold.
“You don’t respect me, so I won’t like you.”
“I don’t care whether it’s voluntary or not.”
He Yu had his own twisted logic.
“As long as you belong to me.”
“But if you like me, then you should want me to like you too, right?”
There might only be a little affection, but it was still affection.
She just didn’t know when he had started caring about her.
“Like you?”
He sneered.
“Wanting to sleep with someone doesn’t mean you like them.”
“But asking me to be your girlfriend isn’t just about sleeping together.”
Her eyes clearly said, I’m certain of it.
“You like me.”
He Yu froze.
Then he got off her and released her.
Even so, he still spoke like a proper villain.
“Little Moon, you’re quite full of yourself.”
Finally able to sit up, Li Wangshu reached out and gently touched the corner of his eye.
“First, I wouldn’t call it narcissism, but I do like myself very much.”
“Second, even if we date, I don’t belong to anyone.”
“I belong only to myself.”
“And you still dare argue with me?”
He Yu felt as if he had given her far too much freedom.
“Yes.”
“I dare.”
“I dare argue with you.”
“I dare reject you.”
“If I weren’t weaker than you, I would have fought back when you bullied me just now.”
She poked his cheek the same way he had poked hers earlier.
“He Yu…”
“I’m not afraid of you.”
“Ahhh! Are you crazy?! What are you doing?!”
Ji Lian couldn’t believe what she had just heard.
“He’ll kill you!”
“Hurry up and apologize!”
He Yu’s anger immediately surged.
He was just about to smash something in the room—anything except Li Wangshu.
But the overwhelming rage that was about to explode suddenly stopped rising.
It collapsed completely.
Because…
Li Wangshu kissed him.
It was only a light, fleeting kiss.
Soft.
Gentle.
Deadly.
He Yu froze.
“I don’t think you know how to have a normal relationship.”
She gently touched the place she had just kissed, looking troubled for once.
“But when I watched you talking with my parents, you clearly knew how to interact with people normally.”
“So if you’re willing to learn…”
“You can learn.”
“Do you think I’m easy to deal with?”
He Yu pinched her chin.
“Little Moon…”
“Did I somehow make you think I’m a good person?”
His voice still sounded fierce.
But it wasn’t nearly as frightening as before.
Li Wangshu blinked.
Although he was holding her chin, he wasn’t using much force.
It didn’t hurt.
She decided she could forgive him for now.
“To me…”
“You’re an especially, especially good person.”
“Other than my parents, you’ve treated me better than anyone else.”
She said the most flattering words in the calmest tone imaginable.
He Yu thought he must have misheard.
He had treated her well?
Other than looking after her parents for two days, he hadn’t really done anything for her.
He had even been bullying her just moments ago.
Or…
Had no one ever treated her any better?
Thinking about everything Li Wangshu had gone through, something inside his chest suddenly felt painfully tight.
“How about this?”
“If you’re unwilling to learn…”
“Then I’ll do it.”
“I’ve never been in love either, so I don’t really know how.”
“But learning shouldn’t be difficult.”
She gently held the hand that was pinching her chin.
Turning her face, she rubbed her cheek softly against his palm.
“He Yu…”
“Let’s have a normal relationship.”
“I’ll be the one who chases you.”
At that moment, Ji Lian felt warmth spread throughout her entire body.
She looked at the bloodstains on herself slowly fading away.
Then she looked at the two people frozen together amid countless pink bubbles.
“They’re so adorable together…”