Bao Jingyan lowered his head and kissed her intricately, his voice even more hoarse: "Then who will you marry?"
She refused to say, only holding onto his neck.
When he went too far, she whimpered like a kitten.
Soft pleas for mercy seeped through the door...
"Bao Jingyan, I don’t want it ..."
Mixed with the man’s coaxing words...
"I like it this way... Ruanruan, be good..."
Suddenly, Su Ruanruan let out a light cry: "It hurts."
Bao Jingyan stopped, frowning: "What’s wrong?"
"I got burned a bit at the hospital." Su Ruanruan didn’t hide anything and told him all about Hao Keke’s incident.
Bao Jingyan felt extremely distressed.
"Does it still hurt?"
"I’ve already applied ointment at the hospital."
Bao Jingyan got up to fetch the ointment, carefully lifted her injured arm, and meticulously applied medicine for her.
As he applied it, he said, "She got off easy by not ending up in my hands."
Su Ruanruan gently placed her hand on his arm, softly saying: "Just punish her as you see fit, don’t you again..."
Bao Jingyan’s dark pupils turned ice cold: "You pity her?"
Seeing him like that, Su Ruanruan got angry, turned her little face to one side: "I don’t want to talk to you anymore."
Bao Jingyan, naturally decisive and resolute, but now showed a trace of softness: "I didn’t even say anything yet, and you’re already angry?"
He hugged her shoulder, with a tone that somewhat coaxed.
Su Ruanruan, getting annoyed, turned and challenged: "If I don’t intervene, what are you going to do to her? Break one of her hands?"
"That would be considered light." Bao Jingyan’s eyes brimmed with a mischievous aura.
Su Ruanruan was so angry that she burst into tears.
He was still the same!
Seeing her cry, Bao Jingyan was helpless: "What’s the matter, it was just talk and I haven’t actually done anything to her."
Su Ruanruan understood him, was it really just talk?
She was stubborn for a while, then went over to tug on his arm: "I won’t plead for her, but you shouldn’t get involved either, just let things take their natural course, okay?"
After speaking, she reached out to smooth his frown.
There was a trace of fierceness there.
Although she couldn’t guarantee she would stay with him to the end, she didn’t want him to be too ruthless in his dealings, cutting off his own retreat.
Bao Jingyan caught her hand and played with it in his palm.
She did not struggle, letting him hold it.
After a while, he finally said in a hoarse voice: "It’s not a big deal, worth you crying and making a scene over it."
He wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes and kissed her little mouth.
By this point, the lanterns were just beginning to be lit.
He gently pinched her small face: "I’ll bring dinner over."
Su Ruanruan, having tangled with him for a long time and worried about the servants gossiping, blushed and said: "I’ll go downstairs to eat with you."
As she said it, she sat up straight and lowered her head to button up the top few buttons of her blouse.
But the buttons, no bigger than grains of rice, were too slippery and she couldn’t secure them properly. In the end, Bao Jingyan took over her hands and buttoned them for her.
Her cheeks were red, she didn’t dare to look at him.
Bao Jingyan took her small hand and led her downstairs to eat.
Auntie Li immediately served dinner when she saw them coming down, but Auntie Li’s gaze seemed to say a lot.
The master had bullied her a bit too harshly.
Su Ruanruan was even more embarrassed under Auntie Li’s explicit gaze, and reached to brush back her hair.
Her look towards Bao Jingyan carried some blame.
Bao Jingyan sliced the steak for her and pushed it over, with a thick-skinned face: "It’s fried by the new chef, quite good."
She bit her lower lip and ate with a fork in small bites.
Bao Jingyan suddenly said: "Your arm is injured, stay here for the next few days."
"I’ll still go back later." Su Ruanruan shook her head.
Bao Jingyan did not argue, but neither did he agree.