She bowed her head, stubborn like a little bull.
Quan Shaoqing gradually clenched his fist, seeing her frail figure, a mysterious pain stabbed his heart.
But Gu Xiaoxi instinctively curled up into a ball.
She thought she had angered him again. However, to her surprise, the man simply squatted down, took her hand, and turned over her palm...
Immediately, two deep scratches from fingernails were exposed in the center of her palm.
There was also fresh blood on her fingers.
"I must have been really drunk to have scared you ."
Quan Shaoqing used two fingers to massage his dizzy head, taking a long breath... even he could smell the strong scent of alcohol on himself.
He grabbed her hand, pulled her up, and hugged her slender waist, heading towards the sofa.
Gu Xiaoxi didn’t say a word. In front of Quan Shaoqing, she had no power to resist.
She knew that no amount of struggle would help and only indifference could protect her.
Soon, Quan Shaoqing found a first-aid kit in a cabinet in the room and took out antiseptic.
Although his hands appeared large, he performed these tasks very skillfully, first cleaning her blood-stained palm, then evenly sprinkling anti-inflammatory and hemostatic medicine onto the wounds in her palm, and finally wrapping it carefully with white gauze.
The wound was quickly dressed. Gu Xiaoxi felt an itchy pain in the injured part of her palm, but it was already much better than before.
She simply said, "Thank you."
Quan Shaoqing put down the medicine box and his gaze inadvertently fell on the ring finger of her left hand.
A shiny diamond ring dazzled brightly...
He reached up to rub his nose bridge!
His chest felt inexplicably stuffy, but looking at her stubborn little expression, he had some words on the tip of his tongue that he just couldn’t say.
Silence spread endlessly in the room.
"You can go now! I need to rest," Gu Xiaoxi was the first to break the silence.
Quan Shaoqing looked up at her. Tonight was destined to be a sleepless one.
He would leave, but could she really sleep?
Quan Shaoqing reached out, grabbing her wrist.
Gu Xiaoxi was huddled on the sofa but was still pulled closer to him.
Even though she tried hard to maintain distance, he persistently drew near her and finally just wrapped his large hand around her, pulling her whole body into his embrace.
The next second, they vanished from the room.
They were in a place unknown, with broad streets and passersby hurriedly walking by.
Gu Xiaoxi’s gaze wandered all around, finally settling, puzzled, on Quan Shaoqing, "Why have you brought me here?"
"You’re so unromantic. Naturally, I brought you here to take your mind off things," Quan Shaoqing’s voice softened a bit as he casually pointed to a brilliantly lit shopping center not far away, saying, "Don’t women love shopping? You can buy whatever you like. I’ll give it to you!"
Gu Xiaoxi raised an eyebrow and shook her head, "No thanks. I don’t need anything!"
Helpless against her stubbornness, he seized her wrist and forcibly pulled her towards the large shopping center.
Gu Xiaoxi couldn’t resist him, simply taking in her surroundings—it took her a long time to guess which country they might be in. Anyway, it wasn’t Country A.
She had suspected before that Quan Shaoqing had the ability to travel through space, but she had never imagined he could take someone with him to such a faraway place.
They had been in the middle of the ocean before, and now they were clearly in a very developed country’s bustling business district.
The skyscrapers towered around them, an area obviously meant for the wealthy to splurge.
"Where are you taking me?" Gu Xiaoxi asked coldly.