"Why would you suddenly ask that?" Jin Ruiyang couldn’t help but laugh.
Wasn’t it already very obvious?
"Like!" He answered without hesitation, his deep eyes gazing at her, as Jin Ruiyang slightly lowered his head, hands pressing on her shoulders.
"Xiao Sisi, I like you, I really do."
The rare seriousness Jin Ruiyang showed was almost entirely reserved for the little girl in front of him.
His gaze was profound, his pitch-black eyes like the dark night sky, endless at a glance, but Xu Sisi could feel the earnestness in his tone.
Recalling the conversation she had just overheard in the restroom, Xu Sisi asked him doubtfully, "Brother Ruiyang, have you liked a lot of people?"
Following Jin Ruiyang’s heartfelt confession, he didn’t expect such a query, which left him somewhat out of sorts.
"Why... would you ask that?" Jin Ruiyang was very puzzled, had he given her that kind of impression?
"Have you given lots of women flowers?" she asked earnestly, her eyes brimming with moisture, even tilting her head up to get a bit closer to him.
Jin Ruiyang, noting Xu Sisi’s probing eyes, racked his brain, recalling the two women who had just left the restroom.
Connecting her questions to these thoughts, Jin Ruiyang remembered his past behavior of attracting bees and chasing butterflies, wanting to show his tenderness to every pretty woman he met.
Thinking back to those days, the phrase ’wanton as the edge of the sky’ was an apt description.
Feeling incredibly awkward, Jin Ruiyang was even too embarrassed to offer an explanation. How could he explain?
That he just casually gave them away?
That might only cause Xiao Sisi to overthink things even more.
Jin Ruiyang’s hesitation did not escape Xu Sisi’s eyes.
Xu Sisi covered her mouth, incredulously asking him, "Brother Ruiyang, couldn’t be that you’ve had so many you can’t remember them all, right?"
"Xiao Sisi, listen to me explain..." Jin Ruiyang began awkwardly, cursing inwardly; if only he hadn’t been so frivolous in the past.
"Oh, then explain!" Xu Sisi blinked, quietly waiting for Jin Ruiyang to explain.
She waited so obediently for him to explain that it actually made Jin Ruiyang choke up.
Wasn’t this the moment when she should cover her ears and yell, "I’m not listening, I’m not listening"?
Then he wouldn’t have to say anything, could just pin her against the wall, steal a kiss, and in the blink of an eye, smoothen out any grievance.
Jin Ruiyang rarely got stuck, but now he faced a significant dilemma in life.
"Brother Ruiyang, go on, I’m listening?"
From Jin Ruiyang’s manner, Xu Sisi was convinced that what those women said was true.
Brother Ruiyang really had given many girls flowers.
Xu Sisi felt a bit jealous, jealous enough to want to stamp her feet and scratch someone.
But because of the surge of jealousy, Xu Sisi also became keenly aware of one thing, she genuinely liked Brother Ruiyang. New ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄhapters are published on Novᴇl_Fire(.)net
Even knowing he was a philandering playboy, she still liked him.
Xu Sisi watched him stammering.
Jin Ruiyang, gazing into the little girl’s clear black and white eyes, steeled his heart, pushed her against the wall, propped his hand beside her, and looking down, ran his hand through his hair.
"Yes, too many to remember."
He bit out the words, gritting his teeth, yet his eyes grew even deeper.
Xu Sisi looked at him in surprise, so, so many!
Xu Sisi puffed her cheeks, pouting her lips; couldn’t he at least make up some lie to keep coddling her?
Brother Ruiyang was really too much!
Jin Ruiyang felt uneasy inside, yet appeared utterly calm on the outside, even assuming the look of a bit of a rogue.
He pondered how to deal with the current trouble.