Xing Bi tried to make him understand. "He tried to hurt Jun, which is obviously a crime. Let the police handle it."
Then she glared at Cai Lingyun. "And you! I thought you would be a good person since Ai used to talk highly of you as an elder brother. But now I saw how far you could stoop. You claim that you care for Ai? If you did, then you wouldn't have tried to hurt the man she loves the most!
Because if Liu Jun is hurt, then Ai will be in pain too."
The man she loves the most…
That sounded like poison to his ears.
"So stay away from Ai! Even if you might have feelings for her, she is in love with Liu Jun and is happy in her relationship. Don't try to intervene and mess with that otherwise, if Liu Nian is an elder brother, then I am also like an elder sister to Ai. I won't forgive you if you hurt her in any way!"
Saying the piece of her mind, Xing Bi dragged Nian away. "Let's go and inform the police."
"Oh come on! Did you forget the mess you got into by beating up the judges?"
He smiled. "They deserved it because they tried to hurt you. Cai Lingyun deserves it too because he hurt my brother. Nobody must mess with the people I hold very dear to me or there are dire consequences. I am not very forgiving."
The people I hold very dear to me…
Xing Bi was absolutely clueless about how to handle this side of Nian. It was just like the Summit night. She could easily talk to him and even beat him up when he was being goofy and funny and annoying.
But when his gaze looked like a looming death sentence upon somebody, she would suddenly feel at a loss.
She touched her face and felt it growing warm for some reason.
W-what? What is there for my face to become so hot? It's still Liu Nian only! It is just that he looks more serious right now. So what?
She coughed. "Let's go."
"I want to put him in the hospital too just like Jin is," he plainly remarked without much emotion.
Damn he is so stubborn!
She smiled. "Look, right now, Liu Jin needs you by his side as his brother. How will you support him if you get into unnecessary trouble?"
"My family name is enough to stop any trouble from reaching me."
That confidence…I feel like beating him up.
"You did break his shoulder and nose and punched him in the stomach. He is already writhing on the floor. Isn't that enough?"
"Nowhere near enough," he smiled again.
"Till yesterday, you were pinching Liu Jin's ear so hard…"
"Of course. He acted out of line. As his elder brother, it was my responsibility to teach him what he can and cannot do. But that is the thing," he chuckled dangerously, "Only Jian and I can punish or hurt him, not anybody else. Certainly not pests like him."
She sighed. She was sure that Nian wouldn't face much issue but still, she didn't wish to see his hands stained with blood even though that was second nature to Nian. Being in debt left by her father for a long time, she had seen her fair share of threats and cruel methods that the loan sharks resorted to. So it became her instinct to stay away from violence as much as she could.
Xing Bi suggested a solution after thinking hard. She somehow dragged him out of Cai Lingyun's room and said, "How about…" she cleared her throat, "we have the date you were talking about in exchange for leaving him to the police in one piece?"
Nian choked on his saliva and watched her wide-eyed. "A date?"
"Yes…" she averted her gaze for some reason.
Nian tilted it back to his side, lifting her chin towards him. He closed the distance between them, narrowing his eyes. "You are giving me a hard choice to make, dear."
Seeing his gorgeous face suddenly up close and his husky voice whispering into her ear made her hold her breath back in her throat.
Those genes are not good for my heart! Damn these siblings are all so handsome…she gritted her teeth.
"D-don't get too ahead of yourself. It's just a date, not like I accepted your confession. Also, I have not forgiven you yet. So hold your horses!"
With his unblinking gaze staring straight at her, she didn't know where to look. Nian pointed his index finger and hovered it over her upper lip. She felt as if he would touch her at my moment, and she couldn't help but stand extremely still in all that nervousness. Even she was unsure what she was waiting for exactly, and it felt like ages.
Nian smiled a mischievous smile and placed his finger on the tip of her nose. Their faces came closer and closer until his scent invaded her nostrils.
H-Hey wait wait! Is he going to ki-kiss…
Instead, Nian slightly deviated from his path and reached her ear, brushing past her cheek. He chuckled. "Considering how loud your heart is beating right now and the breath you have been holding in your throat with just how close I am standing to you, I guess I can get a teeny tiny bit ahead of myself, don't you think?"
"Also the fact that you were expecting me to kiss you, but didn't move away from me," his eyes twinkled.
Wait, why didn't I move?
Xing Bi felt that she was being played at the dance of his fingertips. She was older than him but felt helpless at the flirtations of a younger man.
"You…Don't l-look like that when you are with me!" She tried to manage her messy breaths.
"Look how?" Nian tilted his head questioningly. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ novel·fıre·net
"I don't know! Just act like how you always do. Goofy and annoying."
Because I don't know how to handle you when you get all serious…her mouth twitched.
Nian wanted to tease her a bit more, but it got interrupted by a phone call.
He saw Jian's incoming call and raised his brow. "Yo, Jian. Don't worry about Jin. I will handle it."
Jian's grim voice answered him after a long time. "I know Jin will be fine. You and Jun are there. But you need to come to Beijing right now."
Xing Bi was finally back to normal but frowned upon noticing Nian's eyes slowly turning darker and graver as he listened to his twin talking.