Genshin Impact: Liyue's Strongest Thousand Rock Army

"Why so late?"

Su Ping was at the door of the shop, just about to go out to look for them, when he finally saw the two of them coming back.

Bai Wen's face was flushed. He carried the unconscious Ningguang on his back and said slowly, "The deal almost didn't work out, so it took a while. Miss Ningguang got drunk again and she came back slowly."

Su Ping nodded and helped Ningguang to sit on a chair. Looking at the woman with closed eyes, flushed cheeks and a strong smell of alcohol, he sighed.

When doing business, drinking is inevitable. Newcomers will be troubled by the old ones, and they need to flatter. Of course, they need to drink a lot. If they drink too much, they will get drunk, and if they are drunk, they will become like this.

Bai Wen held his head and said in a daze, "I'll go make some hangover soup."

"You take a rest, I'll go." Su Ping stopped the woman, went upstairs and went to the kitchen to cook soup.

The two men, who knew everything, also went downstairs early to take care of the two people who were half drunk, with expressions of distress on their faces.

After Su Ping brought the sobering soup downstairs and asked the two awake women to help feed him, he heaved a sigh of relief and sat down next to the tea table.

Bai Wen tried hard to open her eyes and yawned. She didn't know if it was because she was back in the shop and felt the warm atmosphere, so she felt sleepy or something, but she didn't feel energetic even after drinking the sobering soup.

"Bai Shi, close the front door. Bai Xiao, help me upstairs later. Both of you come up!"

Bai Wen finished speaking, and without waiting for the two to agree, he walked towards the stairs. Bai Shi closed the door, followed him in small steps, and said with concern: "Slow down, big sister, I'll help you."

At the teahouse, Bai Xiao finished feeding the boy the soup and ran upstairs with the bowl in his hand, ignoring Su Ping's attempts to stop him, leaving the boy and the boss alone.

Su Ping held his forehead and murmured, "What's going on here? At least help carry the person up first."

He wanted to go back to the house directly, but then he looked at the woman leaning on the chair and felt that this was not a good idea. It would be troublesome if she caught a cold.

It was unknown whether he took the bait voluntarily or because of a sudden overwhelm of responsibility, but Su Ping stayed there and did not even think of calling the women down, just sitting there tightly.

Ningguang drank the sobering soup and her breathing became even. She should have fallen asleep. However, the redness on her lips and the blush on her face, as well as her relaxed and defenseless look, really made others feel uneasy.

No matter if Su Ping looked elsewhere, or was thinking about immortal magic, or even turned around and sat down, he would eventually look at that face.

Finally, the young man stopped pretending. He held his chin with one hand and looked at the other person's eyes and eyebrows very carefully. As he looked, he couldn't help but stretched out his hand.

But just when he was not far away and could touch the woman's face with just one more step, Su Ping suddenly stopped and withdrew his hand abruptly.

Then he gritted his teeth, stepped back one step at a time, and sat on a chair. His face was calm, but like an iron plate under a fire, it became redder and hotter.

A fifteen-year-old boy, full of vigor and vitality, a forty-five-year-old soul, still single.

"No, no, I absolutely cannot let this happen. If it gets out... No, I won't be able to live with it, and I'll beat myself up first!"

Su Ping cursed himself in his heart, "She is a virgin. After you touched her like this, do you have the nerve to let her live with someone else in the future?"

Of course he felt embarrassed. Whether he touched it or not, he felt embarrassed.

"What's wrong with me tonight? Why is it so hot?" Su Ping's breathing was heavy, as if he was carrying a thousand-pound stone. In fact, he understood it, he was just asking himself.

Because he didn't know the woman's feelings, nor did he know whether he had any feelings for her, and there was also the issue of fate, which made him unwilling to think about it, so he had to close his heart.

The two have known each other for more than a year. Su Ping has watched this woman grow up step by step. Thinking back to their first meeting, it is impossible to say that he has no feelings at all.

Because he comes into contact with many people every day, but the one he meets the most regularly, the one he likes the most, and the woman he believes will achieve great things is Ningguang.

But he didn't know what kind of feeling this was, whether he treated the other person as an outstanding junior, or was it a momentary impulse as he hadn't had a good partner for a long time, or was he really in love with her.

Su Ping couldn't explain what this feeling was. He usually didn't think about the woman on purpose, but whenever he thought about going back to the grocery store, he would always think of the scene of the woman busying herself in the store.

This 45-year-old guy may not dislike women, but he himself does not know that he likes them. He thinks that it is just a natural feeling because they see each other more often every day.

Of course, it is also possible that he was suddenly tempted by her beauty and made an excuse for it, but his previous anxious mood to find someone was not fake.

Su Ping looked confused. He thought about his fate, lowered his head, and sat there silently without saying a word.

Time passed little by little. Su Ping sat on the chair, not wanting to sleep at all. He did not dare to look up at Ningguang, lest he lose control and be mistaken for a hooligan.

He never thought about the possibility that the other party also liked him, nor did he think about what had caused the current situation. He didn't know that the woman was actually pretending to be asleep, waiting for the boy to make a move so that he could catch her in the act and naturally proceed with the relationship.

Ningguang closed her eyes, not knowing how long she had been waiting. She felt that if her legs hadn't been numb, she would have fallen asleep right away.

“This guy, if he doesn’t have the guts to steal, does he have the heart to steal?” Ningguang was puzzled. “Or am I not pretty enough and not the type of woman he wants? What’s going on?”

Those involved are often confused, while bystanders can see things clearly. If either of the two had spoken first, there wouldn't have been any need for so much trouble, but none of them could see this clearly.

Ningguang waited for a while, but still didn't feel any changes in her body, so she decided to take the initiative. Anyway, she was mostly sober, but the other party didn't know, so she could use this as an excuse to do something.

So, the woman first uttered a delicate sound, then slowly opened her eyes, but looked at the scene in front of her, speechless and at a loss.

Su Ping took out a coat and was about to cover the woman with it, but he stood three steps away and his eyes were like a thief, looking around but not daring to look at the woman's face.

“Ahem, Miss Ningguang, you’re awake.” Su Ping breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the woman wake up. He thought that since everyone was awake, he should not be unable to control himself.

Ideas are beautiful and flawless, but reality often does not go as planned.

Ningguang gritted her teeth, stretched her numb legs, and said sleepily, "Where am I, and who are you?"

"You are drunk and you are in a grocery store now." Su Ping covered the woman with his coat and then stepped back repeatedly, as if the woman was a man-eating goblin.

Ningguang stood up slowly and said leisurely, "I'm not drunk. Tell me who you are, or I'll arrest you! Tell me now!"

Su Ping's mouth twitched. Looking at the woman with such an expression and words, he couldn't help but smile and said, "My name is Su Ping."

“Oh~ It’s you.” Ningguang grinned, looking like a young girl, and smacked her lips, “Do you remember what you promised me that night?”

"What?" Su Ping didn't remember what he had promised her, especially at this time of night, which was impossible, so he just thought of it as drunken talk.

Ningguang held onto the wall, followed closely and said with a chuckle, "Have you forgotten? I'll tell you again, that night, I came back late and you took care of me until midnight. I just woke up and you still covered me with cotton clothes because you were afraid I would catch a cold.

Hehehe…At that time, I asked you, I like you, but do you like me? You said, you said…well, what did you say at that time, I forgot?”

Su Ping's heart trembled, and he said without thinking: "What did you just say?"

"You want to hear it again, right? You're such a rascal." Ningguang narrowed her eyes and smiled, "I like you. What about you? Do you like me?"

Su Ping did not say anything, but he could not hide the smile on his face. He suddenly found that he had someone he liked, and the person he liked also liked him. What a happy thing this was.

But after the laughter, Su Ping's face became serious and he frowned, "You are really drunk, Miss Ningguang. I will go get you a cup of tea. You should have a good rest."

Ningguang didn't get an answer, so she refused to give up and kept saying, "I'm not drunk, I really am not drunk. You haven't answered me yet. What did you say that day?"

As the woman spoke, her body swayed wildly, her childish curves no longer visible, sketching a beautiful scene in front of Su Ping's eyes.

Su Ping, who had finally calmed down, felt his blood surging in his body, the degree of which was no less than that of having just gone through a devilish training.

His old face flushed, he touched his nose, shook his head and said, "Anyway, it's all drunken talk, I won't remember it when I wake up, and I can't do this now, so I won't say it!"

“No, you have to say it!” Ningguang was anxious and was about to walk over, but she overestimated the ability of her legs and fell forward.

Su Ping stood a few steps away, but the distance was just right. He took a step forward and caught the other person's soft and delicate body with both hands. After feeling the tenderness in his hands for a moment, he quickly let go.

After this buffering blow, Ningguang knelt on her right knee and supported herself on the ground with her hands. She didn't fall too badly, but she couldn't give up because she was not sure of the other party's intentions.

She stood up immediately, without any trace of drunkenness from before. With clear eyes, she appeared before the young man as sober as could be.

Ningguang stared into the boy's eyes, ignoring his shyness, and said bluntly: "Su Ping, do you like me or not?"

Su Ping was silent. At this point, he could no longer fail to see that the woman was acting. However, he just couldn't say that he liked the second son.

In the end, the helpless young man could only frankly tell the other party about his worries, "I am destined to kill people, and sooner or later I will kill everyone around me. I dare not..."