Uncle Nine, where are you running to?

The bright moon hangs high in the night sky, and its clear light pours down like water.

The window of his room was half open to the yard, as if trying to blend into the quiet night.

Jingzhi sat quietly on the kang, with one hand gently resting on the small table in the middle of the kang.

There was no light in the room. Only the bright moonlight shone through the lower half of the window frame and quietly fell into the room, making the lower half of her face clearly visible in the light.

I saw that her chin, which was originally a little fleshy, had become increasingly pointed.

And those red lips were tightly pursed at this moment, as if she was suppressing some emotion in her heart.

However, for Erdi who was standing at the door and peeping, what attracted his attention most was her frown hidden in the darkness.

His original anticipation and nervousness disappeared without a trace in an instant.

The nonsense Liang Zan had just said in his mind was also thrown out of the window.

At this moment, the only thing on his mind was to smooth out the wrinkles between her brows bit by bit.

Thinking this in her mind, Erdi's body began to move involuntarily.

He walked over slowly and sat opposite the small table.

He stared at the beauty in front of him, and when he was about to smooth away the hint of sadness between her brows, his outstretched hand suddenly stopped in mid-air.

It turned out that he was stopped by her.

"Xiaozhi, you——"

Jingzhi held his fingers tightly with one hand and gently pressed the other hand against his lips.

At this moment, her eyes were filled with complex emotions, making him a little unpredictable.

She closed her eyes slightly, as if trying to calm the waves in her heart, and then took a deep breath.

When she opened her eyes again, Erdi was surprised to find that her face was full of seriousness that he had never seen before.

"Liang Erdi..."

As soon as she called out, Erdi's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Because he knew very well that whenever she called him that, it often meant that she was extremely angry or sad.

What on earth... happened?

He opened his mouth and was about to ask a question, but she quickly covered her mouth with her lips and made a gesture to silence him.

Seeing that he had quieted down and stopped talking, she focused her gaze back on his eyes and continued:

“Although I’m not like other women here who overly value the boundaries between men and women, I’m definitely not the type of person who would casually get intimate or behave intimately with men.

Tonight, I just hope to hear something from your heart. Can you... tell me the truth?

Erdi's heart suddenly tightened, and at the same time, a deep regret surged into her heart like a tide.

As for why I feel this way.

Because at this moment, he clearly saw the self-doubt and anxiety hidden in her eyes, as well as her distrust of him.

It turns out that what he did before had left such a deep scar in her heart?

At this moment, he suddenly understood the question she wanted to ask most in her heart.

Xiaozhi, you have been taking the initiative for so long.

Now...it's my turn.

Seeing that he hadn't spoken for a long time, Jingzhi's expectation in his eyes gradually faded. She slowly let go of his hands and his lips, and was about to quietly withdraw them.

At this moment, he quickly stretched out his hands and held her hands tightly in his palms.

He just stared into her eyes quietly, as if trying to convey a little confidence to her through the thin layer of his eyes.

Then he lowered his head slightly and kissed her fingertips through the thin gloves on her hands, like a dragonfly touching the water.

His voice was low, yet with an unprecedented tenderness:

"Xiaozhi... I like you, let's... be together?"

At this moment, Jingzhi's eyes turned red, and two hot tears suddenly grew out and quickly fell down her cheeks.

Finally... have we been waiting for this day?

Jingzhi felt as if in a dream. Even though her eyes were filled with tears and her vision was gradually blurring, she was reluctant to blink, for fear that the affection in the eyes of the man in front of her would suddenly disappear.

Erdi: It turns out that it was just as he thought.

As long as he showed a little intimacy, or even words of affection, the panic in her eyes would gradually increase.

At this moment, Erdi blamed herself so much that she wanted to go back to the past, drag her ungrateful self up and give her a good beating.

He held her increasingly panicked and cold hand and pecked it again, then took her hand with one hand and stroked it against his face, while reaching out with the other hand to gently wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes:

“Don’t cry, I’m heartbroken… You’re not dreaming, I’m real.

What I just said was absolutely true. I really won’t lie to you this time.

I, Liang Erdi, like you, I have liked you... for a long, long time.

In the past... I pushed you away time and time again. I was ungrateful. Can you... give me another chance?"

Jingzhi seemed to wake up from a dream, blinked her eyelids gently, and two tears fell on the table between the couch like beads that had broken off the string.

She cried, but then she suddenly smiled, a bright smile.

She said, “…Okay.”

This time, it was Erdi's turn to be stunned.

He unconsciously tightened his grip on her hand, then he slowly slid his five fingers from the back of her hand, gently inserted them into her fingertips, and tightly entwined them together.

“You, you agreed?!”

Erdi's voice was trembling with excitement, and her eyes were full of disbelief and ecstasy.

Jingzhi suddenly propped up the table with her elbow, tilted her body slightly, gently pecked his eyelids that were trembling with excitement, and laughed softly:

"Well, I promise."

As soon as she finished speaking, Erdi suddenly exerted force with her fingers and pulled it back violently.

Jingzhi was caught off guard and felt a huge force coming. Her body involuntarily spun quickly with her back against the small table due to inertia.

The next second, she fell steadily into Erdi's arms.

Seeing his excited expression, his pale lips pouting, and his eager move to kiss her, Jingzhi put one hand on his chest, pinched his mouth with the other, raised her chin, and said with a bit of pride:

"Let me make this clear first. Before we get married, you're not allowed to do anything rash. Even if you want to kiss, you have to ask my opinion first."

Hearing this, Erdi's beautiful eyes instantly curved into crescent shapes, and he nodded repeatedly.

She no longer looked as cold or charming as before, but rather had a rare silly look, a bit... like Afeng's silly look.

Jingzhi said hesitantly:

"It's impossible for me to completely change my inner thoughts overnight. I will still... be afraid.

So you swear a vow, swear that you will never reject me again because of physical reasons or any unfounded reasons.

Otherwise, I will go to a place where you will never find me and hide. You know I am a spirit cat, I can do it. "

As soon as he finished speaking, Erdi suddenly pressed her head into his arms. His lips trembled slightly, with visible fear in his eyes, and he spoke quickly:

"Stop it, I swear I will never push you away because of my physical condition again!"

The thought of her hiding alone and him returning to being alone made him feel uncontrollably terrified, and he even had some paranoid and dark thoughts.

If... if I could make her smaller and keep her by my side, that would be great.

As soon as this idea came to mind, he extinguished it in an instant.

At this moment, what Liang Zan had just said suddenly flashed through his mind.

He said that Jingzhi was like this because she was extremely insecure.

So, where does this sense of security come from?

Just as he was frowning in thought, Jingzhi patted his happily beating heart and said:

"Well, now that you've taken your oath, I'll be merciful and give you a kiss."

After saying that, she hooked her arms around his neck, slightly closed her beautiful eyes, which were full of regrets and expectations, and even a hint of a smile appeared at the corners of her mouth.

At this moment, Erdi gently pulled her hand down, chuckled and said:

"No hurry, wait a moment."

Jingzhi was a little angry when her request for a kiss was rejected. She kicked his calf lightly with her foot, propped up her chin and looked out the window, muttering softly:

"Who's so impatient! Who was it that was so impatient just now and pulled me over to kiss me? Humph!"

Erdi stood up, stroked the hair on the back of her head, chuckled and said:

"It's me, I'm so impatient... I have something to give you."

She turned her head back and said with some doubt:

"what?"

He didn't say anything, but walked to the cabinet beside the bed and took out the black box from the daytime, as well as another smaller rosewood box.

He placed the two boxes on the table, pushed them toward her, then folded his fingers, twisted them slightly, and said shyly:

"This is... all I have. I give it all to you."

Jingzhi looked at the black box, but she didn't open it.

She glanced at the nervous Erdi, and her curiosity about the small box suddenly reached its peak.

She said, “I’m really going to open it, okay?”

Erdi took out a small golden key from her bosom and put it into her hand. Then she turned her face away and said with red ears:

“…You go ahead.”