The obedient girl glances up, and the tyrannical tycoon kneels down to pamper her.

Binjiang Bay.

Grandma Kuang opened the door upon hearing the noise and asked in surprise, "Why are you two back so early?"

Seeing Xing Yanzhao's extremely somber face and Luo Huai's disheveled hair that she hadn't noticed, she stepped forward with concern: "Were you two robbed on the way?"

Luo Huai shook her head, trying to keep smiling: "Grandma, we're fine. We're just a little cold. Let's go inside and take a hot shower."

Grandma Kuang nodded, seemingly believing but not quite. She watched as Xing Yanzhao opened the door and went in first, followed by Luo Huai. The two barely exchanged a word, and Grandma Kuang immediately felt puzzled.

After the door across the street closed, Grandma Kuang took out her phone to call Kuang Ye, only to be told that nothing was wrong. This only made her more suspicious.

However, the young couple didn't say anything.

She didn't want to ask.

I could only go into the kitchen. Judging from their appearance, they definitely hadn't eaten, so I heated up the food for them.

It started snowing again outside the window.

The living room lights were off, leaving it pitch black. The drifting white snow reflected on the clean glass windows, making it look just like a movie screen.

Xing Yanzhao sat on the sofa, while Luo Huai stood at a distance.

No one spoke.

clack.

A small flame lit up in the pitch-black night, flickering on the man's face. It was dim and unclear, making it impossible to see his features, but one could tell that he was still angry.

The lighter flame went out.

Only a tiny spark of a cigarette remained.

The two fell silent once again.

Like on the way back.

Xing Yanzhao also lit a cigarette and asked Luo Huai, "Why did you stop me?"

"If you kill him, you'll go to jail."

"Is she afraid that if I kill someone, she will be a widow? Or is she worried about Pei Yuanzhou at this crucial moment?" Xing Yanzhao thought he didn't care and believed that everyone has a past, but every time he saw Luo Huai and Pei Yuanzhou getting close, he would get jealous.

When he saw Pei Yuanzhou bullying Luo Huai, his pig snout kept nudging into Luo Huai's shoulder, and he wanted to kill him on the spot.

Even if it means risking one life for another.

He's never been afraid in his entire life.

But Luo Huai was afraid. She was afraid that Xing Yanzhao would get into trouble because of this, and she was also afraid that Pei Yuanzhou would really be beaten to death.

So when Xing Yanzhao asked her if she felt sorry for Pei Yuanzhou at a crucial moment, she did not answer immediately.

The slight pause caused the two hearts, which were gradually drawing closer, to stop in their tracks, and everything around them became completely silent.

Only the sound of a man smoking remained.

Xing Yanzhao sat on the sofa with his legs spread out and his elbows resting on his knees, twitching intermittently, seemingly very agitated.

I cut it off halfway through and threw it in the trash can.

Then they lit a second one.

Luo Huai opened his mouth, but still didn't know what to say.

Another half-cigarette's worth of time passed, and Xing Yanzhao seemed to calm down a bit. He looked up and asked, "Aren't you tired of standing? Come sit down here."

Luo Huai walked over.

He sat down obediently beside her.

She thought Xing Yanzhao would lean in and kiss her like last time, trying to gain possession and comfort in that way.

It turned out not to be.

Xing Yanzhao thought about it, but he didn't.

Because Luo Huai had been bullied by Pei Yuanzhou, he insisted that he would not be like Pei Yuanzhou, so he would not even say sweet words as usual.

That was something Pei Yuanzhou used to deal with Luo Huai.

It's not that he can't, but that he doesn't want to.

Luo Huai was tired of hearing it too.

She's well-behaved, has her own money, and focuses on her own work every day, unlike other women who whine and ask for this and that. She's also considerate and doesn't argue easily.

Therefore, the two rarely communicated.

The current situation is partly due to a lack of communication.

“Brother Zhao…” Luo Huai suddenly spoke up, revealing his true feelings, “I’m afraid something will happen to you, and I’m also afraid something will happen to Pei Yuanzhou, but how can you have both? I know you’re angry.”

"I'm angry too."

"I'm angry at myself for being cowardly. Even when I'm bullied, I don't dare to let the other person pay with their life."

"I'm also angry that I can't forget it."

"It's not that I can't forget my feelings for Pei Yuanzhou, it's that I can't forget her companionship during the seventeen years I was isolated and helpless. You should know that Brother Zhao investigated my life in the Pei family back then in order to get ahead. Pei Yuanzhou is so important to me as an orphan. She's like the box of matches in The Little Match Girl. Even if she can only burn for a moment, even if she has to light them one by one, the number of matches is limited."

"To others, what good is lighting a match? But for a little girl walking barefoot in the snow, even a tiny flame brings warmth."

"The little girl's matches were limited and didn't even last one night, but my box of matches lasted for seventeen years."

"Just like the cliché, people who lack love can be easily coaxed away by a piece of candy. Don't we know that? We do know, but we can't control it. That's the disability in our hearts."

Luo Huai's eyes reddened.

Xing Yanzhao turned his head to look at him, and Luo Huai also turned his head to look at him, suddenly feeling aggrieved for some reason.

It seemed that every time she met Zhao Ge's gaze, she would involuntarily feel wronged, and her nose would sting with tears.

“I don’t like him anymore, I haven’t liked him for a long time. Don’t be angry. I hesitated in the car just now because, no matter what, I really don’t want Pei Yuanzhou to die. More than anything, I was scared. What would I do if you really killed him? What would Grandma do?”

A whine.

Luo Huai cried.

Tears rained down.

“I was already scared when Pei Yuanzhou suddenly pounced on me, and then you pounced on me and hit me, which made me even more scared.”

The moment she cried, Xing Yanzhao's expression changed.

He felt he had committed a heinous crime.

He dropped the cigarette and quickly pulled the person into his arms.

"Okay, okay, I was wrong, I was wrong." She admits her mistakes very quickly, and goes to wipe away the tears for the other person with heartache, but the more she wipes, the more tears she sheds.

Luo Huai immediately burst into tears and couldn't stop crying.

"Are you made of water?" Xing Yanzhao panicked, cupping her face in his hands and warning, "If you cry again, I'll kiss you to death. Mmm!"

Luo Huai looked up.

He ended up being kissed instead.

Luo Huai doesn't know how to kiss. Her first real kiss was when Xing Yanzhao pinned her down behind the door and kissed her passionately. She didn't know how to take the initiative.

All they knew was to press their lips together.

Her damp eyelashes fluttered.

Xing Yanzhao was stunned on the spot. The soft touch and the salty taste of tears brought him back to his senses. He reached out and lifted the person onto his lap.

Mainly anti-customer.

His kisses, like him, were intense and passionate.

He reached inside Luo Huai's coat with both hands and could completely grip her waist.

They're ruthless with their hands, let alone their words.

It looks like they're going to eat you up.

Luo Huai was kissed so hard she kept leaning back, but the hand on her waist kept her from retreating, pulling her back whenever she tried to.

The "woo-woo" crying sound turned into "uh-uh" panting.

She can't breathe properly and is going to suffocate.

Xing Yanzhao finally released her mouth, then gently bit her lips, then her chin, and continued downwards.

Luo Huai was forced to look up again this time.

She trembled all over as she said, "There's a major artery in my neck, be gentle..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound became lighter.

Light as a feather, it tickled her neck again and again, its itch spreading all the way to her heart.