Crossing the line

Chapter 75 Coaxing Children

Yun Yuwan couldn't help wanting to laugh, but she pursed her lips and was too embarrassed to laugh.

Wen Yangzhi bent down and kissed her. When his lips fell and overlapped with hers, she did not dodge. The warmth from his body enveloped her, and she only wanted him to be closer. Wen Yangzhi leaned down, held her in his arms, turned over on the bed, and lay on his side, holding her in his arms.

The room was quiet, there was a light sound of wind outside the window, the gentle tranquility was like the soft flow of a mountain stream, the kiss on the lips was like smelling the breeze.

Yun Yuwan stuck to him, and as soon as he let go of her, she came up to him again, her lips touching his neck. She felt sleepy unconsciously, but was reluctant to sleep.

He kept squeezing her hand, rubbing her fingers with the tip of his thumb. Her hands had always been cold, and his big hands kept holding hers, and her hands also became warm.

Everyone has to hold her hand before sleeping.

She felt inexplicably happy.

It wasn't a kiss or a hug, but he was definitely here and would be with her, and that was normal and right for her.

If there was someone who could stay with her forever and steadily, she would probably not be so afraid.

She wanted Wen Yangzhi to always be by her side, never leave, and to be together like a symbiont no matter what happened.

When Yun Yuwan got up in the morning, she saw that it was already ten o'clock, and she guessed that Wen Yangzhi had already left.

After brushing her teeth and washing her face, she went downstairs, only to find Wen Yangzhi sitting on the terrace downstairs in a T-shirt and trousers, reading a newspaper and drinking coffee.

He is whiter in daylight than under lamplight, with an even and clean skin tone and a healthy complexion. With the even and bright sunlight, he looks even more radiant.

Yun Yuwan often wears makeup and she knows very well that when she looks at her face under natural light, all the flaws will be exposed and more obvious. But Wen Yangzhi is not like that. He does the opposite.

Perhaps it’s because beauties don’t need to hide and are born to sit high in the hall.

His face is even more striking in sunlight, as his eyebrows and eyelashes are thick and dark, with a heavy color, and his skin is pure and fair, like an oil painting with extremely clean colors. At first glance, he is stunningly handsome, yet cold and unapproachable.

Yun Yuwan was surprised: "Don't you have to go to work?"

He turned over the foreign-language newspaper, leaned his broad shoulders against the back of the chair, and said lazily:
"Not going today."

Yun Yuwan murmured curiously, "You are so free."

He raised his eyes to look at her, then lowered them to continue reading the newspaper:
"I want to coax you today, so I canceled all my plans."

Yun Yuwan seemed to be choked. She murmured, "Are you trying to comfort me?"

He closed the newspaper, folded it in half with his fair and white hands, put it aside, and said casually:
"Coax the kids."

She wanted to say that she was not a child anymore, but she felt there was no point in emphasizing this since she hadn't even said anything about her brother who was already old.

Yun Yuwan looked at her phone and it was already half past ten.

She didn't say anything. He looked up at her, then lowered his eyes to continue reading the newspaper. The sunlight drew a straight ridge of light on his straight and strong nose:
"Where's the teddy bear?"

She was surprised that he noticed the teddy bear tied to her phone.

She felt a little guilty: "A friend gave me a new phone case, so I took it off."

Wen Yangzhi stared at her, making Yun Yuwan feel uneasy.

Yun Yuwan was afraid that he would scold her, so she took the initiative and cursed softly:
"Who told you not to give me a new one? I don't want to use the old one anymore. Besides, he even drew a Q-version portrait for me. Look how good he drew it."

He was not angry with her, but just narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at the pattern on the back of the phone case, probing the style of the avatar.

Before he finished looking at her, Yun Yuwan thought about what happened last night and became angry. She hid her phone behind her back and said, "I hate you."

He was not angry. He sneered, raised his eyes slightly, and slowly raised his eyelids, as if he could see through her guilty conscience, and said with a little mockery:
"You slept so well last night, but you hate your brother again today?"

She knew her actions were different from what she said, but she just wanted to piss him off:

"Not only now, I was afraid of you before. I wanted to stay away from you when I saw you."

Wen Yangzhi took his time, picked up the coffee cup and took a sip, and said in a relaxed tone: "So you still remember that you are afraid of me, then why did you sleep with me?"

He suddenly started talking nonsense. She was so scared that she looked around and found that the servants and housekeeper were not there. She breathed a sigh of relief and said confidently:
"I want some excitement."

He took his time: "I have something more exciting, would you like to try it?"

Yun Yuwan felt that he was shameless. They were still arguing last night, and now he was saying such things to her. She felt uncomfortable: "I don't want it."

Wen Yangzhi adjusted his sitting posture, leaning against the back of the chair, looking relaxed as if he was going to clear up the relationship:

"Aren't you afraid of me? You came running to live with me and asked to stay in my room. I never said I wanted to sleep with you."

Yun Yuwan was speechless, and the words were exchanged: "...Then I will move out."

Unexpectedly, he nodded approvingly: "Where are you planning to move to?"

She hugged her chest and turned her face away: "I moved to the first floor. Anyway, I don't want to sleep with you."

Wen Yangzhi was calm and collected, and raised his thick eyebrows slightly: "If you don't want to sleep with me, your hands will still be in my clothes when I wake up in the morning."

Yun Yuwan was stunned, and when he met his calm gaze, he did not avoid it.

Realizing that I might actually touch him to sleep in the morning.

Unconsciously feeling guilty, she put her hands behind her back and said with a red face, "No way!"

He was even more willing to follow suit, "Okay, I wronged you. When I opened my eyes, I didn't see a hand on my lower abdomen."

Yun Yuwan didn't know why her hands were so dishonest. She was so embarrassed that she wanted to find a hole to crawl into: "How could I touch you like that?"

Wen Yangzhi said nothing, just looked at her slowly, his short hair was gently lifted by the wind, and his posture was relaxed.
"No, it's my brother who is making up stories. My brother put his hand inside his clothes while sleeping, and he touched it all night. He was so sleepy that he didn't remember anything and is now accusing you."

Yun Yuwan's face was so red that it looked like blood. She clenched her hands, but she had fallen asleep and didn't know what they felt like.

She secretly felt a little sorry.

She kept her head down. Wen Yangzhi didn't know what she was thinking about. He found it a little funny. What she said was always different from what she thought. He slowly opened his lips and said, "Did you sleep well?"

Yun Yuwan held her paw. If she slept with her hand inside his clothes, it should be comfortable.
"so so."

Wen Yangzhi sneered and repeated it with her, with a long and mocking ending, and murmured: "So-so..."

Yun Yuwan felt so ashamed that she wanted to save face: "You don't even know that you look super fierce. I didn't dare to move when you stared at me before."

Wen Yangzhi didn't bother with her and said kindly: "Then I'll stare at you in bed tonight. I'll move and see if you move."

Yun Yuwan exclaimed, "You are so perverted. You keep making dirty jokes to me."

He took out a tissue and gently wiped the rim of the cup he had just drunk from. His flawless hand, as slender as a jade tube, gently stroked it: "This is called dirty talk. Let's listen to something really dirty tonight."

Yun Yuwan didn't want to listen. She wanted to run away and stop playing with him.

Wen Yangzhi saw through it, and said in a gentle and calm voice: "Help brother to get the tablet down from upstairs."

Yun Yuwan needed to run away and didn't dare look him in the face, for fear that he would bring up the past when she went out to play with Jiang Yingyu last night, and also for fear that he would mention the incident of touching him while he was sleeping.

She started running, and Wen Yangzhi just sat there watching her run.

Yun Yuwan picked up his tablet and suddenly remembered that she had uploaded photos to his tablet. She opened the album, hesitated for a moment, and deleted all the photos uploaded to his tablet.

She looked at the empty photo album and felt sad.

There's a high probability that he doesn't even know that she has uploaded the photos.

He might not like her as much as she thought, so her overly proactive and inappropriate behavior would be a burden to him.

Fortunately, this time her self-conceit was not exposed, so she handled it herself. She ran to the terrace downstairs and gave it to Wen Yangzhi.

Wen Yangzhi took it and looked at the document on the iPad with an expressionless face.

She was discouraged.

He probably didn't even notice that she deleted the photos.

However, Wen Yangzhi, who was sitting opposite her with an expressionless face, opened the photo album and restored all recently deleted photos with one click.

He handed the tablet to her casually: "Put it back for your brother, okay?"

Yun Yuwan complained in her heart that he was treating her as an errand boy.

But she still took it, and after taking a few steps, she clicked on it casually and found that the album was still full of photos.

Yun Yuwan was a little surprised.

She clearly deleted the photo.

She unconsciously said "Huh?"

Wen Yangzhi heard her and asked her slowly, "What?"

She turned off the screen in frustration. Maybe she had only checked the "Select All" checkbox and forgot to delete it, so she didn't delete it. "Nothing."

She didn't want to say more, it would be embarrassing to say it.

Wen Yangzhi picked up his phone. He was holding it and didn't know what he was looking at. He deliberately said lazily, "Please change the screen saver for me."

Yun Yuwan felt upset. She hadn't noticed the photo she sent to her in the first place, and now she wanted to change the photo with her. Her guess turned out to be correct. Fortunately, she knew that she had deleted the photo. "What to change it to?"

His gaze fell on her like the bright moon, his gaze like clear light. He placed his phone directly on the table, pushed it lightly, and showed her the screen.

On the screen was a solo photo of her at graduation. The city forest behind her was shrouded in heavy rain, but she was smiling brightly, as if she was as happy as if it was a sunny day.

"Change it to this one."

She was somewhat surprised, but she did not dare to believe it, fearing that her hopes would be dashed:

“…How did you get this photo?”

Did she post it on her Moments?

Wen Yangzhi looked at her with a hint of ridicule, but also inquiringly: "Nannan passed it to me herself, why do you think I have it?"

Yun Yuwan's hand holding the tablet shrank unconsciously and said awkwardly, "You know."

Wen Yangzhi said calmly, "We are on the same iCloud, and everything that needs to be synchronized will be synchronized. Even if you delete it, I still have it on my phone."

Yun Yuwan lowered her head and whispered, "...Oh."

She didn't even realize this, but it turned out he saw it at the time.

This person has been lost a long time ago.

She held the tablet with a slouched look on her face.

Wen Yangzhi spoke calmly and gently: "Why did you delete it?"

She muttered quietly, "It's just quite redundant. You wouldn't want it anyway."

Wen Yangzhi's voice sounded, decisively and calmly: "I want it, of course I don't want it, I've always wanted your photo, but you never send me a single photo of yourself."

Yun Yuwan was a little surprised. She looked up and found that Wen Yangzhi had been looking at him. The sun was setting, and the sweet-scented osmanthus tree outside the terrace cast a thick and long shade. The shadow in the shape of the gaps between the branches and leaves fell on him. The sunlight leaked through the branches like residual snow and moonlight, splashing all over him. He chuckled under the tree, his heroic eyes still looking at her.

Wen Yangzhi rarely smiled at people like this, and Yun Yuwan felt hot all over when he saw it.

Yun Yuwan couldn't help but smile, but she was too embarrassed to let him see her smile, so she awkwardly forced the corners of her lips down.

Wen Yangzhi said lightly: "Are you happy?"

She still said stubbornly: "Just a little bit."

Wen Yangzhi asked her softly, "Can you sit next to me?"

She wanted to find fault: "Why didn't you come over to me?"

He softened his voice: "Brother's legs hurt and he can't walk."

Yun Yuwan paused and looked at the sunny weather: "…Why do my legs hurt?"

His tone was normal, without any accusation, just matter-of-fact: "I tripped when I was looking for you last night."

Yun Yuwan was surprised: "Where did you go to find me?"

Art museum? She placed a lot of flowers in the museum, blocking the way. Manon almost tripped over them. She said that if the exhibition was not going to start in two days, she would definitely ask someone to move them all away.

Wen Yangzhi looked at her calmly and asked with a smile, "Do you think it is heaven?"

Yun Yuwan met his gaze and felt a little guilty.

She was indeed in heaven with Jiang Yingyu last night and stayed there the whole night.

Now that he knew this, he must be somewhat sad.

Wen Yang put his middle finger and index finger together and hooked it at her.

Yun Yuwan walked over nervously.

Unexpectedly, Wen Yangzhi didn't blame her for this, but just asked her: "If you have any problems in the future, tell me first, instead of thinking about it all the time and presupposing the worst-case scenario. Can you do it?"

Yun Yuwan couldn't help but said, "But I'm afraid of the worst."

His eyes were fixed on her without moving. “There is no worst-case scenario with my brother, because I will always be by your side.”

Yun Yuwan's heart seemed to have finally settled down like a heavy stone falling to the ground, instead of standing on a cliff, being blown by the wind and facing the possibility of falling off the cliff at any time.

But she didn't dare to believe the love words for a moment, and tried to ask: "Then Jiang Yingyu and I went out to play all night, aren't you angry?"

He remained calm and said in a lazy voice: "You also know that this is a betrayal to your brother. Will you do it again in the future?"

She shook her head: "But he is my friend."

Wen Yangzhi said succinctly: "Others may be friends, but Jiang Yingyu cannot."

Yun Yuwan was puzzled: "Why?"

Wen Yangzhi said slowly: "At the banquet last night, there were so many people flattering Mrs. Jiang, saying that the Jiang family was about to have good things happen, and Mrs. Jiang agreed to all of this, and even told me that the two families were destined to be together."

Mrs. Jiang always likes to take advantage of others.

Yun Yuwan didn't expect this to happen: "What should I do then?"

Wen Yangzhi remained calm and even made her laugh: "What can I do? Jiang Jianqing explained to the guests until midnight that you and Jiang Yingyu are friends and you have a boyfriend."

She breathed a sigh of relief and said confidently: "They are indeed friends."

He just reminded: "You can be friends, but don't let him like you."

Yun Yuwan realized that he had not misunderstood, and quickly said, "No, he is a non-marriageist. Our relationship is purely comradeship. He also stood me up on a blind date before."

(End of this chapter)