allonlinenovel Chapter 285 Accident
Chapter 285 Accident
Chapter 285 Accident
"looking for me?"
Yin Xihui picked up the teacup in his hand and looked at the stiff-faced boy opposite him with a smile.
Mo Hanyu suddenly regretted coming to him.
Mainly because among the group of people he came into contact with, Yin Xihui was the one who was most familiar with emotions, otherwise he would not have been so adept at comforting people as a child.
But likewise, as time went by, Yin Xihui was no longer the naive child he once was, not to mention that he had never been innocent, but his temperament seemed to have become even worse over the years.
Yin Xihui always seems to be wearing a mask when facing people now, and only rarely does he take it off to take a breath.
He had talked about this with Yin Xihui, but Yin Xihui didn't think so.
Yin Xihui felt that he got along very easily and happily with them, and had no hidden intentions, he just acted according to his thoughts.
Mo Hanyu hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Do you have someone you like?"
Yin Xihui paused, raised his eyelids, and a hint of inquiry and doubt flashed in his eyes: "Why do you ask?"
"...I have a friend who blushes, his heart beats faster, and his breathing becomes rapid every time he thinks of someone...Do you think he is attracted to that person?"
Yin Xihui's mind was as clear as a mirror: "Is the friend you are talking about you yourself?"
Mo Hanyu: ...
Mo Hanyu's face was stiff: "Don't worry about this."
"If you're sure there's nothing wrong with the heart... maybe it is." A smile flashed across Yin Xihui's eyes. He took a sip of tea and replied slowly.
……
"Qin, Qin Xiao, what do you want from me?" Qiu Puyue sat in the pavilion, looking at the young man in front of her with a stiff smile.
The pavilion can only accommodate three people. Now there is no one else except Qin Xiao and Qiu Puyue. The only thing around is a rushing waterfall not far away.
"Would you like something to eat?" Qin Xiao gave her a handful of candy.
“Thank you…” Qiu Puryue took it and held the candy in her mouth. Her nervous heart seemed to gradually ease.
"During the days since I came out of seclusion, Tian Miao and the others have come to see me, but you haven't. So I wonder if something happened to you." Qin Xiao made up an excuse, then took out the brewed tea and drank a cup each.
The warm tea rolled down her throat and warmed her cold stomach. Qiu Puryue's face warmed up a little and she slowly relaxed.
"I'm sorry...something happened recently." Qiu Puryue said apologetically, "I was emotionally unstable and thinking too much, so I didn't go to find you."
Qin Xiao waved his hand: "It's no big deal."
As he said this, he seemed to ask casually.
"What happened? You seem uneasy."
Qin Xiao thought of what Yin Xihui had said to him. Something "accident" had happened? What kind of accident?
When Qiu Purue heard him say this, her face turned pale and her fingers holding the teacup twisted together, showing some struggle.
Qin Xiao was not in a hurry and waited quietly for her answer.
"Yes...something unexpected happened on the day of the Love Festival."
This matter was too difficult to talk about, but she had been holding it in for a long time and had no one to confide in... Qiu Puryue took a few deep breaths and mustered up the courage to look at Qin Xiao.
"I'm telling you, can you... not tell anyone else?"
Qin Xiao paused, the rim of the cup fell to his lips, he looked at her thoughtfully, and nodded gently after a long time: "Okay."
It seems that the matter is quite serious.
Since Qin Xiao said so, Qiu Purue believed him. After all, they had known each other for so many years, so she knew what kind of person Qin Xiao was.
"That's right, I..." Qiu Puryue's breathing became rapid, and she lowered her eyes, showing a struggling expression again.
In an instant, my heart became ruthless.
"Yin Xihui and I slept together."
Qin Xiao: ...
Qin Xiao paused at first, then almost spit out a mouthful of water when he realized what she really meant.
Stay calm, stay composed...
Qin Xiao forced himself to suppress his surprised look, his eyelids drooped, and his face showed no fluctuation.
He knew that what Qiu Puyue needed right now was someone with a stable mood to talk to, so he calmed himself down and looked up at her.
"you mean--?"
"...Yes." Qiu Puryue's face was pale, and she felt like she had lost all hope in life. "It was on the day of the Love Festival."
"Are you of age?"
"I did succeed, but he... I don't know." Even though Qiu Purue said this, her mood was still low, but fortunately Qin Xiao's reaction made her feel at ease.
Qin Xiao's face was calm, and he did not show any expression that would make her feel uncomfortable or uneasy.
Qiu Puyue secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
She was really afraid of seeing disgust or surprise from Qin Xiao.
"What happened that day?"
Qin Xiao's tone was flat, as if he was just asking a very ordinary question.
"It was that day, we both drank..." Qiu Puyue got a headache when she talked about this, and forced herself to tell Qin Xiao what happened that day.
It was her first time drinking and she had no idea of her alcohol tolerance. In addition, the wine Yin Xihui brought was sweet, not at all spicy as she had imagined, and had a faint floral scent.
Qiu Puryue relaxed her guard. Even though Yin Xihui told her that this wine was intoxicating, she didn't take it seriously. She drank more than ten cups in a row and still felt that she hadn't drunk enough. Then...
At one moment, he lost consciousness.
Qiu Puryue held her forehead with her hand. She had no recollection of how things started, but she remembered exactly what happened.
That hot and wet lingering, the gentle and sweet kiss...
Qiu Puryue felt like she was about to burn.
Qin Xiao looked at her, whose whole body was red, and silently shifted his gaze.
"So, why do you drink?"
Qin Xiao originally thought that Yin Xihui was the one in charge, but he didn't expect Qiu Puyue to accept it.
"Because I just became an adult...my family doesn't care about anything, so I feel a little sad." Qiu Puryue lowered her eyes, feeling lost. "Although I knew it a long time ago, I still feel a little uncomfortable."
"Then I thought of the phrase 'drinking to drown sorrows', and thought of having a couple of drinks myself. I had never tried it before, and was curious about what it tasted like, so I wanted to try it. But I was also afraid that I might pass out after just a few drinks, or get drunk and act crazy, so I asked Yin Xihui to accompany me. And the result was..."
Qiu Puyue held her forehead with her hands, feeling hopeless: "I don't even dare to see him now."
Qin Xiao: ...
"Did he say anything after it happened?"
This is exactly the key to Qiu Puryue's avoidance.
"No."
Yin Xihui put on his clothes slowly and carefully, as if nothing had happened, to cover up the traces of ambiguity on his body. After taking care of everything, he slowly looked at her...
This made Qiu Puyue, who was already ashamed, even more embarrassed.
If Yin Xihui had had a slightly different reaction at that time, she would not have done so.
She understood shame, confusion, joy, shock…even anger and insults.
But he didn't.
Nothing at all.
He accepted it all so calmly and peacefully. There was not a ripple in his dark and deep eyes, and even the look in his eyes when he looked at her was so silent.
During that quiet time, the suffocating atmosphere was like a slap in her face. She was so ashamed that she didn't even dare to look Yin Xihui in the eye, let alone ask him what he thought.
"Why don't you go ask him?"
Qin Xiao suggested that he always felt that the stalemate between the two was not a good thing. Moreover, when he went to find Yin Xihui before, Yin Xihui was just a little annoyed about the accident, and did not have any disgust or rejection.
“No, I…” Qiu Puryue avoided her gaze and shrank back, not daring to move forward.
She was afraid of bringing humiliation upon herself.
She was afraid that when she mustered up the courage to ask, she would get a response that was so bland as to be humiliating.
And think about it carefully, no matter what, Yin Xihui is also a prince, she is not that pretty, if he wants to find someone prettier than her, there are plenty of them. Not only is there a huge difference in status, but also in identity.
She practices blood magic, and is a corpse binder who hides herself from the public; whereas he reached the Profound Realm in his teens through practice alone, and such talent is enough to defeat 80% of Qi practitioners.
As a result, Qiu Puryue always felt inexplicably inferior every time she met Yin Xihui, even though they seemed to have a close relationship, and even though Yin Xihui never put on airs in front of her...
She sometimes wondered whether this was due to her inferiority complex or rationality and prudence.
It should be the former, the latter simply cannot do such a heaven-defying thing.
Qiu Puyue thought dejectedly.