Chapter 387 – Too Nervous! (1/2)

Chapter 387: Too nervous!

“What does Miss want to say?” Li Muyang asked in a soft voice, keeping his head low and concentrating on grinding the ink.

Cui Xiaoxin stared at Li Muyang for a while before she asked, “what should I call you?”

“Miss, whatever you want to call me.” Li Muyang replied. Then after a thought he added, “it's just a name.”

A light smile curved Cui Xiaoxin's lips, saying: “for example, the painting in you hand can be called 'Winter plum blossoms bloom proudly in snow', but it can also be alled 'Proud blossoms bloom in the winter snow', isn't that right?”

Li Muyang raised his head and looked Cui Xiaoxin in the eye, her beautiful eyes, and was then instantly melted by her sweet smile.

“If Miss Xiaoxin likes to, then you can change its name to 'Proud blossoms bloom in the winter snow' painting.”

Cui Xiaoxin sighed gently. “Whether I like it or not is not important as long as you like it, you are the master of this painting. Since you named it 'Winter plum blossoms bloom proudly in snow', then it must have its own meaning.”

Li Muyang looked at Cui Xiaoxin's face that was almost within reach, wrestling with some complicated emotions of his own.

This remark couldn't be any more obvious.

Cui Xiaoxin indeed knew everything. She had indeed saw through his ident.i.ty.

“I——” Li Muyang was hesitant.

He wanted to say something, but there were countless words, that he did not know where to start.

Cui Xiaoxin cast a glance over at Ning Xinhai who was sat in a meditative stance on a boulder dozing off to sleep. She knew that, with his cultivation base, he could possibly even hear their whispers.

“Let's paint.” Cui Xiaoxin saw the troubled look on Li Muyang's face and said softly.

Li Muyang was a little relieved, but a faint disappointment surfaced in his heart. “The ink is ready.”

Cui Xiaoxin s.h.i.+fted her line of sight to the old plum tree, and began to make brush strokes on the canvas.

“If you notice anything wrong with the painting, you must remind me.” Cui Xiaoxin whispered, “just like when I did when I taught you before.”

“Okay.” Li Muyang nodded. Thinking of the time in Jiangnan city, there was a warmth flowing around his body and even his saliva tasted sweet.

Cui Xiaoxin's painting skills were pretty good; it was evident that she had put in painstaking effort in the way of painting.

In the eyes of ordinary people, she could be said to be one found in thousands of people. But in Li Muyang's eyes, or rather, the eyes of the black dragon, there really were many areas that she could improve on.

Li Muyang pointed to a lump of ink, saying: “here the ink can be lighter, leave more white parts, that will help show the corner of a rock and even more able to show the fierceness of the mountain rocks and the scene of the snowy sky.”

Cui Xiaoxin pondered with extreme concentration, then her face suddenly lit up. “Indeed.”

Then she added in a regretful tone of voice, “from what you just said, this painting can not be continued. What you said really is better. But is there a way to salvage this?”

Li Muyang, after a brief thought, reached out his hand.

Cui Xiaoxin was startled for a moment before she stretched out her hand.

Li Muyang gently held Cui Xiaoxin's hand, took the brush and began to apply brush strokes on that huge rock.

Cui Xiaoxin's little hand was soft and smooth like it had no bones.

At the beginning, the back of her hand was cold, but when it was wrapped in Li Muyang's big hand, very quickly the temperature rose and it became warm, and even fine beads of sweat were forming.

Li Muyang did not dare to look Cui Xiaoxin in the eye, and Cui Xiaoxin also avoided Li Muyang's gaze.

Li Muyang could hear his heartbeat, but could also feel that Cui Xiaoxin's heart was pounding forcefully.

He just wanted a blade of leaf, he didn't expect to get the whole forest. He just wanted to Cui Xiaoxin to pa.s.s him the brush, but unexpectedly Cui Xiaoxin stretched out her little hand to him——

Li Muyang had to take her hand or it would be disrespectful to a girl, and it would seem like a kind of insult to the other person's appearance.

Cui Xiaoxin was also very nervous. When she saw Li Muyang reached out his hand, she handed over her hand without thinking.

It was only when Li Muyang took her hand that she reacted, and thought that maybe he just wanted the brush in her hand——

If she pulled her hand back it would only increase the awkwardness, but was it not just as awkward when her hand was held by someone else like that?