Chapter 28 - 28. Sleep with me...... (1/2)

As he saw her walk back just like that, giving no reaction whatsoever, as if, she didn't even take the kiss to heart, as if, she had perfect control over her feelings, as if, she was fine being alone and thought of his kiss as his usual gesture of 'skinship', Qin ZiXuan could practically hear warning bells ringing inside his head.

He knew something was not right but didn't know what?

He slept for about 3 hours, right?

Why did the world seem so different?

Alternate universe? Transmigration?

Leaving the jokes aside, he was really dumbstruck.

Just what happened in the 3 hours he had slept?!!

But he didn't act outright or on impulse, he too was battle-hardened and didn't make a fuss, he decided to observe her first and then decide on the strategy.

Lunch today was very light...

Steaming hot rice, sweet and sour chicken, a vegetable stir fry and a bowl of warm soup with lots of black pepper and ginger.

His hate for greens were all out, they were in both the chicken dish and stir fry.. '...' but he persisted.

Because he didn't want to press a wrong switch and make the situation worse, he zipped his mouth and in the least, tasted everything out without making his usual scrunched face.

Meilin, at a rare moment, also didn't force him to eat peppers but lightly asked him to drink the soup, that it was good for his stomach so, he should drink it.

'Worried about my stomach, well, no problem there.... but she didn't make a fuss about the greens, she didn't force me to get everything down...Weird...definitely weird.'

From his years of experience and knowing her, he concluded that she was acting like she was making some 'compensations' by not forcing him to do something that he didn't like..but for what? He was stuck.

Just like that, the lunch ended without them talking much, it was very much like the usual them just that he could feel the type of coldness, he didn't like, from Meilin.

She was like, a part of her soul, an important one, was not there; he didn't like this feeling one bit.

While washing the dishes he couldn't take it anymore and finally asked, ”Linlin, what happened?”

”Eh?...” she froze for a microsecond, which he noticed since he was concentrating his everything on her.

She continued washing the dishes, in a way she evaded his look and said, ”nothing...”

Just that slight movement and he felt a pang...

He took a big step towards her, startling her in the process and then forced her around towards him, he then bent down to her eye length to look at her, straight in the eyes and asked again, ”Linlin?”

Qin Meilin had a startled expression but she again evaded his eyes.

This time, her bangs hooded her eyes as she drooped her head down trying to shrink her existence, she had a very low self-esteem when it came to him.

She didn't know that she was his most precious existence and always acted in accords to her mindset, she thought that she didn't deserve him and so even a small mistake on her part felt like a sin to her.

”Lin-”

”..qi”

”eh?”

”XuanXuan, dubuqi....” her voice cracked.

”Linlin.....what happened?”, he took her into his embrace immediately after hearing that voice.

He somehow knew the face she must have right now and he didn't want to look at it.

No, it's not a crying face.

Even though her voice cracked he knew, she wasn't crying.

From the time he knew her, she was never the type to cry but that didn't mean she never cried before but after that incident from 12 years ago, he never saw her cry again.

6 months after that incident, she was very close to crying but the tears never fell down and after that, it was like her lacrimal glands had stopped functioning, as if, all her tears were dried up.

He knew that she needed certain pushes to acknowledge her rightful feelings for him but just like he was needed for her to put on a real smile, he was also her trigger to the most negative parts of her emotions and just as he had guessed, Meilin was not crying...