Chapter 48 - Do You Like Me? (2/2)

“Then…I’m not going back to Daliang Mountain?” Du Xiaoxian blinked her eyes and asked.

“No.” Gu Nianbin answered. “If you miss your dad, I’ll have someone bring him here, okay?”

A trace of panic flashed through Du Xiaoxian’s eyes, she shook her head. “Dad won’t come. He said that people of the Daliang Mountain can never leave there.”

“Alright. Then we can go back to see him sometime, okay?”

Du Xiaoxian lowered her head and nodded gently as an answer after a short while.

“Are you hungry? I’ll cook noodles for you.” Gu Nianbin tucked her hair behind her ears and took the opportunity to kiss her earlobe again.

Du Xiaoxian twitched shyly. Her ears turned red completely and she whispered, “I’m not hungry. If you are, I’ll cook something.”

“No, you stay right here. I’ll go and call you when I’m done.” Gu Nianbin put her on the bed and kissed her on the face again when getting up. Her face was as tender as tofu and made his mouth linger on it.

Du Xiaoxian won’t agree. She jumped out of bed and rushed out to the kitchen. How could she let the young master wait upon her? She was the one whose job was to wait upon others.

Gu Nianbin shook his head. He smiled bitterly and hurriedly followed her. Du Xiaoxian had never worked in the kitchen since she came to the Gu mansion. Besides, his kitchen had more electronic cooking utensil than the mansion’s, so there were probably many items that she didn’t know how to use.

As expected, when they arrived at the kitchen, Du Xiaoxian looked at the clean and shiny counter and asked, “Sir, where is the pot?”

Gu Nianbin taught her to press the green button on the side of the kitchen cabinet. The door rotated open. There were a total of three floors from top to bottom, with pots of varying sizes. Du Xiaoxian looked at the pots seriously and pointed at one of them. “Can I use this?”

“Yes, take whichever you like.”

Du Xiaoxian took out the pot and wanted to wash it before using. However, she couldn’t figure out how to open the water tap. Gu Nianbin reached out and lightly tapped on the counter. Water started running. Du Xiaoxian opened her mouth wide in surprise. “Young master, you even know how to perform magic tricks?”

Gu Nianbin pointed to a small touch screen on the counter and showed her how to use it. It could control the water tap, adjust the temperature and water flow. “You will live here from now on, so you have to learn to use them. Sometimes when I’m not around, you can cook something for yourself.”

Du Xiaoxian raised her face and asked, “I’ll live here in the future?”

“Yes. Come live with me, okay?”

Du Xiaoxian lowered her eyes shyly and nodded after a while. Her face had been flushing all the time and her eyes were blurry with shyness. Gu Nianbin loved her so much that he pulled her into his arms and kissed her again. He became addicted to her after a single taste. He wished he could hold her in his arms and kiss her all along.

After kissing for quite a while, they still hadn’t start cooking the noodles. Gu Nianbin felt that it would probably take much more time to cook if they both stayed in the kitchen. Although Du Xiaoxian said that she was not hungry, he wouldn’t believe her. How could she not be hungry? It was already this late, he himself was even a little hungry, not to mention his little girl. After a lot of persuasion, he finally chased Du Xiaoxian out of the kitchen. He quickly started boiling the noodles, minced a small piece of beef and put it into the pot as well. Finally he added some chopped scallion on top to finish a pot of beef noodles that smelled so good. It was simple but tasted very good.

Watching his little girl eat with relish with her oily mouth, Gu Nianbin let out a sigh of satisfaction. He raised his neck and drank all the soup in his bowl.

Du Xiaoxian imitated him and drank up the noodle soup as well. She even smacked her mouth as if she didn’t get enough of it. “The noodles you cooked are really delicious.”

Gu Nianbin looked at her and smiled. Suddenly, he added evilly, “Actually, I taste better. Do you want to have a try?”

Du Xiaoxian hesitated and looked at him with a puzzled expression. He was flirting with her, but unfortunately, the little girl was too naive and simple to understand it.

Gu Nianbin raised his eyebrows and smiled while looking at her silly face. It was good that she didn’t understand. He didn’t want to ruin her naivety so quickly.

Finishing the noodles, Gu Nianbin took her to stand on the balcony for a while. The early morning wind was a little cool. He held Du Xiaoxian tightly in his arms and looked at the stars in the sky blankly. When he left the Gu mansion, he didn’t know that things would turn out like this. Originally, he only wanted to get Du Xiaoxian back, keep her in the Gu mansion and continue sending her to school. However, the moment he saw her, he knew that Shao Boqing was right. He was very much devoted to Du Xiaoxian, indeed.

He finally got rid of all the confusion and hesitation. The emotions that he had been intentionally suppressing were so overwhelming that it had drowned his rationality. Everything was telling him clearly that he liked that little girl called Du Xiaoxian very much. Whether they were from the same world or not, he wanted her to be with him for the rest of his life. He wouldn’t be separated from her anymore.