202 Moving Ou (1/2)

Yu Youhan opened the door and glanced inside still holding the doorknob. He wasn't faking a smile just scrutinizing her with his eyes. Lu Xinyi smiled genuinely, she was really happy to see him and skipped to him.

She held his hand that was on the doorknob and pulled him inside. She gave him a friendly kiss on the cheek like she did all days.

She made him sit on the couch and sat by him still holding his hand. ”How was your day?” Lu Xinyi asked him with a smile as she poured him water with her free hand.

Yu Youhan looked at the paper-covered painting on the other couch then the crumbled and the torn paper messes but didn't comment or ask. Lu Xinyi who was now extending her hand with a glass of water and wasn't interesting in discussing the elephant in the room as yet.

He took the glass from her hand without touching her fingers. All these months he had been nothing but a gentleman with her, not giving her any push. He wanted to give her space and time but now that he thinks about it, maybe he had given her too much space.

He tiredly sighed at once resting against the couch and showing the stress lines on his forehead of his exhaustion to the only woman he had ever been apparent to, he took out his hand from underneath hers and wrapped his warm hand on her cold one and closed his eyes.

”Frustrating and tiring. How was yours?”

Lu Xinyi smile faltered and she extended her free hand to his forehead to massage his forehead to smoothen the stress lines on his forehead, ”It was...interesting.”

Yu Yaouhan caught her hand on his forehead and held it in his big hand and smiled subtly with his eyes still close.

She was one angelic soul but he didn't want her to do things for him, all he needed was for her to listen to him and speak to him, for now

A silence defended upon then and Lu Xinyi felt like bursting in the thick silence. She licked her lips and looked at her hands that were in his hands. His hold wasn't soft but not hard, just firm.

It was now or never.

”I am going to move out.” She quietly drawled. Her eyes cast downward, she didn't know how to face him.

Yu Youhan eyes opened and his head snapped to her in shock. He sat up straighter and looked at her for seconds waiting for the punch line which never came.

Yu Youhan looked at her in disbelief after that, then shook his head, ”No! You aren't going anywhere! Your brakes were trampled when you crashed that night on my property! You were f*cking drugged! You are not safe, just stay with me!”

Lu Xinyi winced hearing the fact for what felt like a hundred times.

She took a deep breath, to control her nerves, without looking up she said in a low voice, ”That's no...big news. It happens in upper society all the time and no one knows it better than you.”

His jaw hardened and he snarled, ”It would be no big news if it was Lei Xinyi! She plays dirty and gets played dirty but... someone is trying to kill you!”

She licked her lower lip, pulled her hands from his, he didn't stop her to and murmured, ”My family will keep me safe.”

”But not like I would! I have all the resources you need to live any life you want to live!”

She couldn't tell him the reason, why she was leaving because she knew he wouldn't understand so told him why she couldn't stay.

Lu Xinyi pursed her lips, there was no subtle way she could say it, she winced, ”Why don't you understand?! You are my fiance's cousin! It's not appropriate to stay in your Mansion with you! People will make it a scandal!”