Chapter 130 - Kiss Of Seduction (1/2)
Later, Darren dropped her at the door and was about to turn when she said, ”You can come inside. I'll make some dinner for us. Besides, Nora is not home and if you didn't come, I won't bother making a meal for myself.”
Darren knew she meant what she said and after careful consideration, he entered her apartment. Xiu went off to change into some casual clothes before she came back and entered the kitchen. Darren sat at the dining table looking at her.
”Where's Nora?” asked Darren as an ice-breaker.
”Oh, her parents are back from their business trip. So... she went to drop off Jackie.”
”Do you want me to help you with anything?” Darren got up from the chair.
”Stop! Don't move!” Darren stopped in his steps as she added, ”I mean, the best help you can do is staying right where you are. If you came any closer, I'll be distracted and that won't be helping me in any way.”
”Oh-Okay!” he said uncertainly and sat back down. He picked up the food magazine on the table and flipped through the pages. ”Who reads this?”
”I do,” replied Xiu and went on, ”Nora only likes fitness magazines. And I can only read food magazines.”
”Hmm...” Darren hummed in reply before asking, ”So, what's your favorite place in the world?”
Xiu stopped cutting the vegetable as she said, ”Can I say my bed?”
”No,” replied Darren making her scowl in disappointment.
”Fine, if not my bed then... I guess my favorite place would be... Anywhere I can call home.” Her nonchalant expression and her deep words really were contradictory. ”Do you have a favorite quote?” This time, she asked him.
”Actually, I have two favorite quotes,” replied Darren and continued, ”The first one is by Robert Brault, 'What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.'”
Xiu bobbed her head up and down slowly as she said, ”And the second one?”
”The second one is by Edgar Allan Poe, 'We loved with a love that was more than love.' This one seems really complicated at first but in reality, this is the simplest quote I've learned in my life.” Taking a brief pause, he asked, ”What about your favorite quote?”
Xiu placed the pan on the stove and said, ”My favorite quote is by Linus Torvalds... It goes something like, 'I love making friends... it's people I can't stand.'”
Darren was surprised to hear that and said, ”No wonder, you push people away with your words.”
”What can I do? I just can't stand them,” Xiu shrugged her shoulders innocently. ”I think people should come with a 30-second teaser. So that it makes it easy for me to decide whether I want to waste my time and effort on them or not.”
Darren had no response for her. ”Alright, so what's the weirdest thing you have ever done?”
Xiu looked at his face and bit her bottom lip before replying, ”I spent 48 hours in a cemetery staring at a tombstone.”
”Whose tombstone?” Darren's response was nothing like what she had anticipated. He didn't seem freaked out at all. Why would he? He spent much longer staring at Chen Xiu's tombstone. He had no right to judge her for something he had done himself.