40 Feelings (1/2)

Li Rong watched as princess bid him and Yu Yan good night and left with Zixi. He didn't want to listen or speak to anybody right now so didn't reply to any of Yu Yan's words and just kept himself to drinking from the bottle and try to forget everything else.

Yu Yan hadn't thought that Li Rong would drink to such an extent as to almost pass out before even leaving the restaurant. She helped him into the shotgun seat and drove the car to his apartment that was a few blocks away from the Li residence. Looking at his side profile Yu Yan had the sudden desire to get hold of this person and make him hers.

”Stop the car, stop the car.” Even though Li Rong was slurring his words, she understood them from his action of having dry heaves. She immediately stopped the car and watched him as he emptied everything he had drank on to the side road.

”I am drunk. Huh! ”

Then Li Rong again closed his eyes and rested with his head thrown at an angle. He looked so different from his usual razor - sharp, keen - edged personality. She watched him for a few moments as if in a trance and touched the side of his face.

”Li Rong, I started liking you a long time ago.”

She gave him a little peck on the lips. She had thought that he was sleeping or more on the side of semi - concious but as soon as she touched his lips, it was as if he was awake. He suddenly pulled her towards him, his fingers touched her hair and then her neck. He removed her hair away from her neck and started kissing her skin from there and went upto her ears but it didn't make it that far when he softly whispered ”princess”.

It is as if a current had passed through her and left her shocked. She couldn't move for the next few moments but Li Rong was far too gone in his drunk state and didn't stop. He tilted his head at an angle and gently bit on the side of her neck, close to her ear. It didn't hurt at the place where he took a bite out of her but her heart was in so much pain that she didn't know what to do. She tried to push him away which somehow brought him back to his senses.

The way he suddenly darted away from her after taking a look at her face was quite telling in itself if the earlier mis - spoken weren't clear enough. His face turned pale in a matter of seconds and he violently flung his head to the other side while clenching and unclenching his fists. A few minutes later, he turned towards her but his eyes don't look at her but were darting around the confined space of the car and he cleared his throat before he spoke.

”Sorry. I am sorry.”

She felt angry, hurt and disappointed.

”Why? What exactly is the reason?” She questioned him.

”Miss Yu, I am sorry. What just happened should never have tranpired in the first place. Just treat it as if it never occurred.”

Yu Yan was even more infuriated with his words.

”Make it seem as if it never happened? If it was your 'precious princess' would you have reacted the same way? Will you be able to act as if nothing happened?”

He looked at her for a second after her words and calmly replied, ”You are overthinking it, Miss Yu.”

”While we were in the restaurant you called me Yanyan, now it's Miss Yu.”

”It was just a way of addressing you, I was calling you that's all. It doesn't mean anything.”