Chapter 423 - Will You Let Me? (1/2)

Han Jian Yu grabbed her hand before she could walk away from him, ''Did I ask you to leave?”

''Did I ask for your permission?” Mia replied, without turning around to look at him.

''Why are you acting like this?” Han Jian Yu pursed his lips. From how calm Yu Mei and Jun Zixuan were, it was apparent that they were aware of this.

Earlier when everyone was shocked by Mia's transformation, he had also turned to look in that direction and he noticed his sister taking Mia's name. Her voice was barely above a whisper but he could read her lips.

And later when he followed after her inside the woods, maybe it is because of this. This is what compelled him to come after her.

In his mind, he had labelled it as a bizarre thought and put it aside, not overthinking about it. But this kept repeating in his head again and again. Whenever he looked into the pair of hazel eyes, that crimson birthmark on the baby fox's forehead, or be it the striking silver fur…. It reminded him of the woman who was standing right in front of him at the moment.

In the end, it was him who was kept in dark about everything and it was him who was lied to then what right did she have to talk to him in that distant tone? When did he ever wrong her for her to act that way around him?

Mia turned around to look at him, ''I just want to leave, can't I? I need your permission for that?'' She clenched and unclenched her fist inside the long sleeves of the dress she was wearing.

Han Jian Yu let go of her hand as he quietly glanced at her.

Mia nodded at him before she turned around to leave, ''Ah..'' A gasp escaped her mouth when an arm wrapped around her waist and her back crashed against a muscular chest.

Han Jian Yu wrapped the other arm around her waist as he hugged her from the back, placing his chin on her shoulder, ''You already left me once because you wanted to. I didn't stop you back then,'' he closed his eyes as he spoke to her, ''It should be me throwing you out of my sight for being kept in dark all this time but I can't bear to… I should be the one accusing you of lying to me since the very beginning but here I am, hugging you like this trying to keep you closer to me while you want to leave.''

''Ji-''

''Shhh… Don't speak,'' Han Jian Yu pressed his chin a bit towards the nook of her neck while he nuzzled his nose in her hair, right behind her ear, ''You shocked me today, do you know that?''

''I do.''

''I never expected that I will discover something like this, so unbelievable and unreal…'' he paused for a moment before adding, ''Everyone fears the unknown, people will stay away from what they don't know about. Am I right?''

''You are,'' Mia replied.