freenovelworld Chapter 108 Normal Reaction
Chapter 108 Normal Reaction
Xie Yan returned late at night.
The courtyard was silent; even Heshan, who usually stayed up late, had turned off his lights.
Xie Yan pondered for a while, then decided to let Xuan Feng go and tentatively pushed open Chu Ling's door.
But to his surprise, the door wasn't locked, and it opened with a gentle push.
Chu Ling wasn't asleep either?
Xie Yan was taken aback and walked into the house with some confusion.
The room was dark, with no lights on, and you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. Only a sliver of moonlight shone through the window.
Xie Yan stopped and stood still, listening intently. She could faintly hear the calm breathing coming from inside the room.
It seems that he has fallen asleep.
Hearing the faint breathing, Xie Yan secretly breathed a sigh of relief for some reason.
But then he thought about it again and realized that his act of quietly letting out a sigh of relief was quite inexplicable.
Chu Ling hasn't woken up, so why is he relieved?
Xie Yan silently berated herself as she removed her mask and gently placed it on the table.
He took off his outer clothes and tiptoed into the inner room. Then he stood by the bed and, using the faint moonlight coming in from the window, looked down at Chu Ling lying on the bed.
Even though he was the only one sleeping in the bed at the moment, Chu Ling still left a space inside, as if it were reserved specifically for Xie Yan.
Chu Ling seemed to be sleeping soundly; even a master like him didn't disturb him when someone walked to his bedside.
Xie Yan and Chu Ling slept in the same bed for several days. Xie Yan always went to bed early and got up late, so she never saw Chu Ling's sleeping face.
Standing by the bedside now, in the dim moonlight that made it almost impossible to see anything, he realized—
Chu Ling's sleeping face seemed to have lost some of the sharpness that usually appeared during the day, and instead appeared more gentle and serene.
After watching for a while, Xie Yan pursed her lips and suddenly felt an inexplicable impulse.
He bent down and reached out his hand, gently and little by little, approaching Chu Ling's face.
That hand did not hesitate for a moment.
Her fingertips brushed against Chu Ling's profile, then went straight towards his temple.
I plucked a hair that was half black and half white.
Chu Ling: "..."
Xie Yan carefully examined the white hair and sighed, "It seems being a leader isn't easy; you already have white hair at such a young age."
Then, with a serious expression, he frowned and touched his chin, correcting himself, "No, we're all almost thirty, so we shouldn't be considered young anymore."
Chu Ling: "..."
After amusing herself for a while, Xie Yan let go of the white hair and carefully bent down to step over Chu Ling and crawl inside.
But just as he bent down, a hand suddenly reached out from below, grabbed his waist, and pulled him down with a force!
Caught off guard, Xie Yan lost control and lunged straight at Chu Ling!
"boom!"
With a muffled thud, Xie Yan's nose slammed hard against Chu Ling's shoulder, and the pain made his eyes well up with tears.
Xie Yan was startled and instinctively tried to break free. But the next moment, he met Chu Ling's eyes, which were still very bright in the darkness.
Chu Ling's voice rang in my ears, slightly hoarse and with a hint of mockery, "What? Finally couldn't control yourself and came to launch a night attack on me?"
Feeling the iron clamp tightly gripping his waist, Xie Yan was speechless. In this situation, who was attacking whom?
"...Then go and report it to the authorities."
Chu Ling chuckled and applied more force, pressing the man down so that his upper body was pressed against hers.
With this press, Xie Yan's entire cheek was pressed against Chu Ling's chest.
Then the person beneath him lowered his head, gently rubbed his chin against the top of his head, and whispered, "No, I've thought about it carefully. Your insistence on sleeping with me might just be because you're after my good looks."
"In order to prevent you from harming others, I will reluctantly allow you to sleep here."
Xie Yan: "..."
He truly hadn't expected that Chu Ling's skin could be so thick, almost on par with his own.
Chu Ling chuckled again, gently sniffed Xie Yan's head, and then asked again, "What did you do tonight?"
As he spoke, he gently stroked Xie Yan's waist a few times with his hand. Through the thin inner garment, he could clearly feel the delicate skin under his palm and her slender waist.
The sensation under his palm made Chu Ling's eyes darken even more.
Xie Yan felt a ticklish sensation on her waist from his touch and couldn't help but struggle a few times, but the hand on her waist didn't move at all, and even seemed to be moving higher and higher.
Just as he was about to grab that restless hand, Chu Ling spoke again, "There's the scent of flowers again. It's so late, what do you have to talk to Dongfang Su about that makes you only come back now?"
His tone was like that of a wife who had caught her husband coming home late; it was calm and seemingly peaceful, yet it also carried a hint of inexplicable resentment.
Xie Yan was so startled by his tone that she got goosebumps all over.
With some difficulty, he freed his other hand, braced himself on the bed, and sat up slightly. He took a deep breath and said, "Your Highness, can we talk properly?"
Chu Ling raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything. However, the hand on his waist continued to move around restlessly and even gave him a light squeeze.
"Aren't we talking properly now? Hmm?"
As Chu Ling spoke, his hands continued to move.
Xie Yan: ...Is this what you call speaking properly?
He realized that when the two of them were flirting, he really couldn't outdo Chu Ling.
Xie Yan sighed, and just as she was about to speak, she suddenly felt that something was not quite right.
He shifted his body, paused for a moment, then looked at Chu Ling with a slightly stiff expression and asked dryly, "May I ask, Your Highness... what is that thing poking me down here?"
Upon hearing this, Chu Ling's expression remained unchanged, and his gaze did not waver in the slightest. He lowered his head, looked into Xie Yan's eyes, and slowly asked, "What did you say?"
As he spoke, he deliberately shifted his waist.
Xie Yan's face instantly darkened. He gritted his teeth and spat out a sentence, one word at a time, "Your Highness, are you staying up all night just waiting for me to come back and act like a hooligan?"
Chu Ling chuckled softly, and seeing Xie Yan's expression, replied with considerable pleasure, "You're mistaken. I did fall asleep and then woke up."
Xie Yan: "...So?"
Chu Ling said in a serious tone: "So this is a normal reaction for men when they wake up."
Xie Yan: ...We're all men, do you think I'm stupid?