Ye Moxuan stared intently at her as her eyes moved about frantically—unsure of where to look. She was too embarrassed to look straight at him after she was caught in that situation. He actually asked if I was a pervert? She wanted to bury her face in her hands and cry. Ye Moxuan thought of her as a pervert now. Lifting her eyes, she looked at him with a pitiful gaze. “I-I didn’t do that on purpose. It was an accident.”
Her pitiful gaze made her beautiful, placid eyes look more delicate to him. Duanmu Xue had given him that same look before, but it only made him agitated, wishing that she would stay further away from him.
He wondered, Do all women like to do this? Do they think that they are cute? Do they think they can get a man to pity them with just this one look? But that moment proved that it depended on who the woman was. For example, Han Muzi, who was standing in front of him. He suddenly thought she looked rather… cute.
He leaned his chest down at her on impulse. Surrounded by his masculinity, she instinctively raised her hands in front of herself. “W-What are you doing?”
“Remember when I asked you if I was the reason you joined the company but you kept denying it?” He narrowed his eyes and reached out to pinch a strand of hair away from the side of her cheek. “You’ve been caught red-handed now.”
She looked at him at that proximity with a dazed expression and enlarged eyes.
“You hid my coat here, and even—”
He did not have the chance to finish his sentence before she reached up to cover his mouth out of embarrassment. “That’s enough! Stop talking about it!” This is so humiliating! I did not think something like this would ever happen!
On the other hand, the moment she touched his lips, he felt his whole body electrify and stiffen on the spot.
However, she was only focused on the incident that occurred earlier so she did not pay any attention to his reaction after she covered his mouth. She only pulled her hands back quickly after she noticed that he had stopped talking. She said angrily, “I told you it was an accident, so stop humiliating me. Just go wait outside. I’ll get the coat ready and bring it to you.” Without waiting for his answer, she started pushing him out of the room. Then, she slammed the door shut with a bang and locked it.
He took a few steps back before regaining his balance and stared blankly at the closed door. After a moment, he subconsciously reached up to touch his lips where her hands had been.
As she locked herself in the room, her whole face felt hot. She did not have to look in the mirror to know that she was blushing. How did I not think of it? That was her first thought. I should’ve closed the door as soon as I came in and not let him see that. She whimpered in silence.
But the more unexpected event was that he had gone back on his words. He clearly told her he did not want the coat anymore when they were at the company the other day. But now he was at her house, asking for it back. Isn’t he the perverted one?
Regardless, she did not want to stall any longer. She quickly ran over to her closet and opened it, cringing as she saw her red brassiere on top of the coat. Grabbing it, she flung it into one of the corners of her bed, thereupon she patted down the suit although it was not dirty. After that, she brought the coat down from the closet and made her way toward the door.
She took a deep breath, then opened the door again. Surprisingly, Ye Moxuan was still standing there, looking at her coldly. Although she felt awkward, she bit the bullet and walked forward. “Here… the coat you wanted.”
He looked down at the coat in her hands but had no intention of retrieving it. She looked at his expression cautiously. Is he disgusted by it?
“Don’t worry. My bra is clean so the coat is not dirty.” As she said that, she figured it would be weird if he still wanted the coat back after what he witnessed. As she thought about this, she asked, “Should I… send it to get dry-cleaned again?”
He looked up and shot her a cold look of objection while reaching for the coat.
She became reluctant as the coat was about to be taken away from her, and bit her bottom lip. “I remember telling you last time that I would return it after I got it cleaned, but you said you didn’t want it back anymore because you’re a germaphobe.”
His hand stopped moving and he stared at her with a threatening and ominous gaze.
Biting her bottom lip, she was still unwilling. “Could I have heard it wrongly?”
He snickered. I give her an inch and she’s taking a mile. “I thought about it and this coat is just too expensive to give to you even if I didn’t want it anymore.” He raised his eyebrows. “Besides, if I leave it here with you, who knows what other… bizarre things you would do to it?” He added emphasis on those last few words and managed to watch her cheeks and ears go red again.
She countered, “Who would think of doing those things to your coat? I told you what happened earlier was an accident.”
Upon hearing that, he snatched the coat back and said simply, “Who knows if it was an accident or not?”
“Hey!” She fumed with anger. She wanted to recompose herself but it was all water under the bridge now. Seeing the coat in his hands, she truly felt a sense of reluctance. But she quickly remembered. “Did you come here today just to take the coat back?”
He shot her a sidelong glance. “Did you think I came to see you?”
She was dumbfounded. Indeed, she did assume that he was there to see her but as it turned out, he only was only there for the coat.
“It’s very expensive,” he said suddenly, as though he was emphasizing it again—afraid that she was unconvinced. No matter what, he was not going to let her know that he had driven to her place subconsciously.
At that moment, a WeChat message notification sounded from her phone. She took her phone out to look and smiled.
He was still holding the coat in his hands. However, he frowned as he saw a sudden smile on her face. “Who is it?” Could it be that big-mouthed George?
As she heard that, she quickly put her phone away and looked at him. “Um… it’s getting late. Do you… want to stay for dinner?”
