Han Muzi was speechless upon hearing that.
She couldn’t help lowering her head to look at him with confusion on her face.
Where did this little fellow learn this? He’s still so young, yet he likes to gossip about adults’ affairs. Just yesterday, I had suspected that Xiao Su might like Yan, but why does Little Bean act like he knows it way earlier than me?
Soon, Little Bean buckled under Han Muzi’s gaze and told her the truth.
“Daddy told me that.”
Little Bean had betrayed his father again.
Han Muzi paused for a moment before asking, “Your Daddy told you about it?”
“Yeah. He told me that. So… Mommy, is it true?”
Han Muzi frowned as she never would have thought that Ye Moxuan would talk gossip with his son. She didn’t know that men were so gossipy as well. Even this…
“Don’t listen to your Daddy’s nonsense. I’ll talk to him about this. Just forget what he has told you. It’s better not to pry into adults’ lives so much, and you better not talk about this in front of Uncle Qing, Aunt Yan, or Mr. Xiao. Otherwise they would feel awkward. Got it?”
“Alright.” Little Bean nodded obediently. “Got it, Mommy.”
Of course, he wouldn’t listen to her.
At that moment, both mother and son went to their rooms with different thoughts in their minds.
…
Yan’s fever had gone down. Apart from feeling a little dizzy and heavy, she didn’t think that there was anything wrong with herself. She didn’t even know that she had a fever; she just thought that her headache was due to the hangover.
Hence, she didn’t think too much about it and rolled up her sleeves to cook in the kitchen.
As Xiao Su entered the kitchen, she was washing rice with her fair hands that were soaked in cold water.
When Xiao Su saw this, he immediately frowned and walked in.
“You have not completely recovered, right? Why are you suddenly doing this?”
His entrance was silent, so Yan was shocked when he suddenly spoke, and she raised her head to look at him.
“Xiao Su?”
She felt quite perplexed as she didn’t expect that Xiao Su would be here. After thinking about his words just now, Yan asked, “Why are you here, and what were you talking about just now? Recovered? When did I fall sick?”
The more she asked, the angrier she became. “Stop jinxing me! Do you wish for me to fall sick? Although you treated me to some food yesterday, don’t think that you can talk nonsense with me.”
Xiao Su remained silent upon hearing that.
When he saw Yan’s reaction, he subconsciously thought that Yan’s fever was so high that she didn’t realize what was going on. He strode to her with his long legs and stretched out his hand to place it on her fair forehead.
His actions took place in one go, and it happened very quickly.
Before Yan could react to that, Xiao Su had already raised his hand. At that instant, she thought that he wanted to hit her. Why does he suddenly become so short-tempered? I was just saying something, yet he now wants to hit me?
However, because she didn’t know what was going on, her actions were delayed as she stood rooted to the ground in a daze.
She didn’t even try to avoid him.
When Xiao Su placed his slightly cold hand on her forehead, Yan was stunned for a few seconds before she returned to her senses.
She raised her head and asked him, “What are you doing?”
Xiao Su didn’t take his hand away as he tried to gauge her temperature.
He had just entered from outdoors, and he didn’t have any breakfast yet as he woke up quite early. So, his hands were quite cold. Feeling the coldness, Yan took two steps back subconsciously and asked, “You want to warm your hands up this way? Come on, you—”
However, before she could finish her sentence, Xiao Su looked like he was dissatisfied with her action of taking a step backward. He directly walked toward her and grabbed her shoulder as he bent to place his forehead onto hers.
Yan widened her eyes and stood there in a daze with her hands still in the bowl of rice.
She looked at Xiao Su who was very close to her. They were breathing close to each other and she could even see the fine hair on his face.
She had known Xiao Su for a long time and had even mistaken that he liked her.
However, after she asked him, Xiao Su had denied it. He really didn’t seem to like her anyway. Since Yan didn’t like him that way, she didn’t put too much attention into it.
But what does he mean by doing this? Why does he suddenly act so intimately?
This was the first time that a man had taken the initiative to be so close to Yan, and she felt shy and nervous. Her eyelashes and lips trembled as she stuttered, “W-W-W-What are you doing?”
Xiao Su didn’t want to do anything except for gauging Yan’s temperature. After making sure that their body temperatures did not have a great difference, he breathed a sigh of relief.
She should be fine by now. Just now, he even thought that her fever was so high that she was confused.
When Xiao Su was going to back away, he suddenly realized that Yan had widened her eyes at him. Xiao Su froze after realizing that he had done such an awkward thing; he hadn’t thought too much about it earlier.
Now that he had returned to his senses, only then did he realize how inappropriate his actions were.
When Yan asked him what he was doing, Xiao Su felt that his ears had turned red in embarrassment, and he stepped away from her immediately.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it.”
Yan widened her eyes. “What do you mean?”
“You had a fever yesterday, so I just wanted to gauge your temperature.”
Gauge my temperature?
“Who are you lying to? If you just want to gauge my temperature, do you need to stand so close to me? Are you trying to take advantage of me?
As Xiao Su retreated, Yan’s nervous feelings became slightly better. He had really scared her just now, as she thought that he wanted to…
She didn’t dare to think about it even further. If not, she would feel too embarrassed.
“No!” Xiao Su denied with a red face. “I wasn’t going to take advantage of you! I just used my hand to gauge your temperature. It’s just that… you avoided it. So, I just…”
“Stop denying it. Even if I stepped back, you can continue using your hand. If that doesn’t work, you can just ask me. You just want to take advantage of me.”
Hearing her answer, Xiao Su’s face and ears blushed red.
Seeing him this way, Yan also felt quite happy. She then narrowed her eyes to get closer to Xiao Su.
“This is the first time that I’ve seen such a shy man. With such a red face, are you thinking of some unsightly scenes?”
At that point, it felt like lightning had struck him.
Xiao Su never thought that Yan would tease him, so his blush deepened.
“Enough. You don’t have to explain anymore. I understand everything.”
What does she understand? Xiao Su really wanted to explain. Actually, he was quite worried that his actions just now would leave Yan with an impression that he was too frivolous.
However, Yan didn’t seem like she would listen to his explanations. After a while, Xiao Su said, “I’m not a frivolous person.”
Yan shrugged nonchalantly. “Okay. Got it.”
Xiao Su was speechless upon hearing that.
Seeing Yan who looked so nonchalant, Xiao Su remembered how she had sobbed for another man the night before. In that instant, he suddenly felt defeated.
Am I too late?
