Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu-Chapter 1265: Questions unasked

After almost an hour of chatting, Liling said, "I will bring some snacks for us! You wait here, okay?"

"No, no," Chunhua quickly said, "Please don’t take the trouble. I should leave."

"No way, no way," she waved her hands in dismissal. "I won’t let you go till you meet Bro! He would be back anytime now~"

Liling hopped away, leaving Chunhua to drag a sigh out of her lips. At first, she didn’t dare to move around the room much. Her heart was already pounding with the fact that she was in her boyfriend’s room before marriage. But soon, curiosity took over and tiny steps moved bit by bit to take a look around.

She studied some picture frames on the wall, making her pause for a moment. Her gaze then drifted down to the table with pictures out of some envelopes scattered upon it quite carelessly. She picked one photo and stared at it long and hard in silence.

Eventually, she walked towards the window and opened it, letting the soft sunshine flow into the room. A beautiful view of the garden graced her eyes as fresh air breezed past her face.

"Hm, hm, who is being naughty in my room~" A pair of arms sneakily embraced her from the back.

Chunhua gasped and her elbow jabbed his chest in shock, strong and hard. Then she turned around.

"I-I am sorry! You sneaked up suddenly like that..."

Hai clutched his chest and coughed, albeit painfully. "G-Good, good, Goddess. I am so proud of you. I don’t have to worry about your safety outside. Your...elbow is very..." he smiled through his sweat, "destructive," he coughed quite violently while also giving her a thumbs up.

"I am so sorry!!"

Filled with guilt, she pulled him closer and gently patted the spot where she had mercilessly hit him while also blowing soft breaths across it to ease some pain.

"Is it better now?" Her brows were creased with worry.

Not hearing any response, she looked up - and the very next moment, Hai’s lips pressed onto hers, gently but longingly. Her heart jumped in her throat and her surroundings occurred to her quite blaringly. She shifted in his arms just a bit wanting to withdraw, but it only made Hai wrap her around him closer and tighter. His tall and sturdy stature leaned over her, pushing her until her back bumped on the wall, yet the long kiss only grew more ardent and impatient. When it looked like she was going out of breath was only when he withdrew.

Chunhua sucked in a mouthful of air, face flushed and red beyond what was even possible to describe anymore.

"We-we-we sh-shouldn’t be d-doing this h-here..." her mind was a panicked mess and cheeks a heated one.

"So it’s fine as long as it’s someplace else?" He smiled.

"..."

"D-Don’t twist my words!"

She glared, but her gaze lost its rebuking flare quickly enough upon sensing a dangerous light engulfing his black orbs. She stood frozen as if she was being gripped by a strange feeling she couldn’t point a finger at.

Hai inched closer, making it almost impossible for her to breathe in that tiny, constricted space between them. He lifted a silky lock of her hair and brought it near his lips.

"Chunhua. I missed you."

Her lashes fluttered with a tremor, a bitter sting piercing her chest. She had missed him too. A lot.

He let her hair slip past his fingers and dropped his head to her neck, placing a firm kiss on the nape. A jolt awakened her senses while also making them go haywire all at once. Her palms pressed back on his chest as if trying to push him away, but her tiny force amounted to nothing.

"It should be criminal to push me away when you came here all on your own."

Her face reddened with consciousness regarding her actions.

I knew it was a bad idea to come here...W-Was it too shameless and forward?

"Why did you come here, Chunhua?" His face was now on level with hers, with a slight tilt to it, his gaze as boring and piercing as ever.

"Why did you..." the probing light in his eyes grew darker, "come here? Do you have something to ask me?"

Chunhua kept her gaze fixed at him as the past days floated back to her. The evening of his brother’s deadly accident. Then the questioning that had followed.

"...Yes."

"Go on. What is it that you want to ask me?" He lifted another lock of her hair this time, twisting and playing around with it against his index finger.

After much contemplation, she asked, slowly and carefully, "How was...your relationship with your brother?"

His finger curling around her hair stopped at once. No response came from him for a long, long time.

"Is that what you want to ask?" he stared.

"Y-Yes."

He resumed twiddling with her hair. "Hmmm. That’s a question more difficult to answer than the one I was expecting you to ask."

"..What question were you expecting?"

Hai bore his gaze into hers as if searching something in her eyes.

"Shall I ask you a question instead?"

"Sure."

He smiled, though with a hint of an unfeeling chill. "Why did you say to the cops that you didn’t see me that evening?"

Her breath about to pass through her throat, stopped in its way, and her heartbeats rang in her ears, loud and clear. She couldn’t decipher how he wanted her to respond. She had a feeling that no matter her answer, it would always be the wrong answer.

"For a moment, I thought I did...but I guess that was because I had been missing you."

He stared at her, long and hard. "Are you saying you probably hallucinated my presence?"

"Yes."

"I see," he said, impassive, "Do you have anything else to ask me? I would never lie to my Goddess~"

Chunhua could guess what he wanted her to ask. But for the first time, she failed to understand her own feelings. It wasn’t like she didn’t know what to ask. The questions were blazingly clear to her, yet strangely enough, she just..couldn’t put them out in the open.

"Chunhua."

Her stupor parted away from her, and she looked at him. His hand had gently reached out to her cheek, tenderly grazing past it.

"Are you scared of me?"