The Ice King's Little Trouble Maker-Chapter 510 - 474: Really Like You

The sun set, and the orange-red sky spread across the world.

Lin Huai Shu stood with his back to the sunset, a thin layer of warm red dyeing his figure.

Qiao Lech watched him, her pupils dilated little by little, and she visibly froze.

Lin Huai Shu, seeing her reaction and fearing she hadn’t heard clearly, repeated, "Lech, I like you."

He spoke earnestly and nervously.

He focused intently on Qiao Lech’s face, watching her reaction.

He had thought about saying these words for a long time.

He always wanted to find the right moment to tell her.

But what was a suitable timing, he wasn’t sure.

Today, Qiao Lech was upset at the Lin Family.

He had been thinking for a while.

He didn’t know if today was the right time, but if he didn’t say it today, he feared Qiao Lech would overthink indefinitely.

She would get stuck in a loop.

She would push him away.

Qiao Lech’s eyes were wide, staring stiffly at him, still without much other response.

Lin Huai Shu couldn’t be sure if his confession would upset her more.

But this was the choice he had made after consideration.

He licked his dry lips and said, "Lech. You don’t need to respond to me right now. I just want to tell you, I really like you. I like you very much. From the very first glance."

Hearing his words, Qiao Lech began to show some reaction, her gaze drifting nervously, unable to settle.

Lin Huai Shu continued, "I’m not good at defining this about the first time, actually the first time I saw you as a child, I quite liked you. That’s why I later came to find you. When I saw you again afterward, I always felt you looked familiar, actually, at that time I also had a good impression of you. But, but I’ve never been in a relationship before."

After saying this, Lin Huai Shu coughed awkwardly: "So, I’m, I’m a bit clueless about these things. I don’t know why. My reputation is out there, I’ve been mistakenly paired with many people, I’ve watched quite a few. Logically, I should be quite sensitive to emotions. But somehow I’m a bit dull."

Lin Huai Shu spoke incoherently, "I genuinely like you, the more I get to know you, the more I like you. Lech, don’t feel burdened. I just wanted to tell you, you are special. If you don’t mind my affection, I, I intend to pursue, pursue a little..."

"Young Master Lin." Qiao Lech suddenly interrupted him.

Lin Huai Shu’s words were swallowed back, nervously watching her.

Qiao Lech tightly clenched her hands, listening to her rapidly beating heart. Each beat felt like a knife cutting through, blood pouring, making her breathless: "Young Master Lin, I’m not as good as you think."

"You are very good." Lin Huai Shu said like a young lad, "You’re especially good."

"I’m not good." Qiao Lech said, dropping her head, shaking it.

Lin Huai Shu watched her helplessness, her sorrow.

That sorrow seemed like a bottomless pit, endless, swallowing her up.

"I’m not good." Qiao Lech repeated.

After saying those three words again, Qiao Lech fell silent.

She didn’t speak for a long time.

The orange-red on the horizon slowly faded, the sky growing darker.

Lin Huai Shu looked at Qiao Lech.

Her endless grief began to engulf him too.

After a while, he lifted his hand, slowly approached Qiao Lech, stopping his hand beside her ear, and finally couldn’t resist, gently placing his hand on her head.

Qiao Lech trembled, her body stiffened again, but she didn’t react as violently as before.

Seeing this, Lin Huai Shu patted her head: "Lech."

"Young Master Lin, you know I went to the Sixth Hospital." Qiao Lech suddenly spoke.

The time she went to the Sixth Hospital, Qiao Yuxian and they happened to encounter her.

Lin Huai Shu watched her head still lowered.

"I went to see a doctor." Qiao Lech’s lashes fluttered twice, her breath a bit shaky, but ultimately decided to say it. She liked Lin Huai Shu. Because she liked him, she felt that hiding it from him was unfair, "I, I... I was by someone..."

"Lech." Lin Huai Shu hastily interrupted her words.

Perhaps because his tone was too hurried, Qiao Lech vaguely sensed something, lifting her eyes to look at him.

As her head lifted, tears poured out, trailing down her cheeks.

Lin Huai Shu watched the tear drop from her face, placing his hand beside her head, caressing it, "Lech, everyone has their experiences, also has things they don’t want to talk about. That’s each person’s secret, no need to say it."

Qiao Lech’s red eyes, drenched in tears, blinked blankly.

Lin Huai Shu continued, "What I like is you as a person. It has nothing to do with anything else. Some things are in the past, let them stay in the past. We must both look forward."

Qiao Lech blinked again, tears falling once more.

Lin Huai Shu’s hand moved slightly, tentatively using his thumb to wipe the tears from her face.

Seeing her just staring at him dazedly with no aversion, he chuckled, "Of course, if on the road of moving forward, looking ahead, I could be there, I’d be even happier."

Qiao Lech was in a daze, taking a while before she softly asked: "You knew?"

"I didn’t know." Lin Huai Shu replied.

He truly didn’t know.

Nobody told him.

But he could guess.

Because during their first meeting, he sensed Qiao Lech was very resistant to interacting with outsiders, even more so with males.

Coupled with seeing her at the Sixth Hospital.

Specifics, he certainly didn’t know, but he could guess about seventy or eighty percent.

When he went to Jingyu Garden to find Qiao Yuxian at the beginning, he had already thought through and prepared for this.

He genuinely liked Qiao Lech.

He might have liked her since their first meeting.

Maybe from when they met as children, he liked her.

Qiao Lech standing there, saying nothing, doing nothing. Shyly, obediently, he liked her from the bottom of his heart.

Compared to Qiao Lech as a person, nothing else mattered.

"I like you, what does knowing or not knowing have to do with it." Lin Huai Shu’s thumb caressed her face, "Not knowing, I like you. Knowing, I still like you."

Qiao Lech again showed no reaction.

In her depths, there was shock, and also a touch of being moved.

Her eyes were misty, blank, making one feel tenderly towards her.

Lin Huai Shu looked at her, after a while, he boldly stepped forward another step.

Seeing Qiao Lech not having a strong reaction, he gently reached out and held her lightly in his arms.

A very gentlemanly hug.

It wouldn’t make anyone uncomfortable.

Just like friends, greeting upon meeting.

Perhaps because of this, Qiao Lech stiffened more but didn’t push him away immediately.

Or it was because Lin Huai Shu’s words just now, lowered Qiao Lech’s defenses.

Or maybe all these events really overwhelmed her.

She truly couldn’t react.

Lin Huai Shu’s hand lightly placed on her back, then the words that were interrupted were softly spoken again: "Lech, if you don’t reject my feelings. From today, I’ll start pursuing you."

A sentence seemed to reawaken Qiao Lech’s defensive system.

She pushed Lin Huai Shu away with a shove.

Lin Huai Shu was pushed back two steps, then suddenly bent, lightly hissing.

Qiao Lech panicked, hurrying to support him: "Young Master Lin, are you okay? Did I push you?"

Lin Huai Shu bent over, two seconds later, stood straight and laughed, saying as he laughed, "Just teasing you."

Qiao Lech released his arm: "......"

Lin Huai Shu looked at her, "Let’s stroll outside for a bit, won’t uncle and aunt worry?"

He was referring to her reddened eyes.

Qiao Lech looked at him, then nodded.

"Coincidentally, let me introduce the neighborhood." Lin Huai Shu said.

"Hmm." Qiao Lech softly replied again.

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