He bit his lip and glanced at her playfully, completely losing his usual sense of being a gentleman.
Zhuli narrowed his eyes slightly and laughed a few times.
"You've already hugged me, how can I still say no?"
She turned her head away, afraid to look at him.
Jing Huaizhi looked slightly arrogant and raised his hand to rearrange the coat on her shoulders.
He turned his head and said with a gentle and polite expression: "Are you sleepy?"
Zhuli fell into silence briefly, then shook his head.
"I just took a nap."
"If you're sleepy, just sleep."
As soon as these words came out, Jing Huaizhi raised his eyebrows frivolously and looked at her casually.
"Where should I sleep?"
Eyelashes lowered, voice careless.
"Just...sleep..."
Zhuli raised her eyes and looked at him. The words "on my shoulder" were suppressed.
His eyes turned cold: "Sleep wherever you like."
Jing Huaizhi rested his elbows on his knees, and a smile appeared on his lips: "He has no conscience."
After being teased by him, Zhuli was not angry but even more sinister and said: "Let's not talk about the second brother."
He sneered, picked up a piece of her hair and played with it.
"Why is this?"
Zhuli glared at him fiercely. Didn't he have any idea about what he did?
"You are going to marry someone else anyway, does it matter what I say?"
She hugged her knees again, looking a little disappointed.
Jing Huaizhi glanced at her and his face became serious.
"Who told you that I was going to marry someone else?"
"Teacher Lin, don't you want to drink your wedding wine?"
Zhuli refused to be outdone and fought back.
He raised his lips and smiled, with a hint of endearment in the corners of his eyes and brows.
"So you are ignoring me because you are jealous? Huh?"
The man leaned forward and touched her cheek with his cool nose.
"Who's jealous? Don't forget that our relationship is just a cooperative relationship."
"Whoever you want to marry has nothing to do with me. We will end this game sooner or later, right?"
A flash of pain flashed in her eyes, and she stared at him with her raised eyes.
"So Mr. Jing, you don't need to spend any energy on me."
"Our relationship is only between the employer and the employee."
As soon as Zhuli finished speaking, Jing Huaizhi gave her a faint side glance.
"Are you done?"
His intonation wasn't great.
"Um."
Jing Huaizhi took a deep breath, stretched out his hand to touch her chin and chuckled: "It's my turn to say it."
He stretched out his hand to hold the back of her head, and his cool lips slid into the tips of his teeth.
Kissed her hard.
Zhuli twisted her waist, but for just a second she didn't dare to resist.
He felt like his whole body was about to melt away. Finally, he closed his eyes weakly and allowed the man to rub and nibble on his lips.
...
"Is there anything else you want to say?"
Jing Huaizhi lit a cigarette and chuckled a few times with unknown meaning.
Zhuli buried her head lower and lower, wanting to just disappear here.
"I gave you a chance." He took a deep breath and then slowly spit it out.
"If you don't say anything, I'll take it as your consent and come back with me."
"Back to where?"
When she heard the word "go back," her eyes suddenly lit up and she thought there was a way for him to leave this ungrateful place.
Jing Huaizhi flicked the ashes from his cigarette and scanned every part of her cheek with sharp eyes.
After a moment, she realized what he meant by going back.
"I don't want it. I, Zhuli, don't want to be anyone's substitute!"
"We have a normal cooperative relationship. Even if I go back with you, we must maintain the same distance as before."
Zhuliguan argued with her neck turned red and her ears flushed.
After smoking out a cigarette, his eyes instantly turned cold.
"Who told you that you were a substitute?"
"say?"
He grabbed the back of her neck and forced her to raise her face to look at him.
Not to be outdone, her eyes widened slightly with a trace of cruelty.
"I've seen it all. The photo you keep in your folder is of her, right?"
"You are..."
Jing Huaizhi's face became colder and colder, and finally turned into Zhuli's fearful look.
"I'm not lying. If you don't believe it, just go back and take a look."
"I, I didn't touch her. I accidentally dropped her when I was helping you organize your things."
Zhuli said while checking his expression, it was still within her control.
"Ah."
An unexplained laugh.
She froze in place.
"Listen to me, you are not anyone's substitute."
"The person I like is called Zhuli."
"what's your name?"
Her thin figure was reflected in his lowered eyes.
"Bamboo pear."
The weak voice finally answered his question.
Jing Huaizhi raised his hand and patted the top of her hair, with a cold smile on his lips.
"Not too stupid."
Even after hearing his answer, Zhuli still felt empty in her heart.
Since she is not anyone's stand-in, when she asked him why it was her, his answer was: "You look like her."
When Zhuli became conscious again, he was woken up by Jing Huaizhi.
"The car is repaired."
She rubbed her sleepy eyes and spoke with a thick nasal voice.
"Is anyone coming?"
He didn't answer, picked her up and went down the mountain.
Zhuli leaned on the back of the passenger seat and fell asleep again after a while.
What woke her up was Su Zhiyan's loud voice: "Oh, Lizi, I didn't mean to do it."
"I thought you and Director Qiao went down the mountain first. I didn't mean to do that."
She bent over and cried until she had snot and tears.
Although he seemed to be repenting, his eyes were secretly glancing at the reaction of the driver, Jing Huaizhi.
However, Zhuli ignored her and let her show off her acting skills alone.
He opened the passenger door, got out of the car and followed Jing Huaizhi into the hotel.
"Does he live here too?"
Behind him, Zhuli muttered in a voice that only he could hear.
drop-
The sound of contact between the magnetic card and the sensor.
Zhuli walked in with his front foot, followed by Jinghuai.
"this is my room.
Before she could finish her words, the man in front of her was already leaning towards her uncontrollably.
The fingertips touched his skin, and the hot breath hit his face.
Zhuli put his arms on her shoulders and helped him to lie down on the bed.
Then I called the front desk and asked for a thick quilt.
I picked up my phone and called for an errand.
A cold, wrung-out towel was gently placed on his forehead.
"Would it be different if we met earlier?"
She leaned down, her hair hanging on her chest was scattered in the air, and the tail of her hair accidentally slipped on the man's tall nose.
"Jing Huaizhi, to be honest, I..."
"I'm really moved."
"But Zhuli can only be Zhuli and cannot be a substitute for anyone else."
She sighed deeply, feeling that it was almost time to change the towel on his forehead.
When she turned around and entered the bathroom, Jing Huai's eyelashes twitched slightly while she was lying on the bed.
"Cold, so cold."
When Zhuli came out, she found that Jing Huaizhi had been repeating this sentence.
She briefly made a mental struggle, lifted one side of the quilt, got in and hugged him tightly.
