Chapter 4: Don't change clothes in the living room from now on 2
"Speaking of which, Xiaoqi, as Jinliang's bodyguard, is also going. This is a rare opportunity, I want to pick out a nice dress for Xiaoqi!" Shen Xiangxuan said as she became excited.
"Hey?" I waved my hands hastily, "I don't need to wear any formal wear, I can just wear a bodyguard uniform."
But Shen Xiangxuan was already in a state of excitement. She completely ignored my objections and dragged me to try on many beautiful dresses. She didn't let me go until midnight.
Phew - I never knew girls were so scary when it came to picking out clothes!
Carrying the clothes, jewelry and shoes that Shen Xiangxuan picked for me, I returned to the house, put the bags down casually and fell directly on the sofa.
There was no light on in the house, only a little soft moonlight coming in from the open balcony of the living room, and the room was silent. Wen Jinliang should be in a sweet dream now.
After resting for a while, I got up and opened the bag. Even without the light, I could see these gorgeous clothes clearly because I have good night vision.
I recalled Shen Xiangxuan's compliment to me: "Xiao Qi, you have fair skin and a small face. You look really good in this outfit. If I were a boy, I would definitely fall in love with you..." But I was so tired at the time that I didn't look at myself in the mirror carefully. Now I am a little curious about how I look in this outfit.
I did it right away and changed in the living room. I didn't consider that even if the room was dark and Wen Jinliang was asleep, as a girl I shouldn't change clothes in the living room.
After I got dressed, I walked to the big mirror outside the balcony in the living room. The moonlight outside the balcony was much brighter than inside the house. The light blue skirt I was wearing set off my fair skin even more under the moonlight, and my long black hair made my face look petite and delicate.
I turned around in front of the mirror, and it seemed that I looked really good. Standing next to Wen Jinliang, I also felt like a perfect match.
"Xiao Qi?" Wen Jinliang, wearing pajamas, was standing at the balcony door. He looked at me with surprise and amazement that could not be concealed.
"Wen Jinliang?" I was startled and subconsciously covered my chest. Because the dress Shen Xiangxuan picked for me was a low-cut dress, I felt a little shy when facing Wen Jinliang.
Wen Jinliang walked towards me slowly with a smile on his face, and I stepped back nervously, and soon my back was leaning against the balcony railing.
I have no way out.
"You, don't come over here." I looked at him in panic, my cheeks burning.
Wen Jinliang chuckled and stopped. He looked at me with a smile, as if he was appreciating something beautiful. His deep and lingering gaze made my cheeks flush.
I couldn't bear it any longer, I rushed to him and blocked his eyes with my hands: "You, don't look at him anymore..." There was no longer the calmness in my tone, but more nervousness and shyness.
Wen Jinliang let me cover his eyes, and his deep voice was like an intoxicating aged wine: "Even if you cover my eyes, Xiaoqi, your beautiful posture is still clearly reflected in my mind." After saying that, he took my hand away.
"Don't say that..." I covered my blushing cheeks and said in a voice as thin as a mosquito.
"Why don't you let me say it? Xiaoqi, you are so beautiful." Wen Jinliang half-closed his eyes and looked at me, speaking in the most gentle voice. Suddenly, he reached out and pinched a strand of my long hair and gently kissed it.
Because of Wen Jinliang's sudden action, my mind exploded and went blank for a moment, and I pushed him away reflexively.
At this moment, I seemed to lose the ability to speak. In a panic, I hurried back to the living room and slammed the balcony door shut.
Wen Jinliang was stunned for a moment when he saw my action. He knocked on the balcony glass door and said with a smile on his face, "Are you planning to let me sleep on the balcony for one night?"
I looked at him outside the door without saying a word, my heart pounding, and I was so nervous that it was difficult for me to breathe.
"Xiao Qi, it's so cold outside." Seeing that I ignored him, Wen Jinliang suddenly hugged his arms and showed a pitiful expression.
I subconsciously reached out to open the door, but stopped abruptly halfway.
It's hot outside! Liar.
I turned away from him, intending to ignore him.
When Wen Jinliang saw that I had my back to him, he fell silent. Just when I was wondering, he suddenly called out nervously, "Xiao Qi, there's someone outside."
Hearing this, I quickly turned around and opened the door, protecting Wen Jinliang behind me, looking vigilantly at the woods outside the balcony, and shouted, "Who's there?"
However, the only answers I got were the sound of the wind and Wen Jinliang's unbearable smile. I then realized that I had been fooled...
I glared at Wen Jinliang and said, "I'm going to bed and I won't pay any attention to you." I really didn't want to pay attention to him this time, so I turned around and prepared to leave the balcony and go back to the house to sleep.
Wen Jinliang reached out and grabbed my wrist to stop me from leaving. He stared at my wrist and whispered, "I've never noticed before that Xiaoqi's wrist is so slender."
I turned around and looked at Wen Jinliang in confusion: "Let me go..." Aren't my wrists always like this? Slender? Are you saying I'm thin?
Wen Jinliang let me go as he said, and sighed with a smile: "Xiao Qi is indeed a girl..."
I looked at Wen Jinliang with a frown and said, "Of course I am a girl." After that, I walked back to the living room without looking back.
I stuffed the clothes I had just changed in the living room into the bag and prepared to go back to the bedroom. Wen Jinliang behind me said calmly, "Xiao Qi, don't change clothes in the living room in the future. Even if you want to change, you have to make sure I'm asleep before you change."
Hearing this, I turned around and looked at the smiling Wen Jinliang behind me. My face suddenly turned red and I said excitedly: "You actually peeked at me changing clothes! Pervert!"
Wen Jinliang laughed so hard at what I said that his whole body began to shake. He finally stopped laughing and said, "I don't have as good night vision as you, Xiaoqi. Don't worry, I didn't see anything."
Hearing Wen Jinliang's words, I immediately felt relieved. There was no light in the room, and with only the moonlight, ordinary people couldn't see anything clearly... Damn, it seems like Wen Jinliang has fooled me again!
"I really don't want to pay attention to you." I said angrily, holding the bag, and prepared to go back into the house.
"Xiao Qi." Wen Jinliang called me.
"Hmm?" Although I said that I didn't want to pay attention to Wen Jinliang, I still responded.
"Is this dress that Xiang Xuan prepared for you at her grandfather's banquet?" Wen Jinliang didn't say anything more this time, but asked seriously.
"Yeah, what's wrong?" I turned and looked at Wen Jinliang and asked.
In the darkness, his expression seemed a little gloomy, and his eyes seemed to be dissatisfied as he looked at my clothes.
"Return this dress to Xiang Xuan, I will prepare it for you again." Wen Jinliang smiled faintly, "After all, you are my bodyguard, how can I trouble Xiang Xuan to prepare it for you?"
I said "Oh", since Wen Jinliang said so, I'd better go back. After all, I'm his bodyguard, so it's normal for him to prepare things for me at the banquet.
I carried the bag back to the bedroom, took a hot bath, and fell asleep immediately. I was so tired today!
The next day, I told Shen Xiangxuan what Wen Jinliang said. She didn't react much. She just took back the clothes with some regret, and then gave me some freshly made desserts to take back.
Maybe it’s because Shen Xiangxuan’s grandfather’s birthday is coming soon. She has been so busy lately that she doesn’t even have time to come to school, but she sends someone to deliver desserts to me every day.
I was sitting on the sofa eating the dessert she had just sent me, while Wen Jinliang was sitting opposite me reading a book. Without Shen Xiangxuan, the weekend around Wen Jinliang and me suddenly became much quieter...
"Is this so delicious?" Wen Jinliang finished reading a book and saw that I was eating attentively, so he couldn't help but ask with a smile.
"It's delicious. Do you want to try it?" I subconsciously picked up a cake from the plate and handed it to Wen Jinliang. Then I suddenly remembered something and took it back. "I forgot. I can't give it to you."
Wen Jinliang had no intention of taking the dessert from me because he hated sweets. But after hearing what I said suddenly, he immediately became interested and asked, "Why can't you give it to me?"
"Xiang Xuan said that the dessert contains things that you may be allergic to, so you can't eat it. But you don't like desserts in the first place, so you wouldn't eat it whether you are allergic to it or not." I answered truthfully and took a bite of the pastry in my hand.
Wen Jinliang's expression changed slightly, and he directly picked up the half-eaten pastry in my hand and ate it.
"Hmm... so sweet." Wen Jinliang frowned because of the sweetness.
I stared in amazement as Wen Jinliang finished half of the dessert before I realized, "I've eaten that... Ah! No, no, you can't eat this, you'll be allergic. Ah! That's not right either, don't you never eat sweets?"
Wen Jinliang slowly relaxed his brows: "That allergy is actually nothing, just don't eat too much. As for desserts, I really don't like them, but it's okay to eat one piece occasionally."
I said, "Oh," and said, "I'm glad you're okay."
"Xiao Qi, how long has Xiang Xuan allowed you to eat this pastry?" Wen Jinliang asked.
"Well...it's been almost a week. What happened?" I replied without looking up as I continued to eat the pastries on my plate.
"It's nothing. I just feel that Xiang Xuan's craftsmanship has improved a lot. Her pastries didn't taste like this before." Wen Jinliang said meaningfully.
"Before?" I swallowed a piece of cake in my hand. "Have you ever eaten the cakes she made before? It doesn't look like you hated desserts from the beginning..."
My unintentional words suddenly changed Wen Jinliang's expression. His face turned cold for a moment, but soon returned to his usual gentle look.
"Wen Jinliang?" I was at a loss for words at Wen Jinliang's sudden change of expression.
Wen Jinliang noticed my uneasiness and comforted me, "I'm fine, I just remembered some unpleasant past events."
"I'm sorry..." I apologized hesitantly. It must be because what I said just now reminded him of some unpleasant past.
"Xiao Qi, don't apologize...you didn't do anything wrong." Wen Jinliang reached out and rubbed my head.
I was stunned. When was the last time Wen Jinliang touched my head so gently? It must have been a long time ago, because I felt so happy that I couldn't express it in words. The barrier between him and me seemed to disappear suddenly...
A week before Shen Xiangxuan's grandfather's birthday, Shen Xiangxuan returned to the academy, and we became a group of three again. And those girls who finally got to spend time with Wen Jinliang were once again jealous of Shen Xiangxuan's appearance.
Finally, the girls' jealousy broke out after school one day.
After school that day, Shen Xiangxuan went to the bathroom alone and never came back. Wen Jinliang and I waited for a long time, and soon realized the seriousness of the matter in each other's eyes.
"I'll go see what's going on. Don't wander around here." After I said that to Wen Jinliang, I turned around and ran towards the toilet.
The restroom was packed with girls, some of whom looked familiar to me, as they had harassed me before. Shen Xiangxuan was surrounded by them and sat on the floor in a mess, her body soaking wet.
I rushed in immediately: "Xiang Xuan!"
"Xiao Qi." Shen Xiangxuan looked up at me with a miserable look.
"Are you okay?" I immediately helped Shen Xiangxuan up from the ground, checked her carefully, and breathed a sigh of relief only after making sure that she was not injured.
"No, it's okay..." Shen Xiangxuan said tremblingly.
"Xiao Qi, mind your own business. We ..." Before the leading girl could finish her words, I had already pushed her away impatiently, preparing to help Shen Xiangxuan walk out.
"Stop right there!" the leading girl shouted angrily.
"Senior, I'm only saying this for the last time. Don't attack Xiang Xuan again. It won't do you any good to anger me." I said as I kicked the toilet door that they had just sealed. The door immediately broke in two and fell down. The faces of the girls all changed, and the leading girl looked as if she had seen a ghost.
I helped Shen Xiangxuan to the classroom door, and Wen Jinliang walked towards us quickly. When he saw Shen Xiangxuan's embarrassed appearance, he guessed what happened. He took off his coat, covered Shen Xiangxuan, and said softly: "It's okay now, don't be afraid."
Tears welled up in Shen Xiangxuan's eyes. She cried out "Wow" and threw herself into Wen Jinliang's arms, crying, "Jinliang, I'm so scared, wuwuwu..."
"Okay, it's okay..." Wen Jinliang patted her back and comforted her.
I stared at this scene in a daze, and subconsciously turned away from them. A certain part of my heart suddenly hurt, and I didn't even understand where this pain came from. Was it because my good friend Xiang Xuan was bullied, or was it because of Wen Jinliang's incredible gentleness?
Because of my warning, the group of girls really never came to harass Shen Xiangxuan again. Shen Xiangxuan's grandfather's birthday arrived as scheduled.
Wen Jinliang took He and I to the banquet. He had originally prepared a new dress for me, but He rejected it with the words "It's not appropriate for a bodyguard to dress like this", so I went in the bodyguard uniform that didn't look good.
The Shen family's banquet was very grand, no less grand than the Wen family's. Most of the guests were some well-known and influential people in City A, and I had seen several of them at the Wen family banquet.
He stayed by my side the whole time, fearing that I would make a fool of myself at someone else's party. Shen Xiangxuan had been entertaining other guests all night, and when she saw us, she hurriedly said hello and went back to work. But I stared blankly at Shen Xiangxuan.
She was wearing a light blue dress today, her long hair was draped over her shoulders, and her delicate face was lightly made up. When she stood with Wen Jinliang, the guests all exclaimed in admiration from the bottom of their hearts.
"What a talented and beautiful couple..."
"They will definitely be together..."
Many people were talking about this, and my heart sank little by little as they talked, as if I was drowning in endless darkness.
"Here you go." He handed me a bottle of drink. "Don't pay attention to them. They just say stupid things."
"Yeah." I took the drink and drank it all. I have to admit that He's words comforted me a lot.
At this moment, women screamed in a corner of the banquet. After the screams, there was the crisp sound of glass breaking. In the restless crowd, I saw a dozen men in black who did not belong to this banquet. They were holding guns and knives and rushing towards Wen Jinliang and Shen Xiangxuan.
"Not good!" The crane beside him suddenly changed color.
"Wen Jinliang! Run!"
I yelled at the top of my lungs, and then Crane and I ran towards them as fast as we could.
