Belated Romance (Mu Tongrui)

Xinghe said playfully, “Why not? Since you haven’t fallen for me yet, I can still be good to you while pursuing someone else. What’s the problem with that?”

Xinghe said playfully, “Why not? Since you haven’t fallen for me yet, I can still be good to you while pursuing someone else. What’s the problem with that?”

Jiahe shook her head stubbornly, “No can do. You’re my boyfriend! How can you like another girl?”

When Xinghe saw how jealous and vehement she was, he felt his love for her grow even more.

Jiahe could not read him, “If you really like Shirley, then we need to break up now!”

Xinghe’s face hardened, “Don’t ever bring up that word again.”

“...But you said that you like Shirley.”

“I never said that I like her. It’s just a hypothetical question.”

He smiled even wider when she said, “Then, don’t come up with dumb hypothetical questions again.”

Even if Jiahe was not fawning all over him now, she wanted him all for herself. This was enough motivation for him.

They still had a long way to go. He was in no rush. No matter what, Jiahe belonged to him. He vowed to make sure that his identity was clear and evident to everyone around them. Even if other guys were interested in Jiahe, they could only imagine the possibilities.

He said in his hoarse voice, “I belong to you, but don’t

by his neck and nodded seriously,

she was promising her teacher that she

that, Xinghe had to admit that he was beyond ecstatic. As more firecrackers went off all around him, it felt like some fireworks

…

eight in the

the window and she was watching the crowd milling around on the streets below. Her eyes had

the Lunar New Year, and it was

City, she would have been with Lingye and they would

could only exist in the far

estimated that it must be around three or four in the

right now. Was he having dinner

into the

an

could figure out that it was a call

“Hey, it’s me.”

“Dad.”