Pampered by Short-Lived Bigshot by Beautiful Crescent

Chapter 692: 433 Ashamed to the point of wishing to faint, you care about me! (2 more Chapters)_3

Her rental room was so small that she had barely taken two steps when, in the next instant, her arm was pulled and tugged. By the time she realized what was happening, her back was against the wall, with half of her body already enveloped in his embrace.

The man’s fingertips were rough as they grasped her wrist, gently caressing it, eliciting a sensation both ticklish and numbing.

"That... that wasn’t mine!" Shen Shuci was on the verge of tears—what kind of situation was this?

"You watched it," he said with certainty. Since that video link appeared in her media player, she must have watched it.

"..."

She didn’t know what it was and had just clicked on it, never anticipating... Ruan Mengxi, you’re truly going to be the death of me.

"In your eyes, am I that disgraceful? So much that you don’t want Xiaowu and the others to see me?"

Shen Shuci’s face turned crimson as she slightly averted her gaze, "The situation is complicated; I didn’t mean to have you deliberately hide... nor do I think you’re disgraceful."

Thinking about how unhappy he was about the situation today, Shen Shuci wanted to explain, but the entire story seemed to need to start with her nearly falling from a horse and injuring her hand, leaving her momentarily at a loss for words.

"Because when you were looking for me before, I lied to Wanwan, and they have no idea about you and me... I also don’t know how to tell them, so..."

Huo Qinqi listened for a while but only uttered four words:

"You care about me!"

"I..." Shen Shuci’s pupils dilated slightly as she met his gaze, her heart racing once again.

Her willingness to explain definitely meant she cared.

visibly flustered, and just as he leaned down

sound abruptly shattered the intimate atmosphere. Shen Shuci hastily pushed him away and opened

arrived," the delivery guy

"Thank you."

guy smiled at her, about to remind her to give a five-star review, but suddenly confronted another pair of

and quickly left the

even after an awkward little incident. Relationships between people always seemed to work that way—a secret known only between

case, the atmosphere between them had become

...

that after today’s "ambush," their Patriarch might be unhappy

the person returning from Shen Shuci’s place was in

the middle of the night by the sound of fighting in the courtyard. Being

outsider, the family dogs would surely bark, but since

the yard at this

to see which scoundrel

Qinqi hammering away

them come out, he even glanced over, "Why aren’t you all asleep? What are you doing out

aren’t you sleeping this late? What

approached with simmering anger, only to deflate immediately upon seeing

"Can’t sleep."

"Heh, then you continue..."

puffs of air, they exchanged glances, "What exactly did Miss Shen do to him? To be so

would I know? Anyway,

sleep at night! I’m dying of

...

for a while, the man took a cold shower before finally