After My Rebirth, My Cold, Cocky Archrival Loved Being Kissed by Me
Chapter 25

Shocking! Her Own Brother Saw His Sister Embracing and Kissing a Strange Man, and Flew into a Rage

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It was a little after six in the morning. The first glimmer of light had just appeared on the horizon, and a thin mist drifted over the residential complex.

Lu Xiaoxiao hadn't even stopped to eat breakfast, jogging all the way to the complex's north gate.

A familiar black G-Class was parked at the intersection. Shao Enci sat in the driver's seat, watching the girl running toward him through the rearview mirror.

Today, she wore a sweet-and-edgy, laid-back Korean-style outfit: a fitted black long-sleeved top and light apricot floral wide-leg jeans. Her long black hair fell over her shoulders as she walked through the mist, so beautiful that the boy couldn't take his eyes off her.

Lu Xiaoxiao slipped naturally into the passenger seat. Before she could speak, the boy handed her the breakfast he'd queued for half an hour to buy.

A cup of hot soy milk and a fragrant, crispy jianbing guozi.

The familiar aroma reached her nose, and she instantly recognized it as food from the old breakfast shop she'd eaten at most often since childhood.

"How did you know I hadn't eaten breakfast?" Lu Xiaoxiao looked up at him.

Shao Enci held the steering wheel lightly with one hand, his deep-set eyes facing forward. His voice was mild. "Your dark circles are bad. One look and I could tell you went to bed late and got up in a hurry."

Hearing that, Lu Xiaoxiao instinctively pulled out her phone to check her reflection. There wasn't a trace of dark circles on her fair, flawless face. She glared at him. "There aren't any. You lied to me!"

The corners of his lips lifted. With something between a smile and a smirk, he said, "You believe everything I say? If I said you were ugly, would you believe that too?"

Lu Xiaoxiao drank her soy milk, not wanting to pay him any attention. When she'd finished a little less than half, she stole a glance at him and, in a rare show of concern, asked, "Have you had breakfast?"

"If I said I hadn't, would you feed me?" Shao Enci raised an eyebrow and asked with a quiet laugh.

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Xiaoxiao held out the jianbing guozi she'd just taken from the bag. "You eat this."

Shao Enci turned to look at her, his long, narrow phoenix eyes softening a little. "I bought that for you," he said unhurriedly.

"It's fine. We can each have half. I don't mind sharing with you." Lu Xiaoxiao was almost moved by her own generosity.

Who would have thought a certain someone wouldn't appreciate it at all? His lashes fluttered, and he calmly said the opposite of what he meant: "But I mind sharing with you."

"..."

Lu Xiaoxiao looked down and viciously took a huge bite of the jianbing guozi. "Then go hungry!" she huffed.

He was so hard to please. Whoever became his partner someday would be out of luck.

Out of the corner of his eye, the boy saw how cute the girl looked as she fumed. Unable to hide the smile in his eyes, he curved them slightly.

Dummy, Lu Xiaoxiao. I was just afraid you wouldn't get enough to eat.

It took nearly forty-odd minutes of driving to reach the airport.

With her fill of food and drink, Lu Xiaoxiao leaned back in her seat and fell fast asleep. She had no idea that Shao Enci had stolen ninety-two glances at her during the forty-minute drive.

To him, the time they'd spent together lately felt like a dream, so much so that it seemed unreal.

After arriving at the airport and parking, Shao Enci unfastened his seat belt, intending to wake her immediately.

But as he gazed at the girl's peaceful, serene sleeping face, his fingertips hesitated. Like a voyeur, he couldn't resist wanting to look at her a little longer.

Morning light fell through the car window onto her face. Her thick, curled lashes rested gently against her skin, trembling slightly with each breath.

Her soft, moist pink lips instantly reminded him of their lingering, passionate kiss at the cinema last night.

Her two passionate kisses had left him struggling to resist, afraid that one day he would lose control and a stray spark would set the powder off.

Shao Enci gently brushed the messy wisps of hair from her forehead with his slender fingers. His voice was almost a whisper, full of suppressed restraint. "Lu Xiaoxiao, I warned you last time not to tease me so casually, but you wouldn't listen. You keep pushing my limits again and again. Do you think I wouldn't dare do anything to you?"

The moment he finished speaking, Lu Xiaoxiao slowly opened her eyes. A handsome face filled her vision, and her pupils contracted slightly. Her just-awakened voice was soft and thick with a nasal sound. "Are... are we there?"

Shao Enci abruptly withdrew his hand, the tips of his ears quickly turning red. He coughed awkwardly and hurried to cover it up. "We just got here. I was about to wake you."

Lu Xiaoxiao nodded as though she only half understood. She looked down, unfastened her seat belt, and got out of the car.

The two followed the crowd into the airport terminal and took the elevator.

They were silent all the way. Lu Xiaoxiao clenched her fingers and kept her head down without speaking.

She'd been sleeping lightly, and had woken the moment he murmured her name.

But she felt too guilty to open her eyes, so she could only pretend to be fast asleep.

The thought of the upcoming task made her scalp tingle. She had to force a kiss on Shao Enci in front of all those people at the airport, with her brother watching the entire time. Her social anxiety went through the roof, and she wished she could vanish on the spot.

037 reported on schedule:

[Task 14: Deep-kiss your mortal enemy for three minutes in front of your own brother. Countdown: 15 minutes and 59 minutes.]

Lu Xiaoxiao wailed inwardly, Aaaaah, I'm going to break down.

She hadn't even spotted her brother Lu Jiayan yet.

Beside her, Shao Enci had a bad feeling. "You still haven't told me. Who are we picking up today?"

There was no hiding it, nor any need to, so Lu Xiaoxiao came clean. "My brother."

"?!" Shao Enci looked down at the casual clothes he was wearing today—a black T-shirt and black jeans—and his face instantly darkened. "Why didn't you tell me earlier that we were picking up your brother?"

Fuck, I'm meeting my future brother-in-law dressed all in black. Anyone who didn't know better would think I was here for a funeral...

"It's fine. My brother doesn't eat people." Lu Xiaoxiao didn't know whether she was comforting him or herself.

But her legs had already gone weak.

Help! Lu Jiayan hasn't even shown up yet, and I really have to kiss him in front of my brother? What genius system came up with this trick!!

At the terminal exit, a tall, handsome man in sunglasses appeared at the ticket checkpoint, striding along with the wind at his heels.

He pulled a black suitcase and wore a loose gray-striped long-sleeved shirt with black wide-leg trousers that draped softly below. Broad-shouldered and narrow-waisted, he looked relaxed and casual. Even with his eyes and brows hidden behind sunglasses, the striking contours of his features couldn't be concealed. Girls passing by kept turning to look at him.

Just standing there, he was handsome enough to take one's breath away.

From afar, Lu Jiayan spotted the familiar petite figure in the crowd, along with the boy standing beside her.

He was just about to call her name when a young woman dressed in a sexy outfit suddenly approached him. Blushing, she held out her phone. "Handsome, can I add you on WeChat?"

Lu Jiayan raised the rather sloppily woven bracelet in his hand and politely declined. "Sorry, I'm taken."

By the time the young woman left, Lu Xiaoxiao was in the middle of the crowd not far away, holding Shao Enci's handsome face as she earnestly deep-kissed him. She had been kissing him for more than a minute.

At the end of her line of sight, Lu Jiayan, who had just turned down the stranger, saw with his own eyes his sister taking the initiative to kiss an unfamiliar boy in full view of everyone. His face instantly darkened, and the temperature around him dropped.

He couldn't even spare a thought for his suitcase. Striding over, he shouted sharply, "Lu Xiaoxiao—!"

Lu Xiaoxiao kept her eyes tightly shut, utterly focused on deep-kissing the boy's lips as she chanted frantically in her head, Not listening, not listening, the turtle's chanting sutras.

Shao Enci frowned when he heard the voice and tried to turn toward it, but he couldn't withstand the girl before him and her eager advances.

Not many people had been watching them at first, but Lu Jiayan's furious shout made passersby all around turn their heads and stop to watch. Some even raised their phones to film, thinking it was some dramatic scene of the official partner catching the male homewrecker.

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