"Don't you think I've lost my manliness?" Although he knew she hadn't meant it sincerely, Ye Shaoxuan was delighted from the bottom of his heart, and he couldn't suppress the upward curve of his lips.
"Oh, come on, I was only joking with you before. Why are you still holding it against me?" Su Qiao wore an expression that said, You're so petty.
Ye Shaoxuan was almost laughing with exasperation.
That little mouth of hers could turn black into white and white into black.
"Really just a joke?"
Su Qiao shamelessly nodded hard without hesitation. "Of course."
"I felt sorry for you. I couldn't stand seeing you ruin your health lying in the rain, and I was worried you'd really fall ill. That's why I deliberately provoked you."
Ye Shaoxuan suddenly stopped and turned her around by the shoulders. His eyes took on a serious look. "You mean that?"
"Of course I mean it. Otherwise, would I have been crazy enough to say those things to you?" At that time, they weren't familiar at all. They could hardly even be considered acquaintances.
If he had really gotten angry and struck her, her frail body probably couldn't have withstood a single palm strike from him.
She had taken a huge risk.
Thinking about it, Su Qiao was almost moved by her own sacrifice.
"Then..."
A trace of slyness flashed through Ye Shaoxuan's eyes. He suddenly smiled mischievously and said, "Did I act convincingly just now?"
Su Qiao, who had thought he would be touched: "..."
"You... You were acting just now?" So those sweet words had been fake too? He had only deliberately said them for Lin Hanyan and the other passersby to hear?
Ye Shaoxuan rubbed her head a little harder, deliberately messing up her neatly arranged hair as he