"Into the bridal chamber?" Seeing Xiao Yi Xian's eager expression, Xiao Yan's lips twitched. No wonder he had kept feeling that she was acting so strangely today. So this was what she had been planning. "You mean... we have to sleep together in their place, too?"
"Mm..." Xiao Yi Xian nodded shyly.
"Sorry, but I don't have time to play house with you." Xiao Yan sighed helplessly. He really wanted to ask what was going on inside her head. Could the woeful poison body affect her brain, too?
Just as Xiao Yan was about to turn and leave, Xiao Yi Xian suddenly hugged him from behind. "Don't go!"
Feeling the warmth against his back, Xiao Yan froze for a moment. He stopped and slowly turned around. Seeing that Xiao Yi Xian had begun trembling again, he hurriedly touched her wrist and scanned her body with his soul force, but found nothing unusual. "What's wrong? Is your woeful poison body acting up again?"
Xiao Yi Xian shook her head. She took a deep breath, gazed at the concern filling Xiao Yan's eyes, and said softly, "Please don't go, all right?"
"I won't leave." Xiao Yan stroked Xiao Yi Xian's head. "I told you, we're friends."
"But... I don't want us to be just friends." Xiao Yi Xian rose onto her toes and gently kissed Xiao Yan on the lips. That exquisite sensation left him momentarily dazed. For an instant, the girl before him seemed to overlap with the icy Heavenly Poison Woman from his previous life. Then he heard Xiao Yi Xian whisper into his ear, each word distinct. "Xiao Yan, I like you."
Before this, given Xiao Yi Xian's personality, she would never have expressed her feelings to Xiao Yan so directly. Instead, she would have buried them deep in