Chu Ge nearly blurted out, What I want is you...
But he forcibly swallowed the words on the tip of his tongue.
Qiu Wuji was actually quite thin-skinned. If he really said that, a few durians would be the least of his problems. She would beat him to death.
Their relationship was strange. On the surface, the way they lived together was no different from a boyfriend and girlfriend sharing a home, but that wasn't actually what they were. There was clearly a thick wall between them that they simply couldn't cross, leaving him afraid to casually utter even such "brazen flirtation."
Apart from steeling himself to put an arm around her waist when making a show for Gu Ruoyan, he normally didn't even dare touch her hand. What kind of boyfriend and girlfriend were like that?
Chu Ge couldn't help wondering whether she had slipped so easily into this "living together" arrangement not only because she considered herself "upright and openhearted," but also because that sentence had really influenced her.
But... that sentence was only, "If you're going to look for someone, look for the Creator God." It didn't say she had to look for someone, much less fall in love. If she didn't want to look for anyone at all, the sentence was completely meaningless. Could its influence really go this far?
So was her behavior the influence of that sentence, or her own feelings? Or had she really begun thinking "if I'm going to look for someone," thereby causing that sentence to take effect... could she tell the difference?
Right. She couldn't.
That seemed like a good thing?
Chu Ge looked up into the night and suddenly smiled. "What I want... before, I said I wanted you to become an independently existing person. Now perhaps I need