"With... me?"
How could Zuo Xiaonian not realize now that she had misunderstood? For a moment, her whole body felt weak. Biting her lip, she pressed him. "Weren't you talking about that classmate of yours, the governor's daughter..."
"Wan Lixiu? Wan Lixiu is Long Yusheng's fiancée. What does she have to do with me..."
Zuo Xiaoduo muttered, "Long Yusheng wouldn't agree to it, either."
"So if Long Yusheng agreed, you'd just start dating her?"
Zuo Xiaonian shot him a sidelong look. "Why do you look a little disappointed to me?"
"How did you get that out of what I said? How does that brain of yours work? What makes you think I'm disappointed?"
Feeling utterly wronged, Zuo Xiaoduo tilted his head back in dejection. "I just want to fall in love, spend a little time among the flowers under the moon. Why does it have to be so hard..."
Zuo Xiaonian snorted, but, unexpectedly, she did not hit him.
Zuo Xiaoduo could not help falling silent. Cautiously, furtively, he stole a look at Zuo Xiaonian's expression. Was this another sign that a storm was coming?
With that glance, he saw Zuo Xiaonian sitting quietly beneath the moonlight, her long hair drifting in the gentle breeze, her eyes rippling like water, a smile at the corners of her lips and an intoxicated look on her face. She was indescribably beautiful and captivating.
His little heart, whose thoughts of romance had just been beaten out of it, began pounding again despite itself.
"So fierce just now, so beautiful now..."
"Hmph! Who would date you!"
Zuo Xiaonian pouted and snorted, rolling her eyes and forcing herself to look fierce. Yet the corners of her lips and eyes curved, and she could not look fierce no matter how she tried. She thought, *If he