The moment his face was slapped, Huo Yuzhou narrowed his eyes.
The curve of her lips remained unchanged, as she looked at him with a half-smile.
Why not?
Nan Qing, suppressing the heat of embarrassment and anger on her face, asked him in return:
Why do this?
Huo Yuzhou raised an eyebrow slightly. "Because that's how kissing is."
Nan Qing blurted out without thinking, "How can we be like everyone else? We're different from others. They kiss and then go to bed together—"
Realizing what she had said, Nan Qing immediately covered her mouth.
Huo Yuzhou understood the whole meaning, and his smile widened.
" Baby, we can go to bed too."
"If you wish."
Nan Qing's ears started burning again, and she wished she could disappear into the ground.
"Why would I think that? Why would I think that? Don't talk nonsense and slander an innocent person."
"Anyway, no is no. A little kiss now and then is fine, but this is just too much..."
Nan Qing couldn't quite tell if it was too ambiguous or too intimate.
He simply concluded, "It just won't work!"
Huo Yuzhou said calmly, "But we have a contract."
Nan Qing resorted to her old trick. "But our contract doesn't have this clause!!!"
Huo Yuzhou waved to someone not far away, and the other person handed him his phone.
Huo Yuzhou smiled and looked at Nan Qing, "Thank you for reminding me, Baby."
"I called Lawyer Guo and asked him to come over. We can add this clause to our contract soon."
Nan Qing looked shocked. "What are you going to say to him?"
"No way, Huo Yuzhou? You're not really going to tell him that we have to kiss in our contract, and that we have to stick our tongues out when we kiss, are you?"
Huo Yuzhou nodded solemnly, opened his phone's contacts in front of him, found a name, and then dialed it decisively.
The phone beeped and was quickly answered.
Huo Yuzhou remained unfazed. " Old Guo, come here—"
A shocked Nan Qing quickly raised her hand and covered his mouth, hurriedly snatching the phone from Huo Yuzhou's hand.
"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, I'm hanging up, I'm hanging up!"
Half a minute later, Huo Yuzhou looked at Nan Qing and smiled, but Nan Qing looked embarrassed and annoyed.
"Have you no shame, Huo Yuzhou?"
"You made Lawyer Guo come all this way just for this matter, don't you feel ashamed?"
Why be ashamed?
Huo Yuzhou leaned slightly closer to him, a smile playing in his dark eyes.
"I'm simply using legal means to protect my legitimate rights as the client."
Nan Qing hesitated for a long time before finally saying, "You're really shameless."
Huo Yuzhou smiled.
Nan Qing conceded, "Fine, fine, I know all your demands anyway, I..."
His face burned, and he quickly turned his head to look into the distance, his voice soft.
"I promise you, okay?"
Huo Yuzhou seemed to be teasing him on purpose, "Promise me what?"
Nan Qing quickly turned her face to glare at him. "You know that!"
"I do have some suspicions in mind, but I'm also genuinely worried that some people might deliberately misinterpret my meaning, so it's best if we both double-check."
Nan Qing's face turned even redder.
It was so hot and burning; the skin under my eyes felt like it was being scalded.
Huo Yuzhou looked at him calmly, waiting for his answer.
Nan Qing's dark, raven-like feathers trembled, a mixture of shyness and anger, yet she had no choice but to submit to the other party's tyranny, obediently repeating that rather wickedly humorous phrase like a bullied, honest person.
"It doesn't need to be written in the contract, you can kiss me... you can... you can kiss my tongue..."
A soft chuckle seemed to reach my ears.
Enraged, Nan Qing broke free from the other person's grip on her wrist.
"Anywhere is fine, are you satisfied now?"
He shook off Huo Yuzhou, picked up his ski poles, and started skiing forward, muttering to himself under his breath.
"Damn it, Huo the Skinflint, that old lecher!"
"This contract is practically a slave contract..."
-
Nan Qing lived in fear for two days.
Fortunately, Huo Yuzhou returned to normal in the following two days.
She didn't chase after him for another kiss, nor did she say anything too offensive.
He accompanied him to the orchard to pick grapes. The purplish-red grapes were juicy, Nan Qing ate until he was half full.
Huo Yuzhou then carried a basket of grapes and, under the teacher's guidance, made wine with him, which was then stored in the underground wine cellar.
The winemaker said a lot, but Nan Qing only heard half of it.
These wines will taste great during the Chinese New Year.
Nan Qing loves the New Year. In his previous life, he was always alone during the New Year, feeling cold and lonely. In this life, it's much more lively in the Bai Family. His eldest brother would give him very thick red envelopes, Nan Qing often suspected that the red envelopes would burst from being stretched.
His parents and second brother would also give him red envelopes, and the system would set off fireworks for him in his head. He felt that the New Year was great. Like all ordinary people, he was accompanied by his family. He cherished every New Year and found it very lively.
But the mission failed, and the system abandoned him.
He thought that he probably wouldn't have the chance to celebrate the New Year so lively again.
But later he met Huo Yuzhou, and Huo Yuzhou even made wine together.
The winemaker said that wines made from this grape variety are particularly fragrant and have low acidity.
Although it's late summer/early autumn and the Lunar New Year is still a long way off, he's actually starting to look forward to it.
Huo Yuzhou also took him to pick strawberries and peaches. Then the two of them squeezed together and, following an online tutorial, washed and sliced the peaches, then dried them to make thick and chewy dried peaches.
Of course, the time was too short; they only dried the food for two days. The chef would dry it for the next few days and then bring it to him once it was ready.
As evening approached, the weather cooled down, and Huo Yuzhou fished by the lake. Nan Qing, impatient, asked the steward for a net and went down to catch fish while wearing boots.
As a result, the fish that were about to bite Huo Yuzhou's fish were scared away, causing him to sigh with a smile.
At dinner, they enjoyed a delicious and spicy boiled fish, but unfortunately, there were too many fish bones, Huo Yuzhou spent a long time picking them out for him.
In the evenings, they would watch movies together in the media room, or project games onto the screen to play.
He would play until midnight, and often didn't get up until noon the next day.
This manor, which never appeared in the original text, left Nan Qing with many happy and carefree memories.
Even after the car drove away from the gate, Nan Qing lingered, peering out the back window with longing.
I really hope I'll have the chance to come here again...
"Do you like it, Baby?"
A figure landed behind him. Nan Qing knew without looking, and nodded without hesitation.
"Like!"
The next moment, a man's chuckled voice sounded from behind.
"This is for you."
Nan Qing paused for a second, then turned around, somewhat puzzled.
"What?"
Huo Yuzhou pushed a signed document, along with a black pen, towards him with his well-defined fingers.
The sunlight was so bright that it dazzled Nan Qing, but he still managed to spot the eye-catching property gift agreement.
The sunlight fell on his eyelids, making him blink very, very slowly, even the raising of his eyelashes seemed to be in slow motion.
The man gently patted his head with his large hand, his voice soft.
"I met you 18 years ago today."
"Eight years ago today, I took a picture of this place and had it redesigned, decorated, and renovated, with the intention of bringing you here someday in the future."
" Baby, this property belongs to you."
It will always be there for you, waiting for you to turn back; it will never betray you; it will always be your strongest support.
"Just like me, Baby."